Friday, Deeember 19, 1930.
THE PILOT, a Paner WHK Character, Aberdeen. North Carolina
Page Nine
I^umerous Quail in Sandhills
Enliven Interest in Big Estates
Leonard Tufts Thinks Game
preserves Logical Develop
ment of Available Lands
I^eonard Tufts, who is perhaps the
closest observer of bird life on the
hunting' lands of the Sandhills, jo-
niarks that there is a ^reat deal of
discussion as to the annual variation
of the number of quail found on pre
serves and also the possibilities of
Court Honse News
Civil Court Judgments
The following judgments were ren
dered ih last week’s term of Superior
Court for the trial of civil cases, which
was presided over by Judge McElroy:
Virgie R. Lane vs. D. W. Lane: di
vorce granted.
increasing the quail in the various f Fahda Jabaly vs. Michael Jabaly:
divorce granted.
communities. He points out that there
are three requirements: first, plenty
of food; second good cover, remem
bering always that the quail is like
the hen. It doesn’t fly unless it has
to prefering to run from one» place
to another for its food, and it must
have cover to protect it from the
sight of man, bird and beast, but
through which it can freely travel;
and third, the necessity of control of
the destruction of the quail. No dis
astrous disease of quail has ever
been discovered, so its dangers are
confined to man, bird and beast.
Where the first five courses are lo
cated at Pinehurst a comparatively
few years ago there were absolutely
no quail, due largely to repeated fires
and no food. At the Continental field
trials recently 13 coveys were found
on these courses, which embrace about
500 acres, and which is less than
half of the number of coveys known
to be there. These coveys average
about 15 quail, which means practi
cally a bird to the acre, which all are
agreed means the saturation point.
This is just about w^hat has been found
on these five courses at the field
trials in the last three or four years.
On Local Preserves
The experiments tried out with
Mexican quail are not as satisfactory
in some quarters as was anticipated,
but the promise of native birds, if
cared for. is regarded as satisfactory
for the future. At the Eldridge John
son farm on Drowning Creek where
much lespedeza has been planted for
pasture Jack Lee says the quail thrive
on the seed. Attention is paid there
to what the bird feeds on, and au
topsies show that lespedeza seed is
one of the chief dependants. On the
Mossgiel farm other seeds are plant
ed purposely to attract birds, and
with much success. On other private
holdings many acres of seeds are
planted, and at the same time the
ground thus planted, by being plowed
in long narrow strips, affords fire
lanes to stop the grass fires that run
over the country in winter where not
pi evented. Another thing that seems
evident on the private hunting reser
vations is that the imported pheas
ants do not work out as was expec-
ed. These birds are quarrelsome with
the quail, and troublesome, and they
also run over wide areas and are not
so dependable. Hawks, owls, foxes and
Maggie Smith vs. Joe Rogers
Smith: divorce granted.
Mary Lou McNsill vs. J. C. Mc
Neill: divorce granted.
Henry Thompson vs. Dannie Thomp
son: non-suit.
E. L. Harris vs. Z. M. Burns: non
suit.
Reda Hudson vs. H. M. Hudson:
non suit.
B. W. Paschal vs. Dr. J. L. Dowd:
non-suit.
Calvin Chrisco vs. W. G. Cagle:
non-suit.
J. F. Keeling et al vs. N. J. Britt
et al: ^non suit.
Silvina Mitchell vs. Edgar Mitchell:
non suit.
Pinehurst Peach Co., Inc. vs. Nor
folk Southern Railroad Co.: The de
murrer of the defendant was sustain
ed and the action of plaintiff dis
missed.
C. L. Williams and C. E. Swearin
gen trading as Farrel Grocery Co. vs.
M. W. Steame trading as Aberdeen
Hotel Co.: Adjudge'd that the recov
ery in favor of plaintiff against de
fendant for sum of $140.44 be af
firmed. The warrant of attachment
heretofore granted is dismissed as
improvidently granted and the bond
given by defendants is cancelled. De
fendant is to pay costs of action ex
cept in attachment which plaintiff is
to pay.
Blackshear Manufacturing Co. vs.
U. T. Hight: ordered that plaintiff
take nothing by action.
Mrs. Bertha F|i'eieman vs. J. H.
Mingis: plaintiff to recover of the
defendant the sum of $95 and inter
est.
•SA jaqqn^ pus aaij^ JBaXpoof)
L. F. Hartsell trading as Hartsell’s
Garage: Plaintiff to recover of de
fendant $416.37.
Miss Mary Schwarburg. Miss Eliz
abeth Schwarburg, Mrs. Elizabeth M.
.Pectes vs. E. M. Howard, V. L. Cole,
United States Land Co.: continued.
The Family Laundry, Inc., vs. D.
H. Turner and wife: plaintiff to re
cover judgment against defendants
in the sum of $193.25.
Citizens Bank and Trust Co. vs. W.
F. Ghears: plaintiff to recover of
defendant $1,005.12.
Roxie G. Thompson, Admrx. of T.
C. Gaddy vs. C. N. Boaz: ordered that
plaintiff recover nothing of defend
ant and that defendant recover noth-
Former National Golf
Champion Must Quit
Game for Some Time
W. C. Fownes, Jr., Showing
Muc^h Improvement After
Recent Heart Attack
A LEADER FOR 20 YEARS
Stricken with sudden illness on the
links here almost three weeks ago,
William C. Fownes, Jr., of Pittsburgh,
1920 amateur golf champion, and
former president of the United States
Golf association still is laid up in his
home here, and will be for an indef
inite time. It has just been given out
that when Mr. Fownes was first
seized with the sickness, his life was
despaired of, a heart attack causing-
his medical advisor to fear a fatal
termination.. He has had minor re
currences of the seizures since first
stricken, but in the last few days has
shown much improvement.
It is practically certain, however,
that Mr. Fownes will not play golf
again this winter as he will be con
fined to his bed for at least six weeks
longer, and has been ordered to take
a complete rest for much longer than
that.
Mr. Fownes has been one of the
most prominent figures in American
golf for more than 20 years. Two
years ago he was playing virtually as
good golf as when he won the nation
al diadem a score of years before,
and he qualified for match play in
the national amateur at Pebble
Beach, Cal. Last season here he
sprang a big surprise on a field of
more than a hundred linksmen, with
a third of the line-up university link
stars, by winning the Mid-winter
championship, ending the four year
reign of George T. Dunlap, Jr., of
New York, Princeton golfing ace and
intercollegiate champion. "
TO EXAMINE CANDIDATES
FOR POSTMASTER AT VASS
Girls’ Golf Tourney
Starts Next Friday
First Annual Mid-South Junior
Event at Southern Pines
Country Club
The first annual Mid-South Junior
Girls’ Golf Championship will be play
ed over the links of the No. 1 course
at the Southern Pines Country Club
December 26, 27, 29 and 30th,
The qualifying round of 18 holes
will be played Friday, the 26th, and
will be followed by 18 hole match
es on Saturday, the 27th, the semi
final rounds^ being |)layed Monday
and Tuesday, the 29th and 30th. The
field will qualify in flights of eight.
A sterling trophy will be awarded the
champion and other trophies given
to the low medalist, the runner-up
and to the winner of the other flights.
The tournament is open to girls
under .twenty-one years of age. En
tries may be sent to the Tournament
Committee, Southern Pines Country
Club, Southern Pines, N. C.
NIAGARA
REAL CHRISTMAS TREES
Genuine straigjit-needled spruce trees from Vermont—
all ’nelghts—at the price of cedar trees—delivered to
your door.
Miniature living spruce in an attractive pot—
heights above pot, 1 foot.—2 feet.—can be planted out
doors after Christmas and will grow on.
CAROLINA GARDENS
M. G. Backer
Sbuth Bennett St.
Tel. 6042
Southern Pines
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Henderson
who have been residing here have
moved to Cameron.
A. C. Wood and Jesse Gargis motor
ed to Salisbury and returned the past
week.
Oscar Seward and D. E. McDonald
went to 'Siler City on business last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Manson Smith left
the first of the week for their home in
Hebron, N. H.
Fred Dameron and wife of Massa
chusetts spent the week-end in Nia
gara while enroute to Plant City, Fla.
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Four More Shopping Days |
’till Christmas
USEFUL GIFTS
for the
WHOLE FAMILY
Shirts—Ties—Hose—Caps—Hats
Dresses—^Coat^Suits
Handkerchiefs—Scarfs
All at Reasonable Prices
—TOYS—
*
Wagons, Dolls, Guns, Airplanes
and many others
0. B. FLINCHUM & SONS
„ ABERDEEN CARTHAGE
XX
other things are pests on the quail of plaintiff; that clerk, out of re
ceivership funds held by him in this
cause, pay attorney fees and cost of
action and that he pay other receiv
ership funds to plintiff.
Dr. L. M. Daniels et al. vs. F. E.
Steed et al: commissioners ordered
to make resale of land.
Page Trust Co. vs. A. J. Butler and
J. Lv Moss: plaintiff to recover judg
ment against each defendant in sum
of $311.50.
W. C. Williard vs. Reinecke-Dixon
Construction Co., Inc.: plaintiff to re
cover $1,500.
reservations. The Drowning Creek
place has many owls and hawks tack
ed to the barn doors and like the Du
Pont club much money is paid out to
the boys who bring in snakes which
are more or less troublesome to the
wild life. Mr. Ragsdale on the Pine-
hurst stock farm on Ward Creek, says
the lack of mice and other small wild
creatures of that type in this section
leaves the hawks and owls short of
the food supplies they find in other
parts of the country, and this com
pels them to rustle for chickens or
birds and rabbits, so war is made on
these feathered outlaws.
Outlook Bright Here
With the reservations and restric
tions on hunting, bird shooting is
pretty much confined to private pre
serves or private lands of the Ifar-
IS who as a rule prefer to keep the
rii^ht for themselves. But plenty of
cheap land is to be found in the
'‘»Ui:ty where a man may buy 1,000
acres or so, and create good shooting.
ith proper feed and cover, as is
exemplified In the field trials at Pine-
liuist, and on the private holdings
now in the hands of followers of the
bird hunt, it is found that 1,000
acres will supply 1,000 quail in the
and 200 of these can be killed
without lessening the number in the
tollowing fall. These figures have been
checked with those where the sub
ject has been carfully studied in Eng
land and this country. A bird to the
and a twenty per cent kill is con-
■^ulHjed a right good prospect. It has
been suggested that this be the way
■0 sell acreage land for bird hunting
reservations. With much low-priced
l^nd in reasonable distance of Pine-
^urst and the other villages it is
ai’gued that the outlook for this sport
m this section is unusually promising,
for with the birds as one string to the
bow another is the rapid growth of
tbe pine forests which pays interest
on the investment, leaving the hunt-
as a sidte /enjoyment a}t Very
flight outlay.
An enthusiastic bird hunter says he
expects to see a great many private
To fill vacancies in the position of |
postmaster in Vass and Sanitorium,
the United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced, at the re
quest of the Postmaster General and
in accordance with an order of tha
Presid€'nt, an open competitive exam-
ina:ion.
To be eligible for the examination.
an applicant must be a citizen of the
United States, must reside within the
delivery of the post office for which
the examination is held, must have
so resided y for at least two years
next preceding the date for close of
receipt of applications, must be in
good physical co-ndition, and within
the prescribed age limits. Both men
and women are admitted.
Under the terms of the Executive
order, the Civil Service Commission
will certify to the Postmaster General
the names of the highest three qual
ified eligibles, if as many as three
are qualified, and the Postmaster-
General will select one for nomination
by the President.
The postmastership at Vass pays
$1,500 a year; at Sanatorium, $1,900
a year.
Full information and application
blanks may be obtained at the post
office for which the examination is
held, or from the United States Civil
Service Commission, Washington, D.
C.
WOULD ENFORCE
LABOR STATUTES
eSTABllSHCD
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WHERE ECONOMY RULES
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Food Needs
MINCEMEAT ib. b.n 19c ❖
RAISINS Del Monte 3 pkgs. 25c I
fancy Ib.SOcS'
CRANBERRIES
p.
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CANDY
Cream Urops
Cocoanut Bon Bons
Gum Drops
Liberty Creams Etc.
lb. 19c
Soft SheU
Walnuts, lb 33c
Brazils, lb. 25c
Paper SheU
Almonds, lb. 25c
Grandmother’s
FRUIT
CAKE
50c $100
MIXED NUTS
lb.
DIfil. MAX ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES s m box $1.39
Layer Raisins
15c l^VxC
15'OZ.
pkg.
Pitted Dates
22c
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pkg.
Real Estate Transfers
Laura M. Warren to William R.
Wilson and wife to Mathilda E. Berg:
land in Sandhills township.
La\ira M. Warren and William R.
Wilson and wife to Mathilda E. Berg:
land in Sandhills township.
Cleveland Cagle and wife to Au
gusta Frye: land in Moore county.
The following transfers of real es--
tate have been recorded in the office
of the Register of Deeds of Moore
County:
I. F. Chandler and wife to T. S.
Burgess: land in McNeill township.
Thomas S. Burgess and wife to
Charlie Fairley: lots in Southern
Pines.
R. W. Page, trustee, to Carolina
Fruit Co.: property in Aberdeen.
Ralph W. Page and wife to Moore
County Securities Corporation; five
tracts in Moore county.
B. L. Henderson and wife to Lee
R. Page and Frank D. Shamburger,
co-partners, trading as Page and
Shamburger: property in Mineral
Springs township.
Marvin Lewis and wife to Ed
Cole and wife: property in Mineral
Springs township.
hunting reservations established on
this basis~in the near future, for the
land, at the prices which will pro
cure a lot of it, is a good investment
aside from anything but the certain
increment in value in the days ahead,
and hunters are seeing this and prof
iting by it.
Child welfare legislation will be
sponsored in the 1931 General Assem
bly by the legislative council of North
Carolina Women’s organizations. •
Bills will be advocated to further
limit the hours which children may
work-
The present law permits any child
having completed the fourth grade
in school, even though he be less than
16 years of age, may be worked 60
hours a week or more on the same
basis as adult labor.
The women’s legislative council
would sponsor a bill establishing an
eight hour cay and a 48 hour week
for all children under 16.
Another change in the law pro
posed is to require children between
the ages of 14 and 16 to complete
the sixth grade before being permit
ted to leave school and go to work.
Women welfare also will be touched
upon. Proposal has been made to ad
vocate a 55 hour week for women In
all industries.
The legislative council is composed
of representative of the Federation
of Women’s clubs, the League of Wo
men Voters, the State Nurses Asso
ciation, Women’s Auxilliary, Wo
men’s Missionary society of the North
Carolina Methodist conference and the
Young Women’s Christian associa
tion.
Christmas Dinner at Highland
Lodge, Southern Pines, will be serv
ed at 1:00 o’clock Thursday, Decem
ber 25th. Please make reservations as
early as possible.—Adv,
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Layer Figs pkg. 25c
Currants
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Shelled Nuts
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