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Fri<iay. January 16, 1981 Tudffe Way Tells of Orchid Cultivation at Kiwanis Meeting — ^ imDortant Sandhills Industr>' Got its Start from “Begin ner’s Seed Collection.” THE PILOT, a Paper With Character; Aberdeen. North Carolina PBge Wedding Postponed Prospective Bride and Groom Hear “Six Months” Instead of “I Do.” Struthers Burt Again Heads Library Ass’n In Southern Pines Court House News Real Elstate Transfers All Officers Re-elected at Anim al Meeting; Deal for New Site Closed MRS. GILKySON ON BOARD It started on Friday—he might have known better than to take any risks on Friday—and then the thir teenth came along close onto Friday’s heels and brought more bad luck; but they say it’s a long lane that has no turning so maybe there is a bright er day ahead. M. B. Braxton, colored, a tenant on the McKeithen farm near Aberdeen, planned to take as his bride on last Sunday a nice looking yellow girl of his acquaintance. “There’s many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.” On Friday, a dispute arose between Braxton and Will McKeithen over the division of some property. Braxton drew a knife. Mr. McKeithen was un armed so he immediately became “a chiefton to the highlands bound” and succeeded in outdistancing Braxton. “Six months,” thundered iJudge Humber in Recorder’s Court on Mon day, right in the ears of the intended bride who was there as a witness. The road sentence was not so bad, but it was terrible to have the wed ding plans frustrated for so long. A kindly officer heard of the (predica ment the bridegroom elect was in and offered his aid. The girl consented to a wedding on the following day and arrangements were made for the nup tials to be solemnized in the court house. So, on Tuesday morning, the bride appeared and the bridegroom was brought forth from the jail, but old thirteenth was still to be reckoned with. Arrivino: at the couit house and applying for the license, they were again foiled; the girl was not of age and the consent of her parents must be obtained. She departed, carrying with her a blank which Mr. Harring ton had carefully* explained to her, and her lover was escorted by the I jailer back to his cell, there to await | Dr. Branch Tells Them of Im- the coming of another day when per- portance of Proper Teeth to daddy fund distributed Great oaks from little acoms grow, and great orchid greenhouses from .♦beginner’s collections” in seed cata logs. Judge William A. Way told members of the Kiwanis Club of Ab erdeen, of which he is an honorary member, how his now famous green- huoses between Southern Pines and Pinehurst got their start from a be ginner’s collection of seeds adver tised in a seed catalog, and it was only some half a dozen years ago at that. The Kiwanis Club is particularly in^rested in Judge Way’s orchid es tablishment, just as it is interested in all those things which make for the prosperity, beauty and culture of the Sandhills. It is particularly in terested because it sponsors each Win ter season the commercialization, if something run for charity can be called commercial, of visits made to the greenhouses by guests of the conP- niunity. It employs a guide whose duty it is to show people through tke orchid plant, and who collects a nominal fee from those visitors. The net returns go to the Moore County Health and Welfare Association. Judge Way told something of the history of orchids, how they came or iginally from Asia and South Ameri ca, how their importation has been curtailed by the government so that DOW it is necessary to raise the seeds themselves in this country. He told of the hybridization of the flowers to produce various colors and shapes and sizes, and stressed the similarity of breeding in plant and animal life. The local orchid plant, he said, is the only one of any size between Mary land and New Orleans. It is growing all the time, and rapidly becoming one of the leading industries of this sec tion. And it all sprang from the_ begin ner’s collection of seeds. Frank Buchar. reported on the dis- ^ | at the Grammar School building in tribution of the balance of the Kiwan-; g ^ | Aberdeen on Tuesday afternoon, with IS Christmas Daddy fund to local' , ^ ' ■ ’ T. .t.- • +1, Saturday in Charlotte, chanties m the following proportion.,. ! Struthers Burt was re-elected pres ident of the Southern Pines Libraiy Association at the annual meeting held yesterday afternoon in the Mu nicipal Building in Southern Pines, All officers were chosen for another year of service, and with one excep tion the board of trustees was re elected. The board listened with interest to the report of the Ways and Means committee on the consummation of the purchase of a site for a (permanent home for the Library, on the Richard son property at the comer of Mass achusetts avenue and May street. Mrs. James Boyd was re-elected 1st vice president, Alfred Yeomans 2nd vice president, E. C. Stevens, 3rd vice president, Mrs. J. K. Walker, treasurer and Howard Bums, secre tary. Tmstees elected for three years were Miss Ethel Jones, Mrs. Charles R. Whitaker and Miss Mary Schwar- berg, all re-elected, and Mrs. Walter Gilykson to succeed John Bloxham. The trustees who hold over are, for two years, M. G. Nichols, Miss Anna Jenks, Mrs. James Swett and Frank Gibbons, for one year Augus tine Healy, Mrs. Hary Vale, Nelson C. Hyde and Dr. Marcus A. Brown- son. Mr. Yeomans reported on the clos ing of the deal for the new site for the building which the association hopes to be in a position to erect in the not far distant future. ^ The following real estate transfers have been recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore county: The Federal Corporation to Leta McBryde: property in Southern Pines. C. G. Rose, John W. McLauchlin and A. R. McQueen as Trustees for Fayetteville Presbj^ry to R. F. Pate: one lot in the town of Addor. J. M. Tyson, W. C. Leslie and Ray mond Evans, Tmstees First Baptist Church, Vass, to W. B. Graham and wife, Loula K. Graham: land in Vass. Luther A. McDonald and wife, Sadie McDonald, and Nannie McDonald co R. F. Pate: land in Sandhills town ship. W. F. Fletcher and wife and others to R. W. Graham and wife: land in McNeill township. Frank A. Stagg to Mrs. Tyree Glenn: land in Sandhills township. O. D. Wallace and wife, B. C. Wal lace and wife and L. C. Wallace and wife to Ernest Horn and wife: prop erty in Carthage township. CHEAP SCHOOLS A WASTE OF MONEY SAYS LEE THOMAS (Continued from page one) Recorder’s Court The Recorder’s Court docket was pretty well cleared up on Monday of this week and everything is in read iness for the week’s term of Super ior Court for the trial of criminal cases, which will open on next Mon day with Judge A. M. Stack of Mon-> roe presiding, CHURCHES PLAN JOINT SUNDAY SCHOOL SURVEY Parent-Teachers Here Talk on Dental Clinic In spite of the inclement weather, thirty Sunday School officers, teach ers and workers of the three churches in Aberdeen gathered at the a goal toward which parents, teachers place, under the North Carolina sys- tem of child accounting in use in that period, about five per cent were duplicates—that is, children having been enrolled during one school year in more than one school, and counted in the total enrollment more than one time. This condition was brought about as a result of families moving from one district to another within the system. Secondly, a small num ber of children in every group do not ■possess the mental ability necessary for meeting the standards of achieve ment set by the school. This number will perhaps reach five per cent of any sizeable group of public school children. Assuming that five out of every one hundred of enrollment were duplicates, and another five per cent were mentally deficient, then ten per cent may be safely estimated as the minimum beyond which the p^babiI- ity of reducing the percentage of re peaters was extremely remote, re gardless of how ideal the working conditions may have been. Allowing ten per cent as the irreducible min imum of non-promotion, it would fol low that instead of spending $413,- 000.00 in the past five years in re teaching a yearly average of 2,256 or 49 per cent of the total school popula tion, the county should have spent only $85,000.00 in that five-year per iod, reteaching a yearly average of 475 or ten . per cent of the children. This conclusion rests on the assump tion of a 89 per cent reduction in th^ total school population resulting from corresponding improvement in pro motion and a proportionate cut in the schools. This ten per cent minimum cannot be attained for some time, and may not be reached at all, but it is future by carrying out a well bal anced program of at least eight months schooling for every child, of improved attendance, of a smaller teacher load, and of better health,, than through any other meaons. ONE-WAY COACH FARES RALEIGH TO ' Tuscon, Ariz $75.47 Los. Angeles, Cal $7,47 San Francisco, Cal $75.47 Vancouver, B. C $80.51 Salt Lake City, U $75.47 Seattle, Wash $80.1 Tickets on sale daily from all points in North Carolina January 15th to June 30th, 1931. For further particulars call on H. E. PLEASANTS, D. P. A. Raleigh, C. Seaiboaid AIR LINE RAILWAY PUNCTUALITY PROMPTNESS haps Fortune will be more kind. CARTHAGE Children’s Health The Aberdeen Parent-Teachers As sociation held their January meeting $250 to the Committee on Unemploy ment and Relief in Southem Pines, Si 50 to the Sandhill Brotherhood of Pinehurst, and $100 to the Good Fel lows’ Club of Aberdeen. These organ izations will take over the relief work started before Christmas by the Ki- wanis committee, using the funds al lotted to them in the same manner as if the fund continued to be oper ated by the Kiwanis. There is still much relief work to be done in the neighborhood. M. G. Nichols, chair man of the Southem Pines Commit tee, thanked the club for the donation to his organization and pledged co operation in its stewardship. It was Caldwell of Aberdeen spent the week end in Carthage with Mr. and Mrs. N. A. McKeithen. Friends were distressed to hear of a large attendance of members. Mrs. Sellers, Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Hardee were welcomed into the association as new members, and re ports from the secretary, treasurer and the various committees were Methodist Church on Wednesday eve ning for a joint meeting called by the pastors. The Rev. E. L. Barber presided and following the devotional period a general discussion was held as to ways and means of improving and enlarging the Sunday Schools of the different churches and reacn- ing those of the town and commun ity who are not now enrolled in any Sunday School. Plans for making an accurate religious survey or census of the whole community were hear tily endorsed and the three Super intendents, J. H. Suttenfield of the and pupils should strive. Long Term Schools Best It follows, therefore, that 39 per cent of the yearly average of 49 per cent of failures for the past five year period could have been eliminat ed. This being the case, it is impor tant that the causes back of non-pro motion be studied with the object of reducing this useless expenditure. PRECISION As I entered the fish store dur ing the summer season at a Maine coast resort, the proprietor turned to me as he hung up the telephone receiver, and with a broad gn:in said “What do jrou suppose she wanted?” naming a well known socialite from the middle west. “Oh,” I ventured, “she probably asked if you had any fresh shalt fish.” “No,” he said “she wanted to know if I had any swordfish. When I told her yes, she said ‘send me up a couple of good sized ones and have the bones taken out.’ ” She didn’t know a good sized swordfish weighs a cou ple of hundred pounds or more, and it had never occurred to her to ask. There are things to be le»med about every business, and the way to learn them is to ask questions. Tho Bank of Pineliurst welcomes the op portunity to answer inquiries, and :f Among the many preventable causes have any questions with refer- of failure of school children, those of major importance are the six months term in /places, non-attend ance, careless parents, poor health, Presbyterian Church, J. A. Bryant of [crowded classrooms and inferior in- the death of Mrs. Tom Pearsall of ■ read. The Hot Lunch committee re- Rocky Point, sister of Miss Louise Williams, a popular member of tho Carthage school faculty. Mrs. R. J. Hart has returned to lier home in Columbia. After spend ing some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. McKeithen. Mrs. E. P. Billups returned to Ruth- eiford College Friday after visiting her mother, Mrs. Mollie Person. poited that they were serving from 30 to 35 free lunches evrey day, and as there was only $35.58 left in the treasury for this ipurpose members were urged to co-operate in every possible way by donations of soup mixture, milk and the giving of their time, especially during the winter months. Mrs. H. E. Bowman said the Baptist Church and A. L. Bur ney of the Methodist Church, were struction. Among these, the short school term, non-attendance and named as a committee to perfect plans i crowded classes stand out preeminent- for this project. | ly in importance. Promotion statistics Necessary workers will be enlisted j for the five large consolidated rural from each of the churches for this high and elementary long term schools survey which will be made on Sunday afternoon, January 25th. On next Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock a joint (prayer service will be held at of the county, for the past three years, show an average of 27 per cent repeating as compared to 49 per cent average for all the rural schools ence to banking and finance please do not hesitate to ask. We are always glad to have an opportunity to ex plain to the best of our ability. BANK OF PINEHURST Pinehurst, N. C. LEGAL NOTICES STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF MOORE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT the Methodist Church, to which | in the same period. The six months everyone in the community is cordial- i schools have the poorest attendance ly invited. A report will be heard, and promotion record, while the large | that Mrs. McCain at the Sanatorium Miss Mary Underwood of Sanford | offers cans of soup mixture for 25c f^oni the committee in charge at that 1 long term schools have the best. up«auu„ m .>,» = I * * ^ f Branchville, S. C. per can to the association, which offer | t^e. ' Therefore, the larger the school announced at the meeting that the 1 , s annual Master Farmer meeting of the ^ f NOTICE R. M. Lewis, Plaintiff vs. Raymond L. Babcock, Defendant will be doubtless accepted. Any one and the longer the term, the better The defendant, above named, will take notice that an action entitled as club, when awards are made to the farmers of the county who have shown marked pi’ogress during the year, will be held next Wednesday at the ; Pinehurst Country club. This meeting had been erroneously announced for this week. GOOD YIELDS OF CORN FOLLOWING LESPEDEZA Mrs. W. G. Brown spent Saturday in ] wishing to make a donation of sc^jp barnsDALL BUYS WINTER ■ the attendance and promotion. Back | above, has been* co^enoJd 'in the Raleigh i *^^^xture, milk or money for the hot Mrs. W. H. Currie and daughter,, lunches will please get in touch with Mary Elizabeth have returned home * Mrs. H. E. Bowman or Mrs. H. A. from Gastonia where they spent the Gunter. Christmas holidays. Mrs. Bowman, as chairman of the Mesdames W. S. Golden and R. L. j Medal committee read a list of the Yow spent Tuesday in Sanford HOME IN KNOLL WOOD HGHTS., of the short term and the small school i Superior Court of Moore County for i there is found little local interest in ; the recovery of judgment against the j better educational advantages. Non -! defendant, for goods, wares and ! attendance haS its foundation large- I (Continued from Page 1) I 1 -n • and delivered to the defendant Dy United States and are today outstand-1 ly in sickness of children, illness jn j plantiff; and the said defendant ing in oil and gas distributed and the | the home, inferior home and com-; will further take notice that he is I medals being offered this year to pu- i interests are big factors in America)i inunity environment, work, failure of j requiied to -file his answer in the “Last week we finished checking up on som^^ of the com demonstrations where lespedza had been tumd under for a cover cro«p last spring,” says E. H. Garrison, county farm demonstra tor. Fuller Monroe of Eagle Springs re ports that where he had a crop of Lespedeza on his land and turned this under for his com crop, be got' a yield of 32 bushels per acre. Where he had no Lespedeza he got 18 bush els psr acre. Both of these plots were in the same field and had the same amount of fertilizer and soda, and Were worked in the same man ner. ‘"^his has been an extremely hard yesr on this crop but even this year it has done about as well as some of th other crops. Nothing like the amount of seed we had hoped to get have been harvested on account of the small growth but a good bit of this he allowed to lie over for seed ^year.” legal notices Mrs. L. C. Wallace spent Tuesday in Jonesboro with Mrs. William Ar nold. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. McKeithen of Aberdeen were in town Tuesday. The Methodist Ladies presented the Rev. and Mr. Buffalo with an old- fashioned pounding Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Frye enter tained at dinner Friday evening at their Horse Shoe Club House. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. 0. B. Welch, Mr. and Mrs. McGraw, Mrs. Vestal, Mrs. Henry Hill, Mrs. Johnie Wil liamson and Misses Louise Williams, Eula Blue, Mattie Kate Shaw and Mary Currie. On Saturday afternoon at 2!30, Miss pils excelling in school work, whicn list will be published at an early date in The Pilot. Prof. N. E. Wright gave a splendid short talk, stressing the importance of carrying out Governor Gardner’s Live- at-Home program in our schools and asked the help of,the association in the Agricultural campaign soon Xo be on in the schools, during which time the children will see garden and flower seeds. The members are re quested not to buy seeds elsewhere, but from the children. The main feature of the afternoon’s program was a most interesting lec ture on “Teeth, and their Care” by Dr. Branch, of the State Departmeiit : the school to interest and a lack of I manner provWed by law within thirty 1 , ^ j; - 1 from the date ol the comple- personnel for enforcing the compul-1 services hereby upon him. industry. Takes Possession Mr. Barnsdall took possession of . sory attendance law. The crowded \ with the Clerk of the Superior Court his new house Wednesday. Curious-j classroom is another, powerful fac-j of Moore County, North Carolina, at ly enough, while it is located so that tor in retardation of school children. the front lawn extends down to the fairway, he is not a golfer himself. Neither is he a hunter or much in clined to other sports with a single exception. He takes to archery. A year ago he was at Pinehurst for a brief period aitd archery appealed to him. The excellent facilities afforded on the butts at Pinehurst together with the quality of the output of the Archers Company brought him back. Although he rented a house on his arrival he speedily decided that he Mary Currie entertained at three ta- of Health. Dr. Branch illustrated his ^^nted a home of his own and that bles of bridge. After several pro- lecture with moving pictures show^ - - gnessions it wias found that Miss! ing the importance of the care of Johnsie Redding held high score and i children’s teeth as related their Mrs R J Hart, second high. ■ general health, stating that 85 per Those enjoying Miss Currie’s hos pitality were Mesdames R. J. Hart, D. N. Carter, C. M. Nicholl and Misses Margaret McLeod, Meade Seawell and Johnsie Redding of Car thage, Misses Bess Lewis, Helen Der rick, Freda Dimmick, Louise Futrell Knollwood with its convenience to all points suited him best. When Mr. Cameron showed him the attractive cottage there near the Pine Needles cent of children’s diseases are caused took him just about a minute to de cide that he had bought a house. He has a wide acquaintance and many friends up in the oil country and says one reason for securing a house of by neglect of their teeth, causing so many failures in school work. A free dental clinic will be held in the schools so there will be no excuse for children not having their teeth giv-, location is that ricK r reua attention. The Health and Welfare | rnay have an open door for those Pauline Edwards and Mrs. Charles Committee, under the direction Oi. Pennsylvania folks who will be Hatch of Sanford. ^ Mrs. Frances Keating of Pinehurst | o»»-him during the winter. ^ — I is making possible these free dental j rnuch of a horseman, as the readily see the way to substential TO JOIN STAFF OF THE PILOT ’ clinics, which is greatly appreciated ; interpreted here, but his good I acononiy, if he will only look in ths AND SANDHILLS DAILY NEWS by the local association. He also: - - • - . t • t4> Many of our teachers have been forc ed to work under conditions where congestion has produced failure and failure produced more congestion. This process has continued from year to year 4n an unending circle. If the causes mentioned herein have kept the school population of the county expanded—and their removal would eventually reduce the total by more than one-third, thereby reduc ing the cost of schools in like propor tion, would it not be wise to make a leasonable investment in extending the school term in a few remote dis tricts, and in a more intensive health and welfare program? Public school instmction itself is gradually removing many of the causes of failure and retardation in the schools, and of preventable disease at home, and will ultimately diminish the number to the irreducible mini mum, but this process is too slow to be practical. The close relation be tween retardation and school cost is so obvious that the business man can the same time furnishing for the plaintiff herein a copy of his said answer, or within the said time and in the same manner demur to the complaint in said action, or the plain tiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in his complaint. JOHN WILCOX, Clerk of Superior Court of Moore County' This 12th day of January, 1931. J16-23-30F6 UNITED STTES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA In the matter of LaUra C. Hoskins, Bankrupt IN BANKRUPTCY NOTICE old father William Bamsdall, who stressed the importance of milk j foj.ty years ago, in his stables not far ‘GUARDIANSHIP NOTICE ■ ^a-Tied Meh!in c!'^Thomas, hasj Hugh W. White, assistant city ed- the children’s diet, and the importance (avern, had some Iv appointed by the Clerk of \ tor of the Charlotte Evening News,' of hot lunches during the winter Kentuck^bred stock that eiior Court as Guardian for i will join the stalf of The Pilot and i months, especially for the under- trotted down Congress street, ''■Henry John Warren Paul,; Sandhills Daily News on Monday of | weight children. knew what to do with a horse MaWet’ and Rebecca ' next week. Mr. White is a graduate j uirHMONn Knollwood is fathering in a pretty ■as. and has dulv qualified as: of Davicson Cjllege and comes to i MR. GOLDEN AT RICH. lOND fair colony of substantial Pennsylvan- ■ *' rr people. A t\T)e of folks that make MELVIN C. THOMAS. X. c., and comes to j MR. GOLDEN AT RICHMOND Aberdeen highly recommended Dy! The Rev. W. S. Golden left Tues- ! his present employers. He will act as ‘ day for Richmond where he will at- ! right city editor of the News and an ? tend a series of lectures at the Un- "aruary 12, 1931. 3t associate editor of The y Pilot. ion. Theological Seminary. good neighbors, progressive citizens and pro^'er additions to any desirable co'mmunity. right direction. If the business man and the law makers would only stud\’ the situation earnestly, they would certainly arrive at a definite and proper solution of the problem. In- tsnsive and far reaching measures would be promptly inaugurated, which would make an end of the contributing auses of school failure and its evil -esults. Greater justice and economy 'vould be realized in the operation of 'the schools of Moore county in the By order of H. F. Seawell, Jr., Referee in Bankmptcy, the imdersign- ed, Trustee, will offer for saH and before the place of business here tofore occupied by Laura C. Hoskins, Bankrupt, at Southem Pines, Moore County, North Carolina, at eleven o’clock, A. M., on Saturday, January 24, 1931, all and singular, all of the stock of goods, wares and merchan dise of the said Laura C. Hoskins, Bankrupt, together with the furni ture and fixtures in connection with said business, located in and about said store building. DATE OF SALE: Saturday, Jan uary 24. 1931. HOUR OF SALE: Eleven O’Clock, A. M. PLACE OF SALE: Before the place of business heretofore occu pied by Laura C. Hoskins, Bankrupt, at Southern Pines, Moore County, North Carolina. TERMS OF SALE: Cash: GEORGE W. CASE, Trustee. J16-23-30F6
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