MOORR COUNTY’S
leading news
weekly
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. IK NO. 9.
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill TerritoA*\ North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, January 30, 1931.
authorize work
ON EXTENSION OF
PENNSY. AVENUE
Aberdeen to Establish Community
Center in Old NcKeithen House
Local Societies Incorporate Un
der Name of Community
House Association
Southern Pines Commissioners
and Chamber of Commerce
Launch Program
TO AID UNEMPLOYMENT
One of the most important schemes
undertaken in Southern Pines is that
t)v the Chamber of Commerce and
the t commissioners to further
jmp-ove the landscape and street con-
jitio’^s of the village. The town couii-
. i; ha? authorized two major projects,
lareei,, as a supplement to the unem
ployment movement, the village furn
ishing’ a certain fund, and the Cham
ber of Commerce working with M. G.
Nichols, in providing a further fund
contributed by individuals, for carry
ing on the work and reducing the
The long felt need in Aberdeen for
a community center is about to be
filled through the organization of the
Community House Association, Incor
porated. Aberdeen has long been with
out any center of activity for its civ
ic aft'airs, a place for holding meet
ings of any size, for the entertainment
of the Kiwanis Club at its weekly
luncheons, etc., and the announcement
of the acquiring of the old Neill Mc-
Keithen House will come as good
news to the citizenry. This house is
located near the corner of South
street and the new Laurinburg road.
A meeting of representatives of the
; several organizations of the city was
i held at the home of Mrs. \V. A. Blue
; on Monday night, January 19th, at
number unemployed. u- u i ^ ^
- 1 ^ XU ‘ which time plans were discussed for
The first piece of work is the be-1
Forest Fires
Many Have Threatened Ser
ious Damage in Section
During Past Week
The continued spell of sunny
weather, though ipleasing to the
golfer, the horseback rider and
those down from the north to evade
the winter, has started an epidemic
of forest fires in the vicinity. Men
were up all one night this week
fighting threatening flames in the
vicinity of Pinebluff, and other
fires have been seen and reported
from other sections of the county.
All of which prompts another re
minder: Be careful of your ciga
rettes and matches. It doesn’t take
much to start a fire which may re
sult in thousands of dollars’ worth
of damage.
SEES SALE TAX
TO RAISE FUNDS
FOR N. C. SCHOOLS
Senator Murdoch Johnson Be
lieves Legislature Will Levy
on All Commodities
FIVE CENTS
$5,000 Goal for
Fund for the Unemployed
ECONOMY STATE KEYNOTE
ginning of the widening and plant- \
ing of May street, which is the Fed-
v’ai highway through town. From the
n«'i'thern margin of the town out
iseai Manly, teams and tools are wid-
pians’ the street to its full width of
'C feet. On both sides of the hard
top roa.I diit is to be removed to
full width of street, park and side
walk. and this work is well under way.
"Chen it will be planted by the coni-
the selection of a so-called Commun- i
ity Center. A proposal was received }
from Dr. A. H. McLeod at that tim*, |
whereby he agi’ees to lease the Neill i
McKeithen residence, one of the oldest:
houses in Aberdeen, to the organizs- j
tion for one year, with privilege of '
renewal. The terms call for the or
ganization to alter the house to suit !
its needs, and to keep it in repair. Dr. '
McLeod agrees to reimburse the or I
PHYSICIANS SCORE
PLAN TO ABOLISH
N.C. HEALTH OEPT.
Senator Murdoch Johnson of Aber
deen, home for the week-end from his
legislative duties at Raleigh,^thinks
the Legislature is likely to adopt a
general sales tax on all commodities
to take care of the State’s support of
the six months school term and to re
lieve land taxes.
“Some method of providing income
for the State’s taking over six months
of the school term throughout the
state must be found, “Senator John
son said, “and it seems likely now that
money will be drawn from a sales tax
on every commodity. We passed the
six months school bill in the Senate
last week and it will, in all probabil
ity, pass the House this week.”
“Give and Take”
Donations To Aid Unemployed
Come Back To Town in
Civic Betterment
Money to Serve Double Duty of
Providing Jobs and Beautify
ing Southern Pines
ORGANIZATION COMPLETE
By Bernice Kenyon Gilkyson
The Southern Pines Committee on
Unemployment and Relief, which came
into being almost overnight and ac
quired an office and a group of vol
untary workers under the chairman
ship of M. G. Nichols, is an organiza
tion to be proud of, for it is doing
Five thousand dollars is the goal
set by the Committee on Unemploy
ment and Relief in Southern Pines
for its dnal-purposes campaign. These
funds are to serve the public in tw(#
ways: providing jobs for the unem
ployed and carrying on the city’s
beautification program. Donors will
furnish relief on the one hand, and
see their money come back to them
some remarkable things.
To date 239 unemployed people, civic improvements on the other,
men and women, have applied for Finance Committee, on whicn
work at the office, and have been reg- representatives of all church and
istered on the records. Most of the organizations in Southern Pines,
people are colored, but a few are Wednesday night at the Souther'i
white, and all are in great need. The ! Country Club and formulated
committee is doing everything it can I campaign. “Construc-
to create work for them to do, and j Charity,” is the slogan. In a
has now undertaken two ambitious ; statement issued to the press the
Mr. Johnson said the ten per cent! projects, in reality town improve-i
salary cut recommended by the Gov
ernor in his message to the Legisla
ture would also be adopted with lit
tle doubt.
ments, which are already providing
work for a large number of men.
You may have noticed the grading
and filling which are being done along
mission hav ing that job in charge, j expenditures on
the premises in the event the prop
erty is sold at some later date.
Society Incorporated
It was necessary that the organiza
tion be incorporated, and the name,
“Community House Association” was
chosen. Six organizations were rep-
has heej. busy for several days and resented at the meeting at Mrs. Blue’s
more will be employed as long as i-esidence, the Aberdeen Book Club,
money comes in to pay the bills. The Stay-a-While Club, the Junior Or-
largely witn dogwoods, hollies and
other oi-namental trees, including
many pines. This w^ork is in line with
that scheme which the Chamber of
Commerce has been working on for a
time alonfT with the town commis
sioners. A considerable force of hands
County Medical and Dental So
cieties Aroused Over Brook
ings Recommendation
The new Senator from Moore counry the edge of May street (Federal High-
has not been idle since leaving fot way No. 1) in the direction of Manly.
Raleigh. He was one of the sponsors ! This is entirely the Committee’s un-
‘The committee is novr fully or
ganized and has vigorously developed
j its plans for employment and relief
and believes it has already accomplisn-
j ed favorable results and only needs
the whole hearted support of South
ern Pines to not only relieve the exist-
of the bill to memorialize Congress to dertaking, and ^vhen the brush is all ! <ii«‘ress but to increase the beauty
^nd utility of the city’s streets, park
ways and lands.
pay the soldjers their war service cer- cut back and the grading and making
tificates at this time rather than fif- ' of sidewalks finished, then the South-
teen years from now when they be- ern Pines Chamber of Commerce is
come due and payable under the pre^-' going to bear the expense of plant-
ent law. ing it to trees and shrubs, so that
I “This legislation, if passed, w’ill . hefore long it will be one of the most
turn loose in North Carolina about attractive approaches in the stats,
i $26,000,000,” he said, adding that this Another piece of work you may have
poit which Governor Gardner needed in North Car- noticed is that being done to extend
mended to the General Assembly for ^ olina just at this time. the lower end of Pennsylvania avenue,
serious consideration prompted the ' Mr. Johnson fathered the memorial connecting Southern Pines with Webt
APPEAL TO LEGISLATORS
Recommendations for the abolish
ment of the State Department of
Health contained in the Brookings re-
the state and federal highway through
>‘>uthern Pines will be one of tho
most attractive village streets in
North Carolina.
Short Cut to Pinehurst
But this i- not the limit of the work
downstairs of the house into one lar^e
assembly room where larger meet
ings may be held, where the Kiwanis
Club may be entertained, and so on.
Kitchen equipment will be provided
mapped out. At a council meeting last serving meals. Upstairs will b
effect is already to be seen, and whep Knights of Pythias, Mason.^ |-^^*^ore County Medical Society and tho to Congress seeking legislation look- Southern Pines and, by direct route,
the job is done May street, which is ^he Parent-Teachers’ Association, i County Dental Society to g > ing toward the postponement of Fed- with Pinehurst. The town is spending
it is proposed to throw most of the i record as unqualifiedly opposed to eral Farm Loan and Joint Stock Land $1,200. to lay the culveits for the new
suL-h action, and resolutions to that Bank mortgages. strip of road, but the. Committee on
effect have been sent by both thestj Asked what he thought the new Unemploymert is doing all the filling
oi-ganizations to the county’s legisla- Legislatuie would accomplish durinu- ;'nd making of the road, and paying
tive representatives at Raleigh. his two months in Raleigh, the Sen- for this work, as well as for the im-
Meetings were held early this week ator said: provements on May street,
at which time the resolutions were “There is no doubt but that tho Ninety Put to Work
^ ^ drawn up and unanimously passed, temper of this Legislature is to reduce Ninety men altogether are employ
ed to put engineers on Pennsylvania societies. Some of the expense ^he physicians and dentists here can I expenditures all along the line, to cut ed on these two jobs. They work iv.
’ - - - 1- -- ’ see nothing to be gained by the abol- out useless offices and duplications | thiee two-day shifts of thirty men
ishmeint of the State’s health de- and to relieve agriculture of the heavy | each, and each man is paid two dollars
partment, inasmuch as the departmeiti burden of taxation Avhich it bears. a day, and when necessary he is giv-
is principally maintained by the Stace j
Medical Society and is not a load
stone on the treasury. The Brookings
report, in recommending the consol
idations of many’ State department.-;.
week the town commissioners arran?-
lodge rooms for meeting of various
Milton Brewer Dies
After Long Illness
a\eiiue to extend it to the border o! upkeep will be met by the rental of
u:e village and connect with the ex- main assembly room and the lodge
tension through West Southern Pines ; time.
; t!aig:ht out the Pennsylvania avenue
•ine to a point on the Midland road in
the neighborhood of Elsie Keith’s
^ -u.=:e. or perhaps to a new road that
'V li parallel the Midland road just
bark of the strip of 1000 feet lots
laid =iut .-- me time ago. This will af
ford a -'"ort and direct cut from
■'^oulherr Pines to Pinehurst, and
! i ■- with the map Rassie Wicker
'efently drawn for the further
harmonious development of all that
•< i;to;y between
MRS. W. J. WADSWORTH
DIES AT AGE OF
(Please turn to page 4)
70
Former Member of The Pilot
Staff One of Best Known
Men in Moore Countv
Mrs. Mollie Cole Wadsworth, wife j
su<’gtsted that the Health department of W. J. Wadsworth, well known'
work be placed under the Department j Moore County citizen, died at her ■
of Education. The local societies main-1 home near Carthage Saturday night, ^ Two-Club
tain that the Department of Education ! January 24th, after a long illness,
has all that it can do to properly run : Mrs. Wadsworth was 70 years of
the schools of the state, especially in j age. She w'as a woman of fine char-
view of the new law whereby the | acter, w’^ho had long held a position
“Briefly stated the committee’s pro
gram is:
1. Maintain an office for registra
tion of unemployed and urgent relief
cases.
2. Investigate such ap|lJicants as
may seem necessary.
3. Relieve urgent cases of d’stress
with food, medicine, medical advice,
nursing or such attention as is nece.s-
sary in the opinion of committee on
relief.
4. Supply employers with labor on
request.
5. Canvas the town for temporary
employment.
6. Endeavor to increase employ
ment through new buildings anti
cleaning up or planting vacant lands.
7. Help to beautify and improve
the city by:
(a). Supplying common labor to
the street department for street an 1
parkway improvement.
(b). Su}v:lying labor and small
pir-es for planting the water shed of
OLii water supply.
(c). Supply labor and teams to
Busy Golf Schedule
at Southern Pines the city for the extension of Pennsy!-
vania Avenue through to West South-
a-
One of the bes't known and most
popular residents of Moore county,
Milton Brewer, of Vass, passed away
Pinehurst, Knoll- j at the home of his brother, Stacv ' State takes over six months operation ^ of affection and respect in the minds
and .Southern Pines, with roads Brewer, in that village Wednesday j of schools entirely, and also holds ^ of all who knew' her.
: .iGrty lines to suit the topo- night. «He had been ill for the past ■ that medical work throughout tho ! The funeral was conducted at the
jf the whole area. Southern I year, spending some time in the ; state is of sufficient importance to be ; Carthage Presbyterian Chui’ch on
Tournament and
Tombstone Event on Next
Week’s P'rogram
Golf events scheduled for next
week at the Southern Pines Country
Club included a special nine-hole
tournament, open to men and women.
ern Pines.
8. That the committee thi'ou^h the
tieasurer pays for the common la
bor and small pines supplied to th'i
city.
9. That the Committee on ?'mploy-
ment shall give ])reference to the ex
tension of Penrsvlvaria Avenue and
take care of a portion of ^ Moore County Hospital.
- sylvania avenue developme it
> a and the Southern Pines
> of Commerce and private
^i‘;n=: in behalf of the unem-
will add to the work done.
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when the entrants will‘use but two work on the parks and streets in de
retained under a competent board of , Monday, January 26th, by the Rev. ' clubs, making their owti choice. This \eloping oui plan.> and be j.,u<ded .n
Milton Brewer was born in the
Hemp section of the county 53 years
ago, son of Alex and Lena Brewei*.
He served for several years as an en
gineer on the old R. & C. Railroari,
be followed probably by now the Moore Central, and was with
;k in that region, and provide the Aberdeen & Rockfish R. R. for
for a decided change in that 1 a time. Later he became superintena-
ighborhood. It will also ^ ent of the Carthage Water Works,
nsiderable activity in employ- serving there several years,
the whole section.
health under competent medical men.
BOYD, HEMP SILK MILL
EMPLOYE, KILLED BY TRAIN
W. S. Golden and the Rev. J. H. Buf-
faloe, and was attended by a large
gathering of her friends. Burial was
in the Presbyterian Cemetery at Car
thage.
will be played Wednesday, February
4th.
Saturday, February 7th, a Tomb
stone tournament will be held, one at
eighteen holes and one at nine, also
Mrs. Wadsworth joined Euphronia ; open to men and women.
Presbyterian Church fifty years ago.
A man named Boyd, w^eaver in tha
silk mill at Hemp, was killed by a
train there last Sunday morning at j At the time of her death she was a
about 2.30 o’clock. His body was | member of Priest Hill Presbyterian
When found about 200 feet from the depot Church. Her parents were B. H. and
Stacy Biewer started The Pilot in by the crevr of the train following that ‘ Margaret Short Cole, a well known
——— Vass ten years ago, Milton joined him j which caused the fatality. Boyd, first j family in Moore county. She leaves
1^>R JOHNSCjN ASKS and played an important part in the name unknown, was a native of Dan- to mourn her, her husband, six sons
PROTECTION OF FORESTS upbuilding of this newspaper. He re- ville, Va. He had been in Hemp but , and three daughters, besides her
mained with The Pilot until about a | a few months. He is believed to have brothers and sisters.
-’■ r Murdoch M. Johnson of year ago when his health would no i fallen asleep oil the track. A coroner’s '
Thursday, February the 12th, will
be a special holiday event, a mixed
foi-isome and an eighteen-hole match.
Robert Skinner of Wilmington, D:i-
the amount of laboi- supplied hy the
amount of funds available for wages.
“The Comi^ittee requests that our
citizens refer all applicants for char
ity to its office in the Bc-rnstei ■
Buil i g uheie an immeiliate investi
gation will be made and r.rom. t an i
proper ‘relief be given worthy cases
The Committee also re(}uests that
ev;. ryone who pojisibly can do so aid
aware, made an exceptionally gooa it by giving employment Jo a work-
score in the putting contest held last less man or v/oman if only for a few
Saturday when he shot a 21 for the hours, and to ask the committee to
twelve holes. Mrs. Allen Fink of Pitts- furnish such help.
introduced two biils in the longer permit active, steady work. He ' jury found that he had been acciden- REYNOLDS TOBACCO HEAD
‘.enate during the past w'eek. ! made his home at the Aberdeen Ho-
’ Bill No. 86 is titled: “To pre-j tel after The Pilot moved here, and
' i-tgagors from cutting timber: ^vent to live with his brother at Vass
"tf^aged land without w^ritten , after his retirement.
’ '>f mortgagees.” His Senate | Ever interested in affairs of the
. 87 reads: “To abolish law re-' Sandhills, Milton Brewer made en-
n J registrars to provid copies of j during friendships throughout the
•ation books, though not prohiu- length and breadth of Moore county,
tally killed. He was buried at Star on
Monday.
EDWARD SLOAN MARRIED
TO MISS EVA RICHARDSON
Announcement was made last Sun
day of the marriage on August 2d j Gray, president of the R. J. Reynolds
the making- of copies by those | and leaves a host of loving friends to | last at Cheraw, S. C., of Edward j Tobacco Company, is expected soon to
want them.” i mourn his going. The funeral w’as held i Sloan of Aberdeen and Miss Eva Rich- ! join them. Mrs. Lyon had as a lun-
burgh was low for the women with a
23.
Entries are' being received ior the
TO VISIT SOUTHERN PINES Atlantic Coast Championship, start-
ing on February 17th, and continuing
Mrs. Bowman Gray, of W^inston- through the week, the men playing on
Salem, has arrived at the Highland j the No. 1 course and the \\omen o:i
Pines Inn to be with her mother, Mrs. No. 2.
B. M. Lyon and her brother Phil- ' *
up Lyon?' of Ottawa, Canada. Mr.
“Please mail checks or cash
George W. Case, treasurer.”
to
DR. LONG or ATLANTA TO
PREACH HERE ON SUNDAY"
Dr. R. C. Loro; of Atlanta, Geofgia,
is to preach at the Presbyteri»’i
Church in Aberdeen this coming Sun
day night at 7:30 o’clock. There are
said to be few stronger men’in the
Presbytery of the south than Dr.
Charlie Picquet announces that the Long, a man who brings an attractive
HORSE SHOW ANNOUNCED
FOR MARCH 31, APRIL 1
SHRINE BALL FEB. 27
■ he date for the annual Shrine
-' i of the Sandhill Shrine Club, al-
• ; ■ one of the big social events of
winter season, has been set for
* I’luay evening, February 27th, at the
Pinehurst Country Club. Donald Ross
^ "hairman and John Fitzgerald vice-
chairman of arrangements for the ball.
yesterday afternoon at his brother’s ardson of Jackson Springs, both well j cheon guest Tuesday Mrs. M. G. annual Pinehurst Hoise Sho\v ill be and ^rceful personality to the pul
home, the Rev. C. A. Lawrence offi-i known throughout the Sandhills. M>*. j Lollin, also of Winston-Salem,
ciating. Burial was at the Presbyte> Sloan is the son of S. E. Sloan and j
ian cemetery in Carthage, Mr, Brew-' connected with the Freeman Furn-
er having been a member of the Car- i iture Company in Aberdeen, and Mrs.
RACES NEXT WEDNESDAY
thage Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are two brothers, Stacy
Brewer of Vass and Murphy Brewer
of Rochester, N. Y., and one half-sis
ter, Mrs. John Brown of Hemp.
Sloan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
V. L. Richardson and for the past
two years has held a position with
Jabaly, a ladies’ w’ear shop in Pine
hurst,
One of the best race meetings of
the year is scheduled for next Wed
nesday,- February 4th at the Pine
hurst track, with a full program of
equestrian specialties as a sideline.
held on March 31 instead of April 1st pit. His Sunday evening will be a
this year, with the usual number of timely one in which he will treat o:
classes but with more entries in sight | the causes and cures of financial de-
than ever before. James G. Marshall pression. The subject is: Stewardship,
and Louis Haight, prominent New of Time, Interest and Money,
York horse show judges, have been A general invitation to all in the
invited to judge the classes. Mr. Mar- | community is extended to this oppor-
shall and Mr. Haight judged here ; tunity to hear Dr. Long Sunday even-
last year. ^