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MOORE COUNTY’S
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TWP
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 11, NO. 12.
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FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
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of the Sandhill of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, February 20, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
PUBLIC HEARING
IS HELD BY S. P.
COMMISSIONERS
Public Opinion Apparently Fav
ors Extension of City Limits
and Biennial Elections
few CITIZENS PRESENT
A few citizens attended the meeting
,f ihe Mayor and Board of Commis-
.:ioncrs of Southern Pines Wednesday
•jght and in an open discussion of
ihe advisability of taking over the
portion of Jimtown, Incorporated, r^'i
\V=s!t Southern Pines the prepon-
..evating sentiment of those present I
appeared to favor the proposition
sponsored by the resolution of the
Board in their special meeting of Feb-
luary l2th, which resolutions found
eiiecr in the legislative bills recently
introduced in Raleigh and to be found
bflow The reasons given by the May
or and Commissioners for the pro
posed enactment being the better po-
’ving, sanitation and care of this
?eopraphic portion of Southern Pines
lOt now within the corporate limits.
The proposed amendment to the town
cha’ier changing elections from an-
to biennial aroused nc comment
Hole in One
Helen Waring, Prominent Girl
Star, Makes First Ace on
Pinehurst Links
Miss Helen Waring, the 20-year-
old Pinehurst golfer, who has won
numerous major tournaments here
in the past seasons, Tuesday reg
istered her first hole in one. The
ace was scored on the 149-yard
11th hole on No. ^1 course. Miss
Waring sinking the tee shot into
the cup with a No. 6 iron.
Playing with Miss Waring w^ere
her father, H. G. Waring, and
Charles Ketcham, and Charles
I Ketcham, Jr., of Yonkers.
ENROLLMENT FOR
TRAINING CAMPS
STARTS MARCH
Early Application Will Be Nec
essary for Those Who Wish to
Attend Camp This June
Old Pinehurst-Southern Pines
Sand’Clay Road Being Rebuilt
Bootlegging Industry
Receives Severe Jolt
Activities of Federal Aa:ents Re
sult in Arrest of Eight Al
leged Offenders
Bootlegging operations in Moore
county have received some pretty ser
ious jolts within the past two weeks,
due in large part to undercover w’^ork
that has been carried on recently, and
MOORE CAN SEND EIGHT
Major General Frank R. McC ^y,
commanding the Fourth Corps Area,
announces that 4400 applications for
attending next summer C. M. T.
Camps, will be accepted beginning
{March 1st. He states that these ca ni*s,
I for thirty days begin June 12th. One
I will be held at Fort Bragg, N. C.,
; near Fayetteville, where 800 will be
trained. Moore county is allotted 8 of
these.
Thousands Too Late Last Year
Less than half of the young men ap
plying for these camps in the south
east last year could be accommodat
ed. Funds and facilities were avail
able for only 4400, 8939 applied. Flor
ida, the first state in the union to
exceed its quota, filled up in one day
after enrollments began. All eight
southeiastem states comprising the-
Fourth Corps Area filled their quotas
a month and a half before camps op
Beautifying Aberdeen
Struthers Burt Calls on Town
to Capitalize on Itls Nat
ural Advantages
Emphasizing the fact that Aberdeen
has the most beautiful natural setting
of any town in the Sanhills, Struth
ers Burt in his address before the
Home and Garden club in the high
school auditorium Wednesday after
noon, called upon the people of Aber
deen to set about the beautification
of their town.
The speaker suggested the use of
New Road Will Be Boon to
Horsemen and Bridal Path
Enthulsiasts
PAGE TRUST CO.
HOLDS ITS ANNUAL
MEET IN SANFORD
Meeting is Attended by Repre
sentatives from Each of Its
Fourteen Branches in State
The coming of the horse to the
Sandhills in greater numbers is out
lining a development thut means one
of the new features of the entire re
gion. With the increasing use of the
old Southern Pines road from the,
Pinehurst race tracks to The Pad- j
dock in the Weymouth belt the potpu- j the Page Trust Company was held in
larity of the road has grown so fast I Sanford with representatives of each
that the county is rebuilding the line | of the 14 branches present. President
from one end to the other. Since the j Robert N. Page presided over the
winter weather has brought the road meeting and reports from the branches
ASSETS NOW OVER $6,000,000
Tuesday afternoon and evening, the
annual conference of the officers of
force from the clay sections of the
county to the sandy region a force has
been busy on this old road, which is
native shrubbery as a basis of this {now almost rebuilt the entire distance.
eight men were arrested last week af
Tho: e present were Mayor Stutz and i liquor to “the law.” | ened, the Fourth Corps Area leadir.g
■ omniissioners Stevens, Case, Patch They are Herbert Coker and George
and Yeomans Haynes of Lakeview, Ed Simpson and
Ernest Bullins of Hoke county, Evan-
The proposed bill to provide for the ^ Robinson of near Southern Pines,
I,tension of the city limits follows: :
“The General Assembly of North Tommy Oates, George McNeill and
■ arolina do Enact: i George McDonald of Cameron. Coker,
“bection 1. That chapter two hun- j Simpson, Haynes, Bullins and Oates
ured ten private laws of one thousand | gave bond and the others are in
all others in the country. Seven of the
eight states filled their quotas in
twenty three days or less. For tr.e
thousands disappointed last year, only
early application this year will se
cure for them an appointment.
Who May Attend
Any young man of acceptable char-
work and stressed the planting of
pines, dogwoods and other native spe
cies. He also advocated that the pro
ject be planned by capable landscape
architects and the .point was made that
a great deal of improvement could be
made at very small outlay of money
and time.
The signs marring- the approach to
the town from all directions came in
for criticism.
The club has invited E. Morrell of
Southern Pines to come and make a
Two new bridges have been made of
the old ones. New approaches have
much improved the bridges. The road
has been widened from the Race track
all the way through to the hill top
at Southern Pines. New surfacing has
been laid down. New Grades have been
established at places, and a bad curve
has changed the face of the road near
the Watson western boundary.
This road will be a fine example
of the old type of sand clay road. Its
disclosed a decided note of optimism
as to the business outlook.
At 7 p. m. dinner was served in
the assembly room of the Wilrik Ho
tel, which was in the nature of an
informal family gathering. R. N. Page
presided and a number of talks were
made by heads of the different depart
ments of the bank. Those present at
the conference were: Robert N. Page,
president; Ralph W. Page, vice-presi
dent, Aberdeen; John Nichols, vice-
president, Raleigh; Arthur W. Page,
director and .president of American
Telegraph and Telephone Company,
New York; D. I. McKeithen, cashier;
popularity arises from the fact of its i Frank H. Urner, general manager in-
soft surface under the foot of the surance department, and C. D. Mat-
Poultry Plant Is
Making Good Start
nine hundred twenty-three, the same
tewg “An act to incorporate the town
of West Southern Pines in Moore
County,” be, and the same is hereby,
repealed, it being the purpose and in-
■ ‘T*> of this section to abrogate the
charter and terminate the existence of
s^aid municipality.
'‘Section 2. That all the powers
onferred upon any and all officers
of >aid town of West Southern Pines
by said chapter two hundred ten pri
vate laws of one thousand nine hun-
:!red twenty-three, or by any other
acts of the General Assembly of this
state, be and they are hereby, termi
nated. and from and after the ratiti
acter between the ages of 17 and 24 j Poultry in Plentiful Supply for
may apply for the Basic Course. It j
jail.
A. L. Freeman, W. D. Currie and , pass the required physical ex-
Sam Steele, all of Scotland coutity j amination and is of good moral cliar-
have recently been taken for possess- | as'certified to by a reputable
ing and transporting, and Doss All- j ^.j^j^en who knows him. he may ai
red of upper Moore county for selling ■ ^^lese camps if he is in
liquor. j secure one of the vacancies.
Allred and his hi'other were taker. I Obligation
Attendance at these camps mf.ans
on the third of February for manu
facturing and w’ere out under SI,000
bond. Doss Allred was again taken
on the ninth for selling and is now out
under an additional bond of S500.
Prohibition Agent J. Q. Harr’;.
Deputy Marshall Brown, Deputy Sher
iff T. N. Slack of Moore and She i f
Reaves and Deputy Watson of I.e.
survey of the situation and suggest. ... -i i i . An.
the most feasible plans for arriving at i the time it is possible hi thews, associate trust officer, A>ber-
the desired result driving the road to meet horses, es- ; deen; A. P. Harris, cashier; R. A.
pecially the track horse which finds | Rogers, assistant cashier; A. P. Har-
the soft road desirable for a jog of | ris, Jr., assistant cashier, Albemarle;
a few miles or a shorter saunter away L. M. Gould, cashier; J. M. Herndon,
from the track. It is a good road! assistant cashier, Apex; L. W. Bar-
for the saddle horse, and when Web- , low, assistant vice-president; P. K.
ster Knight puts his coach on the j Kennedy, cashier, Carthage; J. i-i.
road he will make more or less use of j Leigh, cashier; B. W. Pegram, assist-
this sand clay road because of its ant cashier; P. L. Miller, Hamlet; B.
adaptability to the feet of his stock. M. Brower, cashier; J. T. Martin, as-
As this road has been easily main- sistant cashier. Liberty; W. P. Cov-
tained under automobile traffic it is ington, cashier, Raeford; W. Reid*
likely that much of the through trav- ' Martin, vice-president and cashier; J.
el between the two villages will turn ' M. Woolard, assistant secretary;
its way, for the distance from Pine- Henry Schwartz, assistant manager
Local Demand with Prices
Above Market
The poultry plant at Pinehurst is
making a good start. Joe W. Blue Is
in charge in the building near tha
stables. He has an incubator at woik
with 2,300 eggs now in process oi . . i • u n
hatching, which will come off the last I hurst to Southern Pines is shorter bond department, Raleigh; E. t . Cra-
no obligation for future military ser-. „f next week. These eggs are hatch-1 than by the Midland double road, os- ven, assistant vice-presidenf E. B.
vice. Those who attend are no mere ing for customers. For nine weeks the ’ pecially between points in the .south Leonard, cashier, Ramseur; W.
likely to be called to the colors in ' capacity of this machine is engaged, > portion of Southern Pines and to the Dyer, Jr., cashiei,
11 have to call on 1 Highlard Pines Inn, the Paddock sec- ager insurance department, baniora;
"a'ion of this act such officers shall 1 county have been instrumental in
bringing the offenders into the han Is
of the law.
Another House Is
have no further power or authority co
perform any duties under, or conferr
al upon them by, said act or laws as
h officers of said town of West
-ithern Pines.
‘■-''ection 3. That the territory com-
:n-ehended within the limits of said
^ 'Vv i of West Southern Pines as de-
C ]' -^d and set out in section two of
sa’u chapter two hundred ten private
law-^ ,f one thousand nine hundred
V' nty-threc together w’ith certain
time of war than any other man. | and with it he wi
However, if they volunteer or are | other hatcheiies to help him care for ! tion, and the hunt aiea.
selected for service they are more i th^^ eggs that are offered. The signs
likely to secure rapid advancement and 1 are that Mr. Blue will provide at lea:,t
be able to defend their country more 10,000 young chicks for the patrons
effectively and with greater safety of his plant, and that this number
to themselves. Military training is ; will be largely increased by other
not the primary object. The training I hatcheries in the community, besides
at these camps stresses citizenship, i the number of chicks that
i leadership, self reliance, iniativo, | hatched on the farms by individuals
StS-rtcd in Knollwood ^ good fellowship and how to work and ! for their own use.
' play hard and effectively. The morjl | Chickens are coming
Positive Progress of Knollwood |'-“iJ lelisious influences are kept a. enough at thejlant to supply tne
This Winter Excites Much '’is:h standards. local trade m Pinehurst and South-
Favorable Comment All necessary expense covering
transportation, camp facilities, food,
Knollwood Heights sta.v^ off with ! clothing, laundry, -medical examina-
ern Pines, not including the trade
that is cared for by the meat markets,
which Mr. Blue does not attempt to
another new house. This will be the ! tions and services of instructors are j invade, as it is his policy to encour-
Olmstead No 4, to be built by the Mid- i furnished free by the government. : age all the market outlets possible.
South Company C L Austin the i This summer camp training could not The type of fowls coming in are gTat-
co"iitractor. The location is on lot No. i be duplicated by private enterprise , jfyjng, as they indicate the pronoune-
R. E. Little, cashier; Wm. J. Headen,
With the county road built last i assistant cashier, Siler City; E. H.
spring out to the Callery section and i Malone, cashier; Dan Watson, assist-
nearly to Fort Bragg' it is evident' ant cashier, Thomasville; Harvey W.
that sooner or later this horse road Turnage, cashier, Troy; John Nor-
will push on through to the line of the ^ wood, cashier, Zebulon.
reservation, with a Connecticut ave- | The Page Trust Company, which
will be ' nue connection as a return outlet, giv- i has its home office here, is one of
ing the horses a route of fifteen or | North Carolina’s prominent financial
tw^enty miles out and back from Pine- ' institutions, and now has 14 branches
hurst, there connecting with the Lin- with assets of more than S6,000,000.
den road for the Reed farm and out
the Drowning creek way. This would
give twenty or thirty miles of a dirt
load without doubling much at any
,point, and the signs now are that
it will soon develop.
in freeiy
Well Known Red Cross
Worker Dies In Raleig’h
247, opposite the Neidich house, one
?rv
of the last completed. The estimated { for each member and it is an offer, j ed the poultry production
cost of the completed job is around I as a purely busmess proposition, un- , eounty in recent days.
n:aii segments or sections of land ad
jacent and contingious thereto, be,
^ -I the same is hereby, annexed and
•k1(^ a part of the town of Southern
P' ' > in Moore County, the said terri-
so annexed, “which includes the j
•<-ry embraced in said ^ ^20,000. This will make the sixth;
■ southern Pines, together with beginning at the | time,
additional territory is bounded ^.^^d with the Fownes and | Where Our Young Men Camp
described as follows: ; houses and including the Vail ! The twelve western
beginning at a point in the pres-1 ^ouse, Mrs. Hogg’s home at the cor-1
ner of Crest and Serpentine drive, the
Neidich house, the big model of the
Byrd home at Westover, now ap
proaching completion, and the one
now to be built, which is to start at
for less than several hundred doi’ .r i j ed advance in quality that has mark-
of the
ANNUAL MASQUERADE BALL
AT HIGHLAND PINES INN
Mrs. Elise Mulliken, Frequent
Visitor Here, Stricken by
Pneiimonia
Saturday night, February 21st, has
been set by Messrs. Creamer and
equaled by any government at any | Poultry prices are not as high at | Turner of the Highland Pines Inn foi
counties
the present as the farmer would like
I to see, but the Pinehurst market is
cf ' paying an advance over the figure^
-b
■ wn line of Southern Pines, ((be-
t he center of the run of McDeed’s
k,) where the same is intersected
e Southwe^'it line of Rhode Island
ae, as sho vn upon the official
of the Town of Southern Pines ^ With the Barnsdall and the
North Carolina send their young men
to Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, while
those from the rest of the state go to
Fort Bragg.
Any regular Army officer. State
paid at the car whore car loads have
been moved north from this section
recently. It is the :ntention to try to
pay higher prices than car load buy
ers give. Occosionally Mr. Blue has
I Wood homes, just over the line
! Pine Needles region ten other houses
i have been built in the Knollw’^ood
j Heights section, while across Midland
I road a number of others are a por-
’mning thence:
■ ] ) With said line of Rhode Is-
r l Avenue, as extended in a north-
’-]y direction (which avenue be-
' ■ . Fairw'ay Road, as shown upon
Map of Knollwood), for about 2,- 'tion of the Knollwood community. Bur-
- - feet, to the northwest line of Pine j rell V/hite’s home, across the old^Car-
t> vet extended. Thence, j thage road is also a member o- the
“(2) With said line of Pine Street | Knollwood group. Taking them all to-
tended, S. 53 15’ W., for about 3750 | gether the development since it coir-
'g: ; to a point in the original line of • menced has been rapid, and of a
i ‘1. corporate limits of the town of I type that has been surprising to
'’Oi.thern Pines between Iowa and, everybody.
vlir-higan Avenues, as shown upon the
'ficial Map of Southern Pines which
j of record in the office of the Reg-
i?‘.er of Deed for Moore County, in
B=»ok 10 of Deeds.
“All the courses of the said Rhode
Island Avenue extended, (also called
Fairway Road), and of Pine Street.
Iowa and Michigan Avenues, etc., be-
•ng shown upon the new official Map
Southern Pines and its environs.
(Please turn to page 4)
ment is the positive progress Knoll
wood is making this winter. The big
new model house, the dupli«^.ate of
Westover, entailing an outlay of close
to $100,000, this new house by the
Mid-South Company, the purchase by
T. N. Barnsdall, and the expansion by
Mr. White emphasizes that interest
capital has in the opportunity at
Knollwood, which inclines to a high
ly favorable conception of the day.s
that are ahead in that quarter.
Civilian Aide or County Representa- ; been obliged to put a small amount of
dressed poultry in cold storage, which |
is convenient as the ice plant is near j
the poultry plant. But it soon comes j
out again as the demand so far ha:^ |
kept pretty well up with the supply- i
Mr. Blue, being a poultry grower
himself, says he thinks the farmers
can profit by the market, and that
they can make some money by rais
ing poultry if they will grow their
own feed as far as possible and not
depend on farmers out West to make
it for them. But he lays much stress
on having good stock to start with, for
no market can make a good chicken
out of a poor one.
tive can furnish blanks and informa
tion, or those interested may write
directly to the C. M. T. C. office,
Headquarters Fourth Corps Area, Fort
McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia.
Nelson C. Hyde, Aberdeen, is
County representative for Moore
county.
PLATE GLASS MAKERS
ENTERTAIN BUILDERS
' the Ninettenth annual Washington s
Birthday masquerade ball and the
ball room pnd parlors of this splend
id hostelry will be open to the mas
queraders of the Sandhills. The Grand
March will begin promptly at 8:45
o’clock, opening one of the largest
and most colorful affairs of the re
sort. As usual music will be fumish-
ed bv the hotel orchestra.
Jack’s grill was the scene of a,
banquet Monday night given by offi-
The feature that excites m;)st com- j cers of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Company to Hugh Betterly and some
forty invited guests interested in the
building trades of the Sandhills. At
tracted by the wide distribution of the
company’s paints and allied products
by the Southern Pines Warehouses a
real entertainment was planned and
carried out by the visiting represen
tatives, maving pictures and talkies
by the famous announcer for Amos
and Andy, Bill Haig following the
feast of goods things set forth.
ANNUAL MEETING OF
BUILDING AND LOAN ASS’N.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Southern Pines Build
ing and Loan Association will be held
at the Men^s Club Friday night, Feb
ruary 27th, at eight o’clock. Purpose
of the meeting election of nine offi
cers.
The death of Mrs. Elise Mulliken
of pneumonia, which occurred at Rex
Hospital in Raleigh, X. C,, on last
Friday night was the occasion of much
sorrow to her many fiien is thi-ough-
out this section of the countiy, v. here
she was well known and much loved.
She was a frequent visitor in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot Johi*-
son here, and had endeared herself to
them as well as many others in Aber-
:^een by her many lovable qualities.
Mrs. Mulliken was Field Director of
Red Cross work for Eastern North
Carolina, and made her headquarters
in Raleigh, w'here sh.j was on relief
woik duty for the Red Cross when
she was stricken with influenza, which
This Friday night at the Pinehurst later developed into pneumonia. For
Theatre, Frederick Stanley Smitn, the past three years she has been en-
Dean of the Music Department of the gaged in Field Service in North Car-
Lenoir-Rhyne College and Organist | olina rural communities. Her death
at the Village Chapel at Pinehur.st, came as a sudden surprise to her
will give a short recital from 8:00 ^ many friends.
to 8:15 p. m., and will play a special , She was the wife of Harry Sander-
number between the preliminary pro- ' son Mulliken, former special assist-
gram and the feature picture. , ant of the Department of the Interior
and noted metallurgical engineer.
STRUTHERS BURT TO ADDRESS | Mrs. Mulliken was the former pres-
SANDHILL POST WEDNESDAY i ident of the League of American Pen-
' women, national vice-president of the
ORGAN RECITAL AT THE
PINEHURST THEATRE
It is
announced that Struthers Burt j Woman’s Auxiliary to the American
will address the February meeting of
the Sandhills Post, American Legion,
w'hich will be held at the Civic Club
in Southern Pines Wednesday even
ing, February 25th, at 8:00 o’clock.
A special entertainment feature
will be a square dance by a set of
dancers from West End.
Institute of Mining Engineer, and nat
ional vice-chairman of publicity for
the D. A. R., coming from a distin
guished Virginia family she had
been a member for years of the Co
lonial Dames.
The remains of Mrs. Mulliken were
taken to San Antonio, Texas.