MOORE COUNTY’S
leading news
weekly
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. n, no. 15.
MANUBY
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, March 13, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
THOMAS ESCAPES
SERIOUS INJURY
IN TRAIN WRECK
Aberdeen Mail Clerk in Car
Torn in Two near Biscoe on
Norfolk Southern
Doctors, Fearing Results To Their Business,
Threaten Injunction Against Appl^ Sale
Big Auction To Be Held Tomorrow Morning in Southern Pines
Despite Wrath of Physicians.—There’s a Gold Piece in One
of the Many Apples To Be Offered on Block by Auctioneer
Dr. Mudgett and Dr. Milliken and Dr. Blair and Dr. McLeod and
all the other practicing doctors of Southern Pines are up in arms and
threatening injunction proceedings against Frank Buchan and M. G.
Nichols and Claude Hayes and all the rest who are planning a giant
apple auction in front of Doc Hart’s famous farmacy tomorrow, Sat
urday, morning at 11 o’clock.
It seems the big auction is part of the Unemployment Co-mmittee’s
campaign for funds, but the committee forgot all about the old slogan,
“An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” and incurred the wrath of the
pill prescribers who claim they haven’t had half enough business this
winter anyway.
Come what may, the auction is coming off. A whole barrel of apples
will be sold one at a time to the highest bidders, and someone will make
money on the transaction, for Claude Hayes has donated a $2.50 gold
piece and inserted it in one of the apples. The White Mountain Fruit
Company donated the barrel of apples, and Doc McBrayer and Nichols
and Buchan and a lot of other unemployed are putting on the show.
Come One, Come All—the money goes to aid unemployment condi
tions (other than those named above) and the committee says there
aren’t enough doctors in towTi to stop the fun.
tanker blocks ON RAIL
Charles B. Thomas of Aberdeen had
a narrow escape from serious injury
Wednesday morning when the combi
nation mail and baggage car on which
he was serving as mail clerk was torn
in two on the Norfolk Southern about
a mile and one half north of Biscoe.
He suffered only minor injuries but
his escape was almost miraculous.
Duncan Patterson of Jackson Springs,
baggage man, w^as also hurt but not
seriously.
The morning Norfolk Southern
Train from Aberdeen to Asheboro, in
charge of E. L. Pleasants, Aberdeen,
conductor, was hauling an oil tank
car full of crude oil from Raeford
bound for Charlotte. This car sudden
ly Mocked on the rail in some man-
ner. pulling the mail and baggage car, | Typically Sandhillian was the op- i them. They had been apprehended in
nex[ to it, almost to pieces. The tan- i ening of the new Municipal Recorder’s , their endeavors to sell the balls.
ROBT G. FARREIX,|Bill to Enlarge County
FARRELL GROCERY
CO. FOUNDER, DIES
Had Been a Prominent Resi
dent of Aberdeen For the
Past 35 Years
FUNERAL HELD THURSDAY
Commission Will Pass,
Says Senator Johnson
Golf Balls Start New. Municipal
Recorder's Court on its Career
ker and mail car were derailed, the I Court in Southern Pines on Tuesday,
other five freight cars and the pas- j Fifteen golf balls provided the first
senger coach remaining on the tracks.} evidence in this newly established as-
Mr. Pleasants was knocked down by | size. Our new judge. Dr. E. M. Poate,
the sudden stop of the train, but j had as his first judicial problem the
was not injured. The front end of the I weighty question of whether two col-
mail and baggage car was complete- ^ ored boys “tole dem pills.”
ly torn away from the rest of the car. | It was a little after 10 o’clock Tues-
Tlie tank car just dug into the ground. ; day morning when Mayor Dorsey G. and costs of $7.85. But he suspended
The accident occurred at 11 o’clock, j Stutz of Southern Pines appeared in the road sentence and ordered the cul-
blocking the track for the remainder ! the new court room on the second prits to report to the clerk of court
oi the day. No passengers were in- i floor of the Municipal Building and
jured, and none of the crew prevent- \ read the oath of office to Dr. Poate,
^ by his injuries from continuing his whose appointment as presiding jus-
After hearing the case, Judge
Poate passed his first sentence under
the recently enacted House Bill No.
378, entitled “An Act to Authorize
the Establishment of Municipal Re
corder’s Courts in Moore County,”
found the youths guilty and sentenced
them to three months on the roads
duties, it was stated.
J. R. Page to Talk To
County Tobacco Men
each Monday morning for the next
three months.
Judge Poate outlined the jurisdic
tion of his new court at this o'ening
It is a Municipal Recorder’s
tice of the court was announced in
last week’s Pilot. Besides adminiftor- session
ing the oath of office to the doctor- Court exclusively for Southern Pines,
lawyer-author, he swore in Howard but has concurrent jurisdiction with
Burns, the town’s clerk, as clerk of the County Recorder’s Court within
I coui’t, and Chief of Police B. H. Beas- five miles radius of the town boundar-
Meetinii’ of Growers Called for court officer. ies, and final jurisdiction in all mis-
Saturda\ Afternoon at Court court personnel was wel- demeanor cases.
House in Carthag’e comed to the bench and bar by At- Senator M. M. Johnson of Aberdeen
torneys P. P. Pelton and Duncan Mat- this week introduced a bill to amend
A meeting of the tobacco glowers of j Southern Pines, and then the measure ratified March 3d, the
Moore county will be held in the Court | ^alls. ‘ bill creating the court, through which
room at Carthage Saturday after- seems that J. 0. Proctor, Jr., re- amendment a prosecuting attorney
noon at 2:30 o clock. The purpose of , Mid-South Resort was may be provided for the court later on.
this meeting will be to better acquaint | inhospitable. Between the time The amendment also provides that “In
Robert G. Farrell, 58 years old,
passed away at his home on Poplar
street, Aberdeen, at 4:30 o’clock Tues
day afternoon after an illness of sev
eral days.
Until his health failed about two
years ago Mr. Farrell was very ac
tive in business here. He came to
Aberdeen about 35 years ago from !
near Merry Oaks in Chatham county
and founded the Farrell Grocery Com
pany. He also had other interests
in and about Aberdeen He was
a man of the strictest integrity and
no citizen in this community had
more friend's or was more highly es
teemed by people in all walks of life.
He is survived by his widow who
was Miss Minnie Lloyd of near Rtts-
boro and two sons, Cecil Farrell of
Pinebluff and Robert Farrell, Jff., of
Aberdeen. Interment was made in old
Bethesda cemetery following services
at the Aberdeen Baptist church, con
duced zy the Rev. C. L. Jackson, pas
tor, assisted by the Rev. E. L. Barber, j
pastor of the Presbyterian church and i
the Rev. W. C. Ball, pastor of the |
Methodist church. |
! Honorary bearers at the funeral j
1 yesterday afternoon were G. C. Sey-,
' mour, C. E. Pleasants, Sr., J. T. Har- !
i lington, J. Talbot Johnson, B. D. Wil- I
I son, Arthur Siachos, T. M. Sharpe, !
; J. A. Bryant and Henry McC. Blue.
The active bearers were J, A. Line-
berry, J. K. Melvin, C. J. Johnson, Ar-
i thui Carpenter, M. H. Folley, C. E.
j Pleasants, Jr., and C. V. Miller, all
j of Aberdeen. J. Talbot Johnson made ,
I a short talk at the services, paying
i high tribute to the deceased. A quar-
; tet composed of C. L. Williams, J. F. i
' Deaton, W. W. Norris and J. W.
Wimberley sang at the funeral.
Alone in the Skies
Miss Frances Johnson of Pine-
hurst, Yost Pupil, Enjoys
Her Solo Flight
Miss Frances Johnson, youthful
daughter of Norwood Johnson of
Pittsburgh and Pinehurst, looked
down upon us from the skies the
other day—and she was up there
all alone for the first time. Pilot-
Instructor Lloyd Yost of the Knoll-
wood Airport had turned her loose
for her solo flight, and she handled
the ship fearlessly and well. Yost
has another girl pupil. Miss Peggy
Haines of Philadelphia, who will
solo soon.
Has Met with General Approval
Throughout County, He
Tells Pilot
SALES TAX PROBABLE
i Increase in the County Board of
j Commissioners as proposed in the
j bill introduced in the General Assem-
Ibly last week by Senator Murdoch
, M. Johnson of Aberdeen appears to
i have met with general favor through-
I out the county, especially the district
ing feature by which each section of
the county will have direct represen-
; tation on the board. Under Senator
’ Johnson’s bill there will be five com-
! missioners instead of three, the two
added for the present being G. C.
! Seymour of Aberdeen and Frank
Cameron, of near Cameron, as ex
clusively announced in The Pilot last
week.
Interviewed at Raleigh yesterday.
Senator Johnson said the bill was
now in the House. ‘‘It will certainly
be passed,” he told The Pilot, “as it
seems to have met with the approval
all over the county.”
Asked about the situation with re
gard to financing the State operation
of schools, he said:
“If I should hazard a guess now, I
would say that the Legislature would
v/ind up with some additional tax on,
GALA NIGHT IS PLANNED P®"" companies, a tax on foreign
; stocks, etc., and a general sales tax.
The long felt need of a Communitv ^ now somewhat doubtful that the
House in Aberdeen is about to be Legislature will provide sufficient
COMMUNITY HOUSE
TO BE OFFiaALlY
OPENED MARCH 20
All Residents of Aberdeen In
vited to House Warming in
Remodeled Homestead
realized. The Community House As-
funds to take over the whole six
Dynamite Figures in
Poate Court Case
the farmers of the county with what '
the Cooperative Association is doing
and what it is planning to do this
year. This meeting will be called by
J. R. Page, chairman, who will be as-
fiisted in the discussion by Dr. Carl
Taylor of State College, Raleigh.
According to reports from Mr. Page,
the counties around are signing up
very well, some of them having
enough already signed up to assure
them that it will be handled by the
association this year. All the work
of the association will be explain- |
f'i in detail to the growers. If growers i
cave to sifin up after hearing this | Yorker Purchases Land in So C. T. Waldie Tells Fellow
he had stepped from the train the , all convictions in the said Recorder’s
other morning and his arrival at the Court, in addition to taxing all other
Mid-Pines Club someone had rifled his costs allowed by law, there shall be
golf bag, removing fifteen shiny new a fee of Six Dollars taxed, to be
baby dimples or kro-flites or whatever known as a Recorder’s Fee, which sum
they were from his bag. Mr. Beasley shall be set apart to pay the salary of
had cause to suspect two colored the Recorder.”
youths by the names of Walter Rem- The new court will convene at 10
bert and Massey Smith and had pre^ o’clock each Monday morning and ad-
ferred charges of larceny against, journ pending further business.
- Glenn McKinney Buys Less Schooling, More
1,400 Sandhills Acres Education, the Need
Neighborhood Feud in Manley
Winds Up in New Municipal
Recorder’s Court
Hoffman Section for Hunt
ing Preserve
A sale of 1,400 acres of land just
across Drowning Creek in Richmond
discussion, they may do so but they
Jire not going to be urged, and it is j
understood that no canvass of the i
'Ounty will be made as was done be-
. If the farmers of this county I
‘-^^ct to do anything this year, a i
will have to be made or I county to Glenn McKinney of New
ted right away. York, by S. B. Richardson and Edwin
>unty Agent E. H. Garrison says I McKeithen, marks the interest that
tomorrow’s meeting will be of * steadily growing in Sandhills lands,
importance to the tobacco men j tract is out about three miles
’ section, and urges them to turn
I' in full.
Members of Kiwanis Club
at Weekly Meeting
i--’n-up
■r.
vit
from Hoffman on the road toward
, Conrad Waldie acquainted members
of the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen with
the difference between schooling and
education at the club’s weekly meet
ing held Wednesday in Mrs. J. R.
Page’s new log cabin, near the Bobby
Burns filling station on Route 50. Mr.
Waldie, a member of the club, is
strong for education, but doesn’t
think much of modern methods of
Tips Car Over To
Avoid Hitting’ Child
Judge E. M. Poate of the Munici
pal Recorder’s Court, Southern Pines,
had what is believed to have been a
neighborhood fued to adjudicate when
court opened for its second session
Wednesday of this week. Frank
Schirmer of Manley was charged with
placing a pasteboard carton supposed
ly containing dynamite, fuse, waste,
etc., against the porch of his neigh
bor Fred Bergandahl, and firing
same at about 5:30 o’clock last Sun
day morning.
No direct evidence was presented
to show that the defendant perpetrat
ed the crime charged against him, and
he was paroled in the custody of his
attorney, P. P. Pelton. Bergendahl
and Schirmer live opposite one anoth
er on the old Manley-Southern Pines
road. The fire at the Bergendahl
place was discovered by Officer Gar-
gas of Southern Pines when he was
returning home from his night duty
early Sunday morning.
George Ross, colored, was fined
$5.00 for a traffic violation in South
ern Pines.
scciation arnounced this week that ■ “onths school term, though I am, of
the House Warming will be held in ; continuing hopeful that it
the remodeled McKeithen house on j
South street next Friday night, Must Relieve Land
March 20th, and gala plans are be- ‘‘[f Jq not take at least the
ing made for the occasion. larger part of taxes off land,” he
Every person, young and old, in ^.^id, “I shall not want to go back
the community is extended a cordial ' home, and a great many members of
invitation to the party that night, the General Assembly feel the same
the committee in charge announces, j ^ay about it. Under the present sys-
One of the oldest houses in Aberdeen tem there are a large number of
has been made new for the home of counties, towns and school districts'
civic meetings and enterprises of the ^hat will, during the spring, default
future. Centrally located, it is ex- payment of bonded indebted-
pected to 'become the meeting place j^^ss. The land owners simply cannot
for all local organizations, the scene ' .gy the taxes on tW land, and thous-
of future luncheon meetings of the ands of homes will probably have to
Kiwanis Club when that club’s be sold under the jammer. We have
schedule calls for meeting in Aber- relieve the situation some-
deen, the sanctum sanctorum of fra- ; how ”
ternal organizations, the headquarters j ^‘When will you wind up your ses-
of the local Chamber of Commerce, sion?” Mr. Johnson was asked.
Good Fellows Club, etc, etc. , “The members of both houses are
The old homestead has been all becoming more restive. The pay stop-*
fixed up inside, with many modern last week and we are all here on
improvements,, and fresh paint, and i resources. It would appear
will be furnished and in readiness , that this would have a tendency to
when the clans gather to launch the ! hurry us along, but it seems that we
newly formed Community House As- ^re getting nowhere much as yet ”
sociation on its career of civic use- , The Moore county senator still has
fulness next Friday night. The House i hopes that some teeth may be put in
Warming will be entirely free to the ^he automobile operators’ license law,
Aberdeen public. There will be a pro- passed without providing any fee sys-
gram, with speeches by prominent ^em and therefore practically woith-
residents of the Sandhills, some music
and amusing stunts. ' '.'.You have noticed that tht Senate
G. C. Seymour is president of the (V.e
Community House Association, and ; Highway Patrol. We passed 2}.-,! the
Mrs. Dan I. McKeithen chairman of p,.o,.k!inpr for the licensing of au-
the Ways & Means committee. These t„„„bile drivers, but the o,;ponent-i
two, and others, are active in the ar- measure we.e able to wt in
rangements for the grand opening. ^ amendment which cut out all of
~ ^ * ' the fees and bv that method practi-
ABERDEEN HOME CLUB destroyed the bill. However, it
PLANS GARDEN CONTEST Lnsideration and I thirk
Jackson Springs and the Derby farm,
across the creek from the Eldridge schooling. He maintains that a high
Johnson development, not far up the school graduate has learned nothing j
creek from the Dupont holdings, and in his four years which fits him for , ]yjRg^ DOWNING PRESIDENT OF
I in a field that has room for other those things which he must face in
Kwily Green, small daughter of Ray : newcomers on a big scale. Mr. Me- 1 life. We need more education with a
A Garden Contest will be held by
the Home and Garden Club of Aber
deen beginnir>g March loth. The
we £;re going to be able to pass the
bill with the fees in it.”
The operators’ license measure is
one for which the Kiwanis Club of
CARTHAGE WOMEN’S CLUB contest will end m the early fall. Aberdeen and The Pilot have been
I Those wishmg to enter this contest
' f ii (jf Aberdeen, had a narrow^ es-
■ ’fc from .death or serious injury
Wednesday afternoon when stuck by
^ ' ar while crossing Poplar street
t eac the residence of J* Talbot John-
•'"fi. Two busses were passing, with
^ car driven by Mrs. D. E. Smith of
W<^^t Phid following one of the trucks.
The child darted into the street af-
" one of the buses had passed, run-
directly into the path of Mrs.
‘"Smith’s car.
Mrs. Smith swung her wjieel to
avoid hitting the child, and in so do-
threw the car against a pole,
turning it over. A mudguard grazed
the youngster, but without injury to
^er, and Mrs. Smith escaped with a
bruises. Her quick action pre
sented what might easily have prov-
a fatal accident.
Kinney’s father is a Weymouth | thought for the future, and less
Heights winter resident. schooling along present day lines, he
Mr. McKinney expects to improve , believes,
the place, which he has secured for • His talk w^as both instructive and
a hunting reservation and a country , entertaining, Mr. Waldie mixing many
place in the pine forests.'About 300 | amusing stories with his serious dis-
acres of farming land characterize the j cussion
purchase, although farming will not | M. C. McDonald of West End read
be a factor in the work of the new ! an appreciative letter from the Rev.
owner, who is apparently in search of! R. G. Mathewson of Jackson Springs
the advantages that country life in [ expressing thanks for furniture and
the pine groves offers. Plans have funds furnished by the club’s com-
not been talked much in this affair
yet, as the sale has just been closed,
but it is believed development will
commence before long.
Other interest is shown in that
section this winter and the hope is
that the Drowning Creek country is to
show considerable activity in the im
mediate future.
mittee on Underprivileged and Needy
to a family of six in dire distress in
that section. Andrew I. Creamer of
the Highland Pines Inn also spoke
briefly, complimenting the club on its
accomplishments. It was announced
that Ladies Night and the annual
Kiwanis dance would probably be held
on April 10th.
, Th Carthage Wonien’s Club met in
the club room on Tuesday afternoon,,
, March 5. The new officers were in-
j stalled, they are Mrs. J. G. Downing,
j president; Mrs. H. G. Poole, vice-pres-
j ident; Mrs. H, Lee Thomas, secretary;
; Mrs. W. G. Kirkman, treasurer. The
! committees and other minor officers
i
i were appointed.
This being the first meeting of the :
new club year the president, Mrs.
Downing, made an interesting talk.
The librarian’s report was interesting
and encouraging. The number of new
books donated and the number of new
books taken out made a splendid
showing for Carthage.
Mrs. H. F. Seawell gave an inter
esting talk on what the Legislature
is doing for women, and spoke high
ly of Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Mebane.
n/r TTtr A i%/r t ''aging war for the past year or
mav see Mrs. W. A. Blue, Mrs. J. D. • ^ +4-- a j-u
^ XT . . * more, in the hope of cutting down the
McLean or Mrs. Roy Harrington. A
prize is to be given for the one hav
ing the prettiest garden. This Club
will also sponsor a Flower Show at
the end of the contest. Detailed in-
terrific death rate, from automobile
accidents in North Carolina.
To Protect Shrubbery
Senator Johnson on Wednesday aid-
formation will be given at a later ed his woman colleague in the Sen-
ate, Senator McKee, in getting
through her bill to require persons
WIDE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH gathering shrubs, trees, etc, to pro-
j cure a license to do so. The object of
John Sale, the author of “The Free | the bill is to protect the natural
Named John,” a recent book of negro beauty of the State’s highways,
folk lore, vdlf give the program next j “Quite a few of the Senators were
Sunday night, March 15th at the , able to get their counties exempted
Platform Hour. Mr. Sale is a native of, from the provisions of the bill but
Mississippi who knows the stories of j it applies to most of the state, includ-
the Old South. He is a reader of Ne-1 ing Moore county. I am hopeful that
gro» diiSlect, who, during th e last 1 it will have the effect of helping
two years, has pleased audiences |
both North and South. | (Please turn to Page 8)