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i riday, May 1, 19Sl.
THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina
June Gunter Dies
In Sanford Hospital
Well Known ill Sandhills as
Leading Kiwanian and In
surance Man
Commencement Ends a Succesful
Year For Vass-Lakeview School
Junius U. Gunter, one of Sanford’s
.li^rhly esteemed and widely known
itizens, succumbed Monday morning
Scott hospital following an illness
,f ten days of steptococcus infection.
Mr. Gunter, who was 46 years of age,
was the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
T -hn D. Gunter, and was born near
>anford. For many years he w’as .’ec-
vetary and treasurer and manager cf
Jonesboro Sash and Blind Com
pany. Later he entered the insurance
business. Both through his business
/’onnections and as a Kiwanian Mr.
Gunter was well known throughout
he Sandhills section.
;Mr. Gunter was for two terms
-hairman of the Lee county board of
•ommissioners and had served as a
member of the board of trustees of
he Lee county hospital. He was inter
ested in Red Cross work and was for
many years chairman of the local
■ hapter. He also served as president
,1 the chamber of commerce. He was
niember of the Kiwanis Club of San
ford and for two terms was pre^" ie'^t
‘ the club and had served as lieu-
enant governor for the Carolina;-? K5-
wanis district. He was a member of
-he Masonic, Moose and Junior or
ders.
Surviving are his wife, who before
marriage was Miss Kate Ledbetter
of Polkton; one son, J. U. Gunter.
Jr., student at University of North
Carolina; three sisters, Miss Ruth
Gunter, Mrs. D. C. Nance of Sanford,
Mrs. L. J. Bray of Pittsburgh, Pa.;
-hree brothers, Eugene D. Gur.ter of
Rkhmond, Va., Herbert B. Gunter
f Greensboro, and Charles W. Gunter
:>i Gastonia.
CLOSES GIFT SHOP
E. D. Putnam has closed the White
Mountain Photo and Gift Shop in
Southern Pines and with his family
motored northw'ard Wednesday. They
•vvill spend the summer in Antrim, N.
H.
Fourteen Awarded Diplomas Af
ter Hearing Good Advice
by Judge Humber
By Mrs. S. R. Smith
Commencement exercises at Vass-
Lakeview School began on Thursday
evening of last week with a music re
cital by piano and public school
music pupils of Miss Ruth McFarland
and the young people did themselves
and their teacher credit. A, rhythmic
band composed of first and second
grade children, all dressed in white
uniforms, was an attractive feature
of this program.
On Friday evening four girls and
six boys competed for the recitation
and declamation medals and each con
testant made a most creditable show-
' ing. The decision was rendered in fav-
; or of Faye Brewer of the eighth
I grade, who recited ‘‘Keturah's Visit
jto the City” and Russell Thompson of
! the tenth grade who gave “The Christ
: of the Andes.”
' Others taking part were Mary. Neal
I Cameron, Emily Laubscher, Bessie
I Evans, William Goodman, Worth Mc-
i Millan, Henry Borst, Jr., Coynell
Cameron, and George Dyer. High
‘school choruses added variety to the
I program.
The largest crowd ever to assemble
here for a baccalaureate sermon was
present Sunday morning for the in-
' spiring message which was brought
I by the Rev. Frank Hawkins of the
Sanford Baptist church.
On Monday evening the auditorium
, was filled and about a third as many
people were on the outside when the
Senior class gave its class day pro
gram. The stage was at its prettiest
for the occasion, and the class mas
cot, Mary Lou Byrd, beautiful little
curly-haired daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Byrd of Albemarle, was
charming as she displayed the class
colors of blue and gold. Mary Lou is
the granddaughter of J. A. Keith of
Vass, who served for a number of
years on the school board, and both
her mother and daddy spent many of
their childhood days in the Vass
school.
The class exercises were very inter
esting. Douglas Gardner was saluta-
torian and Myrtle McMillan gave the
class history.
Bill Goodman read the last will and
testament of the Senior class and
many and valuable were the gifts be
queathed to underclascmen. Joseph
Matthews was class prophet, Mabel
Lawrence, poetess, and Magdalene
Bass gave characteristic gifts to each
member of the class. Herman Park
er was valedictorian, and his address
was unusually good.
Humber on Happiness
On Tuesday morning,, the graduat
ing exercises were held. The program
opened with the singing of America,
followed by prayer by the Rev. C. A.
Lawrence. W. D. Matthews introduced
the speaker of the day. Judge George
H. Humber, who gave the class some
excellent advice on how to be happy.
He emphasi^fed the importance of
forming a great purpose, of selecting
a few great principles and sticking to
them. He urged that they work, prac
tice economy, avoid unnecessary debt,
know% respect and control themselves
and live for others. v
Diplomas were presented by County
Superintendent H. Lee Thomas to the
following: Myrtle McMillan, Magda
lene Bass, Mabel Lawrence, Katie
Cameron, Rachel Gamer, Clary
Thompson, David Wilson, Coynell
Cameron, William Goodman. Joseph
Matthews, Douglas Gardner, Herman
Parker, Vick Keith and Thomas Brew
er.
W. Duncan Matthews, former prin
cipal of the school, presented certi
ficates to eighteen boys and girls
who had completed the course of
study for the seventh grade. They
were Coker Blue, Franklin Matthews,
Marvin Williams, Dougald Cameron,
Luther Byrd, Delmas Kimball, Ed
gar Oldham, Joe McRae, Emerson
Oldham, Robert Rosser, Edison Calla
han, Helen Klingenschmidt, Elizabeth
Bagett, Dera Dawson, Pauline Thomp- |
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son, Bessie Gamer, Elizabeth Mc-
Craney and Marian Cameron.
Mr. McCmmmen read the list of
names of those who were entitled to
to receive perfect attendance certi
ficates. There were fifty-four of
these, represnting every class in
school except the eleventh grade. He
presented the medals which were won
by the following: Civics, given by the
publishers of current events, Eva
Callahan; English, given by the Vass
Woman’s Club for improvement in
English, Rachel Garner; recitation,
Faye Brewer; declamation, Russell
Thompson; scholarship, given by the
school to the high school student
making the highest average for the
year, Emily Laubscher.
Play Great Success
The final program was “Oh, Kay,”
a comedy given by students of the
high school on Tuesday evening un
der the direction of Miss Alberta
Monroe. Miss Monroe has made for
herself an enviable reputation as a
play director, and she had some ex
cellent material with which to work,
so the play was a pronounced success
from every standpoint. The proceeds
were around a hundred and forty dol
lars. Leading roles were taken by Lea-
mon Crouse, Joseph Matthews, Mag
dalene Bass, Herman Parker, Eliza
beth Keith and Georgia Belle Morgan,
and they were ably supported by Tom
Brewer, Clary Thompson, Bill Grood-
man, Coynell Cameron and Mary Neal
Cameron.
The Vass-Lakeview school has en
joyed the most successful year in its
history. John McCrummen, the sup
erintendent, has the full support of
the patrons of the school and he has
been most ably assisted by a capable
and cooperative corps of teachers. An
interested and progressive school
board composed of W. B. Graham,
chairman, W. D. McCraney, J. A.
Thomas, A. M. Cameron and W. H.
McNeill comes in for share of the
credit for the success of the school,
also.
A course in Public School Music has
this year bee^ added, and has proved
both popular and helpful. The voca
tional department has exerted a wide
influence throughout the entire sec
tion.
Four hundred and sixty pupils,
ninety-one of which "were in the
high school were enrolled during the
year, and six trucks were used in
transporting them, three of the trucks
making two trips daily.
In athletics, the boys and girls
have excelled. The boys won the
county basketball championship, and
during the baseball season they have
played thirteen games without los
ing one. Li fact, they have lost only
five cut of forty-three played during
the past three years.
State Offers Course
in Tobacco Grading
PINEBLUFF
U. S. Agricultural Department
Officials To Instruct at
Raleigh May 11-15
A short course in sorting and grad
ing tobacco will be gi^en at N. C.
State college the week of May 11, by
the tobacco section of the United
States bureau of agriculture crops,
Dr. J. B. Cotner, in charge of grad
ing work, announced today.
The course will be similar to the
one held last year when more than 200
tobacco graders, warehousemen, stu
dents, county farm agents and others
attended. This year. Dr. Cotner said,
the course will be divided into two
parts.
The first section covering the first
three days, May 11-13, will be given
for graders, applicants for grading
positions with the government, buy
ers, and representatives of tobacco
companies during these three days,
the grading students will be more ad
vanced than during the latter part of
the week.
The second section, covering the
days of May 14 and 15, will be open
to all persons interested in tobacco
sorting and grading. It is designed
especially for farmers, county agents,
vocational teachers, 4-H club leaders,
students and warehousemen.
An unusually strong staff of in
structors will be on hand, Dr. Cotner
said. Among these will be Frank B.
Wilkinson, in charge of the grading
work for the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, and E. D. Mc
Dowell head grader in the govern
ment service.
1,137 COWS TUBERCULIN
TESTED DURING MARCH
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
Seventy lots of cattle in North
Carolina, containing- 1,137 head _of
cattle, were tuberculin tested during
March and three head reacted, the
U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry re
ports.
In North Carolina there are now
256,556 lots of cattle, containing 669,-
264 head in 100 counties which have
been tested and once found free of
tuberculosis.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett of Munda, N.
Y., were the week-end guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Reuben Smith.
Mrs. Minnie Botsford and daughter,
Lena, left Wednesday for Menford,
C©nn.
Professor and Mrs. Hutt and Mrs.
Lucy Cameron of Southern Pines
were the dinner guests of Mrs. J. H.
Suttenfield Tuesday evennig.
Mrs. L. Foushee entertained at a sur
prise birthday party for Mrs. O. Ad-
cox Friday evening. Among the guests
were Mesdames J. R. Lampley, J. W.
Pickier, E. Pickier, D. Bobbitt and
Misses Madge Pickier, Addie New
ell and Henrietta Risley.
Mr. Greenwood and Mr. and Mrs.
Plummer were the dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Jackson Tuesday
evennig
Donald Stubbs of Wagram visited
H. L. Howie on Saturday.
The many friends of Mr. and Mrs.
C .V. Jackson entertained for them
at a surprise birthday and wedding
anniversary party at the Baptist
Church Tuesday evening. Friends
from Southern Pines and Aberdeen
were present.
MILAMS IN COLLISON OF
AUTOS NEAR FAYETTEVILLK
Shortly after midnight Sunday Wil
liam and C. C. Milam returning from
Fayetteville in a Ford roadster driv
en by Harold Steadman, of New
York attempted to pass an A. & P.
truck towing a trailer on a curve
about six miles west of that city and
in the ensuing collision the car was
wrecked and all the occupants hurt.
They were taken to Highsmith Hospi
tal where Steadman remains pain
fully though not seriously injured.
The Milams returned to Southern
Pines Tuesday.
SHAMBURGER, VAIL AND
HART OFF FOR MIAMI
Frank Shamburger of Aberdeen,
Herbert Vail of Pinehurst and R. L.
Hart of Southern Pines leave on Sat
urday for Miami, Florida to%ttend the
annual'Tjonvention of Kiwanis Inter
national, to be held there next week.
Shamburger and Vail are the dele
gates of the Aberdeen club to the
convention and Mr. Hart is accom
panying them.
Appetizing FOODS at Appetizing PRICES
What a pleasure it Is to shop here. With everything
arranged 'in orderly fashion and prices never so low as
they are right now, you'll enjoy your daily visits here.
See our window display of vegetables and fruits.
SANITARY CASH MARKET
Aberdeen, South Street E, B. Maynard, Mgr.
ntii
Report of Financial Transactions
TOWN OF ABERDEEN
June 1st, 1930 to May 1st, 1931
Receipts
Cash On Hand June 1, 1930 $ 5,092.89
Taxes, 1930 9,667.93
Taxes 1929 1,964,20
Taxes 1928 55.00
Privilege License 1,535.63
Street Assessments 2,824.24
Water Rents 6,330.90
Notes 8,000.00
Other Revenue 973.31
$36,444.10
Unpaid taxes due the Town of Aberdeen $10,552.75
ir
Disbursements
Salaries and Supplies :$ 1,455.00
Police Department 1,750.00
Fire Department ! 309.34
Streets 1,896.48
Water Works 4,008.75
Legal ' 279.93
Electric Lights - 1,902-90
Sewer System 137.53
Bonds Paid 8,500.00
Notes Paid 8,500.00
Interest Paid 7,046.60
Cash Balance 657.57
$36,444.10
TOWN OF ABERDEEN
NORTH CAROLINA
Bonded Indebtedness
April 30, 1931.
1. Water Bonds $16,000
2. Water Bonds 35.000
3. Sewer Bonds 18,000
4. Street Assessment Bonds 24,000
1. These bonds mature $500.00 Ocfeber 1st in each of the
years 1931 to 1958, inclusive and $1,000.00 on October 1st, in
the years 1959 to 1960. Interest at 6 per cent payable on October
1st and April 1st.
2. These bonds mature $1,000 January 1st on each of the
years 1932 to 1954, inclusive and $2,000 January 1st in each of the
years, 1955-1960, inclusive. Interest at 6 per cent payable July
1st and January 1st.
3. These bonds mature $1,000 January 1st in each of the
years 1932-1949, inclusive. Interest at 6 per cent per annum, pay
able July 1st and January 1st.
4. These bonds mature $6,000 October 1st in each of the
years 1931 to 1934, inclusive. Interest at 5 3-4 i^r cent per annum,
payable October 1st and April 1st.
Notes Due By Town
Eureka Fire Equipment Co., Due September 1st, $1,200
Page Trust Co., Due July 1st $1,500
I, H. A. Gunter, treasurer of the Town of Aberdeen, N. C.,
do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of
my knowledge and belief.
H. A. GUNTER,
Treasurer.