MOORE COUNTY'S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 11, NO. 24
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FIRST IN
NEWS AND
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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, May 15, 1931.
22 SENIORS WIN
DIPLOMAS FROM
ABERDEEN HIGH
Annual Award of Prizes Feat
ures Class Day and Com
mencement Exercises
KATHERINE MELVIN HIGH
The annual award of prizes featur
ed the Class Day and Commencement
exercises of Aberdeen High School at
the School Auditorium Tuesday night
of this week. A large and enthusias
tic crowd of parents, relatives and
friends greeted the Seniors in their
closing event of the school year.
Miss Katherine Melvin made the
president’s address, and Marvin Ryne
read the class poem. Miss Jessie Mc-
Caskill provoked considerable mirth as
"Class Grumbler.” These numbers
featured Act 1 of “Seniors at the
Bar,” as the program was titled Act
2 was “A Trial—Senior Class versus
the Faculty for their Diplomas.” The
Senior Class won, and the following
stepped up and received the coveted
sheepskins:
John Walter Cook, Frances Wim-
berley, Lucy Edythe Wicker, Laure
Adeline Gigee, Myrtle Louise Jordan,
Ruth Priscilla Wallace, Francis Dan
iel Farrell, Mary Elizabeth Ferree,
Mildred Azalea Brooks, Fay Elizabeth
Lampley, Winfred Valentine Smith,
Bfitty Blue, Eula Estelle Lucas, Alwin
Leigh Folley, Julia Aileen Weaver,
Jack McNeill Johnson, Marvin Luther
Rhyne, Augustus Daniel Rosfe, Kath
erine Grey Melvin, Harry William
DuMeer, Margaret Emma Miller and
Jessie Willow McCaskill.
One other member of the class.
Hiss Georgia Wicker, will receive her
diploma in six weeks upon the com
pletion of some additional school
work.
Act. 3 led off with a “Song of
Cheer” by the Seniors, followed 'by
the Class History by Miss Ruth Wal-
Ruth Goldsmith, On Road to Fame
in Musical World, Passes AMay
Daughter of W. H. Goldsmith of
Southern Pines Had Attained
High Place in Profession
Ruth Goldsmith died at Southern
Pines Monday, May 11, after a sick
ness of several weeks, and was taken
to Newark, N. J., for burial at the
ancestral home place. She was 31
years old. Coming with her parents
to Southern Pines in early childhood
she grew up in the community, where
she had a wide circle of friends, for
she was a girl of unusual character
and ability. She went to Meredith Col
lege at Raleigh and after graduation
there she was engaged for a few
years as a teacher in the college. La
ter she went to St. Petersburg, Fla.,
and opened a musical studio, where
she gained a favorable reputation as a
teacher, player and student of music
which ultimately opened to her a
field ii: New York city.
In New York Miss Goldsmith was
associated with some of the promi
nent musical people of the country,
playing with eminent musicians in
public, and she was frequently in ra
dio broadcasting work of a high mus
ical character. Her piano perform
ances with violin soloists and vocal
ists of repute gave her a standing as
an accompanist in difficult produc
tions, from which she made a place
for herself in the higher musical
field. Her musical instinct was of
high quality and ber technique was
of an unusual order. Her skill and
understanding brought her into con
tact with such an advanced group of
players that she broadened steadily
and swiftly in her own style and
ability and when her health beg'an to
fsil it seemed that she had reached
Faithful Unto Death
Sandy, Just a Dog, Accompan
ies His Mistress on Last,
Grim Voyage
Sandy is just a dog.
Six years ago one night some
yo^ng folks were pilaying some
?ames in the home. A scratch at
the door attracted the attention of
one of the girls. A forlorn little
pup was pleading for food and
shelter. He came into the house
wi(h the girl. In the six years they
have been friends. She went to
New York, and Sandy went along.
When she came back to visit home
surroundings Sandy came home
coo. A few weeks ago they came
for the last time. She was desper
ately sick. A day or so ago she
went back to the old home in New
Jersey. Sandy went along. As tho
casket was placed in the baggage
car Sandy jumped up there, too.
He laid down beside her, and when
the baggage man realized that
the dog was determined to stay
there no protest was offered. So,
faithful to the finish, they rode
out into the night, Sandy and his
friend.
Sandy is just a dog.
PAGE BARN TONS
UPSIDE DOWN IN
FREAKISH STORM
Horses Flee to Neighbors When
They Find Their Home
Disappearing
PEACH ORCHARDS SUPPER
Appraisal of Land
To Start at Once
County Commissioners Order
Assessors and Appraisers To
Begin Revaluation
At an adjourned meeting
Board of Commissioners of
of the
Moore
a plane that meant a triumph. On the , , , ,, i • , > . .
occasion of a visit to Southern Pines ! ^ ® onday of this week, needed thinnin^.
occasionally she was received by the that the county assess- farmer estimated that the
A freakish storm swept through
part of the Sandhill country last Sat
urday afternoon, leaving destruction
j in its wake. Hail did some damage to
peach orchards along the line of the
Norfolk Southern, the heavy wind
thinned out some of the trees here
and there, but the greatest prank it
played was on the estate of Ralph W.
Page on Linden Road, outside Pine-
hurst.
Mr. Page’s large barn was picked
up and turned completely upside down.
Though it remains comparatively in
tact, it now rests upon its roof some
ten feet from its original foundation.
A chicken house nearby was picked
up bodily and blown about 100 yards
where it crashed against a tree and
was shattered to pieces. Several large
trees blew over. The tin roof from
another farm building was torn off
and sheets of tin lighted in trees as
far as a quarter mile away.
Two horses were stabled in the
Page barn. When they felt their home
leaving them they scampered out and
ran to a neighboring barn w'hera they
sought shelter. They were unharm
ed.
The peach orchards of George Clark
at Candor and M. C. McDonald at
West End suffered from the high
wind and hail. A few others in that
section were affected, but not ser
iously. The thinning out of the trees
helped some of the peach growers.
The crop is so heavy this season that
anyway, and
wind
FIVE CENTS
To Honor
o
Moore County To Receive Po.
trait of Judge Moore at Ex
ercises at Carthage May 21
The public is cordially invited to
the presentation of the portrait of
Judge Alfred Mooite, for whom
the county of Moore was named,
which will be presented !in the
Courthouse at Carthage on Thurs
day, May 23 st, under the auspices
of the Alfred Moore Chapter of the
Daughters of American Revolution.
This portrait was painted by Mrs,
Nellie Young Sanboj-n of Southern
Pines, a member of this chapter,
and is truly a work of art. Judge
iV. J. Adams, of the Supreme Couirt
in Raleigh will deliver a talk on
Judge Moore.
26 to Graduate From
Southern Pines High
Thirteen Boys, Thirteen Girls to
Get Diplomas at Exercises on
May 29th
With eight more students in the
graduating class than a year ago, the
Southern Pines High School is pre
paring for its Commencement exer-
j cises the last of this month. The
Senior Class is evenly divided with
thirteen girls and thirteen boys.
Class Day exercises will be held on
Thursday, May 28th, followed the
next night by Graduation. The Senior
Class officers are: President, Carl
Thompson, Jr.; vice president, Bar
rett Harris, and secretary and treas
urer, Miss Evelyn Edsoa. Those to
be graduated are as follows:
Barbara Betterley, Margaret Cam
eron, May Dingw’^ell, Inath Donald
son, Evelyn Edson, Rosalind Hender
son, Irene Maples, Millie Montesanti,
Barbara Pierce, Blanche Sherman,
Maurine Sugg, Mary Swett, Mabel
McKINNEY PLANS
NEW BUILDINGS.
DAM AND LAKE
Interesting Development in Pro
ject for Recently Acquired
County Estate
“DELECTABLE MOUNTAIN”
people with the warmest welcome and appraisers heretofore appoint- what it would have tak- Wilson and Robert Abel, Clifton Cam
appreciation, and she returned
enthusiastic recognition with
the
the
lace, the Prophecy by Miss Myrtle | most cordial friendliness.
Jordan, the Last Will and Testament
by Miss Margaret Miller, the Giftor-
ian awards by Miss Edythe Wicker
and the Valedictory, Miss Katherine
Melvin.
Big 7th Grade Class
Thirty-five student received Sev
enth Grade diplomas, the largest
class in many years.
The medals and prizes were award
ed as follows:
Primary Grades
A prize awarded in the Third Grade
Beside an army of friends wher
ever she w’as known she leaves her
father, W. H. Goldsmith, of South
ern Pines; her aunt, Miss Mary Gold
smith, of Newark, N. J., at whose
house she lived while in New York;
Harry Goldsmith of Southern Pines
and Wallace and Robert Goldsmith of
Beckley, W. Va., her brothers.
KIWANIANS DELEGATES
RETURN FORM FLORIDA
ed to make the quadrennial assess
ment of real estate for 1931 proceed
to make the revaluation in their va
rious townships at once.
A. B. Cameron, county assessor,
w^as authorized to appoint appraisers
in case-any of those already appoint
ed should be unable to serve, if in his
judgment it was necessary to do so.
en him and his assistants many !ong eron,..John D. Chisholm, J. Gordon
hours to do. Gifford, Malcolm Grover, Barrett
Harris, Brantley Henderson, Adrian
-myr • i j McCarr, Antonio Montesanti, Alexan-
Cave Man Wins Girl I der Stewart, Carl Thompson, Jr., Hu-
By Bion H. Butler
A. B. Yeomans is at work on a set
of plans for the camp house that is
to be built on the 1,400 acre tract that
Glenn Ford McKinney recently bought
over in Richmond county, on that re
markable stream, Hitchcock Creek,
and where John McPherson has been
at work for some time building the
preliminary structures to house and
care for the people and stock which
will be required to operate the place.
The camp house, as Mr. McKinney
calls it, will be about 50 by 30 feet,
with wing, a camp house in realty, for
the family has its principal home at
the big farm in Duchess county. New
York, beside the safe harbor of the
home of Mr. McKinney’s father, John
L. McKinney, in Southern Pines. The
place on Hitchcock Creek will be a
sort of 1,400 acre “Delectable Moun
tain,” a place to enjoy life, to visit
when and as long and as frequently
as is desired, one of the many new^
places of its type that seem now to be
the destiny of the rural section of the
Sandhills.
For two or three years Mr. McKin
ney has been keeping an eye out for
a place ox this sort, and when he
found it he closed a deal at once and
began to make such improvements on
the old farm as met his notions. The
land lies between the forks of Hitch
cock Creek, affording a long, broad
ridge, which with its extensions in
either direction, gives a high plateau
of more than 400 feet altitude be
tween the streams, into which it Jails
in picturesque slopes • that allows
great latitude in developing the ter
ritory. The entire tract of 1.40 acres
is almost wholly in the Norfolk sand
type of soil, which means that not a
mud hole in a mile can be found on
But It Costs Him $251 bert Witherspoon and William Wood- j the good roads that are all the prop-
’ W’ard. |eity, and moreover makes of Hitch-
j cock Creek the remarkable stream
SOUTHERN PINES CONSIDERS
INCREASE IN SCHOOL BOARD
Finds His Gal Eating Ice Cream
with Another Man and
Starts Trouble
Act One takes place in a colored
^ „ cafe in Pinehurst. The heroine is seat-
The Mayor and Commissioners ot | ^ ^ • j
„ 1,. ^ , . led at a table with a boy friend, en-
Southern Pines met in special meet^ i . . . rpu i.
joying some ice cream «
ing Monday afternoon to consider a
to the girl making highest average j p^ank Shamburger and Herbert ; Petition signed by 127 residents of
-.TOOT.C—Jeanne I delegates of the Kiwanis Club Southern Pines School district
over a period of three years
Batchelor.
A prize aw’arded in the Third
Grade to the boy making highest av
erage over a period of three years
Courtney Huntley.
A prize awarded Seventh Grade girl
making highest average for four
year’s work—Marcella Folley.
A prize awarded Seventh Grade boy
making highest average for four
year’s work—Charlton Huntley.
The four above prizes were given
by Mrs. A. J. Clow of Pinehurst.
High School
Citizenship Medal awarded to stu
dent of the Eleventh Grade, by Ma
sonic Order—Ruth Wallace.
Declamation—gold piece—awarded
in contest, all high school boys eli-
e-ible—M. L. Rhyne.
Recitation—gold piece—awarded in
contest, all high school girls eligible
Hazel Palmer.
These two are memorial prizes to
the two former high school students,
Thomas Bonner Wilder,Jr., and Alli-
i^on Martin Page.
American History Medal, giyeA ^y
D. A. R.’s for student excelling m
Ar»ierican History—Ruth Wallace.
Science—$10.00 gold piece—given
by G. C. Seymour to student doing
outstanding work in science classes
Fred Weaver.
Mathematics—$10-00 gold piece-
given by Page Trust Company to stu
dent doing outstanding work in math
ematics over a period of three years
—^Bill Bowman.
English prize given by The Thurs
day Afternoon Book Club of Aber
deen, to student making highest av
erage. All students in English classes
eligible—Raymond O^Cain.
French Prize—gold piece—given by
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of Aberdeen to the annual convention
of Kiwanis International, held last
week at Miami, Florida, reported on
their trip and the accomplishments
of the convention at the weekly meet
ing of the Sandhills club held at the
Community House in Aberdeen Wed
nesday noon. Frank and Herbert were
accompanied on the trip by R. L. Hart,
another club member and besides
taking in the Miami meetings, the
trio went to Cuba to look things over
there. They reported a fine time, and
return claiming to be the champion
bus riders of the United States. They
made the trip from Aberdeen to
Miami and return by bus.
The Kiwanis convention will be
held next year at Detroit, where the
organization was founded sixteen
years ago.
SAMARCAND GIRLS UP
FOR TRIAL NEXT WEEK
Superior Court will convene in Car
thage next Monday and around two
score criminal cases are on the dock
et for the week. Only one is of out
standing interest and that is the case
of the Saniarcand girls who are
charged with burning two of the
buildings at Samarcand Manor. There
are rumors to the effect that this will
probably be a private hearing.
reque5:ting an amendment of the City
Charter to permit the adding of two
more members to the School Board.
The session was adjourned until 8
o’clock in the evening to permit the
consideration of the matter by the
members of the School Board, all the
members of which were present:
Ralph Chandler, A. F. Ruggles, Mrs.
James Boyd, Frank Maples and Dr.
George Herr, new member, and Tom
Kelly, retiring member. Members of
the School Board advised the Mayor
and Commissioners that in their opin
ion it was not to the best interest of
the district to increase the board
and with that recommendation the
city fathers are considering the mat
ter.
SANDHILLS LEGION POST
HAS ENJOYABLE PICNIC
The hero, a
“cave man,” enters and the sight is
too much for him. He proceeds to
knock the cream off the table and to
slap the girl. His “cave man” meth
ods win the day; the girl leaves Beau
No. One and departs with her “treat
’em rough” hero.
Act Two takes place in the court
HIGHLAND PINES INN
REPORTS GOOD SEASON
A successful season for the High
land Pines Inn was reported to the
stockholders of the Highland Park
Hotel Company at their annual meet
ing, adjourned from April 6th, held
last Friday afternoon at the office of
the secretary, F. W. VanCamp in
Southern Pines. All officers and di
rectors of the company were re-elect
ed, as follows:
S. B. Richardson, president; Dr. W.
C. Mudgett, vice president; F. W.
MISS VIRGINIA BURRAGE TO
WED S. DONALD SHERRID
Members of the Sandhills Ameri
can Legion post and friends, number
ing in all some fifty souls, journey
ed to Manly Springs on Tuesday even
ing for a picnic which proved to be
one of the most enjoyable functions
held by the ex-soldiers in a long
time. Plenty of food, lots of songs and
a general good time was had by all,
and more picnics are expected to re
sult from the experiment.
MRS. SEA WELL ON GUILFORD
COURT HOUSE COMMISSION
room in Carthage. Raymond .'>troud i VanCamp, secretary and treasurer;
is before the court, charged with as- j Dr. Ernest Bush, A. I. Creamer, C. T.
sault and public drunkenness. He is | Patch, D. G. Stutz and M. H. Tur-
fined $25 and the costs, execution to j ner, directors.
issue at the will of the court, and is | —
ordered not to go to said cafe again. | jyj^yOR STUTZ SITS AS
SOUTHERN PINES JUDGE
W”illie Stephens has to spend 60
days on the roads, but it isn’t alto
gether his fault. A colored lady teas- | morning found Mayor D.
ed him about a girl until he could | Southern Pines officiat-
stand it no longer an e i er on capacity as a magistrate,
ihe “beak” with a tea g ass. ^ J ' the court functioning with reatness
tie episode resulted in his being be-| dispatch. Two young men from
fore the Judge charged with an as- ! brought up from the town
sault with a deadly weapon. |
Beulah Frazier was charged with Chief Beas-
shooting; James Seiger of as woo . Friday afternoon, charged as
This case is under advisement. . disorderly, were fined
— ■ I $5.00 and costs. Successively appear-
SOUTHERN PINES HOME j.ed six fathers of families from West
BASE FOR LIQUOR TRAFFIC
I Southern Pines to answer the charge
of the school principal that their chil
dren did not attend school. They were
reprimanded and discharged with a
warning.
Mrs. H. F. Seawell of Carthage at-
Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Marr,of Pine- tended the meeting of the Govemor^s
commission for the Sesqui-Centennial
Celebration of the Battle of Guilford
Court House, in Greensboro last
Thursday.
Mrs. Seawell was appointed a mem
ber of this convention by Governor
Gardner.
hurst yesterday announced the en
gagement of their daughter. Miss Vir
ginia Hamilton Burrage, to S. Don
ald Sherrid of Pinehurst and Haddon-
field, N. J. The wedding will take
place in September at Greenville,
Maine.
Chief of Police Beasley of Southern
Pines discovered early in the week
that a colored maid employed by Mrs.
Edwin Pavenstedt in the Pushee
house on Weymouth Heights had been
using her room in the servants’ quar
ters as a storeroom for the operations
of a big bootleg gang, and took her in
custody. A large quantity of whisky
was found cached under the bed and
was confiscated. The woman was
turned over to federal authorities.
MILLIKENS HAVE DAUGHTER
WOMAN HURT" IN AUTO
CRASH NEAR LAKEVIEW
A daughter was bom to Dr. and
Mrs. James S. Mllliken of Southern
Pines on Friday last, and has been
named Louise Manning Milliken.
A Mrs. Hanna, en route north from
Palm Beach, was badly hurt yester
day morning when her Buick car
crashed head-on into another Buick
near the Club Skyline on Route 50.
Mrs. Hanna is said to have turned
out to pass a truck just as the other
car, driven by a Mrs. Shose of John
stown, Pa., southbound, approached.
Mrs. Hanna suffered a broken knee
cap and badly lacerated face and was
rushed to the Moore County Hospital.
that it is in its steady water flow.
This stream is cited as one of the un
usual examples of dependable power.
The rainfall is absorbed by the porous
sandy soil and fed out so slowly that
from one year’s end to another the
many big cotton mills on the creek
down the Rockingham way have relia
ble power all the time. When other
streams are high or low on account
of varying floods Hitchcock Creek re
ceives its leg’ular flow and the mills
are busy. ^
To Construct Lake
On the McKinney tract for many
years a dam has been utilized to
drive a mill and cotton gin. There Mr.
McKinney proposes a new dam that
will be built in substantial manner
and give a large lake for fishing,
boating and to add to the appearance
of the landscape. The site is ii* a
gorge above w^hich the land open out
to give good acreage for the pond.
Near the pond some buildings are in
process of reconstruction to fit the
needs. Sand roads, bridle paths and
foot ways will be opened throughout
the propel ty as the landscape prop
osition shall determine. Horses for the
convenience of the family will be es
tablished. Already an Irish jaunting
car and a Kentucky brake have been
added to the equipment, coming from
the home farm in New York. Atten
tion will be given to providing feed
for the wild life, and it is Mr. Mc
Kinney’s intention to act with the
other rural homemakers in encour
aging an increase in the wild life of
the neighborhood.
The property is close to that of
Eldridge Johnson, the DuPonts, the
ig Broadacres tract that lately chang
ed hands near Hoffman, and to other
big holdings that are gradually en
tering this field of rural estate crea
tion. It will be one of the models,
for Mr. McKinney is starting it with
an intelligent idea in mind, and the
engineering is in the hands of men
of known skill like Yeomans, Mc
Pherson and their type, which is an
evidence of the breadth of ski^ that
will be applied to the development.
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