MOORE COUNTY’S
r EADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
\ 0L. 11, NO. 31.
MANUEY
PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
Aberdeen, North Carolina
of the Sandhill
Friday, July 3, 1931.
o,ry of North Garolina
FIVE CENTS
landmark passes
4S OLD CHANDLER
factory burns
Fallen Ruin Was Start of Light
ing? System in Southern
Pines
Miss Margaret Silver Bride of
Jack Coursey in Southern Pines
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Popular Membcjrs of Sandhills ^
Society Married Monday by
the Rev. Mr. Stimson
SOLD OUT TO McQUEEN
Marked by a smudge of smoke and
the tang- of burning pine a smoulder-
iiig slowly devouring the last
remain? of the old Chandler crate fac-
f-iy, a fallen ruin for a decade. Lo
cated on the southeast corner of the
^^resent Wisconsin avenue and Ben-
tt street in Southern Pines, though
prected in 1895 when Wisconsin ave
nue was a part of the Pinehurst road
proudly bearing the famous interur-
Han trolley, the factory started by I.
F. Chandler to supply the local de
mand for peach crates, grape baskets
and similar containers soon gained
county-wide fame.
But as the demand for crates, even
though the Van Lindley orchard con
sumption was enormous, was entire
ly <:ea^:onal Mr. Chandler began using
s steam power for the production
of electric current. ^
In December( 1897, under contract
with the towTi of Southern Pines he
p'a^-ed twelve 32-candle power lamps
in Bennett and Page streets and Rail
road avenue (now West Broad street),
but this being about the limit of
Miss Margaret ; Silver, poplUlar
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Silver of
Southern Pines, and Jack Barrow |
Coursey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- i
liam Coursey, formerly of Southern |
Pines and now residing in Asheville,!
were united in marriage at the home ,
of the bride on Bennett street at'
eight o’clock last Monday morning,'
June 29th. The young bride and
groom are both well known and popu-1
lar members of the Sandhills society.
The Rev. J. Fred Stimson of the First ^
Baptist Church, Southern Pines, per-1
formed the ceremony. Only members ^
of the two families and a few intimate
friends were present. i
The house was attractively decorat- ;
ed and fragrant with flowers. In the '
corner of the large living room a
beautiful altar was made of long leaf '
pines banked with masses of large |
yellow and white daisies. English ivy ^
gracefully entwined itself through the |
white arches of the altar and tall, j
lighted candles added dignity to the
effect.
Preceding the ceremony, Lizst's
Liebestraum and Schubert's Serenade
were played, after which Miss Doro
thy Richardson sang with fine ex
pression “At Dawning,” and “I Love
You, Truly.” Then the old familiar
Under Fire, and Over
Cameron Man Fired Upon
with Shot While Car
Is On Fire
C. D. Wright of Route 2, Cam
eron, had a close shave from ser
ious injury by two kinds of fire
last Saturday night. While return
ing home from attending an out
door meeting conducted by the
“Holiness People” he was fired
upon with a shot gun, some of the
shot hitting the mark, and at the
same time his car caught fire and
was partially burned.
Wright managed to make his
way to the home of Henry and
Angus Gilchrist and Dr H. O.
Averitt was called to remove the
shot. He is reported as resting
comfortably at his home and will
soon be out unless complications
set in. The name of his assailant,
if known, has not been revealed.
ASSESSORS STRIVE
FOR EQUALIZATION
OF COUNTY VALUES
Many Reductions Offset by Dis
covery of Property Not Pre
viously Listed for Taxes
Effect of Kew School
Law in Noore County
Outlined by Thomas
LOWER RATE EXPECTED
nate purchased the old Black Mill
Pond on the Carthage-Southem Pines
road and following the erection of
, I stirams of the Lohengrm Bridal
production the building power mag-1 , , ,, . -
^ I March announced the coming of the
happy pair.
The bride, who was given in mar-
a power plant and new dam above | '’y mother, was radiant in a
the roadway extended his holdings Sown of exquisitely figured
*0 the McCaskill pond a mile below,! "®P^and carried a bouquet of roses
and then to Thagards pond extending j lillies of the valley.
.ines to Carthage, Aberdeen and! The maid of honor. Miss Lenora
Snu-hrn Pines. j^Riggan, was attractively gowned in
figured crepe of softest pastel shades,
and also carried a bouquet of ro.^es.
The bride’s mother wore a sown
of black lace with pearls. Little Joan
Silver was the small flower 'n a
MT. ZION SCHOOL
WINS KIWANLS CUP
FOR ATTENDANCE
Dam Washed Away
Heavy rains washed away Chand
ler pond dam 22 feet above normal
liood, quickly followed by the Mc-
askill and Thagard dams, the flood-
By Bion H. Butler
I was talking the other day with
Nick Gibbon when he brought up an
old memory of twenty years ago. J.
B. Frix had asked for suggestions as
to the best way to make Moore county
grow, and offered three prizes for the
best brief articles on the subject. Mr.
Gibbon submitted one in which he
took the ground that taxation that
puts to much penalty on development
is one of the hindrances, and that a
logical tax system would do much to
bring about the aim Mr. Frix desired.
He won second prize. We could not re
call who won first prize, nor its prop
osition. But he had at that time the
perception in his head that the land
tax as it operates was antiquated nd
unsatisfactory, as it offers no stimu
lus to any progress, encourages dodg-
I ing of taxes by juggling of values,
i results in unequal valuations, evasion
' of listing of taxation and a lot of
othei things. Folks refuse to give all
data in many cases, much property
is missed entirely, and to get a pro
portion of property not voluntarily
Showed Greatest Percentage lasted costs more to hunt it up and
Gain of All County Schools j value it than it is worth.
for Past Year I That prize-winning story for Mr.
Frix set Mr. Gibbon to thinking about
Mt. Zion School was this week taxation, and when it came his turn
awarded the annual Kiwanis Cup, to act as a committee that fixes val-
emblematic of the best increase in av- : ues for township property in Mc-
erage attendance of its pupils during i Neills he remembered some of the
the school year. Mt. Zion has made ' things he had dug up twenty years
a notable gain in its attendance fig- ago, and he set about studying the
ures. The percentage of enrolled pu- tax lists that came to him from pre-
pils in attendance in 1927-28 was 59; | vious years. One thing that struck
in 1828-29 it failed to gain, but in him as he proceeded with the work
1929-30 the figure jumped to 79 per of hearing property owners and fix-
cent. During the school year ended re- j
First Cotton Blooms
Tenants of Dr. A. H. McLeod
Produce Early Evidence 6f^
Coming Crop
The first cotton blooms to make
their appearance at The Pilot of
fice were brought in this week by
Dr. A. H. McLeod of Aberdeen. Dr.
McLeod reports that they were
raised by tenants of his, James Mc
Coy and Edwin Sampson. If the
cotton looks as good as the blooms
when it opens, James and Edwin
will merit congratulations.
UNDERWOOD TO
CONTINUE ROAD
WORK IN SECTION
Only Trouble He Forsees is in
Providing Transportation
For Pupils
TO ABOLISH TWO SCHOOLS
Others May Be Consolidated with
Central Schools.—Southern Pines,
Aberdeen and Pinehurst Lose Sup
erintendents Under New Law.
County Superintendent of High
ways Becomes Assistant to
District Engineer
' dainty pink frock, and was acccmpan-i 4.1 ^ at. n i 1
vater? and wireckage covering the n/rx r-i. r<-„i ^^^tly, 94 per cent of the enrolled 1
, led by Master Cephas Patch. Grier 1 . ^ . 1 , j i i 1 '
. eaboard tracks at Little River just 1. v i. j 4.1, ^ * student body attended regularly. |
Stutz was best man and th? gro im s j ^ rr-
^ i. announcing the award at the Ki-
brother, Billy Coursey, one of the, . ,. „ -j . '
’ warns meeting Wednesday, President
ushers.
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Wedding Breakfast
Richard Tufts said that Southern
Pines was second, and Ingram Branch
Phony Peach Disease
Not Prevalent Here
a ove Lakeview and holding up the
■"vain.'i until Monday. Despite the loss,
-4.!)00. a heavy one for that time, Mr.
■'ha. dlev rebuilt the dams of Chand-
. s and Tiiagard^s ponds and in 1914 A wedding breakfast at Jack’s and Aberdeen tied for third. Southern Only Four Trees Found Infect-
: trac'ted with Southern Pines to Grill followed the ceremony. Two ta- | Pines jumped from 79 last year to | ed After Inspection of
" trish day current and power suffi- ' bles were daintily spread in the ^ 93 per cent this year, Aberdeen from ; Nearly a Million
- ^ It to run the town water works. Orange Room upstairs, with cov^ers : 85 per cent to 94 ]*er cent ,and In- |
f " ir these comparatively small be- , for twenty people. Fascinating place , gram Branch from 79 to 94 per cent. | The inspection of commercial peach
■ -nings the Chandler plant grew, ab- ' cards and small boxes of thy wedding 1 Aberdeen led the charter district | orchards in the Sandhills looking for
- rbing Blue’s pond at Pinebluff and , cake were placed on each table. In | schools in percentage of attendance, : evidences of the phony disease is near-
s .'M ithers on Little River below the center of the bride’s table were j though not in percentage of gain, and ' completion, according to Dr. R.
'^review and on Deep River at Car-j two miniature figures dressed as | as usual. Cedar Hill school led all W. Leiby of the Department of Agri-
:ton until 1920 when Chandler sold ' bride and gi’oom under a canopy of; county schools in attendance figures, : culture who spent Wednesday 'in
- 10 John McQueen. Eventually their j tulle and orange blossoms, which was | 96 per cent. | Aberdeen and vicinity. Nearly o^e
: Id-ngs became part of the power-1 a gift of Mrs. Dorsey Stutz. At this ; The county average was 79 per, million trees have been individually
Lil Carolina Power and Light Com-' table were seated Mr. and Mrs. Jack; cent, the same as last year but a I examined by eight inspectors com-
,any. ' Coursey, the Misses Leonora Riggan, 1 gain of five per cent over 1928-29. | prising two crews by the Federal Bu-
Despite various explosions and in- Emilie and Dorothy Richardson and i Frank Taylor, chairman of the' I’eau of Plant Industry in cooperation
; nt fires the slowly disintegratnig ■ Eileen Loomis; Messrs. Grier Stutz,: School Attendance committee of the | with J. A. Harris of the State Agri-
^ of Southern Pines’ first factory! Warren Olmstead, Richard Sugg and ' Kiwanis Club, reported at Wednes-| cultural Department.
- led as a landmark for many! Billy Coursey. At the other tabl31 day’s meeting that his committee had, “The interesting fact about this
ollowing the cessation of its ' were the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, Mrs. 1 made personal visits to 24 of the 29 work,” says Dr. Leiby, “is that only
usefulness. i Elizabeth Silver, Mr. and Mrs. Wii- j schools in the county this year, study- ; four infected trees have thus far been
_______ j ing reasons for irregular attendance, discovered and these have been cut
(Please turn to page 4)' much of which was found due to lack 1 down. More than a quarter million
j of clothing, illness and lack of inter- | trees were found infected in Georgia
^ , n/r__ 1 ; est. He reported that in a number and destroyed last year. Our Sandhill
. -tn.. nnr. CIllD JylemDerS kf eases, funds had been sent to | section appears l:o be free of this di-
, ... • ' T^O Picnic Rt L3kGVi0W i teachers in the schools to provide aid i sease at least,” he said. The inspec-
ffered severe injuries in an; AU A at - -v '+• -n rnm-
for needy children and their families, 1 tion will continue to inclucie tne com
the money coming from funds raised ! mercial peach section of other parts
by the Sandhill Brotherhood, Kiwanis : of the state.
relief and other sources. | Dr. Leiby regards the local situa-
tion as splendid. He paid high tribute
Of interest to 4-H Club members I McKEITHEN TO WIELD 1 while here to the work of Messrs.
a ne,.ro which emerged' from ' of Moore and Lee counties is the an-! KIW-ANIS CLUB GAVEL ‘ Culpepper and Ethridge who have
. a negro, which emerged from ^ ^ ^ been in charge of the crews makmg
' ' and Wrs Braswell and Solicitor' nie has been planned for them, to President Richard Tufts of the Ki-; the inspections. Dr Le.by was accom-
' be held at Lakeview on July 7. This i wanis Club of Aberdeen told the mem-, panied here by Prof. R. W. Harned,
ITOR DON PHILLIPS
HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT
■ bile accident last Saturday i
about 11 miles from Statesvill.e | Big Affair Planned for July 7 to
" as knocked unconscious when ■ Take Place at Annual
in which he was riding with Summer Camp
Sheriff J. S. Braswell of
!'ham collided with a car, driv-
Fred S. Underwood of Carthage,
county superintendent of Highways
until last Wednesday when the State
took over all county roads, has been
named assistant to J. V. Koonce, en
gineer in charge of State raid main
tenance in District No. 4 of Division
B, with headquarters at Sanford.
Sanford has ben designated head
quarters for the 4th district, division
al headquarters being at Fayetteville.
The 4th district comprises the coun
ties of Moore, Lee, Harnett and Cum
berland.
Mr. Underwood, who has been con
nected with the county highway sys
tem for several years, has already
started on his new duties, having
turned over the county system of
roads to the State on Wednesday. He
has proven an efficient highway en
gineer while in the county service;
and his new appointment won instant
approval throughout the county.
Division 'B has been subdivided into
five districts, as follows: District 1,
with headquarters at Goldsboro, in
cludes Johnston and Wayne counties;
District 2, with headquarters at Bur-
gaw, includes Duplin, Onslow, Pen
der, New Hanover and Bi*unswick
counties; District 3, with headquar
ters at Clinton, comprises Sampson,
Bladen and Columbus counties; Dis
trict 4, headquarters, Sanford, com
prises Moore, Lee, Harnett and Cum
berland; District 5, headquarters,
Lumberton, includes Hoke, Scotland
and Robeson counties.
Division B, of the five major divis
ions set up by’the new State High
way Commission, of whch E. B. Jef-
fress of Greensboro s charmani, will
be in charge of R. E. Snowden as
division engineer, with R. Markham
as assistant. Koonce is district engi
neer in charge of maintenance.
JAMES D. MATTHEWS
WEDS AT SUMTER, S. C.
“The new school law, with the ex
ception of the increase in teaching
load and the ten per cent reduction in
salaries of teachers, in my opinion, is
the best piece of school legislation
ever enacted by a North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly,” says H. Lee Thomas,
Moore County Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction. “The law carries with
it an annual appropriation of $16,-
500.000.00 for the current expense of
the six months term, and $1,500,000.00
to aid weak districts to maintain the
two months exended term according to
State standards. This is the largest
amount of public money to be appro
priated for public elementary and
high school education in any state of
like population and resources in the
history of the United States. Hearty
praise is due the members of the
General Assembly of 1931 for their
careful study and application of mod
ern business principles to the State’s
educational problem. A large share
of the honor thus accruing to the body
,gs a whole must go to our own worthy
representatives from Moore, U. L.
Spence and M. M. Johnson, was so
ably represented the people, not only
in the solution of our public school
probFems, but in the wise direction of
much other important legislation.
“The Revenue act of 1931 provides
$18,000,000.00 for public school pur
poses, $4,500,000,000 of which is to
come from ad valorem taxes, and $13,-
500.000.00 from other sources. The
County Commissioners will levy, col
lect and turn over to the State Treas
urer for the public school curreni ex
pense fund for the six months term
an amount equivalent to the gross
yield of a 15c rate on the 1930 valua
tion. If the 1931 valuation in Moore
county should be decreased ten per
cent below the 1930 figure and the
usual ten per cent added for uncol-
lectahle taxes and cost of collection,
it would become necessary to levy
18c on the one hundred to produce the
amount of money that Moore county
will be due the state for this pur
pose. The levy of 48c for current ex-
nense in 1930 less 18c in prospect for
1931 will show a probable reduction
of 28c in the local county tax rate for
current expense this year.
“This is all fine, tut there are oth-
1 were on their way to Blow-
' ck for the week-end. Mr. and
Braswell were bruised and shock-
t Mr. Phillips was thrown from
car and carried unconscious to
Long Hospital in Statesville. A
picnic will be held instead of a four I bers at their weekly meeting that ow- charge of cotton insect investigation
days camp this year, owing to the i ing to the fact Pinehurst, Incorporat- work being done by entomologists,-
fact that it was not possible to get; ed had taken over the management of particularly o nthe cotton boll weevil,
the camp at White Lake and the cost, the Berkshire Hunt and Country Club , Dr. E. C. Bishop, in charge of mves-
i at other places was found to be pro- , at Lenox, Mass., for the summer , tigational work on insects reprding
1 V-1-1 • j season, he would be unable to preside ^ the health of man and animals was
ure was eare , ^ | I A regular old-time all-day picnic j at Kiwanis meetings during July and . also in the party.
It' '5= “" bruise's but is with dinner on the grounds, lemon- | August, Ws presence being required While here Leiby stated that
ade to quench the thirst, and a de-' at Lenox. Dan L McKeithen, vice- , when recently in Asheville for a for-
president, will wield the gavel dur- estry meeting he endeavored to pre-
i some cuts and bruises but is
I" to be about again.
51^:^ MALONZO A BRIDE
IN NORTHERN WEDDING
ards have been received from
George Everett Gordon announcing
"he marriage of his grand-daughter,
Lillian Gordan Malonzo, to Carl Stah-
’eker, Jr., in Newton, Mass. Sat-
i day, June 27th. The bride spent last
f^ason in Southern Pines, being prom-
ii^ent in the younger social set.
James Daniel Matthews, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Matthews of Aberdeen
and a graduate of Aberdeen High
School, was married on Tuesday, June
23d at Sumter, S. C., the bride be
ing Miss Harriett Virginia Durant.
She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
William Eugene DuRant of Sumter.
Announcements of the wedding were
received by relatives and friends here
this week. The young couple will re
side at Conway, where Mr. Matthews
is employed.
SOUTHERN PINES GOLFERS
finally BEAT PINEHURST
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Kiwanis Convention to
Open Pinehurst Season
Over 400 Members from Carolin-
as District Expected at Oc
tober Meetings
lightful program of group games,
singing, stunts, and swimming awaits
the fortunate club members, and best
of all, they are invited to bring their
parents along to help enjoy the fun.
The program will start at 10:00 A.
M.
Mrs. W. L. Ryals, and E. H. Gar
rison of Moore county and E. 0. Mc
Mahan of Lee county, home and farm
demonstration agents, have charge of
arrangements.
ing the summer.
vail upon T. J .Burleigh of the Gov-
I ernment Biological Survey there to
Stores in Aberdeen as well as in , come here and look over the local -es-
Southern Pines will be closed on Mon- | tates being devel(fped for shooting
day, July 6th instead of tomorrow, j preserves. Mr. Burleigh has been
July 4th, in celebration of Independ- j making a study of wild life and the
ence Day. Aberdeen stores accustom
ed to close Wednesday ^temoons
during the summer will, however, re
main open next Wednesday after
noon.
changes effected by forest fires and
Dr. Leiby believes he has made some
findings which would prove of value
to those endeavoring to raise quail in
this section.
Southern Pines golfers took revenge
upon their Pinehurst brothers at golf
Wednesday afternoon for a long
string of defeats of the' past, win
ning an inter-city match 13 to 8 .The
winning team was made up of the
following: Sheppard, Jordan, Wood-
ward,'Frank Page, Clark, Dr. Daniels,
Montgomery, Dr. Medlin, Giles, Gor
don Keith, Dr. Bush and V. B. John
son.
From 400 to 450 Kiw’anians and
wives will open the 1931-32 season in
Pinehurst on October 21st, the occar
sion being the annual convention of
Carolinas district. The local club en
tertained the clubs of the Carolinas
district in 1925, and again invited
them to Pinehurst at the last conven
tion held in Raleigh last October. Be
cause they had such a good time here
six years ago, they voted to come
back.
Talbot Johnson is chairman of the
convention committee and told the
members some of the plans for the
convention at their Wednesday meet
ing held at the Community Church
in Pinehurst. He announced that the
chairmen of the various committees,
on reception, ^olf, entertainments,
banquet, etc.', would be appointed next
week, these chairmen in turn to name
their own committees.
The Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst
will open early especially to take carr
of the Kiwanis members and gue'
this convention being the first
for the Sandhills this fall.
vention lasts three day**
22d and 23d.