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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 11, NO. 37.
VILLAGE COURT TO
add wing for N. Y.
brokerage firm
Gammack & Company To Move
Office From Southern Pines
To Pinehurst
>iarket square active
When the Village Court building
was ann^ounced at Pinehurst the pro
jectors stated specifically that only
a first unit was to be erected at the
time and that later a further exten
sion would broaden the plan. Two
extensions are now under way, which
will work out the original design on
extremely attractive lines. T|0 the left
of the entry of the present structure
Keil Cameron has the framework up
for a novel establishment, Mrs. Dana’s
Antique Shop, which will be an in
stitution in itself. The building is de-
rached from the main structure, with
the extension of the arcade as its
main front, but with an approach
from the space which separates the
two buildings, and more or less of
small park area about both of the
buildings. At the right of the arcade
will be more open space, and also a
contact with the other wing which is
i^ow under construction by the Jewell-
Riddle Company. This building will
be occupied by the brokerage firm of
Gammack & Company, New York.
The Antique Shop will have an in
teresting restaurant in a part of the
building, with antique features char
acterizing it that it may fit in with
the rest of the scheme, and a gallery
above the lower flexor, also to be oc
cupied by the antique influences,
making an interesting retreat for the
women as well as a utility in the way
of shopping opportunities and dining.
This will be in keeping with the basic
idea conceived when the original build
ing was planned.
Brokerage Office
Gammack & Company will |<x;cupy
the wing at the other end, fronting on
the main road with the main building,
but also running through and around
the end of the existing building to
find an entry from the rear by way of
the arcade, and sharing in the park
ing design at the rear. The architec
ture is by Holleyman, elaborating the
pleasing note offered in the plans of
(Please turn to page 5)
Rockingham Defeated
by Southern Pines
V’isitors Lose Golf Match at
Country Club by Score
of 23 to 4
LAKEView
PILOT
FIRST IN ''-1
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of
^ e ♦Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, August 14, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
G. L. Gallery to Wed Prominent
S6ciety Girl of Wilmington, Del.
Miss Katherine Hills, Bride-to-
Be, Among Those Presented
at Court of St. James in May
Announcement is made by Mrs.
William Samuel Hilles of Wilmington,
Del., of the engagement of her daught
er, Miss Katherine Lee Bayard Hilles,
to George Lewis Callery, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dawson Callery of Pitts
burgh and Southern Pines.
Miss Hilles was educated' at the
Misses Webb’s School in Wilmington.
Villa Dieudonne in Paris, the Bald
win School in Bryn Mawr and at
Madame Rieffel’s French School in
New York City. She made her debut
in November, 1919. She is a former
president of the Junior League of
Wilmington and is n40w chairman of
the international committee on arbi
tration and admissions recently ap
pointed by the national board of the
Ass,ociation of Junior Leagues of
America. She was presented at the
Court of St. James .on May 20 of this
year.
Miss Hilles is a granddaughter of
the late Thomas F. Bayard, secre
tary of state under President Cleve
land, and the first ambassador to the
Court of St. James.
Mr. Calleiy was educated at the
Paul Ransom Sch,ool and the Hun
School of Princeton, N. J., and con
tinued his education abroad for sever
al year^ His father and grandfather
have been been identified with rail
way utilities for many years in Pi'-ts-
burgh. He is a member of the Pitts
burgh Golf Club, the Fox Chapel Golf
Club and the Allegheny Country Club.
He is well known throughout the
Sandhills, having spent considerable
time her during the past several
winters.
Poultry Association
To Meet in Aberdeen
Dr. Orton of Statesville Will Be
Speaker at Community House
Next Eriday Nigiht
Southern Pines golfers gave their
neighbors from Rockingham a fairly
sound spanking on the Country Club
course here Wednesday afternioon,
rolling up 24 points to the opponents’
4. A number of matches were closer,
however, than the score indicated, go
ing to the 18th green be:^ore the points
Were decided.
The match was played in four
somes, with the following results:
Wilson-Cook, SP, defeated Dix-T. T.
Smith, R, 3-0; Woodward-Frank Page,
SP, defeated Pittman-Braswell, R,
3-0; Clark-Shepard, SP, defeated
Smith-Phillips, R, 3-0; Dr. Daniels-
Jordan, SP, defeated Walker-Hardi-
son, R, 3-0; Weathersp^oon and Davis,
SP, tied James and R. Cole, R, 1 1-2
to 1 1-2; Vetterlein-Montgomery, SP,
defeated Cloud-Jones, R, 3-0; John-
son-M. Grover, SP, defeated Culber-
son-Newell, R, 2-1; Ferguson-M^orri-
son, SP, defeated A. Page, W. B.
Cole, R, 2-1, and Stevens and Mait
land Grover of Southern Pines de
feated Dockery and Boyd of Rocking
ham, 2 3-2 to 1-2. T^otals, S. P.—23,
Rockingham—4.
Southern Pines plays in Raleigh
iiext Wednesday.
Dr. Orton, poultry specialist, of
Statescville, will make the principal
address at the meeting of the Moore
County Poultry Association which will
be held in the Aberdeen Community
House on Friday evening, August 21,
according to R. L. Mayfield. As usual,
a banquet will be one of the outstand
ing features of the meeting.
The poultrymen will be welcomed
by Qounty Commissioner G. C. Sey
mour, and R. L. Mayfield will pre
side over the business session. This
will be one of the most important
meetings of the season and problems
of vital interest will be discussed.
Cards will be mailed to all members,
n,otifying them of the meeting, and
they are expected to communicate
with Mrs. W. P. Worsham of Aber
deen if they can attend. Any who wish
to become members of the associa
tion are invited to attend this meet
ing and join.
Special entertainment features wlil
be provided by Miss Alma Gunner
and Mrs. Grady Burney.
COUNTY HOME FARM ON
“LIVE-AT-HOME” BASIS
CLEM WRENN RETURNS TO
MAKE FUTURE HOME HERE
Clem Wrenn, former president of
the Bank of Wilkes at Wilkesboro
’'^'Mch suffered losses through bank
ing law violations several years agjp,
been granted executive clemency
by Governor Gardner, and has rfetum-
to join his family in Southern
I^ines, where he intends to make his
future home.
In his report of the Agricultural
committee, of which he is chairman,
Gprdon Cameron told the Kiwanis
Club Wednesday of the fine work be
ing done by County Agent E. H. Gar
rison at the County Home. The com
mittee had made a visit to the farm
operated by the residents of the
Home, and repjorted that under Gar
rison’s supervision the men had the
farm on a paying basis and the home
almost self-sustaining.
Mr. Cameron also reported on visits
of inspection i^o the colored settle
ments of the community to &ee how
home gardens starred this spring had
fared. The committee found those in
West Southern Pines had done the
best.
PEACH SEASON ABOUT OVER
The peach season is practically over
in the Sandhills. This week’s prices
were some better than previous weeks,
but the season was not profitable to
the growers owing to the lack of
northern demand due to the depres
sion.
Pinehurst in 1895
Francis Deaton Tells of First
Meial the Day He Drove
The First Stake
“I am reminded of the difference
between this and my first meal in
Pinehurst,” said Francis Deaton at
the Kiwanis Club luncheon in the
Pinehurst Community Church Wed
nesday iTjOon. “That first meal was
eaten sitting on a log from a lunch
basket carried from Aberdeen, and
the date was June 11, 1895. There
wasn’t a building in Pinehurst ex
cept a ranshackle mill and a hay
shelter, and we had to walk .^o far
for water that by the time we got
it back to cur log it was almost
t,oo warm to drink.”
Mr. Deaton drove the first stakes
in laying out Pinehurst that day.
“And now look at the darned
thing.”
TUFTS WINS GOLF
HONORS IN EVENT
IN NEW ENGLAND
Many Sandhills Residents En
joying Summer at Berkshire
Hunt and Country Club
DONALD ROSS CARDS 79
Lenox, Mass., Aug. 12.—(Special to
The Pilot)—Richard S. Tufts, crack
Pinehurst golfer, spending a larger
part of the summer at the Berkshire
Hunt and Country Club in Lenox,
Mass., won first honiors in the second
division of the annual invitation tour
nament at Pittsfield, Mass., last Sat
urday. To gain the finals Tufts de
feated some of the best golfing talent
in New England.
Donald J. Ross was a visit«or at the
club last week, and carded a 79 over
the long course here on his first
round. Mr. Ross is engaged in build
ing and re-building several golf
courses in New England.
I. C. Sledge spent several days at
the club last week, en route to Pine
hurst frjom Boston. He expressed'
himself as very pleased with the nat
ural beauty and setting of the club
and grounds.
Albert Tufts, of Pinehurst, arrived
at the club last Sunday from Sara
nac Lake, where he had been visiting
his father, Leonard Tufts. He will be
at the club for some time visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Tufts.
Harold Callaway of Charlotte, is
the club golf pro. He was j^ormerly
connected with the Pinehurst Coun
try Club in the employ of Donald J.
Ross. He has played a stellar brand
of golf throughout the Berkshires all
thr,ough the season, and has lowered
the record twice for the summer on
the club course. He will return to
Pinehurst this fall.
E. G. Fitzgerald, manager of the
Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, returned
from the Greystone Inn at Roaring
Gap a few days ago. He is in charge
pf the club here.
J. B. Lloyd, an ardent golfer from
Pinehurst, is a member of the club
and plays the course almost daily.
A. T. Robertson, Jr., editor of the
Pinehurst Outlook, visited the club
last week-end.
The management ,of the club has
arranged to publish a daily bulletin
of events at the club which com
pares in many respects with the
Sandhills Daily News, published by
The Pilot, Inc., during the winter
season. It is edited by the assistant
on the Pinehurst Outlook.
BIG TOBACCO COMPANIES
TO SEND BUYERS' HERE
“We expect most of the regular
buyers back and plenty of good t(0-
bacco to sell,’' said William Maurer
when asked about the plans for the
opening of the tobacco market here
next month. *‘A11 the first line com
panies will be represented on the
Abgerdeen market,” he said. A Cham
ber of Commerce meeting is planned
for the near future to stimulate in
terest in the local market.
NEGRO IN HOME IN
SOUTHERN PINES IS
ROUTEDM COLLIE
Town Board Considers Increase
in Police Force after Attack
at Day Residence
HAYES BOOKSHOP ENTERED
More police officers and a more ef
ficient alarm system are being con
sidered by the Board of Ciiommission-
ers in Southern Pines as the result of
serious disturbances to the peace and
quiet of the city last Saturday night.
Several houses were entered during
the evening, and in one instance only
the spirit and bravery of a collie d,og
prevented a serious crime.
\ colored men entered the home of
Mrs. Etta Day on South Ashe street.
Believed crazed with liquor or dope,
he attacked Mrs. Day and her aged
m,other, and had knocked Mrs. Day to
the floor when the collie leaped
through the open window through
which the intruder had entered and
frightened him off. Mrs. Day was
bruised but not seriously injured. Her
mother, Mrs. Annie Siegman, suffer
ed from shock.
Soon after telephone calls sounded
the alarm, a posse was organized. The
negro, said to be short and wearing
glassed, was believed to have hopped
a freight train for Sanford. Officers
were despatched there and blqod-
hounds put on the trail. One arrest
was made but the man captured was
not the one sought, though he was
also wanted on a forgery charge. To
date Mrs. Day’s assailant has eluded
his pursuers.
The same night the Hayes Bo^ok-
shop on Broad street was entered
and several watches taken from a
case. Judge Windham reported his
house entered, the man escaping by
dropping fro ma second story win
dow. Judge Windham fired several
shfOts after him. Others in the same
neighborhood reported attempts to
break in their homes.
One Added to Force
Mayor D. G. Stutts called a meet
ing of the Board of T,own Commission
ers on Tuesday night to discuss the
situation and it was voted to add
Paiviolman Kelly, who has been on
duty on a temporary basis, to the
regular force. Many residents de
manded furHier increase in the size
of the force, and a mSre adequate
police alarm system. The matter was
fully discussed by the commissioners
and referred to the Law and Ordi-
(nance Committee for investigation,
its leqommendations to be considered
by the full board at its next meet
ing. Charles Patch, A. B. Yeomans
and E. C. Stevens comprise this com
mittee.
The trouble is laid by many to non
resident negroes who have been in
the neighborhood during the peach
picking season and who were paid off
last Saturday. There was considerable
excitement that night in West South
ern Pines, necessitating the pres
ence of town police there to restore
order.
MANY FLIERS PAY VISITS
TO KNOLLWOOD AIRPORT
Recent visitors at the Knollwood
Airport included Dr. F. B. Lee of
Washington, D. C., who stopped for
gas en route to Havana, Cuba in his
Travelaire. J. T. Allen flew in last
Thursjday to see Inspector Minick,
who was here that day from Max-
ton for his monthly visit. I. Montrose
Tull of Chapel Hill dropped down in
his Waco one day, and Joe Garside
flew over in his new monoplane
from Rockingham.
Dr. A. D. Parrott of Kinston and
his ^on John were visitors in their
D. H. Moth Sunday momkig. C. N.
Pickell flew over from Kinston a week
ago in his Wacco and C. Glenn Bar
ton of Candor was a visitor in his
Waco last Sunday.
The field is in splendid condition^
a'nd rapidly becoming a . favorite
stopping off place for fliers over
North Carolina.
STEAL GAS FROM CARS
Gasoline was stolen from the tanks
of three cars in Aberdeen one night
among the losers being County Com
missioner G. C. Seymour and Mayor
Henry Blue.
New Feature
Home Building Page in This
Issue First of a Series To
Appear in The Pilot
With this week’s issue The Pilot
introduces a new feature, a Home
Building Page. Through arrange-
rnents with the Ladies Home Journ
al,, an attractive but inexpensive
house will be presented each week.
The plans for these houses will be
supplied by The Pilot to anyone in
terested. On this page also will be
carried news of new building in
prospect or operation in the Sand
hills, and general news and gossip
of the building trades.
The purpose of this page is two
fold. The Pi](0t hopes that through
the attractive houses shown it may
stimulate an interest in new homes
here, and homes of architectural
distinction within the means of the
average man, homes of which the
community may be proud. Second
ly, it hopes to develope business
for the contractor and builder,
which in turn means business for
ill.
We call your attention to Page
5, the first in the series to ap
pear weekly in The Pilot.
—THE EDITORS.
70-CENT TAX RATE
PROBABLE, STATES
CHAIRMAN CURRIE
Head of County Commission
Looks for 33 1-3 Per Cent
Reduction in Taxes
BUDGET IS CONSIDERED
At Cheraw To Plan
Big U. S. Celebration
Sandhills Representatives on
Committee To Make Comple
tion of Highway Memorable
Dr. L. B. McBrayer and Shields
Cameron of Southern Pines and
Frank Shamburger and E. T. McKeith-
en of Aberdeen are attending a meet
ing ill Cheraw, S. C., today as mem
bers of the committee to formulate
plans for the big celebratipn of the
completion of the hard-surfacing of
U. S. Highway No. 1, to be held there
next month. All cities and towns along
the famous highway are to have rep
resentatives at this meeting, and an
effort will be made stimulate not
only state-wide but eastern-seaboard
wide interest in the forthcoming
event.
The last of the hard-surfacing of
j this road will have been completed by
I the time of the celebration, putting
j No. 1 in the pink of qondition for
tourist travel from the Canadian bor
der to the Gulf of Mexico. The pur
pose of the celebration is to awaken
an interest in the public to the advan
tages pf this route in planning winter
trips south, and organizing those
along the route in an effective body to
keep the people “U. S. 1-minded.”
Committees Named For
Kiwanis Convention
Johnson Announces Plans For
Carolina District Meeting at
Pinehurst October 21, 22, 23
Qommittee chairmen for the annual
convention of the Carolinas district
of Kiwanis International were an
nounced by General Chairman J. Tal
bot Johnson at the weekly meeting of
the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen, held
at the Pinehurst Qommunity Church
Wednesday noon. The convention is
to be held in Pinehurst October 21,
22 and 23. Those who will have charge
of the various activities are:
Attendance, Frank Buchan; Recep
tion, R. L. Hart; Registration, I. C.
Sledge; Golf, Willard Dunlop; Music,
Charles Picquet; Banquet, Col. P. G.
Hawes; Dance, J. V. Healy, and
Ladies, Mrs. Frank Shamburger.
Mr. Johnson stated that the qual
ifying round of the annual golf tour
nament would be held Wednesday af
ternoon, the 21st, with the cup play
the following aftenv>on. He also stat
ed that the Duke University orches
tra had been engaged to play for the
dance and the annual banquet. Prom
inent speakers have been invited to
the banquet to be announced at a la
ter date.
AT THE MOVIES
A meeting of the Board of Qounty
Commissioners was held on Thursday,
the most f>f the time being given over
to the hearing of complaints as to
property valuations. A tentative hud-
gte was considered, and although def
inite figures can not be given out yet.
Chairman Wilbur Currie is |of the
opinion that the new tax rate for the
county will be around seventy cents,
a reduction of approximately thirty-
three and one third per cent as com
pared to last year’s rate.
A considerable delegation from
Sandhills township was in Carthage
Wednesday attending the hearing of
the commissioners on valuations in
the township. The assurance of the
commissioners was that the appeals
would be given consideration. A rath
er definite sentiment seemed to pre
sent itself in the view that valua-
ti,ons on some of the property own
ed by residents of the winter colo
nies tended to run to a figure too high.
It was argued that as much leniency
as possible should be shown the new
comers as they are taking up a fair
burden of the c,osts of government in
the county.
Another source of complaint came
from some of the folks who thought
too much of the old values of dilapi
dated buildings was considered. Struc
tures tl^t were once serviceable,
barns, packhouses, etc^., are said by
some owners to be held too high.
Various protests of one kind or
another were laid before the commis
sioners, and assurance was given that
the matter will be looked into. No
complaints were heard of anything
being too low.
Total May Be Lower
It was impossible to obtain posi
tive figures on very much, as the
tax board was busy with visitors and
had not yet counted up the total of
Sandhills township valuations. But as
nearly as rough estimates could be
secured the tentative figures indi
cate that the final values of Sandhills
property will show that the original
assessmefnt of the three assessor#
will be lower than the total assess
ment at the last four-year per
iod, rather than more, as was report
ed. It is also announced by the grape
vine telegraph that the revision made
by the committee compiosed of the
three township assessors and the men
who with them revised the original
assessments will not differ very
greatly from the original assessments.
Some increases of values, some de
creases, s^ome shifting of location
from Sandhills into other townships,
and some duplications of assesment
through the repetition of the work
that was begun early in the year,
then discontinued t,o await the ac
tion of the legislature, then taken up
later, all entered into the situation.
But as the reports from the assess
ors were taken to the board at Car
thage before they could all be
straightened out in Aberdeen this du
plication was not caught up with at
the time, although it was quickly un
covered as the work progressed. It
will take a little further time before
the entire list of sheets is tabulated,
and then the reports will be announc
ed.
Miss Maida Jenkins and E. C.
Matheson left Tuesday for Asheville
to attend a meeting of county com
missioners and accountants.
BROTHER OF COMMISSIONER
SEYMOUR DIES SUDDENLY
Thurs., Fri., Sat., Aug. 13, 14, 15—
“The Secret Call,” with Peggy Shan
non and Richard Arlen.
Mon., Tues., Wed., Aug., 17, 18, 19—
Ruth Chatterton in “The Magnificent
Lie.”
J. S. Seym,our, brother of County
Commissioner G. C. Seymour, C. W.
Seymour and 0. L. Seymour, all of
Aberdeen, died suddenly at his home
in Bowman, Georgia Monday night,
Augrust 3d after a heart attack. He
was 41 yearg of age. Surviving, be
sides his brothers here, are his wife
and five children and fine sister, Mrs.
Sanford Mpon of Bowman. The mem
bers of the family residing in Aber
deen attended the funeral held in the
Georgia town last week.