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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
VOL. 11, NO. 42.
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
LAKEVIEW
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SELL YOUR
TOBACCO ON THE
ABERDEEN MARKET
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, September 18, 1931.
FIVE CENTS
INJUNCTION HALTS
WEST SOUTHERN
PINES TAX SALE
Legality of Abolition of Town
and Annexation to Southern
Pines Involved
TO BE AIRED IN COURT
soutem Pines has been halted in
its tax sales in its new addition across
the creek, which was a separate cor
poration until recent act of the legis
lature abolished West Southern Pines
and added that suburb to the main
town. When the effort to collect de
linquent taxes was started it was met
with protests from some of the peo
ple, culminating in a request for an
injunction, which is returnable Sep
tember 30.
This brings into court the aboli
tion of West Southern Pines, and the
annexation of the territory to South
ern Pines, the complaint among other
things, attacking the constitutionality
of the move. More or less protest has
been offered from the time the an
nexation was started. Some of the
delinquents have been paying their
back taxes, but others have held out,
and while the sum that is back is not
large, the protest that has been made
is rather striking.
The complainants insist that they
owe the town of Southern Pines noth
ing in the way of back taxes. Others
who have been called on to pay pro
duce receipts saying the taxes in dis
pute have been paid, and in this way
the amount that at first appeared to
be due has been lessened. But the sum
left, which is not niore than twelve
or fifteen hundred dollars, is big j
enough for protesting purposes, and
the matter now goes into court. The
payment of taxes from the delin
quent list will be held up until the
court disposes of the injunction.
First Service Sunday in New
Pinebluff Methodist Church
The first service in the handsome
new Pinebluff Methodist Church at
Pinebluff will be held this Sunday
morning, September 20th, the Rev. A.
W. Thompson, pastor, announced this
week. Although services will be held
regularly in the church from now on,
the completion of the church edifice
will not be officially celebrated until
later in the fall when more of the
members have returned from the
north to join in the exercises.
The auditorium is complete, but
the Sunday School rooms not yet
ready. The building has been under
construction for the past year, ground
having been broken 14 months ago,
though actual building did not start
immediately after this. As a nucleus
for the building fund the church had
$1,400 from the sale of some prop
erty. The balance of the $11,500 which'
the edifice as it stands today repre
sents was raised by private donations
of money and labor and/ through ef
forts of the Ladies^ Aid society. Five
hundred dollars of donated labor has
gone into the structure.
There will be no exercises this Sun
day to celebrate the completion of
the building, Mr. Thompson said. But
he announced that should there be any
children to be baptised or persons de
siring to unite with the church at
this first service in the fine new edi
fice, he will welcome them there Sun
day. The public of the Sandhills is
also cordially invited to this first ser
vice.
SOUTHERN PINES
TAX RATE $2.15;
BUDGET PASSED
Board of Commissioners Consid
ers Tax on Business Houses
for Their Protection
WOULD CURB TRANSIENTS
Royal R. Scott Dies,
Long Prominent Here
Southern Pines Resident Passes
Away at Ag of 71 While
On Visit North
The sad news of the passing of one
of Southern Pines’ best known citi
zens, Royal R. Scott, was received in
the community last Saturday. Mr.
Scott’s death occurred at Ovid, New
York, where he was spending the
summer, last Friday, September 11.
He was 71 years of age, a native of
Cuba, N. Y.
Royal R. Scott was formerly sec
retary and legal adviser of the Willys-
Overland Company, automobile man
ufacturers, at Toledo, Ohio. Since
1920 he has divived his time between
Toledo and Southern Pines. He pur
chased the Heizman house on Broad
street opposite the Southern Pines
Hotel some years ago, and later pur
chased the Cyrus Cameron farm on
James Creek, where he established
the dairy now operated by the Olive
brothers. He also had a farm beyond
the dairy farm, a part of the old
Young farm, where he made his
home.
Mr. Scott was active in commun
ity affairs in Southern Pines until
his health made it necessary for him
to conserve his energies a few years
ago. He w.'as the first president of the
•^hamber of Commerce. His widow,
Mrs. Clara H. Scott, and two daught
ers, Mrs. Carl G. Thompson, of South
ern Pines, and Mrs. Byron Hueber of
Syracuse, N. Y., survive.
impressive SERVICES
FOR WAR VETERAN
The Southern Pines Board of Com
missioners approved the town’s an
nual budget at its regular meeting
held Wednesday night of this week,
and established this year’s tax rate
at $2.15, the same as last year.
Considerable sentiment has develop
ed in Southern Pines for the licensing
of business places, and strange to
say, some of the leading merchants
are favorable. The idea being that the
regular merchants of the town are
not at present protected against the
incursions of fly-by-night fellows
who bring merchandise into town,
peddle it out cheaply under the noses
of the taxpaying merchant, and leave
for another town.
This matter was discussed at the
meeting of commissioners Wednesday
night, and it was tabled pending the
obtaining of views pro and con from
those who would be affected. There
is said to be one thing in its favor
in addition to curtailing the activities
of the transient merchant, that is the
fact that a tax or license on business
places might net a sufficient amount
to bring about a slight reduction in
taxes in the town.
REV. MR. BROWN TELLS
EXPERIENCES IN CHINA
TWO CAROUNAS
GOVERNERS HERE
ON OCTOBER 22D
Gardner and Blackwood Accept
Invitations To Address
Kiwanis Convention
BOXING BOUTS ARRANGED
The Rev. F. Craighill Brown, rector
of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church
at Southern Pines, told members of
the Kiwanis Club of some of his ex
periences as head of a church in
China, at their weekly meeting in the
Pinehurst Community Church Wed
nesday noon. He fascinated his audi
ence with tales of the queer practices
of the Chinese, especially of the
amount of red tape involved in the
burial of the dead, and of their in
ability to lift a finger to aid a drown
ing man because once a Chinaman
saves another, he is responsible for
that man’s welfare for the remainder
of his life.
BRUMMITT TO ADDRESS
KIWANIANS SEPT. 30TH.
Impressive fumeral services were
eld Saturday at Eagle Springs for
Palph Hendren, who was drowned a
week ago while fishing at Minnesott
Beach on the Neuse River. Sandhill
Post, American Legion, took part in
the services, which were conducted by
the Rev. Mr. McDuffie of Candor. The
colors were carried to the Bensalem
cemetery, where taps were sounded
as the body of the late World War
Veteran was lowered into the grave.
Hendren was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
G. L. Hendren of Eagle Springs.
Attorney General Dennis G. Brum-
mitt, candidate for the Democratic
nomination for Governor, will be the
speaker at the meeting of the Ki
wanis Club of Aberdeen on Wednes
day, September 30th, according to an
nouncement made this week by Hiram
Westbrook, chairman of the Pro
gram committee.
VASS BANK SITUATION
SAID TO BE CLARIFYING
Several meeting of directors, stock
holders and other parties interested
in the affairs of the closed Bank of
Vass have been held during the past
week, with indications pointing to an
early clearing up of the situation and
the re-opening of the institution
which closed its doors temporarily a
week ago.
With the Governor of North Car
olina telling the Governor of South
Carolina what he would like to say
to him if it were legal and proper,
and the Governor of South Carolina
responding in kind to the Governor
of North Carolina, the annual conven-
vention of the Carolinas district of
Kiwanis International bids fair to at
tract most of the members of the
many Kiwanis clubs in the two states
to Pinehurst on October 21, 22 and 23.
Both Governor Gardner and Gov
ernor Blackwood have accepted invi
tations to speak at the annual ban
quet, to be held Thursday night, the
22d, in the Carolina Hotel. This is
but one of the many features planned
for the convention. Others include a
grand ball at the Country Club, a
golf tournament, prize fights staged
by soldiers from Fort Bragg, and
numerous entertainments for wives
and sweethearts of members. J. Tal
bot Johnson, chairman of the Con
vention committee, announced the pro
gram to members of the Aberdeen
club, hosts of this year’s convention,
at their weekly meeting held Wed
nesday at the Pinehurst Community
Church.
Bouts for Cha^^ty
The big boxing bouts are to be
staged at the Pinehurst race track,
in front of the grandstand, Thursday
afternoon at 4 o’clock and are to be
open to the public, at a small entrance
fee, as well as to the Kiwanians. The
proceeds will go toward unemploy
ment relief or some similar commun
ity need.
Six of the best boxers in their
weight from Fort Bragg will be the
participants in the program consist
ing of three events, two preliminaries
and the main bout.
The ring will be constructed on the
track directly in front of the grand
stand which will provide excellent
“ring-side” box seats as well as other
ringside seats which will be erect
ed on the other three sides.
Purses will be paid of sufficient
size to insure three real exhibitions
and a record crowd will supply the re
quired enthusiasm which will put
every boxer on his mettle.
SOUTHERN PINES VOTES
$3,700 FOR ADVERTISING
EDWIN McKETTHEN
NEW MANAGER OF
COUNTY HOSPITAL
Stage All Set Here for Big
Opening of Tobacco Market
Aberdeen Man Appointed Busi
ness Head of Institution
at Pinehurst
SUCCEEDS T. H. ROWAN
Edwin T. McKeithen of Aberdeen
has been appointed business mana
ger of the Moore County Hospital at
Pinehurst and will begin his duties on
next Thursday, September 24th. He
succeeds T. H. Rowan of Hamlet,
who has been serving in this capac
ity for several months.
Mr. McKeithen is a lifelong resi
dent of Moore county and is widely
acquainted and highly esteemed
throughout the Sandhill section. His
extensive personal acquaintance and
long intimate association with civic
and business affairs of the commun
ity especially qualify him for this
very important position.
Besides managing the fiscal affairs
of the growing institution, Mr. Mc
Keithen will, through the press, by
correspondence and by personal in
terviews give out information and an
swer questions concerning the hospi
tal, thereby establishing intimate
contact with the public, so essential
to the proper understanding between
a public institution and the people it
aims to serve.
The Moore County Hospital, though
still in its infancy, has already a
brilliant record of achievement.
Founded by donations from public
and private sources and with the aid
of the Duke Endowment, it has prov
en its value to the citizens of Moore
county and to the many winter resi
dents of the Sandhills, and is an in
stitution of which the community may
well be proud.
“Aunt Flora” McLeod
Has 83d Birthday
Hearty Welcome
Mayor Blue Extends Greet
ings To Tobacco Men on
Eve of Market Opening
On next Tuesday, September
22d, the Aberdeen tobacco market
opens for what is expected to be
its greatest year. From the reports
which come to us from tobacco
growers of this section, the crop is
plentiful and of excellent quality,
and there is every indication that
several million tons will be mar
keted through Aberdeen ware
houses.
As Mayor of Aberdeen, I want
to extend to the tobacco men a
warm welcome to the city during
the period of the market. We wel
come the grower, the warehouse
man, the buyer, and hope that each
will make himself at home here,
make known his wants, give us
an opportunity to get acquainted
with him, tell us what he thinks
of us. Come and bring the whole
family, not once but often.
Aberdeen bids you welcome.
HENRY BLUE, Mayor.
Warehousemen, Buyers, Growers
Optimistic Over Prospects
For Big Season
GOOD LEAF PRICES UP
AUGUST TOBACCO
PRICE AVERAGE
ABOVE YEAR AGO
Sales 7.6 Per Cent Ahead with
Average at $12.44 Agjainst
1930’s $10.98
HUGE CROP OF BURLEY
Family Which Sttled Near Here
150 Years Before Aberdeen
Holds Runion
When the Scotch came from the!
old country and settled in the wilds |
of the Cape Fear section, some of!
them came out to Moore, Montgom
ery and even Anson counties, grad
ually moving west fromt he Cape
Fear. However, the settlement of Mc
Leods in Moore was soon after the
clans first came over the Atlantic.
One family settled four miles west
of the town of Aberdeen at least a
150 years before this town was born.
At the old John McLeod place, was
where her relatives and friends met
Sunday and celebrated her 83rd birth
day. Fifty or sixty relatives, and
friends, neighbors, including the pas
tor of Aunt Flora, met, had an unus
ually fine dinner, served on a long
table under an assortment of shade-
trees in the yard.
John McLeod married Miss Flora
Johnson a little more than a century
ago, and settled on the Moore county
side of Drowning Creek, where the
land was good, the range fine and
ga.ne plentiful.
Oiie way the oldtime company had
of entertaining themselves was sing
ing and Aunt Flora kept the crowd
busy singing Sunday afternoon. She |
conducted religious exercises nearly
all day.
DIES SUDDENLY ON WAY
TO HOME IN PNIEBLUFF
A contract was let by the Board
of Commissioners of Southern Pines
on Monday for town advertising in
daily newspapers during the coming
winter season. The sum of $3,700
was appropriated for the purpose,
the first advertising in northern pa
pers to start November 4th. In ad
dition to this form of advertising,
20,000 folder maps with descriptive
matter relating to the town and the
Sandhills have been ordered, most of
which will be distributed through the
American Automobile .Association.
William A. Eldredge of Canaseraga,
N. Y., and Pinebluff, died suddenly
in Virginia on his way to his winter
home here last Wednesday, Septem
ber 9th, according to word received
this week in Pinebluff. Mrs. Eldredge
was with him when he was overcome
by a heart attack, death following al
most immediately. The body was tak
en back to Canaseraga.
Mr. Eldredge, who has spent the
past several winters in Pinebluff,
was about 73 years of age and had
been in poor health for some time.
For many years he was employed on
the Erie Railroad and was retired a
few years ago. A daughter, Mrs. H.
E. Barry, resides in Pinebluff, She
and her husband attended the funeral
Tobacco sales on the seven markets
along the South Carolina line which
were open in August amounted to 19,-
885,181 pounds, exclusive of resales,
as compared with 18,486,642 pounds in
August, 1930, and brought an average
of $12.44 a hundred pounds, as com
pared with $10.98 in 1930, according
to the Federal-State crop reporting
service for August.
The prices averaged $1.46 a hundred
pounds more than last August, while
sales amounted to 7.6 per cent more
than sales to the same date last year.
The crop condition September 1
was 76 per cent of normal, as compar
ed with 75 per cent a year ago and
78 over a 10-year period. A total pro
duction of 502,265,000 pounds is in
dicated, or 14 per cent less than last
year’s crop while the crop this year
covers 722,000 acres, or 7 per cent
less than last year. The dry start of
the season, followed by heavy rains
caused a second growth and resulted
in inferior grades, along with the
lighter per acre yield.
Government Report
The latest government crop report
says:
“The production of flue-cured to
bacco is indicated to be about 141,000,-
000 pounds less than the 859,831,000
pounds produced a year ago, de
creases being shown in both the old
and new belts. The production of air-r
cured types both light and dark, is
expected to be materially larger than
last year. The condition of hurley in
dicates a much larger crop than was
harvested last year, it being forecast
at 420,179,000 pounds compared with
349,263,000 pounds a year ago. The
production of dark air-cured tobacco
is forecast at 68,569,000 pounds com
pared with 60,990,000 pounds in 1930.
In one-sucker, the production is ex-
The stage is all set for the opening
of the tobacco season in Aberdeen
next Tuesday, September 22d, and
warehousemen, buyers and growers
alike appear highly optimistic over
the prospects for the biggest year in
history for this steadily growing
market. Both local warehouses have
completed arrangements for the open
ing, putting their buildings in order
and lining up their personnel for the
big opening day.
Prices which good smoking tobac
co has been bringing on the border
markets have encouraged the farmer
to hope for satisfactory returns here,
for they report their crops as in fine
condition. The bright leaf grown in
the Sandhills has always borne a
good reputation with the tobacco
companies, one reason why the price
average on the Aberdeen market has
been consistently higher than the av
erage in the state. Prices for*August
on the border markets averaged bet
ter than last August, and there is no
reason to believe, with a smaller
acreage hereabouts this year, that
prices will not do better on the Old
Bright Belt, in which Aberdeen is lo
cated.
Buyers Are Here
The buyers for the big tobacco
companies are already in Aberdeen
for the opening, M. A. Landis of the
Imperial, “Judge” Avery of the Ex
port company, W. A. Reed of Ameri
can, N. R. Stovall of Reynolds, the
Liggett buyer, L. I. Bass represent
ing independent companies, Will El
lington and others. The Aberdeen
Warehouse of Edwards, Lewis & Wil
liams announced this week that Odell
Lewis and Mr. Waddell will be in
charge of their sales, with A. B. Ed
wards and Mr. Hand as auctioneers.
Mr. Waddell has operated warehouses
at Marion, S. C., and Drakes Branch,
Virginia, and Mr. Hand has been with
Edwards, Lewis & Williams at their
big Mullins warehouse. Neill McKeith-
en of Aberdeen represents this ware
house locally.
R. D. Cothran of Manning will run
the sales for the Sandhills Warehouse,
which W. W. Maurer and Dr. A. H.
McLeod are operating this year. This
is the former Big Brick Warehouse.
Eugene B. Maynard will be the auc
tioneer, and Mr. Maurer has engaged
an efficient staff of aids to handle
the big breaks expected here.
Aberdeen merchants and citizens
are preparing to welcome the influx
of tobacco farmers with open arms,
and will make every effort to get ac-
I quainted with their neighbors from
the outlying sections and make them
feel at home here. Mayor Henry Blue
officially welcomes the tobacco men
in another column of The Pilot.
ATTEND CELEBRATION
OF U. S. 1 COMPLETION
Dr. L. B. McBrayer, Shields Cam
eron, Howard Bums and L. V. O’Cal-
laghan made up the official represen
tation of Southern Pines at the cel
ebration of the completion of U. S.
Highway No. 1, held yesterday at
Cheraw. Others from the Sandhills
also motored over. Governor Roose
velt of New York addressed the as
semblage over long distance telephone,
amplified.
TOBACCO PRICES
((Please turn to page 4)
ABERDEEN TO BORROW SUM
OF $8,000 NEXT WEEK
The average price of tobacco on
North Carolina markets from
1920 to 1930 was as follows:
The Town of Aberdeen has been
authorized by the Local Government
Commission at Raleigh to sell an
$8,000 Revenue Anticipation note, and
sealed bids for same will be received
next Thursday, September 24th, at
10 a. m. The note is for six months.
Year Cents
1920 25.3
1921 „26.0
1922 27.6
1923 21.0
1924 25.8
Year Cents
1925 23.0
1926 25.0
1927 23.0
1928 20.0
1929 18.4
1930 12.9
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