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/VDING NEWS
WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 12, NO. 6.
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ADVERTISING
COUNTYSCHOOLS
OPERATING WELL
WITHIN BUDGET
With 21 Per Cent Less Money
Than Year Ago, 200 More Pu
pils Are Being Educated
BETTER TRANSPORTATION
By Mrs. S. R. Smith
•The expenditure f<or the rural
schools of Moore county for 1931-32
is well within the budget appropria
tion made by the State, according to
figures presented to the County Board
of Education at its meeting on Jan
uary 1. The monthly statement of
expenditures revealed that a total ,of
$40,118.04 had been expended \ip to
December 31 from the total State ap
propriation of $88,0r)0.fi4, leaving an
unexpended balance of $47,932.(50.
The board has actually received from
the State to date $45,273.39 in cash
and had on January 1 a balance of
$5,155.35 in the State fund.
After checking up the teachers’ sal
aries, salaries of bus drivers, jani-
lOrs and all regular employees of the
county schools according to the State
schedule, it was revealed that the ac
tual operating A)st of these employees
for the year will lave a small balance
of State funds at the close of the
fiscal year. Expenditures for gas, oil
and repairs to school buses could not
be accurately estimated, but past ex
perience indicates that the expense
for these items will be well within
the budget appropriation.
-More *’upils, Less ->loncy
The budget as a whole is approxi
mately 21 per cent less than the one
for 1930-31. The Board of Education
is confronted with the task of in
structing some 200 more children in
1931-32 for approximately $20,000
less money than was used to instruct
the smaller number of children last
year.
However, reports from the county
superintendent indicate that the
ttacher.s of the county schools are do
ing a better grade of work this year
then even before. While the teaching
lead, the number of pupils per teach-
(Please turn to Page 4)
Kiwanis Hears Report
of Xmas Cheer Work
Club Elects Six Honorary Mem
bers at Weekly Meeting at
Lob Cabin
of the Sandhill '^ry of North Carolina
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Aberdeen and Southern Pine.s, North Carolina, .lanuary 8, 15)32. FIVE CENTS
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Bride and Groom 59 Years Ago, 87 and 82
Now, Celebrate Anniversary on Christmas
-Mr. and Mrs. C. li. Grout Came to Sandhills 46 Winters Ago To
Watch Southern Pines Build Up
Around Them
By Bion H. Butler
On Christmas day Charlie B.
Grout and wife observed a little event
at their home in Southern Pines, the
fifty-eighth anniversary of their wed-
c'ing in Boston, DecenHxv 25, 1873.
Mr. Gr,out is in his eighty-seventh
year now, Mrs. Grout in her eighty-
second. This is their forty-sixth win
ter in Southern Pines, or where
Southern Pines is, for when they came
here nearly half a century ago they
were not sure whether any Southern
Pines ever would be. Hence they built
their rfouse out %vhere it is with the
irtention of being in Southern Pines
if Southern Pines should materialize,
and in Manly if SoutherJ Pines fail
ed to arrive.
The Grout.s were married in Bos
ton. Mrs. Grout was Miss Emma Hol
brook. Mr. Grout was from Westei'n
New York, near Niagara Falls and
I.ake Ontario. Along about 1885 they
started the habit of coming to
Southern Pines to escape the severe
winters of the North. They b|OUght
.‘^onie land from Buchan and Bland,
built their house, had a bit of farm
ing venture out toward the creek be
tween their house and “Jimtown,”
and then one day Mr. Grout conclud
ed to venture into business.
The Saunders house is the frame
building back from the street be
tween Simons’ grocery and the Stand
ard filling station. Mem,ory says that
A. M. Clark built the hou) e, but sold
it to Mr. Saunders, although this may
be cloudy. At any rate the Saun-
Oers family lived there for a consider
able time, and made one of the prom
inent homes of the village. Saunders
and Grout had a habit of drifting
down to the postoffice each morning
and on their way ar.ound they nearly
always stopped in at Sam Stringer’s
bowling alley. One morning Saunders
remarked that Stringer’s fire seemed
to be maintained with asbestos wood,
and Stringer reminded the pair that
if his fire did not suit them they
could hang around a fire of their own.
Saunders suggested to Grout that
they build a store on the corner of
the Saunders, lot, which was a big
.r-ne, and they did. That was thje
building now used by Simons. There
Grout carried on a feed store until
he grew old enough to tire of the
confinement and constant work, and
ht- sold his mercantile business.
Meanwhile a bank had been open-
^ c»i in the village and Grout made
' pi'esident. He held the place until it
was sold to the Page Trust Company
' a few years ag,o, and then he quit
; business for good.
Besides being pif'neers in Southern
j Pines, and probably the oldest of the
; original settlers, the Grouts have
I been an exemplary pair of people. In
^ all their nearly half century in the
‘ community they have lived a life of
liarmony with everybody. I do not
lecall a squabble in which they ever
figured with any one, never a question
as to their integi'ity and wholesome
fellowship, never .*1 question as to
Grout’s business fairness. I don't
know any other two folks whose slate
seems to be as clean and whose lives
are marked by tqual serenity and
neighborliness.
It is a long time since these tw.o
people joined fortunes, for Grant wa?
then pvesi<lent of the United Sta*e«,
and the United States was abi'jt a
third as populous as now. 1 he se-
ceeded Southern states had but a
short time been readmitted to the
Union. The telephone was a crude cur
iosity, the electric light undreamed of,
and Calvin Coolidge was not old
enough to walk or talk yet. Hoover
was not at all. Grout was a boy three
years old when John Quincy Adams
died, a man who wa.« president in 1825,
anti who was a chunk of a boy dur
ing the American Revolution and 22
years old when George Washington
was inaugurated first president. Of
the 30 presidents Grout has lived un
der all but nine.
FORCED LANDINGS
FE ATURE VISIT OF
AMATEUR PILOTS
Heavy Drizzle Drives Planes To
Earth on Golf Courses and
Fields of Sandhills
TEN SHIPS STILL HERE
As Army Chaplau
100 Guests of Highland Pines Inn
At Annual Churchmen’s Dinner
Prominent Speakers on Toast
List of Yearly Gatherings as
Inn Celebrates Anniversary
Various relief organizations report
ed on their splendid work in spread
ing. Christmas cheer throughout the
Sandhills at the weekly meeting of
the Kiwanis Culb ,of Aberdeen held
I Wednesday noon at Lovejoy’s Log
Cabin, and judging from the reports
read few if any families went with
out baskets of food and clothing the
week before Christmas. Among the
reports were those of the Good Fel-
Icws Club |0f .'\berdeen .the joint com-
n’it tee of churches and civic organi
zations in Southern Pines, Dr. Cheat
ham’s efficient work in the Pinehurst'
neighborhood, and the Sandhill Broth-1
erhaad and Women’s Class of the
Community Church In Pinehurst. Gor-1
don Cameron reported as to the aid ‘
given these and other organizations j
of Sandhills towns, including Car- j
thage. West End and Jackston
Springs, by the Kiwanis Club. j
TliL> receipt of $81, proceeds of thej
New Year’s Eve subscription dance j
at ihe Southern Pines Country Club,'
was announced. This money was div-'
ided between Southern Pines and,
Pinehurst unemployment bodies at the |
request of the residents of these!
towns who sponsored the dance. The |
club passed a resolution of thanks toj
ell the organizations which aided in ^
the Christmas work. j
Wednesday’s Kiwanis meeting was |
all business. Secretary Herbert Vail I
read the annual report of the con- ■
dition of finances showing the club
had kept within its budget last year.
Paul Barnum, chairman of the Fi
nance committee, submitted the 1932
budget which was approved. The
Board of Directors announced the
electi|On of the following honorary
members for 1932.
Leonard Tufts, Dr. T. A. Cheatham,
S. B. Chapin, Bion H. Butler, Struth-
ers Burt and Judge William A. Way.
Monday night found one hundred
residents of the Sandhills partaking
of the hospitality of the Highland
Pines Inn at the sixth annual Church
man’s Dinner and incidentally the
twentieth aniversary (of the hotel
whose hosts, A. I. Creamer and M. II.
Turner, have made famous for good
cheer and sociability. I
To the music of an orchestra com-
jiosed by A. B. Yeomans, Miss Bishop,'
Miss Yeomans, Jlrs. Lucy Cameron
and Charles Pier, Tom Kelley’s young
singers, Hikjreth Wheeler, Katherine j
Buchan, Alice Abel, Ruth Cameron,’
I’eggy Elliot, Car.olyn Drew, Dorothy
Travis, Dorothy Richardson, Eleanor
Barron, Nellie Leavitt, Dorothy Thur-
iinan. Hazel, Winifred and .Fane Kel
ley, assisted by Miss Raymond Ken
nedy, filed into the main dining room
followed by the guests of the even
ing to the number of a hundred.
Seated at the long table “mine host”
Creamer was flanked by Hunter
Eckert, S. B. Richardson, f^truthers
Burt, Father Dill,on, Jut Chappele, the
Rev. T. A. Cheatham, Bishop Frank
DuJIoulin, Father Morrisey and Ar-
tl ur Newcomb. Introduced by Mr.
Creamer, speaker followed speaker
during the dinner, Joe Chappie, edi
tor of the National Magazine using as
f keynote “The Coming Generation,”
I'nd Bishop DuMoulin the present con
ditions and America fortitude and
courage. They w'ere warmly applaud
ed. Als^o speaking were Mr. Richard
son, Mr. Burt, Father Dillon, Messrs.
Newcomb, Montesanti, McCord, Morri
sey, Blue, Stimson, Woodell and
Cheatham. Interspersing the speeches
the junior singers with Mc.ssrs Buch
an McBrayer, Adams, Cameron, Pack
ard, Richardson and Kelly sang sev
eral pleasing numbers. Votes of
thanks were given to Mr. Creamer
and to Mr. Kelly for their efforts in
so pleasing an affair.
Authors Ahoy!
Sandhills Writers To Try
Hand at Golf in First An
nual Tournev Todav
Members of the Sandhills authors
colony are gathering at the South
ern Pines Country Club at 2 o’clock
this afternoon, J’riday, for the first
annual Authors’ Tournament. The
writers residing hero will be sup
plemented by a number of promi
nent visitors, among them II. I.
Phillips, columnist of the New
York Sun, Editor J|Oe Mitchell
Chappie of the National Magazine,
Jake Wade, sports editor of i.ie
Charlotte Observer, James Nevilles
and .Stephen Brent.
Local authors expected to ap
pear on the tee this afternoon are
.lames Boyd, Struthers Burt, Kath
erine Newlin Burt, Maude Parker,
Dr. E. M. Poate, Walter Gilkyson,
Bernice Kenyon, Almet Jenks,
Ralph W. Page, Bion II. Butler, and
some ,of the local newsparer fra
ternity.
It looked as if war had come to
the Sandhills Tuesday.
From 4 o’clock on in the afternoon
airplanes of various shapes and sizes,
some flown by women, began to drop
from the skies. They landed promis
cuously, through no fault of theirs,
and it was almost miraculous that
no one was hurt in the efforts of the
fliers t,o effect a safe landing through
;he conditions of visibility which pre
vailed.
Some twenty planes of the United
States .Amateur I’ilots Association
were due at the Knollwood Airport at
4:15 that afternoon. They left Rich
mond after lunch, and en route here
lan into ceiling conditions which al
most precluded their seeing gr,ound.
\ steady drizzle greeted them. Some
landed at various points between Ral
eigh and here, one at Cameron, one
i.t the Sanatorium of Dr. J. W. Dickie
in Southern Pines, a young lady
bi ought her plane to earth on the Mid-
I’ines golf course in Knollwood,
George Pynch.on of New York land
ed on the driving range on the Mid
land Road, and so it went. Ten pi
le ts successfully made the airport,
where p crowd of some 1.500 persons
waited to welcome them to the Sand
hills.
Yost a Busy .Man
Major Lloyd 0. Yost, in charge of
Knollwood airport, and his assistant,
George Colton, had a busy and rath
er trying time taking care cf the ar
rivals and worrying about the non-
airivals. The huge crowd at the air
port naturally rushed the arriving
planes eager to learn what was to
bf leai'ned, which happened to be very
little, as the fliers were literally and
physically i nthe dark in such a mist.
But it made the task of the airport
staff difficult. However Major Yost
and his staff w,on praise from all for
thff excellent attention they gave at
the airport.
All the aviators accepted the situa
tion philosophically, and whatever
giudges they had against the weather
were completely erased at the din
ner given by Mr. and .Mrs. Verner Z.
Reed at the Pinehurst Country Club
m the evening. A grand tijiie was
had there by all.
Ten planes still stood at the air
port yesterday awaiting better weath
er conditions bef|<)re proceeding on
their way to attend the races at
Miami this week.
150 Commission Men
Visit Sandhills Sunday
Fruit Buyers on Way to .Aliami
To Be Entertained at Pine
hurst on Southern IMnes
COUNTY PROVIDES
SAFEGUARDS FOR
1931 TAX FUNDS
Order.s New Control System of
Accounts and Daily Check on
Deposits in County Depository
PINEHURST GETS “COP”
The Late Rev. H. A. -McLeod
REV. R. A. McLEOD
LAID TO REST IN
OLD BETHESDA
President of Presbyterian Junior
College at .Maxton Passed
Awav on Tue.sday
NATIVE OF MOORE COFNTY
LKiUII) CONDITION SHOUN
BY I‘A(;E TRUST .STATEMENT
The December 31st statement ^
the Page Trust Company of Alierdeenj
reveals a very liciuid condition. It has ■
$1,(>74,439 in U. S. Government and
North Carolina State bonds, municipal
and listed securities and cash in vaults
and in banks. Its loans and discounts
item shows a total of $2,937,789. Other
stocks and bonds show $13(5,801.
/Deposits ,on December 31st were
^4,248,958.98. The bank had no bills
payable. The capkal of the Page
Trust is .?400,000, surplus $125,000
and undivided profits and reserves
S>76,682. The bank has offices in Aber
deen and 13 other cities of the state,
including Raleigh.
One hundred and fifty delegates to
the c,on\ention of the National Lea
gue of Commission .Merchants at
Miami, Florida, will stop over for a
day in the Sandhills next Sunday
morning, January 10th, at 0:30 .\.
M. The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce, with the co-operation of
t-he Kiwanis Club and the Aberdeen
Chamber of Commerce, has agreed to
meet them at the depot and take them'
for a motor trip to the peach orchards |
and other points of interest in the.
Sandhills. These men are representa-l
ti\^es of the commissicn houses that
pay thousands of dollars into the
Sandhills section every summer fori
its peach and bei'ry croji, and citizens j
plan to show them a good time while
here.
The Chamber ,of Commerce is ask
ing for cars with diivers to assist in
showing these visitors around. Those
with cars available should notify
Shields Cameron or R. L. Hart at the
Broad Street Pharmacy.
Pinehurst is entertaining them with
a luncheon at the Carolina Hotel and
a golf t,ournament in the afternoon.
CAPTAIN O’BERRY DIES
State Treasurer Nathan O’Berry
died suddenly Wednesday morning at
his home in Gold.sboro.
In old Bethesda Church graveyard,
close to the ancient church house
where Presbyterians have worshipped
foi' over 100 years, and where he had
attended as a lad both Sunday school
and church, the Rev. R. k. McLeod,
the beloved presitient of Maxton Jun
ior College, was laid to rest at 4
o’clock Wednesday afternoon, while
a great crowd of sorrowing relatives
and friends, many of them his old
si'hiool mates and ministerial brethren,
stood by.
The Rev. W. M. Fairley, D. D., of
Raeford, conducted the services ir the
little fi'ame church, assisted by Rev.
A, R, McQueen, I). D., of Dunn and
the Rev. II. G. Bedinger, president
of Flora Macdonald College, of Red
Springs. The music of the service
was in the charge of the glee club
of Junior C|Ollege, members of which
.-ang several songs and then at the
grave at the request of Mrs. McLeod,
sang “Steal .‘\way to Jesus,” a negro
^piritual greatly loved by the dead
president of the college, and one which
they had often sung for him while
living.
The Rev. R. A. McLeod, President of
the Presbyterian Junior College at
Maxton, N .C., died suddenly Tuesday
of anyina pectoris.
Mr. McLeod, who was 52 years old!
£;t the time of his death, was born at
the old McLeod family homestead in
Eureka, Moore cjfunly. He was a |
graduate of Davidson College and
'f the Union Theolo.;ical Seminary of
Richmond, Va. He held various pas-;
torates in the Fayetteville Presby-I
tery and at one tinie served as profes-'
sor of Bible in the Elise High School |
at Hemp. He was one of the
prime movers in the founiling of the |
Junior College at Maxton about three
years ago and has been its .only pres-j
ident. '
He was one of the most outstanding,
members of the Fayetteville Presby-j
tei'y having served as Stated Clerk
ir 1) )th the local presbytery anil in thei
.‘'ynod of North Carolina. i
He is survived by his wife, who be-^
fore her marriage was Miss Lucy
Worth Currie of Fayetteville, and
four children. .^Iso surviving him are|
his father and mother, residents ,ofj
Fureka. and the following brothers |
and sisters; John A. McLeod of Ab-j
erdeen, Carl McLeod. Pinehurst,!
Carey McLeod, Carthage, Mrs. Ber-i
thq Freeman, Pinehurst, Mrs. David i
McCalluni, Eureka, and Mrs. Tibeau,|
Fayetteville.
Bonding companies have in
formed the .Moore County Board
of Commissioners that they will
not, for the present at least,
write further bonds covering the
county’s tax collectors.
This is a matter of policy, and
in no wise lo be considered as a
reflection on the newly appointed
collector, they informed the com
missioners. W. T. Huntley of
Aberdeen, newly appointed collec
tor, was given the hiijhest rat
ing by the bonding companies.
During the past twenty years
no county (ax colk-ctor has made
a complete return at the end of
his term of office.
The county has added an em
ploye in the office of the county
auditor to aid in keeping ade
quate records of 19.'ll collections.
New regulations looking - to the
safeguarding of county tax funds as
a result of the recent tying uj) of
county funds in the closed Bank of
Vass were passed at the meeting of
the County Board of C,onimi.ssioners
held Mon<lay at the courthouse in Car
thage.
It was ordered that “an inteinal
system of accounts on collection of
all taxes, costs and penalties be in-
,'tituteii whereby all receipts for 1931
taxes, penalties and costs and other
receipts be countersigned by the
county accountant before delivering
said receipts to taxpayer by county
tax collector, and the county account
ant is herei y reciuired to maintain a
record of all tax leceipts so counter
signed by her and said county ac
countant is reciuired to ascertain
(iaily that all funds so received for
said taxes have been deposited in the
duly accredited county depository.”
The Bank of Pinehurst is the county
liepository.
The report cf J. D. McLean, tax col
lector for 1930 taxes, was received at
the meeting.
More Roads For State
The Board voted to recommend that
the State take over and maintain the
road loading from R. S. Phillips’ place
I y the 1*. .M. Phillip< place across
1'yson’s Creek to the highway leading
tiom State Highway No. 902 to Pin-
trs Tavern, a distance of about one
mile, also that it put cm the map the
new road Irom near I-'red Shields”
1 lace by I). P. Wilson’s i lace and
the Bible .School to the highway lead
ing from No. 902 to Harper's Cross
Roads, this being a ruial mail loute
and also a school bus route.
The commissioners voted to allow
Pinehurst the sum of $25 jier month
from .lanuary 1 to .luly 1 as part I'ay-
ment of a special officer’s salary,
upon coniUtion that said officer be
a duly (lualified and active deputy
sheriff aiipointed by the sheriff .of
Moore county and that he file a bond
duly approved by the sheriff.
Miss Estelle Tillman was elected
clerk to the county accountant at a
salary of -S50 per month for whole
time work.
Mrs. Lizzie .\llred was allowed $1-5
for month of January for support pf
herself and family, and E. B. Maness
was relieved of poll tax for 1931, he
being above the age liable for poll
tax.
AU.STIN HELD FOR I’ART
IN MURDER OF BEASLEY
TIN WHISTLE GOLFERS
HAVE TOURNEY TODAY
The Tin Whistle golfers will have
a best ball of four partners tilt to
day, a very popular type of event.
The ranks ,of the Whistles continue to
be strengthened by new arrivals, and
a field that will go above 70 is ex
pected to take part in the week-end
skirmish.
Juniys .Austin, colored, was held uji-
(ier 1S5,000 bail for appearance in Su-
} ei;ioi Court in Durham on Febru
ary Ifith when arraigned there on
Wednesday on a charge of complicity
in the murder of Chief of ’ Police
Beasley' of Southern Pines. Austin
was with Everett McLean, colored, at
the time of'the sh0(0ting and is al
leged ti have aided in McLean’s es
cape. McLean was apprehended, how
ever, after the shooting and commit
ted suicide in the jail at Durham.
County Solicitor M. G. Boyette ap
peared against Austin at Durham.