MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 12, NL 39.
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of the Sandhill Terr'^^^^,' of North Carolina
Aberdeen and Southern Pin^s, North Carolina, Friday August 26, 1932.
FIVE CENTS
PASTOR SERL TO
SERVE SOUTHERN
PINES CHURCH
Replies to Solicitations of Con
gregation by W'ithdrawinu
His Resignation
CHURCH OFFICIALS HAPPY
Following a meeting of the trus
tees of the Church of Wide Fellow
ship in Southern Pines Tuepday night
it has been announced that the Rev.
Elmer Willis Seri has replied to the
solicitations of his congregatior. by
consenting to withdraw his resigna
tion tendered last April. Following
his action several meetings of the
church membersTiip were called to pro
test against the acceptance of the
resignation but Pastor Seri held the
matter in abeyance until this week.
Mr. Seri came tv Southern Pines
from Carthage, Missouri, in October,
1918, and under his pastorate the
new edifice was erected, the work
being started in the summer of li)27.
Another accomplishment of his pas
torate has been the weekly “Plat
form Hours” on Sunday evenings dur
ing the winter season, when promi
nent speakers, entertainers and mus
Resumes Operation
Vass Cotton Mill Goes Back to
Work with Increased
Orders
The Vass Cotton Mill, which ha^
been closed since the latter part
of April, on Monday resumed op
eration and will continue to run for
an indefinite time so far as is
known. Increased orders made it
possible for the mill to resume
work. The mill employs a consider
able nunVher of hands, an3 they are
greatly encouraged at the prospect
of again having regular employ
ment.
WORK OF COUNTY
HOME WARDEN
IS COMMENDED
GETS FIVE YEARS
FOR SLAYING OF
LIFE-LONG FRIEND
Prospect of Tie for First Place
Keeps Baseball Fans Keyed Up
•^1
Back Soon
V'ass-Lakeview Now a Half
(»anie Aheiid.—“Plowboys”
Coming to Southern Pines
George Brewer Sentenced to Im
prisonment for Killing of
Jonah Davis
OTHER COURT NEWS
Grand Jury Also Reports Satis
faction with County Records
and Prison Conditions
•MINOR CHANGES ASKED
Commen at4on for the work of Her- j the office of the education depart-
bert Kennedy, warden of Moore’s j *n<?nt.
; countv home, was recorded in the re. Bennie Peele, Troy Peele and Sher-
iMTorim^alion, have been brouB^^ '''
to the church. These meetings have
George Brewer, young white man'
of the Dover church section of Moore
county who shot to death his lifelong
friend, Jonah Davis, following a day
on which both ai‘e said to have been
drinking, was sentenced to imprison
ment in the State’s prison for not
less than five nor anore than seven
years at hard labor by Judge John
M. Oglesby, who presided over a
term of criminal court in Carthage
last week. It was specified that Brew
er is to wear stripes.
Tom Caddell, colored, of Carthage,
a foimer trusted janitor at the court
house was given four months on the
roads at hard labor to work under
the control of the State Highway
Commission on a larceny charge. Tom, Word received at The Pilot office
had taken small sums of money from | is to the effect that the General Man
ager and Editor is on his way back
NELSON C. HYUE
With Vass-Lakeview a half a game
ahead of Aberdeen and only two
I games to play, and Aberdeen with
! only three games left to play the
j fans are discussing pro and con the
chances of the two teams finishing
the season in a tie for first plat^.
The dopesters figure that the
chances are good for a finish of this
kind. With the exception of the
game between Aberdeen and Southern
Pines both teams meet opponents
from the lower bi’ackets and should
have easy wins. However, after the
way Carthage handed it to both
A'cerdeen and Vass last week, no pre
diction is ventured.
In the event of a tie for first place,
a five game series v.-ill be played to
decide the championship.
Southern Pines apparently has
third place cinched.
Coming Games
Vass-Lakeview will meet West End
been a feature each winter for some
time, attracting large numbers of
residents and visitors.
Pastor Seri will arrive in Southern
Pines early in November and will ac-
cupy the pulpit on the first Sunday
of that month greatly to the delight
of his congregation and Board of
Trustees: C. 'L. Austin, W. J. Stew
art, Dr. E. L. Prizer; E. C. Eddy, G.
W. Van Camp, H. C. Cutter, Mrs. E.
M. Pettis, Mrs. Lena Sweezzy and
Miss Mary Schw’ar'berg.
Pinebluff Clinic
submitted last week and which was' larceny of automobile accessories
the most comprehensive report hand-j premises of P. V. Barefoot,
ed in in several years. John F. Tay- ^ Troy and Sherrill were sentenced to
lor was foreman. “The committee is I State’s prison for two to five years
highly pleased with the work being
done by Herbert Kennedy who is do
ing all possible to make this insti
tution a credit to Moore county,” the
report reads. Minor repairs were rec
ommended for the conuty home 'build
ing.
The records in the Register of
Deeds office were reported well Icept
and up to date with the exception of
the Map Book which is in very bad
shape. It was recommended that a
better system of filing maps be pro-
persons wishing to
V^Oinp j maps be encouraged to pre-
to the Sandhills and is expected to
be here in time to get out next week’s
issue of the paper.
Large Enrollment
Expected at Maxton
at hard labor and are to wear stripes.
Prayer for judgment was continued j Number of Moore Countv Bovs
for two years as to Bennie upon con- Expected to Attend Presby-
dition that he pay the cost and pay | College
.$35 for the use and benefit of Bare-1
foot, this cost to be paid by next Jan
uary.
W. S. Gatewood, Porter Mooney-
ham and Coley Mooneyham, "uilty
of breaking and entering the McCor-
Prospects for a larger registration
at the Presbyterian Junior College,
Maxton, this year are very promising,
says President R. G. Matheson, Jr.
mack building in Carthage, are to ■^PPl'^^ations are running consider-
EREST GROWS
IN FIRST MOORE
CO, FIELD DAY
Day of Keen and Clean Athletic
Contests Is As
sured
TROPHIES ARE ARRIVING
If the weather man is good to us
the First Annual Mooi'e County Lea
gue Field Day promises to be one of
the Red Letter days in the Sandhills.
Interest in it is growing by leaps
and bounds and, as the entries are
coming in, a day of keen and clean
athletic contests is assured.
All the Team Managers arc co-op
erating whole heartedly and almost
any hour of the day contestants are
training and practicing for the
events, all over the country. Auto
graphed Base Balls, Bats and other
valuable trophies from the nationally
known Big League Stars are arriving,
any one of which will prove to be the
at West End Saturday and will then i envy of all who are not so fortunate
have but one game left to play. Aber
deen will probably play its postponed
game with Southern Pines next Wed-
nesilay, and in the meantime will
probably meet Pinehurst with a game
with West End to follow the Southern
Pines game. The tailenders will fin
ish scrapping for the cellar position.
A game of mote than usual inter
est will be played at Southern Pines
next Saturday when the “Plowboys”
from Stedman will meet the fast
Southei'n Pines team. The “Plow
boys” is a team made up of the rem-
as to win one of them.
The entire program is rounding up
in gioat shape and the Committee ex
pects to be able to publish a com
plete list of not only the events 'but
the contestants next week.
The big day is Monday, September
5th, the place is the Pinehurst Race
Track and the program will start
promptly at 1.00 p. m. The gates will
be open at 12:00 noon. The small ad
mission fee is 10c to everybody over
ten years old but larger amounts will
be gladly received, as every dollar
serve not less than one nor more than
three years at hard labor at State’s
prison and wear stripes.
Prayer for judgment was continued
ably ahead of last year, he said, and
the college is preparing to take care
of a larger number of students this
year. There was a gain last year over
I sent either cloth back maps or maps as to Albert Johnson, white youth previous year, and according to
321 Given Vaccinations for Ty- pi-ppaj-ej linen tracing cloth. jwho secretly .slashed W. P. Tunnell,
phoid
22 for Diph-
There
The typhoid fever clinic at Pine-
bluff has just been completed. There
were 321 people immune against ty
phoid and this means that during
the clinic i)62 injections were given
for typhoid alone. There were 22 chil
dren immune against diptheria, each
taking three or more injections, fouv
were vaccinated against small pox.
In the V. D. clinic conducted at
the same place 116 people, principally
or all colored, had their blood taken
for the Wassermann test. Sixty-five
were found negative and fifty-one
proved to be positive, which gives a
very large percentage suffering from
this disease. All t!iose with Wasser-
man positive were not only willing but
eager to take the treatment for this
very serious and often contagious di
sease, and during the clinic 217 in
travenous injections of neoarsphena-
mine were administered. This clinic
has been a fine demonstration of the
pestilence of this iisease, and how it
can be abrogated. 'Ve trust that those
who commenced the treatment will
continue to receive it, and go to their
family doctors for its completion. A
similar clinic to this is held every
Saturday morning at the Public
Health Office from 9:00 until 11
o’clock.
The records of the Clerk of Court’s ' an elderly man, in the back with a
office were found well kept except the ' knife, upon condition that he pay in
cross-index system and that is rapid- j court .$17 for doctor bill, $8 for use
ly being caught up. More shelves for ■ plaintiff and the costs and fur-
LOCAL FIREMEN GET
SHARE OF RELIEF FUND
Aberdeen has been sent $82.15 as
its share of the State Firemen’s Re
lief Fund, distributed each year on the
basis of the amount of fire insurance
rrcTiun*; collected the year before
In the towns and ciLlss of the State
which qualify by having an organizsd
I'irc ilepartmenl, a cesignated fire dis-
Irict and regulations complying with
Ihe fire waste law. The total distri-
luted to 150 towns and cities qual-
ii'yin" was C30,>00.91, "which is one
pcv ccnt of the insurance premiums
paid in these towns and cities. This
i.i $5,323 less than the amount distri-
J)utcd last year, .showing a decrease
in the amount of busine.ss done.
Carlhap:e ro;cived C34.82, Pinehurst
0121.75 and Southc:-n Pines $156.41.
Cart he go received $34.82, Pinehurst
$121.75 and Southern Pines $156.41.
ther, there he made a law abiding
citizen.
Having complied with a former or-
filing the record books are badly
needed, the report says, and it was
recommended that these be provided.
Minor repairs around the court
house were recommended and the
Grand Jury recommended that action
be taken to prohibit persons from spit. I PicturC tO
ting in the court room except in ves-
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sels provided for this purpose.
Conditions at the prison camp were
found very satisfactory and the jail
was reported to be clean throughout.
It was recommended that steel bunks
be purchased to replace the metal
cots now in use as fast as these cots
are damaged beyond repair by the
prisoners. The jail capacity can be in
creased 'by providing nine steel bunks
which could be used as upper bunks,
the report states, and recommends
that this be done immediately. Future
Be Shown Here
‘Congorilla,” Made Entirely in
African Jungle to Be Carolina
Attraction Next Week
The coming of Mr. and Mrs. Mar
tin Jf>hn««n’s greatest achievement,
“Congorilla,” to the Southern Pines
Theatre, Thursday, B’riday and Sat
urday, September 1-2-3, will be doubly
important. In the first place it will
mark the presentation of one and
consideration should be given towards j only talking motion picture entirely
made in the African jungle.
providing an extra call which would
make it easier to segregate white wo
men.
It was found that the county doc
tor had been performing his duty both
at the county home and at the jail,
Secondly, “Congorilla” which took
.two years to make, will disclose se
crets the jungle has heretofore hid
den from civilization. Gorillas, eight
feet tall and weighing more than a
making regular visits to both places, i thousand pounds, vie with the earth’s
The file of magistrate reports was
examined and reports found from all.
The Clerk of Court submitted a list
of guardians, executors and adminis.
trators who had not ^iled reports dur
ing the past year, and this was at
tached to the Grand Jury’s report, as
were also a list of the bonded offi
cers of Moore county with informa
tion as to the type of bonds, expira
tion date and amount and a state-
men'' from the county accountant re-
gari.’ng the depository of public mon
ey .'■nd the securiiy for same.
The report 5s concb'ded with the
followin,^ statement: “We condcTn
the use of illegal slot machines in
the county and recommend that vio-
’ators of this law be prosecuted to tl'.o
fullest extent.
AT METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY
The general public is most ccrdla!-
ly invited to worship at the Moth-
odith Church Sunday mornin'» at 11
o’clock and 8 p. m. Mr. Ta’l v;ill
preach at both ccrviccs.
tiniest humans, the Pygmies of the
Itura Forest. Gorillas are' seen in
mortal combat. The pygmies, sole in
habitants of the sunless land, present
wierd sights that go back to primi
tive days. Huge elephants, slithering
reptiles, floating islands of flesh,
mad rhinoceri, ferocious lions, millions
of birds, and, in fact, every conceiv
able sort of animal of the African
jungle uppear as they never have be
fore in this pinnacle of sound enter-
ment, “Congorilla.”.
This picture provides different en
tertainment. The humans and 'l eants
r>L the jungle are presented exactly ar
they arc, with na'urnl sound. In fact,
Iho spectator hears the pygmies talk,
thr'lls to the hysterical £hric’<s of
fighting- gorillas, is spellbound b; tha
roar of li^-ns rnd otl’or wil 1 heast.i,
and the splashinjj of rivers and lakan
alive with charging monsters and the
weird r.on;j3 and ccrcmonion o' sav-
You can put it dov-'n in your llt-
present indications there should be a
substantial gain in enrollment when
the college opens for work on Sep
tember li'
The records make it clear that the
institution is omphiizing scholarship
and high standards in its work and
that its graduates have made fine rec
ords in college and university, which
means that the two years’ college
work done there is recognized as
standard and that the student who
has done that work can pursue higher
courses in any standard college or
university.
Coach “Doc” Henderson has issued
a call for 35 old men and freshmen
for the 1932 edition of the “Fighting
Scots” to meet him for early prac
tice September 12. He states that he
expects a hot fight for the center and
flanks in the line and for tw'o of the
back field positions as graduation has
left him short on flank men and ball
toters. Several freshmen of high
school fame practice to make the mat.
nant of the famous Stedman of 1920 j taken in at the gate goes to the
with some younger talent added to | Moore County Hospital Charity Fund
fill \acancies.
Aberdeen Defeats Thomastown
Aberdeen snowed under Thomas
town 30-6 in a game featured by
many base hits and quite a few er-
rows. Martin pitched a fine game
for Aberdeen, allowing only five hits
up to the seventh, when he was re
lieved by Caldwell. The score then
was 25-2. Thomastow'n bunched hits
coupled with errors by Aberdeen in i u AT*!!
the ninth to score four runs. Hemp OllK IVllliS
Xhere will be no charge for Grand
Stand and Parking. The Cold Drmk
Stand will be in charge of the Mon-
tesantis and the profits from this
too, goes to the Hospital. This is the
first of what will prcfbably be one
of the big annual events in the Sand
hills and will doubtless bring a crowd
that will outrival anything ever held
in this section.
Close Indefinitely
George Martin led the hitting with
four out of five including two dou
bles. Folley got four out of five. Me- j intended Strike Is Anticipated
Lean and Bobbitt each got four hits m Management and Mill Is
seven trips.
The whole Aberdeen team fielded
well until the ninth. McLean, at first,
making several hard chances look
easy, led the team in fielding.
Shut Down
f.
Anticipating an intended strike, the
management of the Hemp Silk Mills,
decided to shut down indefinitely,
and the mills did not open for work
Monday.
W. T. Saunders, superintendent of
Southern Pines Wins
Southern Pines having but one
more game of the league schedule to ^
play staged an exhibition game Wed- I plant, said \\ ednesday that he
. nesday afternoon with a combination i know when the mills would
of players from Pinehurst, Carthage, again resume work, that they were
etc, outplaying the aggregation 17
to G, seven of the runs being made in
the 7th inning when all the players
seemed to be running around the
bases. For Southern Pines Stewart
made 3 runs, Vann, Webster, Fisher,
ter of replacement for these positions i ^lonte, Harris and Bowers 2 each,
a hot fight I Phillips 1 each. For Pinehurst Rose
It is also understood that a number; twice, and Duke, Grimm,
of Moore county boys will attend the j®*^™® ®^d Ple^ants one each. Web-
college this year. Moore has been rep
resented in the student 'body every
year since the college was founded,
but not in large numbers. This year
it is expected there will be a larger
number of students from the county
than there was last year or the year
before.
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TO CHANGE HOUR OF
PREACHING SERVICE
The Rev. Murdoch MacLeod states
that the experiment tried by the Com
munity Church this summer of hav
ing the Sunday morning preaching
service at nine o’clock has boen very
successful. An increase of about £5
per ccnt in church attendance has
been noted dcrin" tho month the in
novation has teen tried out. T* e last
nim o’clock prcachin^r service for the
summer will he held Sunday morn
ing. Beginning with the first Sun-ay
in fcptcmbcr p’.'cachin" wil! bo at
11 o’clock.
Frank S. McClcur, Jr., har; roturnod
Tron Wn’.cn Forest where ho brushed
ui i nhis Inw studies preparatoi'y to
slrndinp: Iho examination for the L'ar
thb T.ec!;.
ster, Southern Pines short stop prov
ed the stellar player of the day.
FRANK PAGE HONORARY
MEMBER HIGHWAY BODY
Honorary members of U. S. No. 1
Highway Association stipulated in the
by-laws adopted at the meeting in
Jacksonville last week are Franklin
D. Roosevelt, governor of New York;
Frank Page, former N. C. Highway
Commissioner; the governors of tho
several states through which the
highway extends from Fort Kent,
Maine, to Key West, Fla., and the
chairman of the stata highway com
missions of those statoo.
CA
niE PILOT MOST
ILLUETr.I3U3 WEEKLY
doing some small repair work during
the shut down, but that there was
little likelihood of there being any
urgent necessity of starting produc
tion at the Hemp mills as other
plants of the company were well able
to meet all demands for their prod
ucts. The general tone of comment
is to the effect that the mills were
running merely to keep a working
organization together pending an uj»-
turn in business conditions.
Business men of the town inter
viewed were more or less discourag
ed with the outlook, as the mill pay
roll had furnished the main ready
cash supply of the village.
A delegation of workers were re
ported to have gone to Burlington
Wednesday, evidently for the purpose'
of meeting the heads of the company,
but no definite information as to the
results of their visit or its object,
were available.
30Y PAINFULLY IN.IURED
WIII:n EI3 nOREE FALLS
Wp din Iho follow in" f'on n-< a--
ticl' by W. T. Fj.^st in the Grecnr.bc-o
Dailv Ne^’T, of Mondnv, Au-’n'^t ‘12;
“Tho Pilot cf Aberdeen, most illus-
Iriors v.'opkly in the whole
woa’l!'. -.ith tv.’o novcii.''.t3 of national
fr.m''. n rcwrpc.per cdii.of of er'\inonc<'
in N"W Yoric, rnd a strinr of other
no*able-., is p'^icli’.n" iho idea of tax
’-■ouuollon.” ;
I.rui-. J. Fc^ram, Jr., son of Dr.
L. J. Fe^rcm, wai pain'fullv injured
lr~'; Tot aflemoon when the
ho 'se he was riding lecame frighten
ed rntl in a sudden spurt of speed
sklddod on the pavement in front of
tl P'-o’-n"s' ;-r’-a re and fell down.
Lotii’s injur’es were dressed at the
local hospilEl rnd he is now able to
be cut but is having to use crutches
fv r V. p’.'ort time. The animal suffer-
ei a laily skinned shoulder and
m'rov rcratches but no serious in
juries.