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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY npxTXj A JtlmS A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL.. 12, NO. 46. ^ >^AHTHA0E &ACUE SPRINCS 4UKKEVIEW MAHURY SOUTMEPN P1H6S ASHLEY MtlGHTS PINEBLUFF PILOT HRING VOl R TOBACCO TO THE ABERDEEN MARKET o of the Sandhill 1 '' of North Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, October 14, 1932. FIVE CENTS BOB REYNOLDS TO SPEAK MONDAY IN SOUTHERN PINES VALUE OF HIGHWAY NO. 1 TO SECTION TOLD BY BARROW Democratic Candidate for Unit ed States Senate to Talk in Municipal Park OTHER POLITICAL NEWS Rcbert R. Reynolds, Democratic •candidate for the United States Sen ate, an able speaker and a vivid per sonality, will speak in the Municipal Park at Southern Pines at 3 o’clock Tiexi, Monday afternoon, October 17th. This announcement is expected to attract the largest gathering of res idents of the county in many a day. “BoL” Reynolds “draws” wherever he goe.s. Ilis strong iier.'sonality and tire less energy were responsible for his defeat, without organization backing, of Senator Cameron Morrison for the Senatorial nomination, and folks want to see the man who was able to win surh a fight singlehanded after a whirlwind campaign in his battered Ford, It will be a big a‘‘ternoon in South ern Pine.s. The park is being ecjuipped with loud speakers that all may hear. Efforts are being made to procure a band. Upwards of 1,000 people will un doubtedly gather around the speaker’s platl'orm to hear the colorful candi date for the Senate. Politics is getting warmer as the ■campaign progresses. The Re{(jbli- cans had an enthusiastic meeting in the auditorium of the .school building in Southern Pines last Monday night with some hundred gathered together to hear H. S. Williams, their candi date for .A,ttorney General of the state. Mr. Williams made an interest in'’ nd inspiring talk on the issues of the campaign in North Carolina and gave much information of state af fairs. He was introduced by Colin Spencer, Republican county chairman. George W. Case, candidate for the State Assemb'^ from this district, presided. There will be a Democratic rally in Aberdeen on Tue.-^day night, October 25th when Don Phillips, Rockingham, solicitor of this judicial district, will be the principal speaker and all can didates for county offices present. Where to Register Election day falls on Tuesday, No vember 8th, and only those who are duly listed on the election rolls may vote on that date. Registration books will be open throughout the county before then, with Saturdays the offi cial days for registration. If you are • not listed, see your registrar and get your name on the books any Saturday before election, or any other day if he or she happens to be on hand. The Pilot lists below the registrars in the various townships of the county for the convenience of new voters not previously enrolled: East Carthage—John Fry. A’est Carthage—M. G. Dalrymple. Bensalem—E. B. Kelly, Eagle Springs. Hemp, E. R. Brown. Spies—W. L. Baldwin. Spencerville—D. A. Dunlop. High Falls—N. J. Finnison. Ritters—Boyden Ritter. Deep River—George Wilcox. Cameron—.lohn Cameron. Vass—Ben F. Wood. Sht*ffields—Raymond Johnson, Pine, hurst. Aberdeen—Miss Lota McBride (Of fice of J. Vance Rowe.) Southern Pines—B. H. Lewis. Pinebluff—J. W. Pickier. Eureka—Mrs. D. J. Blue. West End—L. T. Graham, Jackson Springs. President of Association Makes Interesting Talk Before Ki- wanis Club TOURIST DOLLAR A BIG ONE What U. S. Highway No. 1 means to the south generally and to this sectitwi in particular was described by Theo Barrow, of Sanford, jiresident of the U. S. No. 1 Association, in an interesting talk before the Kivvanis C^lub of Aberdeen at its weekly meet ing held Wednes<lay in the Commun ity Church at Pinehurst. Mr. Barrow cited colossal figures of the amount of money si)read about the country by tourists, told of how much the stream of traffic from the north meant to the southern states each fall, the return ing tourists meant to us in the spring, and outlined the work his association is doing to bring as many tourists over “No. 1” as possible. Of the irore than billion dollars a year spent ly the motoring public on their trips, North Carolina gets more than a pi'oport ionate shaie, he said, I ue to its being in the path of the southern invasion each winter. The job of his association is to influence a fair share of this tourist trade down his highway, so that the cities and villages along the route may share in the in'oceeds. A sum of $25,000 is be ing raised this year along U. S. No. 1. to be used in advertising this “shortest and best” route south. Much of this fund will be used in educating operators of filling stations as to the advantages of travelling over Route 1, as statistics reveal that 76 ' ppi' cent of tourist travel is guided by the directions given by these op erators. Advantages ol Route ' Mr. Barrow told of the advantages of Route 1, historically, scenically; of I the accommodations available all lalong the distance from Maine to Flor. ; Ida, of the fine work of beautification being done by the Daughters of the i American Revolution along the route through the two Carolinas (five thous- ^ and crepe myrtles, many long leaf ; pines have been planted so far this year), of the fine condition of the road j the entire distance. He told of efforts I being made to keep people longer in I the Carolinas through publicity and I maps showing them the places of in- iterest which should be visite l while I they are here, and how it would mean , an extra $5,000,000 a year in North Carolina alone if we could induce all tourists to spend one more day in the state than they do now. S. B. Richardson, of Southern Pines, who is aiding in the campaign for House Near Aberdeen Wrecked by Storm -ii MOORE ALLOTTED $1,600 OF STATE LOAN FROM R. F. C. The Home of Sam Johnson, four miles from' Aberdeen on the Roseland Road, shown l)y Pilot photo after l>eing' razed by vvind.'^torm which struck thi.s scction last week. Though the roof and walls fell all about them, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and their five children escaped injury. (Photo by Epps.) BETHUNE TELLS OF EARLY DAYS IN BETHESDA TALK School House Becomes Home for Faculty at Needham's Grove Teachers Transf(;rni Two Rooms into Living; Quarters and Do Own Housework | Vividly Pictures Discovery and Development of Sandhills Col ony at “Old Home” Dav NATIONAL ECONOMY LEAGUE ^OFFlCI.\L TO SPEAK HERE Paul N. Montague of Winston-Sa lem, executive se;retary of the Na tional Economy League, will - be the spejiker at the weekly meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen next Wed nesday noon. Mr. Montague, who is the national committeeman of (the league for North Carolina, will tell of the aims of this newly organized non-partisan citizens’ oi'ganization for national service, and will endeav or while here to interest the mem bers of the new Moore County Tax payers League in becoming members of the national organization. (Please turn to Page 8) 1,200 Members Goal of County Red Cross Telegram from Washins^ton Tells of Need To Meet Heaviest Demand Since War FIRST MIGRATION IN 1749 Lauchlin A. Bethune, a son of Old Bethesda, set forth much of the his tory of this section in an interesting and enlightening address made before several hundred gathered in the churchyard of the ancient edifice over looking Aberdeen on the occasion of Hethesda’s “Home-Coming” last Sun day. Mr. Bethune was the afternoon speaker on this time honored occasion. In the morning the Rev. Ernest L. Barber, pastor of Bethesda Presbyter ian Church, preached the sermon. Some seven to eight hundred persons visited the old church dui'ing the day, many of them bringing their lunches and making a day of it. Mr. Bethune told of the first migra tion of Scotch to the upper Cape Fear regin in 171!), and of how they came to settle hereabouts. He listed among the early settlers of this region names which have come down to this day with a familiar ring: Blues, Blacks, Be- thunes, Browns, Buchans, Camerons, Campbells, Gillises, Grahams, Curries, Johnstons, Kellys, Keiths, Fergusons, •McDonalds, McDougalls, McCrimmons, .McCaskills, McCollums, McP'arlanes, McFaydens, Mclnnesses, McKinnons, McKeithens, McLeans, McLeods, Mc Kenzies, McLendons, McMillans, Mon roes, McRaes, Pattersons, Rays, Shaws Turners, Morrisons, McLauchlins, Martins, McQueens, Leslies, Smiths, McDuffies, McIntyres and others. Spoke Gaelic They spoke mostly Gaelis, these early settlers. They lived in log houses. They came with little, their clothes and their Bibles, but soon everyone had a trade; soon churches were started, and schools, and they The Moore County Chapter of the Amei'ican Red Cross has been called upon for more than its usual share in the annual drive for funds by the national association. In a telegram to Mrs. William F. Allen of Southern Pines, chairman of the county chapter, John Barton Payne, head of the Amer ican Red Cross says: “Central Committee has adopted resolution asking all chapters for in creased Red Cross membership, stat ing Red Cross facing emergency caus ed by heaviest demands for relief since the W'orld War. Relief on trem endous scale must .still be continued this winter. In absence of separate Red Cross call for unemployment re lief fund the Red Cross confidently looks to people for increased member ship support in every community. Cen tral Committee therefore urges each chapter to take stepis to assure in crease called for by this emergency. Twelve hundred members assigned as your chapter goal.” The Moore County Chapter will be gin at once to organize for this drive for members, and should meet with a ready response as the fine work ac complished in all emergencies by the .\merican Red Cross Is familiar to all in this section. (Please turn to page 8) State To Eliminate Curves in U. S. No. I Changes Proposed in Pinebluff and at Richmond County Line Posted at Carthage Posted in the court house in Car thage is a map showing a proposed change in the location of Federal Route 1 between Aberdeen and a point just south of the Richmond county line. The extent of the change is the casing of two curves, one within the city limits of Pinebluff and the other just across the Richmond county line. Under the law the Board of Com missioners of the county or street governing body of any county seat or principal town immediately affect ed by this change has the right to file a written protest to the State Highway Commission within thirty cays from date of posting of the map. In the absence of such protest the new location will he adopted to such slight changes as engineering problems may make necessary in th(.' actual construction of the work. By A. T, Robertson, .Fr. The opening last Tuesday night of the Needham’s Grove School in Shef field township, in the “dark corner” of Moore, revealed a new and original idea in the business of keeping school. The two teachers of this little wood en schoolhouse are living in the school — keeping house and getting along comfortably. Members of the Parent-Teacher Association and the children too were delighted to see the coml'or!able living arrangements which have been made out of two small rooms, one on each side of the stage. .Miss .Mamie Arnold and Miss Cath- ei'ine McDonald, both of Cameron, are the teachers. They live in one room and use iht other as a kitchen and dining-room, while the rest of the school-house with its spacious shaded yar.l serves as a living-room and par lor. Equipment for their use was gi%'- tn by the families of the neighborhood, and includes a tine set of the famous Jugtown pottery. Mrs. Jacques Bus- I:ee, wife of the potter, is chairman of the school board, whose other mem bers are Charlie Hussey and Walter Ritter. Members of the Needham’s CJrove community and H. Lee Thomas, county school superintendent, are alike en thusiastic over the new arrangement, which is ideal for two-teacher schools and niay spread all over the state. The saving to the school-teachers in iKiard money is not the only improve ment, they say; the teachers are per haps better cared-for than by the old system whereby they were compelled to board at some nearby farm home, regardless of its convenience or suit ability. Furtheimore, the money which the small faculty spends foi' food is now distributed throughout the neigh borhood; they buy eggs, milk, butter, etc., from different families in turn —and have it celivered to them each morning by their small pupils, fresh from the farm. Not “Skeered” a Hit “Were you all scared last night?” asked one of the ladies of Needham’s Grove school at the openintr. “Not at all,” answered both teaJi- ers. “If we want any help, all we have to do is ring the school-bell, anyway.” “That’s right,” replied a farmer who lives fifty yards away. “You just ring the hell and we’ll all come run- nin’.” But the teacher.<? don’t think the.v 'II hav3 any occasion to ring the bell. Newlham’s Grove .‘School is the most beloved spot in this remote neighbor hood, the true center of community life, an(^ the last place in the world which would be subject to visits by any marauding persons. Sheffield township boasts a con solidated school at Hemp, but it has fi\^e other two-teacher schools as well —.^corn Ridge, Moody, Cedar Hill, Melton, and Dover. There are also four or five one-teacher schools, fast anishing from the state, left in Moore Old Home Day Kiwanis Club To P]nterlain Former IViembers it .Meet ing on November 5)th The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen is to have an “Old Home Week,” or rather an “Old Home Day” on Wednesday, November 9th, at the Civic Club in Southern Pines. All former members are to be invited and urged to attend this meeting, and a special program is being ar ranged by the Program committee. <ommittee of alumni, comprising Dr. J. W. Dickie, Frank Buchan, Judge W. A. Way, Arthur New comb and the Rev. Murdoch Mc Leod, has been appointed to aid in the arrangements for the big event. 2 HURT AT FAIR AS GRANDSTAND FALLS WITH 200 Mrs. Neiley Stewart and Will Fry Suffer Broken Limbs, Children Bruised Nearly S2(l(l,00(> of Fund Receiv ed from Federal Body is Awarded Counties MORE TO COME LATER .A, loan of $Sir),O0D for emergency I'elief was a))proved for North Caro lina by the Reconstruction Finance C<)rporation on October 8. This loan was for the period October 1 to No vember 1.'). It was based upon the official leiiuest of Governor Gardner backid by factual <iata from each county setting forth the emergency relief needs, the available funds from local government sources and private agencies and the supplemental funds required. The allotment announced to night is ma le in proportion to the tol- tal finount, requested from the Recon struction Finance Corporation for each county. -Moore county is allotted $1,600 for unen.ployment relief from the State’s loan of $81ii,000 from the Reconstruc tion Finance Corporation. .Allotments wer? made to all counties this week to the total amount of $188,.500^ this sum being for a pei iod of two weeks, from October 1 to October I'th. .Addition al allotments will le made each tw’O weeks. ' Counties adjacent to IMoore were allotted the following sums: Chatham, $1,500; Hoke, $1,000; Lee, $1,000; Montgomery, $1,200; Randolph, .?1,- 2.")0; Richmond, $1,800; Scotland, $750,. and Stanly, $550. In announcing the allotment Dr. F'red W. Morrison, Goveror Gardner’s relief director, said: “I cannot reiter ate too emphatically the advice con sistently given frorn this office that these emergency relief funds are for the purpose of supplementing local relief funds, available and to be made available, from public and private sources, and are in no sense in lieu of local effort and local responsibili ty to meet to the extent of their ability their local relief needs. The purpose of this immei-’.iate allotment is to provide sujiplemental funds for immediate use and to enable local governmental units to plan their relief progiams with assurance of receiv ing supplemental funds.” Aberdeen Has Biffjrest Tobacco Week of ' FAIR BEST IN HISTORY (Please turn to page 4) Two persons suffered broken limbs and a number of children scratches and bruises when the grandstand at the Moore County Fair at Carthage collapsed during the dog show on Wednesday afternoon. The seriously injured were: Mrs. Neily Stewart, Carthage, broken hip. Will Fry, Hillcrest, broken arm. Both were rushed to the Moore County Hospital where their fractures wore set. Mrs. Stewart is an elderly woman and the more seriously injur ed. Some 200 spectators were crowded on tile gi'andstand when it collapsed. Though the stand was a small one and even the top row of scats not far from the ground those occupying seats were dropped with considerable forcf and many were bruised and shaken up. The accident was an unfortunate one, as this year’s fair is the best in the history of th e fair associa'tion anti has attracted a large number of people from all parts of the county all this week. The educational, farm and school exhibits are the best ever at the local school, and are more at tractively displayed about the big ex hibition tent than in former years. Mar'’ county industries have attract ed exhibits, among the most interest ing being the Pinehurst Silk Mills at Hemp with a display of their rayon products in various stages of manu facture. There are more amusement features abou* the Grounds tl an usual, and the best livestock display in the fair’s history. The entire exhibition is worth a visit by all those who have not as yet been to Carthage to look it over. To'ay (Friday) and tomorrow are the final days. ear ()u:intity. (Quality and Pric'e All Satisfactory at Local Warehouses .starting with last Friday, when the .Aberdeen market received the great est tiuantity of tobacco of any day this season, the v.eek has been the best from the standpoint of quantity, quality and price since the opening September 27th. The average price has kept well up and farmers have been leaving town with substantial checks to show for their leaf. The price was off a little yesterday, aver aging ten cents, but as a whole has ri’n several cents per pound ahead of a year ago during the week. Thirty- five* thousand pounds were handled at the Saunders’ warehouse yester day. Greatly reduced volume of sales of tobacco last month yielded North Car olina producers nearly a million and a half dollars less than they received during September of last year, al though the average price was $2 a hundred weight more than was paid ‘ in the same period last year. Total producers sales for Septem- 1 ber of this year were announced yes- ' terdf.y by the State-Federal Crop Re- ' porting service as 66,000,614 pounds ' as compared with 96,259,217 in Sep- j tember, 1931. The price averages were $11.57 and $9..56 respectively, i Aggregate receipts to growers in I September were $7,705,691.04 as com- I pared to $9,202,381.05 in th'> same month last year. All markets which opened prior to October 1 were included in the report which showed a season average for 1932 of $11.65 a hundred-weight as compared to $10.07 for the same per iod a year ago, but it reflected a de crease in poundage marlteted of 32 per cent. The report was the first on the (Please turn to page 8)