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MOORE COUNTY‘S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY VOL. 12, NO. 51. CARTHAO£ SPRINC3 lak E\/iew MANLEY SWINGS SOUTHERN PINES ANNUAL RESORT NUMBER A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of^. ^'^rth Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday November 18, 1932. H. D. VAIL NEW PRESIDENT OF KIWANIS CLUB In the Heart of the Sandhills Secretary Honored by I*romolion at Annual Meeting Held at Civic Club NEW DIRECTORATE CHOSEN Herbert D. Vail of Pinehurst was elected president of the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen for 1933 at the annual ] meeting of the orj'anization held Wed- j nesday night in the Civic Club, | Southern Pines. Hiram Westbrook of| Southern Pines was oleo' cd vice-pres ident and Paul Dana, Pinehurst, treas urer. The following w'ere elected to the Board of Directors; R. L. Chandler and L. V. O’Callaghan, Southern Pinos; W. L. Dunlop and R. S. Tufts, Pinehurst, Dr. E. M. Medlin and Frank D. ShambuTger, Aberdeen, and E. H. Garrison, Carthage. Herbert Vail has been the efficient secretary of the club for the past four years and was promoted in rec ognition of his untiring efforts in that position. He succeeds Nelson C. Hyde, ■who has been president during 1932. Other retiring officers are Willard Dunlop, vice president; Howard Bum«, treasurer and Frank McCluer, trustee. No successor to Mr. McCluer was elected, the office of tru.<«tee hav ing Ijgen abolished recently by Ki wanis Internatioanl. Annual reports of committees were read at the meeting W^ednesday. James Tufts reported for the Agri cultural committee, Dr. G. G. Herr REINEKE TO BUILD FINE NEW HOUSE NEAR ARK SCHOOL To Develop Tract of Five Acres in Weymouth Heights Section of Southern Pines extp:nsive landscaping Convention Speaker five cents About this stream, recently converted into as picturesque a lalie as may be found in North Carolina, grew up that section of the state come to be known as “The Sand'hills.” Nestled in the triangle formed by the villages of Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Southern Pines, the sequestered body of water typifies the peace and quiet and beauty of a growing community of contented souls. First Settlement in Sandhills rheorily the tidings come that Rein- cckc> & Co., of Southern Pines are starting on another new house on In diana a.venue at the Bethesda Road croi?sing rear the Grover home and The Ark. This house is for them- .“lelves, although a possibility exists that it will be for some one else by the time it is completed. The location moves the building frontier a little I more definitely toward the east, as , this will fill the gap betwwn The Pad-; j dock and the Francis Robinson house I out that way, and occupy the vacant. frontage on the Bethescla Road from Grover’s to Robinson’s entrance. The A ORuX iTIONTO DISTRIBUTE U. S. FUND PERFECTED Chairman Named in Villages To Supervise Federal ."Money For I'nemployed H. LEE THO.MAS AT HEAD SKNATOR .lOSlAH I5AH>EV Dates Back to About Year 1750 rr.in; Fa.scimiting Ancient History Surrt»unds Founding of the Mid-South Resort of Today By Charles Macaulcy The seasonal, and oven the casual visitoi to the tree lined, verdure bor dered streets and squares of South ern Pines, well ternwd the Mid-South’ Resort, oft times speculates upon its ancient history only to be told, some what carelessly to be sure, that it is so modem, its existence as a town running only to the half century for the Committee on Attendance and j rnafk, as to have no ancient history. Reception,^ Frank D. Shamburger on | that neither Cornwallis nor Membership, Gordon Cameron on | Sherman passed through its streets Needy and XTnderprivileged, L.^ ^’jor even came within sight of Its hills, O Callaghan on Inter-Club Relations,, interest centers not alone upon M. C. McDonald on School Attendance, these historical personages, nor on the Dr. E. M. Medlin on Kiwanis Educa-j t^^wn, but spreads beyond its compact tion. Hiram West brook on Music and borders to the surrounding SandhiTl D. I. McKeithen on Vocational Guid ance. The various officers gave their annual reports, and Frank McCluer and W\ D. Matthews reported on the district convention at Columbia, S. C., which .they attended as delegates from tho .Aberdeen club. Not Very Hungry Unemployed Scamper When ITiej Hear They Will Be Paid in Groceries There is unemployment in South ern Pines, but not much hunger. This was forcibly revealed the first of the week when a I'all went out for men to go to woik on clear ing the wire grass and refu.'ie from the sides of the highway leading to \benieen, first project of the Relief committee with the recently receiv ed Federal funds. Some twenty men, colored for the most imrt, re ported for duty. W'hen informed that payment fot their labors would be made in ^loceries, at least half the men dis appeared. and about 800 on Bethesda road. The i hou.se will be set back of the clump of trees away from Indiana avenue, and near the hilllop. The house to be built, which will I be started in a week or so, will be a Colonial farm house of ten room.s. with a basement under the entire structure, dimen.«ions 110 by 50 feet, one story high, with terraces and large porch and .separate two-car gs- rage. The basement will be develoix»d •Machinery for the distribution of relief funds allotted to the county by the Reconstruction Finance Corpora tion is now in operation and by the last of this week work projects in several sections are expected to be under way. Recodr forms are in the hands of committees and already an allotment of .$3,200 for the month of November is available. H. Lee Thomas is director of relief work for the county, and William Carter of Aberdeen is assistant director and '•ase worker. Local committees are as follows: Carthage; 0. B. Welch, chairman; i^. Muse, ,C. F. Barnes, W. H. Cur ie and 1). n. Parks. j Cameron: Mrs. J. M. Guthrie, chair- Tells Cotton Men in Session Here i man; L. B. McKeithen and E. S. Tem- That Policy Pursued Musi He 1 ple. SENATOR BAILEY POINTS WAY TO U. S. RECOVERY; in Interest of All Classes j for various uses, including a game room and utilities. In height the : building will be about 25 feet, the basement floor being well above the I ground level to give plenty of light I in the lower area. j Frame conErtnuction will be the style, ■which will harmonize with the land scape design to be worked oUt by Draper of Charlotte, with W. C. Hoi Vass: W. B. Graham, chairman; -Mrs. R. r,. Oldham^ John McCrummen and Mrs. W. H. Keith. Southern Pines; P. F, Buchan, Addressing the twenty-si.xth an-j H. F. Burns, George B. nual convention of the North Caro- j members of the relief Committee which has been doing excellent work there for the past two years. 150 ATTEND CONVENTION lina Cotton Manufacturers .Associa tion in the Carolina Hotel last night. Aberdeen: In Aberdeen the work will be in charge of the Good Fellows Club of which G. C. Seymour is chair man, with I). I. McKviihen, G. A, Charles and others as members. Pinehurst; The Sandhill Brother- teriitory. The first settlement in the vicinit'y of which we have any note was that of the Pattersons on the site of the present Bethesda Chuivh, about 1750. This settlement by the spring and little stream was directly on the In- James I). Pittman of Sanford, lieu-: path coming up from the tenant governor for this Kiwanis di-, ford of the Peedee vision, was present at the meeting through Richmond county to and invited the Al.erdeen dub to^ a^di-, Hoffman, thence to Blue’s bridge, and ^ 1 _ 1^., ^ straight line to Bethesda, County Health and Welfare As- thence to Ray’s mill pond, now Pow-; sociati(m Makes Annual Ac- ell’s, the ford being just "Under the counting of Donations REPORT REVEALS SPLENDID USE OF visional meeting in Sanford on Dr cember 9th at which the newly elect ed goveiTior of the Carolinas district, William Montgomery of Wilmington, and all his lieutenant governors from both states v-II be present. The .\ber- deen club plans to attend the meet ing in a body. Despite the depression the local Ki wanis club had a good year. Its members played a large part in re lief and unc>m])loyment work, in the organization of *the Moore County Taypayers’ League and in other pub lic causes. The club has a program for constructive work during 1933 and if its past .record for occomplishing things is a- criterion, the program will be carried out. T. B. Creel Dies at Home in Aberdeen present dam. Then up the hill to Dr. F>ickie’s, to a spring on the Manee pi'operty, from there to the old Shaw homestead, through West Southern Pinos, along the road still vailed “Pee dee” past the old experimental farm buildings where it cui-ved to the left, and crossed Mill Creek exactly in the center of our pi-esent water sup ply lake, and from that ford wander ed over the hill tops to a crossing at Little River near the Farm Life. The Yadkin Trail At the exact center of this path and the Southern Pines - Pinehurst doubh.* road the great Indian tradinR trail, known to early settlers as the “Ycatkin,” then as the Adkin, again as the “Wagon Road” and at last as -MANY PATIENTS TREATED United States Senator Josiah William Bailey, of Raleigh, declared that the problem of rebuilding in Amierica could be attained by pursuing a pol icy, not only in the interest of cap ital, but also of the worker the pro-iviooil will have charge of the work, ducer of raw materials and the farm-1 with Goi-don Cameron, chairman, D. [ L. Scotten, J. F. Taylor, I. C. Sledge, "The depression has been a valu-1 W. P. Morton, Raymond Johnson, A. leyman of Gruensboro as the architect.. lesson,” he said, “a lesson that p. Thonijison and others carrying on. The entire tract of five acres is fig-; falls in the future for less govern-; Hemp: J. C. Cummins, chairman; ured in the scheme. A picket fence is intej’ference and more govern-! ^larvin Ritter, Edgar Brown and D. planned to enclose the lot, and from , 'nental encouragement. ; D. .McCrimmon. the fence all around the landscape' “^^e are not likely to get through West End; Mrs. M. C. McDonald, inm will create their project. Inside tbe jii'esent depression without af-, chairman; Dan Patterson. \vill be set off locations for probably firmative and definite, intelligent ac-i Jackson Springs; R. G. Matheson, [a jiaddock, tennis court and space for , ^’on. Past depressions have been pro- chairman; L. T. Graham and Mrs. I similar si)orts, for flower and vege- longed by intellectual error which we Victoria McKenzie. must avoid now because an error Eagle Springs: Mrs. George Maur- might be fatal.” jcc, chirman; Jesse Page and Miss The senator said that the attitude , Carrie Rothrock. of industry in the past had been jeal-i High Falls; Dr. J. F'. Davis, chair- ousy, interference and restraint with^nan; G. C. Shaw and J. Q. Reynolds, the result that the railroads now are- Glendon; C. R. Scotten, chairman; in a pi-ostrated condition, depen:!ent j f>. M. Phillips and Rev. F. B. Noblett. upon the government for their life; Eu-eka; Mrs. W. .McC. Blue, chair- fhat the entire in(Histrial fabric was!nian; J. P. Kiser, likewise prostrated, largely due to ^ Funds Put to Work unemployment. >lcn went to work in Southern “We must reverse our attitude and Pines this week, clearing the sides look upon the cotton mill as an in-, of U. S. Highway No. 1 leading to st itui ion that employs men, inain-jw’ard .Aberdeen. They receive orders tains families and provides a market on local grocers for their labors, at for the farmer and must accordingly the rate of ten cents an hour. Soiith- pursue a policy to encourage such an.ern Pines has .$400 available for this puri’ose, and plans to carry on the “The old attituce has been that j cleaning out of the parkways in the ^l?AT ^ AI 17 l7II\ir^Q table gardens, all those things that o/lljJri 1 are suitable in a rural home of half The splendid work done by the or ganization during the past year is re vealed in the annual j'eport of the treasurer of the Moore County Health and Welfare Association, of which Mrs. Francis T. Keating is the head and Ihtn I. McKeithen the tivasui'er. The Health and Welfare Association has for several years received almost no funtjs except its three-cjuarter share of the annual Christmas Seal Sale revenue, but it has made all its available money go a long way in its imporlairt public health insurance | work. “Of course thousands would be Heart Attack in Night Fatal to a c'.ozen aei'es. With the Robinsons clo.se by, The Paddock, Webster Knight, the riding academy on the hill top, the Moore county hounds in the neighborhood, the new creation is sx harmonious addition to the vicinity. Five bed-rooms, three baths, big living room, all with high ceilings, with a view out over the James Creek valley and down the head of Aberdeen Creek; with Ml. Helicon on the south and Weymouth <m the north, the loca tion is one of the best in the vicinity, while the Country f'lub and the High land Pines Inn are just over the sum mit. The job will he completed early in the spi^gs. Eugrene A. Bariteau Passes Suddenly the government and banks circulate money, but the present paralysis of circulation has brought out the truth •\berdeen direction. Aberdeen has $300 available and is expected to spend some of this in a like manner. ! that nothing can circulate money ^meeting the Southern Pines crew half- I but profitable enterprise, that is the j way between the two towns. Born in Cary 77 Years Ago He Camp Here in the Early Nineties T. B. Creel, prominent resident of Aberdeen, died at his home here this morning, Friday, at about II o’clock after an illness of three weeks. He W'as 77 years of age amd had resided in Aberdeen about 40 years, coming here from Cary where he was born and reared. Mr. Creel was a brick tnason in his early days and, according to Dr. A. H. McLeod, “the best trick mason I ever knew anything about.” He was so fast in his work that some contrac tors didn’t like to employ him. Later he bccame a contractor himself and erected many of Aberdeen’s downtown buildings. More recently Mr. Creel en gaged in the taxicab business in Aber deen, but of late has not engaged in any active work. Surviving are three sons, Elwood, Charles and Melvin. His wife died several years ago, and one son, John B. Creel, also preceded him to the grave. Funeral arrangements had not been made at the time The Pilot went to press. the Yadkin road crossed the Peedee' to cover the situation s ti-ail. This trading path coming down Mrs. Keating said this -reek, from the fords of the Yadkin crossing ^here, Drowning Creek at Mackenzie’s. VI.'' " ^ bridge, Jackson’s Creek above the here and there present Jackson Springs, the ‘>’*tjve serve. As usual, M,j. Keat- hurst-Carthage road near the hospi- ‘if tireless m her efforts m tal, and tW double road at John Al- association durmg the len McDonald’s bv the once existing groat spring; thence it jumped in and thotjght, labor and money are out along the double road to the *®° 7" ^his sec- ford through McDeed’s Creek to Manly, crossing the Highway there, and then with many curves going down to the ford of James Creek near the present Morris-Munroe nursery, then avoiding all the fords except Silver Run, to pass between Blue’s and McPherson mountains and down to the Cape Fear River. As the Pattersons and their follow ers for years after saw the Sandhill country it was! covered with vast for ests of tall long leaf pine, watered by clear streams embanked with prolific growth of reeds, or cane, sturdy oaks, and immense tulip, or whitewood trees, while ridge tops, hillsides and “flats,” as they designated the more | tion to call for reappraisal here, Mr. McKeithen reports a balance on hand November 10th, 1931 of $1,- 4.')4.18. The 1‘931 Christmas Sale brought in $1,1(50.49, of which $290.12, Or one-quarter, went to the North Carolina Tuberculosis Association, Head of Dodge Agency in Southern Fines farm, the mill, the mine.” Pinehurst has $300 of Federal reduction of taxes, not a shift of the burden of paying taxes. The old Eugene A. Bariteau, connected with j theory is to pile on taxes and let the automotive IsBUsiness in Southern'the other fellow pay, but the de- Pines for the past decade and proprie- pression teaches us that no matter tor of the Dodge garage for the past i who pays, the masses pay in the end.” five years, died in his home on Ridge He also noted that we have left street at four o’clock Wednesday politics to the politicians, that we Senator Bailey also called for a funds now available and through the Sandhill Brotherhood is enga^'ed in beautifying the road leading out to the Moore County Hospital. Other towns of the county are employing jobless men in similar enterprises. moininir, apparently from ja heart attack. He had been in his office until closinjr time the previous day. Coming here from Detroit twelve years ago Mr. Bariteau in his quiet and unassuming manner made a host of friends by whom his sudden pass ing is most keenly deplored. Funeral services were held in the home at four Dr. Prizer Elected Chairman of Relief have seen groups arise in the United States which can surround a congres- man and threaten him with the loss I of an elction if he fails to do their Prizer was elected chair- bidding. “We must rebuild the polit-1 the Southern Pines Committee ical structure with intelligence and | Unemployment and Relief at a leaving a net of $870.37 for the local | o’clock Thursday afternoon, the Rev. association. A contribution of $23.50 T. A. Cheatham officiating. The body. from the Kiwanis Club brought the total receipts for the year, which end ed November 10th, 1932, to $2,348.05. Report o nCases The disbursements side of the led ger reveals the splendid contribution of the association to the cause of hu manity. Here we find the following items; Paid N. C. Sanatorium for tubercu- level ground, were covered w'ith a . . , luxuriant growth of partridge peas ’“r $1,514.00, as follows: (Please turn to page 4) (Please turn to page 8) accompanied by Mrs. Bariteau, was taken north Friday for interment at Adams Center, N. Y., not far from his birthplace, Low^’ille. Besides his widow, a son, William A. Bariteau of Detroit survives.' A1 Watrous of Detroit, Henry Pic ard of Charleston, S. C., and A1 Houghton of Washington tied for first place in the 13th annual Mid- South Open golf tournament at Pine hurst Tuesday and Wednesday. k character,” he said. The senator closed with a warning that if we followed the lead of the experimenters or the theorists, “we will not only be a long time getting out of the present situation but it is doubtful if we will get out at all.” More than 150 cotton manufacutrers from all sections of the <^&rolinas were present. Senator Bailey was intro duced by Kemp P. Lewis of Durham, president of the Association, and toastmaster at the banquet at which the Senator spoke. Governor 0. Max Gardner of North Carolina is in Pinehurst today attend ing the annual convention of the Associat''»Ti ".t the Carolina hotel. meeting of that body held in his home on Monday night of this week. Dr. Prizer succeeds Fiank Buchan as chairman. George W. Case was re elected treasurer, and the following committee chairman were selected: Employment, How-ard Burns; Re lief, J. M. Windham; Projects, the Rev. F. Craighill Brown; Publicity, Hiram Westbrook. This committee will plan and super vise the distribution of federal funds allotted to Southern Pines for unem ployment relief, and already has a force of men at work along the high way leading to Aberdeen. Other pro jects will be mapped out from time to time to provide work for the needy.
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