MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13, NO. 38.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, Norlh Carolina, Friday, August 18, 1933.
FIVE CENTS
SOUTHERN PINES
PAYS OUT *31,000
IN THREE MONTHS
Sum Includes $15,000 in Princi
pal on Bonded Indebtedness,
?16,007 in Interest
PAYMENTS ANTICIPATED
In the past three months, or from
May 15, 1933 to August 15, 1933, the
town of Southern Pines has paid out
on its indebtedness $31,007.50. The de
tail of this reduction'*bf principal and
interest is indicated by the following
table:
Payments Int. Prin. Total
May 15 $2,411.25 $1,000 $3,411.25
June 13 .... 3,036.25 5,000 8,036.25
July 15 3,210.00 4,000 7,210.00
Aug. 9 7,350.00 5,000 12,350.00
Total ....$16,007,50 $15,000 $31,007.50
All of these sums, which except for
a small payment of $240 to the Wa
chovia Bank & Trust Company of
Winston-Salem, are paid in New
York, have been paid from two to
three weeks before coming due This
is done to save the taxpayers com
missions, amounting to a fourth of
one per cent on interest payments
and an eighth of one per cent on
bonds. This not only saves the com
missions, but it indicates the condi
tion of the town treasury when pay-
raents ai-e made in advance of matur
ity, which materially strengthens the
New York regard for the credit of
the town.
Southern Pines has paid out of its
fiscal year July 1, 19S2 and engine
treasury since the beginning of the
June 30, 1933 $19,000 in retirement
-of bonds and $34,260 in interest, a
grand total of $53,260 to date.
In addition to this the Town Treas
urer has purchased $3,000 in town
bonds at a price of $3,586.80, a saving
to the tax payers in this particular
instance $1,413.20. These bonds which
are not yet due were bought with
funds from the serial bonds sinking
fund and are held by the City Treas
urer.
The bonded indebtedness of the town
June 30, 1932 was $584,000, a year la
ter on June 30, 1933 it was 565,000.
Bonds retired during the year in the
sum of $19,000 accounts for this dif
ference. ,
Howard Burns, clerl: a I'd treasurer,
says the financial situation is in good
shape, as the figures indicate. The
property valuation as assessed for
taxation is $3,071,355. By virtue of
recent legislation in reduction of
taxes and valuations the taxpayer
will have a smaller burden on his
shoulders this year. The reduction in
debt will also be felt in the reduction
of interest payments.
Water Wagon Licked
Merchant’s Resolve to Abstain
Upset When Hill Billy’s
Alfalfa Disappears
Tom Kelly tells the story. A Broad
street business man was in “Doc”
Mudgett’s office getting ironed out for
something. A whiskered pati'iarch
from the sticks came in, and while
the merchant was recuperating “Doc”
gave the “hillbilly” the once-over, in
cluding everything. The two started
out together each with a prescription
in his hand and some sound advice in
his head.
The business man was not wholly
satisfied.
“Doc,” he said, “you rub it in too
hard on me, and let this old freak
off too easy,” pointing to the broth
er from the sticks. “You say I have
to stay on the water wagon. Now, I‘ll
do that if you give old Santa Claus
another prescription to Alex Fields’
shop requiring that ball ot moss to
be mowed off of his chin.”
“Doc” added another prescription,
and the merchant went away happy,
for he didn’t believe the whiskers
would be harvested. But Tom Kelley
says the old tyke with the face spin
ach is a kindly old gazebo, and he
figured that if he could do something
to help “Doc” relieve the ailing bus
iness man it would be a neighborly
job. He went down to Alex Field’s
barber works and had the pi’escription
filled. Then he came up to the mer
chant’s store.
“You dadgasted old son-of-a-gun,”
said the merchant. “I told the fellows
I was to look not on wine when
it was red in the cup as long as you
remained unshorn, and now you bust |
up the whole future. May the Lord!
have no more mercy on your concaten-}
ated old hide.”
EWING NOT GUILTY
IN PAGE TRUST CO.
HOLDUP, SAYS JURY
Member of Prominent Fayette
ville Family Freed After
Trial in Superior Court
BANK HELD-UP FEB. 3d
TOBACCO HARVEST
NOW UNDER WAY
IN SANDHILL BELT
Better Prices Looked For From
Good Local Crop Than Prevail
on Border IVIarkets
Prof. William A. Miller
Dies at His Home Here
Resident of Southern Pines Ten
Years Passes Away After
Long Illness
Professor William A. Miller passed
away in his home on Vermont avenue,
SoutheiTi Pines at 8:30 o'clock yester
day morning following a long illness.
Mr. Miller was born in Texas Valley,
Cortlandt county, New York on Octo
ber 16, 1854, and following his re
tirement from the public schools of
Mtttawan, N. J., came to Southera
Pines in 1923 and built a comfortable
home here in 1930.
Funeral services will be held in
his late home at five o’clock this,
Friday, afternoon, the Rev. J. Fred
Stimson officiating. The body, accom
panied by Mrs. Miller, who will go
north this evening. Interment with
Masonic ceremonies wil be in the old
historic Tenent Church yard, Free
hold, N. J.
Dr. Miller was the son of George
Miller and Lucinda Woodward Miller.
He leaves, besides fiis widow, a sister,
Lillian and three brothers, Dr. Al
bert Miller, Edward Miller and Mer
ritt Miller.
ADDING TO RESIDENCE
W. C. Fownes, Jr., of Pittsburgh
is adding a sun parlor to his home
on the Midland Road in Knollwood.
The work is being done by contiac-
to»s from Pittsburgh.
Tobacco harvest has commenced in
’earnest in the Moore county belt, with
a crop that seems to be turning off
a type of leaf of excellent quality.
From the ground up the general aver
age is above the usual, with weather
rather satisfactory for the harvest.
The farmers appear pretty well pleas
ed with the crop, although prices as
indicated in the South Carolina mar
kets are not wholly to their liking.
The figures as reported from that
section indicate fx’om twelve to fifteen
cents, which some look on as fairly
satisfactory for the early sales, but
which others criticise. It is said that
the type of leaf dowTi that way is
not as good as up here, and tobacco
men express fthe opinion 'that the
Moore and Hoke county crop on the
home market will be awarded a higher
price than that quoted from the border
markets.
Corn never looked better than it
does this summer. A good crop of
ears and fodder is showing in all
directions. Pea vines and soja beans
are also highy promising. The sweet
potato outlook is for an abundant
yield. Garden crops are right grati
fying as a rule although the dry sum
mer had a bad effect on things that
were coming on before the rains of a
few weeks ago set in. A generous to
mato crop is seen almost every place.
Scuppernongs are doing all they can
to encourage the man who expects to
vote for the repeal of the prohibition
amendment. The late melon crop is
good. Late gardens give much prom
ise if nothing coHie« up to interfere.
MILTON MARLOWE CORBETT
DIES ON HIS 2D BIRTHDAY
On August 10 death visited the
home of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Corbett,
near Carthag«, carrying their little
son, Milton Marlowe away. He died
on his birthday at the age of two
years. The funeral was conducted at
Culdee Church Friday at 11 o’clock
by the Rev. E. L. Barber of Aberdeen.
He is survived by a twin sister, Mil
dred Faye, who is ill in the Moore
County Hospital. ,
J. P. Ewing, member of a promi
nent Fayetteville family, was on Wed
nesday acquitted of a charge of rob
bery with fire arms in connection
with the hold-up of the Page Trust
Company in Aberdeen. The case con
sumed all of Tuesday and Wednesday,
reaching the jury about 4:30 p. m.,
and the verdict of not guilty was re
turned a little more than an hour la
ter. Ewing, who did not go on the
stand, was represented by Attorneys
Russell Clegg of Carthage, J. Vance
Rowe of Aberdeen and Q. K. Nimocks
of Fayetteville.
The sensational hold-up occurred
on last Febi’uary 3 when two men
walked into the bank and with drawn
pistol compelled Francis Pleasants,
bank employee, to lie down on the
floor while one of tMfe two went into
the %’ault and stuffed the paper mon
ey available into a bag. The men then
dashed to a waiting car and sped away
with a third man at the wheel.
The State sought to show that Ew
ing was the driver of the car and
that while not committing the actual
robbery was an aider and abetter,
which under the law is classed as a
principal and punishable as such. He
was identified as the driver by Em
mett Staton of Marshville, who was
standing on a street corner adjacent
to the bank waiting for a ride and saw
the car pass four times, and by Gene
Thompson of Ashley Heights.
Owned Car, State Said
The State offered evidence tending
to show that the car used in the rob
bery was the same as a car alleged
to have been owned by Ewing that
was left in the back yard of Ewing’s
friend, John Butler, in Fayetteville on
Saturday night, February 4, and that
Ewing left that night for Detroit,
where he was arrested a few days la
ter when he attempted to pass a piece
of currency with the serial number of
a bill stolen from the bank.
Introduced as evidence was $73 in
paper money which officers procured
from a woman in Detroit who said
that it was money paid to her by
Ewing. Some of the bills were rag
ged and were alleged to be similar to
money taken from the bank which
had been fixed up to be sent to the
treasury to be exchanged for new
currency.
The defense offered witnesses who
testified that they were acquainted
with Ewing and that he was not the
driver of the car and was not an oc
cupant of the car. Prominent Cumber
land county men testified as to the
defendant’s good character. With
Ewing -throughout the trial were his
mother, a sister, a brother and a sis
ter-in-law.
The jury that acquitted Ewing was
composed of E. W, Bost, A. L. BrowTi,
R. F, Lemons, B. C. Northcutt, Jesse
Oldham, Alton Richardson, Tom E.
Short, Baxter Smith, Claud Thomas,
J. L. Fields, A. H. Havis and J. A.
Stutts.
Ewing was brought to trial last
May, but the jury disagreed and a mis
trial was ordered. He had since been
held in jail in Caithage. John Butler
was indisted an an accessory after the
fact of the robbery, but no other ar
rests have been made.
Aberdeen Lake, With New Dam
Built by Popular Subscription, ^
Ready for Bathers of Sandhills
SCHOOL FACILITIES
OFFERED TO
Work of Beautifying Shore,
Started Last March, Complet
ed at Co.st of $3,000
FACILITIES FOR ALL AGES
In Aberdeen a broad, beautiful ex
panse af water has replaced a spread
of mud and roots. Since last January,
when the dam broke and left noth
ing of the lake but an ugly bottom and j
a trickle of water, the place has been
the eye-sore of the Sandhills. Today
the lake is flowing over a strong
new dam, and a bigger and better
bathing beach is ready for immed
iate use.
Work was started on the b«ach in
March, before funds for building the
dam were available, and since that
time the work has progressed stead
ily. The building of the beach necessi
tated the remo%’al of a small knoll
and untold quantities of muck and
mud, and replacing these with a
thousand loads of sand. Two bridges
were built on the approaches to the
lake, and two 50-yeai’-old houses on
the shore were removed. Trash and
debris of long standing hav'e been
rcir.oved, and the entire place has un
dergone a process of complete reno
vation.
The beach is for young and old. For
the very small children a one-half
acre area is from ten to fourteer in
ches deep, with a small tower in the
center. For the slightly older ones
who are potential swimmers a stand
has been built in two feet of water.
For the swimmers there is a large
tower and spring-board in seven feet
of water. The entire beach is isolated
by strong posts.
Aberdeen .!u.«>tly Proud
The completed project is something
of which Aberdeen is justly proud.
Much of the credit should go to H.
W. Doub, president of the Aberdeen
Good Fellows Club. Under his ulti
mate supervision some 300 unemploy
ed have been worked for seven
months, and a total of $3,000 has
been expended for labor and materials
on a beach and dam that couldn’t have
been built in normal times for less
Careless Bride
First Customers at New Sand
wich Shop in Aberdeen
Furnish Real Excitement
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Batchelor of
Aberdeen are wondering whether
it’s a good omen or a bad one that
the first custoK.ers in their new
Sandwich Shop, alongside the
Bobby Burns filling station on
Route 1, were a bride and groom.
The couple stopped for a bite.
During the conversation that en
sued Mr. mentioned the fact that
he and Mrs. were man-ied the day
before. About two hours after their
departure the groom returned,
much excited over something. He
announced that the bride had left
three rings in the ladies’ room.
Mrs. Batchelor investigated and
found the rings, with three large
diamonds of considerable value,
safely reposing on the washstand
where they had been left.
Mr. Bridegroom sank into the
nearest chair and called weakly
for a cup of black coffee. When
he had sufficiently recovered he
explained that his wife had not
missed the rings until they were
entering Rockingham. He drove
the 26 miles back to Aberdeen in
22 minutes.
STATE
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Cn tmber oi ^ -merce Invites
Citizens of ito/eigh to Avail
Themselves of 9-Month Term.
RALEIGH PAPER ‘LVSULTED’
Sincere in its desire to offer the
facilities of the Southern Pines School
District, one of the few in North,
Carolina to vote a fully accredited
nine months term for the coming
school year, to other residents of the
state, the Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce on Tuesday passed a res
olution inviting Raleigh purenti? to.
send their children here, at the same,
time discussing a plan to issue a.
state-wide invitation of similar pur
port.
The Raleigh invitation was publish
ed on Wednesday morning in the
News & Obser%’er. That evening the
Raleigh Times made an editorial at
tack on Southern Pines, taking the in
vitation as an insult to the citizens
of Raleigh in its assumption that the
Chamber of Commerce was “rubbing
it in” because the Raleigh School
Commission had voted down a refer
endum on the nine months term ques
tion. The gist of the article was that
Raleigh was an educational leader in.
the state when Southern Pines was
but a pup, and so on.
The Raleigh News & Observer, or»
the other hand, saw the picture as it
was meant to be conveyed by the lo
cal body, and The Pilot reprints its
article, written by Frank Smethurat
of the N. & O’s editorial staff:
The people of Southern Pines who
t’oted special taxes for a nine months
school and the people of Chaflptte,
I Greensboro and Raleigh who prefer
Biggest Crowd of Season Sees to worry along with an eight months
TOP AFTER 2-HIT
GAME BY LAWHON:
Aberdeen Helpless Before
Masterful Pitching
system, represent two conflicting
views of an essentially simple prob
lem. Both groups are moved by an
identical purpose—economy.
The people of Charlotte and Greens
boro, directly, and the people of Ral-
With Ed Lawhon twirling two-hit
baseball and his mates giving him
good support in the pinches. South
ern Pines dawned the Aberdeen team • eigh, indirectly, have said they can
on Wednesday afternoon before some I not afford the expense of supplement-
1,500 fans surrounding the Southern ing the advantages of the State’s
I season. The league lead was at stake.
The final score was 4-1. Southern
Pines bunched its seven hits well and
4.1 o- r 1 ■ I u ' Pmes field in one of the “crucial
than $o,000. Funds were raised byi at ^ t
, . ^ \ games of the Moore County League
popular subscription, residents of , , , , ^
other Sandhills towns as well as Aber
deen contibuting. Among those in
tensively interested in the project, , , • , r ■
, ‘ , 1,- fmally succeeded in defeating their
and a generous donor, was \\. L. •'
Fownes, Jr., of Pinehurst. Hundreds
have given of their means, from small
boys and girls carrying pennies to
checks for upwards of. $100.
old nemesis, George Martin.
• The locals jumped into a 2-0 lead
in the second inning. Tew and Stew-
I art singled and Vann was hit by a
j pitched ball. With two down Fisher
I came through with a nice single to
center and a pair of runners cantered
U. s. No. 1 Association
To Meet Next Week across the plate.
I Aberdeen threatened several times
To Discuss Improvements and but failed to score except in the
CAMERON-DOUGLAS MURDER
CASE ON AT COURTHOUSE
Judge A. M. Slack on Monday or
dered a special venii’e of seventy-five
men to serve as jurors on the mur
der case in which Tumer Cameron
and Tom Douglas of Cameron are de
fendants. This special venire was or
dered to appear at the courthouse at
two o’clock Wednesday, but at ad-
joui'nment of court on Tuesday all
witnesses were excused except those
connected with the Ewing case, for
appearance after disposition of that
case.
The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen will
have a picnic and baseball meeting at
W'atson’s Lake on August 30th.
Advertising and Elect Offi
cers at Sanford
sixth.' Seven erroi’s behind him and
four passes placed Lowhon in diffi
culty several times, but he bore down
U. S. Highway No. 1 Association, and out of the hole,
of which Theo Barrow of Sanford is' I" t^e sixth Ferree w,
alked, Rus
sell advanced him to third with the
second hit off Lawhon, and Martin
president and Shield.? Cameion of
Southern Pines secretary, will hold
its annual meeting m Sanford next scored him with a long fly to left
week, the 23rd to be exact. Officers f,
and directoi-s foi the next fiscal year' the last of this frame Southern
will be elected ‘ '^s other pair of tallies.
AmonJ the subjects to be discussed Stewart led off with a -Ik. Vann
will be the prompt paving of the "as safe on an error Fisher hit to^
stretch from Aberdeen to Hoffman,, the mfield and was safe on a fielder s their children. Once they may have
been attracted by climate, by the rel-
mediocre uniformity.
Can’t Afford Not To
The people of Southern Pihes have
said they cannot bear the expensive
ness of that mediocrity.
Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh
have been paying lip service to the
theory that education pays.
Southern Pines has demonstrated to
Us own satisfaction th/it in practi
cal values it does.
Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh
see through a glass darkly but South
ern Pines looks education in the face.
Southern Pines, someone will sug
gest, is moved by conditions peculiar
to itself. And it is. But there’s scant
comfort for the patriotic in those pe
culiarities. They arise from the fact
that *^he outside world touches South
ern Pines more intimately, probably,
than any other community in North
Carolinv.
People from the East and the West
and the North have settled there. Some
of them t>’erely maintain winter
homes thereabouts. Most of them are
concerned that the schools provide
adequate educational facilities for
a project approved by U. S. and
State authorities but understood to
be temporarily held up. At least it
was not on the most recent list for
immediatte coistruction, though one
Moore county job was, the surfa<;e
(Please turn to page 8)
Injunction Halts
County Tax Sale; cheap land would also turn a cold eye
ative cheapness of the land and liv
ing. But the same canny shrewdness
that might have been intrigued with
treating of the road f#om Hemp to Postponement to October Gives
the junction of federal aid route No. ^ Farmers Chance. to Sell
26. A despatch from Raleigh says Their Tobacco First
permission to construct the Aberdeen- j
Hoffman stretch “is expected soon. At the request of a number of tax- i Ohio. Most of the other communities
after straightening out of details.” payei’s of the county, Judge G. H. j of North Carolina are content to tol-
There is also a possibility that Humber and Herbert Seawell went to j erate a condition of educational re
beautification along Route 1 will be Monroe last week and obtained a re- i version on the doubtful pretext that
on cheap and inferior schools.
The truth is the people of Souther®
Pines are measuring schools and
school facilities by the present stand
ards of New York, Pennsylvania and
discussed at Sanford, as well as plans straining order signed by Judge A.
for advertising and publicity for the M Stack, enjoining the county com-
coming wnnter season. missioneri and tax collector from
' selling the land of delinquents for
at least the schools cannot be as bad
as they once were.
To Southern Pines, the natives as
well as the outsiders who hare es-
THANKS COMMITTEE
' county taxes until further •rder of the j tablished interests there, good schools
' court. The sale will be postponed> it! mean money in the pocket. No schools.
The directors of the Chamber of is thought, unjil in October, thus giv-
Commerte at Tuesday’s meeting vot- ing the farmers time to sell their to
ed to discharge the comnrittee in bacco and other farm crops and pro
charge of the campaign for the nire curing money with which to pay their
months school here, with a vote of taxes. This will mean a substantial
thanks. saving in coits.
no winter residents.
To Charlotte, Greensboro and Ral-
leigh good schools represent a vague
investment in the future of children
but children are children and the fa-
ture is far away.