A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13, NO 45
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LAKEVIEW
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina.
Aberdeen and Southern PirjEs, North Carolina, Friday. Oi ober 6, 1933
FIVE CENTS
B0.4RD VOTES FOUR
SIGNS ADVERTISING
SOUTHERN PINES
Falls From Tree, Dies
Nine-Year Old Nephew of Dr.
W. G. McLeod of Southern
Pines Killed at Maxton
Compromises Demand for Exten
sive Bill Board Program with
Appropriation of $720.00.
ORIGINAL DEMAND $3,000
Something of a compromise be
tween opponents and proponents of
the proposed advertising signs for
Southern Pines along U. S. Highway
No. 1 was decided upon by the Board
of Commissioners last week and in
stead of ordering whnlppale signs for
erection at frequent intervals along
the route four large pictorial signs
have been contracted for with the
General Outdoor Advertising Com
pany.
The contract calls for the rental of
these signs for eight months at $22.50
per month each, or $90.00 a month,
a total of $720.00 for the perioil of the
contract. They will be 42 feet long
by 12 1-2 feet high, and will be lo
cated as follows: One on Route 1
about 16 miles north of Richmond;
one between Raleigh and Henderson;
one at the northern entran"e to
Southern Pines and one :it the south
ern. The latter two vill be lighted.
The signs will be painted with
scenes depicting the winter attrac
tions of Southern Pines, showing
horses and riders, golfers, etc. The
only lettering will give the number
of miles to Southern Pines via U. S.
Highway No. 1 and the word, “The
South’s Most Beautiful Resort.” Tne
contract calls for the signs to be
regularly repainted and kept in per
fect condition.
There will also be small direction
sigTis on May street at Connecticut
avenue. New Hampshire avenue and"
Pennsylvania avenue, about two by
three feet in size, informing the
traveler the way to the business sec
tion of the town.
The commissioners were originally
asked to spend something like $3,000
on billboard advertising. This figure
those demanding the signs later re
duced to $1,500. There was so gieat
a demand by merchants and hotel
men of the town that despite con
siderable opposition Ihe board decided
to meet the issue by a compromise,
turning down the request for a series
of signs at regular intervals between
here and Washington to cost around
$1,500, and voting a reduced appro
priation for the four large signs.
A fall from a tree which he was
climbing proved fatal to nine-year
old Alex Lee McLeod, son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. L. McLeod of Maxton and a
nephew of Dr. W. G. McLeod of,
Southern Pines. The tragedy occurred
on Wednesday of last week.
A limb of the tree which the little
fellow wa§ climbing split off and he
fell to the ground, anding on snags
which produced wounds in the intes
tines. He was rushed to a hospital in
Charleston where medical skill and
three blood transfusions were of no
avail.
He died Friday afternoon at 3 p. m.
Dr. McLeod rushed from Southern
Pines to Charleston to assist the doc
tors there. The boy visited the Mc
Leods here last summer and made
many friends among the youth of
Southern Pines and Aberdeen. Dr. A.
H. McLeod of Aberdeen was his great
uncle.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday from the home of the grand
parents in Maxton and interment
made in the local cemetery. Another
uncle. Rev. R. L. McLeod, Jr., pastor
of the Presbyterian Church of Winter
Haven, Fla, assisted the Rev. James
Appleby of the Maxton Presbyterian
Church, in conducting the service.
The child was the only son of Mr.
and Mrs. McLeod, who, with two
small duaghters, survive.
CHORAL CLUB TO BEGIN
REHEARSALS ON TUESDAY
Julian Bishops Halt
Divorce Proceedings
Sandhills Winter Residents Rec
onciled, to Make Their Home
in Reno, Nevada
The Southern Pines Choral Club
will begin rehearsals on Tuesday
evening of next week, the rehearsals
tft he held in the public school audi
torium at eight o’clock. All former
members of the club and all others
who desire to become members are
urged to be present at this first
meeting. Any one who can carry a
tune is invited to become a member.
Frederick Stanley Smith, the club’s
musical director, has selected an in
teresting program for the first con
cert. It is hoped the people of South
ern Pines and surrounding communi
ties will support the Choral Club in
its effort to spread the gospel of good
music.
O’BRIEN DRUG STORE AND
DUPONT IN NEW QUARTERS
News comes from Reno, Nevada
that the Julian T. Bishops have been
reconciled and their divorce proceed
ings called off. '
Julian Bishop, well known in Moore
county and owner of a large shooting:
preserve and quail farm on “The
horseshoe,” near Carthage, went to
Reno some time ago to take up a res
idence preparatory to instituting di
vorce pi'oceedings. Tht case was dock
eted to go on -trial this month. An
A.ssociated Press despatch quotes Mr.
Bishop’i lawyer in Reno as saying;
“All’s well again in the Bishop
family. Mrs. Bishop is on her way to
Reno and she and her husband will
make their home there.”
Mr. and Mrs. Bishop spent winter
before last in Southern Pines, occu
pying the Tonnele cottage on Young’s
Road. Mrs. Bishop is the former Miss
Emilie Kennedy. She was married to
Mr. Bishop on December 4th, 1920 at
Philadelphia.
DR. HENRY LEWIS SMn’H
TO SPEAK HERE MONDAY
Dr. Henry Lewis Smith, former
president of Davidson College and
Washington and Lee University,
will speak on the repeal of the 18th
amendment Monday evening, October
9th, at 8:00 o’clock in the Southern
Pines High School Auditorium. Dr.
Smith represents the United Dry
Forces of North Carolina which is
non-partisan, non-political and non-
denominational. The president of the
drj' forces is Dr. William Poteat of
Wake Forest. The public is invited to
hear Dr. Smith on one of the live is-1
sues of the day. i
More changes in the business sec
tion of Pinehurst are reported. The
O’Brien Drug Company has leased
the corner store of the Village Court
Building, occupied last year by Miss
Catherine Pierson, and will move
from its present location across the
street. Frank L. Dupont has moved
into the new store in the Clifton
Chambers on Market Square where
he will have much greater space for
his magazine, newspaper and spec
ialty shop.
Gammack & Company .-ire exp<>cted
to open their brokerage office ii, the
Village Court Building about Nov
ember 1st.
VERNER Z. REED PURCHASES
NEWPORT SITE FOR RESIDENCE
Mr. and Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, Jr.,
of Pinehurst who joined the summer
colony at Newport, R, I., a few years
ago and who the last two summers
have occupied Sea Edge, the estate
of Mr. and Mrs. J. Norman de R.
Whitehouse on Price’s Neck, are to
become permanent summer residents
of Newport. Mr. and Mrs. Reed pur
chased a tract of land at Cherry
Neck on Ocean Drive and plan to
crcct a summer home thereon in the
near future. They have leased Sea
Edge for next summer, however.
Mr. and Mrs. Reed are spending this
week at their Pinehurst home.
ABERDEEN STORE BURGLAR
DROWNED TRYING TO ESCAPE
COUNTY TAX SALE
POSTPONED UNTIL
DECEMBER FOURTH
Extra Month Given Delinquents
Before Advertising Costs
Added to Bills
JAIL COSTS INCREASED
The Moore County Commissioners,
as they sat in regular session on Mon
day of this week, ordered the tax col
lector to sell on the first Monday in
December, 1933 all real estate upon
which the 1932 taxes have not been
paid, after advertising said sale the
four weeks in November immediately
preceding the date of the sale.
This gives delinquents another
month in which to pay before having
the cost of advertising added to the
amount and doubtless many will take
advantage of this saving when they
market their cotton and tobacco.
It was ordered that A. W. Lam
bert, Jailer, be allowed fifty cents
per day for each prisoner <n the
county jail from October 1 to July
1, and thirty cents for each turnkey
each way as to the above dates.
This is an increase of fifteen cents
per day for each prisoner as com
pared to last year’s allowance, but
this was deemed necessary by the rise
in the price of foodstuffs.
The Board decided to allow J, A.
Price, superintendent of the Bible
School near High Balls, $6.00 per
month for each child from Moore
County kept in the school, this to be
effective from October 1 until fur
ther arrangements are made.
VBos
Kiwanis Pays High
Tribute to R. N. Page
Deeply Mourns Loss of Charter
Member, Past President and
Former Lieutenant Governor
Former Congressman Passes Away
Out of respect to one of its charter
members, a past president and at
the time of his d-sath, an honorary
member, the Kiwanis Club of Aber
deen dispensed with its regular Wed
nesday meeting this week. The fol
lowing tribute expressing the club’s
great loss was adopted at a meeting
of the board of directors, held Tues
day night in Jack’s Grill, Southern
Pines:
“Robert N. Page has been called to
the ‘gi-eater life’ and this community
grieves at the loss that it has sustain
ed. The Aberdeen Kiwanis Club pays
homage to the memory of this loyal
and outstanding Kiwanian who as a
charter member of the Club, served
as a director and president of the
Club and as lieutenant governor of
the Fourth Division. To a greater
extent than any other member of this
organization, Robert N. Page held
before his fellow Kiwanians the torch
of progress and high ideals that has
made the Aberdeen Kiwahis Club an
outstanding force for civic service in
this community.
“His clear vision and wise counsel
guided the activities of the Club on a
straight course, avoiding the rocks
and shoals. During the past two years
as an honorary member of the Club,
his interest in the organization never
diminished.
“Robert N. Page might well be
called the “Father of the Abt'rdeen
Kiwanis Club” as he consistently
maintained the interest and affection
of a father toward this ‘child of his
heart.’ Beloved by eviry Kiwanian,
his influence will continue to domi
nate the Club activitii's in the fu
ture as it has in the past.
“This courageous leader has heard
‘the last bugle call’ and has passed
beyond the sphere of this life into the
Great Beyond. His example still lives
with us.
“The members of the Aberdeen
Kiwanis Club pay this tribute to the
memory of a beloved member.”
ROBERT N. PAGE,
LEADING CITIZEN,
DIES IN 74TH YEAR
Death Ends Career Devoted To
His Community, His State
and The Nation
IN U. S. CONGRESS 15 YEARS
ROBERT NEWTON PAGE
BOARD CONSIDERS jVASS-LAKEVIEW
LOAN OF $10,000 PUPILS WIN SEATS
ON SCHOOL BUSSES
State Body Reviews Application Stale Mollifies Ruling and Chil-
for Federal Funds for Water
System Expansion
Joseph McCarthy, one of the 11
pri?;oners who escaped from the Cal
edonia camp and ,the Cleveland county
camp last week and who lost his life
by drowning while attempting to swim
the Roanoke river to freedom, was
serving three years for breaking and
entering the Standard Store in Aber
deen and stealing g«ods therefrom.
His bodv' was recovered, it was re
ported.
TOBACCO MARKET OPENS
IN ABERDEEN ON TLESDAY
The tobacco market opens at Aber
deen on Tuesday of next week, with
both local warehouses in operation.
There is alri>:u'y considerable leaf on
the Hoors and b'V.rs representino:
all tie in’.portpnt consumer comnnn-
ies have aril ed to remain duri’^ig t^e
buy ill''
The application of Southern Pines
for a loan of $10,000 from the federal
government for extension of its water
system is in the hands of the State
Advisory Board of the Emergency
Administration of Public Works.
Along with applications for 20 other
prospects involving a total proposed
expenditure in the state of $2,500,000
it is receiving the consideration of
the board. Numerous other applica
tions for the use of federal funds
throughout North Carolina are ex
pected. '
The board postponed its regular
VV'^ednesday meeting on account of the
death of Robert N. Page whose
brother, Frank Page of Raleigh is
chairman of the board.
In speaking of the public works
program in the state this week Dr.
H. G. Baity, board engineer, said:
“We feel greatly encouraged over the
progress and prospects of the prog
ram. State and local authorities of
ficials are realizing more and more
the advantage of obtaining these gov
ernment loans now.”
Ten of the 20 applications so far
received have been passed on and
forwarded to Washington. Among the
10 others not yet sent on because of
the desire of the applicants to in
crease the loan or on account of the
neces.'sity for additioitul information
is the Southern Pines project.
Lambeth Sees Little Hope
Regarding the possibility of a new
postoflice building in Southern Pines
The Pilot interviewed Congressman
Walter Lambeth on Wednesday. Mr.
Lambeth, who was here for the
funeral of Robert N. Page, expressed
the opinion that there is little possi
bility of a federal building program
this year. Several of the cabinet
members, principally Secretary Ickes,
are opposed to the expenditure of
funds for such buildings in the belief
that money is more sorely needed in
other lines of the recovery program.
The Congresi^man has spent much
time in Washington this sumi^jer
fighting for new federal build, nr;’
appropriations, but the powers that
be appear set against them.
The Rev. C. A. Lawrence of Vass
will conduct a week’s ser??s of reviv
al services in the Manly Presbj^terian
Church beginning next Sunday, Octo
ber 8. Services will be held each even
ing at 7:30 o’clock, and the public is
L'oruially invited to attenil.
dren Inside Two-Mile Limit
May Be Carried
All dissatisfaction in regard to the
iwo-mile school bus limit has been
cleared up in the Lakeview commun
ity by the new ruling set up by the
State School Commission, ai|fd the
county superintendent, in accodrance
with instructions issued to him, has
notified the Vass-Lakeviwe school
principal that the children are now
entitled to ride. While the new rul
ing permits the transportation of chil
dren within two miles where certain
conditions exist, it specifically states
that operating costs to the State shall
not be increased by the addition of
ousses or mileage.
The new order is set forth as fol
lows:
“Therefore, Be it Resolved that the
State Highway Commission h'ereby
r.uthorizes County Boards of Educa
tion to permit transportation for
children residing within two miles of
school under the following conditions:
“1. That the truck is not loaded
to capacity by those children who live
more than two miles from school;
provided that the County Board of
Education in each county shall be
charged with the duty of ascertain
ing and (ieterniining when a truck
is loaded to capacity.
“2. That in perniitting transpor
tation for children living within two
miles of school preference shall be
jtiven to those who are under ten
years of age or declared physically
unable to walk to school.
That in permitting transporta
tion for children living within two
mik’S of school the operating costs
to the State shall not be increased by
the addition of busses or mileage.”
All children in the Lakeview com
munity can easily be accommodated
by the two bus.ses that are required
for transportation for children living
within two miles of school the oper
ating costs to the State shall not be
increased by the addition of busses or
mileage.”
All children in the Lakeview com
munity can easily be accommodated
by the two busses thai are required
for transporting iho?e beyond the
two-mile limit without any addition
al expense.
The Rev. C. A. Lawrence will
preach in the Vass Presbyterian
church at 11 o’clock next Sunday
morning and the communion sehvice
will follow.
Robert Newton Page, leading citi
zen of Moore county beloved of one
and all, a State and national figure
through much of his busy, illustrious
career, a man of ideas and ideals,
passed away at his home in Aberdeen
at 10:45 o’clock on Tuesday morning.
The Sandhills has suffered the loss of
one of its greatest assets, a man who
helped make this section and who
loved it.
Mr. Page, “Mr. Bob” as he was
familiary known by so many of his
friends and neighbors, was a sick
man for a longer period than many
realized. His death came as a distinct
shock. Though in his 74th year—he
would have been 74 on the 26th of
this month—he had never surrender
ed the interest and activity in the
many enterprises and pursuits to
which his life was dedicated. Few ap
preciated his waning strength in the
enthusiam he felt and engendered to
the last in the causes close to his
heart. Death came peacefully to close
an enviable life.
To do justice to the story of the
life and times of Robert N. Page
would be to transcribe much of the
history of the Sandhills. He was the
second son in a family of five boys,
two girls, the children of Allison
Francis Page, pioneer in the lumber
ing business of this section. They
started a railroad, founded a bank,
sold the land on which Pinehurst
stands, played a leading part in the
agricultural and civic growth of the en
tire community. All five boys became
prominent in some walk of life. The
late Walter Hines Page, eldest broth
er of Robert, became a leading pub
lisher and later United States ambas
sador to Great Britain where he
served with distinction throughout
the World W'ar. To Frank Page is
credited the upbuilding of North
Carolina’s great highway system.
Henry A. Page has been prominent
in counsels of state, serving for some
time in the State Legislature. J. R.
(Chris) Page has been a leading
business man locally and has played
an important part in the tobacco in
dustry of North Carolina.
Born at Cary in 1859
Robert Newton Page was born at
Cary in 1859. His mother, Catherine
Robateau, vi'as a daughter of those
J'rench Huguenots who have added
materially to the solid character of
America. The Pages were of substan
tial Virginia stock. In 1879 Robert
Page came with the family to Aber
deen to undertake the development of
what came to be one of the large
lumber industries of this state. Moore
county was then a gigantic pine for-
e'vc and the young man, after a school
training at the Bingham institution
at Mebane, was given a responsible
task in building railroads into the
forest, bringing out lumber and for
warding it to market. Their road
from Aberdeen to Asheboro and to
Mt. Gilead became a substantial part
of the Norfolk Southern when that
road connected with the system at
Star.
In 1890 Mr. Page was elected
mayor of Aberdeen, continuing in
that office eight years. In 1888 he
married Miss Flora Shaw of Manly
and reared the fine family which sur
vives him, Thaddeus S. Page, Richard
E. Page, Robert N. Page and Mrs.
Livingston L. Biddle, II. In 1901,
having removed to Biscoe, he was
elected to the State Legislature from
Montgomery county, and in 1912 he
went to Congress from this district,
to stay until 1917 when he declined
to be a candidate for another term.
Although he represented the minority
party in all but the li;tpr years in
Washington his influence wab marked,
and his policies we»>e i?nch as to give
him a standing for courageous inte
grity and intelligent loyalty to funda
mental principles that gave him a
rating that was enviable.
He came home from Washington to
mbark in business and waa a can
didate for governor, without euccess.
With the family he established the
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