MOORE COUxMY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13. NO. 50.
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Soulhern IMncs and Al)erdeen, Norlh (’arolina, Friday November 10,
FIVE CENTS
SERIOUS THOUGHT
GIVEN PLAN TO
Civic Orff'ini/ations Take Action
on l*roposal to Huild New
Schools in County
SENTIMENT IS SOUGHT
Tho proposal for .Mooro County to
borrow a sum of approxiniatoly $200,-
000 from the Federal jjovernment for
new school ' uildings and furniture,
and inii)roveiiH>nts to i)resent struc
tures, reaehe.l the sta^e durinjr the
past week of thou'/l’.tful considt'iation
on the [lart of thi' taxpayers of the
county, of discussion by civic organ
izations and of announcement by the
chairman of the Board of County
Commissioners that that body desir
ed a general expression of sentiment
from the people before ■lefinite ac
tion is taken.
Though the County Conimissionors
met on Monday no action on the pro
posal, sent up to them by the (.’ounty
School Board, was taken. At a meet-
injr Tuesday of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Comnv rce a committee
headed by Robert L. Hait was ap
pointed to go thoroly into tlie matter,
making a study of the efi’i ct on the
county as a whole and on the resi j
derts ot Southern A me(;ting
has been suggested of this commit
tee, a committee from the Southern
Pines Board of Commissioners, and
of the school boa.d of this district,
possibly also to include the Public
Affairs committee of the Kiwanis
Club which has been investigating the
project.
Aberdeen is discussing the pro
posal. One member of the school
board there stated this week that
Abertleen was opposed to the loan.
One leading citizen of Pinehurst told
The Pilot that be o|)i)osed the county’s
assuming any further obligations at
this time.
Though the need for new buildings
in certain localities is recggnized,
there seems to be much sentiment that
the county and the taxpayers are in
no shape at the present time to boi'-
row such a 'um of money. Chairman
Cuirie of tho County Commission, in
an interview last week, announced the
county finances as in e.xcellent shape,
but there are a number of school dis
tricts in the county not in good fi
nancial condition.
Much talk is heard of the fairness
or unfairness of the proposal to make
the <lebt obligations of the various
school districts, regardless of their
condition or the proportion of debt
against them, a county obligation with
the tax rate equalized over all the
county. Many districts -would suffer
jyreatly an increased burden should
this proposal be adopted, some pay
ing out much more than they would
get in return for their own distdicts,
others passing the buck of their high
rates to districts which have been
more economical.
These are all matters which the va
rious organizations and many indivi
duals are looking into with a view to
discussions with the county commis
sioners before a decision is reached.
The Vote
County Goes Dry, with Pine
hurst and Southern Pines
Alone Supporlinfj iiepeal
The vote on tho repeal (luestion
in the county and in the four larg
est towns of the county is {.riven
below. Only Pinehurst and South
ern Pines favored repeal.
.Moore Couny
For Convention, 718; No Con
vention,
Aberdeen
For Convention, KiO; Xo Con
vention, 288.
Carthage
For Convention, 121; No con
vention, 151.
Pinehurst
For Convention, 111); No Con
vention, Gl.
Southern I’ines
For Convention, 2.')3; No Conven
tion, 187.
F. F TRAVOIES,
OF COUNTRY CLUB
MISS SERGEANT TO
LEAVE CHURCH OF
WIDE FELLOWSHIP
Terminates Five Year Service as
Assistant Pastor in South
ern Pines
RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT
!\IRS. NANCY AT WOOD, 8.3,
DIES AT I)Ai:(;hter’s home
Mrs. Nancy J. Atwood, aged 83
years, died in the home of her daught
er, Mrs. P. J. Waterman, on Ashe
street, Southern Pines on Thursday
morning following an illness of some
months duration.
Mrs. Atwood was born in Benton,
N. H., on April 1st, 1850, and has been
a resident of Southern Pines for the
past 18 years. Besides Mrs. Waterman,
a winter resident of Southern Pines,
she leaves another daughter, Mrs.
Mazie A. Tabor, of Ashland, Mass.,
and two sons Reginald and Richard.
Funeral services will be held at 5
o’clock this afternoon. Friday, in her
late residence, the Rev. J. F. Stim-
son officiating. Interment will be in
Bethlehem, N. H., on Sunday.
PAUL GSCHWINI) HURT
While helping move a cement
trough last Friday, Paul Gschw'ind
of Vass suffered a severe injury to
one of his hands. The trough fell and
mashed his hand so badly that
stitches were required.
On the first of this month Miss
Ruth Sergeant terminates her five-
v"r.r ccmnection with the Church of
Wide Fellowship. Miss Sergeant
came to Southern Pines as assistant
pastor of the Church of Wide Fellow-
^ihip in July 1028 and since then has
managed the Sunday School, has tak-
tn almost complete charge of the re
ligious activities of tho young people,
has assisted .Mr. Seri in his pastoral
(luties and filled the pulpit when
Mr. Seri has been absent during the
summer.
Unter her skillful and enthusiastic
leadership tho average attendance of
the Sunday School has increased from
f)3 to 130 and the Daily Vacation Bi
ble School reached an enrollment last
summer of 170. Both church and town
have benefitted from Miss Sergeant’s
personal touch in many lines of reli
gious and philanthropic endeavor. So
quiet and unobtrusive have her efforts
been that many, even in her congre
gation, may hardly appreciate the full
extent of her activities, though all
who know her admire the forth
rightness and gentle sincerity of her
character.
It was with tho keenest regret,
therefore that the trustees of the
Church of Wide Fellowship, bowing
before the might of the present temp
est and forced to cut expenses again
and again, were constrained to accept
Miss Sergeant’s resignation and re
lease her for work in other fields. In
taking this action they realized how
great a loss the Church of Wide Fel
lowship and the town of Southern
Pines will suffer through her depart
ure but they were unwilling to re
tain the services of anyone to whom
they can not guarantee a fair com
pensation. So the friends and congre
gation of the Church of Widefellow-
ship, in parting with Miss Sergeant,
wish to make known their regrets at
her loss, to express their appreciation
of her loyalty and unselfishness and
to wish her Godspeed in her new
endeavor.
MRS. OGDEN, RESIDENT HERE
FOR 15 YEARS, I'ASSES AWAY
Mrs. Annie Hoff Ogden, wife of
Burdgo B. Ogden, died in her home
on Il'inois avenue, Southern Pines at
5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Novem
ber 2nd following an illness of sever
al weeks. The body was taken Friday
to the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Adele D. Caton in Alexandria, Va.,
where burial services and interment
followed on Sunday.
Mrs. Ogdon was bom in New Mon
mouth, N. on November 6th, IHCl,
the daughter of Elijah and Mary Wall
ing and with Mr. Ogden has resided
in Southern Pines for the past 15
years w’hcre they have a large circle
of friends. Surviving Mrs. Ogden are
her husband and their daughter, Mrs.
Caton.
Prominent Resident of Southern
Pines Passes Away in
Charlotte
)CA.ME HERE IN
Frederick F. Travis, .secretary of
the Southern Pines Countly Clul) and
for the past se\en years a prominent
resident of the community, dii'd on
Wednesday in llu' Charlotti' Sanitor-
ium following an operation.
The news of Air. Travis’.s fleatii
came as a great shock to Southern
Pines yesterday morning. Though it
was known that he hud leen in ill
health for some time anil had gone to
Charlotte on October 21lth for treat
ment, it was not believed even by his
close friends that his conuit'on v :>;■
dangerous.
?dr. Travis was close to (iU years
of age. lie came here in lUiiJj and
immediately interested himself in the
Country Club and the property sur
rounding it, building for himself and
his family one of the attractive homes
which dot the landscape overlooking
tho golf courses. He was a large
stockholder in tho Country Club and
had served as seci-etary of the cor-
poiation for the past six years, de
voting his entire time to the inter
ests of the club. Robert N. Page,
chairman of the board of directors of
the club, died a few weeks ago.
Mr. Travis was a native of New
York City and before his retirement
from active business was a member
of the firm of F. F. Travis & Sons,
large cotton converters in New York.
He made his residents befoi'e coming
litre at Cresskill, New Jersey.
Surviving are his wife, the daught
er of Judge Neil A. Sinclair oi Fay-
eUe\illo, and two daughters, Ruth,
now a student at tho Woman’s Col
lege of the University of North Car
olina at Greensboro, and Dorothy.
Funeral services are to be held today,
Friday, at 3 o’clock at the Highland
Presbyterian Church, Fayetteville,
conducted by the Rev. II. W. Koelling.
Large Crowd Expected
at Dance Tuesday Night
Success of Affair for Under
nourished Children Seen in
Demand for Tickets
If tho sale of tickets is any criter
ion the dance and bridge for the ben
efit of undernourished school child
ren of the county, to be given next
Tuesday night, will see the Pinehurst
Country Club filled to overflowing.
Mrs. Betty Davidson, chairman of the
committee in charge, reports the sale
as “far beyond fondest expectations.”
The list of patronesses for the af
fair is announced as follows: Mrs.
W. C. Mudgett, Mrs. E. Levis Priz-
er, Mrs. Edgar Ewing, Mrs. Nelson
C. Hyde, Mrs. Almet Jenks and Mrs.
M. G. Nichols of Southern Pines;
Mrs. Leonard Tufts, Mrs. Halbert J.
Blue, Mrs. T. A. Cheatham and Mrs.
L. L. Bidcile, II, of Pinehurst; Mrs.
Henry A. Page, Jr., Mrs. Frank Sham-
burger, Mrs. H. E. Bowman, Mrs. E.
M. Medlin and Mrs. Edwin T. Mc-
Keithen of Aberdeen; Mrs. Gillian’
Brown, Carthage; Mrs. S. Ruffin
Horne, Rockingham and Miss Floeta
Greon, Fayetteville.
There will be tables for bridge at
the club for those not desiring to
dance. .4n eight-piece college orches
tra will furnish the dance music. Cold
beer and refreshments will be on sale,
and there will be a radio auction dur
ing the evening. The admission will
be $1.50 for a couple, $1.00 for sin
gle persons, and all proceeds over ex
penses will be used for the purchase
of equipment for tho serving of free
lunches to the undernourished needy
in the public schools of the county.
Tickets are on sale at the Pinehurst
Country Club and in Pinehurst drug
storjs, and in the Broad Strt’ot Phar
macy, Thrower’s Pharmacy and the
A. & P. store in Southern Pines, or
from Mrs. E. I.cvi sPrizer in Soutli-
ern Pines. They will also he sold at
the (,oor Tuesday night.
Dr. E. M. Mediin Elected President
of the Kiwanis Club for Year 1933
Heads Kiwanis
Rep(rrls at Annual .Meetinji Re-
\eal Splendid ('ivic and Char
itable Accomplishments
PINEHURST OPENS
ITS 38TH SEASON
OFFICIALLY TODAY
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Dr. E. M. Med in
p]. W. Reinecke Elected
Head of Relief Here
; Chosen to Succeed Dr. E. Levis
Prizer at Unemployment
Committee Meeting
'i The Southern Pines Committee '>n
j Unompli'yment and Relief met in ihe
, High School auditorium Wednesday
! night. E. William Reinecke was elect
ed president, succecding Dr. E. Levis
Prizer. L. O’Callaghan and John
Barron wore chosen vice-presidents,
Miss Jean Ross secretary and George
W. C..se tivasuier, the latter two oi-
ficers serving last year. Committees
will be announced later as will the
I projects suggested for this immediate
: vicinity, with such Federal funds as
may be allotted for this j)urpose.
$1,545 Federal Aid
For School Books Here
Sum E.xpended Last Week by
County Relief.—Aiding
School Lunches
A total fo $1,545. of Federal Emer
gency Relief funds was distributed to
principals of Moore county schools
last week for the purchase of school
textbooks for needy children in the
county. These books are to be loaned
to the children and are the permanent
properly of the schools.
In addition to providing the school
books for the children. The Moore
County Relief office is aiding in the
distribution of lunches to children who
cannot afford to pay for noon-day
meals at school, Mias Elizabeth Head,
director of relief for the county told
The Pilot this week. The relief office
is employing cooks and assistants in
the kitchens where the lunches are
prepared, in addition to providing sup
plies for the meals. A number of
schools in the county are thus able
to open lunch rooms. Where there are
no facilities for preparing lunches, the
relief office is paying for one-half
int of milk daily for each needy child,
j School lunches and milk are piovid-
I ed in both white and colored schools.
Dr Erbie M. Modlin of Aberdeen i
was elected president of tho Kiwanis |
Club of .Xberdcon I'or the year 11)31 )
at tho annual meeting held on Wed- !
n(sd:;y night in the .-Xber.leen Com-I
munity House, Dr, Medlin succeeds |
Ilei'hci’t F. Vailj who has skillful- !
ly guided the club’s destiny during 1
1!»33. ' j
The Rev. J. Fred Stimson of South- '
eru PiiH's was elected viee-presiiU'nt '
and Paul II, Dana of Pinehurst I'e-.
e!e!-ted treasui'er. The following were j
chosen to hte board of directors:
W. L. Dunlop, Pinehurst; S. R.
Hoyle, Carthage; E. W. Reinecke,
Southern Pines; O. Leon Seymour,
.A.herdeen; Dr. R. P. Shepard, South
ern Pinos; Hiram Westbrook, South
ern Pines, and R. T. Woodruff, Lake-
view.
Reports from the club’s officers
:ind committees revealed a successful
and profitable year; successful in that
it had accomplished a great amount
of good in tho community; profit
able in that its charity and opera
ting funds show a surplus over a
year ago, despite the ('ei)ression.
The club’s major activity for the
year was the support in full of a
ed in the children’s charity ward of !
the Moore County Hospital. This bed.
Treasurer Dana reported, was made I
full use of throughout the year by i
the hospital, which means that 3(>5 |
l;atients were cared for through the !
club’s generosity. Both the Public Af- '
fairs committee and the Committee |
on Agriculture reported splendid ac- |
complishments in their lines during |
the year, and Richard Tufts, report- ;
ing for his Committee on Vocation- I
al Guidance, revealed that the club !
had launched upon a campaign to i
aid high school students of the sec- .
tion in selecting and following up j
careers best suited to their temper- ;
aments and education, a campaign ^
which will be carried on by tho club
this coming year with renewed vigor.
President Vail made an inspiring
report on Kiwanis locally and inter- .
nationally and was roundly applaud- ■
ed for the fine work he has done in ^
his year in office. i
Legion Post All Set |
For Armistice Day;
.‘\wkward Squad and Guard
House Quartet to Feature !
Tonight’s Celel\ration I
.Many (iuthts at Carolina and
Large Influx of Winter
Residents Here
GOLF PROS HERE TUESDAY
The annual Southern Pines Winter
Resort Number of The Pilot will be
rub’.ished ext week, coTitaining many
new features and illustrations.
Your Toys and Dolls
Send Them to the Firemen and
They’ll Rebuild Them for
the Kiddies
Last holiday season the Southern
Pines firemen acting as emmissar-
ies of Santa Claus made over a
hum'red chiUlren happy with gifts
of toys and dolls which they had
refurnished and repaired during
Iheir spare time for the two months
proceeding Christmas. Once again
they appeal for contri' utions of
discarded and broken toys which
they will be most hapjjy to “make
as good as new” pieparatory to
starting out on Christmas morning
with another truckload of checr for
(■hililnn who need a Santa Claus.
TeIoph(me, the fire house (7201)
and one of tho volunteers will call
or your disabled toys.
The Sandhill Post Armistice Cele
bration meeting will be held at W’est
End High School building tonight,
Friday, at 8:00 o’clock. The cere
monies are in charge of Officer-of-
the-Day J. F. Sinclair, who asks that
all ex-service men, auxiliary members,
veterans of other wars,and friends of
the Legion be on hand promptly for
the assembly notes from the bugler at
that hour. Legionnaires who have
Legion caps are requested to wear
them. The company having the larg
est attendance will be awardpd an
attendance prize.
A pageant describing a day in
camp in which an awkward squad, a
guard house quartet, the old chow line,
and a final w'indup with a musical
entertainment by the “YW,” wilt be
I given. A special initiation cer'.-mony
] will be given by the post deg;ee team,
i Due to evangelistic services being
j held in the church in Aberdeen of
j which the Rev. E. L. Barber is pastor,
! plans for the Armistice Day sermon
I have been changed. The Rev. J. F’.
I Stimson will conduct the annual ser-
1 vices for the Legionnaires at the Bap-
I tist Church in Southern Pines on Sun
day. Nov. 12, at 11 a, m. All ex-ser
vice men of all wars and members of
' the Legion Auxiliary are asked to
meet in front of tho Boy Scout Hall at
10;.‘50 to march to the church in a
body.
SMITH NEW COMMISSIONER
W. D. Smith was sworn in as a
irember of the Buard of Town Com
missioners of Vass at the regular
mo'.'thly meeting held on Monday
evening. Other members are A. M.
Cameron and L. H. Furr. H. A. Borst
is mayor.
Pinehur.'t officially begins its 158th
season with the opening of th<‘ Caro
lina Hotel today, Friday. Already an
unusual number of winter colonist.s for
this time r>f year are on hand, and in
dications are that this will be the
best s(>a^on in several years.
The Carcdina ha.- been ojien inform
ally for the past week, and has more
than forty guests. Other Pinehurst
hotels, including The Manor, the Pine
Crest Inn and The Berkshire, also are
open and are doing brisk business for
so early.
The Mid-South Open Golf cham
pionship will be contested over the No.
2 course of the Pinehurst Country
Club next Tuesday and Wednesday
for the fourteenth time. The tourney
will be the second on the winter tour
C(miing directly here from the Capital
City Open in Washington, D. C., this
week-end.
The Mid-South will consist of 36
holes of best ball play on Tuesday and
3G holes of individual competition on
Wednesday. Last year Tommy Ar
mour and Al Watrous were the team
victors with G2-G4—132, and Watrous,
Henry Picard and Al Houghton fin
ished in a triple tie at 143 for indiv
idual honors.
Joe Kirkwood Coming
Among the competitors will be Joe
Kirkw(M>d, winner of the North and
South Open here last spring with a
record score of 277. Kirkwood, who
is the Canadian Open champion, is
looked up(»n as a favoiite, but not to
duplicate his score of last spring.
Since then an elaborate watering
system has been installed on the No. 2
course, greatly improving the texture
of the turf and severely cutting down
the distance obtained by the roll on
the balls. The Mid-South, therefore,
is likely to be won by a score as high
as the victori(*is 143 of last year,
which was made ina stiff gale.
Among the players expected are
Walter Hagen, Horton Smith, Paul
Runyan, Billy Burke, W'illie Klein,
Mike Turnosa and John Golden, as
well as Watrous, Picard and Hough
ton.
^^'inler Colony Growing
Many Pinehurst faithfuls have re
turned for the winter, including Mr.
and Mrs. Gei>rge T. Dunlap of East
Orange, N. J., who have been coming
here for more than twenty years.
They reopened their home, Broadview,
last %.’eek, and may be hosts to their
son, George T. Dunlap, Jr., national
amateur golf champion, and Mrs.
Dunlap, if the champion decides to
come down for the Mid-South Open
golf championship Tuesday and Wed
nesday, which opens the winter sports
schedule.
Also present again are Mr. and
Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, Jr., of Newport
and New York, who are at Sandy
Woods; Mr. and Mrs. James Neville,
of Newport and Philadelphia, who
are at the Knollwocnl home of Mrs.
Neville’s mother, Mrs. A. F. Burke;
Mrs. Nash Rockw'ood, of New York,
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Williams and
son Winthrop of New York and Paris;
Mrs. J. Potter Stockton of New York
and Spring Lake, N. J., and Mrs.
Samuel G, Allen of New York.
Others in Pinehurst include Mr.
and Mrs. B, Lester Tyrrel of Brook
lyn, who are at the Carolina, and their
daughter, Mrs. James B. Given, Jr.,
who is at the Oaks; Mrs. Richard
Hooker of Newport, a newcomer to
Pinehurst; S. B. Chapin, Major H. H.
Stevens, Mrs. Hurst Vincent Camp
bell, Mrs. W. H. Cunningham, Mr.
and Mrs. N. B. Hersloff, Mr. and
Mrs. C. B. Hudson, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Carter, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Watt and
daughter, Mrs. M. W. Phillips; Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Busk, Dr. J. S.
Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Par
son, Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. David
son, Mr. and Mrs. Edouard Albion,
Mr. and Mrs. Eric Thomson and Mr.
and Mrs. Percy W. Thomson. '
Also Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Buckmins
ter, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. B. Ward, Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Hyatt, Mrs. Graham
Johnston, Mrs. G. A. Magoon, Mr. and
Mrs. Norwood Johnston, Mr. and Mrs.
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