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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY ■VTJT1T A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 13, NO. 51. ^ ^^AHTHAOE wa3T £HO LAKEVIEW MANL6V JACXSOM SPRinus SOOTHBRN PIMES ASHUGV PINEBLUFF PILOT SOUTHERN PIN'ES ANNUAL RESORT NUMBER of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Southern IMnes and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday November 17, 1933. FIVE CENTS Southern Pines Prepares for Winter Season Witii Prospects Bright BUSY SEASON OF SPORTS ACTIVITY PLANNED HERE Hunter Trials New on Schedule of Events; First Golf Tour ney December 2. TWO TENNIS TOURNEYS Southern Pines plans a busy season cf sports activities, and in addition to the varied golf events and occa sional tennis tournaments the pro- Rrain presents the first annual hun ter trials to be held here. Large numbers of horses are expected here for these picturesque events, as well as many of those which hunt in the Sandhills throughout the winter sea son. The first golf tournament is slated for Saturday, December 2d, the Open ing Sweepstakes at medal play with handicaps, 18 holes. Other events are to follow on the Southern Pines Coun try Club courses as follows: Vi Saturday, Jan. 6—New Year’s Han dicap. Handicaps, medal play, 18 holes. Tuesday, Feb. (>, 7, 8, 1», 10—Mid season Match Play. Saturday, Feb. 17th—St. Valer.tinp’s Sweepstakes. 18 holes medal play with handicap. Saturday, Feb. 21th — February Sweepstakes. 18-hole match play against par, handicap. Satuiday, March 3d — Spring Sweep.stakes. Kickers’ handicap medal play. Saturday, March 10th — Maivh Sweepstakes. 18 holes medal play, handicaps. Tuesday, March 13th-17th—Annual Club Champion.'^hip. Wednesday and Thursday, I\Iarch Mth-15th — Sixth Annual Women’s Mid-South Championship. 3(! holes medal play. The Spring tennis season will open with a tournament the 'veek of March 12th, with events in men’s and wo men’s singles, men's doubles and mix ed doubles. This will be followed a month later, the week of .\pril Ifith, by a similar tournament immediately following theannual North & South tourney at Pinehurst. Hunter Trials Innovation The hunter trials will be an inno vation in Southern Pines. Though this has been a horse center in winters for many years no formal eque.strian event has been held and no opportun ity presented for residents anj win ter gu-’sts to watch the fine hunters and steeplechasers which winter here in action. It is the purpose this sea son to arrange trials over a ;>ictur- esque course to be laid out in the country hunted over by the Moore County Hounds, and to invite all lo cal horse owners and others from Pinehurst, Camden, Aiken and near by points to compete. A number of prominent stables, among: them the Tharndale Stables of Millbrook, New work and Mrs. T. H. Somerville of Virginia have already signified their intention of entering their thorobreds in the trials. In addition to the regularly sche duled golf and tennis toui-naments there will be informal events off ind on throughout the season. Archery and roque tournaments are also being ar ranged for devotees of vhose spoi’ts. RECORD PROVES FFFiCIENCV OF LOCAL POLICE FORCE In all its widespread territory Southern Pines is well policed with its force of two men, Chief Jasper A. Gargis and C. E. Newton, the former on day duty, which includes the pro tection of children crossing the high way at the close of the school ses sions, and the latter on night duty. Under their letfficient guaijiianship the town in the past few years has suffered but little from the prevail ing nuisance of resorts, petty pilfer ing, and the wilder element in the nearby colored settlements have learn ed that criminal acts bring them promptly into court. The police com mittee of the Board of Commissioner? consists of three members, A. B. Yeo mans, Charles S. Patch and Frank Welch. Champion Sinks Oiie on the 18th Green All in Readiness for Influx of Visitors Seeking Escape from Rigors of Cold North R. R. Fares Cut Reduction of 44 Percent, Plus Lower Hotel Rates, Should Spell Big Season If all goes as expected, rates on the Seaboard Air Line Railway will be reduced 44 per cent next month, just in time for the heavy winter travel to the Sandhills. With railroad fares down and ho tel rates reduced, prospects wore never brighter for a bi^ season in Southern Pines. Oh yes, there are those who say they won’t come to a dry state— but they probably have never been here. The climate IS diy—we’ll confess that much. Mid-South Resort Has Much To Offer in Climate, Sports and Accessibility TOWN A THING OF BEAUTY M.'iss Helen Hicks Putting Before a Large Callery at the Southern Pines Country Club At a Glance Southern Pines has a Commission form of government with I). G. Stutz, Mayor; H. F. Burns, Clerk-Treasurer. Commissioners. Frank Welch, Geo. W. Case, A. B. Yeomans, L. V. 0’- Callaghan, Chas. S. Patch. v.'hief of i’olice J. A. Gargis. Chief of Fire De partment, L. V. O’Callaghan. Tax: Collector, J. H. Tilghman. Civic Bodies Chamber of Conimei'ce—Dr. G. G. ller»’, 1). 1). Shields Cameron, Secre- trry. Southern Pines Civic Club— Mrs. W. N. Hutt, President; Mrs. H. W. Gage, Secretary. Aberdeen Ki- wanis Club—Herbert D. Vail, Pres ident; .Arthur S. Newcomb, Pinehurst, Secretary. Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Aberdeen are included in this Club. Churches Emmanuel Episcopal Church, at eleven; First Baptist Church at elev en; Church of Wide Fellowship at ten thirty; St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church at ten, week days at seven-thirty a. m.; Schools Southern Pines Public School, high and graded. Frank Webster princi pal, with fourteen teachers and an en rollment of 500. The Ark, a private school wtih Mrs. M. A. Hayes, princi pal. Grey’s Kindergarten, Mrs. Ju lia Grey, principal. Library Mrs. Nellie S. Fisher, Librarian. Hours, 2 p. m. to 5:30 p. m. Banks Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Miss Ethel S. Jones, Cashier. MaiKs Morning mail from the North at J>;CO a. m. From the South at 11 a. M. Evening mail from the North at j:00 a. m. From the South at 11 a. m. Evening mail from ihe North at 8 p. m. Railroad Schedule New York—Florida Limited, leaves Pennsylvania Station 6:40 p. m.; ar rives Southern Pines at 8:r)0 a. m. Seaboard Fast Mail leaves Penn sylvania station 11:20 a. m., arrives at Southern Pines 6:57 p. m. Sandhills Built Up From Barren Waste to Winter Resort Famed Throughout the Civilized World How Can One Help But Be Optimistic of Future When One Re views Remarkable Record of the Past in Local Development, Asks Mr. Butler COMMERCE BODY AIDES IN GUIDING DESTINY OF CITY SOUTHERN PINES POPULAR RESIDENCE FOR WRITERS Because of ist proximity to publish ing centers and its peaceful atmos phere Southern Pines is the chosen home of a large number of authors and writers, many of whom maintain year ’round residences here. Among the prominent literary men and wo men of the community are James Boyd, Struthers Burt, Katharine New- lin Burt, Dr. E. M. Poate, Walter Gilkyson, Bernice Kenyon, Ruth Kenyon, Ruth Burr Sanborn, Almet Jenks, Mildred Harrington, Ernest I. White, Ralph W. Page and Maude Parker Child. I By Bion H. Butler I have been asked my opinion of the future of leal estate in the Sand hills, and in reply I laugh. I am an oi)timist, not because of any fanciful emotion, but because when I see a little spear of corn break up through the soil my years of observation and my slight knowledge of biology prompts nie to expect later a develop ed stalk and a final fruition of grain. And that is my answer as to the fu ture of real estate in the whole world. I go back to my first days in Moore county forty years ago. The country i was a sea of white sand from which ' the timber had been cut, and the name of “pine barrens” was perfect. The Boyd timber, then owned by the Blues, was the one attractive spot in . the neighborhood of the laughably hopeful little village of Southern Pines, amusing because of the bold ness and confidence of John T. Pa trick in his dream of making here a settlement that might attract tnough deluded settlers to create a commun ity that would be of significance. No man who does not have a knowledge of utter barren aspect of this com munity at that time, and who can not remember the apparent impossi bility of any success for Patrick's dreams, can understand the future cf real estate in the Sandhills, because he can not comprehend what has been done with what was then an evident dream that had no sensible grounds for anticipation of reality. Greeted by Desolation My wife and I landed from the ca boose of a freight train on February night about 11 o’clock, with a bril liant moon shining on the white simd of Patrick’s little village, and the picture was one that painters try to j'ive us of Paradise. A boundless sea of white sand for miles p.long the rail road, a small group of nondescript houses by the side of tracks made by wagons in the sand, two or three be lated villagers waitinj]; to see the train drag in, Capt. Clarke with his two-hoi’se buggy to haul us two squares down to his house. But what p. night, and what a sky, and what a moon, and stars that left no doubt of the melodies when morning stars sang together in the early days of creation. There, surrounded by what by all rules should have been the climax of desolation, we beheld a certain delec table region that was outside of our understanding to realize or to deter mine. When we went back to our home in Pennsylvania a couple o5 weeks later my wife had fixed her mind on a tract of a couple of hundred acres and we bought it and live on it now. Whenever the question of a possible removal to some other (piartei- of the , globe comes up the family, even to I Xancy, the dog, says not so. We bought two hundred acres of out- ' over timber land, a crime against (}od Almighty, for nothing in the world is more desolate than cut-over timber land. We paid about two dol lars and a half an acre, and taxes ever since and several times the pur chase price. But God is good, and trees I have grown again on much of the j place, which is a point to remember. I Forty years ago the policy of man was j destructive to this territory. Lumber ing was the business and turpentine I and resin and tar and the resulting desolation, and it was desolation. The Vision Expands Then the timber was cut, and Pa trick came with his visions and began the absurd job of building wha* we see now on the foundations he laid. Al lison Francis Page, a bold pioneer and prophet, diverted some of the product of his lumber mills to the building of a hotel in Southern Pines, and he was followed later by James Tufts, of Bos- I ton, who set a stake in the middle of ' a pine barren area over on the sum mit of the mountain of desolation be tween Horse Creek and Joe’s Fork, and I there began another dream of the im- i possible. I Thus the thing started. Wise men I laughed at the folly of the fools who , undertook to conjure a paradise in the I land that had been created a barren sandy ridge, raped by the lumberman,, abandoned by the original owners, ^ away from everywhere except for the lonely woo<l-burning little locomotive that jiggered up and down the rusty | sand-ballasted track frequently enough to haul out the lumber and j turpentine and such passengers as i happened along. But the foolish build- i ers had sufficient power of vision to 1 see what the wise men overhwked— that matchless climate, the charm of I these little mountains, the possible e.s- eape from the rigor of the Northern (Please turn to Page 4) LARGEST ARTILLERY POST IN U. S. LOCATED IN SANDHILLS ! Within an hour’s ilrive by motor ! from Southern Pines is the largest j artillery post in America, Fort Bragg, I where thousands of troops are sta tioned and where the government maintains a reservation of hundreds of I thousands of acres for artillery prac- 1 tice. Largely Responsible for Plant ing Program and Many Com munity Improvements ■\n organization in Southern Pines which keeps in close touch with civ ic needs, watches out for essential im provements, endeavors to keep the town growing normally and in the right manner, is the Chamber of Commercc', a body of men and women of the community interested in see ing that Southern Pines is maintain ed as “An Ideal Town.” The Chamber of Commerce has been largely responsible for the l lanting program which over a long period of years has encompassed practically the entire village and ter ritory immediately surrounding. It deals with problems of streets and highways, of railroad service, rf con ventions, of hotel accommodations— in short, of all those things which make for the reputation of the com munity as a fall, winter and spring resort. It works in close harmony with the city and county officials. The organization meets annually over the banquet table, with some prominent State or government of ficial as the guest of honor and speaker. This event is a general get- together of the residents of the com munity, one look f 1 forward to throughout the year by the citizenry. At this meeting directors for the new year are elected, these directors in turn electing the officers. Dr. George G. Herr is now presi dent of the Chamber of Commerce, with Hiram Westbrook vice president and Shields Cameron secretary and treasurer. The present directors are W. L. Baker, P. F. Buchan, Struthers Burt, Shields Cameron, R. L. Chand ler, L. T. Clark, Walter Gilkyson, R. L. Hart. Dr. Herr, Nelson C. Hyde, Dr. L. B. McBrayer, J. A. MacPher- son, A. Montesanti, George C. Moore, Dr. W. C. Mudgett, M. G. Nichols, Frank Pottle, E. W. Reinecke, S. B. Richardson, Dr. R. P. Shepard, C. J. Simons, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, Carl G. Thompson, Hiram Westbrook and J. M. Windham. INE.MPLOYKD AND RELIEF EFFICIENTLY MANAGED Problems of unemployment and re lief, in the forefront during the past few years here as well as throughout the country, are cared for directly in Southern Pines by the Committee on Relief headed by W. Reinecke. This committee looks after the allot ment of federal and State funds and food, endeavors to procure employ ment for those in need and succor for those in distress. It is a well managed organization and conditions in the section are improving through the efficient efforts of this committee. By Howard F. Burns Another season is on and .Southern Pines is ready for its influx of vis itors seeking escape from the rigors of northern climes. This friendly village is fast being r •■ognized as one of the foremost winter resorts of the South. Locat ed on the main line of the Seaboard Air Line Railway halfway between New York and Florida, it is within one night of any of the principal cities of the East. It has a climate that is as nearly equable as any place on earth. It is a place where tourists meet to renew acquaintances and to join in a variety of activities in the field of outdoor sports. The village is in the heart of the North Carrlina long leaf pine belt. Three hundred fifty miles south of Washington, it is on Federal Highway No. 1, the all-paved route from the North to the South. Southein Pines is a village of cul ture enjoying a patronage of winter visitors who return each season. The winter colony includes many of the nation’s most prominent authors and writers who own large estates. Southern Pines is becoming noted foi' its clean streets, grassy park- j ways and abuncance of shrubbery. It j is now recognized as one of the most I beautiful towns in the South. Visitors j drive from distant points t doiarme I drive from distant points to admire i the dogwood of Spring. The Autumn season is rich with radiant colors of the woodlands. The blossoms of springtime can be compared in beauty to the apple blossoms of the Shen andoah Valley and the cherry blos soms in Washington. The town is sur rounded with lai-ge forests of virgin pine free from the axes of lumber men. It is here that Mother Nature is in her splendor and lovers of out doors enjoy the singing of birds as well as the beauty of the woods. Winter Golfing Center Southern Pines is in the heart of the greatest golfing center in the country. Within five miles are to be found nine very fine golf courses with three spacious country clubs. The courses were designed by Donald J. Ross who makes his home here in the Sandhills. The nation’s golf stars gather on the tricky courses each year to defend their titles. It was on the links here in the Sandhills that George T. Dunlap, Jr., national ama teur champion, learned the game and he now spends most of his time here during the winter. With a mild climate and sandy soil, the horse takes a leading part in re sort life. The woodlands are dotted with many scenic trails and here and there are to be found old fash ioned rail fences. Fox hunting is another of the colorful winter sports that is taking the lead in the field of hunting. Here is to be found an abundance of quail and turkey that offers thrills to the sportsman who gather for a^ week of shooting. Deer are plentiful along the Little River section of the county. A number of tennis tournaments are scheduled for this winter and spring, and enthu siasts will gather on the sand-clay courts. Archery is also prominent on the calendar of sports and polo at tracts large galleries. The sports man of moderate circumstance as well as the capitalist has no trouble in fincing his favorite pastime. Things here tend to moderation. Even win ter has just enough tang to make out door life ideal. Reduced Rates at Hotels Southern Pines has many fine ho tels that are offering exceptionally low rates this season. They are close enough in to be convenient to the business section but far enough away (Please turn to Page 4)
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