North Carolina Newspapers

i C. : vJ. CAIvC'Li:;A RQOM \ MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbui VOL. 15, NO. 17. ^^cartmaoc V VASS LAKEV/lEW MANUSY StOCITMeRN Pines ^SHUSV PINEBLUFF PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Southern I’ines and Aberdeen/^orth Carolina, Friday, March 2.‘?, 1934. FIVE CENTS DOG, HORSE, GOLF FEATURE COMING PINEHURST WEEK Six Full Days of Major Events Ahead for Sports Lovers in Sandhills PROS HERE 3 DAYS What a week ahead in Pinehursti It starts on Monday with the second annual Dog Show, with an entry list which exceeds in numbers and breeds the fine show of a year ago. There’ll be Pointers, Setters, Irish Setters, all kinds of Spaniels, Dachshunds, Fox hounds, Harriers, Bassetts, Collies, Shepherds, Great Danes, Dobemian Pinschers, Airdales, Scotties, Pekin gese, Pomeranians, Boston Terriers, Chows, Welsh Terriers and others on exhibit at the Horse Show grounds near the race track. On Tuesday one ^ust jump from dogs to golfers and see the best of the professionals in the country in competition for big prizes on the la- mous No. 2 course of the Pinehurst Country Club. The big fellows will j all be here as usual, fighting for that! first prize of $1,000. Watch Paul Runyan, Horton Smith, Billie Burke, John Golden, Denny Shute, A1 Es pinosa, Leo Diegel, MacDonald Smith, Kmmett French and the rest of the I well know’n pros in action Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday and Saturday comes the 17th annual Horse Show of the Pine hurst Jockey Club, with more than HO classes for saddle horses, hunters, .lumpers, polo ponies, military mounts, etc. Secretary Charles W. Picquet re ports the best entry list in years, both in point of size and in quality of entrants. The show will be on both morning and afternoon at the show ring and as usual will be the social center of the Sandhills those days. With stellar attractions for dog lovers, horse lovers and golfing fans to offer Pinehurst will be a busy i^pot next week. iMrs. Potts, Mrs, Pottle Die in Southern Pines Former i’asses Away in 87th Year. Latter on Eve of Her 80th Birthday Tennis Stars Coming 'NEWBRIDGEOVER ’ i SEABOARD TRACKS : TO COST $13,000 ' Hohbs Peabody Construction Co., of Charlotte Is Low Bid- i der on Projejct AWAITS V. S. APPROVAL j Nany New Features Added to Program For Week of Spring Blossom Festival Here Many Candidates Entered in Race For Queen of Spring: Festival (iIJK(JOKV M.XNGIN Prominent Among Davis Cup Team Candidates Who Will Play Hero Lester Sti efen, tall and blonde X’ant from the Pacific Coast, whose bU.-^ering sojve.s and overhead at tack won for him the National In door Tennis title last week, will play in the North and Sotith tonnis cham pionship here starting April 9, it was announced yeslerday by H. B. Emery, chairman of the tennis committee. As a result the tourney takes on added significance, for both Frank Shield.':, ranking No. 1 star of the nation, and Gregory Mangin, who wa.s dethroned in the indoor tourney, also will be here to play, Stoefen de feated both of these players in his march to the title. In addition to these George Lott and Bryan Grant have entered, and it is expected that a number of other candidates for the Davis Cup team will be here. Ifl the women’s tournament, Mrs. Marion Jessup, and Miss Florence l..eBoutillier already have entered, and there is a strong possibility also rhat Miss Helen Jacobs, the national champion, will come, t(Ki. REV. MR. SERL TO LEAVE CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHIP Two well know'n Southern Pines women pa.s.sed away thi,s week, one in her 87th year, the other on the eve of her 80th birthday. Mrs. Mary Richardson Potts, widow of M. A. Potts, of Kansas City, Mo., ^■lied in the home of her son, K. F. | Pott.s early Thurstlay morning. Bom in Haverhill, N. H.. May 11, 1847. Mrs. Pot,ts came to Southern I-^nes four years ago and was greatly ben- t fitted for some time from the change of climate. Funeral services were held private ly in her late home, the Rev. Klmer W. Seri officiating. Interment fol lowed in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Three . sons survive, R. F. Potts of Southern ' Pines, Harry W. Potts of Kansas City, Mo., and Joseph Potts of New York. On the eve of her 80th birthday, Mrs. Charlotte A. Pottle widow of the late J. L. Pottle passed quietly | to re«t in her home on Pennsylvania avenue Tuesday afternoon. Fimeral services were hel(^ in the Powell mor- ^ tuary Wednesday afternoon with the Rev. J. Fred Stim.son officiating, the body being taken northward by her' daughter, Mrs. A. C. Uavis, for in-1 terment in the family plot, Jefferson, I New Hampshire. Bom on March 21frt, 1854 in Ports-, mouth, N. H. Mrs. Pottle came here ■ with her hiisband jiwt 40 years ago, ; and numbered a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the Sandhills. Surviving are her son, F. B. Pottle and daughter, Mrs. A. C. Davis; a sister' Miss P. H. Crawshaw, and four grand- j children, Dornthy, Robert, John, and George Pottle. B.ANKS C'LOHB EASTER MONI>.\Y • Insists Tpon Acceptance of Res- i^:nation aad ConjarreRation Accedes To Wishes The CitizenB Bank A Trnst Com -1 )mny of Southern Pines lind the Bank «f Pinehurst, of Pinehurst, Aberdeen * a»d Carthage will be closed all day on Ba.ster M(md«^', a 1«^I h^^day. ^ In meeting of the congregation of the Church of Wide Fellowship W'ed- ne.sday night it was finally decided to accept the resignation of the pastor, the Rev. Elmer Willis Seri, to take elifect late this spring. While clearly against the wishes of many of his congregation Mr. Seri insisted that resignation be accepted, and de clined the offer of a year's vacation. Mr. Seri has been pastoi" of the church since October, 1918 succeed ing Samuel Holden who had occupied the pulpit from 1911. Under his p>as- torate the congregation erected, in 1927, the splendid edifice adjoining the older structure built in 1897. Un der Mr. Seri’s leadership the "Plat form Hours" featuring many noted attractions both musical and educa tional, and introducing noted leaders in many lines of world affairs to large audiences of visitors and resi dents of the Sandhills became one of the groat attractions of the winter reason. Mr. Seri shared a large part of the activities of the junior mem bers of the church. Firemen’s Ball Nets $300 For Volunteers R*cord Crowd Attend.*^ Enjoy- abe Party at Southern Piaes CouHtry Club The annual ball of the Southern Pines firemen held Wednesday night at the Country Club attracted the largest crowd in the history of tkU yearly gathering and netted in the neighborhood of $300 for the work of the volunteer fire fighters. It was estimated at the daacc that «loie to 500 persons were there. It wa« a gala evening Jelly Loft- wich and his orchestra furnished the music and the crowd danced Into the wee ««ia’ hours. The Hobb.s Peabody Con.struction Company of Charlotte was the low bidder on the new bridge and ap proaches for the overpass at Morgan- I ton Road and the Seaboard Railroad tracks at the southern city limits of Southern Pines, it was announced this week by the Slate Highway and Pub lic Works Commission. Bids were submitted to the commission on 10 road projects in various parts of the state, the Moore county job among j them. The Charlotte company’s bid was .$13,0,')0.96, and calls for a steel bridge i with ample provision for automobile I traffic over U. S. Highway No. 1 at this point, and for railed off lane.s for i pedestrian traffic, something the ; present structure does not offer. It ; was because of the danger incident to this lack of provision for safe pedestrian traffic that the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce has been waging a campaign for the new bridge for some time. Contracts cannot be let for the bridge until approval has been re- I ceived from the U. S. Bureau of j Roads, as federal funds are involved in the project, but this approval is expected to be forthcoming in the I near future and the construction to I get under way before summer. H. F. Seawell, Jr. Not I Candidate for Congress .May Run For Legi;slature, He 1 Says After Report He’d Oppose Lambeth Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., is not a candidate for Congres.s on the Re publican ticket, as had been annouic- ed in a dispatch from Greensboro. In ^ a statement issued W'ednesday, Mr. Seawell said: “I have expressed to some of the party leaders my willingness to be of whatever service I can. but it i.s impossible for me to make the race for Congress at this time, even i if I should receive the nomination. If I should seek any public office at all, it would be the nomination for the Legislature from Moore county. "I have been urged by both Demo crats and Republicans to make the race for the Legislature in Moore county, and I feel this is my first duty." I Country Fair At The Ark Successful l/iir«e Attendance by Patrons and Friends and Excellent Program Features Day The following have been nominated to date for Queen of the Spring Festival in Southern Pine.s the week of Apiil 9th, each candidate being credited with 1,000 votes; >Uss Marjorit' Skinner, Southern I’lne** Miss I*at Lunipkin, Southern Tines Mrs. tMyde Counell, Southern .Mi** Dorothy ilioluirdHon, Southern MIwi Dorothy Fottle, Southern Fines MItis Laura Baker, Oarthage Miss Betty Osborne, Southern Fines Miss A'irginia Hensley, Finehurst Mi»s .le ■ /immeiman. Southern Fines Miss Kati' ine Wiley, Southern l*lnes MJ«s Helen Parker, Cameron Miss Catherine Grahxim, Va.s.s Miss Marjorii- ('offey, Southern Fines iMi-ss .lune .Vnderson, .Vherdeen Miss I'auline Foe, Southern Fines Miss Mary .\llee Weatherly, Southern I*ines Miss Frances Sparks, Southern Fines * The nomination lists are still open and will be for another w’eek. Any one may nominate a candidate. But the voting starts at once. Votes cost a penny apiece, the money to be used toward the expenses of the F’eatival. To vote, bring your pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars to the front office of The Pilot Building, the .Spring Festival Headquarters, where your favorite candidate will be cred ited with a vote for each penny turn ed in. The Queen of the Festival will reign Cieorge \\. Goode, a Southern Pines throughout Dogwood Week. She will clergyman, .vas born in slav- be crowned at the opening festivities Mecklenburg county, on Monday night, April 9th and will ^ 'J'ginia, near the towr.i of Boydton. lead the grand march which will start grown up to be off the costume street dance that eleven or twelve years old his night. Votes for the Queen close at Piaster, Thomas Goode, who wanted noon on Saturday, April 7th and the army, and needed money, chosen one will be made acquainted young chap to Col. Goode, with her election and duties on Mon- ^ want to go to the army, day morning. could use the young slave. The In addition to the straight voting, j fifty votes will be credited to your i'avo;ite candidate on each purchase FORT BRAGG PLANS ARTILLERY CAMP HERE ALL WEEK state Symphony and Sandhills Little Theatre tt> Entertain .lointly Thursday Night REV. GOODE SOLD FOR $1,300 WHEN BUT 11 YEARSOLD Local Resident Has Child 55 Years Old; Had Twins When 70, Baby When 82 of a ticket for the Duke-State College baseball game to be played here on Tuesday afternoon, April 10th. When you purchase a ticket for the game a coupon will be given you represent ing 50 votes. W’rgite the name of your candidate on this coupon and leave same at the Festival Headquarters. The votes will be duly credited. There is already much keen com petition for the crown of Festival Queen. Candidates’ supporters are urged to get bu.sy, work hard and get iheir votes in early. The Pilot will list the balloting to date in each week’s paper prior to the Festival. They're off. at 1,000 votes each. Watch for the standing next Friday i acquaintance with a colored when the .,J who had two or three school count. the war, and about 1894 he came to the Sandhills as a missionary work er, as he had grown up into church relations. He lives now on Connec ticut avenue, with his second wife, and a family of children, the young est two years old, and with a pair of twin.^ fifteen years old. Twins at 70 and another baby at 82 indicates that the clergyman is a well preser\'ed man. Besides these he has four other children in his family. His oldest child is .')o. The occasion of hi.s coming to the Sandhills was to do mission work un der the direction of the Reformed Zkm church, which field he has been filling actively in that period. He had no education but in his boyhood he pennies have begun to Even little folks can do a great deal when their hearts are set on it and they go at the job \*ith enhtusi- asm as was proven by the resulSs of the Country Fair at The Ark Wednes day. A large number of ftiends and j patron.s of the school turned out for the occasion whi«ti is an annual af fair for the benefit of the Moore ' County Hospital. The booths were I filled with attractive things for !?ale I made by the children themselves, and the response from th» buyers was most gratifying. The program put on by the children was much enjoyed, especially the aitistic exhibition of folk dancing which was a featiue of the day. As a result of The Ark children’s country fair the Moore County Hos pital will receive the sum of $'204.00. books, and he was interested in trying I to read and apell, and became rath- j er apt in that direction. He inclined Auto Show Added to to ruading the Scripture, and learn- Features of Festival reugion is of the positive kind, and he believes that New .Models of Various IVIakej#'^*^ profits by his church affiliation. Will IJe Displayed Here :'-' hen the big fire swept Southern by Local I)Wleis several year.s ago. destroying - I the heart of the tow-n, the wind car- An added feature of Spring Festi- ' val Week in Southern Pines will be thought his an Automobile Show, it was announc- prayed far ed this week by the committee in be saved and charge. Automobile dealers In the >nimediately the wind whipped around and blew the fire back toward the Sandhills are cooperating to make seething mass in town and his house !)K. TO TFIJ. OF KXPKRIENCHK IN t'HINA Dr. Charloe NeLson of Canton, Chiiva. will speak at the Woman’s Society meeting at the Church of Wide Fellowship on Wednesday Ap ril 2Hth at S o'clock. His subject wUl t>e “F»rty Years’ Kxperience m China." Everyone invited. this show an attractive display ot i new models of the cars which they' handle. The .%how will be held out of appeals were doors, probably on the grounds ad- jacent to the City Administration Building. The old man »says when he was Buick and Pontiac.s will be shown bought by Col. Goode the price was by the Martin Motor Company of SI,300. At that time speculation in Aberdeen, with several models on slave property was active, many ne- display. The Allred-Chevrolet Com.' groes being bought to take down into pany of Aberdeen and the Pinehur* the lower Mississippi and gulf region Garajfo are expected to have a num- to th<» cotton and cane fields. But he her of Chevrolets here, and the Pine- was kept in Virginia and became a hurst company will also show new ^ house boy. When h« was delivered 'udiilacs and La .Salles. Ralph Cald- to his new master he eame to t^e well of Aberdeen will have Plymouths house with scant olothing an«l a pair a*d Dodges in the show, and othv of wooden .•shoep. As the shoes w’ere Plymouth models may be displayed noisy in running about the house Col. by C<ilin Osbonie of Southern Pines. Goode told him to take them off and H. A. Page, Jr., will have a number throw the in the fire. Then he went of the new Fords on exhibit, and barefcH>t, and while that was not so Brown A Clark are expected to of- bad in the hrnse it wjis rough out fer Hudsons ajid Terraphiaqp. j (Ptmisf ho'ti to 4) Al TO SHOW !‘LANN'EI) Plans for the Spring Blossom Fes tival here have reached the point where it is not a question of secur ing attractions but of fitting all the attractions into the five days of Dog wood Week. If we can believe the committee in charge of the plans there will be enough to see and enough to do to keep one busy and interested from Monday until The Festival Ball winds up late Friday night. New features developed during the past week include an Automobile Show, details of which are announced in another column. Many new' cars with all their up-to-date appurtenan ces will be on view in the heart of town, probably near the Administra tion Building in the City Park, each day during the week. New feature No. 2 is to be an even ing of music and drama, staged by the Sandhills Little Theatre in co operation with Lamar Stringfield, leader of the North Carolina State Symphony Orchestra. Details of this entertainment are being worked out but it i.s already known that the pro gram will be divided between some short one-act plays by the local ama. teurs and musical numbers of tha String Quartet of the ^tate Sym phony, a group which has been mak ing a profound impression in recent engagements throughout the state. Big (iuns Coming Another feature which is being worked on and is expected to mater ialize is the bringing to Southern Pines the week of April 9th a bat tery of artillery from Fort Bragg, with it.s big 75 mm. guns, and the Fort Bragg Military Band of some 40 pieces. If it can be arranged the band will be here throughout the week to give daily and nightly con certs in the park, and the artillery en. campment will prove a great attrac tion to those not accustomed to view ing maneuvers by the big gun boys. General Manus McClo.sKy, command ing officer at F’ort Bragg, a»cpressed a desire to send his men here when a committee of the Chamber of Com merce called upon him this week. The committee is now working on ar rangements incidental to housing and feeding so many men. The special committee, headed by Frank Buchan, in charge of Old Slave Day met on Tue.sday and fur ther planned for the program for that day of Dogw(X)d Week, Wednesday, It is planned to bring the old timer* here in the morning, let them sit about 6n the park benches and tell their stories to those interested in talking with them; then luncheon will be served and in the afternoon a program of speeches, old time dances, I fiddling, banjo picking and such will I be put on in the City Park. More names of former slaves are coming ' in to the Festival headquarters in I The Pilot Building evary day aad j that there will be a goodly represen. I tation here there is not the slightest I doubt. , Selection (^een Much interest centers around the j election of a Festival Queen, num- j erous youthful Sandhills beauties al- I ready having been nominated for tl^ honor. Their names and the particu lars attendant upon the selection of Queen are told about elBewhere ia this issue. One problem which confronts tti« committop In charge of New Bng^- land Day is how to get hold of enougk I baked beans to feed the mob exp«ct- ^ «d to be pre.sent for the festivtUe* , BJid luncheon on their day, Tuci4tajr. This committee plans big doings la honor of the numerous people hera I ‘Plen-nf tMii te [Mtge 4)