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MOORB COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
vol.. 15, NO. 19.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, April 6, 1934.'
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Olossom F^estival Opens on IVIondav
DUKE-STATE OPEN
OFFiaAL SEASON
HERE ON TUESDAY
Game on Southern Pines Dia
mond First Conference Bat
tle for Both Teams
Dogwood Blossom Time in Southern Pines
CONNIE MACK, JR. COMING
Two of the strongest college base- j
ball teams in the South will clash on i
the Southern Pines field next Tues- (
day afternoon when the Duke Uni-1
versity Blue Devils meet the N. C. |
State Red Terrors as one of the prin
cipal features of the Spring Blos-
son Festival.
The contest is an official ‘‘Big
Five" game, the first conference
game of the season for both teams.
Both outfits have shown plenty of
power in early season games and,
from this distance, seem to be very
evenly matched. A Bang-up game
is predicted.
Many luminaries of the diamond
and gridiron, past and present, are in
cluded among the visitors. The Duke
coach is Jack Coombs, famous as one
of the Big Three of Connie Mack’s
championship Athletics of 1910-14.
Connie Mack, Jr.,Z is a pitcher on
the Blue Devils, while two of the
most promising professional pros
pects in the state are Ferris and Lam
beth, State catcher and shortstop, re
spectively. Bob McQuage and Ray
Rex. football stars, are regulars on
Chick Doak’s outfit.
A capacity crowd Is xpected to
turn out for this event and arrange
ments to take care of the crowd are
being made. A brisk advance sale of
tickets and parking space reserva
tions is reported. The contest will
start promptly at 3:30, but a full
bouse is expected long before game
time.
Whiting Buys Hogg
House in Knollwood
Third Big Transaction of Year in
'ri\at Vicinity Announced
by Biddle
Ernest Whiting of New York and
New Haven, Conn., has just conclud
ed the purchase of Mrs. Louise Hogg
Barber's Knollwood house, the L. L.
Biddle agency at Pinehurst h£indling
the transaction. Mrs. Hogg’s house
is one of the prominent places in
Knollwood, its architecture and con
struction placing it in a class that
has attracted much attention from the
time the plans were first announc
ed. It is located on Serpentine Drive,
near the homes of W. C. Fownes, Jr.,
H. H. Beckwith and others of that
higher type to be found in that vi
cinity. _
Mr. Whiting ha# had a great deal
of experience in real estate and his
purchase of the house is considered
quite a significant factor in the pick
up in real estate business in this
s«ction.
This makes the third large sale in
Knollwood this season, the first being
the purchase by M. F. Tonjpkins,
which house is just beyond Mr. Whit
ing's, and the recent purchase by
Buriell G. White, who bought a large
hou.se and one hundred acres adja
cent to She Khollwood property.
Announce Features
of “Cahlina Revue”
Hospitiil Benefit by Colored En
tertainers at Pinehurst Coun
try Club Tuesday
Some of the feature numbers in
"‘The Cahlina Revue," to be presented
next Tuefwlay evening at the Pine
hurst Country Club for toe benefit
of tbe Moore County Hospital, were
a^inounced yesterday by the com
mittee in charge. Here are a few of
them, all staged by colored enter
tainers ;
Band from Morrison Training
School at Maraton;
Taylor Brothers' quartet;
Waiter Brown, ‘fiancer;
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(Photo by Eddy)
A View of Connecticut Avenue in Weymouth Heights.
EDGAR CHAPMAN
NEW PRESIDENT
OF M.C. HOSPITAL
The Festival Week Program
Southern Pines Resident Suc
ceeds Struthers Burt as
Head of Institution
Edgar T. Chapman of Southern I
Pines was elected president of the
Moore County Hospital at the annual
meeting held in Pinehurst on Tues
day night. Mr. Chapman succeeds
Struthers Burt. Verner Z. Reed, Jr.,
Pinehurst: M. G. Nichols, Southern
Pines and George H. Maurice, Eagle
Springs, were elected vice presidents.
The Executive committee elected for
the ensuing year comprises Mr. Maur
ice, chairman; James Boyd, Struth-
sr.s Burt and Mr. Nichols of Southern
Pines. George P. Hawes and Leonard
Tufts of Pinehurst and M. C. McDon
ald of West End. Verner Z. Reed
lionds the Finance committee, the
other members being S. B. Chapin
and John B. Lloyd of Pinehurst, Nei- '
son C. Hyde of Southern Pines and
Wiibur H. Currie of Carthage. j
The following Board of Directors
was elected; H. H. Beckwith, Knoll- ^
wood; James Boyd, Southern Pines:
Struthers Burt, Southern Pines; M.
F. Butner, Pinebluff; S. B. Chapin, '
Pinehurst; Edgar T. Chapman,'
Southern Pines; W. H. Currie, Car- j
thage; Paul Dana, Pinehurst; George
T. Dunlap, Pinehurst; Col. G. P.
Hawes, Pinehurst; Nelson C. Hyde, ^
Southern Pines; J. B. Lloyd, Pine-1
hurst; Geo. H. Maurice, Eagle
Springs; J. E. Muse, Carthage; M.
C. McDonald, West End; D. McCrim-'
mon. Hemp; H. P. McPherson, Cam- ^
eron; A. S. Newcomb, Lakeview; M. ^
Q. Nichols, Southern Pines; Verner
Z. Reed, Pinehurst; Clinton Reynolds, ^
Highfalls; t. v’ance Rowe, Aberdeen;
U. L. Spence, Carihage; D. G. Stutz,
Southern Pines and Leonard Tufts,
Pineliurst. i
Monday—Coronation Day
9:00 P. M.—Street Costume Dance and Band Concert,
Fort Bragg Military band, West Broad Street between Penn
sylvania and New Hampshire avenues.
10:00 P. M.—Coronation of Queen of the Festival at
Court of Honor in front of Citizens Bank Building, Military
Guard of Honor. Awarding of prizes for costumes.
10:15 P. M.—Grand March 1-ed by Festival Queen, Street
Dance to continue afterwards.
Tuesday—New England Day
10:00 A. M,—Band Concert in Municipal Park, Fort
Biagg Military Band.
10:30 A. M.—Assembly of Tourist Visitors, Municipal
Park, Parade of States followed by Annual Meeting, Southern
Pines Tourist Association a.nd Baked Bean Dinner at noon
in Dogwood Forest, Manly Springs.
3:30 t'. M.—Baseball Game, Duke University vs. State
College, Raleigh, Southern Pines Baseball Diamond.
8:00 P. M.—Concert, Southern Pines High School Glee
Club, directed by Frederick Stanley Smith, School Auditor
ium.
9:00 P. M.—Collegiate Dance, Southern Pines Country
Club.
Wednesday—Old Slave Day
ART EXHIBITION AT
CIVIC CIA B NEXT WEEK
Walter Frankl, well known artist
v.’ho has been spending the winter in
Southern Pines, will give an exhibi
tion of his paintings at <he Civic
Club during Festival week. Mr. Frankl
has been doing some excellent por- '
traits of local psople and a number ^
of vivid paintings of colored residents ^
here.
Also OP exhibition at the Civic Club
next week will be a number of the !
paintings of the Rev. W. A. Cooper, j
ormer pastor in West Southern Pines.
Cooper will be here all next week and
will addreoB his colored brethem an '
Old Slave Day in Municipal Park. I
10:00 A. M.—Band Concert, Fort Bragg Military Band,
Municipal Park.
10:30 A. M.—Assembling and Registration of Old Slaves
in Municipal Park, with Public Invited to Discuss Slavery
Days with them.
12:00 Noon—Lunch for Former Slaves in Park,
1:^0 P. M.—Singing by Shaw University (Colored Jubi
lee Singers.
2:00 P. M.—Addres.s of Welcome to Old Slaves—Judge
J. S, Manning, Raleigh.
2:15 P. M.—Informal Talks of Ante-fJelluni Days by
Former Slaves.
2:45 P. M.—Si>nging of Negro Spirituals.
3:00 P. M.—Addres.s by ^ev. William Arthur Cooper,
colored, Charlotte.-
3;i30 P. M.—Singing by Shaw Univei sity Jubilee Singers.
4:00 P. M.—Tap Danding and Singing by Colored Visi
tors.
4:30 P. M.—Old Fiddlei^’ and BanJo Picking Contests.
8:00 P. M.—The Rose Maiden by Festival Chorus, direct
ed by Charles W. Picquet, assisted by Charles Pier, Congrega
tional Church Auditorium.
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Thuinday—Sfiorts Day
10:00 A. Mk,—Band Concert, Fort Bragg Miiitary Band,
Municipal Park,
10:30 A. M.—Exhibition Golf Match, Southern Pines
Country Club.
11:00 A. M.—Exhibition Tennis Match, Municipal Park
Courts.
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All in Readiness for Gala
Week in Southern Pines
FESTIV.4L NOTES
Dogwood and Peach Blossoms
to Greet Throng Expected
For Festive Occasion
Tlie voting for Festival Qvieen closes
at 12 o'clock noon on Monday. Up to
that time votes, which are a penny
apiece, may be left at Festival iiead-
quarters in The Pilot Building.
Demu.s Taylor of Taylortown, Pine-
hufst suburb, is expected to be the
olde.st ex-slave here for Old Slave
Day. Demus is 108.
Membei'S of the Fort Bragg Mili
tary Band, which will be here all next
week for daily concerts in the park,
will bunk and mess at the Pine Grove
Hou.se on Bennett street, leased for
the occasion by the Festival com-
inittee.
That Duke baseball team looks
pretty good. It won a double head
er Monday from the University of
South Carolina. State College lost on
Monday to Wake Forest.
Those having rooms available for
guests here for the Festival are re
quested to list them with D. H. Tur-
turn to page 4)
COMPETITION FOR
FESTIVAL QUEEN
A MERRY RACE
Pinehurst Girl in Lead, Closely
Followed by Southern Pines.
Balloting Ends Monday Noon
Miss Dorothy Pottle of Southern
Pines jumped over the heads of all
but two of the contestants in the
race for Queen of the Spring Blos
som Festival yesterday and is now
headed only by Mias Dorothy Shazter
of Pinehurst and Miss Marjorie Skin
ner of Southern Pines. Rumors are
current of a lot of hoarding of votes
to be thrust in at the eleventh hour,
and it will be anybody’s race up to
noon on Monday when the final
tabulation is made in the Festival
Headquarters in The Pilot Building.
Here’s how' they stood at 5 o'clock
yesterday afternoon;
Miss Dorothy Shazter 2,910
Miss Marjorie Skinner ,, 2,217
Miss Dorothy Pottle . .. 1,519
j Miss Ruth Bruton 1,389
Miss Marjorie Coffey 1,315
Miss Virginia Hensley 1,130
Mi.s.*! Anne Cameron , . . .. 1,102
Miss Frances Sparks .. 1,120
Miss Helen Parker 1,095
Miss Pauline Poe 1,085
Miss Laura Parker 1,050
Miss Betty Osborne 1,037
Miss Katharine Wiley .., 1,030
Miss Mary Alice Weatherly .... 1,020
Mi.ss Lida Duke Blue 1,020
Miss Pat Lumpkin 1,020
Miss Virginia Kane .. 1,010
Miss Anna Bush by . 1,000
Miss Catharine Graham 1,000
Mis.s Margaret Olmstead .. . 1,000
Mi.ss Jean Zirr;nernian .... 1,000
Miss Susan Swett 1,000
Votes for Queen sell for a penny
each, the proceeds to be used toward
defraying; the expenses of the Festi
val. Vote tickets in denominations of
five, ten and one hundred may be pro
cured at the Festival Headquarters
in The Pilot Building.
A bonus of five votes free goes
with each ticket for the baseballl
game on Tuesday between Duke Un
iversity and State College. When you
buy your ticket for this game see
that a voflb coupon is given you with
the ticket, then fill in the name of
your favorite and deposit in the bal-
-Jot box at headquarters.
AU tickets received at headquart
ers up to 12 o’clock noon on Mon
day next, April 9th, will be tabulated
for the candidate whose name ap
pears thereon. Tickets received after
the noon hour will not be voted.
The successful candidate will be
announced at tHe Street d.mce Mon.
rijy nigh:.
PLAN MANY FEATURES
The stage is set, the actors ready
for the first annual Spring Blossom
Kc.^tival to be held all next week in
Southern Pines.
Thou.sands of visitors are expect
ed throughout the week, and that
there will be plenty for them to do
and see while guests of the Sandhills
is obvious from the program of events
which appears in another column to
day.
The F’cstival opens at 9 o’clock on
Monday night. After a costume
tfance in the heart of the business
section the coronation of the newly
elected Festival Queen will take
place in splendor in the Court of
Honor in front of the Citizens Bank
Building. The race for the honor of
serving through the week as Queen
of the Festival is going merrily on
and developing keen rivalry. Not un-
til the votes are finally counted at
noon on Monday next will the result
be known. It is a close race at pres
ent,
Coronjition Cerenioniei*
The coronation festivities should be
gay and festive. Not only will the
Queen be attended by her Court at
tendants, a dozen attractive young
Southern Pines girls in costume, but
also with military pomp and splendor,
a Guard of Honor from Fort Bragg,
in full regalia, having been assigned
by General Manus McClosky, the
post's commanding officer, to take
part in the coronation. The Queen will
ead a grand march through the down
town section after the ceremony, and
then the street dance will continue
merrily on. ,
Prizes are to be awarded for the
most attractive costumes worn by
both men and women, and for the
most comical ones seen in the proces
sion. Local artists and authors are
to act as judges of the costumes.
Tue.sday will be devoted to the
visiting tourists. They will gather by
states in the Municipal Park at 10:30
o'clock in the morning and will go
from there to the Dogwood Forest
Manly Springs for a program of mus
ic and informal talks, the annual
meeting of the Southern Pines Tour
ist As.sociation and an old fashioned
baked bean luncheon. Visitors from
other states will be the guests of the
tourist association at the luncheon;
others will be welcome at the outing
but are requested to bring their own
lunches. Don Phillips of Rockingham^
solicitor of the l3th Judicial District
and a candidate for Judge of the
Superior Court, has been invited to
be the principal speaker at this gath
ering.
Duke vs. State
The big baseball game between
Duke University and State College at
Raleigh starts at 3:30 o'clock in Li»e
afternoon on the Southern Pines dia
mond, and from the advance .sale of
tickets there will be a multitude at
this, the first Conference game be
tween these two teams.
Tuesday evening the visiting ball
players and officers and their wives
from Fort Bragg are to be honor
guests at a dance to be given in the
Southern Pines Country Club.
Wednesday is Old Slave Day. As
op every other day of Festival Week,
thfe Fort Bragg Military Band will
give a concert in the park at 10
o’clock in the morning to start the
day’s program. The former slaves
are being brought to town by citizens
of their communities at 10:30 o’clock
and will gather in the park where the
public may chat with them about
the old days of the Reconstruction.
There is no set program for the
morning, but at noon a luncheon will
be served the former slaves and an
extensive program follows in the af
ternoon, with !>in);ing by the Skaw
Univfi-iity Jubilii ^Iner.s ; an
I/’/•«* - to rhty.