MOORE COUMY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
vol.. 15, NO. 3L
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territqj^y of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, June 29. 1!).‘M. ■_ FIVE CENTS
LOAN FOR SCHOOLS
IS SIDETRACKED
AT WASHINGTON
Miss Alice Wheeler Bride of
John Rude in Home Wedding
Protest From Pinehurst and
Southern Pines Holds lip Build
ing Program in County
CONSOLIDATIONS IN' VIEW
Moore county’s application for a
Federal loan to finance a school
building program has been sidetrack
ed, after having been approved by all
of the approving agencies in Wash
ington, according to information re-
cciveii by County Superintendent H.
Lt'e Thomas from W. F. Credle, of
Raleigh, director of school house plan-
nin{,‘, who was in Washington last
week.
Accoiding to the report, a grouj) of
people from Southern Pines and Pine
hurst have sent a protest to the PWA
Board, stating that they represent a
majority sentiment in Moore county
and that this sentiment is overwhelm
ingly against this loan. The “side
tracking” resulted.
The law provides that by present
ing a petition signed by 15 per cent
cl the number of voters casting bal
lots for governor in 1932, an election
can be called to vote upon the mat
ter.
The County Commission and the
County Board of Education will meet
on Friday of this week to see what
can be done to get the loan carried
through.
Should the building program fail to
be carried out, great changes in the
county’s schools will of necessity fol
low, Mr. Thomas thinks. It will de
stroy the prospect of a high school at
Highfalls, greatly hamper the con
tinuation of Elise High School at
Hemp as the tendency will be for
the students to go to other places,
and destroy the prospect of contin
uing a high school at Eureka. Numer
ous county line consolidations will
doubtless result, also. Children from
Needham’s Grove and Moody will in
all probability be sent across the
county line to Seagrove in Randolph
county: Highfalls and Cedar Hill to
Bennett in Chatham county; children
in Ben.salem and around Samarcand
will likely go to Candor in Mont
gomery county and those around
Spies and Dover to Star.
The State authorities have been ad
vocating these county line consolida
tions for a number of years and have
actually brought pressure on the
county Board of Education to carry
it out. The county board has opposed
the plan all along as it wanted to
complete the school system of Moore
county and this building program
was adopted by the Board of Educa
tion as a last desperate effort to
hold these communities together and
prevent the partitioning of the Moore
county school system among other
counties, and with the hope of giving
to the children throughout the coun-
t> a uniform school system.
Seaboard Golfers To
Be Here Sept. 1, 2, 3.
Railroad Officials Arrange For
Opening of Golf Course for
Annual Visit
The Seaboard Golf Association will
hold its annual tournament in South
ern Pines as usual. Arrangements for
the opening of one of the Country
Club’s golf courses, closed for the
summer, for the week-end the rail
roaders are here were completed yes
terday when C. H. Gattis, general
manager of the Seaboard, J. C. Wrot-
en, president and C. E. Bell, vice pres
ident of the golf association, with
H. E. Pleasants, division passenger
agent and D. G. Stutz, local Seaboard
agent, met with M. G. Nichols, pres
ident of the Country Club. The tour
nament, the eighth annual one, will
be held on September 1st, 2nd and
3d. The Park View Hotel will be head
quarters for the railroad men.
I’opular Southern Pine« Girl I
Weds Attache of Long Is
land Park Commission
My .Mice May Hcilnies
In a very simple but solemn and
impre.ssive wedding ceremony, wit
nessed only by the members of the
two families and the officiating clcr- ;
gyman and his wife. Miss Alice
Wheeler, one of the most popular
girls in Southern Pines, on Satur
day evening last, June 23d, became
'he bride of John Kendall Rude of
Freeport, Long Inland. It was a
oaniilelight wedding. The Wheeler
home, on Kensington Road, beauti
fully decorated for the occasion,
made a most appropriate setting for
the lovely bride, in her exquisite bri-1
dal robe of white mou.sselinc de soie. '
Promptly at eight o’clock, the bride
on the arm of her father, to the
Rtrain.-i of the Mendele.ssohn wedding
march, came down the garlanded,
stairwaj’, and attendetl by her maid
• of honoi, met the groom and his best
'Tian in fiont of the candle lighted
Pita.'. The ceremony was performed
, by tlie Rev. T. A. Cheatham of Pine
hurst, the ring ceremony l)eing used.
The arrangement of the living room,
vviih it.'' fireplace in a large recess
formed by extending boolccases on
: either side, made possible an espec
ially effective scheme of decoration,
and this was well utilized by the dec
orators. In the centre of the mantle
and behind the wedding party, white
hydrangeas were massed against a
' baekgroimd of green pine and English
ivy, flanked on either side by waxy
magnolia blo.ssoms and leaves, while
at either side of the recess which was
banked with greenery, arose the tall
: T'pikes of white gladioli, lighted up ,
by the flame of the rows of candles .
shining above them. Most conspicu-1
oup were the two huge white altar
candles in their high brass candle- i
; sticks, standing on either side back
of the clergyman's desk, and light- I
I ing up its white satin cushion. The
whole scene, in its purity of green
and white, and with the softness of
candlelight, gave a peculiar sense of
."anctity and .solemnity to the occa-
■ sion.
On the table in the dining room
■ adjoining stood the brides wedding
cake, also decorated with white flow-
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Postoffice Here Not
on Approved List
.Morgenthau and F’arley Over
look Southern Pines in Se
lecting “Needy Cases”
Southern Pines is not on the list
jof public building projects selected
I and approved this week by Secretar.y
i nf the Treasury Morgenthau and
Postmaster General Farley for prompt
construction. Though on the author
ized list the powers that be in Wash- !
'n.gton, having to use the pruning |
.shears because Congress did not ap- |
propriate sufficient money for all au- |
thorized structures, left the local post- j
i office out of the picture for the pres- |
jent, holding it not as necessary as '
I some others on the list. Sanford, too, j
I of the cities on the authorized list, j
tailed of an immediate appropriation.
Of North Carolina projects approv
ed by Mongenthau and Farley, the
j following are closest to home: Win-
Iston-Salem $350,000; Fayetteville,
I $95,000; Rockingham, ?165,000.
I The amount authorized for South-
I ern Pines is $77,000. The next list of
I approved projects will undoubtedly
contain the postoffice here.
Open as Usual
Southern Pines Country Club
to Improve Courses Before
Winter Season
Rumors current around Southern
Pines that the Country Club golf
courses would not be open next
winter season were set at rest this
week. Funds for needed repairs to
the courses and for fertilizing are
-eported in hand and Frank Maples
has been engaged to supervise the
A’ork of preparing the fairways and
greens for next season’s play. Fer
tilizer is on its way here.
PAGE TRUST PAYS
OUT $400,000 IN
20 P,C. DIVIDEND
Checks Received This Week by
Depositors of Aberdeen and
Carthage Branches
10 PERC ENT !\I()RE SOON?
Southern
Fourth of
Plan P\)r Fourth
SOME CHANGES IN
SPORTS SCHEDULE
Start.s Sea.son with New Brand
of Tourney for Leading Golf
I’rofessionals
Pinehurst’s spoi'ts schedule for the
1934-1935 .season, as tentatively
iliawn up, contain.s a number of
changes over former years. The first
and most important variation is the
15th annual Mid-South Open golf
tournament, which starts the season
off on November 13, 14, 15 and 16.
For the first time in the history of
open golf competition, to the best
of our knowledge and belief, a two-
ball foursome is arranged for the
country’s leading professionals. In
past years this tournament has been
a two-day event, with competition
for pairs one day and individual play
the other. This year it will be pairs
only, with each pair playing alternate
strokes with one ball. All matches
up to the semi-finals will be 18 holes,
the semi-finals and finals 36 holes.
The tourney runs through four days
instead of two. And the prizes offered
make it worth while for the pro?:
$150 each for the winners, $300 each
for the runner-up pair, $200 each for
semi-finals losers.
There will be the usual run of
ether golf tournaments, the dates of
the more important ones being as fol
lows:
Annual Tin Whistle event, Febru
ary 21st.
33d Annual United North & South
Open, March 27, 28, 29.
35th Annual United North &
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I.KGIOX POST TO II.XAK
B.XItBKCl’E MGHT OF 4TH
M(U’e than $400,000 wa“ paid out •
this week to depositors of the closed
Pagi' Trust Company, an l man./ were
the checks received in T.Twue county
by those who formerly banked with
the Aberdeen and Carthage branches. |
The dividend, the first to be made
since the bank closed al the time
of the general bank holiday was 20
percent of the total deposits. Anoth
er 10 percent dividend is expected in
yie not far distant future and it is
currently lumored that as much as
50 percent will be paid m all.
The checks, mailed out of Kan-
ford and signed b.y W. W, .Tones for ,
the State Commissionei' of banks. I
countersigned by S. J. Hinsdale, li-
ctuidating agent, were received here
on Tuesday and Wednesday and
were the cause of ranch gratifica
tion on the part of the recipients. A
number of new accounts were open
ed with the proceeds in the Citizens
Bank & Trust Company, Southern
Pines, and the Bank of Pinehurst,
and the deposits of both of those in
stitutions took a decided jump.
The dividend was made possible by
a loan to the Page company from the ,
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
and in endorsing the checks the pay
ee agree to the following: '
“The payee by indorsement hereof ;
acknowledges that he is a direct ben- |
eficiary of a loan made to the liqui- i
dating agent of the Page Trust Co., j
Home Office, Aberdeen, N. C., and
Branches by Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, secured by pledge of
assets of the receivership estate; and ^
to protect said corporation, in the j
event said loan is not otherwise paid, I
does by this indorsement assign,
transfer, and set over unto said Re
construction Finance Corporation his
claim against, and interest in, the
assets of the receivership estate un
til said corporation shall have re
ceived out of his distributive share
reimbursement of the amount hereby
received.”
DU. (i. IIF.KU
General Chairman. Fourth of Jul\
Committee
IIAKKY LKWIS
Chairman, .\11-States Associat'ion
Luncheon Committee
SHOT FOUR TIMES
SCHOOL TEACHER
DIES OF WOUNDS
Railroa^l Underpass
Project Probable
Favorable Action Expected by
State Highway Commission,
Buchan States
The Sandhills Post of The Ameri
can Legion will celebrate July Fourth
in soldier style with a barbecue sup
per and meeting at Manly Springs
near Southern Pines at 6:00 p. m.
The Mess Sergeant figures he can
serve the supper to the Legionnaires
and their guests at 40c per head.
Commander Rowe has invited Don
Phillips and other prominent Legion
naires to be present and speak. It has
been 16 years since July 4th, 1918,
when over-seas veterans really went
on the hot seat around Chateau
Thierry and other places on the west
ern front.
Most of the veterans in the county
will be in Southern Pines for the base
ball games in the afternoon and stay
over for the fireworks and danc5 S-t
night so that a large attendance is
expected at the Legion meeting.
That there is a decided probability
of the construction of a railroad un
derpass for a direct route for motor
ists from U. S. Highway No. 1 into
West Broad street. Southern Pines,
was stated Tuesday to the directors
of the Chamber of Commerce by
Frank Buchan, chairman of the Com
mittee on Highways, Just where the
No. 1 optional route will leave the
main higi way has not been deter
mined by the State Highway Commis
sion, but Mr. Buchan .says there is
every reason to believe that the pro
ject. one long advocated by the local
organization, will be approved in the
near future. Its purpose is to let
those tourists desiring so to pass
through the business section of town
instead of the residential section via
May street.
SOITHKHN riNF^ POST,
r. S. \V. V., WINS LOVING t’tl'
MOORE DEMOCR.ATS N.AMED
TO EXECl’TI\ E COALMITTEES
BANKS CLOSED U EDNESD.VY
The Citizens Bank and Ti-ust Com
pany of Southern Pines and the Bank
of Pinehurst will be closed all day
Wednesday, July 4th, a national hol-
idav.
Mrs. A. P. Thonip.son of Pinehurst
is Moore county’s member of the
Democratic Executive committee
from the Eighth district. P. H. Mc
Donald of Carthage is a member of
the Congressional Executive commit
tee, John Stephenson of Southern
Pines of the Judicial Executive com
mittee and L. L. Manon of the Sena
torial Executive committee. These ap
pointments were announced at the
Eighth District meeting held in con
nection with the Democratic State
convention in Raleigh last week. John
Beasley of Carthage was a member
of the Committee on Credentials.
MISS LVDI.A LOVEKING ANO
DAVID DANA, JU. MAKUIF.D
The wedding of Miss Lydia Lover-
ing, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Rich
ard Levering of Pinehurst, and Dav
id T. Dana.. Jr., of Boston, Mass..
took place at the home of Mrs. Burn
ham in Bolton, Mass., on Tuesday af
ternoon of this w'eek. Among those
from the Sandhills at the wedding,
in addition to the Lovei-ing family,
were Mr. and Mrs. Almet Jenks and
Augustine Healy of Southern Pines.
Mr. Dana is a relative of the Tur-
nure family w^ho have an estate be
tween Southern Pines and Pinehurst.
He is in the banking business.
Southern Pines Post, United Span
ish War Veterans, won the loving
cup for the greatest proportion of
members present at the 11th annual
encampbent held this week in Fay
etteville. The trophy will be on dis
play next week in a downtown shop
windovi-. Dr. Anita Newcomb Mc
Gee is commander of the local post,
the only U. S. W. V. post commander
in the United States. As a war-time
surgeon Dr. McGee qualified for mem-
bershijS in the organization and for
20 years was the one woman in the
country serving as an active mem
ber.
Herbert Lyerly of Hickory was
elected department commander and
Hickory selected for the 1935 en
campment.
Husband Arrested Afttr Chase
by Police When Chaney
Spencer Succumbs
As a result of the death last week
of Chaney Spencer, efficient and
highly regarded colored school
teacher of Taylortown, Eli Spencer,
her husband, arrested Friday near
Greensboro, is being held without
privilege of bond for trial at the Au
gust term of Superior Court. The
woman was shot four times, three
times in the face and once in the
abdomen, at her home early in May.
According to the testimony brought
out in Recorder's Court on Monday,
Chaney Spencer on the night of the
shooting went with her father to a
school commencement. After her re
turn her husband told her that he
was going to blow her brains out
and die and go to H - himself, it is
said. The first shot was fired in the
kitchen; Chaney ran into a bedroom
where tw’o girls were sleeping; he
followed, turned on a light and fired
again; she ran toward the front door
where the third shot was fired, then
made her way to the front porch or
yard, where the final shot was fired.
The wounded woman dragged her
self under the steps where she bled
profusely.
Neighbors hastened to the scene;
the husband, walking around with
the pistol in his hand, told persons
there that he had killed his wife and
war going to kill himself, it is said.
Before officers were able to appre
hend him the man made his escape.
Chaney was carried to the hospital
where she lingered for about six
weeks.
On Friday of last week Sheriff C.
J. McDonald and Officer Currie <
Pinehurst in company with three
deputies from the sheriff's office in
Guilford county went to a farm about
three miles from Greensboro where
Spencer was residing temporarily
with his cousin. Lawyer Davis. Some
men were plowing in a field and
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ans Real
Celebration
1^0 Idle Moment From 10 A. M.
to Next Morning on Dr.
Herr’s Program
DON PHILLIPS TO SPEAK
Double Header Baseball in Af-
terno<tn. Movies and Dance in
Evening, with Beauty Contest
to Select “({ueen of the 1931
Piach Harvest.”
Southern Pines will be the gather
ing place for the Sandhills section on
the Fourth of July, next Wednesday.
And there won't be an idle moment
from 10 o’clock in the morning un
til blank o’clock in the morning of
July 5th, accoi'ding to Dr. George G.
Herr’s commucee on arrangements.
It sounds like a busy program.
Starting at 10 o’clock in the Munici
pal Park various fire departments of
the Sandhills Firemen’s Association
will put on water stunts and races.
Mixed up with the doings will be
some minstrel numbers staged by Al
bert Adams and his “all-star cast,” in
cluding Amos and Andy, Madame
Queen, etc. and so on.
At 12 o’clock noon the All-States
Association takes charge of affairs
in the park and puts on one of it§
now famous baked bean dinners, cook-
c(l under the direct and personal sup
ervision of the president of the socle
ty, Harry Lewis. Harry promises the
biggest plateful of viands you ever
saw for 15 cents, and says he'll have
money left over to apply on the cost
of • the ball park's new bleachers.
Everyone is planning to eat “on
Harry” next Wednesday noon, in
cluding the entire membership of the
Kiwanis Club, which is holdmg its reg
ular weekly meeting in the park.
Don Phillips to Speak
The Democratic candidate for one
of the leading offices at stake in the
fall election will address the assem
bled multitude. F. Don Phillips of
Rockingham, candidate for Superior
Court Judge of this district, will dis
cuss affairs of the day. Mr. Phillips
is the present solicitor of the judicial
district. U. L. Spence, candidate for
the State Senate, was to have spok
en also but advised the committee at
the last moment that he would be
unable to come.
The plans call for the party at the
park breaking up in time for the start
of the double-header baseball program
at the ball field. Vass and West End
clash in a regular Sandhills League
game at 2 o’clock, followed by one
of those hard fought battles between
Aberdeen and Southern Pines at 4
o’clock. Tickets are now on sale
throughout the section for this big
baseball bargain, two games for 25
cents for adults, ten cents for the
children. And a dime more lets you
into the grandstand.
The league officials are counting
on these Fourth of July games to
swell the treasury enough to carry
the teams along for some time. Col
lections at games so far this year
have been below par andCharlie Pic-
quet states that it will take a big
“gate” on the Fourth to produce suf.
I ficient revenue to provide oalls and
bats and meet the necessary expenses
of the various clubs in the schadule
for the summer is to ba carried
through. Everyone will be required
to show a ticket. There will be no
“Complimentaries.” Don’t go to the
game without either a ticket of a
quarter.
Tickets are on sale at Hayes Book
Store, the Broad Street Pharmacy and
by Chamber of Commerce directors
in S uthern Pines; at Shields’ Drug
Store in Carthage, at Bryan’s Drug^
Store in Aberdeen, at O’Brien’s and
the Carolina Pharmacy ir Pinehurst.
A committee of young men, headed
I by Frank Buchan, Jr., is in charge
I of the sale of children’s tickets,
j Fireworks and Danco
j The big fireworks display, for
I which $100 has been subscribed by
j merchants and others in Southern
I Pines, is scheduled to start at 8:00
1 o’clock at the ball field. The flre-
M'orks are here, a variety to please
the most fastidious youngster in the
community—and when it comes to
fireworks we are all youngsters. Rob-
vt Gregson is in charge of tlte cHs-
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