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Pa^e Six THE PILOT, Southern IHnes and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, November 23, 1934. The Week in Vass Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tyson, Mr. and Mr.s. J. M. Tyson and Miss Marie Ty son were guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Wallace of Carthage on Wednes day evening of last week at a dinner given by Mrs. Wallace in honor ot Her brother C. L.’s birthday. The young people of the Manly Presbyterian church presented an in- teresting program on the evils ot atrong drink at the local Presbyter ian church la.st Sunday evening be fore a large congregation. Special musical selections were pleasing fea tures of the program. W. B. Graham on last Sunday ended a thirteen-year term as superintend, ent of the Vass Methodist Sunday School and he will be succeeded next Sunday by W^. H. Keith, who was elected at the fourth quarterly con ference following Mr. Graham’s re quest that a successor be named. Mr. Graham has been absent few Sundays during the thirteen years and he has served faithfully and well. Mr. Keith is a man of experience along this line and his selection is considered a wise one. Friends here w’ill be interested to know that Miss Dorothy Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Gra ham who went from this community to Ruffin, S. C., to make their home, was recently crowncd queen of the county fair of Colleton county, S. C., and that Gerald Graham, a Vass boy, was one of the heralds of the queen. The queen received a handsome dia mond ring. Miss Ruth McNeill, Miss Elizabeth McNoill and Julian Leslie attended the Carolina-Duke game Saturday. Misses Lois Buchanan and Katha rine Graham were visitors to Raleigh Saturday. Mrs. W. J. Cameron, Mrs W. D. Matthews, Miss Sara Matthews and Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Smith visited Mrs. Kishie Cameron at her home on Jonesboro route Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Cameron has been ill for sever al days. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Thompson went to Charlotte Sunday to see their son- in-law. Roland Brown, who is criti cally ill in a hospital there. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Keith and Lin- wood visited Mrs. R. E. Patterson and family of Manly Sunday after noon. Miss Sarah Patterson, who re cently completed her course in nurs ing in a Richmond hospital, was at home for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Cameron and family visited Mrs. Cameron’s parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. F. McKay, in Buie’s Creek last week-end. W. B. Graham, W. D. Smith and M. M. Chappell attended the cotton meeting at the court house Monday afternoon. Williamson Beasley and H. C. Liv ingstone were visitors to Apex a day last week. Paul Gschwind and Charles Gsch- wind made a business trip to Glen- don iyonday. JACKSON SPRINGS Miss Lucille Barbee spent the week end in Thomasville. Misses Beulah and Jessie Heywood and Leon Heywood of Hemp were guests of Mrs. B. L. Henderson Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. W'arren Barbee call ed on Mrs. H. C. Carter last week. Mrs. H. C. Carter attended the ded ication of the new Federal building in Charlotte Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Garrett and Eugene spent Sunday in Southern Pines with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wood ruff. Mrs. Henderlite has returned home from Southern Pines after a visit with her son, Fred. Miss Lila McLeod of McBee, S. C., is spending some time with her un cle, K. A. McLeod. Thomas Hurley of Fort Moultrie, S. C., was home for the week-end. Several local residents attended th< farmers’ meeting in Carthage Mon day. Mrs. C. C. Sox and Miss Waldo | Stubbs spent Tuesday in Biscoe with Mrs. Earl Skeen. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Henderson spent Sunday with their family. Sergeant L. M. Brookshire of Fort Bragg spent the week-end in town. A large crowd attended the evan gelistic meeting at the church last week. The meeting was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Crinkley of Hemp. Many a house has been rented by a Want Ad. Moore County’s Courthouse at Carthage n n M spent a few days in Carthage last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Graves. Mrs. W. G. Brown and Mrs. G. C. Graves spent Saturday Chapel Hill with Mrs., Gabel Penn. S. H. Miller is undergoing treat ment in the Moore County Hospital. Claude Kennedy of Durham spent the week-end with his family here. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Stutts of Roa noke, Va., spent the week-end in Carthage with Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Stutts. R. J. Hart of New Bern spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. N. A. McKeithen. The Rev. Albert Johnson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of tertained a number of their friends at a barbecue at the McConnell warehouse last Thursday evening. 250 guests were present. The Carthage Woman's Club held Its November meeting Thursday, Mrs. W. G. Brown, president, presid ing. Mrs. R. P. Davidson, a winter resident of Knollwood and an active member of the club, had arranged a reading of Shaxespeare's “Mid- Sum mer Nights Dream,” for the bene fit of the local girl scouts. Mrs. Davidson is county chairman of the Red Cross Roll Call and urg ed a full quota for the year. BEW.ARE THE GYPSIES Many complaints are reaching the Charlotte, is holding a revivar meet- Gypsies who ing (at the Carthage presbyterian Church. Carthage. County Seat of Moore Created a Village 150 Years Ago' Former Home of President An drew Johnson Has Seen Erec tion of Four Courthouses By Mrs. S. R. Smith Carthage, county-seat of Moore county which is now 1.50 years old, having been created in 1784 by an act of the General Assembly in ses sion in Hillsboro, has a history which dates almost as far back as that of the county itself, and a background of culture and tradition that sets it apart from the younger towns around it. Cornelius Dowd, Archie Ray, Wil liam Barrett, a man by the name of McNeill and one named Saunders are CARTHAGE Mrs. F. H. Underwood, Mrs. E. H. Morton, Mrs. Dan Carter and Miss Rose Underwood spent Friday in Greensboro. Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Spence and Miss Mary Worthy Spence attended a wedding in Raleigh Saturday. Mrs. 'W. H. Currie is doing nicely after an operation in Presbyterian ' Hospital in Charlotte last Tuesday, j Miss Louise \Yilliams and Miss | Frances Purdy of Dunn spent the | week-end in Carthage with Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Morton. j L. W. Barlow of Richmond spent I the week-end in Carthage with his ! Misses Mary Jackson Yow and Ruth Mclver spent the week-end in Sanford. Mrs. Dolph Blue entertained at i dinner Thursday evening in honor of her niece, Mrs. Floyd Messemer ot Jonesboro. Covers were laid for Mr., and Mrs. Messemer, Mr. and Mrs. | Robert Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Blue and Miss Bess McCaskill. Mr. and Mrs. CJeorge D. Carter en- i in various sections and the citizens of the county are cautioned against having any dealings with these itin erants as they always get the big end of the bargain. If any groups of Gyp- sie should attempt to camp in the county, the sheriff will appreciate it if citizens will notify him. The best Social Stationery, plain, printed or engraved at Hayes.’ Pilot Advertising Pays. said to have chosen the site for Car thage and the land, sixty acres, was ^ family. procured from Richardson Feagin to | Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Fagg and whom it had been granted by the daughter, Dolore.s, left Sunday for State, and in whose honor the place Morristown, Tenn., where Mr. Fagg was for a time known as Feaginville.! is a warehouseman. The first court house, which ac-1 Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spencer, Miss j H cording to tradition was constructed j Mary Currie, W. H. Currie and E. H. H of hewn logs, was built in 1786., Morton attended the Carolina-Duke j Around the year 1814 a second tem-1 football game in Chapel Hill Satur- ple of justice was erected to take ^ day. j the place of the former and the new | Mrs. R. N. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen building was the first to .stand in ——— i ANNOUNCEMENT The Fashion Shop, in Carthage, is no wunder new man agement, being operated by Mrs. S. F. Cole. Under this management, which is now effective, the business goes upon a STRICTLY CASH BASIS and expects to give you greater values as a result of this change in policy. Only the very latest styles in Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear THE FASHION SHOP MRS. S. F. COLE, Manager CARTHAGE, N. C. KttntuntRttun McLEAN FURNITURE CO. Complete Home Furnishers SOUTHERN PINES The Curb Market is developing into an institution of which the comn*^unity may well be proud. It serves a double purpose; 1. It brings the women of Moore Coun- ty farms into town once each week, gives them an opportunity to market their produce at a fair return and in turn to make needed purchases at lo cal stores. •. 2. It presents to the Southern Fines housewives an opportunity 'to pro cure fresh-from-the-farm produce, financially aiding their neighbors from the farm and at the same time getting acquainted with the fine coun try folk who live ’round about us. Southern Pines market each Saturday morning 8:30—1:00 THE CURB MARKET MAKES FOR COUNTY SOLIDARITY THROUGH COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS from the territory nearer by, and the result is that her streets always pre sent a scene of activity. Good schools and churches and at tractive homes combine to make Car thage a desirable place in which to live, and her “folksy” people add to the pleasure of those who visit the A New Shop for the Discriminating in LADIES’ READY-TO-WEAR and HOSIERY AND HATS MISS BLENNIE WILLIAMSON Carthage, North Carolina The kitchen filled with savory holiday fragrance—the house wife free from the annoyance of working with unwieldy old- fashioned utensils, w'hen equip ped with modern aluminum and enamel ware like these. Aberdeen Hardware, Co. ABERDEEN While You are thinking of the Saudhills remem ber that a Developing, Model Community is Vass, N. C. Just a few miles north of Southern Pines Vass is a thrifty village, with a successf ul cotton mill industry, surrounded by good farming territory with fertile lands and good people, one of the best graded and high schools of the county, good churches, a hotel famous for its cooking and conven iences that makes a good place to put up, and is a central point between Southern Pines, Pinehurst, Overhills and Fort Bragg, the four great attractions of the Sandhills, Other industries are lumber mills, Grist mill, Cotton mill, Garages, Stores of var ious types, and of 'high character, Trucking in large extent all around the village, the Largest Dewberry Market in the World. Good water system and fire protection, pleas ant homes and good neighbors, the Federal Highway No. 1, through the village with good roads leading out in all directions, and one of the most picturesque regions round about. Just far enough out of Southern Pines and Pinehurst to be the site for a highly desirable suburban community, and with all the requisites for such an adjunct to the bigger places. Land and Building property is still on a basis of rural prices, which means so low as to be very attractive. Interested inquirers can obtain information f rom WIGGIN'S DRUG STORE W. B. GRAHAM Manufacturer C. M. GOODWIN General Merchandise W. M. MOORE Manager C. & P. Store R. P. BEASLEY General Merchant, Fertilizer Dealer and Farmer G. M. McDERMOTT Groceries W. DUNCAN MATTHEWS Promoter KEITH MOTOR & MILLING CO. HOTEL CHARMELLA ' H. C. Livingston, Manager THE SANDHILLS CITIZEN Published by The Captain Print Shop what is now the public square. It was known as the “red house.” This, too, was a wooden building and rest ed on tall pillars with the floor twelve feet above the ground. Tradition has it that the pillans were used as hitch ing posts for the horses of those at tending court and that the space un der the building served as a meeting county seat. place for those w’ho desired to stand j _ around and converse on the impor-iM”“*****’**““^*»»»»i»»»»i»»»::mt:::Kt:»»»»mK:mmxctttttmKn»»wmmt«tt»»m«»m«»»n»mHMiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiTW tant subjects of the day. | In 1837 the community was start-1 le(^ into action by the collapse of the floor of the court house, which result ed in the injury of numerous persons, and the following year saw plans under way for the erection of a more durable building, one of bricK con- j struction. The contract was let tOi Dabney Cosby, who was to furnish the material and perform the labor for the sum of $5,000. A paper pre pared by the late Supreme Court | i Justice W. J. Adams of Carthage. | j from which much information for this | I article has been gleaned, says that i just below the old Christian Kelly place, by the deliberate process of the ox’s tread the clay w'as worked into the proper consistency, and there the bricks were moulded and dried. Destroyed by Fire This building was ready for use in 1841 and me\ the requirements of the county until 1887, at which time it was enlarged. Two years later it was destroyed by fire and in it were consumed many valuable records which had accumulated during the more than a hundred years of the county’s history. The structure which succeeded this remained until it was razed to make way for the present stone building, the corner stone of which was laid in August 1, 1922. Andrew Johnson, 17th president of the United States, is numbered among the men of fame who have claimed Carthage as their home. Johnson re sided there for a while and worked as a tailor. ’Squire N. J. Muse, one of the town’s older citizens who has a wealth of interesting facts stored away in his mind, recalls having heard that among Johnson’s customers was one of the members of the well-known Tyson family, for whom he made two suits. Biographers record that John son was a “self-educated” man, but Mr. Muse has it that he “got his schooling from his wife.” Johnson removed from Carthage to Tennes see, where he later was made Gov ernor and was elected to other high offices in his adopted state before his occupancy of the White House. The Carthage of today is a thriv ing town that has come through the recent economic strain with less real knowledge that any such thing- exist ed than perhaps any other commun ity in this section. Various kinds of manufacturing plants furnish employ ment for numbers of her people, and she draws a large trade from the up per section of the county as well as
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