MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 19.
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FIRST IN NV.WS,
CIRCI LATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Nbrth Carolina, Friday, April 5, 1935.
FIVE CENW
Spring Blossom Festival Opens in Southern Pines on Tuesday
PRESBYTERIANS IN
SOUTHERN PINES
DISCUSS CHURCH
Spring Blossom Time in Southern Pines
Those interested in Organization
Here to Hold Vesper Service
Sunday Afternoon
REV. BARBErT PREACHER
The organization of a Presbyterian
Church in Southern Pines, informally
discussed here for some time, is ap
proaching the stage of a decided pos
sibility, according to some of those
persons interested. The largest muni
cipality in the county, Southern Pines
has no Presbyterian church, though
there are a large number of Presby
terian residents here.
The plan is to be seriously consid
ered and discussed at meetings to be
held in the near future, according to
report. This coming Sunday afternoon
at 5 o’clock at the Civic Club a Ves
per service is to be conducted tor
persons of the Presbyterian faith and
others who may be interested. The
Rev. Ernest L. Barber, pastor of the
Bethesda Presbyterian Church in
Aberdeen, will preach the sermon.
This service has been arranged in
response to a demand on the part of
a group of Presbyterians of Southern
Pines who are leaders in the move
ment are invited to be present Sun
day afternoon. -
Von Canons Hurt When
Auto Turns Turtle
West End Couple Victim of Ac
cident Resulting from Tire
Blow-Out
While rounding a curve on the
Jackson Springs road near West End
at an early hour Monday morning a
tire blew out on the car of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul Von Canon of West End,
turning the car over five times with
resultant injuries to the occupants.
Though Mr. Von Canon was thrown
clear and escaped with cuts and
bruises, Mrs. Von Canon was pinned
in the wreckage and released only
when her husband broke a window
in the car to reach her. She suffer
ed severe cuts on the hand and body
and is in the Moore County Hospital
where she is reported as not serious
ly hurt. The car was completely de
molished.
The wreck was first discovered by
Ervin Sutphin and E. P. Hinson, who
rushed Mrs. Von Canon to the hospi
tal. According to Mr. Von Canon, a
tire blew out when they were round
ing a curve at a fairly high rate of
speed, turning the car over.
Mrs. Mcintosh Dies
at Her Home Here
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Full Program Arranged for
Gala Event Here Next Week
Queen Contest
Miss Katherine W'iley Leads
Field in Voting For First
Lady of 1935 Festival
Miss Katherine W'iley of South
ern Pines leads the field in the
contest for Queen of the 1935
Spring Blossom Festival, wtih a
total of 2,035 votes up to yester
day afternoon. The standing:
Katherine Wiley 2035
fiuby Hodges 1125
Mary Welch 1100
Blanche Sherman 1015
Flora Lee Brady 1005
Sara DuRant 1005
Anne Cameron 1005
Mary Hall 1000
Helen Hartgrove . .... 1000
Lida Duke Blue 1000
Virginia Hensley 1000
Votes are one cent each and
should be cast at Festival head
quarters in the Curb Market Build
ing in Southern Pines.
Parade of Floats To Open Fes
tivities in Afternoon; Cos
tume Dance at N'ight
BAND CONCERTS DAILY
Dogwoods in Bloom Along One of Picturesque Drives Through Weymouth Heights.
STATE DRAMATIC
CHAMPIONSHff TO
SOUTHERN PINES
Daughter of the Late Rev. W.
H. H. Lawhorn of Carlhage
Was Born in County in 1866
Mrs. Elizabeth Lawhorn McIntosh,
widow of S. R. McIntosh, died in her
home on May street in Southern Pines
last Sunday morning, March 31st.
Born near Caithage on March 2nd,
1866, the daughter of the Rev. W. H.
H. Lawhorn and Anna (Bostick)
Lawhorn, the deceased is survived by
three sons, M. P. McIntosh of Rock
ingham, L. H. McIntosh of Wades-
boro, and A. L. McIntosh of Houston,
Texas, and six daughters, Mrs. D. B.
Perry, Durham; Mrs. A. L. Hum
phrey, Warsaw; Mrs. M. F. Haywood,
Greenville, S. C.; Mrs. C. R. McNair,
Rockingham and the Misses Allie
and Julia McIntosh of Southern
Pines; also by thirty-one grandchil
dren and four great-grand children.
She also leaves two brothers, H. H.
Lawhorn of Carthage and P. D. Law-
hom of League, Texas, and a sister,
Mrs. R. E. Andrews of Mt. Gilead.
Funeral services were held in the
Baptist Church at Rockingham «it
10 o’clock on Monday, the Rev. Bruce
Benton and the Rev. J. Fred Stimaon,
officiating.
Apple blossv'Tis are in full bloom
at the orchards of M. C. McDonald
in West End and are worth a visit.
Pine Maskers Capture Title for
Second Consecutive Year in
Cimtest at Chapel Hill
The Pine Maskers of the Southern
Pines High School w'on for the sec
ond consecutive year the State dra
matic championship of city schools in
the recent dramatic festival held in
Chapel Hill.
Several weeks ago this group com
peted with the two high schools from
Raleigh and the Chapel Hill High
School to determine the school that
would represent this section of the
state in the finals. The Pine Maskers
came out victorious in this contest
and as a cansequence represented
Central North Carolina in a final
grouping with the Curry High School,
the training school of North Carolina
College for Women in Greensboro,
the Albemarle High School and the
high school from Wilson. The vic
tory in this contest gave the local
Thespians the State plaque again.
The play given by the Southern
Pines group was "Figureheads” by
Louise Saunders. In the cast were
Eleanor Harloe, William Winter, Ruth
Richardson, Sylvia Pethick, Herman
Grover, Lawrence Williams and Har
old Fowler. Isabel Pelton was the
manager of properties and wardrobe.
The play was produced under the able
direction of Miss Sara Falkener, who
also guided the Pine Jlaskers to the
State championship last year.
In the last three years the local
school has entered this contest, it
has reached the finals each time, los
ing to Lenoir two years ago and win
ning over Lenoir last yean
YEGGS. ATTEIVIPT SAFE
ROBBEKY IN V.ASS GARAGE
Would-be thieves w’ho entered the
, Keith Motor Company’s place of bus-
I iness in Vass by breaking the glass in
j the door one night last week, knock
ed the combination from the safe and
I hammered the lock from the door,
I but failed to get the door open. Mon-
! ey seemed to be the only thing the
visitors wanted as they did not take
any of the automobile accessories in
the building.
HOSPITAL MEETING TUESDAY
The annual meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Moore Coimty Hospi
tal will be held on Tuesday evening,
April 9th, at 7:30 p. m., at the hos
pital. Directors will meet at the hos
pital for dinner at 7:30 o'clock.
Tag Day For Library
Southern Pines Institu^icr.
Makes Public Drive For
Funds Saturday
The Southern Pines Library is
having a Tag Day tomorrow, Sat
urday, making its one and only
public appeal for funds this year.
Residents and visitors are urged to
make as liberal contributions as
possible to the young people sell
ing the tags, toward the support
of a fine institution, a distinct lo
cal asset.
LOCAL SPORTSMEN
FORM GAME AND
SHOOTING
Books Open in Aberdeen
For Election on May 7
Town to Choose Mayor and
Board of Commissioners.—
Miss McBryde Registrar
Tomorrow, Saturday, is the first day
for registration for the coming mun
icipal election in Aberdeen. Miss Leta
McBryde has been appointed regis
trar, and the books will be open in
the office of J. Vance Rowe in the
Page Building on the following dates:
April 6, 13, 20 and 27. Saturday, May
4 will be Challenge Day.
Aberdeen is electing a mayor and
board of commissioners on the first
Tuesday in May. The present mayor,
Henry McCoy Blue, is the sole nom
inee as mayor, and the following sev
en are candidates for the five com-
missionerships: F. D. Shamburge^;, J.
D. McLean, H. A. Gunter, J. M. Tay
lor, C. L. Guion, J. K. Melvin and W.
H. McNeill.
John G. Sloan and J. T. Harring
ton have been appointed to serve as
poll holders, and J. E. Blue as alter
nate. The voting on May 7th, will be
in the Aberdeen Hotel building.
SIXTY-FIVE COMPETE IN
WOMEN’S GOLI' TOURNEY
Julian Bishop, P. S. P. Randolph,
Jr., and Alex Fields to Devel
op Sport in Sandhills
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I The Carolina Game and Shooting
; Association, Inc., has been formed by
Julian Bishop, P. S. P. Randolph, Jr.,
and Alec Fields, prominent Sandhills
sportsmen, for the purpose of rais
ing game, managing and directing
shooting preserves, the leasing and
selling of shooting property in North
and South Carolina, the training and
selling of bird dogs, shooting equip
ment, etc.
The purpose of this association is
to assist the land owner in develop
ing the surrounding country into
quail and turkey shooting preserves
by planting and protecting such
] properties and ilie desiioymg of the
vermin and such other enemies of
game birds that do so much to pre
vent the normal increase of game.
The association plans to give help to
him to raise a crop which is one of
the land owner and direct and help
his most valuable assets and for
which he is probably receiving no
revenue at the present time. The as
sociation invites land owTiers to list
their property with the association
that they may be of help in the plant
ing and raising of the crop of quail
and turkeys. Much acreage is already
signed up.
Legion Auxiliary Head
To Attend Festival
Department President and Staff
Accept Invitation.—Poster
Awards Announced
Mrs. Shurnaway, Department Pres
ident of the American Legion Auxil
iary, has accepted for herself and
staff the invitation to be present at
the district meeting of the Ameri
can Legion and Auxiliary to be held
on Military Day of the Spring Blos
som Festival. The local unit plans to
serve luncheon in the Civic Club at
12:30 p. m. to the visiting Legion
naires and Auxiiiares. They are also
to have a float in the parade. All
members are urged to be on hand to
welcome the State Officers.
Sandhill Unit 134, American Le
gion Auxiliary thanks the public for
its generous support of the poppy
Fale. The posters advertising this sale
were made by school children. Prizes
were offered for the best posters and
the winner of the grand prize is Anna
Walker of Southern Pines. Prizes also
were given to Lemuel Buckingham
of West End and Helen Fields of
Pinehurst. Others whose posters were
used were Densie Trousdell, Louise
Crain and Jannita Hall of Southern
Pines. The judges were Paul Dana of
Pinehurst and Hugh Betterley of
Southern Pines.
LOCAL TEACHERS HONOBKO
AT ST.\TE CONVENTION
Sixty-five women golfers teed off
yesterday in the annual Mid-South
tournament of the Southern Pineri
Club. At the end of the first 18 holes
i of medal play Miss Charlotte Glut-
i ting of New Jersey led the field with
I an 81. Play continues through today,
the low medal for 36 holes winning
the championship. Miss Helen Waring
of Pinehurst won last year.
PINEHURST HORSE SHOW
ATTR.\CTS L.\RGE CROWDS
Plnehurst’s 18th annual Horse
Show, held on Tuesday and Wednes
day, was a great success, both from
the standpoint of entries and of
crowds watching the classes on both
days.
Two members of the Southern Pines
School faculty were honored recently
during the state teacher’s convention
held in Winston-Salem. Miss Sara
Falkener, sixth grade teacher and
director of high school dramatic, was
selected as the president of the Dra
matic division of the North Carolina
Education Association. Frederick
Stanley Smith, director of music in
the school, was chosen as the presi
dent of the Music division of the same
organization.
B. Y. P. U. TO HOLD SERVICE
SUND.\Y IN B.VPTIST CHURCH
The Senior B. Y. P. U. will have
charge of the evening service at the
Southern Pines Baptist Church this
Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The
public is cordially invited to attend
this service, which will be a new un
dertaking for this Young People’s or
ganization here. The B. Y. P. U. will
endeavor to show the public how its
work is carried on.
MRS. C.4TLIN, LONG WINTER
RESIDENT HERE, PASSES
Mrs. Theresa A. Catlin, a winter
resident of Southern Pines for the
past 40 years, died in the home of her
sister, Mrs. Emerson Hayes early
yesterday morning. Funeral services
were held in her li*te home at 5
o’clock in the afternoon, the Rev. J.
Fred Stimson officiating and Miss
Ethel Jones rendering a song serv
ice. The body went north for inter
ment at Torrington, Conn. Mrs. Cat
lin, nee Calhoun, was born in Litch
field county, Conn., 80 years ago and
I is survived by two sisters. Miss Hel-
; en Calhoun and Mrs. Emerson Hayes,
I and one brother, Seth Calhoun.
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:miss emilie richardson
I TO WED JOHN A. LEL.\ND
The eng£igement of Miss Emilie
IL. Richardson, daughter of S. B.
Richardson of Southern Pines, and
jjohn A. Leland of Charleston, S. C.,
I was announced last Saturday at a
j tea given by Miss Mary Richardson.
I Miss Richardson has been a member
i of the faculty of Southern Pines High
i School until recently. Mr. Leland is
, an attorney, formerly of Johnson
I City, Tenn., and is a brother of Mrs.
1 Edwin T. McKeithen of Aberden.
Attorney General Homer S. Cum-
I TTi1n<rs, who has been spending a va-
, cation at Plnehtirst, addressed a Joint
j session of the Senate and House in
the capitol at Raleigh yesterday noon
Southern Pines’ second annual
Spring Blossom Festival will get un
der way next Tuesday afternoon at
three o’clo<:k with the start of the
Parade of Floats through the down
town section, and from that moment
imtil late on Saturday night there
will not be an idle hour for residents
and visitors desiring to “take in” all
the attractions and entertainments on
the week’s program.
Here are the outstanding features
for each day.
Tuesday - Parade of Floats at 3 p.
m.; Costume Dance on Broad street
at 9 p. m.
Wednesday — All-States Day. Pa
rade of States at 10 a. m. Equestrian
Gymkhana at baseball park at 3 p.
m. Fireworks’ display, baseball park
at 8 p. m.
Thursday—Old Slave Day. From
10 a. m. to 5 p. m., singing, dancing,
speeches and music featuring colored
survivors of slavery days. Municipal
Park. In the evening at 8 o’clock, the
Spring Blossom Festival Chorus will
sing "Holy City” in the High School
Auditorium.
Friday—Military Day. From 10 a.
m. to 5 p. in., conventon of American
Legion, Legion Auxiliary, Daughters
of the American Revolution. Address
by Brig. Gen. Manus McCloskey of
Fort Bragg. Military Parade in af
ternoon. At 9 p. m., coronation of the
Festival Queen in Municipal Park,
followed by Queen’s Military Ball at
the Southern Pines Country Club.
Saturday—Collegiate Day—Tennia
matches, Duke University vs. N. C.
State College, Municipal Park, 10 a.
m. Baseball game, Duke vs. Davidson
College, baseball park at 2:30 p. m.
Collegiate Ball at Country Club at
9 p. m.
These are just a few highlights of
the week’s program. For detailed pro
gram the reader is referred to Page
8 of this issue of The Pilot.
Daily Band Concerts
The 17th Field Artillery, with its
famous band, will be encamped here
all week, with its guns and equipage
on exhibition on the site of the old
Southern Pines Hotel. The band will
give a'Concert in the Municipal Park
each morning at 10 o’clock, and in the
afternoon at 5 o’clock, with retreat
ceremony at sundown each day.
Many entries have been received
for the opening event of the gala
week, the Parade of Floats. Not only
will business, nearby towns and va
rious organizations be represented
with gaily decorated trucks in the
parade, but individuals are entering
their private cars properly decked out
for the occasion. Car owners in the
vicinity are urged by the Festival
committee to decorate their cars and
enter them in the parade.
Tuesday night is the big opening
night of the Festival and it opens
with perhaps the prettiest of the
week’s features, the Costume dance.
The committee in charge, Mrs. C. L.
Hayes, Mrs. D. J. Welch, Mrs. Mary
Dell Matchett and Dr. George G.
Herr, chai.man, promises at least
200 persons in costume. Individuals
and groups from Aberdeen, Pinehurst,
Carthage, Vass and other nearby
towns are expected. A big represen
tation from Southern Pines ia assur
ed. Of course the street dance is to
follow and is a big attraction. Those
taking part in the costume dance and
parade will meet between 8:30 and
9 o’clock, and the parade will start at
nine down Pennsylvania avenue,
head,ed by the 17th Field Artillery
Band, to the reviewing stand on
Broad street where the Judges will
be present.
This same committee is the decor
ating committee and the decorationa
already up all over town speak for
themselves. The committee has had
splendid cooperation from the bual-
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