MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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VOL. 15A, NO. 39.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday August 23, 1935.
FIVE CENTS
Will Rogers^ Tragic Death
Felt Keenly in This Section
He Made Several Appearances
In This Section in Past
Several Years
BEN DIXON McNEIL WRITES
The tragic death of Will Rogers,
which occurred last Thursday night
in an airplane crash at Point Bar
row, Alaska, is keenly felt in this
state which he had visited on many
occasions. His last public appearance
in North Carolina was seven years
ago in March, and among the towns
visited was Pinehurst where he ap
peared at the Carolina Theatre. It
was Will’s third trip to Pinehurst.
Probably as manj' yords have been
written about Will Rogers as any
man that has lived recently. Big and
little newspapers have voiced their
feelings in a variety of tributes. The
American people had a proprietory
feeling about him. He was a roamer
and a democratic mixer that drop
ped down in a community or town
and immediately became one of the
people. His visit in the Sandhills is
told by Ben Dixon McNeill in the
Raleigh News and Observer. Mr. Mc
Neill also has many friends through
out the county who will read his
story with a double interest. He ac
companied Will on one of his tours
of the state.
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Aged Cameron
Woman Passes
Mrs. McFadyen’s Son Was the
First White Child Born
In Cameron
After an extended illness, Mrs.
Flora Ann McFadyen, aged 81, died
on Wednesday, August 14th at her
home in Cameron. She was the old
est daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs, Alex McGilvary of Moore
County and the widow of the late
Gideon McFadyen, who died many
years ago.
Funeral services were held on
Thursday afternoon at the home, con
ducted by her pastor, the Rev. M.
D. McNeill. The pallbearers were her
grandsons, Robert, Martin, Ralph and
Frank McFadyen, and John McGil
vary and Dr, Lex Buie of Lemon
Springs.
Two musical selections, “Some
time We’ll Understand" and “Abide
With Me,” were softly rendered by
Miss Mary Hendricks, Mrs. Minnie
Clark, Jimmy Rogers and J. R. Lov
ing. Just as the sun went down, un
der a mound of beautiful flowers, her
body was laid to rest by the side
of her husband, in the Cameron
Cemetery.
Mrs. McFadyen possessed a gen
tle spirit, a lovable disposition, and
a kind and sympathetic heart. She
led a quiet, simple life, full of good
ly deeds, and was devoted to her
family and church. She was a char
ter member of the Presbyterian Wo
man’s Auxiliary and a life-long mem
ber of the Cameron Presbyterian
church. Her oldest son, the late N.
C. McFadyen, was the first white
child born in Cameron.
Surviving are two daughters,
Misses Annie and Maggie McFadyen
of Cameron; three sons, J. A. and M.
J. McFadyen of Cameron, and C. E.
McFadyen of Sallon, Nevada; one
sister, Mrs. Ruth Buie of Lemon
Springs; one brother, P. T. McGil
vary of Mulberry, Fla.
POSTOFFICE TO
CLOSE ON SATURDAYS
Beginning the first week in Sep
tember, the Southern Pines postof-
fice will close at noon each Sat
urday, instead of the summer sche-
dule of Wednesdays. Next week ends
the closing of local stores on Wed
nesday afternoons for the summer.
MRS. ADAMS APPOINTED
TO NEW POSITION
Mrs. W. J. Adams of Carthage and
Raleigh, widow of Justice Adams,
who has been employed in the Reve
nue Department almost since her
husband’s death, has been appointed
assistant Supreme Court Librarian.
Crash Victim
WILL KOGEItS
COMMISSIONERS
RESTRAINED IN
SALE OF TAXES
Postponement Due To the Ina
bility of Farmers To Pay
Before Fall
The county commissioners and
tax collector have been restrained in
the sale for taxes for the years 1934
and 1935 from advertising and selling
lands. The restraining order signed
by Judge Clawson L. Williams was
made returnable before Judge P. A.
McElroy on August 12, and a con
sent order was signed by Judge Mc
Elroy. continuing until October 5,
1935 the hearing on the order as to
why the commissioners and tax col
lector should not be restrained.
The action was brought by George
W. McNeill, D, A. McDonald, Jr., K,
W. McLeod and other taxpayers, who
set forth that the several thousand
tracts of land about to be sold be
long to delinquent taxpayer?? the
most of whom are poor people who
are not able to pay at this time of
year, but who can and will pay if
given time in which to market their
crops of cotton and tobacco.
A grav6 injustice would be done
if lands were sold in September, it
was felt,
FIREMEN DKILLIXG FOR
STATE MEET AUGUST 26
*8,000 TENTATIVE
ALLOTMENTS FOR
COUNTY STREETS
Southern Pines Gets $3,200.00,
Largest Amount In
Countv
Interesting Items From Old \ BURRELL G. WHITE
Southern Pines Newspapers KNOLLWOOD &
'iNEW YORK PASSES
ABERDEEN SECOND
Mileages nnd expenditures from
the §500,000 set aside by the 1935
General Assembly for maintaining
State-designated streets through
municipalities have been set up tenta
tively by the State Highway division
and sent to officials of all of the
about 30 municipalities for any sug
gestions they may want to make,
Chaiiman Capus M. Waynick an
nounces.
The set-up will be held open uneil
September 1 for any changes that
may be desired and unless valid rea
sons are shown, it will then be made
permanent and work started on that
basis for the year, Mr, Waynick says.
He hopes but does not expect the
plan to be entirely satisfactory. It is
arranged according to engineering
need and not on a population basis.
He suggests that the N. C. League
of Municipalities, which spon.sored
State maintenance of numbered high
ways in cities and towns, designate
groups to receive and weigh s’tgges.
tions of changes.
The mileage to be thus maintained
is 875.53, to cost about $470,546,10
and through municipalities with 1,.
047,845 people in them. Twenty-nine
municipalities, usually the larger
ones, ask that they be permitted to
maintain their numbered streits
with their own organizations but
with State funds. These have 213.29
miles of streets, estimated to cost
$217,094.70, and w’ith population to
taling: 598,396. The others, about 330,
have 844.24 miles designated, to oosl
about $253,451.40, and have popula
tions totaling 449,449.
Moore county municipalities will
get the following amounts, based on
population and number of miles:
Southern Pines, $3,200; Aberdeen,
$3,100; Carthage $520; Pinebluff,
$450; Vass, $300; Hemp, $240. and
Cameron, $150.
A picked crew of the Southern
Pines Fire Company has started
drilling for the competition during
the meet of the State Firemen at
Wilmington on August 26th-29th.
Captained by L. S. Rowell the crew
will be T. Vann, H, McNeill, A.
Bowers, J. Cameron, Barrett Harris,
and the crew of the chemical, O. Mi
chaels, J. H. Cushion and H. McNcill.
Some of the men will leave for Wil
mington Monday and some on Tues
day.
ALL STATES TO HOLD PICNIC
The All States Association will en
tertain for all the boys from ten to
thirteen at a picnic to be held at
Harry Goldsmith’s farm tomorrow,
Saturday, at five o’clock. Everyone
is invited to attend, whether member
or not, and all are asked to bring a
basket. The boys will hike to the
farm and asked to meet at the Ed
dy block at four o’clock. All others
will meet on Pennsylvania Avenue
at 4.30.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Carter an
nounce the engagement and approach
ing marriage of their daughter, Neva
Louise to J. Hubert McCaskill.
The wedding will take place early
in October.
MAKES BIG HAUL
Returning from a recent fishing
trip in Pennsylvania, Omer Williams
of Southern Pines, brought back 14
Rock fish weighing 140 pounds.
Southern Pines Schools
To Open September 10
Several Changes In Faculty
Since the Last Announce
ment Was IMade
The Southern Pines schools will
open for the 1935-36 term on Tuesday,
September 10th, instead of the fifth
as scheduled. The short delay in. op
ening is due to the State Textbook
Rental Commission being unable to
furnish books before that date.
Several changes have been made
in the teaching staff since the list
was announced in The Pilot of July
5th. Mrs. Ellen W. Brown, teacher
of the fourth grade, has resigned
and her position will be filled by
Miss Lonie Gordon of Baskerville, Va.
Miss Gordon has been in the art de
partment of the State Department
of Education this summer and for
the past five years has taught in the
Freemont schools. For the sixth and
seventh grades. Miss Lorrie Walker
of Bedford, Va., a teacher in Golds
boro for the past ten years, has been
accepted. A full list of the faculty
will appear in the issue of the 30th.
TWO MOORE COUNTY MEN
APPOINTED TO STATE PATROL
Of the 66 young men appointed to
the State Highway Patrol on Tues
day two were from Moore county,
A. E. Leavitt, Carthage, and E. W.
Jones, Cameron. W. C. Thomas of
Sanford, and M. H. Dunn, Candor
also received appointments.
BOWMAN WINS PAR BOGEY
Infantile on
Decline in N. C.
Three Moore County Cases
Are Out of Contagious
Stage
According to the latest reports
from the State Pilblic Health
Board, the infantile paralysis
cases in this state are well on the
down grade and no cases have
been reported this week. The three
Dases in Moore County are beyond
the danger of spread now, and
unless something unforseen occurs,
the disease is practically check
ed in North Carolina.
The United States Public Health
Service reports an outbreak in
the north, centering in New York
and New England.
Many Familiar Names
Early Sandhills
Settlers
BRIGHT PROSPECT
AS THE OPENING
OF MARKETS NEAR
Warehouse Men Say They Have
Excellent Corp cf Buyers
Listed This Year
OPENING SEPTEMBER 17
Prospects for the Aberdeen tobac
co market get brighter as the open,
ing of the middle belt draws nearer,
now only three weeks off, the open
ing date set for the 17th of Septem
ber. Merchants and business men are
making plans to cooperate with the
warehousemen to insure a profitable
and successful season.
Aberdeen will have more buyers
than usual this year and some of the
best known buyers will represent the
different (companies, Amorfg those
expected will be Joe DeBerry for the
American Tobacco Company; L. T.
Avery, Liggett & Myers; John G.
Webb of Oxford, Export; Ivy Win
ston, Lake City, S. C., for Imperial;
Mr. Boles, W’inston-Salem, Reynolds
Tobacco Company; and many repre
sentatives of the independent buyers.
A newcomer this year will be
Claude W. Covington of Reidsville,
who will operate the Aberdeen Ware
house, Mr. Covington, it is under
stood, has taken a long lease of that
warehouse. He has been prominent in
the tobacco markets of Reidsville
Chadbourn for many years and
has already established himself in
Aberdeen for the season.
Mr, Covington will have Tom
Smothers of Reidsville and Hugh
Mylam of Danville, Va„ on the floor
as auctioneers, G. E, Crutchfield, Jr.,
of Reidsville, as book man and Fred
Smith, Clarksville, Tenn., Reuben
Smothers, Reidsville and Tenjen Ed
wards, Cameron, holding other res
ponsible positions.
B. B. Saunders will be back in
charge of his warehouse with a good
lineup of men and there is every in
dication that thecoming season will
meet the approval of the farmers as
well as the warehousemen and mer
chants. Encouraging and pleasing
reports from the Georgian and border
markets, indicate that the prices will
hold up and be unusually high when
the market opens here.
Helen K. Butler
Southern Pines gets a new hospi
tal. “The plans for Dr. Qladmond’s
new Sanatorium are about perfected;
it will not only be the finest insti
tution of the kind anywhere in the
South, but will not be excelled by
anything in the United States.” The
rather startling announcement was
taken from the Free Press, publish
ed in Southern Fnip® in 1899, If the
sanitarium was not excelled, then it
was soon to be eclipsed, and speak
ing of eclipses. Southern Pines too
had its dark moments in the early
days. Smoked glass astronomers,
about a hundred visitors and several
prominent ob.servatory parties were
here in 1900 for a solar eclipse tak
ing place on May 28.
F, E. Seagroves and Prof. C. A, L.
Linden of the Clarke observatory of
Cambridge, Mass,, several men from
Carleton College, Minnesota, in con
nection with Guilford college and pro
fessors from the University with
some outstanding men from Johns
Hopkins set up their instruments on
Tilghman’s hill, to photograph and
study the unusual occurrence. From
the report of the Free Press it was
a success as an eclipse. While it
aroused some consternation among
the back country and confused the
Prominent Winter Resident
Here Succumbs In New York
Wednesday
DEATH COMES AS SHOCK
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' Large Gulf Terminal to
I Be Built In Fayetteville
Contract Awarded Local Firm
j for Preparatory Grad-
I ing Work
I Contract for the grading and fill-
' ing preparatory to the construction
of the Gulf Refining Company’s
! four million gallon gasoline storage
plant in Fayetteville was awarded to
Reinecke-Dillehay Construction Com
pany of Southern Tines and Fayette-
' ville. Work has already been start-
' ed.
' The huge plant will be located on
the w'est bank of the Cape Fear riv-
er. Gasoline and other petroleum
products wil be pumped from river
barges to for treulmendous storage
tanks. There will also be an office
building and warehouse. The plant
will be the distributing center for
Gulf products for practically all of
North Carolina west of Fayetteville
and Raleigh.
GARRETT & COMP.\NV TO USE
WAREHOUSE IN GRAPE SE.\SON
Bill Bowman won the Yadkin Golf
Club, Par-Bogey Tournament with
81 points. Mr. Bowman’s gross score
was 67, playing over the No. 1
course in Pinehurst.
Ellis Maples was second with 75
points and a gross score of 66, three
under par. Wimberly Bowman was
third with 69 points.
Garrett and Company of BrookljTi,
N. Y., winemakers, announces this
week that it will utilize its recent
ly reconstructed plant in Aberdeen
this grape season for buying scup-
pernong grapes in the Sandhills.
Buying will start about the 15th or
20th of September, depending upon
when the grapes are ripe enough to
pick. All grape growers in the vicin
ity who want baskets in which to
pick and deliver the grapes may ob
tain them at the Aberdeen plant.
RICH.\RDSON H.\S N.XRROW
ESCAPE IN C.\R .ACCIDENT
OPEN GOLF TOURNAMENT
TO BE HELD AUG. 28
An open golf tournament will be
held next Wednesday afternoon,
August 28th, at the Pinehurst Coun
try Club for the benefit of the Ki-
wanis Club Hospital Bed Fund. Play
will be on a handicap basis which
will give every entry a chance to win
a prize. There will be an entrandt
fee of $1.00, no charges to be made
by the Country Club. All players in
the Sandhills are urged to enter the
contest.
ATTENDS CONVENTION
W. H. Mumford, local distributor
for Delco producfcs, has just returned
from Charlotte, where he attended a
convention for all Delco Local dis
tributors and salesmen in the two
Capolinas and southern Virginia.
I Returning from Aberdeen about 7
o’clock last Saturday night, Sam R.
Richardson of Southern Pines narrow
ly escaped a very serious accident
(When the right tire of his car blew
out. The accident occurred in front
of Charlie’s Place, the car swerving
off the highway and running about
70 feet, bursting through a wide
fence and cutting down two sizeable
trees before overturning. Mr. Rich
ardson was badly bruised and shak
en. but escaped without further in
jury.
.4NNUAL MORRIS PICNIC
TO BE HELD IN GREENSBORO
The annual Robert Morris picnic
at the Masonic and Eastern Star
Home in Greensboro will be held next
Thursday, August 29th and all mas
ter Masons, Eastern Stars and theii^
families are invited to attend. All
are requested to bring baskets. .
News has just been received here
of the death of Burrell G. W’hite,
which occurred ai his New York
home on Wednesday afternoon. Mr.
White has made Souhern Pines hia
winter residence for about nine
years, having one of the finest es
tates in the Sandhills in Knollwood.
When he left in May, he appeared
in excellent health and his passing
comes as a distinct shock to his many
friends here. He was interested in
the Sandhills as a whole, believing
it to have great possibilities, and
for several years he spent much of
his time here making improvements
on his estate.
Mr. White was a reader and think,
er and a man of unusual intelligence,
a retiring person and of reserved
character. His close friends were
real friends. He was always a sup.
porter of all Sandhills ventures that
pertained to the growth or welfare
of the community. He gave enthusi
astic aid to every cause for good
and had a hand in many things that
transpired that were of benefit to
the entire section,
Mr. White, originally from Ten
nessee, studied law at several of the
south’s leading institutions. He was
a prominent New York lawyer. In
his younger d"ys he was interested in
newspaper work in San Francisco,
California, thereby making contacts
with people that were beneficial in
law practice there in later years. He
was much interested in old titles and
grants and delved into their early
history. He wrote several books on
the subject. He later devoted his
time exclusively to consultation ad
vice on insurance and was especial,
ly occupied in drafting contracts for
insurance covering unusual hazards.
Mr. White spent much of his time in
New York and Washington during
the past few years. He was a mem
ber of the Sleepy Hollow Country
Club and the Bankers Club of New
York.
He is sur\'ived by a daughter,
Mrs. Aldo Balsam, and two sons,
Burrell White, Jr., and Arnold White,
all of New York. Private funeral
services were held at the New York
home, Mrs. White died a number of
years ago.
King- and Newsome Get
Year in State’s Prison
Robbed Eagle Springs Mail Car
rier Several Months
Ago
Bill King and Percy Newsome,
white men who held up and robbed
John Monroe of Eagle Springs sever
al months ago, plead guilty in Su
perior Court last week of robbery
from the person, which plea was ac
cepted. and were sentenced to one
year in State’s Prison.
Both King and Newsome are long
termers who had been convicted of a
series of crimes before escaping
from the prison ward of State San
atorium and committing the hold-up
of the Eagle Springs mail carrier.
King’s recent sentence brings his
time to forty-six years and six
months, and Newsome had twenty
years to serve before receiving his
latest sentence. King is credited with
robbing the Bank of Biscoe on two
different occasions and with shoot,
ing some officers in Newton.
Buck Leak, colored, was given
five months in jail to work on the
roads on charges of being drunk and
disorderly and indecent exposure.
B. B. Rogers, colored, on a man-
slaughter charge was sent to the
roads for five months. This was in
connection with an automobile fa-
tality.
John Cameron was sentenced to
serve six months for violating the
prohibition law.
Over fifty men have been hard at
work clearing the Seaboard right of
way through Southern Pines.