MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 51.
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FIRST IN' NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeei, Ncrlh Carolina. Friday, November 15, 1935.
FIVE CENTS
RADIO, BOOKLETS,
NEWSPAPERS TO
ADVERTISE U. S.-1
Extensive ProRram Mapped Out
by Executive Committee
of Association
SANFORD HEADQUARTERS
Judge Winston Launches
Season for the Civic Club
The executive committee of U. S.
Highway No. 1 Association had its
monthly meeting in the John Marshall
Hotel in Richmond, Va., last Wed.
nesday to complete its budget for this
year and make arrangements for im_
mediate action on its work this fall.
Among the approved plans was the
establishment as soon as possible of
an office in Sanford to be national
headquarters for President R. L.
Burns and Secretary C. R. Lano.
From this office will be issued from
time to time printed bulletins outlin
ing /the w'ork accomplished or in
progress. These bulletins will be sent
to all members and subscribers to the
organization.
Several thousands dollars was allo
cated to go to a noi thern touring bp-
reau for radio and newspaper adver
tising to counteract the work, which
it was learned, was being done by
the American Automobile Associa
tion for the coastal routes.
An appropriate amount was set
aside for billboards set at strategic
points on other routes, designed to
steer the south and north bound traf
fic to No. 1. The budget also includ
ed the printing ard distribution of
maps of the highway, including brief
information on points along the
route.
Travel
As soon as the data can be col
lected and pictures made, the U. S.
No. 1 Travel Guide will be published
for distribution. This is considered one
of the most important plans of the i
organization has. It will contain pic
tures and informaticn concerning j . t> i rp r> * J
towns along the route and places of i IVllSS XvUUy 1 t)riCl6
Introduced by James Boyd, Jur
ist and Author Reads His
Play, “Penelope’s Web”
On Wednesday evening past, the
Civic Club of Southern Pines inaug
urated it’s season of programs to be
given on subjects of varied interest,
for the benefit and pleasure of the
club members, and open freely to all
citizens and visiting guests.
November being “Book Month’’ on
the Calendar of Clubs, this club was
most fortunate in being able to pre
sent two very well known authors,
James Boyd and Judge Robert Win
ston. Both men were welcomed to
the Civic Club by the president, Mis.s
Mary Adaline Cook, after which Mr.
Boyd reviewed some interesting club
history, because the Civic Club was
started and endowed by his aunt, the
late Mrs. Mary Dull, who was also
a close friend of Judge Winston, in
those early days. So it seemed spec
ially fitting that Mr. Boyd should
be the one to appear before the club
on this happy occasion, much inter
ested in carrying on the work so dear
I to his own aunt, and to present an
old family friend in Judge Winston.
Judge Winston is in every count,
the true Southern Gentleman, and he
won his audicnce inslontlj. cvci; be
fore he told his story that he had in
herited a slave, or pait of a slave,
i for there were four chiudren who
I must divide three slaves. Judge Win-
I stcn lead his play "Penelope's Web,"
and in it he depicts the faults of
! his own South, tc such an e.xagera-
tion point that he kept his audience
in constant laughter. The scene is
laid in a winter resort town in the
South, called Hamden, but since the
play was mostly written here in
Southern Pines, with cur Northern
! cottagers and horsey background, il
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Fishing at Lakeview
James M. Green, Rockingham,
Leases Lake Holclinj(s
from Barber Estate
historical and public intere.=;t.
At the meeting Wednesday
Ro
of Rupert F. Keefe
A transaction that will mean much
to the Sandhills in general and is of
especial interest to fishermen was
consummated last week when the
real estate holdings of the Estate of
James Barber at Lakeview were
leased to James M. Green of Rock
ingham through the agency of L. L.
Biddle, II, local manager of the Bar
ber estate.
Mr. Green, formerly manager of
the Carolina Cmmtry Club of Rock
ingham, has already taken posses
sion, and will immediately proceed
with the cleaning up of the land
surrounding the lake, the repair and
renovation of the buildings and the
restocking of the last with good sized
bass.
It is the purpose of the new lesse
to found a fishing club whose mem
bers shall have exclusive fishing
rights and other privileges in and
on the lake, to renovate,- refurnish
and reopen the hotel, and to put the
cottages in first class condition to
rent.
It will, of course, take some time
to complet? this work, but when it
is finished the opportunity it will af
ford th(jj:e who like to fish will be
an invaluable addition to the long list
of alluring sports to be enjoyed in
the Sandhills resort area.
The details of the formation of the
club have not yet been worked out,
but it is Mr. Green’s determination
to make it an organization that will
be a credit to the community and one
of which its members will be justly
proud. When the work has progiesped
sufficiently, fui'ther announcement of
the nature and purposes of the club
will be publicly made.
HAS OPPORTUNITY
TO RIVAL WORLD’S
FAMOUS GARDENS
Sandhills Ideal Spot for Culti
vation of Distinctive Plants,
Says Prof. Newman
NATURE KIND TO US
By I’KOF. C. L. NKWMAN
Waycross, Ga., Nov. 9. The
men who hew the trees and split
the rails, and timber land own
ers, turpentine operators and
scientists will gather here in the
land of the “Suwanee River”
Monday for a “Forest Festival,”
believed to be the only celebra
tion of its kind in the United
States.
The above clipping from the New
Yoik Times first reminded me of the
Blossom F’estival that last year did
honor to Southern Pines and all the
Sandhills. While "Forest 5<’estival”
down in Georgia may at first glance
To Speak Here
DR. ARTHUR M. SHERMAN
Former Dean of Divinity School
in China To Address Local
Episcopalians
The Rev. Arthur M. Sherman, S.
T. D., is one of a group of prominent
Episcopalians who will come to
appear to be only an economic in- ~ , ,,
' ^ ^ Southern Pmes to addre.ss a meetmg
centive it must be remembered that
all efforts to honor Nature (includ
ing foicsts and fast disappearing na_
tive plants in great numbers are ac_
companied by impulses of the patriot
and a lofty love for better things
than now are dominant in the human
mind and heart.
The Sandhills stretch from the
cf the congregation of FZmm.'inucl
Church to be held at the Southern
Pines Country Club on Friday even
ing, November 22nd.
Dr. Sherman was for 30 years a
member of the Mission of the Episco
pal Church in China. wh:re he was
the dean of the Divin'tv Schor-l at
, . , . . , ,• Wuchang and president of Boone Col-
geopraphical heart cf North Carolina ® '
lege. He has a wide and intimate ac
quaintance with the mi.ssionaiy vi’ork
land Mumfoid, manager of Hotel Sir ! j.,,
Walter in Raleigh, was added to the j Anthony’s Ro-
membership of the president’s exe- '
cutive committee.
Inquiries regarding the work of
the organization have been coming
from all parts of the country. C. R.
Lano, secretary, reports.
The drive for funds in other towns
has begun in full force. Quotas have
been established for all important
towns along the route, including
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, and
also for Pinehurst which benefits
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Mrs. Lauchlin McLeod
Dies at Age of 87 Years
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Rev. Mr. Matheson Conducts
Final Rites at Old Union
Church
man Catholic Church
Funeral services were held at Un.
ion Presbyterian Church on Thurs.
day afternoon at 3:00 o’clock, Novem
ber 7th for Mrs. Katherine Deaton
McLeod, 87, who died at her home six
miles south of Carthage on Wednes
day evening after a tew days’ ill
ness. The Rev. R. G. Matheson offi
ciated at the services. Interment was
in the church cemetery beside her
husband, the late Lauchlin C. McLeod,
who proceeded her several years ago.
Mrs. McLeod was the daughter of
the late William Deaton and Flora
Bethune Deaton, who lived in Mont
gomery county on Cabin Creek. In
early girlhood she joined Dover Bap
tist Church. After her marriage she
united with Culdee Presbyterian
Church with her husband, in the ear
ly days of its organization. She was a
devoted and faithful member attend
ing services as long as she was able.
For several years she had been in de
clining health but only confined to
lier bed for a few days.
Mrs. McLeod is survived by one
son, William Herbert McLeod, and
two daughters. Misses Margaret Ann
and Sarah Ida, all of Carthage Route
3. Five grandchildren and one great
gr£ind-son, Roland Lauchlin Britt,
Misses Bertha, Lillie and Effie Britt
of Eagle Springs, and Mrs. John Gor
don and son Fred Gordan of Greens
boro, also survive.
One daughter, Mrs. Lula McLeod
Britt, died on December 1st, 1934.
An attractive wedding took place
on Monday morning at 10:00 o’clock
in St. Anthony’s R:man Catholic
Church, when Miss Ruby Taft, dau
ghter of Mrs. Ellen R. Taft of South
ern Pines, and Rupert F. Keefe of
Washington, D. C., were united in
marriage by the Rev. Father W. J.
Dillon, pastor of Sacred Heart Church
in Pinehurst.
The ceremony was followed by a
nuptial high mass sung by the Rev.
Father Thomas Williams, pastor of
St. Anthony’s Church. The choir from
the cathedral in Raleigh with Mrs.
J. B. Clement at the organ was as
sisted by Mrs. Raymond Kennedy of
Southern Pines, who sang as the of-
feratory hymn the “Ave Maria.”
The bride was given in marriage by
her uncle, Charles E. Meighan of
Providence, R. I. Miss Marguerite
Wolf of Altoona, Pa., was the maid
of honor. Joseph Waters of Washing
ton, D. C., brother-in-law of the
groom, was best man and the ushors
were Anthony Montesanti and Barrott
Harris, both of Southern Pines.
The bride w’as attired in a gown
of white velvet with train. Her tulle
veil fell from a cap with a coronet
of orange blossoms. She carried a
white prayer book with orchids and
shower of lilies of the valley. The
maid of honor wore a gown of blue
crepe with accessories of silver and
carried yellow chrysanthemums.
After the ceremony a reception
was held at the home of the bride.
The mother of the bride assisted in
receiving. Her gown was of purple
cut velvet with a hat to match and
she wore a corsage of white roses
The home was attractively decorated
with ferns and chrysanthemums.
The out of town g^uests included
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Waters and Miss
Alice Keefe of Washington, D. C.,
Mrs. Agnes Murdoch, Mrs. James S.
Nisbett, and Charles Meighan of
Providence, R. L., Arthur Murdoch
and Mrs. Gustave A. Johnson of Mer
iden, Conn.; Mrs. Edward Long and
Miss Eleanor Welch of Altoona, Pa.
After a motor trip in the south,
John Hayden Dies in
Pennsylvania, Aged 98
Prominent Winter Resident Here
For Many Years Given Full
Masonic Burial
Funeral services with full Mason
ic honors were held in the Masonic
Temple, Fort Wayne, Ind., last Fri
day for John W. Hayden, who died
In his summer home at Spring Run,
Pa., on Wednesday, November 6th,
his death being the result of a brok
en hip suffered in a fall occurring
some two months ago. Brief services
were also held in his home and by
members of the Rcss Lawton Post,
G. A. R. of Fort Wayne, of which
he was the oldest surviving mem
ber.
For 15 years or more, prior to last
winter, Mr. Hayden was a resident of
Southern Pines where despite his ad
vanced age his erect carriage made
him a notable figure and his cheery
greeting a friend to all. Born in
Ohio, May 8, 1837, and was just
admitted to the bar at the out
break of the Civil War, he joined the
12th Indiana Volunteers, serving four
years and retiring with the rank of
lieutenant.
Following his retirement he be
came keenly interested in plans for
the Masonic Orphanage of Indiana,
and was the means of raising $50,000
for that worthy cause. A prominent
Mason, he was a former commander
of the Fort Wayne Commandery,
Knights Templar.
Mr. Hayden is survived by his wi
dow, Mrs. Jessie C. Hayden; a son
by his former wife, Don Hayden, of
Fort Wayne; one daughter, Mrs. L. A.
Randall of Fort Wayne. Seven grand
children and great-grandchildren also
survive.
through South Carolina and Georgia,
ending in three Alabama counties
westward of Columbus and West
Point. Auburn, Alabama College of
Agriculture and Tuskegee Institute
lie along the margin of the western
limit cf the Sandhills.
I have for some time thought that
some day an "All Sandhill Associa
tion” would come into existence and
make the offering of this delightful
far-flung array of longleaf pines bet
ter kncwn than now.
The possibilities of one or more
season "festival.s” are great. The
dewberry, the scuppernong, the peach
and of course the the longleaf pine,
dogwood, ledbud, etc., not forgetting
the Old Slaves, arc waiting themes
for festivals.
“.V Meiodif Sulijoot"
The Sandhills has no problem if
it wishes to find "a melodic subject”
foi t'.Uiing with a festival. The diffi
culty lies in making a choice. Nature
AIRPORT PROJECT
TO COST $35,000
FAVORED BY WPA
I’roposed to Purchase Present
Site and Enlarjje Field for
Transport Planes
LOCAL FUNDS NEEDED
Unless there is some unfoieseen
hitch, the KnoIIwood Airport on the
load between Southern Pine.? and
Carthage is to be enlai’ged and im-
I proved and made available for the
j largest transport planes, the work to
I begin almost at once.
! Through the efforts of the Moore
i County Planning Board a sum of
.SIO.OOO has been made available from
' the Works Progress Administration
' funds allocated to Moore county. At
a joint meeting of the Planning
Board and the Board of County Com
missioners last Monday a like sura
was asked from the county but at
a meeting of the Commission later
this was pared to §6,000, to be ap
propriated with the understanding
that Pinehurst and Southern Pines
municipalities contribute substantial
ly toward the project. It is expected
that from $1,000 to $1,500 will be
provided by each town, making a to
tal of between $18,000 and $19,000.
In addition to this amount, Ma
jor W, Coan of the WPA has a spec
ial fund available for airports from
which ho can m.'itch dollar for dol
lar the above sum, less what may be
necessary for the county to expend
for acquisition of the site. It there
fore looks as if there would be a to-
of the Epi.scopal Church and from
1931 to 1935 was the nati nal secre-
.tary for missionary education. Dr.
. ‘ 1 £ t tal available of approximately S35,-
Sherman is now a member of the staff ^' j -p <
000 for the development here of one
of the finest airports in the coun
try.
Now Runways
Rassie E. Wicker of Pinehurst has
already mapped out plans for the
field to meet government specifica
tions. There will be two 3,800-foot
and two 3,500-foot runways with the
prevailing winds, and two 2,500-foot
crossways, each one to be 300 feet
_ _ wid:.
.Moore C'^untv Officials Informed proposed to build a ne-.v han-
Project Has Fallen Throuu'h &ar large enough to accommodate
' For the Present largest of the big air transports.
; Modern and appioved lighting will be
According to information given the ' pi'ovide.l. making the field fully ac-
of the Forward Movement, that
movement within the Episcopal
Church that has had such notable re-
' suits in stipulating interest and ac
tivity that its aims and methods have
been widely adopted by other chur
ches.
Little Chance of Funds
For County Schools
Moore County Advisory Planning ceptable to the government and to
Board and the Board of County Cjm- transport lines for night as well as
missioners by A. H. Kennedy of the :
has been prodigal to this distinctive office of the Works Pro- | The project is reported as having
gress Administration when he met ^ the approval of the WPA. Richard
with them on Monday, the $186,147 Tufts, chairman cf the Planning
county-wide school project for Moore
county has fallen through temporar
ily. There is a possibility that it may
confines there are probably a hundred revived after March 15th.
characteristic and distinctive Sand- . i..
. ^ ^ . The mam object of the WPA at
plants, each possessing one or , . . , * «
secure employment for
persons now on relief rolls and as
there are few skilled laborers now on
relief, projects calling for this type
of workmen stand little chance of
being looked upon with approval by
the Administration at this time.
area and man has been slew in mak
ing the region more distinguished.
Within the boundaries of the Sand
hills and in the "marginal” Sandhills ;
hill
W'. P. A. funds have been allocated
LOCAL TE.ACHERS HONORED
BY DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
Miss Sarah Goggans, one of the pri
mary teachers in the Souhern Pines
School, was elected secretary cf the
North Central District Teachers As
sociation at the 13th annual conven
tion held in Durham last week. Bel-
more points cf beauty, peculiarity
and interest. Somewhere and tem
porarily lost to view I have a list of
more than 60 worthy plants that I
have recognized in my Sandhills
ramblings, all of which have been
identified in a radius of not more
than 20 miles from Southern Pines.
Some of these are at home in bogs,
some in the poverty-stricken Norfolk i as follows,
gracelly sands and many others be-1 Moore county—Sewing rooms to
tween these extremes. These plants, employ 119 persons. Appropriation,
range from wiregrass to orchids. $10,812.25.
All the foregoing is for the pur- j Moore county — Repair school
pose of leading up to this statement: 'books, employing 11 persons. Cost,
If Southern Pines as a municipality, $1,511.55.
or a group of Southern Pines people | pinebluff—Paint water reservoir
will select a suitable and adapted steel tower, employing 49 per-
area of a few acres and plant and,sons. Cost, $462.60.
cause to grow thereon and give seas- Eagle Springs—Work at State
onal and cultural care to a selected I Home and Industrial School for
growth of native Sandhills plants, | Girls, employing 24 persons. Cost $3,-
each chosen for its distinctiveness,
beauty, peculiarity, attractiveness,
fragrance, then there will be in pos_
Board, with Howard Burns and W.
P. Saunders of that board and Chair
man Wilbur H. Currie of the Board
of County Commissioners went to
Greensboro last Friday and discuss
ed the matter with the federal au
thorities. The WPA is particularly
anxious to allocate funds for projects
w'hich will put unskilled labor
promptly to work.
The property on which the Knoll-
wood airport is located belongs to
Walter Perkins, KnoIIwood, Inc. and
this week for five projects in Mocre Chandler, all of whom, it is un
derstood, are willing to deed their
holdings over to the county at a fair
price. It is necessary that title rest
w’ith the county for the WPA to
make its grant of funds.
Large Crowd Attends
Pine Needles Opening
Emmett E. Boone, New Mana
ger, Host to Sandhills Guests
at KnoIIwood Inn
mont Freeman of the high school
Mr. and Mrs. Keefe will make their J faculty was chosen as secretary of
home in Wasnington, D. C. the department of French teachers.
session of your city a rival for Mag.
nolia Gardens, Azalea Gardens, Mid
dleton Gardens and even Shaw’s Gar
den that gives world-wide fame to
St. Louis, Missouri.
RUNES AND METZ WIN
PINEHURST GOLF TOURNEY
Gene Kunes of Philadelphia and
Dick Metz of Lake Forest, Illinois,
won the 6th annual Mid-South Pro
fessional best-boll golf tournament
played Tuesday and Wednesday of
this week over U’'; new No. 2 course
of the Pinehurst Country Club, with
a total of 137 for the 36 holes. Tommy
Armour and Bob Cruikshank were
second with 138.
258.86. I A large crowd from all sections of
Carthage—Building farm to mar-; the county attended the opening of
ket road, employing 37 persons. Cost, the Pine Needles Inn on KnoIIwood
$7,764.00. Heights yesterday afternoon as the
I guests of Emmett E. Boone, the new
UNION SERVICES SUND.AY I manager. The inn, closed for the past
NIGHT AT B.APTIST CHURCH few seasons, was spic and span for
the occasion and both the building
Union evening church services will and its furnishings iooked as new
be resumed next Sunday night at as the day of the orierinal opening in
7;3C at the Southern Pines Baptist 1929. Much work has been done in-
Church. The preacher wi^l be Dr. C.' side and out during the past summer,
Rexford Raymond. The service on the' and everything is in readiness for
following Sunday night will be at the what is expected to be a highly suc-
Church of Wide Fellowship with the cessful season.
sermon by the Rev. J. Fred Stim-1
son. These services are planned for: $25.00 FOR BED FUND
the entire community as there are no j The recent Kiwanis Club golf tour-
other Sunday night services in town, nament at the Southern Pines Coun-
Music will be led by the united choir, try Club netted $25 for the club’s
Dr. Raymond preaches Sunday night fund for a bed in the children’s ward
on ‘‘The Gospel of Friendship.” of the Moore County Hospital.