SOUTHERN PINES ANNUAL RESORT NUMBER A Papsr Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL ISA, NO. 52 ^ARTHAOE KACUC SPRINC9 LAKEVIEW MAHI-BV JACKSOH SPRIMOe SOUTHeRN PinKS Xpinebluff PILOT MOORE COUNTY’S LEA DING NEWS-WEEKLY of the Sandhill Territory of Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, November 22, 1935 PILOT COMPLETES 15 YEARS SERVICE IN MOORE COUNTY Pubicatian W^as Started by Stacy Hrewer in Vass on November 2(i, 1929 BION H. BUTLER EDITOR With this issue The Pilot completes its 15th year of regular weekly pub lication in Moore county, tifteen years "devoted to the upbuilding of the Sandhill territory of North Car olina,” the slogan adopted by its founders and appearing in ths mast head since that November day in 1920 when Stacy Brewer and the late Bion H. Butler brought out their first issue. The Pilot started in Vass, with Brew’er, Butler and the late A. Cam eron its guiding force. It was own ed by Mr. Brewer until 1928 when a corporation was formed which ac quired control and in 1929 moved the plant to Aberdeen that the publioa- tion office might be nearer the cen ter of Sandhills activities and news sources. Three years ago The Pilot, Incorporated, purchased the planl of the Sandhill Citizen in Southern Pines, and removed its headquarters to Moore county's largest municipal ity. Wrote Mr. Butler, who until his death last February was editor of the paper from its inception, in the tenth birthday issue of 1930: “Healthy and Husky” “The Pilot was little when it start ed, but it W03 healthy, and husky, and confident of its po.sition, sw'ayed by nothing but the judgment of its management, determined to give everybody a fair shake, and open to any man on any subject in proper discussion. I have never in my sixty years of newspaper work connected with a paper, big or little', that had such a positive standing for veracity and integrity in its community, for the general impression was that when The Pilot printed anything it was a fact. In all its career I do not now re call a time when The Pilot has been called upon to explain that what it had said in a previous issue was not reliable. “The Pilot is ten years old, a rugged, upright youth, sincere in its aims and promising for the future. It has seen some rather thin spots in the ice in some periods of its existence, but it appears now to be on a firm foot ing and with its acquaintance, the vigor of youth, the service it is ren- Sixth Anniversary NEW PLANT GIVES CARTHAGE BETTER ’PHONE SERVICE O' o FIVE CENTS President NEW PRE.^IDENT OF STEEPLECHASE Main Entrance to Moore County Hospital at Pinehurst Moore County Hospital Has Birthday on Monday Sandhills Guest Institution Which First Opened Its Doors on November 25, 1S29 Now Indispensable New Cables, New Central Of- Office Announced by Cen tral Carolina Company HEADQUARTERS HERE The Central Carolina Telephone' Company has, for several weeks,' been engaged in rscting a new ca ble distribution plant in the town of Carthage. On Sunday morning, N vember 17th, the new telephone' plant was placed in service. Ths Cen-! tral office has been relocated from' second floor of the McDonald bv\ilcl-1 ing to the now quarters in the resi dence of Miss Bessie McLeod, at the corner of Monrje and Pinehurst, streets. ' 'liie old telephone plant, erected several years ago is being disman tled and when this woik has been compleled there will not ba any tele phone poles on the main business stre:t. The telephone company, s- far as possible, placed the poles for the new plant in the rear of the bus- iness hou.ses in the business section Residents Urjred to Contribute of the town. A noticeable improvement has born made in the telephone service and the favorable ccniments received , COUNTY GETS 50 PERCENT at the company’s office indicate that their customers are pleaseii with the The annual Red Cross Roll Call ia change. n pi- gress in the county, and funds VKKNEK liKKD, ,IK. HOMER S. CUMMINGS The Attorney General of the United States is a guest Lhis week in Pinehurst, enjoying a needed rest dering, and its sincere intent to deal I and recreation on the golf course, fairly in everything to the best of With him here are several of his as- its knowledge, another ten years ought to be a period of happy con tact with a good people, and a ca reer of usefulness. “I speak in this familiar and per sonal tone because I am still, as 1 have beefa from the first day of its existence, a sort of foster-father of (Please turn to page b) Arthur P. Rowe Dies Here at Age of 83 Former Owner of Cedar Pines Villa Had Resided Here Since 1923 Funtral services were conducted by the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, at three o’clock Monday afternoon, for Ar thur P. Rowe, aged 83 years, who died in his home on Ohio avenue in Southern Pines Sunday night. Bom in Huntington, Mass., July 6, 1852, Mr. Rowe retired from active business in Bethlehem, N. H., some 10 years ago, coming to Southern Pines in 1923, and making a winter home here. With H. A. Lewis he bought Cedar Pines Villa in 1924, but withing three years sold the property to Struthers Burt. Though leading a retired hfe Mr. Rowe was well known to the business men, and to all winter residents com ing from New Hampshire, and his kindly smile and pleasant greeting will be missed. Funeral services were also held in Bethlehem, N. H., interment in the family plot following. Mr. Rowe is survived by his daughter Miss Clara K. Rowe of Southern Pines, and s:n, William Rowe of New York, ten grandchildren and one great grand child. Nfxt Monday is the sixth birthday of ihe Moore County Hospital. The institution was opened on November 25th, 1929, and has served the peo ple of the county faithfully and well since that day. It has cared for more ‘han 5,000 in-patients, treated near ly 10,000 out-patients, \velcomed to he commua*iy some 300 babies, and earned the right to be a single de- .^criptive word, “indispensable." The hospital was started with gen erous contributions by individuals in terested in seeing in the Sandhills and Moore county a modern institu- ti:n for the care of the sick, and by the aid of the Duke Endowment, "ounded by the late James B. Duke for the establishment and mainten- nance of well managed hospitals in he two Carolinas. Like all institu tions of the kind in a community which has a sizeable population of limited means, the Moore County Hospital operates at a loss, but each year this has been cared for by sub scriptions from individuals and from the dollar per-day-per-charity-^)atient given by the Duke Foundation. The institution has, in the past two years, found its 39-bed capacity in adequate to care for the needs of the county, and efforts were made this year to enlarge with the aid of fed eral funds. Unfortunately this pro ject fell through, and leaves the hos pital with its three objectives set forth in its annual reports: 1. An Additional Wing - - This wou'd expand facilities generally and jwouij provide, among other improve- Professional Best Ball Event To ments, more space for paylng-pa- sociates in the Department of Jus tice. P. G. A. CONFIRMS MARCH 23 FOR SOUTHERN PINES Be Played at Country Club Confirmation was received yester day from Robert Harlow, representa tive of the Professional Golfers As sociation of America, of the date for a piof**.ns,! best ball tournament at the Southern Pines Country Club on Monday, March 23rd, 1936. This will be the first professional tourna ment held on the course here, and is expected to be the forerunner of an annual event. Most of the country’s leading pro fessionals will be in the Sandhills at that time, as they tee off the fol lowing day in the 34th annual Unit ed North & South Open Champion ship at the Pinehurst Country Club. It is probable, therefore, that South ern Pines may look for a big entry list for its premiere professional event. The match here will be at 18 holes over the No. 1 course. S CROSS ROLL CALL TO BE MADE HERE NEXT WEEK Liberally in Annual Drive for Funds : Sandhills Association Elects Of ficers and Plans For Season’s Racinjf COURSE MUCH IMPROVED Verner Z. Reed, jr., of Pinehurst was elected president of the Sand hills Steeplechase and Racing Asso ciation at a meeting on Monday after noon in the Village Court building. Nelson C. Hyde cf Southern Pines wa.s elected vice president, Living ston L. Biddle II of Pinehurst, treas urer, and Noel Liang, Southern Pines, secretary. An executive committee will be named at the next meeting. Plans were discussed for this year's racing. Much work has been done jn the race course on the Midland Pvoad since the meeting last year and it is reported in excellent ccndition. It is probable that the outside fences will be put in place in the near future. The date for the second annual race meeting of the association has not been definitely set, but it will probably be held on Saturday, March 21st, the week before the Carolina Cup meeting at Camden, S. C. Four Events instead of three as last year are being arranged, with the possi bility cf one of these races being for officers of the United States Army. Present at the meting Monday were Dr. C. W. Mudgett, E. C. Stev- Within the past year, the teUphone -viH be solicited in S«.th:rn Pines company erected a new copper wire, coming week. A house-to-hous- toll route between Southern Pines canvass will be made, as in past and Carthage; also a new copper wire years, and residents are requested to route has b.en completed between 'lave their contributions—as laige as Caithage and Hemp, and with the '■hsy can consistently make th?m — new cable distributicn plant within' •’eady for the young ladies who will the city limits of Carthage, the citi- i zens of Moore county can be assured! Moore county has a sizeable quota of dependable telephone service to; raise. The fund collected here gar T. Chapman, Will J. Stratton and Nelson C. Hyde of South3rn Pines, and N. S. Hurd, James W. Tufts, Col. G. P. Hawes, Corbett Alexander, John Thomas. L. L. Biddle II. Mr. and Mrs Verner Z. Reed, jr., and Charles W. Picqu:t from Pinehurst. IS ienc to national headquarters in 1 Washington, and on?-half the amount. then returned for use in the county.! This half is apportioned among the various Red Cress chapters in the county. Funds of the Southern Pines group are used for the purchase of and dis tribution to needy and undernourish ed school children in local schools. A large proportion of this goes to the colored school in West Southern Pines. The half of the Red Cross dollar field, Jefferson McBee, Pageland 1retained by the national or- and Ruby, South Carolina. R. S. Du- ganization goes into the general fund Rant, vice president and general is called upon in great nation- manager of the Centradl Carolina Tel-1 emergencies, such as floods, hur- ephone Company and the Coastal Tel- j ‘"‘canes, conflagrations which bring ephone Company, maintains his of- j suffering to the stricken fice and residence in Southern Pines. I communities. The Red Cross asks the The office staff comprises Miss Mary Pi^blic to open its purse but once a and from th:ir county scat. Southern l*ines Main Office The headquarters of this company, for its properties situated within the states of North and South L-jrolina, are located in Southern Pines. The Central Carolina Telephone Company provides telephone service in the communities of Angler, Ansonville, Bonlee, Carthage Gibsonville, Ker- nersville, Lilesville, Marshville, Nor wood, Pinehurst, Pittsboro, Siler City, Southern Pines, Summerfield( Varina! and Vass North Carolina and Chester- Swett, secretary; and Ocorgo Rose, local commercial manager for South-, ern Pines and Pinehurst. Standard Oil Men at Pine Needles Inn year, the period of the annual Roll Call between Armistice Day and Thanksgiving. The call should be gen erously answered. NOTICE With next Thursday Thanksgiving, a legal holiday. The Pilot will be pub lished on Wednesday of next week. Correspondents and advertisers are requested to have their copy in the office on Tuesday—Wednesday morn ing at the latest. tients, thus bettering the hospital's annual financial position. Until all the space in the projef>ted wing became otherwise required, it might be possible to use some of the rooms as a temporary Nurses’ Home. The problem o{ proper accommoda tions for nurses is at present a diffi cult one. 2. An Increased Endowment Fund —A beginning has been made in the matter of an Endowment, but the Fund at the end of 1933 amounted to less than three hundred dollars. Every ^*ft to the Endowment Fur.d means regular future income for the (Please turn to page 4) HIOHL.\ND PINES FOIIM.AL OPENING ON DEC. I4TH The Highland Pines Inn will open f;;rmally on Saturday, December 14th, Heaton I. Treadway announced 1 this week. The Inn will take guests upon reservation, however, from Sunday, December 1st, on, he said. Mr. Treadway arrived here this week but was called back to Stockbridge, Mass., by the sudden death of his wife’s mother. He will return early next week, bringing with him the staff of the Red Lion Inn at Stock bridge which will be at the Highland Pines through the season. Stutts Loses Both Legs Under Train Convention of Sales Depart-;^, , „ ment of Carolinas District ! Glendon Resident Falls Beneath Opens Here Wheels in Attempt to Board Car Mary J. Welch Bride of Richard Royall Popular' Southern Pines Girl Weds Son of Rockingham Clergyman Mrs. J. D. Welch of Southern Pines has anuoum cu tne marriage of her daughter, Ma:y Judd, to Richard Royall of Rockingham, which took place Saturday night in Halifax, Va. The ycung couple attended the Duke- Carolina game in Durham and motor ed to Virginia afterwards. Mrs. Royall is the youngest daugh ter of Mrs. Welch and has made Sou thern Pines her home for several years. She attended the "Woman’s College, University of North Caro lina, in Greensboro and for the past year she has been in the office of Paul T. Barnum of Southern Pines. She is one of the Sandhills’ most at tractive and popular young women. Mr. Royall is a son of Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Royall of Rockingham and is a graduate of Duke University, Durham. He is prominently connect ed in business in Rockingham. After a trip to New Orleans and other Southern cities, the couple will make their home in Rockingham. A two day convention of the sales department of the Standard Oil Com- Millard Stutts of Glendon suffer- pany of New Jersey, Carolinas Dis-! both legs on Sunday trict, opened this morning at Pine | attempted to catch a Nor Needles Irm with thirty officials at-' Southern train and fell beneath tending. C. M. Buyers of Charlotte was the principle speaker .on the morning' program and a talk was also made i town and he oftens catches the by H. R. Dowd of Charlotte. The pro- i as it slowly climbs the grade gram continued in the afternoon with ' and rides into town, where he a golf tournament played over the'employed as relief foreman. Seeing Mr. Stutts by the track and knowing of his custom, the conductor, Captain Pee, looked back to see if he had the wheels. He sustained a severe cut on the head, also. Mr. Stutts resides about a mile new Pine Needles course. The even ing session opened with a banquet, and sales talks are scheduled for to morrow morning. MISS FORD DIES, SISTER OF MliS. JOHN L. McKINNEY Local friends were advised this week of the death of Miss Mignonne Ford, sister of Mrs. John L. McKin ley cf New York and Southern Pines, which occurred at Hartford, C!onn. Miss Ford was taken ill ear- 'y this month with pluerisy, which ’.atir developed into pneumonia, caus- ng her death in a hospital In that oity on November 15th. Miss Ford had been a frequent juest of Mrs. McKinney here, and All-States Ass^i. To Meet at Hollywood Members Will Be Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pottle for Cards and Program The November meeting of the All- States Association promises to be one of the best for the members are all back and certainly no better place could be offered for the meeting. Mr. and Mrs. Pottle have invited the as sociation to the Hollywood Hotel on Monday evening, November 25th, at •'aught the train safely, and to this 18:00 o’clock. .;he injured man probably owes his i There will be a program of. inter- life. The train was brought to a' est to all which will precede the card top and the conductor, who had j games, and as usual there will be a had training as a nurse, rendered j prize for every table. It is not nec- -irst aid. Mr. Etutts was then carried essary to form tables before coming to the Moore County Hospital, where unless you wish to do so. All visitors he is doing p.s well as co dd be ex-1 in the cottages and hotels are invit- ected. Both limbs wers amputated low the knee. Mr. Stutts is married and has sev- ed to join with the members of the All-States Association on this even ing, and a cordial invitation is ex- iral children ranging in age from tended to those who will remain for three months to fourteen years. some time in Southern Pines, to be come members of this association, which was organized solely in the desire to have frequent meetings for GYMKH.\NA TH.\NKSG1VING The first of the season’s equestrian' Caro-' pleasure and good fellowship. A gala Ld many friends both'’in southern 1 Hotel show ring on l hanksgiving j meeting is Pines and Pinebluff. afternoon. ” ' ’ 'will be served, following the games.