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SOUTHERN PINES ANNUAL RESORT NUMBER TPXJur X JtxJZ/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL 15A, NO. 52 •Jr >ij:arthaob O EAGLC SPRINGS Wft9T e.NO LAKEVIfiW HA HUS Y SOUTHCRN Pines XpiNEBLUFr PILOT SECTION THREE of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carohna, Friday, November 22, 1935 FIVE CENTS CHURCH SERVICES HERE DATE BACK TO EARLY EIGHTIES Worshippers Attended Bethesda and Union Until Southern IMnes Received Charter EMMANUEL FIRST BUILT By Charles Ma«auley For nearly a century the few fam ilies dwelling within the confines of the present day limits of ^ Southern Pines worshipped either at Bethes- da, or at Union Church, the former four miles to the south, and the lat ter about fifteen miles to the north of their homes, both convenient of ac cess over the Peedee road. Not every Sunday did these fami lies fare forth for church going, as in the earlier years of their settlement ministers came only at stated times, and it was not until the erection of the log church at Bethesda about 1790, and that at Union in 1797, that services assumed somewhat more reg ularity, though even long, long years after w'hen other congregations were formed and churches built in Manly, resident pastors were the exception. With an extremely sparse population, scarcely to be callcd a hamlet, the community, now Southern Pines, for the most part gave its allegiance to Bethesda. The settlers summoned in the ear ly eighties by John T. Patrick for the founding of Southern Pines were visited from time to time by minis ters from Carthage and Manly, and some became regular attendants for church services in that town. On Eas ter Sunday in April, 1887, the year Southern Pines received its charter, the Rev. Jesse H. Page, a- Methodist minister from Manly, preached to a g.’.thering in the then ps'-tially com pleted Central House, located oppo site the present Church of Wide Fellowship, and of all tjjat consider able gathering then present we know now of only one survivor in Southern Pines, Mrs. A. S. Ruggles, who at tended as a little girl. With S. N. Rockwell as superin tendent, a union Sunday school was started, meeting in the same build ing a few times, and then transfer- ing to the first school house, a small one-room structure, 12x16 feet, locat ed on the southwest corner of West Broad street and New Hampshire avenue, and from that building to the new school house on the north west corner of Bennett street and Maine avenue. In this small building, only 16 by 28 feet, the Rev. Robert T. Thorne, an Episcopal clergyman held union services during the win ter of 1887-1888; also in the Pros pect House, then located on the northeast corner of Page street and Pennsylvania avenue. Following his first sermon delivere<J on Sunday morning, November 17, 1887, the ho tel was used for preaching services by the Rev. W. F. Watson of Manly. Dr. Thorne continued services at his home on New Hampshire avenue dur ing the winter of 1888-1889, and plans were made for the erection of an Episcopal church, to be open to all for union services, until other churches were built. The Union Church With funds largely raised by Dr. Thorne’s former parishoners in Louisville, Ky., construction of this building was started early in 1891 on lots located on the southwest comer of Page street and New Hampshire avenue, the cornerstone being laid in May of that year. During Dr. Thome’s absence in the summer of 1891, the Rev. A. A. Newhall, o Bap tist clergyman and missionary to In dia came to Southern Pines and con ducted services in the schoolhouse un til the completion of the church edi fice in June 1893. Dr. Thorne’s death occurring on December 16th, 1892, the first service in the new church was in the form of a memorial for ■his unceasing efforts to found a church in the new settlement. While a large part of the fund necessary for this work had been raised by Dr. Thorne outside of Southern Pines, several residents, including Mr. and Mrs. Philander Pond, Mrs. L. A. Young, Mrs. W. R. Raymond, and a little later Dr. W. P. Swett were ac- (Pleaae turn to page 4) Scene on Picturesque Golf Course of the Southern Pines Country Club Crowd Watching Match During One of Frequent Tournaments Held Here During the Winter Season ^Jini Boyd Writes of Shoes COUNTRY CLUB A ’n’ Ships ’n’ Sealing Wax Sh! Don’t Tell Anybody We Told You, But Here’s a Little Secret Mebbe we’re not supposed to say anything about it, but there’s a store in Southern Pines that doesn’t sell sarsaparilla; it doesn't sell ginger ale or pop or chocolate ice cream sodas. But it does sell beverages. It’s something new. A kindly Legislature, believing that public opinion as expressed in national referenda, should be considered, legalized a store here to sell bever ages that are sold in most of these United States but which for something like a quarter of a cen tury have forced North Carolin ians to drive stealthily into the backwoods to procure on the Q. T. Now this store can’t advertise —that isn’t legal. So we won’t tell you what it really does sell. We don’t have to. You know your A. B. C. •Author SuKffests We Invite Poor Old I'. N. C. Football Team to Blossom Festival ISy James Boyd It is understood that the North Carolina football team is being con sidered foi the Dogwood Festival. Princeton may come, too. They could never call the Festival 4 com mercial classic the way they did the Rose Bowl. Not if they ever talked to one of the guarantors. Those tourists who remain over for the Festival this Spring instead of trying to escape as usual will be well repaid. They will have the inspiration seeing something put on with thought of profit. Busy American Legion Post in the Sandhills Interests of Veterans Well Cared For by Hemmer’s Men and Auxiliary The Sandhills has a very active post of the American Legion, and an equally active and serviceable aux iliary. Between the two the needs of veterans of the World War are gen erously cared for throughout 'this section. The post was organized in 1922 and has at present 52 members. John G. Hemmer, popular press photographer at Pinehurst, is post commander, his staff comprising the following: First Vice-Commandei, Charles Fields; Second Vice-Commander, D. C. Horner; Third Vice-Commander, Charles Creel; Adjutant, R. E. Wick er; Publicity Officer, John H. Ste phenson; Sergeant-at-arms, Lacy Williams; Finance Officer, L. V. O’Callaghan; Chaplain, Rev. E. J. McKelway; Historian, Paul Dana; Fi nance Officer, R. E. Denny, L. L. Wooley, Ed. Adams, D. C. Ritten and J. Vance Rowe. The officers of the American Le gion Auxiliary are: Mrs. D. C. Hor ner, President; Mrs. Ruth Shroeder, Vice-President; Mrs. F. M. Dwight, Secretary and Treasurer; Mrs. H. J. Betterley, Historion; Mrs. C. B. Fields, Sergeant-at-Arms and Mrs. J. F. Taylor, chaplain. KIWANIS CLUB MEETS WEEKLY ON U'EDNESDAYS Just out of pure love of general confusion. We hope a tourist or two will stay for it this year. A live tourist would be a great at traction for all the country folks who come to town then. Well, Dietz is back in jail and the papers are all running pictures of his wife. But no p^per sends here after picture of Mrs. Kelly. Sherwood Brockwell was telling ne gro stories to the Ladies’ Club ir. Aberdeen the other night. I asked a girl in steel-rimmed glasses how it went off. She said she felt sorry for Mr. Brockwell; nobody believed him, just laughed. There is a great picture for this section. With its many schools Southern Pines bids fair to be known some day as the Athens of Moore county. And Aberdeen with its commerce and civic pride as the Rome of Moore county. Aiid Carthage as the Carthage of Moore county. The big football games at Dur ham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill serve a useful purpose. The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen, embracing in its membership resi dents of Aberdeen, Pinehurst, South ern Pines, Carthage and other vil lages of Moore county, meet regular ly once a week, on Wednesday noons, when affairs of the community are discussed over the luncheon table by leaders in various lines of business and professions. They give the taxpayer a chance to find out what has become of the State Police. PeopJe living at the North and South ends of Southern Pines are stirring up quite a fuss. Formerly their property enjoyed an uninter rupted extensive view of'the town billboard. They claim it was better than over looking Southern Pines itrjlf; al- Colyumist JAMES BOYD most as attractive and much larger. Now the scenery has been painted out and simply the words “Southern Pines’ ’painted on a green back ground in 20-foot letters. PLAYGROUND FOR ALL IN WINTER IMcturesque Courses Thrown Open to Golfers, Clubhouse and Grounds to Others OLD SLAVE DAY MUSIC, SPORTS IS FESTIVAL PLAN Three-Day I’rojjram, Eliminat ing Carnival Idea. Here While Dogwoods Bloom GREAT CHILDREN’S ( HORUS Old Slave Day, music and sports will feature a three-day Spring Blo.ssom Festival to be held in Southern Pines this coming April. The event will be timed to bring vis itors here as near the blossoming of the dogwood, with which the village parkways and countryside abound, as possible. Unlike the past two years, the carnival idea will be completely done away with in the 1936 festival. A children's chorus of several hun dred voices, trainetl by Piofessor F. Stanley Smith, director of music in the Southern Pines schools, will fea ture the music program. Old Slave Day, leading event of the last two festivals, will be continued and all the survivors in this section of the days befoie the Proclamation of Emancipation invited to lunch in the Municipal Park and be the guests of honor at a reception in the after noon. Negro spirituals will be sung as part of the entertainment prog ram. Sports Day will bring to town two of the baseball teams of leading un- By t'harles .Vlucauley ersities of the state, as well as Southern Pines is fortunate in its college golf and tennis teams, and Country Club. It is fairly impossible plans are under way for a horse show to visualize the town without the | and gymkhana as part of the day’s two splendid golf courses, in their program. picturesque setting almost within a, xhe festival will be under the di- jton? s throw ii.f the heart cf the rection of the Southern Pines Cham ber of Commerce. Air Transport Lines May Serve Sandhills En- city. 1 The club projferty has served the community as a park as well as a playground for followers of the old Scotch game, and as such has many fascinations. Glimpses through the closs-set trees to sunlit pools and sha dow-dappled fairways, vistas through the tall pines to the far off hills crowned in blue haze and shadows; distant views over the expanse of The Sandhills will have an airport greensward and tree-lined valleys to ] of sufficient size to accommodate the the bulK of Paint Hill and the blue ' largest transport planes if plans of ridge far beyond Aberdeen, and to 1 the government, county, and Pine- the dark crest of Mount Hope and hurst and Southern Pines material- Knollwood Airport To Be larged. Improved at Cost of $35,000 But the people who live there say they know that already. It is understood that the change was made at the instigation of our public spirited fellow townsman, Mr. Struthers Burt. He claimed that the picture of him on the horse did not do him jus tice. Mr. Howard Burns, Southern Pines’ justly esteemed town secretary, cel ebrated his wedding anniversary by going to the Duke-Carolina football game with Mr. Shields Cameron. The many friends of Mr. Shields Cameron, our popular fellow citizen, are condoling with him on being the victim of a motor accident while at tending the Duke-Carolina football game. While driving in to the stadium he mistook a traffic officer’s signal for a policeman’s whistle and threw the bottle away. the clustered homes of Pinedene, af ford a restful diversion for all lov ers of the out-of-doors. It is a far cry from the compact little nine-hole course started near ly 30 years ago to the two wide flung “eighteens” of today, and it is not the purpose of this writing to hark back to the founders of that day, Dr. Swett, Giles, Wilson, Dr. Blair, Dr. Herr, Hayes and many others, any more than it is to record its re cent transformation under the hands of John Powell, Fred Travis and M. G. Nichols. The clubhouse is comparatively new, having been built in 1927 from plans of Aymar Embury, III, the great living room with its immense fireplaces, the decorative scheme, re cently worked out under the auspices of Mr. Nichols, a cozy home-like room that invites a restful hour after the stress of eighteen holes. From a player’s viewpoint the club offers the choice of two courses, one difficult enough for the real golfing fan, the other ideal for the less experienced. .The annual Women’s Mid-South tournament here has attracted such players as Glenna Collett, Helen Hicks, Maureen Orcutt and Virginia Van Wie. Tournaments for all man ner of players are held throughout each winter season. After the dinner that Frank Buch an ran off at the Civic Club some of the old timers tried to get their money back. They claimed that they had expect ed a political banquet but that in stead of canned chicken and fruit sal ad there had been only a good Mon- tesanti supper and good wine. And instead of any oratory Walter Lambeth had only said a few simple understandable words and sat down. Eight-ball, one of the negroes who lost his legs from gangrene after chain gang punishment, has served (Please turn to page 8) ize. The plans call for the improve ment of the present Knollwood Air port at a cost of approximately $35,000, the money to come from the WPA and county and local appropria tions. Moore county has voted $6,- 000, Southern Pines $1,500 and Pine hurst is expected to make an early appropriation. The government has the balance available in Works Pro gress and special airport funds. The present airport is ideally lo cated almost equidistant between the two resort towns, on the Carthage road, and is much used but not of a size sufficient to meet Department of Commerce regulations for the large transport planes. With the en largement and improvements plan ned, it is expected that the Knoll wood field will become a regular stop on one or more of the air transport lines, giving this section rapid serv ice to and from the north, south and west. SADDLE HORSES AVAIL.VBLE AT SEVERAL LOCAL ST.4BLES CITY CLERK’S OFFICE IS BUREAU OF INFORM.\TION Several good riding stables pro vide horses for the many visitors to Southern Pines who come here seek ing recreation and exercises along the picturesque bridle paths. Hunters are available during the winter sea son for those hunting with local packs, and safe and sane saddle horses for those desiring to follow the trails through the pine woods. Occasional fox hunts are arranged by lovers of the sport and the pub lic invited to join in the chase. Reg ular fox and drag hunts are held throughout the winter by the Moore County Hounds, a private pack, but hunting with these hounds is by special invitation only. The office of the City Clerk serves as a Bureau c\ Information in Sou thern Pines. Housed in the Munici pal Building on East Broad street, it is conveniently located for tourist in formation for those passing through as well as for information pertaining to hotels, boarding houses and resi dence for sale and rent. Howard Burns, City Clerk, is in charge. The Southern Pines Library is also located in the Municipal Building. Mrs. Park Fisher is the librarian. SE.VBO.VRD M.\INTA1NS OVER NIOHT SERVICE FROM NORTH Southern Pines is served by the Seaboard Air Line Railway, which is providing exceptional service to the Sandhills from New York and the north. The over-night trip from the metropolis here has within the year been made more comfortable for pas sengers than before through the in troduction of air-conditioned trains and Pullmans to the service.
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