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NEWS-WEEKLY
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, F'riday, .lanuary
SHIELDS CAMERON
TO HARRINGTON
Secretary of Southern IMnes
Chamber of Commerce New
Register of Deeds
TERM EXPIRES DEC. 7
Honorary Members
D. D. Shields Cameron of South- 1
ern Pines, secretary of the Chamber I
of Con\morce and treasurer of the U. |
S. Highway Nc. 1 Association, was ,
this week appointed t'ounty Regiater
of Deeds by the Board of County
CommissionevH. Tlw appointment rims j
tlu'ough the unexpiictl term of Will |
J. Harrington, wh > passed away on'
Christmas liay. Ho will therefore
serve until the first Monday in Ue-
cenibcr, or until a successor is elected
and qualified-
Shields t'ameron is widely known
throughout the county .and has been
prominent in Democratic circles f< r
many years. He was a candidate for
the State Senate from this district
in l»2cS. He has been in the real e.s-
tate and insurance business in South
ern I’ines for a number of years, and
has long been secretary of the Com
merce body. He was recently elected
treasure!’ of the No. 1 association, in
which h ha held various offices
since its organization.
Mr. Came on has already assui,.ed
office and has spent a busy week
acquainting himself wi.a the dutie.i
of the worl; at Cartilage. His new
position will require his spending
much of his time at the c„urthouoe.
There weie said to be a number
of candidates lor the position made
vacant by the sad and sudden death ot
Mr. Harrington, and that there will
be no dearth of seekers of the nomi
nation in the Democratic primary in
June is a safe prediction.
1
•M. McDONAI.n
M. G. NII HOLS
Kiwanis Club Elects
1 6 Honorary Members
Dixie to Open as
Movie House Monday LUt includes Tufts, Chapin, Burt
Way, Nichols and
Aberdeen Theatre, Completely
Renovated, W ill Present New
Programs Daily
HORSEPOPULATION
OF SANDHILLS AT
ALL-TIME “TOP”
Steeplechasers, Hunters, Run
ners and Trotters Here in
Great Numbers
LAIN(i BRINGS 18 DOWN
With the arrival this week of Noel
Laing. prominent amateur steeple-
: chase rider, with 18 horses for train
ing here this winter, the horse popu-
' lation of the Sandhills is believed to
! be the greatest in the history of
! the comnumity. Last year was the
previ us “top” bu* it is o'stimated
thoi'e a!o more hoiSC.T in Pinehurst
nnd Southern Pines this winter than
last.
' Laing's hoises iiu’hule those of a
I numbi'i' of owners, among them Mrs.
^Maiion duPont S mci'ville of Tlon*.-
! pelicr, Virginia, and Mrs. Verner Z.
ileod, ji’,. of Newpoit and Pinehurst,
j as well as a few of Mr. Laing's own
I racing string. The hoiscs ho has in
tiaining here won numerous races
in hunt meetings in the north dur-
; ing the season which clcscd in No-
I vembcr. and will now be pointed for
! the op ning of the 193C season which
starts with the meeting of the Sand
hills Steeplechase and Racing Asso
ciation here on March 14. Assisting
Laing in their training here is an-
i ether well known rider, “Dick" Wal-
I
I''"’', 'vho ro Chariot"— victory
ir. the SanJhills Cup timber event
a: tf'.' inauguial meeting here last
Mnrch.
Pinehurst has more than its us-
u 1 numbei’ of horses this season,
ai.iong them H. Stacy Smith’s trot-
t( s, in training for the coming year’s
Giand Circuit races, and a stable of
trotters ow’ned by Mrs. F. B. Vi’ilm'
of the Sandhill Territol/^^>^^orth Carolina
FIVE CENTS
Old ^‘Aunt Amy, - Former Slave, | U. S. 4. ACQUIRES
Now Rests Beside Gov. Williams JJJLg JQ FAMOUS
* PLANTATION HERE
Wildwood Stillness of “The
Horseshoe” Broken for Einal
Rites for (lentle Old Soul
H.v .Mrs. .S. K. .Smith |
Within the "Horseshoe" formed by
a curve in the couise cf Deep Rivei' j
in upper Moore county is ai\ old
burying ground made fanu)us by the
fact that within its wildwood stillne.'^s
rests the body of a distinguished
statesman. Benjamin Williams, who
served as a member . f the IMovin-
ciul Congress, as a member of tlie
Hfni.se of Commons, as a state sena
tor. member of Congie.ss, and for fouf
on -year terms as gcvernor of the
State of North Carolina. He died in
181}, and beside his grave is that of
his wife, who passed away three
years later. In cne side of thi.s hi.-
toric Inuying gnmnd li.' the remain;:
cf ^l;’ves who in life played their pat;
in the activities cf the early homes
and in death wer-e allowed to rest near
tht)se whom they had scved.
T''oi' years it seemed that "Kinis’
had been written above the decayed
panels of what was once the enclo-
sur-e of this peaceful sjtot. for n. t
within the rnemoiy of middle-ageil
residents of the country-side had the
earth been distributed by gr:ive-dig-
ger's tools. But on Christn'as day
an th.i- grave was made an ! within
it was placed the body of 'An t" Amy
Williams, ex-slave and get ^le oUl
P"iii w>io after »i'"ety-two y ars fill-
< I w ;h ‘,i heap o’ livin" had laid
(' '..n hj" bt i leii, "down by the river
: Me."
Friends of bcth races, included
Lucky Younjo:sters
School Openinir In ('ounty
Postp«mt‘d I'nlil .Monday
on Account of Weather
On account of the inclement
weather the riiipening of the
Mooie county schools, whic.h was
scheduled for "iiin.-day ( f this
we.k. h;is been postponed until
next Monday, according to an an
nouncement maile by County Sup
erintendent H. Lee Thomas.
The S uthern PiiifS School, only
iiinc-monlh school in the county,
ro-opeiu''l yesterday.
SELECTS MAJOR
PROJECTS FOR ’35
To Support Hcspital, Ilii>h\vay
Safety Campaiinn. ind .Aid
rnderprivileyid Children
INTER-TOWN (OOPERATION
Maintenance of a charity bed in the
Children's ward of the Moore ('lounty
Hospital, cooperation in the nation
wide campaign for safety cn *the
highway.^, thte development of bet
ter acquaintanceship and cooperation
b tween residents of the leading vil
lages of the Sandhills and underpriv-
McDonald
Six rejid:nts of the Sandhills have
I been elected as honorary members ot, a number of big tr ack runners. Lee
George I the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen for the ' Evans has several* race horses be
Frank Shamburger and
Martin of Abert^een, who recently ' ycp.r 1936, the list including two new'■ longing to Mrs. Th:mas Proctor in
acquired The Dixie Theatre property! names. M. G. Nichols of Southern | training at the track, and Arthur
in Aberdeen, announced this week the j Pines and Moses C. McDonald ol Hullcoat is training some dozen of
lease of the theatre to J. E. Edwards I West Enil. The other four have been his own horses here,
cf Dillon. S. C., and Mrs. J. B. Mc- ;honcred in a like manner in past j Lloyil M. Tate has a houseful, so
Intyre of Raeford. operators cf the j years. Leonard Tufts and S. B. Chapin ! to speak, at the Pinehurst stables.
Raeford Theatre. The new movie of Pinehur st and Struthers Burt and, horses which are kept in constant
among whom was the kindly V\'. J
Harrington who later in the day fin-1child w'ork were decided upon
ished his stay in the Horseshoe, turn- Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen on
ed a.vay from their Christmas festiv- me?ting yesterday in the High-
iti2S to gather in this quiet spot for Pines Inn as the club's major
hurstV Which ’are*' also wintering at rites, the last, in all prob- Projects for 1936.
'ability, which will ever be hEld there. To start the charity bed fund Ho-
Thr;ughout the years the trees will ward Burns, treasurer of the recent
murmer in the breezes and the birds, Kiwanis dance at the Southern
flitting among the boughs, will sing Pines Country Club, announced that
their songs, unmindful of which lies over $100 had been netted by the at-
bcneath. distinguished statesman or fair, and it is probable that similar
faithful slave. | dances will be held during the year.
I To the club's Public Affairs commit-
! tee, cf which R. S. duRont of South-
^ J i 1 Pines is chairman, was referred
^ 0"GC| at V anCl0ri)llt the question of how Kiwanis can best
serve in the highway safety cam-
Former Southern Pines Resident paign. and this committee is also to
Now History Profe.ssor at look into the matter of damage being
the race track. W. V. Sloccck has
several polo ponies in his stables at
the race track, and a number of pri
vate hacks and hunters are stabling
there, among them Mrs. John R.
Drexel'a fine mount.
“Big Track" Horses
Newcomers this year also include
I (4
house will open on Monday, with two
nightly programs, starting at 7:15
and at 9:15 except cn Saturdays when
the program will be contimrous from
3:00 p. m. to 11 p m.. The program
changes daily.
The Dixie Theatre has been com
pletely renovated in pr.paration fov
the ()pening. A new marquee has been
constructed in front of the Vniilding:
Judge William A. Way of Southern I use by the guests at the various ho
tels both for hacking about the num
erous bridle paths around Pinehurst
Pines
Presiilent J. Fred Stimson. who
took over the reitrs of club leadership
last werk. has ann irnced the fol
lowing committee chairmen for the
various activities of the organizzation
this year:'
Agricidture, Jar?ies W, Tufts;
Membership and Classification. Frank
and for the occasional f. x hunts,
gymkhanas, anti riding parties en-
gitreered by Mr. Tate arril othetT.
At the Thomas & Alexander stahKs
on the Midland Road are 28 horses,
mostly hunters, about a dozen of
which arc privately owned and here
for the us? of their owners during
Iho entire building has l)ecn painted ; ^ Shamburger; Public Affairs, R. S.!
inside arrtl out; the acoustic proper- fnterclub R.lations. Willaril j,**'*'
ties have been perfected, and entire- Dunlop: LTnder privileged C’hildren. ] There are 33 hunters stabling at
ly new s und and projection equip- j xaylor; V>,cational Guidance, J.;The Paddock in Southern Pines,
ment installed. Kvery effort is to be ^j Howarth; Attendance an<l Recop-■ thonr 1-1 from the Thorndale
made to provide high class entertain- o. Leon Seymour; Music. Char
ment in a comfortable house at pop- Picquet; Publicity, Howard F
ular prices, 2o c:nts for adults and ten Curns; Kiwanis Education. Rrv. A. ,1
cents for children. McKelway; Program. Dr. E. M. Med
The Dixie was last used by the lin: Finance, Richard F. Tarlton.
Sandhills Little Theatre for its ama
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I’OK flVK' C’U li’S ,MKKTIN(J
teur performances staged by local
tal.nt.
75 ALVMM ATTKNU
r. II. S. ANM AI- UAN<Jl KT
The annual alumni banquet of
Pinehurst High School was held in
the crystal room of the Carolina Ho
tel last Thursday evening with 75
former students and their gruests
present.
The Rev. A. J. McKelw'ay of the
Pinehurst Community Church was
toastmaster and introduced the Rev.
A. V. Gibson of Sanford, the speaker
of the even ng. A delightful part o-f
the entertainment was the singing of
a quartet comprising the Rev. and
Mrs. Gibson and the Rev. and Mrs.
McKelway.
\() GYMKIIA' X THIS WKKK
Due to the inclement weather, the
weekly gymkhana scheduled for Fri
day afternoon in Southern Pines will
not be held. It is hoped to resume this
event next week.
This afternoon, Friday, at 3:00
o’clock, the public is invited to a meet-
irrg at the Civic Clirb. Addresses will
be given by Dr. F^dward F. Green on
the strbj;Ct of "Boy Scouts.” Mrs.
Thomas Lyons of Pittsburgh, Pa.,
will speak cn “W'hat The Salvation
Army Ls Doing For Unemployed Wo
men." There will be special singing
and tea .served following the program
A silver offering will be taken to
cover the afternoon’s expenses.
On Friday, January 10th at 3:00
c'ciock, a business meeting for club
members only will be held.
UNION CHUlU II SEKMCK
Jim” Silver Weds
Southwestern College
done to small pines planted alcng
hignways by the club. Dr. T. A.
Cheatham of Pinehurst reported per.
sonally sreing two automobile par
ties pulling up these pines and load
ing thonr into their cars, one of which
“Broudacres" Goes into Federal
Ownership for Refore.-tation
and (iame Cc.nservation
MANY OWNERS IN PAST
Monday i f thi.s week the L uitod
.s of America accpiiicd the fa-
m(jus ' Broadacros" plantation lying
in Richmond and Scotland coruitics as
a j)ai t of the rcforcstatiim and game
consoivati n pro/4ium of the licsettle-
tiicnt Ailrninistration.
The i)Jantati'm is a part of a large
tract of land graiit.d :n l^"^) by the
State of North Carolina to Andrew,
Jo.'-c|ih. and .Vlc.xandcr McMillatr for
n c in.'iidi-r.iti n of ten cetits an acre.
In ihc ptantation was owned
by William 1'. Royn(jltis. a southern
planter, and in 18(59. when the I’av-
a;;c.s of the Civil War liad made
wiiithlcss Confeiicrate currency,
flood the slaves, and undermined
a‘;riculturo in the South. Reynolds
Conveyed the tract to H. C. Thacher,
a c tton merchant of Yarmouth and
Boston, Mass., in payment of a debt
contracted before the War, Reynolds
having rio other means of discharging
his obligation.
The value of the hard pine timber,
turpentin;, pitch and ether naval
stores was discovered a few years la
ter, and in 1895 Thacher sold the
lands to the late John F'. McNair of
Laurinburg, father of the former
State Highway Commissioner. John
F. McNair boxed the pine timber, op
erated .sawmills on the tract, and
finally sold the lands.
After passing tht'ough specula
tive hands the lands finally were
purchased in 1912 by Ralph Page and
Frederick T. Gates, a Baptist minister
who gave up his religious calling to
become private secretary to John D.
Rockefeller, Sr.
Land (Joes Into Peaches
By this date much of the timber
had been cut from the lands and the
peach itidustry of the Sandhills was
in its infancy. Henry Clark of Candor
was the first to see the possibilities
of planting peach trees on the slopes
of the sandhills. Raphael Pumpelly
was destined to rrturn from Russia
with his father, an internationally fa
mous geologist, and plant his large
peach orchards at Samarcand. Kath
erine Ball Ripley was yet to write
that famous story of the Sandhill
poach growa-s, ‘‘Sand in My Shoes.”
Realizing the po.ssibilitios. Fretlorck
Oates and Ralph Page assembled a
gloat c terie of accountants, ongi-
nrcrs. laborers and Haiv;ird gradu
ates (prosi>ective purchasers i and
The unioir service of Southern
Pines churches will be held on Sun
day night in the Southern Pines Bap
tist Church at 7 ;15 c’clock, with the
Rev. Dr. C. Rexford Raymond
preaching the sermon.
Stables at 2l!illbrook. New Ytirk, the
t
I pr porty of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne
and Mrs. Lawrence B. Smith; five
hunters belonging to Ernest I. Whrte,
;)r(miincnt horseman from Syracu.so,
N. Y., arrd five th? property of Tom
M. Girdler. president of the Republic
.‘iLocl Corporation, vvhO’ is spending
sonre time in Southern Pines this
wirrtor. B. A. Tompkins, vice presi
dent of the Bankers Trust Company
of New York, also has several hunt
ers at The Paddock.
W. O. Moss and Willian; A. Laing
are again operating their stables in
Southern Pinrs and have a largo n\mi-
ber of horses here for hacking and
hunting, and frequently seen in the
gymkhana events at both Pinehurst
and Southern F’inos. There are also
two new stables in Southern F’ines
this season. Will J. Stratton having
brought down a number of hunters
from Princeton, N. J., and Graham
of the Edgewood F''arms in Carthage,
Illinois, who has a string of five-
galted saddle horses at the Soirthern
Pines Stables on Pennsylvania Ave
nue.
In addition to these more or less
public stables ther-e are numerous
horses privately stabled in both towns
among them Mr. and Mrs. V’erner Z.
{Please turn to page 6)
Word has bron received here cf the
marriage of Dr. James W. Silver,
former resident of Southern F’ines
and a son of Mrs. F'lizabeth J,. Silver,
to Miss Margaret Thomps n of Mont
gomery, Alabama, on Tuesday of this truck.
v.'ock. A. J. McKelway t Id the
Dr. Silver, always "Jim" to his members of work b ing done
nuiny friends h.ro. is head of the '‘'‘long poor families in the Pinehurst
History and Political Sciencc depart- neighborhood and urged the club to | with J. S. ITttor at the surveyor's rn-
rnerit at Southwestern College in Win- :ic<iuaint itself with the needs of the | struments and Char lie Thompson of
field. Kansas. The report (f his en- ooninninity's und r privileged families,' Hoffman finding the old corncrs and
gagerncnt came here from the student study if their cc.ndition and pos-| earlier mavkers, numerous small
paper at Vnnilorbilt X’niversity in ^'iblo remedial mea.'iues. He cited sev-j f.irrns were laid out and a score cf
Nashville. Term., which says: *’‘id cases run across by Pine-j ten;uit houses erected. Peach tries by
".\n interesting social event of the hurst v,-oik. rs during the holidays. | the thousands were planted. Head-
holiday .season will be the marriag: of Louis Scheipers of Southotn Pines | quar ters, atrd living quartet s, were at
wa.s pro.-^onted to the I'lub a-; ;i new , the "House of Commons."
memher by E. W. Keiitet k, and liich
'!:d Tai'lton.
one of the most popular co-eds to a
former assistant professor in the po
litical science dei)artment. Margaret
("Dutch"! T-iiornpson of M ntgoinery.
Ala., will b: married to Dr. James
W. ("Jim" I Silver of Southern Pines,
N. C.. on December 31 at the chaj)-
ter hou.se of .Vljiha Omicron Pi.
TO OK<;AMZK Cl- \SS ULIJK
i.\ \oi i;r i;i)iCATION
A class in adult education, partic-
"The marriage will be soleinnized ularly adapted to re.sidents of the
at fivo o’cl ck with Dr. Howard 1. Sanilhills who did not finish their
Kerr and W. F'. Christopher official- high school coursoH or who, f r any
ifg. I'-or the wedding the house will reason, desir-o to continue study along
bo ilocoratod with cut flowers and an undorgrailuate lines, is to be organiz-
altar will be improvised with ferns, ^d at a nree’ting in the High School
The color sch.nie will be gold and building in Southern Pines on Mcn-
yellow. !
"Miss Thcmpsorr's orrly attendant j
will be her sister, Elizabeth Thomp
son, who will serve as maid of honor.
Dr. Silver will have as his best man
Joan McMurray oi Maryville. T.n-
day afternoon next, January 9th, at
3:00 o’clock. The courses given will
be fr:o. and any white person be
tween the ages of 17 and 90 is wel
come t attend. They are invited to
register at the Monday meeting by
nessee. Mrs. Robert Leatham. who will be
Following the ceremony the couplo charge. This is a government pro
will go tC' the home of Dr. Silver's
parents in Southern Pines, whore
they will spend the remainder of the
holidays. They will return to Winfred
in time for the opening of school on
tanuary 8.”
At the weekly meeting of the Ki
wanis Club of Aberdeen hel 1 yester-
'ay, Richard F. Tarlton of Southern
Pines was elected treasurer to suc-
c.ed A. P. Thonip-on, Pinehurst,
ject.
(ilOT varu 1936 PLATKS
Sandhills residents w'*.’e scurrying
to Sanford yesterday to- procur-e new
license plates for their automobiles.
The 193fi plates are supposed to be
on all cars NOW, and State officials
from the Governcr down say no
mercy is to be shown delinquents.
The two sons of F'tele;..,. Gates.
F'lanklin and Russell, wore j :;:t grad
uating from c. llego. and th.ir lather
assisted them in devloping one of the
first model dairies of this section. Af-
t(>r developing the plantation, and in
quest of broader fielils the Gates
boj-s s Id the property and F^ranklin
wont to the Chase National Bank
where he is now a vice-president.
Henry A. Pago. Jr., and a group
of associates acquired the property
and subsequently sold it to the Sal
vation Army. In turn it became the
property cf Dr. J. Rush Shull of Char-
{PlcaKe turn to page 5)
I*INEHl UST BOV SCOUTS TO
UK <il ESTS OF S. 1*. COl XCIL.
Boy Scouts of Pinehvn'st are to be
the guests ■ f Southern Pines Boy
Scouts at a meeting to be held on
Tuesday, January 10th in the Civic
Club, and parents of the Scouts are
to be included in the invitation. The
purpose of the meeting is to further
interest parents and others in Boy
Sccut work in the community, and
it is expected that a large crowd will
be present to learn what the local
council and the Pinehurst council are
doing and planning.