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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 16, NO. 13.
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SPHINCS
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SPRinOS
SOUTH e»N
PltiCS
ASHI-Sy
MKICtlTS
AeCROCCJi
PINEBLUPr
MOORE COI NTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKI.Y
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, February 21, 1936.
FIVE CENTS
PRESBYTERIANS TO:
VOTE SUNDAY ON I
NEW CHURCH HERE
ConKreuational IVleetinfy Will Be
Held at Civic Club to
Determine Sentiment
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MISSION BIG SUCCESS i
The question of providing Southern j
Pines with a Presbyterian church will ;
be determined this coming Sunday!
afternoon at a meeting of the con- j
gregation of the Presbyterian Mission ^
to be held at the Civic Club at 4:30 j
o’clock. A vote of members of the
congregation will be taken at that:
time, and all those interested in the
proposal as well as the members are
urged to be present.
The overture asking for organiza
tion, together with the charter roll
will be presented for those to sign
who desire to become charter mem
bers of the Presbyterian Church of
Southern Pines.
A little over a year ago mission
aervices were inaugurated in the Civ
ic Club here on Sunday afternoons by
a number of members of the Pres
byterian faith resident in Southern
Pines and vicinity. The Rev. Ernest
L\ Barber of Aberdeen was invited to
conduct these weekly services, and
from the start they have been high
ly successful. The congregations have
increased steadily.
« Big Sunday Scho<»l
Some time ago a Sunday School
was launched, and this today has
100 enrolled members and boasts an
average attendance of 80 adults and
children. Dr. Marcus A. Brownson
has been conducting the adult class,
with an enrollment of 48.
•‘We are hopeful of seeing the cor
nerstone of an edifice for a Presby
terian church in Southern Pines laid
in the near future," Mr. Barber said
yesterday. ‘‘The response to our mis
sion service project has been most
gratifying, and there appears to be
a demand for the organization of a
church and the erection of a building.
If this is so. there is no better time
than the present to launch the move
ment, that we may be in a position
to receive members and go to work
building up a strong organization.”
Southern Pines at present has a
Baptist, a Congregational, a Chris
tian Science, an Episcopal and a Ro
man Catholic church, in addition to
the Presbyterian Mission.
In Memoriam
BION H. Bl TLEIt
The late editor of The Pilot died
one year ago today at his home, Val
halla, on the outskirts of Southern
Pines. The staff cf his newspaper,
ever mindful of its great loss, takes
this occasion to repeat its words of
that SO!rowful day:
“Requiescat in Pace."
THE EDITOR.
Dr. John Symington
Involved in Charge
Federal Agent Takes Custody of
County Health Officer and
Sanford Druggist
Dr. John Symington, of Carthage,
Moore county health officer, was ar
rested Tuesday by Federal Narcotic
Agent William T. Atkinson on a
charge of unlawful sale of narcotic
drugs -morphine and paregoric. At
the conclusion of a preliminary hear
ing in Carthage he furnished bond of
$500 for his appearance In United
States District Court in Rockingham
at the term beginning March 2.
Mr. Atkinson also arrested R. H.
Thomas, Sanford druggist. Tuesday
for the alleged unlawful sale of mor
phine. The defendant posted bond of
$500 for the same term of court in
Rockingham.
Ellse Julia Addor
Passes at Her Home
Came to America From NUtive
Switzerland in 1883. and Was
Sandhills Pioneer
Mrs. Elise Addor died at her home
in Addor la.st Friday morning at the
age of 77 years.
B;rn Julia Etienne in 1859 in Swit
zerland, she came to American in Oc
tober, 1883 and settled in Philadelphia
where she met and married Eugene
Addor, a watchinaker and jewt-ler, in
1884. They went to Chicago where
they resided until they bought the
tract of land known as Lot No. 2 in
the old French colony between Pine-
bluff and Addor near Route 1, be
coming picneer settlers of this sec
tion.
To them were born ten children, of
whom six survive. One son, Felix, was
killed in line of duty in the World
War on March 1b, 1918. The surviv
ing children are George, who lives
in Somerville, Mass.; Henry and
Jeanne of Addor, Mrs. Roger A. Wil
liams of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Mrs. James
E. Davenport of Mackeys, this state,
and Joe Addor of Talmage, Cal. Four
teen grnpdchildren also survive. Her
husband, Eugene Addor died Novem
ber 4th, 1913.
Wherever sickness or distress were,
Mrs. Addor cculd be found lending a
helping and sympathetic hand. She
was one of the most highly respected
women of her community, and her
loss will be keenly felt by a wide cir
cle of friends, both white and colored.
All during her illness she was con
siderate and patient, always thinking
of the oomfort of others. She was
prepared to go and kept saying ^hat
everything was all right. She was
conscious unto the last.
Mrs. Addor was a member of the
Christian Church for many years.
The funeral services were held at the
home on Saturday afternoon, with in
terment in the cemetery at Pinebluff
beside her husband and son.
I.LOVD T. CL.ABK AND
MISS McPHEKSON WED
Llcyd T. Clark, well known South
ern Pines undertaker, and Miss Mil
dred McPherson of Laurens, S. C.,
daughter of the late George H. Mc
Pherson, were married in the Metho
dist parsonage in Rockingham on
Tuesday by the Rev. Mr. Herbert of
Rockingham.
LIBRARY CLOSED SATUBDAV
The Library will be closed all day
on Washington’s Birthday, Saturday,
February 22, This change in the reg
ular schedule is made in order to pro
vide an opportunity for installing the
additional shelving, plans for which
were submitted and approved at the
last meeting of the trustees.
Luther B. Clegg of
Carthage Dies at 62
Prominent Moore County Attor
ney Passes in Hospital Af
ter Stroke
Luther B. Clegg of Carthage, prom
inent Moore county attorney, died at
the Moore County Hospital yesterday
morning follcwing a stroke suffered
on Saturday. He was 62 years of age,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Clegg
who preceded him to the grave by
several years.
Through his years of the practice
of law Luther Clegg had made a wide
circle of friends in the county who
will mourn his passing. He had a bril
liant mind and a host cf admirers. He
is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie
Barber Clegg; by one daughter, An
nie Jane, 6 years old; by a sister. Miss
Marie Clegg ,and two brothers, W. R
Clegg, Moore county’s representa
tive in the Legislature, and the Rev.
I. N. Clegg, all of Carthage.
Funeral arrangements had not
been made at the time The Pilot went
to press.
LENIENT COURTS MAJOR BOWES OF
TO BLAME FOR ' RADIO FAME CAN’T
AUTO ACCIDENTS COME HERE, BUT--|
High way Law Violators Must He’s Sending His Star I'nit of,
Be Punished. Says Motor I Ten Acts To Make up For i
Club Official i Disappointment I
He Can’t Come
SPEAKS TO KIWANIS
A. M. Huggins of the Carolina Mo
tor Club, Charlotte, in a talk at the
Southern Pines Baptist Church yes
terday before a group of Sandhills
business men at the regular weekly
luncheon cf the Kiwanis Club, stated
that the courts of North Carolina
were lesponsible for the alarming
number of highway accidents. Sub
stantiating this statement the speak
er produced a newspaper clipping
giving the criminal recoid of two dif
ferent defendants in a certain county
of this state where each of them be
tween the years 1932 and 1936 had
been brought before Recorder’s Court
on eight different charges and on
each offense had been let off under
.suspended sentence or a fine and
costs.
The speaker stated it was time for
the civic organizations and the peo
ple of North Carolina to rise up in
arms and demand that drunken driv
ers and others violating the traffic
laws of the highways be punished,
and until this is done there can be
little change in the number of acci
dents which reached a peak last year
with 36,400 deaths, 107,000 perman
ently disabled and 1,170,000 receiving
minor injuries, property damage, loss
of wages, etc., reaching between one
and a .lalf and two million d.llais.
Mr. Huggins stated that the Caro
lina Motor Club is stressing the im
portance of the education of safety
in the schools. There are new 2.50,000
school boy patrols in 1,800 cities of
this country, he said, and in the Caio-
linas alone there are 7,000 in the pat
rols. He h p:s to introduce safety
courses for pupils in local schools.
Another factor in the overcoming of
highway accidents is being studied by
expert engineers in the eliminaticn
of unnecessary curves, the widening
of highways and the building of high-
ways for local traffic, keeping the
through tiaffic on the main trunk
lines.
In closing, the speaker said that
the automobile industry is building
the safest-built automcbile today in
its history and that the leaders of
the industry were devoting consider
able thought to highway safety. He
praised the newspapers of North Car
olina for the splendidl supp'rt and
space that is being given to encour
age safety.
•‘But it is only the individual driver
who can cut down the heavy toll,’’
he said, in urging support of these
present. Members of the Chambers
of Commerce of Aberdeen, Pinehurst
and Southern Pines w'ere guests of
the Kiwanis Club at the luncheon.
Theodore N. Barnsdall
of Knollwood Passes
Winter Resident Prominent in
Oil and Gas Industry
in Pennsylvania
Theodore N. Barnsdall, prominent
winter resident of the Sandhills for
the past seven years, died at his
Knollwood Heights home at 1:30
o’clock Monday morning following
a heart attack several days before.
He was about 58 years of age.
Mr. Barnsdall is a resident of Brad
ford, Pa., where he was heavily in-
teiested in oil and natural gas prop
erties, a director in several large
companies operating in the north
western Pennsylvania fields. He pur
chased a winter home in Knollwood
in 1929 and has spent much time here
since then. He had been in apparent
good health this winter, and had just
returned here fiom a tour of Flor.
Ida when stricken by the heart at
tack which resulted in his death.
He is survived by his wife from
whom he has been .separated for the
past 25 years.
Funeral services were held in
Titusville, Pa., Mr. Barnsdall's birth
place, upon arrival of the body there.
( HARLIE STARTED IT
America’s pi'cmier ladio star. Ma
jor Bowes, can’t come to the annual
banquet of the Theatre Owners ot
North and South Car lina, and Char
lie Picquet’s head is hawed in grief,
coupled with a little shame.
BUT. and the capitals are used
advisedly to make up for the ab-
.«ence th: Major is sending here on
March 2d his star tioupe of amateur
radio performers, his No. 2 unit ol
ten outstanding acts, the bunch that
have been down to Florida taking
F’alp.i Beach and Miami and the other
reso!ts by storm. And they will not
only appear at the theatre owners’
banquet here, but will give a per-
fotmance at the Caiolina Theatre,
Pinehurst. that evening prior to their
banquet appearance.
To put Charlie right, here's what
happened;
The Major, desiring to do some
thing nice f r the theatre owners of
the two Carolinas and for his friend
Picquet, decided to make an excep
tion to his rigid rule of "no personal
appearances." He accepted the invi
tation to the banquet in Pinehurst.
Trouble for the Major
! The story leaked cut. It got into
I radio and theatre publications. And
I the trouble started. The Major’s of-
I fipes were- .swpmpsd for days with
, ilelegations waiting on him. “If you’re
I going to make a personal appearance
at Pinehurst. why can't you appear
in Herkimer tn March 18th?" “'How
about our woolen hose manufacturers’
j banquet in East Skatacoke on Ap-
! ril 3d ?’’ Etc., etc., etc.
j There was nothing the Major could
I do. He can’t run the biggest movie
I house in New York, give auditions
I all day to amateurs, direct a dozen
; road compani. s, broadcast on the ra
dio and pei'form half a dozen other
feats required of him in New York,
and dash out of town every few days
for per.sonal appearances. And < ne
exception was going to upset the
apple cart.
Hence the cancellation of Major
Bowes’ visit to the Sandhills.
But you who listen in regularly on
the Major’s hour cn the radio will
acknowledge that he is sending his
best talent here when you read this
lists of the acts for the show in Pine
hurst the night of Monday, March
2d, Just listen;
1. The Jersey Happy Rangers.
2. Rufus Wilson Smith, "The
Smoked Ham from Virginia.”
3. Rhoda Case, bass contralto.
4. The University of Missouri
Campus Quartet, plus Kewpie and his
guitar.
5. Thelma Gaskian, coloratura so
prano.
6. Jakie Billings, the amateur
Fred Astaire.
7. Harvey Mearns, t^e ‘‘Candy
Man."
8. Meyer Goldberg, novelty whis
tler.
9. Howard Weiner, tenor.
10. Ben Jones, Jacksonville pian
ist.
And then there’s Eddie Vogt, mas
ter of ceremonies, and Bob Hamill,
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FINE PROGRAM IS
ANNOUNCED FOR
MAJOR BOWES
Legal Holiday
Postoffice Windows Open Two
Hours in Morning. Banks
Closed All Day
Saturday, Washington’s Birth
day, is a legal holiday.
Postmaster Frank Buchan an
nounced yesterday that the South
ern Pines Pcstoffice will be closed
all day, except that 'the {general
delivery and stamp windows will
be open from 8:00 to 10:00 in the
morning.
The Citizens Bank & Trust Com
pany and the Bank of Pinehurst,
with its offices in Aberdeen and
Carthage will be clo<,ec all day.
Celebrate Washington
Birthday at Civic Club
i
.Mrs. McGraw to Read Today at
Tea SponsorttI by Four
(irganizations '
Tomorrow, Friday afternoon, at
3:00 o’clock at the Civic Club there
will be a reading from one of Bar-
I ie’s book by Mrs. Thomas McGraw |
of Abiideen. Many in Southern'
Pines have heard Mrs. McGraw read
from other books, and all express j
pleasant anticipation in another op
portunity. As a complement to the!
Scotch author, and stories of Scot
land, Miss Florence will sing a group
of Scotch songs, accompanied by Mrs.
Charles Grey. |
This regular Friday program had
been plann.d for some time and an-
noimced, and all visitors are most
cordially invited to attend. At 4:00
o’clock in the Clubhouse because *
Washington’s birthday always seems
to be the most fitting time to en
tertain with a Colonial tea, the four
social organizations of the village
have joined together in bidding all ]
the citizens and all of the winter visi- '
tors in our midst, to come together
and get acquainted and drink tea to
gether, give a tcast to George Wash
ington, forever alive, and give anoth
er toast to our own Southern Pines,
fast developing the Colonial atmos
phere. The four organizations actmg
as hosts are the Chamber cf Com
merce, Mr. Betterley. president; the
Civ'c Club, Miss Cook, president; the
Thistle Club, Mrs. Everest, president;
and the All-States Association, Mrs.
Turner, president.
Presiding at the tea table, and
dressed in gowns of the Colonial days,
will be Mrs. Darwin Turner. Mrs. H.
A. Gould, Mrs. Hugh Betterley, and
Mrs. Hoyt Shaw. It is hoped that
both men and women will accept this
very, cordial invitation, and go in to
the Civic Club any time after three.
There is to be no collection for any
cause, no matter how good, and any
who wish free transportation may
notify D. H. Turner, and an auto
mcbile will be sent.
There will be a food sale starting
at 10:00 o’clock in the morning, at
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Miss Glenn to Lecture
on Christian Science
Member of Board of Lectureship
of Mother Church to I?e
Here Monday
Miss Margaret Murney Glenn of
Boston, Mass., member cf the Board
of Lectureship of the Mother Church,
the First Church of Christ, Scientist,
{in Boston, will deliver a lecture on
Christian Science at the church in
Southern Pines on Monday night
n;xt, February 24th. Her subject will
be: “Man’s Spiritual Nature as Re-
I vealed by Christian Science.” Miss
Glenn is reported to be a brilliant
and forceful speaker, and a large aud
ience is anticipated for the meeting,
which cpens at 8:00 o'clock.
The public is cordially invited to
attend this lecture. The Christian
Science Church is on New Hampshire
avenue in Southern Pines.
Dr. Julian Miller Speaker Tues
day Night at Gathering at
Pine Needles Inn
ALL CORDIALITY INVITED
The annual banquet of the South
ern Pines Chamber of Commerce will
be held next Tuesday night, Febru-
ary 25th. in the main dining room of
the Pine Needles Inn. The affair
promises to be one of the most en
joyable in the long line of yearly
gatherings sponsored by the organi-
zati n. It will be strictly informal.
Dr, Julian Miller, editor of The
Charlotte Observer, heads the prog
ram. One of the be.st speakers in the
state, he will talk on a subject of
particular timeline.ss, and interest to
the people of this section.
The musical program, arranged by
Charles W. Picquet, chairman of the
banquet committee, will include songs
by a quartette comprising the Rev.
and Mrs. A. J. McKelway cf Pine
hurst and the Rev. and Mrs. A. V.
Gibson of Sanford, who will smg a
number of spir-ituals; songs by Mrs.
Raymond Kennedy and Mrs. Charles
W. Picquet; piano duets by Frederick
Stanley Smith and Miss Selma Ste
gall, and orchestra music by Jimmie
Livingstone and his 10-piece band.
And there'll probably be some stunt
during the evening; it's usual at these
banquets.
Everyone is invited to the ban
quet, and the tickets, including din
ner ’n’ everytliing, ore only one dol
lar. They are on saie at the drug
stores in Southern Pines and by di
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce.
President Hugh Betterley of the or
ganization requests that directors re
port on their ticket sales on Monday
that the Pine Needles may have some
idea of how many to expect Tuesday
night. The party is scheduled for 7:30
o’clock. Those without transportation
will be cared for if they are at the
Broad Street Pharmacy at 7:00 p. m.
Add Three C’s to the
Three R’s, Erwin Urges
Heiid of State Schools Talks to
Parent-Teacher Ass’n.
at Pinehurst
The Pinehurst Parent-Teacher As
sociation met in the school auditor
ium Wednesday evening when an en
joyable prcgram was presented under
the direction of E. C. Cunningham.
The program opened w'ith the singing
of several songs led by the Rev. A.
J. McKelway, followed by a candle
lighting service by a group of school
girls commemorating the founding of
the National Parent-Teacher Associa
tion thirty-nine years ago on Febru
ary 17th. This was followed by two
solos by Dr. Robert P. Shepard.
W. P. Morton introduced State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Clyde A. Erwin, who gave an instruc
tive talk on our State system of*edu-
cation. He urged patrons to support
the acaie-v'ide educational program,
which of necessity would be a mini-
mum, and, also, earnestly urged that
where possible vote a superimposed
local tax enabling children to have
not only the three R’,s but also the
three C’s—Citizenship, Character,
Culture, and other school advantages
that will help fit them for life in a
new social and economic era.
TO PORTRAY ROM.\NTIC
STORY OF LINCOLN’S LIFE
I The romantic story of the life of
! Abraham Lincoln will be the theme
l,of the Community Hour at 7:45 this
■ Sunday night at the Church of Wide
Fellowship. Fifty-three beautiful pic
tures will be shown telling the story
of his life from the log cabin in the
Kentucky hills to the White House in
I Washington, Dr. C. Rexford Raymond,
who has visited the historic birth-
I place of Lincoln and is acquainted
with the mountain background, will
comment on the pictures. There will
be no admission fee but an offering
will be taken to defray the expenses.