FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 16, NO. 29. SPRIN09 PINBBLurr PILOT MOORE COUNIY'S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdee , mortti Carolina. Friday, June 12, 1936. PINE NEEDLES TO BUILD CLUBHOUSE, IMPROVE COURSE $30,000 Projrram at Knollwood Heights Inn Announced by ' Harrison Stutts | ! I W.C. PETTY, 58, OF PIONEER FAMILY IN COUNTY, DIES Heart Attack Fatal to Manager of Charlotte’s Selwyn Hotel, a Native of Moore WORK BEGINS AT ONCE TO BE BURIED IN CARTHAGE Thirty thousand dollars in exten sions and imprpvements at the Pine Nfedles Inn werie announced this week by O. Harrison Stutts, secretary of the company. The program includes the rebuilding of the golf club house and further improvements to the golf course. Work on both is to begin at once. Plans of A. B. Yeomans,Southern Pines architect, call for a greatly en larged clubhouse of which the pres ent building will be but a small part. The construction will be of frame and stucco, with wood casement sash with transoms, porch paved with irregular flagstones, and an asphalt shingle roof to match the present roof. A recreation room 35 by 60 feet will feature the interior of the build ing, with a large stone fireplace on one side. This room will be sheathed with stained pine boards up to a height of eight feet, with the balance of walls and ceiling of sand fini.sh plaster. The plans call for one large window commanding a distant view to be secured by cutting a vista through the pine grcve near the club house. A hallway from the recreation room will lead to the men’s and wo men’s locker rooms, and a kitchen and oystci bar are provided which are accessible from the main room. An alcove of the recreation room will have a raised platform for orchestra music or entertainments. Porch Overlooks t'onrse The building will also contain a sizeable golf shop and an office. A porch runs the entire 60-foot length of the recreation room on the side of the building which faces the first tee and fairway. The new part of the building is to be heated by a warm air furnace^ the piesent section re taining its hot water system. When completed, considerable land scaping is planned about the club house. Mr. Yeoman’s preliminary sketches showing a most attractive general scheme for the entire set* ting. The Pine Needles Inn owners re modeled nine of the 18-hole golf course which surrounds the inn last Summer and fall, and are now start ing work on the other nine, so that by the opening of a new season the full 18 holes will be In perfect condi tion. with many new features. This Oonald Ross course has always been one of the most picturesque and at tractive from a scenic standpoint in the Sandhills, and with the planned improvements is expected to prove •most popular next winter. Frank Ma ples is supervising the improver#ents. Stutts Supply Co., Inc. Acquires Warehouses Harrison Stutts Heads Concern Taking Over Assets of I^rge Pinehurst Business Harrison Stutts |' Pirihurat an- ncunced this week the acquisition of all of the assets, except the real es tate, of Pinehurst Warehouses. Inc., and the organization of Stutts Supply Company, Incorporated to operate the business which has for so long a time bten known as the Pinehurst Ware houses. The management and personnel of Stutts Supply Company will continue the same as in the past 20 years in the former company, Mr. Stutts stat ed. Pinehurst Warehouses, Inc., was forn>crly a department of Pinehurst, Inc.. wi‘h Mr. Stutts as manager. It hcws been the largest warehouse for the sale and distribution of farmers’ supplies, hardware, feeds and grains, etc. in the Sandhills, and under its new name and ownership will contin ue as such. The Pilot publishes a rotogravure section once each month, primarily for the farmer. Though a newspaper in itself, no extra charge is made for this illustrated supplement. W. C. Petty, a native and former prominent resident of Moore county, died Wednesday afternoon in a Char lotte hospital where he was rushed from his apartment in the Selwyn Ho tel after suffering a heart attack. Mr. Petty, who was 58 years of age. was manager of the hotel, had other bus- ine.ss interests in Atlanta, Ga.. and Miami. Fla. The Petty family were pioneers in the turpentine days of the Sandhills and made their home in Manly, then one of the leading villages of the sec- I tion. Mr. P.tty’s father built the i railroad from Cameron to Carthage, j His mother was Emma Thagard of ! Carthage, of the pioneer Moore ccun- j ty family of that name, i W. C. Petty went to Charlotte to I reside in 1908 and for the past 15 I years had operated the SUw'yn Hotel I there. He built and later sold the ] Mecklenburg Hotel while in Charlotte. I Surviving are his widow, two chil dren, William Calvin Petty, .Jr., of 1 Jackson. Miss., and James B. Petty, I 17, cf Charlotte, a brother. J. C. i Petty of Washington, D. C„ and three i sisters, Mrs. Palmer Jerman of Ral- i eigh and fireen.sboro, who is assist- j ant internal revenue collector for I North Carolina. Mrs. J. H. Brodie, anr" I Mrs. W. B. Waddili of Henderson. I Funeral services were held yester day afternoon in Charlotte, after which the body was taken to Carthage for burial. Active pallbearers were R. H. Brooks, Cabell Young, Joe McCoy, A. D. Brabble, George Terry, and C. B. Ross. Honorary pallbearers will be Cameion Morrison, C. F. Dalton, Dr. J. Q. Torrence Hemby, L. E. Wooten, Verncr Porter, I. K. Coyle of Rock Hill; Thomas C. Cox of Wadesboro; U. L. Spence, Paul Kennedy, and O. D. Wallace of Carthage: and Claude Edwards of Atlanta, Ga. Miss Mary Merrill Dies at Home Here Southern Pines Resident for Quarter Century Was Born in Brooklyn in 1852 Miss Mary E. Merrill, aged 84 years ,a resident of Southern Pines for a quarter of a century, died in her home on Massachusetts avenue on Monday afternoon. Born in Brook lyn, N. Y., on November 21, 1852, the daughter of George Merrill and Emily (Abbot) Merrill, Miss Merrill built a home in 1912 at the corner of Massa chusetts avenue and Weymouth Road, then on the outskirts of thi^ grow ing town. Noted for her many charities, and civic activities, she was long a direc tor, and many times president of the Civic Club. Funeral services, conducted by her brother, the Rev. William P. Merrill, of the famous Brick Presbyterian Church of New York City, were held in her late home at 4 ;00 o’clock Wed nesday afternoon, and at the grave in the family plot in Greenwood Cem etery. Brookljm yesterday sfternoon. Miss Merrill is survived by a sister. Miss Helen A. Merrill, of Wellesly College, Mass and three brothers, the Rev. Frank G. Merrill, Kingwood. N. J.. the Rev. Robert Dodge Merrill. Seneca Falls, New York, and the Rev. William P. Merrill of New York, NOTED EVANGELIST TO PREACH HEBE SUNDAY The Rev. John R. Williams, one of the leading Evangelists of the coun. try who has been preaching this week in the Bethesda Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen, will preach this Sunday afternoon at 5:00 o’clock in the Civic Club, Southern Pines. _ MrT Williams, former pastor of one of the leading •'hurches in Atlanta, Ga., is preach ing daily for tw'o weeks in Aberdeen, 10:00 in the morning and at 8:00 each evening. Leads in Democratic Primary I i y ii FIVE CENTS CLYDE HOEY Hoey High '»vernor; Bailey Renomil^ .ced; Noore Renames its County Board Rainfall Turns Glum Faces of Local Peach Growers Into Smiles Election Sidelights County Polls Highest Primary Vote in History.—Fry Leads Ticket With approximately 4,000 votes cast, last Saturday’s Democratic primary bicught out the heaviest balloting in the history of primary elections in Moore county. The leading vote-getter was D. Carl Fry, candidate to succeed himself as Coroner, who polled 3,- 063 against his opponent’s 672. Over a long period of years the late Will J. Harrington led the Democratic balloting in the county in his regular re-election as Regis ter of Deeds. Among the County Commission ers, T. Frank Cameron of Cameron was high man with 2,305 votes. The only woman candidate on the county ticket. Miss McCaskill, polled 2,106 votes against 1,884 combined vote for her opponents. The high man for Governor in the total State vote was low man in Moore county, overlooking Mc Rae’s 65 total. : Gubernatorial Contest Goes Into Second Primary; Hawley i^oole Beats Clegg Miss McCASKILL WINS Optimism Throughout Sandhills Belt; Georgia Shipments Be gin. Esliniate 8,965 Cars The glum faces you’ve seen on Sandhill peach growers for the past montjj (it so blos.somed into beaming smiles when rain finally came to the section the forepart of this week. To them it meant the difference be tween a real crop and a "sorry” crop, a successful season and a disastrous one. When the clouds opened up Sunday it had been exactly two months since any rain of helpful pro portions had fallen through the lo cal peach belt. In most orchards throughout the Sandhills peaches are plentiful and healthy. The growers are more out spokenly optimistic than in several years. They don’t dare say much: there have been so many years when just as everything looked rosy, some thing came along to spoil it all. But they are smiling, and that is a good sign. A good peach crop means in the neighborhood of a million dollars to this section in one way or another. Fred P. Abbott, the Seaboard’s ag ricultural agent at Hamlet, has just Doctor of Laws Dr. P. P. McCain, State Sana torium Head, Awarded Hon orary Degree at C. N. C. Dr. P. P. McCain, superintend ent and medical director of the State Sanatorium near Aberdeen, was this week awarded the honor ary degree of Doctor of Laws at the graduation exercises of the University of North Carolina’s 141st commencement at Chapel Hill. Among others so honored was Judge Michael Schenck of the North Carolina Supreme Court, who has presided in Superior Court in Carthage on a number of occa sions. Governor Ehringhaus presented diplomas to a near-record gradu ating class of 425. CONDITION IMPROVED WILLIAMS TO FACE MURDERCHARGE IN FLETCHER DEATH Faithful Employe of Sandhills Bookshop for 20 Years. Shot in “Jimtown” 1 Walter Fletcher, well known local colored man who has been in the em- pLy of C. L. Hayes at the Sandhill Bookshop for the past 20 years, was shot and killed in West Southern Pines snortly before 9:00 o’clock Mon day night. The shooting took place in the yard of the home of Dan Wil liams, Tin! \ViJlianns yesterday morn ing surrendered to the police and is expected to face a charge of murder. He is held in the county jail at Car thage pending arraignment in Re corders Court on Monday. Williams is alleged to have used a .32 caliber revolver, and to have fired five shots, the last, from a distance of several hundred yards, piercing Fletcher’s heart. Williams and Fletch er lived on adjoining property in “Jimtown” and the shooting is be- ,"'.ved to have been the result of a A slight change for the better is reported in the condition of Lewis returned from an inspection trip in Hodgkins, eight-year old sun of Mr. the Georgia belt. They’ve been feeling and Mrs. N. L. Hodgkins of Southern j neighborhood quarrel, the drought down there, too, but Ab- j Pines, w'ho was seriously injured when Quiet, unobtrusive and faithful, bott found the orchards in a good struck by a truck on May street ten ; Walter Fletcher, through his long state of cultivation. The estimates for days ago. The boy is still in a semi- service at the Hayes book store, was the Georgia crop for ti»e summer are c nscious condition ' at the Moore is still living at the age of 92. Walter (Please turn to page 4) County Hospital. j > C o •o o O c o Cl Aberdeen 137 293 14 330 29 122 184 197 102 343 127 350 111 308 139 287 169 210 Bensalem .. . 22 113 35 113 7 51 16 114 10 53 117 28 144 68 95 47 121 30 Carthage—E 133 66 80 185 21 72 77 178 29 155 127 118 150 111 163 148 119 118 Carthage—W,. 240 127 125 295 26 17^;, 149 •J02 45 243 248 247 225 246 226 287 185 204 Deep River 77 33 23 92 14 24 26 110 0 31 104 38 91 17 118 41 87 39 Eureke 65 63 10 42 5 91 7 128 6 34 100 44 87 49 79 36 97 22 Hemp 203 69 27 235 10 53 172 122 3 225 69 271 24 236 55 240 51 227 High Falls 60 19 6 63 3 27 15 84 0 78 23 65 25 77 19 60 25 61 Plnebluff 33 67 20 63 14 41 50 65 10 49 61 73 33 50 53 44 60 29 Pinehurst 105 205 51 258 15 86 206 135 23 281 77 246 94 269 73 246 95 313 Ritter 51 16 4 48 10 13 17 50 3 29 39 29 37 51 19 32 32 24 So. Pines 165 204 81 335 36 84 377 70 17 327 117 337 91 295 136 319 114 347 Spencerville 2ti 12 7 26 0 19 30 13 1 20 20 36 6 33 7 31 9 26 Spies 11 5 4 17 0 3 3 17 D 13 6 13 7 13 6 8 11 7 Vass 65 122 21 141 6 61 48 122 42 91 110 1,'?0 64 128 59 138 65 104 West End .. 42 225 12 127 6 148 35 151 87 164 106 140 120 189 67 157 99 47 Cameron 125 112 68 207 24 75 71 218 23 1.53 155 146 133 J55 114 184 117 134 TOTAL 1560 1751 616 2575 221 1142 1283 2106 401 2289 1606 2311 1442 2313 1428 2305 1456 1942 Clyde R. Hoey of Shelby was higli man for Governor. U. S. Senator Josiah W. Bailey won a clean majority for renomination. The entire Board of County Com- mi.ssioners was renominated. Miss Bess McCaskill. Carthage, was nominated for Register of E>eeds. J. Hawley Poole, West End, out- ; distanced Representative W. R. Clegg for the nomination for the Assembly, i W. Kerr Scott defeated Commia- I sioner of Agriculture Graham for ! that office. These were the outstanding feat ures of last Saturday's Democratic primary in state and county. Dr. Ralph McDonald, anti-adminis tration and anti-sales tax candidate for Governor, will ask a second pri mary against Hosy. McDonald was iecond in the four-cornered race, trail ing Hoey by 4,320 votes. McDonald earned Jloore coun.y m a close vote in which “Sandy” Graham ran sec ond and Hoey third. Graham carried Southern Pines and Pinehurst. Mc Donald Carthage and most of the rural districts, Hoty ran first in Hemp, Majiirity For Mc-C'askill The contests w'hich had aroused the most excitement in the county were tho.s^ for Register of Deeds and the State Legislature. In the former Miss M.sCaskill, who had served long and faithfully under the late Register Will Harrington, won a clear majority over her two opponents. Shields Cam eron, Southern Pines, present incum bent, and John McCrummen of West End. Cameron carried Hemp, Pine hurst and Southern Pines, but Miss McCaskill rolled up a big vote in most of the other sections of the county. For Representative, Hawley Poole nosed out Mr. Clegg, but did not gain a clear majority and this issue may have to be settled in the second pri mary. E. J. Bums of Carthage was the third candidate. Poole carried Aberdeen, Bensalem, Plnebluff, Pine hurst. Southern Pines. Vass and West End. Chairman of the County Board Wil bur Currie ran well ahead of his 1st district opponent. Reid Flinchum; D. D. McCrimmon won a renomination in the 2d district, L. R. Reynolds in the third, T. Frank Cameron of Cameron in the 4 th, and Gordon Cameron of Pinehurst in the fifth, though Gordon had a narrow escape in his race against D. A. Patterson of West End. D. Carl Fry was renominated for coroner, M. G. Boyette for solicitor. For sheriff, Charles J. McDonald, and for judge of the Recorder’s Court, J. Vance Rowe of Aberdeen were un opposed. Congressman Walter Lambeth had no cpponent for renomination for the House of Representatives. Senator Bailey carried Moore coun ty, getting a clear majority over his three opponents. Moore was the only jounty in this part of the state which gave the Senator a n,,’jority one of the few which gave him a plurality. Thad Eure won over Secretary of State Stacy Wade. Clyde Erwin was renominated Superintendent of Pub lic Instruction. George Ross Pou was nominated State Auditor, Charles M. Johnson Treasurer and Paul Grady Lieutenant Governor. The County V'ote The Moore county vote for county offices, by precincts, is tabled on Page 1. The vote for State offices in the county was as follows: United States Senator Griffin . 191 1962 257 139 153 271 «8 112 65 25 80! 59 42 98 14 10 95 233 148 Fountain Strain McRae _. Hoey McDonald Graham Governor 1617 72 .65 1133 „. 1576 _.1202 LJeiitenant Governor Grady 746 (Please turn to page 8)