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Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North CaronnaTFriday, June'26, 19.36
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
FIVE CENTS
Southern Pines To Get
New Post Office Building
Temperance Speaker
Stor|?s Close on 4th
Postoffices and Banks Will
Also Observe Hol
iday
The Fourth of July, a National
holiday, will be observed in South
ern Pines with the closing of all
stores, the pustoffice and the Cit
izens Bank and Trust Company.
The Bank of Pinehurst of Pine-
nurst, Aberdeen and Carthage, and
the postoffices of those towns will
also observe the holiday, but it is
net definitely known yet if all stores
in those communities will close.
The Fourth, coming on Saturday,
makes it a little inconvenient for
store keepers and many plan to
take the holiday on Monday in-
STILL BOILING IN
COUNTY & STATE
Nine North Carolina Towns On
List Given Out This Week
by Secretary Morgenthau
WORK TO BE STARTED SOON
Among thirteen cities and towns in
the two Carolinas, Southern Pines is ^
to have a new postoffice building, ac
cording to a leased wire from Wash- i
Ington on Wednesday. Secretary of
the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau. Jr.,
announced that the projects were in
cluded in the selection of 321 projects
to be paid out of the emergncy con- i
struction fund authorized under the
first deficicncy act approved on June
22nd. '
The nine North Carolina cities and
towns selected are as follows; South
ern Pines, site and building, for pest,
office j Beaufort, building and site for A T
post office; Chapel Hill, additional j I II A I Mill
land and new building for post office;
Dunn, site and building for post of
fice; Statesville, site and building for
post office and court house; Newton,
site and building for post office; and
Forest City, site and building for post
office.
Work on the projects selected Wed
nesday will go forward immediately.
For those cases where the acquisition
of land is necessary the Treasury de-'
partment is issuing advertisements
soliciting offers of property. For j While representative Democrats
those cases where the necessary land from all over the United States are 1
is already owned by the government * meeting in Philadelphia this week to I
plans and specifications will be start-, nominate their President for the com- j
ed immediately and it is expected by ing election, the state and county po- |
the department to place a large per- ^ utical pot keeps boiling here. ]
centage of the work under contract, North Carolina's most heated |
during the coming w^inter and spring, i campaign for governor enters the 1
So far as Frank P. Buchan, local home stretch, both candidates are I
postmaster, is informed, no particu- being equally optimistic about the j
lar sites have been considered by the final results next Saturday, the 4th ‘
department. of July. Clyde R. Hoey, leade*- in the I
However, several sites have been first primaiy on June 6th, by more!
mentioned by Interested parties, than 4.000 votes over Dr. Ralph W. i
It is hoped that there will be no con- McF’jnald. grc ws more and more con- '
flict in the ideas of the citizens of fident of finishing the job by defeat- j
Southern Pines when the department' ing his opponent by a large majority. |
makes Its selection, as any great dlf- The publicity manager for Hoey,'
fc-rppoes of opinion might delay the Hubeit Olive, says In a recent dls-^
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CALE K. BURGESS
TO MAKE TALK IN
ABERDEENSUNDAY
Speaker Is Leader of Temper
ance Forces in N'srth
Carolina
.Hoey
Supporters Confident of
Large Majority in
Final Race
PRIMARY ON FOURTH
work which is so badly needed at this
time.
Miss Dorothy Cross
Bride of Pinehurst Man
patch to The Pilot: "A spontaneous'
rush of Sandy Graham supporters to ^
the Hoey colors, coupled with a not- I
iceable cooling in the ardor of many |
of McDonaldites and a growing im-1
pressicn that the Winston-Salem’s '
man’s campaign is near the collaps-
Under the auspices of the Ministers
of Moore County, a Union Church
Service will be held at the Methodist
Church in Aberdeen Sunday night at
8:00 o’clock, in behalf of the cause
of temperance. The principal speaker
for the occasion will be Cale K. Bur
gess of Raleigh.
Mr. Burgess is a leader of the Tem
perance Forces in North Carolina.
F^r many months. Temperance
Field Days have been held In one or
Tiore counties each Sunday, at which
time 40 or 50 temperance programs
are presented in each respective
county. In the 14th, 52 meetings were
held In Forsyth county. On the 21st.
more than 30 temperance leaders
spoke in Mecklenburg county. To pre
pare for such a Field Day for Moore
county, a temperance rally Is being
held in Aberdeen Sunday night, with
the Idea that on some Sunday at an
early date a County-wide Temperance
Field Day will be held in Moore coun
ty. The objectives of thfese meetings
are education.
Everyone interested is cordially in
vited to attend the meeting Sunday
evening in Aberdeen.
mWORTHY HALL’ Rnn^pvplf ^^ORE
FORMER RESIDENT,"’*" „ ,
HERE, DIES JUNE 21 10 DC Held llere CHARLOTTE
W'eddinff Solemnized in Metho- ing point has contributed to the op
dist Church at Sunberry,
June 11th
timlsm which pervades the camp of
Near Scotland Co. Line
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A wedding of much Interest here ^
was solemnized Thursday afternoon, Huge Still Captured
June 11th at 5:45 o’clock in the Meth-, -
odist Church in Sunbury, when Mlss|
■Dorothy Mildred Cross, youngest |
daughter of Mrs. Frank Norfleet
Cross and the late Mr. Cross of Sun-1
bury, became the bride of Robert F. |
Shaw, Jr., of Pinehurst. The Rev. J.
M. Jolllff officiated. ]
A program of nuptial music was.
Five in County Lose
License to Drive
Liquor Violations Feature
Recorder’s Court This
Week
in
Moore County Officers Partici
pate in Raid; Two Men
He’d
Acting upon a tip given to one of
their number, Moore county officers
i ^ 11. ' on Tuesday of last week called upon,
played by Mrs. William Frank Cross ^ '
/ T J. XT- Scotland officers to join them in a,
and Miss Lidie Walton Nixon sang, t
search for a distillery near the county
Me.”
The Ceremony was performed under
an improvised arch, with a back
ground of ferns, yucca and Queen
Anne’s Lace, lighted by cathedral can
dles In tall candleabra. “To A Wild
Rose” was played softly during the
ceremony.
The bride was given in marriage by
her brother, Frank Norfleet Cross.
Her gown was fashioned of angel lace,
with veil cf illusion, held by orange
lines and the raid turned out to be j
' one of the biggest made in recent |
months. |
I As the'officers were driving along a |
I road across the line In Scotland, they |
discovered smoke rising net far away j
• I
i and after hastily surrounding the |
! source as best th^ could, they closed;
In and captured two white men who
gave their names as "Slim” and
“Jack” from Randolph county. The
distillery was a huge copper outfit of
300-gal!cn capacity and there was
blossoms and seed pearls and extend-1 j^rge super-heater for speeding up
Ing the length of her long train. She | operations. Seventy-five gallons
carried a shower bouquet of Bride s i manufactured liquor was on hand,
Roses and valley lilies. Miss Fannie fjf^y 50-gallon barrels of mash, three
House Scoggins of Warrenton was
maid cf honor and Mrs. Scroop Wes
ley Encoe, Jr., of Ahoskle, sister of
the bride was matron of honor. Nor
man B. Calcut of Pinehurst was best
man. The bride was head of the Do
mestic Science department in the
Pinehurst school the past two years
and has made many friends, who are
welcoming her as a permanent resi
dent. The groom Is the older so.i of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shaw. He was
graduated from the Pinehurst High
School and holds a position with the
"D. Pender Grocery Company.
wooden stands of approximately 400
gallons each, containing a large quan
tity of beer, and four or five bags of
mill feed. Contrary to the general
rule, there was no sugar on hand. It
appeared that when a load of liquor
was hauled off supplies were brought
oack on the return trip.
The prisoners were turned over to
the Scotland officers, who took
charge of the distillery and goods
''und there.
Moore county officers who had a
part In fhe raid were Messrs. Knight,
Dees, Slack and Lambert.
Drunken driving cases predominat
ed in Recorder’s court on Monday and
a number of motorists will have to
refrain from driving for some time or
find themselves in more trouble.
J. A. Wicker, white of Pinehurst,
paid a $50 fine and the costs for driv
ing while Intoxicated and his 30-day
sentence w'as suspended. His license
was revoked for 90 days.
Ralph McCoy, colored of Aberdeen,
pleaded guilty of drunken driving t»nd
received a like sentence.
Harry L. Laubscher and B. J. Mc
Rae. white cf Vass, were charged
with driving while intoxicated, unlaw
ful possession and transporting. They
were given 30 days on the roads, each
suspended upon payment of a fine of
S50 and the costs and they are not
to drive a m:tor vehicle for 90 days.
Neil Johnson, colored of Aberdeen,
was found guilty of careless and
reckless driving but not guilty of
driving while intoxicated. His 30-day
sentence was to be suspended upon
payment of a $25 fine and the costs.
Ernest Lewis, colored of Southern
Pines, was arrested In Aberdeen on a
;harge of driving recklessly and care-
'essly while intoxicated. He went to
the county home to serve 30 days and
his driver’s license .was revoked for
twelve months.
George Rodgers, colored, was given
four months on the roads after he
Dleaded guilty rf public drunkenness,
disorderly conduct, using vile lan
guage and resisting arrest.
Lacey Turner, colored of Pinehurst,
Noted Author Succumbs in Tor-
rinjfton. Connecticut of
Pneumonia
ONCE OWNED HOME HERE
Harold Everett Porter, novelist,
slioit story wi’lter and playwright
who used the pen name of “Hotwor
thy Hall,’’ died of pneumonia in Tor-
rington, Conn.. Sunday, June 21st He
was 48 years of age,
A captain in the Army Air Service,
and then a major in the aviation
branch of the Officers Reserve Corps,
Majcr Porter returned to the Sand
hills in 1919. where he had been inter-
esteil in a peach orchard, and becom
ing one of the galaxy of authors In
Southern Pines. He resided in the Wil
son, now Campbell house on Massa
chusetts avenue for two seasqns. and
there wrote “Six Best Cellars” and
“Egan.” “Colossus.” his last novel,
was issued in 1930.
He is well remembered by many lo
cal residents not only as a golfer ov
er the links of the Southern Pines
Country Club, but for his hobby of
model airplanes. Moving to Pinehurst
he built “Currituck Cottage” there,
and in 1932, just before his departure
for France in .search of health the
trustees of Wake Forest College con
ferred the degree of Doctor of Let
ters upon him. Returning to Wake
Forest in 1931. he resided there for
three years,
ter.
Mr. Porter was a member of the
Authors, the Players and the Harvard
Clubs of New York. Fifteen years ago
the name of Holworthy Hall appeared
as frequently as almost any other in
the magazines of large nation>r •cir
culation. At that time he was a steady
contributor of fiction to The Saturday
Evening Post. Cosmopolitan, Ameri
can Magazine. Collier’s. Century and
Harper’s, his work being ^:or.iposed
principally of short stories, varied by
an occasional serial.
He is survived by his wife, who was
Miss Marion Heffron of Syracuse, N.
Y.-, before their marriage in 1911, and
three children, Jean, John Heffron
and Richard Montgomery Porter.
St’orr GREY S.WES LIFE
OF BOY IN NEW H.\>n*SHlRE
Saturday Night
Communit.v Sinjfing and Other
Entertainment Preceding Pres
ident’s Acceptance Speak
Had Been Prominent Resident
There for Many Years; For
mer Cameron Drujj^ist
WIDELY KNOWN HERE
Saturday morning, June 20th, the
people of Charlotte were shocked to
read in a Special Edition of the daily
paper that M, E. Pierce, prominent
Ml-. Pierce was manager and part
FRANK HI CHAN IN CHAR(iE
On Saturday night at the High
Scho 1 Auditorium in Southern Pines ' and beloved dr uggist of that place,
at 8;00 o’clock, a Roo.sevelt Rally will ' j^^d committed .-uicide.
be held. The Southern Pines Demo
cratic p.ecinct committee has ar
ranged to hold this rally and Frank ' Hoskins Drug store in a
Burhan will have charge of one hour suburb of Charlotte. He was well
of entertainment from 8:00 until 9:00, known for his political activities,
preceding the Acceptance Speech of i Quoting from the Charlotte Observer:
the President. Community singing His death caused a wave of sadness
and other entertainment combined throughout the cilty. He was widely
with speeches by M. G. Boyette of known and much liked. Among his
Caithage, Chairman of the Moore ' .splendid traits of character was that
County Demc<j§atic Executive Com- of courage, and this once brought him
mittee, L. V. O’Callaghan and othei-s. spectacularly to public notice. He, ais
It is expected that Pinehurst will postmaster in Hoskins, carried large
combine and have a large number of ' sumes of money at times; and a gang
r epresentatives at the Rally. Every-j of robbers—experienced gangsters, as
one from the surrounding communi-'it later developed- attempted to rob
ties is cordially invited and all are as- him, but were held at bay by him un-
surefl of excellent reception as ampli- til rescuers drove them away, one of
fiers will be installed in the auditor- them wounded,
ium.
The roster of the common nomlna-
t I’s comprises a list of the names of
Mr. Pierce as a son of the late D.
,J. and Mary Katherine Pierce of Cam
eron. He early joined the Cameron
well-known Democrats of this section. ^ Presbyterian church and remained a
The campaign is now on to raise a
substantial sum as a contribution to ^ manager of the Cameron
the Roospv.'t Campaign Fund. Each '
ne who contributes $1.00 or more sevral yeart;. where he man-
wili have his name permanently in
scribed on the Roosevelt roster of
nominators.
Among those on the committee to
leceive contributions are Dante Mon-
tesantl, treasurer of the Fund; M. Y. j .
„ , ^ „ ,the funeral and the floral designs were
Poe. Mayor D. G. Stutz, Eugene' , . . i. . c
Woodward, Frank Buchan, D. D.
Shields Cameron. L. V. O’Callaghan, I
Ale': Fields, Dr. George G. Herr and
Howard Burns.
agd a drug store also. He was a
friendly man; and was well and fav-
' orably known throughout the entire
state. There was a crowd of over
five thousand people in attendance at
Ross Grey of Troop Number 1 of
Southern Pines exemplified one day
last week, the value of scouting in
an emergency. Ross is away for the
summer months in Bath. New Hamp
shire and as he was cros.sing a bridge
when he was returning from the Post
Office he saw the plight bf Burton
Brown, who. unable to swim, had
fallen into a deep hole filled with
water. When Ross arrived young Bur
ton was going down for the second
time and Ross, quick as a flash, re
membering his scout training, dove
In fully clothed and saved the young
ster. Ross thought nothing of the
’’incident and relatefj it t6 no one and
he scon left for a trip. When he re
turns he will be surprised to receive a
Bulova wrist watch from Burton
Brown whose life he saved by putting
into practice his scouting instructions.
Burton Brow'n is the son of Gordon
Brown of Southern Pines.
numerous and of unusual beauty. Ser
vices were conducted by the Rev. B.
M. Crosby and the local Masons, In
his funeral adress the Rev, Crosby
said that there were times when the
lir’ll* 17 r> 11 11 human heart had stood all that it
William L. i ell, Well ^ could bear, and that sickness and dls-
KnOWn Here, Passes Ccuragement, trouble and worry could
so break the spirit of a man that life
^Husband of Miss Edith Farmer endurable. He spoke of
of This Place; Death Due to character of this- his dear
Heart Attack friend, a man whom everyone loved
I and who was kind and generous in all
William E. Pell, superintendent of his dealings with his fellcwman. Mr.
Troy Schools and son of Judge and Pierce was quite successful in bus-
I Mrs. George P. Pell of Raleigh, was ness, and in the twenty years or mor^
found dead early Monday morning in | that he had been in Charlotte, he had
Troy. He was 39 years of age. acquired many friends in practically
Mr. Pell was well-known locally, ^ every walk In life—bo^i Influential
having married the former Miss Edith business men, fraternal acquaintances.
Farmer of Southern Pines, Miss Far- i and people from shops and mills were
mer, with her mother, Mrs. Farmer, | equally grieved at his passing,
owned and operated the Pine Grove He was a 32nd degree Mason, a
House near Piney Woods for a num- member of the Joppa lodge in Char-
ber of years. Mr. Pell, several years lotte, a member of the Shrine, the
I ago, was among several men promi- Protective Order of Elks, and the
nently mentioned for superintendency Junior Order of United American Me-
'of the Southern Pines Schools. chanics.
I A coroner’s jury ruled death came Again quoting from The Charlotte
from natural causes, probably a heart observer; “He had been In a deeply
attack brought on by over-exertion. despondent mood recently, supposedly
Mr. Pell s body was found In the over domestic affairs.” He Is survived
scvhool gymnasium, where he had
gone for exercise. He was clothed In '
a gymnasium suit. |
by two sisters, Mrs. J. A, McPherson
of Cameron and Mrs. R. E. Mann of
Simcoe, Canada, a brother, D. J.
LEWIS HODGKINS REPORTED
TO BE IMI’KOVIN(J .AT HOSPITAL
Lewis Hodgkins, small son of Mr.
and Mrs. Norris L. Hodgkins of South
ern Pines, who was Injured when a
truck hit him seveial veeks ago, is
reported to be slowly improving at
the M-ore County Hospital. He Is
conscious at times and the doctors
have expressed much hope for his
complete recovery.
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RESETTLEMENT PERSONNEL
J5NTERT.\INF:D at white I.„VKE
^he personnel of the Sandhills
Project of the Resettlement Adminis-
stration at Hoffihan was entertained
last night at a supper and dance at
White Lake by the members cf the
Resettlement Project at Elizabeth
town. Over 75 guests were present.
Funeral services were held In the ' pjerce of Cameron, two children, Mil-
Methodist church at Troy on Tuesday (jred and Bill ,and by his estranged
at 10 o clock, after which the body wife, Mrs. Blanche Belk Pierce of
was carried to Raleigh for burial at charlotte.
Oakwood cemetery.
A native cf Washington, D. C.. \ xwo ELECTRIC W.\TER COOLERS
where he was born December 22, 1896, IXSTALLED IN COURT HOL'SK
Mr. Pell was educated in the public
school gymnasium, where he had Two electric water coolers have
versity of North Carolina and Colum- teen installed in the court house, one
bia University, New York City. He in the corridor of the first floor for
i received his master's degree from the white people and one in the basement
lattter school and was a member of for the colored. Visitors as well as the
Phi Beta Kappa. court house staff will be grateful for
He formerly was a teacher of math- this added convenience which will
ematics in Raleigh high school and at. contribute so much to their comfort
Randolph-Macon Acadei.iy. Later, he ' during the warm days that are due to
served as superinter^jent at Wen- arrive.
dell. Cornelius and Raeford before go- —_
ing to Tr-y.
I Mr. Pell is survived by his parents.
Judge George P. Pell. Raleigh attor- i
ney and former State Corporation Prof. Frederick Stanley Smith ia
Commissioner, and Mrs. Pell; his wife.' giving a series of six choral lessons at
Mrs. Edith Farmer Pell; and three 7:00 p. m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at
daughters, Virginia, Edith and Mary! the Church of Wide Fellowship. While
Elizabeth. A brother Josephus D., primarily designed for young people.
Pell, of RcCky Mount, Va.; and a sis-; every one is welcome. There is no
ter, Mrs. W. B. Lear, of Rocky Mount, I charge for instruction. Classes held in
also survlce. 1 the Assembly Hall.
PROF. SMITH TO GIVE LESSONS
WIDE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH