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FIRST ly NEWS,
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 16, NO. 32.
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MOORE COUNTY'S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
DR. BROWNSON IEVANDER McIVER I
HONORED IN NAME INSTANTLY KILLED
OF NEW CHURCH IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Southern ^‘res and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, July 3, 1936
FIVE CENTS
State T ) Be Well Provided With Airpaits When W. P. A. Ends Labors l i TURNER RETURNS
NORTH CAROLINA WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION AIRPORT MAP
‘The Brownson Memorial Pres
byterian Church” Decided
Upon by Congregation
ACTION TAKEN SUNDAY
Methodist Preacher Third of j
Highly Respected Colored Res
idents to Meet Tragic Deaths
WRECK ON MIDLAND ROAD
In honor of one who was instrumen-1 third of a series of tragedies
tal in Its organization, the new Pres- . in which highly respected colored cit-
byterian Church of Southern Pines j izens of Southern Pines have been
has been named “The Brownson Me-, the victims, Evander Mclver, one of
morial Presbyterian Church.” It takes the oldest and best known residents
its name from the Rev. Dr. Marcus the community was instantly killed
A. Brownson, pastor emeritus of the : In the wreck of two automobiles on
Tenth Presbyterian Church of Phila-! Midland Road last Saturday ni^^t. He
delphia, Pa„ whose long residence in I was about 75 years old. and for some
Southern Pines and quiet ministry 20 years had been an itinerant preach-
among the people are a distinct bene- i^ the Methodist Church. He made
diction to the community. [ West Southern Pines.
Mclver and William Hainsworth
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OF HIGHLAND PINES
Selected Over H. I. Treadway by
Directors of Highland Park
Hotel Co.
DR MUDGETT RESIGNS
The name was selected at an enthu-
Alrport* in Coattruetioe
Airport laprovaoanti
Airport* Aptrov*!
With the completion of the Works Cleared and grubbed, 48 acres; ex- see how thorough and convenient our
; M. H. Turner of Meriden, Conn.,
I will return to the management of
Highland Pines Inn, Southern Pin*
I next season, as the result ^f a aeries
i of meetings of stockholders and di-
I rectors of the Highland Park Hotel
; Company held during the past few
1 weeks. The former manager replaces
equipped with modern landing fields
nme acres;
roots), eight acres.
I. were returning from a fishinE- trio i revealed by the map herewith. It i The WPA is building or improving
^ & & QVinii'f 11 .fiA nnri (■.a ^ ^ that Nforth Carolina should I airports in the following’ localities be-
forge ahead in the development ot ; aides Southern Pines: Winston-Salem,
aviation facilities, for it was at Kitty j Charlotte, Salisbury, Rocky Mount,
Hawk that the Wright brothers first , Goldsboro, Wilmington and New
Progress Administration’s Airport cavated, 58,000 cubic yards of dirt; | airways will be. The present set-up :
propram. North Carolina will be well ' graded, 14,444 square yards; top for airports of the NCWPA calls for Beaton I. Treadway, who operated the
I soiled,
of the newly organized .<,oriety crossing
' the Midland Road at the intersection
between the Home of W. C. Fownes,
Jr., and Halbert J. Blue. Their car
last Sunday morning in the Civic
Club here. Dr. Brownson was appriz
ed of the action at his summer home.
Center Lovell, Maine, on Sunday af
ternoon, to which he affectionately re
plied expressing his appreciation. Un
der the new name the church is
planning to move forward steadily
and constructively during the summer
fnd fall.
Mr. Brownson has been making
Southern Pines his winter home since
had almost cleared the eastbound
roadway when it was struck by a
station wagon driven by Everett Shef
field, the Impact demolishing the
Chevrolet coach which Hainsworth
was driving, and badly damaging the
station wagon.
Mclver was dead when picked up,
his neck broken. In the station wag-
grass planted! a total expenditure of nearly $625,-
! 000.00, exclusive of the one anticipat
ed to be constructed at New Bern.
Airport construction plays an im-
hotel last winter. Mr Treadway, son
of Congressman Allen T. Treadway of
Massachusetts, manages the Red Lion
Inn at Stockbridbe, Mass., in the
demonstrated that man could fly.
, - w ... on, the property of George P. Vail
his retirement from active ministry , ^ ,
of Pinehurst, In addition to the driver,
Sheffield, were Cecil Frye and George
a number of years ago. He has, how
ever, preachpd in Sandhills churches
on many occasions, and has endeared
himself to one and all in the com*
munlty. Prior to the organization of
the new church he addressed an adult
Bible class each Sunday at the Pres
byterian Mission held in the Civic
Club, and continued to lead the class
after the mi.sslon was taken into the
Fayetteville Presbytery several weeks
ago as one of its established churches.
The Rev. E. L. Barber of Aberdeen is
pastor of the new’ church, and Dr.
Brownson was one of those whose
help and enthusiasm led to the
church’.s establishment.
$183,264 Sales in
A. B. C. Stores Here
Hunt. They were rushed to the Moore
County Hospital, and Sheffield is still
a patient there. Though Coroner D.
Carl Frye deemed an Inquest unnec
essary, he has ordered Sheffield held
for trial upon his release from the
hospital.
Porter at Plney Woods Inn
Scores of friends, both white and
colored, attended the funeral services
portant roll in the WPA plan to keep j summer season.
men on a job for it uses much un-1 The meeting at which the decision
skilled labor and the work upon the i return Mr. Turner to command of
Bern; while proposals or WPA air- | grading Is so elastic as to easily ab- j weymouth Heights hostelry was
The work on the Knollwood Air- ,norts are pending are Lenoir, Shelby,, sorb more workers when it is needed ; featured by the resignation as
port here is now reported as 62 per- ; Hickory. Lumberton. Fayetteville and i to reassign workers to a job when | president of the Highland Park Hotel
cent completed. A report to The PI- Raleigh. If you will notice the North | the work upon which they had been • company of Dr William C Mudsrett
let from the WPA gives these figures: : Carolina WPA airport map you will P'aced had been completed. , instrumental in bringing Mr.
Treadway to Southern Pines and in
efforts to revitalize the inn after sev
eral years of unsatisfactory business.
S. B. Richardson, former president of
the company, was elected to succeed
him at the last of the series of meet
ings, held in the office of Mayor D.
G. Stutz on Tuesday of this week. SC'
few directors of the company weie in
town it was necessary for Dr. F. W.
Bush to return from Hendersonville
to make a quorum. At the meeting
were Stutz, Richardson, F. W. Van
Camp and Dr. Bush.
Hugh J. Betterley has been elected
to the Board of Directors to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Dr. Mudgett.
Wherein Bre’r Possum Goes to Town
Hamlet Puts One Over on Southern Pines When Bre’r Rabbit’s
Friend Stalks into the Depot and Looks
Over the Time Tables
SECOND PRIMARY
SATURDAY FILLS
DEMOCRATIC LIST
BV K.\THARINE L. BOYD
If Uncle Ilemus had happened
through Hamlet last week and ?one
into the station he would have fcund
himself quite at home. It seems that
one of his critters had come to town.
The ticket man, drowsily waiting for
"Well, now. Uncle Remus," sez he,
“that’s where you got me,” sez he.
"I might he sod then I might not To
tell you the truth,” sez Bre’r Possum,
sez he, "these yer timetableses hsis
got me all set ambled up. I declare I
wish Bre’r Rabbit was here to give
me some of his advice. Seems like I
Run-Off For Nominations For
Governor, Lieutenant Govern
or, Secretary of State
ONE CONTEST IN COUNTTY
No.' 3 to blow, heard a scratching
noise in the waiting room, a scuffling' cain’t tell one from tother.”
and scuttering. Too hig for a rat. He ! -Whereabouts is you want t^ go,
for Mclvfsr on Tuesday During his j went to the window. There walking I Bre'r Possum?’’ sez Uncle Remus.
I career here he had been at various , across the waiting-room floor in an | -Mabe I can help you out ”
times a porter at the old Piney Woods ! easy, at home sort of way was a '
Inn and an assistant for R. W. Brown, possum. The ticket man was consid-
Southern Pines’ first plumber. i erably surpri.sed. Hamlet is a Pretty j ^ gathering Last time thev i to Clyde R. Hoey, but |
Walter Fletcher, colored employe of big town; several railroads meet J . . .
C. L. Hayes in the Sandhills Bookshop ' there, the yards and shops stretch Richmond County Passums they en-! o" the Fourth of July, when thous-
for 20 years, was shot and killed in ' their s: ot and steel network over
a neighborhood quarrel early in June. ; many acres. Hard-surfaced streets
bound the tracks and the houses are
“Well now. Uncle Remus, you see
it’s this way. The Possum clan is
Tomorrow, Saturday, settles the is
sue of the Democratic candidate for
Governor of North Carolina. Polls will
be open from sun-up to sun-down for
the second primary, called by Dr.
Ralph W. McDonald, 33-year old ex- Southern Pines Evens
college professor of Winston-Salem. TJp SerieS with CCO
Pitching
On June 16th James Douglas, kennels
manager for James and Jackson Boyd,
was burned to death in a fire which
destroyed one of the small kennel
buddings on the Boyd estate. Fletcher,
Wilson county’s ABC stores and the Douglas and Mclver were among the
Wilson County Sees Net Profit
of $119,000 From First Year
of Operation
all come down to my place and all the ' ^^®'t the second primary falls 11-6 Decision in Slow Game
^ ^ J Featured bv Errors and Wild
I tertained for the rest. But this time,” I Pi^n to be at beach and moun-
j.sez Bte'r Possum, sez he, “all of my , tain res. rts, may make a difference.
! f Iks is going their way,” ' Unless these take advantage of the
close together. In the center is the ; . , . i .u . -.i v,
station. A po,.„m would have to tr.-, ""U " h I
vel acv«ral miles to town to reach It., >»« » '“"ere do you meet "SW, a .d pr. MeDonald m.ght co„.
this time, Bre'r Possum ?”
So the ticket man was considerably
surprised. The possum, on the other
; ceivably outpoll his adversary,
“Trot, tha’s where we meet,” And j There is but one Moore county con-
two stores operated in Moore county better known and most
by the Wilson board will realize a to- thought of in the local colored colony.
ui.rv.1., hand, did not seem surprised at all.' then the possum glanced around the
highly __
test, that for the Democratic nomina-
The S(ji^he|n Pines baseball team
evened up its series with the CCC's on
Wednesday afternoon by taking a 11-
<1 decision in a game featured by er
rors and the wildness of the camp
hurlers. Both teams were minus sev-
Stimson New Kiwanis
Lieutenant Governor
tal net profit of around $119,000 for
the first year of their operation that
ended yesterday, according to an es
timate made by Thomas H. Woodard,
chairman of the Wilson County Com-
missloners President of Local Club Named
Chairman Woodard made the eati- to Fill Out Unexpired
mate the basis of 22 per cent of the Term of H. D. Vail
total gross sales of all the stores. It 1
was estimated before the stores be- The Rev. J. Fred Stimson of South-
gan active operation that the county ern Pines, president of the Kiwanis
would realize this profit on the storea Club of Aberdeen, has been appointed
Gross sales for the five stores in i lieutenant governor of the 4 th Dlvls-
Wllscn county and the two In Moore ion of the Carolinas District of Kl-
up to June 26 totaled $477,945.36 with wanis International to fill out the
onl.y a week to go for the end of the unexpired term of Herbert D. Vail of
fiscal year of the stores. Pinehurst, resigned.
Of this amount $294,681.52 repre- Mr. Stimson, delegate from the Ki-
sented the gross sales of the liquor vvanis Club of Aberdeen to the In-
Btores in Wilson county, while $183,- ternational convention held recently
, He walked steadily along, nose to floor station and appearing to make up his , t*on for member of the lower house ^ral cf their regular players.
. stopping to sniff occasionally. A twist ’ up to the ticket window, of the General Assembly, J, Hawley; Four runs in the first inning on three
of silver paper which might have held “Please suh,” he said. "I’d like a
gum inteiested him and he examined ; ticket for Trot. N. C,”
it carefully, opening it and smoothing' "Trot?” said the Ticket Man, tak-
it out with his delicate black hands. . en by surprise, "Trot? Well now, Mr.
Poole of West End outpointed W. R, hits, a walk, and a passed ball sent
Clegg of Carthage, present incumbent, the locals off to a lead that was nev-
in the first primary, Clegg asked for er lost. Parker, Ketchum and Millar
a run-off to which he was entitled, performed on the mound for Southern
Disappointed, he dropped it, sneezed . Possum, I’m not quite sure. What’s i has been making a campaign to pines, while Hendrix and Hale tolled
263,84 represented the gross sales in
Mcore county from the stores in Pine
hurst and Southern Pines,
OPEN BIDS FOR POSTOFFICE
SITES ON MONDAY, JULY 18
Bids on sites offered for the new
United States Postoffice In Southern
in Washington, rendered his report on
the convention at the club’s weekly
meeting here on Wednesday, That
much was accomplished at the con
vention and that Kiwanis is doing a
world of good throughout the United
States and Canada where it has sev
eral thousand clubs was evidenced by
his report, A Copeland Callen of Ur-
Pines will be publicly opened at the. jjana. 111., was elected president of
Postoffice on Monday, July 13th at Kiwanis International for 1936-37.
9:00 o’clock a. m. All bids must.be in
pricr to the 9th. They must be open
ed in the presence of a government
employe. Blank/s on which tenders of
property must be made, with instruc
tions, are available at the office of
Frank Buchan, postmaster.
Five thousand registered at the con
vention.
BAIX G.4.ME SCHEDULED HERE
FOR TOMORROW AFTERNOON
and fluffed himself out, then moved
on over to where the rack of time
tables stood. Here he came to a halt
and sat down. Hi» sharp little old
gent an’s face tilted up, his eyes
peered shrewdly along his long' nose.
He studied the rack, obviously con
sidering something very Important.
The ticket man watching from the
window caught himself wondering
what it was. He had been a ticket
man a good while, and when you see
someone looking like that at the rack
you—well—
Page Unele Remus
“You looking for a timetable, suh?”
The possum’s face turned quickly to
ward the voice, showed no fear. The
Ticket Man felt suddenly a strong
Triendliness for this creature sitting
90 confidently on his station floor.
Still there were practical difficulties.
Of course, if Uncle Remus had hap
pened along he would have understood ,
the situation. One can imagine the;
scene:
“Well, well! Good eveln’ Bre’r Pos-
win over the votes given Edward 1 for the losers.
(Flcaite turn to page 5)
I Burns of Carthage in the first con-
; test.
.AUSTIN GETS CONTRACT | There are also contests for Secre-
FOli PINE NEEDLES CLUB tary of State between the present In-
I cumbent, Stacey W. Wade, and Thad
C. L. Austin, Southern Pines con- i Eure of Winton, and for lieutenant
tractor, has been awarded the con- governor between W. P. Horton of
tract for the erection of the new Pine Fittsboro and Paul D. Grady of Ken-
A small and apathetic crowd of less
than 200 watched the slow contest,
the start of which was delayed for 30
minutes by a shower. Because of the
late start, only seven innings were
played.
Needles clubhouse, was announce'',
this week by Harrison Stutts, sec -e-
tary of the Pine Needles Company.
Mr. Austin will begin work at onc^
ly-
Army Officer
‘Bill” Fisher Wfrs Commis
sion as First Lieutenant
in Air Service
It is important that those who plan
to be away tomorrow procure and fill
out absentee ballots at once. They
on the attractiv e building on the site i may be obtained from election o'^fl-
of the present golf house, and expects I ciala in the various towns cf the
to have it completed by October 1st. county, from Hiram Westbrook in i Now It’s Lieutenant
One hundred and twenty-three men! Southern Pines, J. Vance Rowe’s of-, Fisher, U. S. Army,
are at work under Frank Maples on 1 flee In Aberdeen. ! ■•Bill,” son of Mrs. Nellie Fisher, li
the improvements to the Inn’s 18-hole I Citizens ought to vote in this far- brarian of the Southern Pines Ll-
golf course, which is being entirely j reaching important referendum. The brary,, received his commission In the
renovated preparatory to the 19.?6-1 Governorship of the state Is Involved. Army Air Corps on Wednesday, just
37 season.
William P.
MRS. BARBER DIES AT
HER HOME IN PINEBLUFF
A large congregation, considering
the hot night attended the talk giv-
ed byCale K. Burgess, chairman of
the United Dry Fc rces of North Car
olina, at the Aberdeen Methodist
Church last Sunday night.
The Stedman “Plowboys,” who will
be remembered as a snappy ba.TCball
outfit when they played here two
years ago, will return to Southern
Pines for a balKgame tomorrow after
noon, July 4th, the game being called
for 4:00 o’clock. Only on« game will
be played.
And it Is entirely conceivable that the two years after starting training at
man whom thousands of North Caro- Randolph Field in Texas. Bill weath-
linians might favor could be defeat- ered the rigors of training "with fly-
ed by the inattention of these men ^ ing colors” and is now launching upon
and women voters strolling off on his career, as a reg:ular army pilot.
sum, suh. I’se mlghtly glad to see you' Wednesday June 24th Mrs. primary day in a spirit and attitude That he knows how to handle a ship
11 ®arber passed away at her j of overconfidence in their sure tri- he has revealed to his friends here on
x-his cvcriin • Y^ovi &11 orcssfifl ^^ i , »• « <*
you might be going travelin’ Bre’r f«‘8^hts to the Sandhills from
I years she resided in Clinton, Conn. I Get the absentee ballot blank to- his present station, Mitchell Field,
Possum,” sez Uncle Remus sez he.
“Good evenin’. Uncle Remus,” sez
the Possum, sez he, "Yes. .suh, that's
just wl-' I’m aimin’ to do, I just
walked into the station here to get
my ticket.”
“Goln’ up the line, Bre’r Possum?”
sez Uncle Remus sez he.
The Possum scratched his head.
She came to Pinebluff seven years j day and have done with this import- Mineola, Long Island.
ago with her brother, George W. Bell, jant duty at cncel
She was a faithful member of the
M. E. Church, Ladies Aid and Mis
sionary Society. She leaves a brother,
Capt. George W. Bell of Pinebluff,
and two sisters, Miss Edith Bell and
Mrs. Elizabeth Devlin of Huntingtcn,
N, Y. ober 13th.
NEH’ FAIR BUILDINO
Bill Fisher ig a graduate of South
ern Pines High School, was one - of
the star local tennis players In school
. days, and afterwards shone aa catch-
A new building 60 by 100 feet is er on the Southern Pines team in the-
to be erected for the Moore County Moore County Baseball League. Ha
^ prior to its opening on Oct- will have the well wiahe* of a host of
’^air
friends in his army cvvei^'
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