FIRST IW NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
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THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 16, NO. 45.
TNAOK
LAKKViSW
SPRinos
PILOT
MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, August 28. 1936.
FIVE CENTS
DR. B. VON HERFT
DIES IN AUSTRIA
INIBS81ST.YEAR
Early Pioneer and Large Land
holder in Vicinity of South
ern Pines
SETTLED HERE IN 1885
From Austria word reaches The
Pilot of the death of Dr. B. von Herft
at his summer home Millstatt, Kaem-
ten on the 8th of August. He was 81
years old. Coming to Manly in the
winter of 1885-6, shortly after the ad
vent of John T. Patrick, though now
almost a legend. Dr. von Herff be
came a notable figure leaving an in
delible impress upon the growth of
the Sandhill territory.
As an agent of the great German
Kali works and a skilled chemist in
terested in the application of their
potash products for fruit culture, he
developed at Manly a test farm for
fruits and plants not grown locally.
Still standing as mute survivors of
this farm are the sturdy cork trees he
planted. Eleven years of experiment
ing showed its results in the produc
tion of magnificent grapes, and in co
operation with his company, the A.
and M. College in Raleigh was induc
ed to start the “Experimental Farm”
located on a vast acreage, cleared
from virgin brush, and bounded by the
Pee Dee and Pinehurst roads. On this
farm the growth of fruits and vege
tables under different applications of
fertilizers was carefully noted for sev
eral years, as was the growtn of
many exotic plants sent from Mexico
and Central America by Dr. von
Herff, the groiinds soon becoming a
show place for visitors.
At the outbreak of the war Dr. von
Herff owned a vast acreage commenc
ing on the outskirts of Southern
Pines, and including the present
Knollwood, to, and far above, and to
the east of Manly, and for which he
had planned improvement and devel
opment. The war interrupted and
much of his holdings went into other
hands.
Following the war Dr. von Herff be
came an occasional visitor, renewing
old friendships, and greeting former
acquaintances, his last visit taking
place two years ago. He is survived
by his widow, Katharina von Herff,
a daughter, Mrs. B. Van Taack, and
three grandchildren. Interment was
in the family vault at Darmstadt
BRIGHT OUTLOOK
AS THE OPENING
OF MARKET NEARS
Warehousemen Say They Have
Excellent Corps of Buyers
Lusted This Year
OPENING SEPTEMBER 22
Burg-ess Property Put
Up at Auction Tuesday
Three Stores on East Broad
Street and Other Properties
Sold; Rebids Sent In.
Pursuant to the court order, Com
missioner H. F. SeaweU, Jr., of Car
thage, proceeded on Tuesday morning
to offer at public auction that p’'f*
tion of the Burgess property alloted
to the heirs other than Mrs. Burgess.
The first property sold was the three
stores on East Broad Street now oc
cupied by the Elite Dress Shop, Curb
market a second hand store. Even un
der the conditions of the forced sal*;
the bid prices were remarkably low
as were all the offerings in all the
other properties involved. It is undei-
stood that the accepted bids on all
these parcels has already been raiseJ..
EUREKA MAKES APPUCATION
FOR RFD ROUTE FROM HERE
Following an application by the
people of the Eureka section now re
ceiving their mail over Route 1 from
the Vass postoffice, to have this mall
delivery routed out of the Southern
Pines postoffice, two postoffice in
spectors from Washington surveyed
the territory on Wednesday.
The proposed routing for this ser
vice would be from Southern Pines
through Manly and Niagara to Stev
enson's comer to Clay road and Eu
reka, crossing Little River to the air
port, Southern Pines waterworks,
Pine Needles at Knollwood to South
ern Pines.
No decision has as yet been an
nounced. *
Prospects for the Aberdeen tobacco
market get brighter as the open’nf; of
the middle belt draws nearer, now
only a little over three weeks off, the
opening date set for Tuesday, Sep
tember 22nd. Merchants and business
men are making plans to co-operate
again this year v.ith the warehouse
men to insure a profitable and suc
cessful season.
Aberdeen will have about the same
number of buyers as usual this year,
the majority of them having been on
the Aberdeen market before. Among
those expected are Joe DeBerry of
Dillon, S, C., for the American To
bacco Company; L. T. Avery, Aber
deen. representing Liggett and My
ers and the J. P. Taylor Company;
Ivey Winston of Lake City, S. C., Im
perial Tobacco Company; Clarence
Boles. Fairmont, the R. J. Reynolds
Company; John Graham Webb, Ox
ford. Export Tobacco Company and
G. S. Swain of Danville, Va., Lorillard
and Dibrell Brothers.
Covington’s Warehouse will again
be operated by C. W. Covington of
Reidsville. Mr. Covington is a well-
known warehouseman and will have
with him a corps of experienced to-
baccomen. This will be his second year
in Aberdeen. A. A. Nelson of Reids
ville will auctioneer at Covington’s.
Mr. Nelson has many friends among
the farmers in this section who have
seen him in action on the Reid.sville
and Wmston-Salem markets, and his
initial appearance here will be met
with approval. G. E. Crutchfield, Jr.,
also of Reidsville, will be back again
as bookkeeper. He is the son of one
of the most prominent tobaccomen in
Reidsville. Clarence Rice of Danville,
Va., will be floor book man. He is a
veteran on the Danville markets.
Also on the floor will be J. W. Lea,
Lee Strother and Robert Gatlin.
B. B. Saunders of Valdosta, Ga.,
who has for many years been promi
nently connected with the Aberdeen
market, will run the Saunders Ware
house again. Mr. Saunders is expect
ed to arrive from Georgia within the
next two weeks to prepare for the
open. With him will be Mr. Glissom,
his bookkeeper, who is by no means
a stranger to this section, having
been connected with Saunders for sev
eral seasons. “Gene” Maynard of
Aberdeen will again make things
"lively” by his auctioneering and Bill
Maurer, as floor man and Mr. Bufkin,
floor manager and several others will
all help in making the farmers feel
at home on the Aberdeen market.
Good Crop
There is a general impression
among the tobacconists that prices
on good grades of tobacco will im
prove. The Border markets have been
averaging around 20c per hundred
pounds for the past few weeks. Mr.
Covington told The Pilot yesterday
that there was a much better crop
than last year and particularly the
smoking tobacco vas well above the
average in quality. The majority of
farmers have been iiolding their to
bacco back until the opening of the
middle belt. There is an abundant
crop throughout the section that feeds
the Aberdeen market.
PINEHURST SCHOOLS TO HAVE
TWO NEW TEACHERS
Moore County Grand Jury Makes
Good Report to Presiding Judge
Summer’s End
This W’eek Marks Close of
Wednesday Afternoon
Holidays
It’s work for you from now on,
my lad, and no more Wednesday
afternoons off. either! A sure sign
that fall is upon us each year
comes with the last Wednesday in
August, marking a close to the
yearly custom of closing all stores
on that afternoon during the week.
So, all you housewives can rest
easy now and not have to fret
that you’ll have to do without food
on Wednesday nights. From now
on all the stores will be open.
EXCEPT, Monday, September
7th when the Citizens Bank and
Trust Company of Southern Pines
and the Bank of Pinehurst, of Pine
hurst, Carthage and Aberdeen and
practically all stores in these towns
will observe Labor Day.
The local postoffice and bank
will observe closed Saturday after
noons as was their usual custom.
Severn] Recommendutions Made,
Including Examination of All
School Buses by Patrol
southerkv.:fs
SCHOOLS
jJudge Orders
sEPTEMBERVr?' c'^.^jizure of All
i The present term of Grand Jury
j for Moore County reporting last week
] to the presiding judge, the Honorable
j J. A. Rousseau, submitted a very
I comprehensive and timely report
! which included a clean bill for the
I county jail, and a fine recommendation
for the county home and the prison
camp. The jury recommended several
minor repairs to the court house.
So many cases of reckless and care
less driving were brought to the jury’s
attention that they advised strict law
enforcement and asked the co-opera
tion ot all good citizens in this re-
I spect.
j The affairs ot the county apparent-
I ly are in fine condition from the stand
! point of finances and management.
Charles Johnson, Local Government
Commissioner of Raleigh, is quoted as
having said, "If all counties were op
erated as efficiently as Moore county,
! there would be no necessity for the
i Local Government Commission.”
The jury found that the County At
torney in the discharge of his duties
handles a certain amount of county
funds and recommended that he be
buiiii?d for $1,000 and that he be re-
)
Several Additions to Faculty this
Year; New Quarters for Pri
mary Grades
Slot Machines
ASSIGN'MENTS ANNOUNCED Case that Has Brought Wide At-
I tention Comes to Close as His
The Southern Pines Schools will;
open for the Fall term on Thursday j
morning, September 10th. Classes will'
begin at the usual time, 8:15. Both the ;
elementary and high school pupils ]
will begin work on this date, the fi»^t i
i
and second grade pupils finding their j
class rooms in the former Baptist.
Church building and the third and i
fourth grades in the home economics ■
building on the school grounds.
Owing to unexpected changes in the
faculty which was announced at the
close of the last term. Superintendent
Frank Webster was first called from
Honor Orders Enforcement
OTHER COURT SENTENCES
The H. L. Gordon slot machine case
which was more or less of a test case
was brought up and the record of the
county recorder was reviewed. The
court first held that the record con
stituted a defective special verdict
and ordered that the cause be re
manded to the county court for a new
trial, but later decreed that this
judgment be stricken out and a di-
Approximately 35,000 School
Books on Hand for Rental to
Be Delivered this W'eek
County Receives Large
Numhpr of Tpxt Ronksj' ^ county'
U DCr O 1 eXl OOOKS ; before an amount in excess of $1,-;
i 000 has accrued. j
A record of County Officer’s Bonds |
I showed that D. D. S. Cameron, Regis-
; ter ur Deeds, was bonded for $5,000;
I John Willcox Clerk of the Superior
Moore county is establishing a flat; 512,000; Miss Malda Jen-
fee rental system for the coming | bounty Auditor. $10,000; Miss
school year, and books will be deliv-, Cole, deputy clerk of
ered to school principals in the coun- | ^ j
ty next week. County Superintendent, Donald, Sheriff, $5,000; D. Carl Fry,
H. Lee Thomas told a.representative | ^j.OOO; and W. T. Huntley,
of the Pilot. Approximately 14,000 j Collector $10,000,
reeled verdict of not guilty recorded
his studies at Columbia University and the defendant discharged,
at later from his vacation in Maine Judge Rowe’s verdict in Recorder’s
to fill five vacancies on his staff. | court was as follows: ‘'Defendant’s
Those resigning having accepted posi-1 court being of
tions to their advantage in other;
schools. There were six changes in; opinion that this particular slot
all. The following changes in the ' machine is not a violation of the law,
teaching staff are noted; Miss Sophie
Howie of Pineville replaces Miss Mar
jorie Skinner, now the bride of Dr.
Overcash; Miss Abbie Sutherland of
textbooks were received in Carthage
the first of" this week and there were
I A visit to the office of H. Lee
I Thomas, Superintendent of Schools,
already on hand about 20,000. so in- i „ , mi. j
’I was made. Mr. Thomas reported six
dications are that there will be no
scarcity of books when the young
sters start back to school on Septem
ber 7th.
The school principals in each dis-
new school buses for the county and
all other buses in good mechanical re
pair so far as he knew. He also stat
ed that each school in the county
would have at least one adult driver
Belton, S. C., in place of Miss Sarah
Goggins; Miss Mary Buckner of Clio,
S. C., replaces Miss Lorrie Walker.
New on the High School staff are
Miss Sara L. Ellis of Darlinp't'^n, S.
C., Miss Aline Todd, Derita, Miss.,
there being no clement of chance in
each separate operation of the ma
chine. Verdict, not guilty.” ’rbe'
State gave notice of ippeal to the
Superior court, and the outcome of
the case was awaited with much in
terest as there were a number of
similar cases pending.
The following order was directed by
Jennie Mecum, Walkertown and J. S.' Rousseau to the Sheriff and
Baumgartner, Hickory. j 'awful officers of the county:
T,. „ "Whereas, it has come to the at-
The first grade will be in chargt; I . , .v, o ^ »
^ “ tention of the Court that slot ma-
of Miss Je.ssie W. Dwight; first and ^
. „ ... I chines that are illegal under the law’s
second. Miss Emilie Mae Wilson; I ^ ^ ^ ^
TT I the State of North Carolina per-
third. Miss Sophie Howie; fourth, .
Miss Abbie Sutherland; fifth. Miss i
Lonie Gordon; third and fourth. Miss
trict will have charge of the rentals
“ 1 this year. The jury solicited the co
in their district, white principals for 1 *■ ,, „ .
, , operation of every Moore county cit-
taining to slot machines and other
laws of the State are being placed in
various places of business through
out the county, and that the Board
of County Commissioners of Moore
county have refused to license any
In the Junior and Senior High slot machines.
“You are therefore commanded and
the white schools and colored princi
pals tor the colored schools. Tne ren
tal fee will not be more than one-
third of the original cost of the books
and is to be paid at the beginning of
school for the entire year. The State
will furnish all of the textbooks and
supplementary readers and credit
slips which were given the school
children for their used books which
the State "bought” a few days ago
may be used in part payment of ren
tal fees. A total of 1317 books were
bought by the representative of the
State School Commission in Moore
county. Pupils will furnish their own
tablets, pencils, crayons and work
books.
Pupils must either rent all of their
books or own all, according to the
new plan. Mr. Thomas says that pu
pils are being 'urged to rent their
books as it is thought that this will
be the more economical plan.
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR MISS SCOTT
Miss Dorothy Ehrhurdt of Pine
hurst and Miss Mildred Petway of
Enfield, have been elected to teach
in the Pinehurst Public Schools dur
ing the coming school year.
Miss Ehrhardt is a graduate of
Queens-Chicora College in Charlotte.
In addition to her teaching. Miss
Ehrhardt will help coach tennis and
basketball.
Miss Petway studied at East Car
olina Teacher’s College, Atlantic
Christian College, the University of
North Carolina, and the Emerson
College of Oratory of Boston, Mass.
Miss Petway will teach English and
History in the high school and will
also direct dramatics.
Funertl services were held Satur
day evening at seven o’clock for Miss
Eleanor Maud Scott who died at her
residence in Southern Pines last Fri
day morning. Miss Scott was 60 years
of age. The Rev. E. L. Barber officiat
ed at the services.
Miss Scott was born in Grand Rap
ids, Mich, on September 28, 197t»;
the daughter of James G. and Luore-
tia Ann Cramer Scott. She and her
sister, Miss Joan Scott, have been re
siding here for the past year. Inter
ment was in the family plot in Grand
Rapids.
INFANT RUSSELL SON
PASSES IN ABERDEEN
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Russell passed away at their
home in Aberdeen yesterday after
noon, after an illness of only a few
days. He was six weeks old on Wed
nesday. Funeral services will be held
this morning at the home of the
child’s grandmother, Mrs. S. E Sloan,
at 11:00 o’clock. Burial will be made
at Bethesda Cemetery.
izen in an effort to reach the maxi
mum degree of safety in the trans
portation of the school children. It
was recommended that the Highway
Patro' contact and examine each and
every driver during the first month
of school and counsel them as to traf
fic regulations and make a report as
well as recommendations to the Coun
ty Superintendent in the event of anv
discrepancies. The report was sub
mitted by the foreman, O. Leon Sey
mour of Aberdeen.
Reckless Driving Cases
Lead Recorder’s Court
Judg:e Rowe Has Busy Day As
Sentences Are Imposed on
Nearly Dozen Law Breakers
Marvin Quick, colored, was sent to
the county home to serve a three
months’ sentence which was imposed
upon him in Recorder’s Court. Quick
remained at his new post of duty for
one day, then walked off. On Monday
he was back in court to expJain his
hasty departure, and was given an ad
ditional 30-day sentence to serve
when his former sentence expires.
For public drunkenness, assaulting
hi;i wife and disturbing religious wor-
sliip at a church in the Eagle Springs
section, Sam Ingram, colored, was
given three months on the roads.
Judge King, colored, was given 30
days on the roads because he failed
to pay the costs in a former case, but
the sentence is to be suspended upon
condition that he pay up all of his in
debtedness to the court.
Ernest Hamlin, colored, faced
charges of drunken driving, trans
porting liquor and hit and run driv
ing. He was given a three month’s
sentence, to be suspended upon pay
ment of the costs and his Cadillac
automobile now stored in the garage
of the Martin Motor Company in
Aberdeen was ordered sold by the
sheriff. After the costs are paid, the
balance of the car money is to be
paid to the clerk of the court for the
benefit of the wife and children of
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Jessie Fitzgerald; fifth. Miss Mary
Buckner; sixth. Miss Selma Stegall
and Miss Annie P. Huntington.
In the Junior and Senior
School will be Miss Sara L, Ellie, Eng
lish and dramatics; Miss Pauline Mil-! directed to seize and impound all slot
ler, English; Mrs. Ruth W. Warner, , n^achines displayed in any place of
commercial subjects; Miss Aline' Moore county, other than
Todd, geography, mathematics and' vending ma-
girls athletics, Marvin N. Hunter, ^^ines, and to indict all persons in
science and mathematics, R. B. Free- possession of said slot machines or
man, French and social science, J. S. 1 permitting said slot machines to be
Baumgartner, social science and so-
ciology and boys athletics; and Sup-1 „
erintendent F. W. Webster, mathe-| peoples, Carthage colored
TVlof I
man who was charged with assaulting
The first and second grades will oc- i his wife with a deadly weapon, enter-
cupy new quarters in the Baptist | ed a plea of guilty in Superior court
Church which, under the supervision last week and was sentenced to serve
of E. W'. Reinecke and L. V. O’Callag-1 from eight to ten years in State’s
han is nearly completed for the use | Prison, this being the stiffest sen-
of these grades, and plans are now , tence imposed during the August
under way for surfacing the Connec- term of court. Peoples is alleged to
ticut avenue and Bennett street ap- have slashed his wife across the ap
proaches to the building. domen with a knife.
Peoples was before the court In
CH.ARLO’TTE FIRM BUYS i another case in which he was found
SOUTHERN PINES BONDS ! guilty of an assault on a female, Ber
tha Harvey. He was piven a two-year
The executive committee on the lo
cal government commission Tuesday
sold $27,000 worth of Southern Pines
public improvement bonds to R. S.
Dickson and company of Charlotte at
4 1-4 per cent interest and a premium
of $124,70.
Also sold were $25,000 worth of
city of Durham bond anticipation
notes, to the Mechanics and Farmers
sentence to run ooacurrently with the
other sentence.
Hubert Harrington, charged with
carnal knowledge of a 4-year-old
child, pleaded guilty of assault with
intent to commit rape. He was given
j two years in jail to work on the
roads.
Wilson Short, charged with an as
sault with a deadly weapon, was giv-
Bank of Durham and Raleigh at 1 per 1 en an eight months’ road sentence,
cent interest and a $28.50 premium, [ Francis (Penn) Ritter, charged
and $2,000 worth of revenue anticipa-1 with carnal knowledge of a child, en-
tion notes of the town of Pittsboro,
to the Bank of Pittsboro, at 6 per
cent interest and par.
BARN ON DOUBLE ROAD
DESTWOYEn BY FIRF:
tered a plea of guilty of forcible tres
pass. He was given six months on the
roads, suspended for two years on
condition that he be of good behav
ior and not violate the l^w and on
the further condition that he pay
one-half the costs by the next crimi
nal term of court.
An old barn on the John Allen Mc
Donald place, a mile from Pinehurst
and just off the double road, was DR. MCBRAYER ATTENDS
completely destroyed by fire of unde-1 MEDICAL MEETINU
termined origin about one o’clock I
Monday night. Two cars parked in Dr. L. B. McBrayer was a guest at
the barn were burned. The building | Pinnacle Inn, Banner Elk, last Thurs-
was rapidly enveloped in flames and
the only service the fire department
of Pinehurst could render was to
prevent its spreading to nearby build
ings. The place, now owned by the
Jesse McKenzie estate, has been rent
ed for several years.
day and Friday while he attended the
sessions of the post-graduate assem
bly of the North Carolina State Med
ical society which was held at Pin
nacle Inn and Grace Hospital at that
time. Dr. McBrayer is secretary and
treasurer of the society.