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NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, September 18,
FIVE CENTS
BrightestjProspects in Years!
On Eve of Opening of Season
For Aberdeen Tobacco Mart
Old Southern Pines Hotel, Site of New Postoffiee
Hest Leaf in Middle Belt Thatif
(irown in This Section,
Experts Report
TUESDAY OI‘EN']NG DAY
Tobacco growers of the Middle Belt
will gather in Aberdeen on Tuesday
for the opening of the 1936 market,
and everything is in readiness for
their welcome and reception- Aber
deen looks for its best season in many
years, and not without grounds for
its optimism.
It seems to be pretty much con
ceded in the tobacco country this fall
that the Middle Belt has the best to
bacco in the south. Buyers for some
of the leading companies, familiar
with the leaf throughout the section,
slate that the best tobacco in the
belt is that which should find its way
to Moore county markets—the leaf
grown hereabouts.
“We have a fine smoking crop,
somewhat lighter than perfect tobac
co, but of good grain and good color.
This section is of the best in the
whole tobacco belt, and all the com-
paines are looking to Aberdeen for
fine tobacco," L. T. Avery of Aber
deen, one of the leading authorities
in this section, told The Pilot this
week. Mr. Avery buys for Liggett &
Myers and for one of the largest in
dependent concerns in the covintry.
.All IxM)k to Aberdeen
“One of the reasons why Aberden
should look for a good season is the
fact that we are in the heart of the
best section this season, and the
companies will put all the better
grades on the market where the good
tobacco is. Over the belt generally
there is a short crop. We have a par.
ticularly good crop in this immediate
territory. We should have a highly
successful season,’’ said Mr. Avery.
Both Aberdeen warehousemen, in
terviewed during the week, were like
wise enthusiastic over prospects. In
their trips about the section wliich
supplies Aberdeen both Claude Cov
ington and B. B. Saunders have found
a plentiful crop, and quality leaf. Mr.
Covington is operating the Aberdeen
Warehouse for his second season, and
Mr Saunders, the big Saunders W'are.
house.
The market will open at 9:00
o’clock Tuesday morning. The ware
housemen will flip a coin to determine
which house will conduct the opening
sale- Both look for a record quantity
on the floors at the opening, and for
a good average price.
All the leading cigarette companies
will have buyers here through the
season, and more independents will be
represented than ever before in Aber
deen.
Prices F'avorable
Tobacco prices generally have pick
ed up during the past week in the
Border markets, where the leaf is re.
ported as "none too good.” It is not
up to the quality in this section. East
ern Carolina is reported to have a
‘‘sorry crop.” So that everything fav
ors the Aberdeen, Carthage and San
ford markets which open simulta
neously on Tuesday.
The Fairmont market in the Bor
der Belt averaged $24.08 a hundred at
its Tuesday sales. Through the Bright
Belt the price has been running over
21 cents a pound during the week-
Aberdeen merchants are looking for
a boom in business during the season,
and are ready for the incoming farm
ers. Increased stocks but no increas
ed prices, is their slogan.
All Aberdeen plans to turn out
Tuesday morning to welcome the
growers at the opening sale. Anoth.
er season is on, and with every indi
cation of a profitable one.
Aberdeen Market
Opening—Tuesday morning, Sep-
ember 22, 9:00 a. m. (Toss
of coin will determine
warehouse holding open
ing sale.
Warehouses — Aberdeen Ware
house, operated by Claude
W. Covington of Reids-
ville.
Saunders’ Warehouse, op
erated by B. B. Saunders
of Abei'deen.
Buyers—American Tobacco Com
pany, Joe DeBerry. Lig.
gett & Myers, L. T. Avery.
R. J. Reynolds, Clarence
Boles. Imperial Tobacco
Company, Ivey Winston.
Export Tobacco Company,
John Graham Webb. P.
Lorillard Co., Will Nich
olson. J. P. Taylor Com
pany, L. T. Avery. Dibrell
Brotheis. Will Nicholson.
A. C. Monk & Co., Will
Nicholson. Other inde
pendent companies will be
represented.
The Hotel, on this I’loperty at the corner of West Broad Street und New York Avoiuie, Burned
Down Several Years Ago.
Reynolds Entertains
Democratic Rally Here
Crowd Gives Him 100 Percent in
Geo;;raphy, History and
Political Economy
U. s. Senator Here
GLENDON-PUTNAM
CITIZENS OBJECT
TO SCHOOL SHIFT
PAULINE S. BLUE NAMED
POSTMASTER AT LAKEVIEW
The Post Office department at
Washington this week appointed Pau
line S. Blue as acting postmaster at
Lakeview. Miss Blue’s commission
was dated as of August 20, from
which time she will receive compen
sation.
Dissent From Decision of Board
of Education To Send Chil
dren to Hi^h Falls
WANT THEM AT CARTHAGE
A group of citizens representing
the Glendon and Putnam commun
ities in Moore county have brought
suit against H Lee Thomas, county
superintendent of education, and the
Moore County Board of Education to
compel the transportation of their
children to the Carthage schools in
stead of to the newly consolidated
High Falls school. The case will be
tried on September 24th before Judge
J. A. Rousseau of the Superior Court.
The plaintiffs state that as resi
dents and taxpayers and patrons of
the Moore county schools they are
entitled by law to have their child
ren transported to the Carthage
schools from their respective homes
in Glendon and Putnam. They fur
ther state that this year, contrary
to law, 'the county superintendent
and board of education are attempt
ing to send their children to the
school in High Falls, which school,
plaintiffs Isay, has been condemed
as a fire trap by the State of North
Carolina. They also charge that the
defendants are attempting to trans
port their children a distance of
over four miles farther to a com-
demned school house than the dis
tance required to go to Carthage,
and that this attemp*t forces bus
drivei(s ,and children to cross the
main line of the Norfolk-Southern
railroad six different times, thereby
endangering lives of the children.
School authorities claim the child
ren in question are sent to High
Falls school because of congestion in
the Carthage school, because the dis.
tance to High Falls is less than to
Carthage, and because of the desire
to grive Ritters and Deep River town
ships the benefit of having a stand
ard school nearby. The authorities
also announce that they plan to erect
a new brick school-house at High
Falls. They deny the present build
ing is a fire-trap since it has been
equipped with /ire escapes.
While it is admitted generally Luat
the road to High Falls from Glendor
and rutnan is not as safe as som"
roads in the stoto, the School Board
feels that it is not as dangerous as
the road to Carthage, due to the
hazards from highway traffic over
the latter.
i United States Senator Robert R.
I Reynolds, "Bob” to most of his North
I Carolina constituents, recited his geo-
i graphy, history and political econom
ics les.sons to a full classroom in the
Southern Pines School on VV’ednesday
night, and judging by the applause,
he passed 100 per cent.
In geography he took his hearers
through most of tht' countries of the
Vvorld, dwelling longest in Mexico
which, he says, “has everything,” in-
j eluding his $260. If you recall, Sena-
: for Bob was held up by bandits while
touring our sister country to the
.south last summer, and they took his
last cent. "Many of you won’t be
lieve,” he said, “that it was every
! dollar I had in the world. But then
i there are just as many who won’t
I believe I had $260.”
, In history, the "class” heard all
about the claims of various states
that th«y arc America’s Cradle of
i Liberty. “But of course we all know
I the first blood of the revolution was
I shed in North Carolina, the first Dec-
, laration of Independence was in
' Mecklenburg, the first real coloniza-
; tion W’as here— we are the real Cra
dle of Liberty.” Historic dates rolled
off Bob’s tongue so glibly that even
Congressman Walter Lambeth had to
smile at his colleague’s memory.
And his political economy lesson—
need we tell you—dwelt upon the
j subject of the next President. The
' Senator seems to feel that the pres-
j ent occupant of the White House has
j done a grand job, that it’s no time
I to swap horses in mid-stream.
! Tribute to Lambeth
I And as for Walter Lambeth, said
I the Senator, "there is no need wast-
I ing a campaign speech on him. You
COURT FINDS FOR
CITIZENS BANK IN
BERNSTEIN CASE
.lud^e Hayes Hands Down Decis
ion in Suit P''or Loss in
' - Sale of Stock
I
I are all Democrats and you are all
j going to vote for Walter. After what
I I saw of the tribute paid him by his
I district in Sanford last night, we
don’t need to worry about him. And
I want to tell you, he’s just as pop
ular in Washington as he is here."
! Dr. George G. Herr, chairman of
I the Southern Pines Democratic Pre-
I cinct committee, opened the meeting
! and introduced Frank Buchan, who,
in the absence of Mrs. P. P. McCain,
district chairman, asked Mrs- Sidney
Windham of Aberdeen, vice-chairman,
to take a bow. He then called upon
Dr. L. B. McBrayer, Mrs. McCain’s
father, to present Walter Lambeth.
The Congressman was delighted to
be back among Southern Pines
friends, he said, and the only recom
mendation he had to make was that
"it's time to get to work” for the
Democratic ticket.
United States Marshal John Stev
enson introduced his old friend Bob
Reynolds. It was the Senator’s first
speech-making appearance here and
n6 m&dt; 2 hit ”^ith his ^^sten-
ers, interspersing his rambling re-
r.iarks with his inimitable wit and nu-
mor.
A large number of the county’s
prominent Democrats attended the
Congressional District banquet
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liOBEKT K. KEVNOLDS
OLD BETHESDA TO^
CELEBRATE 156TH
BIRTHDAY SUNDAY
AWARDS BANK $14,000
Federal Judge Johnson I. Hayes
yesterday handed down a decision in
favor of the Citizens Bank & Trust
Company of Southern Pines, in the
suit brought by the estate of the
late J- E. Bernstein to recover for
losses allegedly incurred when the
bank sold Mr. Bernstein’s stock on
the auction block following his fail-
I ure to meet assessments against it.
I Not only did tho judfe ^ind again.«t
I the Bernstein escRtc, but it tendered
a verdict of $14,000 damages to the
I bank, the amount being the differ
ence between the sa:e price of the
iitock sold under the hammer and the
par value of his Citizens Bank hold
ings. Mr. Bernstein was for some
time chairman of the board of the
bank, He died in New Jersey about
three years ago.
Dr. J. M. W'aker and Dr. Juian
Miller Speaker For
Home-Cominff
1430 Pupils Enrolled in
; Southern Pines School
' Over 400 Pupils Re>;ister on Op
ening Day.—Faculty is
Announced
HOTEL SITE
CHOSEN FOR
POSTOFFICE
Government Announces Selec
tion of Harrington Property
at West Broad and N. Y. Ave.
PI HCHASE PRICE $9,000
\\'ord wa.s received in Southern
Pines yesterday of the selection by
the United States Postoffice Depart
ment of the site of the old Southern
Pines Hotel, on West Broad street at
the corner of New York avenue, as
the location of the new postoffice
building here. The department’s de-
I cision was announced late Wednesday
! in Washington.
1 After the recent visit to the city of
i T. L. Starr of Baltimore, postoffice
site inspector, the choice of sites for
tiie new federal building was believed
‘ to have dwindled down from the nine
^ originally offered to two, the Har-
j rlngton property on which the South-
' orn Pines Hotel stood before the big
j fire some five years ago, and the
property on West Pennsylvania ave
nue opposite the present postoffice,
tendered the government by Its own.
era, A, B. Collins of Stamford. Conn.,
P. Frank Buchan and the Church of
Wide Fellowship. The.se were t.ie two
sites which most impressed Mr. Starr.
Both sites had many adherents, large
delegations favoring one or the oth
er waiting on the inspector to point
out the advantages of each.
.Sale Price Is $9,000
The government has made its de
cision in favor of the Harrington
property, offered at $9,000. In the ul
timate plan for beautification of the
downtown section of Southern Pines,
' there could be no better choice. The
property faces Municipal Park and
I the present make-shift municipal
building. It is the plan eventually to
erect a handsome and adequate mun-
; icipal building on this sight directly
' opposite the new postoffice, which
I will give the city a civic center in
keeping with its well established rep
utation for beauly.
One hundred and fifty-six years is
a long ♦ime. It was that long ago
that the Bethesda Church of Aber
deen was founded, and surviving
members of its congregations over
this century and one-half of accom
plishment will meet together on Sun.
day to'fittingly observe the occasion.
Speakers for the home-coming will
be the Rev. Dr. J. M. Walker, pastor
of the Steel Creek Presbyterian
Church' near Charlotte—the largest
country church in the south—and Dr.
Julian Miller, editor of The Charlotte
Observer. Dr. Walker will preach the
sermon at the morning service, and
Dr. Miller will address the gathering
during the afternoon exercises. Morn
ing worship will begin at 11:00
o'clock, and on the program will be
Mrs. Reid A. Page of Aberdeen, who
will sing "The Old Fashioned Meet
ing.”
Those gathering at the historic
grounds Sunday will bring their pic
nic lunches, and all will assemble un
der the big shade trees for the noon
repast. The afternoon program begins
at 3:00 o’clock. Both services will be
conducted by the pastor, the Rev.
Ernest L. Barber.
STORM HE.\DED FOR COAST
OF C.^ROLINA, IS REPORT
The registration figures of the
Southern Pines School showed a total
of 430 pupils at the end of the third
day of the new Fall term. School op
ened on Thursday, the 10th. Superin
tendent F. W. Webster believes this
total will be greatly exceeded during
the next few weeks as more of our
cottagcrs arrive from their summer
homc-a.
The toial figures for the elemen
tary grades are less by 16 than for
last year while the High School shows
an increase of 12, the total for both
elemtary and high school 430, or four
less than last term.
Elementary H. S. Total
1931-2 274 107 381
1932-3 335 117 456
-933-4 319 117 436
1934-5 329 119 448
1935-6 311 123 434
1936-7 295 135 430
Enro’ .nent by grades:
First grade, 40; Second, 42; third,
42; fourth, 48; fifth, 34; sixth, 43;
seventh, 46; High School, eighth
grade, 40; ninth, 41; tenth, 31; elev
enth, 23.
Both Mayor Dorsey G. Stutts and
Postmaster Frank Buchan expiessed
themselves yesterday as well pleased
j with the government's selection. Both
i expressed the hope that no effort
would be made by those disappoint
ed in the department’s failure to
choose the Pennsylvania avenue site
to have the decision reviewed.
“This could only mean a long delay
in the start of our much needed new
building,” Mr. Buchan said. "It is
seldom after such a thorough study of
the situation as that made by Mr.
Starr that the department will change
its decision. We should abide by it
and get the new building under way
promptly,” he said. Mr. Stutz express,
ed himself much the same way. "It is
the ideal location for a fine new
Southern Pines asset,” he stated.
"Let’s get the building under way."
Scores of others interviewed by The
Pilot were pleased with the selection.
H. A. Benton Succeeds
Bagwell on Seaboard
Native of Monroe is Appointed
.General Manager of Rail
road System
The coast section of North Carolina
spent yesterday preparing for a pos
sible hurricane reported headed to
ward it from a southeasterly direc
tion. Craft along the Carolinas coast
were warned by the Weather Bureau
to remain in port and stand by for
advices.
The storm was not expected to
strike as far inland as the Sandhills
section.
ST.\TE’S M.4NUF.\CTURERS
TO MEET IN PINEHURST
At a meeting in Concord Wednes
day the board of managers of the
North Carolina Manufacturers’ Asso.
elation voted to hold the association’s
next convention in Pinehurst on No
vember 4th and 5th.
TO PL.\NT DOUBLE ROAD
Through the cooperation of the
Town of Southern Pines, Pinehurst,
Inc. and the Kiwanis Club the double
road between Pinehurst and Southern
Pines is soon to be planted in rye
grass for the winter season.
1 The appointment of H. A. Benton,
as general manager of the Seaboard
Air Line Railway with headquarters
at Norfolk, was announced early
this week by L. R. Powell, Jr., and
Henry .W. Anderson, receivers. He
succeecro the late E. C. Bagwell, cheif
operating officer, who died suddenly
in Southern Pines two weeks ago. Mr.
Benton will have jurisdiction over all
departments heretofore supervised by
Mr. Bagwell which include construc
tion, maintenance and operation.
The new general manager, who has
served the Seaboard continuously for
30 years in increasingly important
positions, has had a total railroad ex.
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