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Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, October 2, 1936.
COUNTY FAIR TO !
OPEN IN CARTHAGE I
TUESDAY, OCT. 13|
More Commercial and Agricul
tural Exhibits Than Ever To
Be on Display
IN BIG PORTABLE BUILDING
Its County Fair time again, and
they’re busy as bees up around Car
thage getting everything in readiness
for the 1936 exposition. Tuesday, Oct.
13th is the opening day, and the ev
ent will run through Saturday the
17th.
More commercial, industrial and
agricultural exhibits than ever in the
fair's history are promised this fall.
Former State Legislator A. B. Cam
eron has been busy around the coun
ty for some time lining these ex
hibits and states that about every
thing manafactured or grown in the
county will be on the fair grounds
the week of the 13th. The manage.'
nient is offering $575.00 in cash prizes j
this year. The Premium List is a.
lengthy one. There are prizes tor!
about everything. There’s even a |
chance for schools to make some |
money for their athletic funds- The ^
best high school booth will be award- The tea given in honor of Aberdeen
ed $15.00, with second and third pri- tp^chers last Thursday afternoon v/as
zes,, and the same goes for graded originall.v planned to be held in Mrs-
schools. I H. A. Page Jr-’s garden, but due to
Then there are prizes for cooking. | the rainy weather was held in her
sewing, weaving, painting preserving, | spacious home. The home was lovely
flowers and plants, club booths, farm with fall flowers. A musical program
booths, all kinds of fruits and vege- j vvas given by Mrs. Reid A. Page
tables, tobacco and cotton farm crops which was enjoyed by all present. A
and goodness knows what-all. j pleasant social hour followed the pro.
So much for that side of the pic. j gram.
The prizes for the flower garden
FIVE CENTb
What Type of Architecture Do You
Desire For Your New Postoffice?
Uncle Sam Will Be Largely Governed by Public Sentiment in
DePigning Federal Building Here. Let The
Pilot Have Your Ideas
What kind of a building do you want on the new post-
office site?
The government is governed largely by local desires in
its plans for a federal building. It will send a man here in the
near future to look over the property and sound out public
sentiment.
This new building will be permanent, something we will
look at as long as any of us are extant. The architects in
Washington are not the ones who are going to have it before
them dayi in and day out .It’s ours, and it is our duty to reg
ister our ideas and desires before the plans are in the mak
ing.
The columns of The Pilot are open to those who liave
suggestions to make. Do you want a typical postoffice-look
ing building ? Do you want so^mething bordering on South
ern style in architecture, something Colonial, something plain,
something fancy?
Let’s make up our minds before the Office of the Sup
ervising Architect sends its representative here. Write vour
ideas to The Pilot.
REGISTRATION IN
SCHOOLS TOP’35
FIGURES BY 18
Baptist Historic
Aberdeen Garden Club Awards
Prizes For Civic Beautification
Miss Mary Page Credits Organ
ization with Notable Village
Improvements
ture. On the amusement side will be
Herman Bantley’s Greater Shows,
with 12 shows and ten rides, the free
acts including LuFrances and her act
110 feet up in the air. Si and Ebner
with their educated mule, Jones’ ed
ucated dogs, Levine and Co., wire
artists, some famous pigs and other
feature acts. A t^ood, clean, live mid
way is promised.
The main show building this year
will be a portable one, a show in it
self, 60 by 200 feet in size. It will be
erected the Saturday before the fair
opens, to house the exhibits.
Paul Waddell, secretary of the
Moore County Fair, says there is
more county-wide interest in this
year’s fair than in a long time, and
that he looks for a fine week.
9th Dist. Federation
To Meet in Aberdeen
Mrs. Marshall, State President,
Among Speakers Here W'ed*
W'ednesday, October 14
The Ninth District of the State
Federation of Women’s Clubs will
meet in the Methodist church, Aber
deen, on Wednesday morning, Octo
ber 14 at 10:00 o’clock. The officers
of the district are Mrs. J. T. Johnson,
Aberdeen, president; Mrs. H. A. Cam
eron, Raeford, vice president; Mrs. W.
T- Huntley, Aberdeen, secretary and
Mrs. T. B. Upchurch, Raeford, gen
eral Federation contact chairman.
The Walter Hines Book Club, of which
Mrs. H. W. Doub is president is the
hostess club.
Among speakers will be Mrs-
George E. Marshall, Mount Airy,
president of the State Federation,
and Mrs. J. D. Robinson, Wallace,
second vice president, who is chair
man of districts. Besides the Walter
Hines Book Club the following clubs
from Moore county belong to this
District: Woman’s Club, Cameron;
Civic Club, Southern Pines; Woman's
Club Vass; Book Club, West End.
Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee,
and Richmond Counties are also in
the Ninth district.
contest are always awarded at the
tea, which is an annual event, and!
Miss Mary Page very graciously de
livered the prizes. j
“Instead of thinking and talking |
about our inheritance of ‘original sin.’ |
from our first parents,” she said, “I
like to think of another inheritance j
we have had, that of gardens, a love
of gardens and of working gardens, j
I think everybody has an innate love
of the beautiful, especially of the
beautiful in nature. Sometimes that
love seems to be in a coma, but a
garden club can wake it up, and then
we become garden enthusiasts.
“I cannot say too much in praise
I of the Garden Club of Aberdeen, for
I the active work it has done, and for
I the interest it has created in planting
I and beautifying our town. A few days
I ago I made a tour of the town with
the Inspection committee, and I was
amazed at the neatness and beauty
of some of the y4 ds and gardens.
"We must not forget, though, that
there were some pioneers here who
paved the way for the work of the
Garden Club. Some of us remember
Mrs. Creel, the very soul of neatness
and thoroughness, who used to mount
the trash wagon and go with the
driver to every house in Aberdeen to
see that the job was well done. Even
before that, a band of boys and girls,
now some of your foremost citizens
(who can say that being civic-mind
ed didn’t make them so?) waged a
small war against papers and trash
on our streets. No less a person than
our eminent lawyer, Mr. J. T. John
son, asks me once in awhile if I re
member when I gave him a stick with
a nail in the end and sent him out to
pick up papers. Yes, I remember.
“It has been a diffio'.lt task for
the committee to a’^.ard the prizes,
but they have taken into considera.
tion all the visits they have made
during the year and the different
phases of the gardens at different
seasons. The first prize, given for the
Acquisition of Baptist Church
for Primary Grades Re
lieves Congestion
ENROLLMENT NOW 271
By invitation of Superintendent
Frank Webster early in the week a
representative of The Pilot visited
the three buildings now comprising 1
the Southern Pines schools, these in- j
eluding the former Baptist church, ^
the comparatively new structure on
Ridge street, and the original school. |
Starting with the former church
edifice located at Connecticut avenue
and Page street, avenues having but
' little traffic at this corner, the t»'ee
shaded grounds surrounding the
building affording an ample and safe
playground for the little children,
three large rooms were found in use,
all well lighted and ventilated, with i
i ample hallways and exit, modern
toilets and every convenience for the j
pupils of the 1st and 2nd grades now ■
numbering 87.
The structure located on Ridge I
I street, generally known as the home ^
economics building, also contains '
three large rooms given over to the
use of the 3rd and 4 th grades, now j
totaling- 94 pupils. Here too light and '
ventilation were excellent. j
Thence to the main building from
which the transfer of the lower ;
grades has eliminated the use of.
hallways as class rooms, removing a
most hazardous fire risk, and giv
ing more space for the library, science
laboratory and other needed quart.
‘ ers. Registration for the classes in
this building number 271, making the
total registration up to September
i 30th 452 pupils, 18 more than the
total for last term. All the class
rooms were inspected, and despite the
heavy enrollment no crowding was
rU'iMiE iif:rbekt f. sea well
BETHLEHEM
*AND SANDY CREEK
ASS’N. CELEBRATE
room for more pupils.
Greensboro Hotel Man
Buys Lakeview Cottage
E. H. Spence Gives Impetus To
Real Estate Activity in
Village by the Lake
MARY ELIZABETH CAMERON
TO U ED DAVID OILUS TODAY
Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Cameron of
Southern Pines announce the engage
ment of their daughter. Miss Mary
Elizabeth, to David Gillis, also of
Southerri Pines. The young couple will
be married today and after a short
honeymoon will make their home
here.
Are You Registered?
Books Open Each Satur
day Through October 24th,
for November 3d Election
If you are not registered, you
cannot votel
Tomorrow, Saturday, is the first
day of registration for those not
already on the registry books. The
books will be open throughout the
county each Saturday from now
through October 24th. The 31st
win be Challenge Day.
The attention of residents en
titled to vote is called to this: Pie-
vious registrations for municipal
or school district elections or ref.
erenda do not qualify you to vote
in the National and State elections
on November 3d. If you have not
previously voted here in a Presi
dential or Gubernatorial campaign,
you must register. If in doubt, see
your Registrar. Make sure your
name is on the proper book.
Hiram Westbrook, in charge of
registration in Southern Pines and
McNeill township, will be at the
Municipal Building each Saturday
through October. E. H. Spence, manager of the
King Cotton Hotel in Greensboro,
who.se name and likeness have re
cently graced the columns of state
papers in their reports of his unan
imous election as vice-president of
the American Hotel Association at
its convention in St. Louis, may prop,
erly be claimed as a resident of the
Sandhills.
Last winter Mr. Spence sub-leased
Lightning struck a wire leading j Green, lessee of Lakeview
into the home of Mrs. A. S. Burke in Lodge and the other real estate of
Knollwood on Wednesday night and ^ Barber estate at Lakeview, a
followed the line into the house, start- house on Park street in that village,
ing a fire which, though causing an ]j^gj month he purchased this to-
alarm to the Southern Pines Fire D-e gether with three adjoining lots con-
partment, was extinguished before the stituting a corner plot 200 by 140
arrival of the firemen. The damage jgej
was slight. The Burke family arrived j^r. and Mrs. Spence are planning
here early this week. j improvements in their newly acquired
The section was visited by one of home, and will occupy it frequently
the heaviest rainfalls in some time in the future as they have in the
Wednesday evening. past, entertaining extensively there.
i Their long and successful experience
Miss XhomDSOn Former ^otel management has made them
• J ^ TT ^ exceptionally large number of cor-
-KeSlClent Here, Llies, (jjai friends, and their ownership of
I a residence in Lakeview will be a po-
Operated Cedar Pines Villa, For- tent factor in the rejuvenation of that
mer Home of Struthers Burt, | village, where other sales are already
For Many Years I pending as a result.
Church Observes 102d Anniver
sary and Society Holds Its
179th Annual Session
JUDGE SEAWELL SPEAKER
Moore county is beginning to real
ize it is getting on in years. Old Be-
thesda near Aberdeen celebrate4 its
156th anniversary on September
20th; Bethlehem Church, near Car
thage, last Sunday observed its 102d
birthday, and the Sandy Creek Bap
tist Association is today celebratmg
its 179th annual session.
Nearly 500 persons from all parts
of the state attended the home-com
ing at Old Bethlehem on Sunday, The
Rev. R. H. Wheeler of Bon Lee de-
liveied the message Sunday morning,
and the choir of the Carthage Bap-
i tist Church rendered two anthems.
After an enjoyable picnic lunch on
i the grounds. Judge Herbert F. Seaw-
I ell. Sr., of Carthage talked on “The
\ History of the Baptist Denomination,”
I and of historical Sandy Creek Bap-
I tist Association, of which the Bethle-
; hem Church is a member-
j Yesterday and today the Sandy
N'.»ise T(M) Much for Superior j Creek association has been meeting at
PAVING MACHINE
ROUTS JUDGE IN
CARTHAGE DUEL
Court and Rousseau Puts
Cases Over
TWO DIVORCES GRANTED
in by the road paving mathine and
the court. Judge Rousseau gracefully
retired from the field of action on
Wednesday of last week and contin
ued the remainder of the Superior
Court cases until another term when
the paving machine will be sending
out its deafening sounds in a vicinity
far removed from the court house.
The road crew was paving all
Yates.Thagards Church for its 179th
j annual session. This is the fourth old-
I est association of its kind in the
I United States. On the program yester-
: day was special music by the San-
! ford choir, and a sermon by the ReV.
R. E- Wall of Sanford. In the after
noon the Rev. T. Sloan Guy of Car
thage led the devotional and the Car
thage Baptist Choir sang. Today there
will be a program of special music by
the Siler City Choir and an address
by Dr. T. D. Kitchen of Wake For_
est.
Liqrhtninpr Strikes Home
in Knollwood Section
Resultant Fire in Burke Resi
dence Extinguished Before
Arrival of Firemen
observed, and there is ample desk the court house, and the noise ,
greatly interfered with the transac- !
tion of business within the court
room. After a consultation between ,
the judge and the highway official, it [
was deemed wiser to continue the i
cases than to abandon the road work ,
I there. I
I Two divorces in addition to those !
I reported last week were granted, one
to J. G- Vick from Ethel Cottrell
Vick, the other to Wade Smith from
Annie M. Hughes Smith-
The case of H. B. Shields versus
Eugenia C. Woody, W. E. Woody,
Edith Shaw and husband, G. C.
Shaw, and others, a case in which the
title to a small tract of land was be
ing cleared up, was decided in favor
of the plaintiff.
State Anproves Short
Cut Road to Hospital
New Improved Stretch W'ill
Save Mile of Distance
from Southern Pines
A cut.off road leading from Mid
land Road to the Pinehurst-Carthage
highway at the Moore County Hos
pital has been approved by the State
Highway Commission for addition to
the State Highway system, accord
ing to advice received by the Board
of County Commissioners, who had
recently requested that this be done.
To people going to the hospital
from Southern Pines and the lower
part of the county, this road will
The Coastal Telephone Company ! approximately one mile.
asked that $,702.34 of a deposit
made with the Page Trust Company,
Siler City branch, for the purpose of
paying tax assessments be allowed
as a preferred claim and an order to
this effect was passed. This is teh
amount of checks which had not
been paid at the time the bank clos
ed.
! Secu titles Co. Dissolved
j The final decree in the wind-up of
the affairs of the Moore County Se
curities Corporation was written and
the corporation was dissolved.
Miss Ervinia Thompson, for many j
years proprietor of the Cedar Pines
Villa in Southern Pines and at one
TWO HOTELS OPEN
Two Southern Pines hotels open for
I time manager of the Southland Ho- I the season this week, both with good
greatest perm^ent improvement, in |
on a boat between bookings and prospects for a success-
planting shrubbery, is a bird bath, and ,
on Sep_ ful year. Mrs. Maude Grearson, re-
it is given to Mrs. E. M. Medlin. The ] according to word re- i turning from a summer spent in
second prize, given for neatness and details are j Windsor, Vt., has several guests in
available. Miss Thompson made her Highland Lodge, while Mr. and Mrs.
home here for some time until about Leighton Huske who spent their sum-
12 years ago when she moved north, mer in Wytheville, Va., announce their
The former Cedar Pines Villa is now opening for Saturday.
the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Struth- ^
ers Burt i LE.\SE .\SHE ST. HOME
Two other requests in regard to
Moore county roads received favor
able action, one for the taking over by
the State of a connecting road be
tween the Vass-Carthage road near
Shady Grove church, and the Deaton_
Blue road near Z. V. Blue’s residence
in the Eureka section, a distance of
one and two-tenths miles, the otner
a 4-1-mile stretch from Garner’s
store on the Moore-Randolph line to
Steeds.
It is probable that work on these
roads will be started at an early date
Henry Peoples and Sallie Peoples i from funds recently set aside by the
the greatest show of blooming flow
ers, is .a pottery vase, and is given to
Mrs. Stuart Weaver. Honorable men
tion is made of the following: Mrs.
H. A. Page, Jr., for the general beau
ty of her gardens, and for a display
of pansies and tulips in the spring.
Miss Louise Blue for neatness and
attractiveness of her yard. Mrs. G. C.
Seymour, for planting of shrubbery
and flowers. Mrs. George Martin, for
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Oscar Hitt, of the art staff of The , Mrs. E. M. Pettes has leased
Associated Press, is a guest in South- ^ through the Potts agency her home
ern Pines and has been making the on Ashe street to Bowdin Plumer of
Montesanti Camp his studio while Bristol, N. H., who will take posses,
here. ' sion October 15,
were given judgment in the sum of
$6 against Dalton Goins and they are
to receive this amount from the sale
of a cow for which they had taken
out claim and delivery papers.
The report of M. G. Boyette, Ref
eree, was confirmed in the case of
Mrs. Claud Poole versus John Byrd
and it was decreed that Mrs. Poole,
Lina Wilson and John Byrd are own
ers of one-third undivided interest
each in the lands in question, that
Mrs. Poole has paid the entire taxes
from 1914-1927 and is entitled to be
repaid for two-thirds of this, and that
Mrs. Poole and Mrs. Wilson are en
titled to recover judgment against
John Byrd in the sum of $242.33 each
as one.third of waste, rents and prof
its from the said land. W. D. Mat
thews and K. R. Ho*rle were appoint
ed commissioners and directed to sell
the land in order that this may be
settled.
Other judgments included the fol
lowing: J. W. Jackson, Administrator,
(Please turn to page 4)
Governor for
county roads.
the improvement of
KIWANIS HEARS SECOND
T.\LK ON CONSTITUTION
In the second of a series of talks to
the Kiwanis Club by Attorney Robert
E. Denny of Pinehurst, made Wednes
day at Jack’s Grill, Mr. Denny gave
an interesting and instructive picture
of the origin of the Constitution of
the United States, of the framing of
the Bill of Rights. He discussed vul
nerable points in the document, most
important of which is one which will
come to a head soon. This he summed
up with the question, “Shall the Con
stitution be so construed as to allow
a State to establish and regulate a
minimum wage ”
Struthers Burt has an article, “Red
Harvest,” in the current issue of the
weekly magazine, “To-Day,” showing'
forest fire loss in America amountirg^
to $350,000,000 every five year?