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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Nterth Carolina Friday, February 19, 1937. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE Editor DAN S. RAY Advertising Manager Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months Sl.OO Three Months .50 Entered at the Postoffice at South. Pines, N. C., as second.class maiJ natter. THE HUNT RACING SEASON OPENS Despite the great loss it suf fered during the past year in death of one of its leading spir its, Noel Laing, the Sandhills Steeplechase and Racing Asso ciation has its head up and is proceeding with plans Jor its third annual race meeting, to be held on the Barber Estate course on the Midland Road on Saturday, March 13th. And from reports coming in from Col. G. P. Hawes, secre tary of the association, and Richard Wallach, Noel Laing’s suoceasor as rajcing secretary, there is every evidence that the 1937 event will be a brilliant success. The Sandhills section is rapid ly developing in importance as a winter training ground for all types of horses, which means widespread interest in horse events. The race meeting here is the feature event each season. It was estimated that fifteen thousand witnessed the races last March, enthusiasts coming from all parts of the state. The Sandhills meeting is the only major hunt race meeting held in North Carolina. Five events are on the card for March 13th, with the three- mile timber race for the Sand- 'hills Cup the feature. In addi tion to the cup for the owner of the winning horse, Venier Z. Reed, Jr., has this year donat ed a trophy to be presented the winning rider, in memory of Noel Laing. Due to Noel’s pop ularity among his fellow gen tlemen jockeys, this will be a much coveted trophy, and the race this year should be one long to be remembered. Some of the leading timber horses in the country will be among the en tries. There will be two brush races, each of two miles; one event over hurdle.s, Aintl! one flat race. The purses for the five events total $1,700. The 1937 hunt race season opens on Monday next at Cam den, S. C., where Harry Kirk- over stages his annual Wash ington Birthday meeting. Cam den is the leading winter train ing ground for steeplechase horses, and will furnish most of those to be seen in action here. For that reason large numbers from the Sandhills plan to motor to Camden Mon day to see the various timber, brush, hurdle and flat horses in action. The races there will start at 2:00 o’clock, and with seven events on the card it should be a full afternoon of sport. SCENES OP YESTERYEAR The Week in Vass FORTY YEARS AGO West Broad street and the Seaboard depots. The structure moved to Vass. On the right is first depot, final ly moved to the as “the Spring House.” on the left is the second, later Piney Woods Inn and long known a legal, orderly, systematic manner as against the former bootleg meth(^. Thirdly, under the new law, Moore county will derive considerable and much needed revenue from the opera tion of its stores. ONE-FIFTH OF A BOOK PER CAPITA The Charlotte Obser\'er says that if all the books in all the public and subscription librar ies in North Carolina could be spread over the whole state, there would be only one-fifth of a book for each person in the state’s population. That is a bleak situation and on,e that of fers much serious thought. North Carolina has stood low in the scale of illiteracy. A read ing population is an informed one. North Carolina is not a reading state. It couldn’t be if i^ wanted to, with the pitiful al lotment per capita the record =hows. Not until we scratched our first, inscriptions on slabs of stone and set up our libraries of clay tablets by some of the early scribes did we have a dis tinguished scholar, hundreds of '■ears before the invention of paper and printing. Conditions 'lave improved since then, but North Carolina is still lagging. Mcifre books are needed to overcome a deplorable condi tion. THIEVES BREAK INTO STOKE AT WEST END Officers are on the lookout for a thief who broke into the grocery store :f H. C. Cheek in West End Saturday night and removed goods, mostly cigarettes, to the value of around $25.00. Entrance was gained through a rear window. GRAINS OF' SAND Writes a columnist in the Green ville, S. C. paper: Prettiest of all is Southern Pines where enterprising northerners have planted the pmire town in winter grass, and white sidew'alks are lack ing paths are laid of pine needles and if you think the effect is not pretty pleasing to the eye go up there and see for yourself. For miles out of Southern Pines and Pinehurst all along the highway long leafed pines have been trans planted. They grow luxuriant and plumy doing a body good to look at them. A Pennsylvania man made his first trip to Southern Pines a lit tle over two years ago. When he left he said he never expectca to come back. He left for his Pitts burgh home early this w’eek, after his fourth visit. In such instances it is not only permissable for a man to change his mind, but he is encouraged to do so. comment of the Ellerba school. A Baltimre Sun launches into quite a discussion about our neighboring in stitution of progressive education, its principal, and the outstanding work of the students. EUlerba is more than an ordinary school, teach ing regulation subjects in regulation fashion. They have a little exper!- ment station for horticulture and agriculture and a bookbinding and printing department from their own presses, and have written and edit?d a book of poems that have had a number of favorable i»eviews. It seems as if in their curriculum they have about as varied an assortment as anything we know of for a coun try school. Outside papers tell us of what is going on in our neighboring community and the progress we are making. North Carolina’s hunting season clo.sed February 15. The State game commissioner said hunting condi tions for the winter months were un favorable generally. Weather condi tions and an abundant supply of ber ries and various game foods offered ample sustenance to wild life that it was not necessary to leave shelter ed places to forage in open and un protected areas. He added that it will have its compensations in car rying over a larger breeding stock for the coming year. NOTE OF APPRECIATION “We wish to express our deep ap preciation for the kindness shown us ! by friends during the loss of our I sons. Your expressions of love and sympathy have made it easier to bear.” I MR. and MRS. W. M. MILAM. An interesting program of talks on the union work being carried on by the churches in various missioin fields was given at the World Day of Prayer meeting, which was held in the Vass Presbyterian Church last Friday afternoon with the women of the various local churches cooperat ing, and special music and the group singing of a number of mission songs was enjoyed. An offering was made to help support the work about which talks were made. A decided improvement in Sunday School attendance was noted last Sunday morning, perhaps coming in part as an outgrowth of the deep- eneded interest on the part of the church people as a result of the splendid talks made by the Rev. Mr. Hall and the Rev. C. I. Calcote at the “Church Night” meeting two weeks ago. A cordial invitation is ex tended to every person in the com munity to line up with the Sunday School of his choice here, the Baptist, Presbyterian or Methodist. They convene at 10:00 o’clock each Sun day morning. Mrs. Clyde Cox and little son, Clyde, Jr., returned on Friday from Sanford, where they had been visit ing for about two weeks. Mrs. W. C. Byrd and children, Mary Lou and Keith, spent last week-end with Mrs. Byrd’s mother, Mrs. J. A. KKeith. Mr. and Mrs. Fairley Cameron visited relatives in Carthage Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Inge and little son, Donald, of Hamlet called ou Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Cox Sunday after noon. MiSs Mattie Cagle, Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland Cagle and Norman Cagle of Carthage visited in the W. B. Lambert home Thursday night. Mrs. Seth W. Lassiter of near Smithficld spent from Thursday un til Saturday night with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. McMillan accompanied her home and remained for the day Sunday. They were serv ed a delicious Sunday dinner which was prepared by Mrs. Lassiter’s fourteen-year-old daughter, Margar et, who is usually interested and I skilled in the culinary art for one of I her age j Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Smith and lit tle Ruth Frye spent Sunda.v with rel atives in Troy. Miss Margaret Lambert visited Mrs. Ethel Kirby at her home near Mullins, S. C, Sunday. Mrs. Irene Byrd of Albemarle was the week-end guest of Mrs. G. W. Griffin. Steve Koustenis returned to hLs home in Washington, D. C., on Sat urday after spending about five weeks with his brother, George Kou stenis, and family. Mrs. George Morgan of Cythago Route 3 spent Saturday with her daughter, Mrs. Fairley Cameron. ^ Misses Ila Callahan and Peggy Greene of High Point were week-end guests of Misses Louise and Ruby Callahan. Virginia Cameron, small daughtesr of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie aCmeron, who has been sick for the past two or three months, entered the Moore County Hospital last week for treatment. Miss Elizabeth Keith, a m U'* of the school faculty at Wi spent the week-end with her pa Mr. and Mrs. W. H. KeKith. On day afternoon Mrs. KeKith and abeth visited Mrs. Janie Mus> family in Cameron. Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Griffi baby of Sanford are visiting M Mrs. G. W. Griffin. Edward of Raleigh was at home for t Sunday. Miss Jessie Brooks of Wil.- Miss Eloise Brooks of Buie’ spent last week-end with the er, Mrs. G. W. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Alton Chaj baby and Luther Byrd of were callers at the home o: Mrs. Monroe Chappell and M Chappell Sunday. Members of the Agriculture ment of the Vass-Lakevlew school with Mr. and Mrs. W, E. stone entertained at a party in school library on Wednesday e\ ing to which each student was b lowed to invite one friend. Bingo, was played and jokes and stunts added to the merriment. Deli cious refreshments were served. The girls who attended the party included Katharine and Evelyn Ever ett, Rebecca Gardner, Gladys Cau.<?- ey. Pansy Abernathy, Pauline Jessup, Ruth Smith, Irene Seagroves, Mary ders. The c'urt ordered that the pay ments be made to the wife. INDISPENSABLE DISPENSARIES Fear for Moore county’s two liquor stores was dispelled on Tuesday when the State Senate i •passed the bill providing county option in the state, exempting those counties which now have stores from immediate referen da. Had the bill failed of pas sage, it was feared that the General Assembly might enact legislation which would have sounded the death knell for ex isting stores until such a time as a Statewide referendum could have been held—and per manently if such referendum went against legalizing the sale of liquor. With those sections of the country from which the resort towns of Pinehurst and South- ers Pines draw their patronage having legalized liquor, the feel ing is general here that we must provide similar facilities if we are to continue to develope as a resort center. One argu ment in favor of retention of the stores here. Another is, that police authorities report condi tions much improved hereabouts since liquor was obtainable in SUPERIOR COURT In Superior Court in Carthage this week, divorces were granted in the following cases: Lelia Darnell versus Rufus Franklin Darnell; Minnie Burns Holden versus Roy Holden. In the case of the Federal Land Bank cf Columbia versus James, John and Charles Deaton, the defend ants were perpetually restrained from removing nursery stock from the lands formerly in their possession but now owned by the plaintiff. A decisicn in favor of the plain tiff was rendered in the case of Ber- that Sanders of Hemp versus John L. Sanders and Maryland Casualty Company. According to the testi mony Sanders, husband of the plain tiff, mysteriously disappeared and abandoned his wife and children in August, 1935, leaving them in desti tute circumstances. Prior to this time, Sanders had been awarded by tv>e North Carolina Industrial Commission the sum of $1,050 as compensation for injuries received as an employee of the Standr ard Mineral Company, this to be paid in 150 weekly installments of $7.00 each. At the time of his disappearance, he had received forty-trhee of these payments, leaving a balance of $749, which his wife was seeking to have paid to her for the use of herself and children. Sanders, it is said, had left with the company by which he was employed a paper directing that pay ments be made to his wife upon her application for same, and the Mary land Casualty Company admitted having the sum of money due San- Mae Scott, Hazel Crouse Jewell Smith and Lula Pearl Morgan, and there were boys enough to bring the attendance to around fifty. Every once in a while flags are seen flying from our sidewalks. “What day is this’’ you frequently hear and you rumage through your head for a reply, Lincoln’s birthday was the last answer. Washington’s turn comes Monday. We don’t mind telling beforehand. When we get arcund to October 12, some heads are really puzzled, but you could never catch a Montesanti on Colum bus Day. In the last outbreak of our epi demic of reminiscences that have been prevalent for several weeks, several of the town's early eques trians stood at the gymkhana ring and discussed the changing styles in I riding apparel. They unearthed men- t;il pictures of what they wore from 25 to 40 years ago. Funny little tight fitting jackets, oluminous divided skirts that Diilowed and flapped and stood out in full sail against a horse’s sides at full speed brought forth much merriment. If Herbert and Friar Fred, two capable masters of ceremonies, were to ask their older friends to make a search through attic and forgot ten trunks, wonder if they couldn’t get enough of those old riding togs to stage a pageant? It might be an interesting feature for every specta tor, regardless of age. And the horse might also appreciate seeing some of the things he has outgrown. ! Police calls giving descriptions of and numbers over tlie radio never seem worthwhile listening to. as they always wind up by saying the fugitives were last seen headed for Tennessee or Pennsylvania. The last one we heard was the sensa tional outbrak from the State prison and as usual they were last seen headed for Nashville. We gave op in disappointment, only to learn they landed almost in our own front yard for a brief stop off. FYom an occasional northern pa per We see or hear some favorable h ILECTAIC COOKERY DIFFERENT Every Single Difierence Is In yowi Favor. 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