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VOL. 18, NO. 3.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, December 17, 1937.
FIVE CENTS
1937 BUILDER’S
CUP AWARDED TO
MRS. CHEATHAM
Kiwanis Club Makes Presenta
tion for “Outstanding Ser*
vice to Community”
100 ATTEND DINNER
Opening Gymkhana of Season in
Southern Pines This Afternoon
Six Events on Program for
Horses and Rides, Including
Broom Polo and Sack Race
The Sant-hills paid homage to its
womankind last night.
For the first time in the history
of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, the
Kiwanis Builder’s Cup, awarded pere-
iodically to a resident of the com
munity adjudged to have perform
ed some outstanding community ser
vice, was presented to a woman, Mrs.
Thaddeus A. Cheatham of Pinehurst.
The honor is conferred after a
vote is taken by representatives of
civic organizations in the various
villages comprising the Sandhills sec
tion, and Mrs. Cheatham was the
unanimous selection of this com
mittee this year. The presentation
was made at the annual Alumni
meeting and Ladies’ night of the
Kiwanis Club, J. Talbot Johnson of
Aberdeen, one of the first presidents
of the local Kiwanis Club, making
the address.
Mr. Johnson paid high tribute to
Mrs. Cheatham for iier untiring ef
forts and devotion to the cause of
humanity in Moore county. Kor
years Mrs. Cheatham has served as
chairman of the County Tuberculosis
Committee, and her efforts in this
regard have been rewarded by a
marked decrease in the disease
throughout this section. In her own
home town, Pinehurst, where the
work of fighting the disease has been
going on longer than in other sec
tions, tuberculosis has been practi
cally wiped out. Throughout these
years of fight, fight, fight, Mrs.
Cheatham has been the motivating
power behind the committee in its
work, the inspiration of her co-work-
ers,—untiring whether in campaign
for funds or in the actual work of
overseeing the treatment of cases.
Christmas Thought
Mrs. Cheatham, with her husband,
the Rev. Dr. T. A. Cheatham of tlie
Village Chapel in Pinehurst, hag also
been active for many years in see
ing that underprivileged children of
the community were not overlooked
on Christmas Day. Dr. and Mrs.
Cheatham personally have raised
funds each Christmas time and fill
ed baskets with fruits and gifts for
the less fortunate of the commun
ity.
The recipient of the 1937 Builder s
Cup was completely taken by sur
prise last night, but responded to tlie
presentation wits a few words of ap
preciation.
Others to whom the Kiwanis
Club presented its trophy in the
past were Leonard Tufts, John R.
McQueen, the late Bion H. Butler,
Simeon B. Chapin, P. Frank Buchan
and Dr. H. B. Bowman, recipient of
the cup last year.
Last night’s party at the South
ern Pines Country Club was a most
enjoyable one. The program started
during dinner with Charles W. Pic-
quet, the club’s immediate past
president, acting as toastmaster. A
quartet comprising Dr. Hotcil'- P.
Shepard, Frank Buchan, Mr. Picquet
and Willard L. Dunlop, sang several
numbers. Mrs. Picquet and Mrs. A.
J. McKelway sang pleasing duets.
The ladies and the club’s former
members were welcomed to the
gathering by Kiwanis President
Ralph Chandler, Mrs. Paul Dana re
sponding on behalf of the former and
County Solicitor M. G. Boyette for
the alumni.
The principal speech of the even
ing was made by Norman Shepard,
prominent attorney of Smithfield
and a former lieutenant governor of
this Kiwanis district.
Nearly 100 enjoyed the occasion
and a fine dinner served by the
Coimtry Club.
The gymkhana season in Southern
Pines opens this afternoon, Friday,
with a fine program of six events,
starting at 3:00 o’clock.
There will be a Junior Jumping
class, for youngsters 17 years old or
younger, with a number of entries
from both Pinehurst and Southern
Pines. Featuring the “stunt" part
of the program, which is always ex
citing and usually amusing, will be
a Sack Race, in which the riders
dash to one end of the ring, leap
from their horses, climb into burlap
bags and endeavor to run back to
the starting point on foot.
Some of the best hunters and
jumpers in the Sandhills will be seen
in the Open Jumping class, in which
the competition is always keen. Thid
is to be followed by a Broom Polo
match. The riders choose up sides,
are furnished with old brooms, then
play a regular polo game using a big
rubber ball. It is probable that
there’ll be a little inter-town battle
in this event, for the plan is to pit
the riders from Pinehurst against
those from Southern Pines, and
start a series of these matches to
run through the season.
Another jumping event will be a
Touch and Out class, in which a horse
and rider are eliminated as soon as
the horse ticks a fence. The one “go
ing clean” tho longest wins. The
program will wind up with the good
old favorite Musical Stalls, with
everybody battling for the few avail
able stalls.
There’ll be attractive ribbons for
1st, 2nd and 3rd horses in this sea
son’s classes, Mr, Burke announced,
stating that he had, ordered the rib
bons in New York for delivery be
fore Friday’s gymkhana. Champion
ship ribbons and trophies will be
awarded at the end of the season to
those who have scored the most
points in various classes throughout
the winter.
No charge is made to witness theae
equestrian events, though a charge
of fifty cents per car is made for
ringside parking. Season parking
spaces sell for five dollars, and many
of these have already been spoken
for. A good crowd is expected at
the show ring for this opening
event. The gymkhanas in Southern
Pines will alternate weekly with
those in Pinehurst throughout the
season.
Two Needy Cases
Money and Food Asked for
Families in Distress as
Christmas Nears
There are two families in
Southern Pines needing immediate
assistance in money and food as
Christmas nears. They have not
applied for help, but their cases
have been investigated and the
need is great.
Postmaster Frank Buchan will
be glad to receive any contribu
tions for these families. Help to
make their Christmas a happy
one.
H. E. THROWER, 53,
DIES AT HOME IN
SOUTHERN PINES
Proprietor of Thrower’s Phar
macy tor Past 16 Years Had
Been 111 For Year
BURIAL IN HENDERSON
SPENCE TO HEAD
DELEGATION TO
U.S.-1 HEARING
Citizens Launch Vigorous
Campaign to Attract New
Industries to Aberdeen
“Where’s Your Card?”
Large Group from Sandhills to
Urge Re-routing, of Highway
Through vlaleigh
TRAFFIC DIVERTED THERE
The fight over the change of rout
ing U. S. Highway No. 1 through
Raleigh will be carried to the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion next Wednesday by a group of
business, hotel and service station
men from Aberdeen, Pinehurst,
Southern Pines, Sanford and other
cities along the route south of Ral
eigh.
The object of the mass attack on
the commission is to have the route
changed back from passing through
the business section of Raleigh to
Hillsboro street, the more direct and
much wider thorofare from whicn
it was removed some time ago at the
behest of Raleigh business men. Since
then there has been much complaint
on the part of tourists that they are
forced to wade through the laby
rinths of the shopping center of
the Capitol, that they lose valuable
time, and that they frequently lose
their way, finding themselves on' Fourth Annual Race Meeting To
Ask This Question to Young
sters Selling Holly Be
fore Purchasing
So many boys, mostly colored
youngsters, sold holly which they
had stolen from private property
during the holidays last winter
that Chief of Police Gargis of
Southern Pines has issued identi
fication cards this year and urges
those who are approached by these
boys to insist upon seeing their
cards. The chief is issuing the
cards only to those known to be
honest and after investigation of
the source of their supply.
VERNER Z. REED
REELECTED HEAD
OF STEEPLECHASE
Tobacco Market in
Aberdeen Ends Season
P^RTY AT PINE NEEDUES
The 'Three Arts Group, newly or
ganized for the promotion of paint
ing, music and dramatic arts In
the Sandhills, gave a bridge party
and entertainment last Fr?daj night
at the Pine Needles cl’jbhouse. \
Sales Average $3.25 a Hundred
Higher Than Last Year, With
3,000,000 Lbs. Total
Aberdeen closed its tobacco season
on Wednesday, with a price average
paid to the farmers (to December
1st) of $22.63 a hundred pounds
This is $3.25 higher than last year’s
average price.
Aberdeen’s total sales up to De
cember 1st were 2,865,835 poun.is
Sales during November totaled
905,388 pounds. Sales since the first
of the month have shoved the sea
son’s total well above the 3,000,000
pound mark.
Carthage sales for the season, to
December 1st, totaled 2,429,09
pounds , at an average of $21.69 a
hundred. Sales in the county’s capi
tal were less than half the Aber
deen sales during November, 437,181
pounds. The Carthage average for
the season, to the first of the month,
is $1.23 less than last season.
The average for sales In North
Carolina for the season, all markets,
to December 1st was $23.25 a hun
dred, only 85 cents per 100 higher
than during the 1936 season. Total
sales of the 137 warehouses report
ing in the • state to December 1st
were 287,128,208 pounds. Wilson lei
in total sales to the first of the
month with 66,816,548 pounds at an
average price paid of $24.93.
AIR SERVICE RESUMED
The Eastern Air Lines this week
put Raleigh back on its regular
North-South schedule, served by mul
ti-motored Douglas planes.
Following an illness of nearly a
year’s duration, Hiram Eldridge
Thrower, aged 53 years, died in his
home on Vermont avenue, Southern
Pines, early yesterday morning.
A son of the late James Robeit
and Ann Eliza Thrower, of Hender
son, Mr. Thrower married Miss Flor
ence Currin, also of Henderson, in
April, 1912. Coming from Bladen-
boro, where he had established a
pharmacy, Mr. Thrower in 1921 vis
ioned a wider field for his skill and
knowledge in Southern Pines, and
opened the pharmacy on Broad
street familiar to all residents for
the past 16 years as "Thrower’s”
Though Mr. Thrower devoted most
of his time to his business interests
and his home, he enjoyed a wide ac
quaintance throughout the Sandhills
and had endeared himself to all who
knew him intimately. He had not
been active in civic affairs for some
time, though he v. aa deeply interest
ed in the progross and well-being of
the community. He was a charter
member of the Kiwanis Club here,
but had not been a member in recent
years. He w£ua a communicant at the
Emmanuel Episcopal Church.
Funeral services will be held in the
residence of Mrs. J. L. Currin, West
Samett street, Henderson, at 2:00
o’clock today, conducted by his pas
tor, the Rev. F. Craighill Brown, of
Emmanuel Episcopal Church here,
assisted by the Rev. Isaac Hughes of
Holy Church and the Rev^. A. S. Hals,
of thte Daptist Church of Hender
son.
Surviving are his widow, a sister,
Miss Eugenie Thrower of Hender
son, a brother, D. W. Thrower of
Chicago.
THISTLE CLUB TO HAVE
SPECIAL CHRISTMAS PARTY
other southbound routes after they
have left Raleigh.
U. L. Spen<-e Spokesman
The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce passed resolutions at its
la.st directors’ meeting, the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club at its last meet
ing, urging members to attend the
hearing called in Raleigh for the 2nd,
and a sizeable delegation is expected
from here. Aberdeen and Pinehurst
Chambers of Commerce are also
sending representatives. Union L.
Spence of Carthage, former chair
man of the Roads Committee of the
State House of Representatives, will
represent Sandhills interests as
spokesman of the group.
Others who plan to go from here
are Emmet E. Boone of the Pine
Needles Inn, John J. Fitzgerald of
the Mid-Pines Club, City Commis
sioner E. C. Stevens and City Clerk
Howard F, Burns of Southern Pines,
J. Vance Rowe and J. Talbot John
son of Aberdeen, and L. L. Biddle,
II, president of the Pinehurst Cham
ber of Commerce.
The importance of the change has
ber 1 stressed upon local delegates by
hotel, restaurant and filling station
people here, who report that the
travel over U. S. No. 1 this season
is much lighter than in former years.
Most of this traffic is diverted at
Raleigh due to the indirect route
through town and the ease of get
ting on the route which carries the
traveler through Fayetteville and
Raeford.
Grass Fire Sweeps
Midland Road Section
Fire Wardens and Pinehurst and
Southern Pines Departments
Fight Spread to Homes
Be Held in March; Work on
Course Started
MAY BUILD GRANDSTAND
One Hundred and Fifty At
Meeting Hear Plans and
Pledge support to Project
NEW FACTORY IN SIGHT
The Thistle Club will give a si>eo*
ial Christmas bridge party in the
Southern Pines Country Club on Mon
day, December 27 at 2:30 p. b. Thi?
affair is to be an "open" party and
members are prtvlleged to bring
guests.
Owing to the fact that Christmas
and New Years come on Saturday,
the regular club day, the dates for
those two weeks have been changed
to Monday, December 27 and Mon
day, January 3, respectively. The us
ual club day will be resumed on Sat
urday, January 8.
CHRISTMAS MUSIC PROGRAM
AT ABERDEEN PRESBYTERIAN
One of the most serious grass fires
in some time in this section broke
out early yesterday afternoon on the
northeast side of the double road
between Pinehurst and Southern
Pines, and spread rapidly in the di-
lection of the Knollwood Airport. Fire
wardens and the department from
both towns were pressed into ser
vice to prevent damage to houses and
other buildings in the vicinity. No
great property damage is expected,
as the flames did not appear to rise
to proportions which would ruin
trees.
POSTOFFICE TO REMAIN
OPEN ALL DAY S.4TURDAY
With officers elected for the com
ing year and the date selected for
“Race I work will go ahead rap
idly now in preparation for the
fourth annual meeting of the Sand
hills Steeplechase & Racing Associa
tion in March. Already men arc
busy at the Barber Estate course,
whitewashing fences, re-arranging
brush and timber jumps, and putting
the brush, timber and flat tracks in
tip-top condition. Plans are also in
the air for the erection of a grand
stand prior to the races.
At the annual meeting of direc
tors of the association, Vemer Z.
Reed, Jr., was re-elected president,
with the following other officers:
Vice-presidents, Nelson C. Hyde and
Almet Jenks; Secretary & Treas
urer, L. L. Biddle, II; Racing Sec
retary, Richard Wallach, and Chair
man of the General Committee,
Sprigg D. Camden. It was announced
that Harry F. O’Hara would assist
the officers in supervising work at
the race course and in preparations
for the March meeting.
The directors voted to ask the
National Steeplechase and Hunts As
sociation for sanction for the annual
race meeting here on a Saturday two
weeks prior to the running of the
Carolina Cup races at Camden, S.
C., which will mean either March
12th or 19th for the local races.
Richard Wallach, of Warrenton,
Va., was here last week and stated
that he looked for good entries in
this year’s brush, flat and hurdle
races, and quality though possibly
not quantity in the timber event as
but few timber horaes are ready for
the season’s racing that early in the
year. Mr. Wallach will be back for
the remainder of the season soon
after the first of the year and may
bring with him a number of steeple
chase horses to be schooled here.
A virorous campaign to interest in
dustrial enterprises in coming to
Aberdeen was launched at a meet
ing of the Aberdeen Chamber of
Commerce and public spirited citi
zens on Tuesday night, and machin
ery set in motion to bring about the
desired end. Aberdeen, ideally situ
ated as it is for manufacturing
plants, has long felt the need of
more "payrolls,” and if the spirit
manifested at Tuesday’s meeting is
any criterion, no stones will be left
unturned in the present campaign
for increasing the size and impor
tance of the city.
The purpose of the meeting was
to familiarize citizens with methods
of procedure and to solicit full co
operation of all in a united effort,
and it was felt after the gathering
that the purpose had been accom
plished. One hundred and fifty at
tended and were enthusiastic over the
possibilities presented. They were
told of the unique advantages Aber
deen enjoys for the attraction of
certain industries, and that indus
tries are to be had if proper efforcs
art made. But they were told that no
one was going to bring an indus
try to Aberdeen unsolicited; Aber
deen must make the first move.
State Agent Pledges Aid
Present at the meeting from out
of town were State Industrial Agent
J. T. Anderson, A. L. Monroe, indus
trial agent of the Carolina Power ik^}
Lihgt Company, John M. Howarth, *
local C. P. & L. industrial agent, and
Warren T. White, general industrial
agent of the Seaboard Air Line Rail
way.
Mr. Anderson gave a common
sense talk and assured the town of
his full cooperation. Mr. White and
Mr. Monroe were equally interesting
and expressed a strong desire to be
of service.
Several prospective manufacturers
have been contacted and it is possi
ble that a contract will be made with
at least one of these at an early
date. This will involve the erection of
a $30,000 to $40,000 building, sites
for which are already undtr option.
The combined choirs of the Prev
byterian churches of Aberdeen will
give a program of Christmas an
thems, carols, solos and choruses at
11:00 o’clock next Sunda}' morning.
The public is invited to take patt
in this program of devotional music.
A Christmas tree and an evening of
Christmas fun will be held for the
Bethesda Sunday School on Wednes
day evening at 7:30 o’clock.
Postoffices in Aberdeen, Pinehurst
and Southern Pines will remain open
all day tomorrow, Saturday, for the
accommodation of those desiring to
mail Christmas parcels.
Postmasters of these respective
offices hope that by keeping open
tomorrow patrons will cooperate in
avoiding the usual last minute Christ
mas mailing rush. Mail this week,
not next.
TO SING “NIGHT OF HOLY
MEMORIES” SUNDAY NIGHT
Mrs. Adela Henderson
Dies at Her Home Here
Had Been Resident of South
ern Pines 13 Years. Funeral
Held Last Sunday
"Night of ‘Holly Memories,” a
Christmas choir cantata by Ira B.
Wilson, will be presented at the un
ion service of the Baptist Church
and the Church of Wide Fellowship
on Sunday evening at 8:00 o’clock
in the Baptist church. The cantata
has been especially prepared for this
service by a Baptist choir of 15
voices under the direction of Mrs.
L. D. Williams. It is throughout a
composition of rare beauty, notable
both for its melodious quality and
widely varied units—sclos, duets,
mixed duets, trios, etc. Its second
presentation in Southern Pines is in
response to repeated requests from
those who leard it at its first ren
dition. "Nifjht of Holy Memories” is
a fitting beginning for Christmas
week Everyone will be most wel
come.
Funeral services conducted by her
pastor, the Rev. Voight O. Taylor,
were held in the Church of Wide
Fellowhsip in Southern Pines, at 3:00
o’clock last Sunday afternoon for
Mrs. Adela L. Henderson, who died
in her home on May street, at 11:00
o’clock Friday night following an
illness of several months duration.
Mrs. Henderson, the widow of Rob
ert Henderson, was the daughter of
J. S. Pickle and Henrietta Lamb
Pickle, bom in Pittsburgh in 1874,
and came from that city with her
son Robert and daughter Jane 13
years ago, becoming a resident and
building the home on May street a
year later. She; is survived by her
son, Robert, a daughter, Mrs. Doug
las Gregory, and a grandson, J. 1).
Gregory, Jr., a sister and brother-in-i
law, Mr. and Mrs. John Jayme, all
of Southern Pines.
Of a quiet and retiring disposition.
Mrs. Henderson attracted a number
of sincere friends whose sympathy
is particularly extendede to her son,
Robert, slowly recovering from a rt'-
cent attack of pneumonia.
CANDLE-LIGHT SKKVICE
Christmas' music by three choiv.-i,
adult, young people’s and junior, *• '
the congregational participation l i
the singing of Christmas Carols wiU
comprise the order of worship at th3
annual candle-light Christmas v.-
ship at the Pinehurst Conamunvi. /
Church at 8:00 o’clock Sunday
night