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VOL. 18, NO. 8.
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, January 21, 1938.
FIVE CENTS
Mrsi'Jonathan Buchan Buried
Beside Husband in Bethesda
Relatives and Friends Pay Last
Tribute as Grandsens Bear
Body to Resting Place
By Helen K. Butler
A huge mound of flowers in old
Bethesda once again writes finis to
another life that has been laid away
there. Mrs. J. E. Buchan has been
received among other Buchans who
were buried in the ancient cemetery
a century and a half ago. The name
of Belle Buchan will be carved on i
a monument to take its place beside
the stone of Jonathan E. Buchan,
whose wife she waa. The name of
Buchan is an old one to Bethesda. A
weathered slab with crude irregular
lettering indicates that Isabel Buch
an was consigned to the earth in
1798.
Mrs. Buchan not onlj' lived her al
lotted three score years and ten. but
was granted an even dozen more.
During that lifetime she saw many
changes that were powerful and Im
pressive. Born in Robinson county,
Belle Robertson came to the Sand
hills nearly 60 years ago to make
her home in Manley where her hus
band was influential in the lumber
and turpentine industries. Mrs. Buch
an saw the magnificent pine forests
cut over and the black-jack hills
stand out in their barrenness and
then saw the young pines grow to
again cover the hillsides. She saw
fuel change from the pine knot that
illuminated and heated the Buchan
log house to the oil burner of her
daughter’s home. When she travel
ed over alow moving wagon wheels
through grinding sand she had no
fantastic dream of ribbon-like roads
of hard surface where vehicles would
move without animal power or that
machines would ever lift themselves
in flight over the pine forests above
her. I She saw the tracks of the Sea
board laid and the development of
stream line trains.
Mrs. Buchan waa the daughter-in
law of Archibald Buchan, whose home
was located on the Morganton road,
two miles east of Southern Pines.
Hereon the “Great Wagon Road” a
camping ground was maintained.
Freight moved down from the moun
tains toward the coast and supplies
came up from the navigation cen
ters. A grist mill on the creek stood
between the house and spring. A
blacksmith shop and a postoffice at
the house made an ideal stopping
place. The old log house sat back in
the field with its barns and slave
quarters about it until the last few
years when they were torn away.
Civil War Days
On a March morning Kilpatrick
advanced toward Solemn Grove with
his Third Brigade, awaiting other
troops that were to follow. John
Buchan was at Elmira, a military
prison with a lot of other Confererate
soldiers. On the Yadkin road, running
nearly parallel, were the enemy
troops, each unaware of the other’s
location until an accidental encoun
ter out near Johnson’s mountain told
of the cavalry ahead. A skirmish
at the Neal S. Blue farm took place
that night, the battle ending the fol
lowing morning.
Manley was the home of the Johnj
Buchan’s 58 years ago. Mrs. Buch
an came to the old homestead at
Solemn Grovee as a young woman
after the stirring days of the Civ
il Dar were over. The troublesome
days meant little to her as a child,
but memories were still fresh in the
mind of her soldier husband and
those who knew what it meant to
experience war at home and on the
field.
Something of an old fa^ioned fun
eral took place in Bethesda last Fri
day when kindly Mrs. Buchan waa
borne to time-honored sod by six of
her grandsons. Granny Buchan be
longed to the day when kindliness
and frieiidllness and consideration
for your neighbor was an important
f- *r.ure, so when gentle hands ad
ministered the final tasks at the
cemetery, friends lingered within the
gates for a parting handshake. They
had come from ,all over the state,
from Sanford, Pinehurst, Hamlet,
Wagram, Maxton and elsewheie.
White and black alike were there,
the negro driver in uniform and the
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Sandhills Aide
J. C. B. EHRINOHAUS
Tony Sarg’s Marionettes
Here Next Wednesday
Famous “Actors” To Appear Af
ternoon and Night at South
ern Pines Theatre
If you would enjoy being lost for
two hours in the realm of magic, see
the Marionettes, as presented by
Tony Sarg, at the Carolina Theatre,
Southern Pines, on Wednesday, Jan
uary 26th, afternoon and evening.
You will be thrilled with the most
life-like actions of these tiny wooden
figures, and so enthrtilled and de
lightfully entertained with their nat
ural acting and singing that you will
TRAFFIC HEAVIER
SINCE RE-ROUTING
OFfflGHWAYNOl
Sandhills Already Feeling Ef
fects of State Highway Board’s
Raleigh Decision
HILLSBORO ST. APPROVED
Local results are already being felt
from the change in the route of U.
S. Highway No. 1 through Raleigh,
in the belief of local hotel men.
Traffic south of Raleigh on this high
way has been heavier this week
than for some time, with the result
that Southern Pines and Aberdeen
hotels, boarding houses, tourist
homes, filling stations and mer
chants are getting their fair share
of the tourist dollar.
The State Highw’ay and ' Public
Works Commission last Sunday
handed down a decision in favor of
re-routing Route 1 th»©ugh Raleigh,
in accordance with the request made
by the Town of Southern Pines, the
South Pines Chamber of Commerce
and other Sandhills organizations.
The new route is along Hillsboro
street through the residence section,
eliminating the former circuitous and
congested routing through the bus
iness part of the Capital.
Ehringhaus Reports
City Clerk Howard Bums and
Postmaster Frank Buchan received
telephone calls from former Govern
or J. C. B. Ehringhaus, who repre
sented the Sandhills group at a re
cent hearing, that the commission
had entirely acceded to the demands
of this section. A delegation from
here attended two hearings in Ral
eigh on the subject, U. L. Spence of
Carthage being the spokesman at tie
Do You Really Want to Go Back
To Fruit Jar Days, Writer Asks
Irwin Sees Fewer Arresfts, Few
er Cases of “Corn Coma,” More
Revenue Under Legal Status
forget entirely that they are clev
erly and expertly manipulated by first meeting and Mr. Ehringhaup at
By Wallace Irwin
The otherwise trustworthy, sea
worthy and sandworthy Pilot has
announced that my big brother.
Will Irwin, is visiting Southern Pines.
If so, I wish you’d locate him for
me, as somebody, signing his name,
just wrote me from New York, com
plaining bitterly of the weather.
Now that I have introduced my-
oelf, would you let me tell you what’s
worrying me about North Carolina,
speaking with love and affection for
a State which I can’t quite keep
away from?
When I first came here, a few
years ago, the State was reekingly
dry; the well-meaning and the ill-
meaning minority had lobbied North
Carolina around to the back door of
Repeal; the front door was piously
padlocked and sealed with the aw
ful seal of Prohibition, and the
only possible way to get a drink was
to ask for it. It came in fruit jars,
looked like cleansing fluid and smell
ed like the last stages of tropical
fever.
I know it isn’t pretty to talk like
this, but that’s my memory of pro
hibition corn. The taste lingers. In
Mexico they have a drink, fortu
nately confined to social outcasts,
which they call “two shots in the
head.” Com whiskey, served hot from
the still—the way it came in those
dear, dry days—was at least doubly
Mexican. It had a dull, stunning ef
fect. It wasn’t even a good anaesthet
ic. It ^wasn’t the sort of stuff you
could try on the dog. Dogs wouldn’t
come within a mile of it.
A County Banquet
Let’s Mix Clay From North,
Loam From East With Our
Sand for Annual Affair
Editor, The Pilot:
So much has been said recently
relative to the banquet held ear
lier this month at the Carolina
Hotel, I am taking this opportun
ity to suggest that an annual ban
quet be held known as Moore
County’s banquet, for its citizens,
permanent and seasonal.
The word “Sandhilleers,” in my
opinion, fits in admirably for our
local organizations, but for this
Moore County organization—if it
should be such—let me suggest we
mix some clay from the northern
part of the county and some loam
from the eastern section with
some of our sand and coin a big
ger and better word than “Sand-
hUleers.”
P. FRANK BUCHAN.
wires and strings. So perfect are the
movements and gestures that after
watching them they begin to take
on the aspect of life-size figures.
The stage is in scale to the tiny
actors and the settings and lighting
complete in every detail. The cos
tumes are as elaborate and perfect
as for regular stage drama and op
eretta.
You will see Robinson Crusoe on
the desolate sandy shore of the Car-
ribean, his dog, goat, parrot, and fin
ally his man Friday, playing out the
thrilling drama just like the book.
You will thrill to the music, act
ing and lavish costumes of the Mik
ado as played by the Marionettes.
Come and forget yourself in the
amazing artistry and skill with which
these little wooden actors and ac
tresses are made to move and act out
their parts with only the aid of wires
and strings.
The show is under the auspices of
the Junior Guild of the Episcopal
Church. Tickets may be obtained at
Tots’ Toggery, Southern Pines and
Carolina Pharmacy, Pinehurst.
Sandhills Kiwanis Club
Has 15th Birthday Party
Members Hear Reminiscences of
Club’s Organization and Early
Days at Mid-Pines Club
Active members of the Sandhill
Kiwanis Club heard the club’s char
ter members of 15 years ago swap
stories about the start and early days
of the organization at the club’s
birthday party held Wednesday noon
in the Mid-Pines Club, where the
first meeting was held in 1923. Fifty
attended the birthday luncheon,
among them being 15 of the original
members.
Judge William A. Way was the
principal speaker and amused his
audience with his dry humor of all
times in the Sandhills. Other former
members who spoke were Arthur S.
Newcomb, Frank Buchan, I. C
Sledge, Harry A. Lewis, Gloma Char
les, Hugh Betterley and Shield* Cam
eron. Frederick Stanley Smith gave
a most enjoyable piano solo. Char
les W. Plcquet arranged the prog
ram and called upon the Rev. J.
Fred Stimson to present the various
makers. It was a fine get-together.
County Farm Agent E. H. Garri
son, Jr., returned to active member
ship in the club at this meeting, end
Frederick H. Burke was presented as
a new member. President Ralph
Chandler presided.
Some of your more prosperous
the second. Both argued .the points' idealists used to smile and say, “Ah,
that through automobile traffic was ^ corn is belter than Bourbor., if
being diverted at Raleigh, presuma-1 properly.” Maybe so. But
bly for the benefit of the business
interests; that there was much com
plaint from motorists at being forced
to go through the heavy business
traffic and numerous traffic signals,
and that the Sandhills resort sec
tion suffered because, in the con
fusion of the Raleigh traffic, large
numbers of motorists desixing to
stay on Route No. 1 found themselves
on other routes before they knew it;
inshort, that Route 1 was losing
heavily to Route 15-A at Raleigh,
motorists continuing south via Fay
etteville and Raeford instead of San
ford, Southern Pines and Aberdeen.
Among those from this section at
tending hearings before the commis
sion during the squabble were Rich
ard S. Tufts, H. W. Norris and E. T.
McKeithen, representing Pinehurst;
J. Vance Rowe, J. Talbot Johnson,
W. L. Batchelor, Frank Shamburg-
er and G. C. Seymour from Aber
deen; Mayor D. G. Stutz, Howard
Bums, R. L. Hart, Emmett E. Boone,
Frank Buchan and Hugh Betterley
from Southern Pines.
L. R. REYNOLDS FILES SUITS
FOR INSURANCE REFUNDS
Lyndon R. Reynolds has started
suits in Moore County Superior
Court against the Equitable Life
Assurance Society for the sum of
?413.65 less a cost dividend of $15.03
and against the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company for $786.60.
Mr. Reynolds alleges that these
amounts are the ag^jregate of month
ly installments due him by reason
of disability, together with amounts
paid for insurance premiums which
under the terms of the policies the
defendants should have waived.
He asks that decrees be entered
compelling the defendants to here
after waive the amounts of the pre
miums that would be due under the
terms of the policies but for the dis
ability of the plaintiff, and also that
the companies be forever restrained
from declaring the policies null and
void.
MRS. BURNETT PASSES
Mrs. Alice Burnett, who has been
a winter visitor in Southern Pines
for many years passed away quietly
on Wednesday morning. Her body
was taken to her home, Aspinwall,
Pa., by her brother, A. H. Slater,
who was with her at the end.
to age Bourbon or rye properly re
quires the brains and experience of
about three generations of profes
sional distillers, often working under
the advice of expert chemists. When
Volstead reigned up North they used
to tell you that bathtub gin was bet
ter than the imported article, if you
used pure grain alcohol.
The defense mechanism invents a
great deal of hoey.
Southern Pines, they tell me, went
through the holidays this season
with fewer arrests for drunkenness
than have been recorded here for
many years. I hope this is true. At
any rate. I’m willing to bet my
board bill that there were fewer
cases of corn coma.
If the threatened prohibition drive
in this State were inspired only by
the sentiments of church-go<>rs and
law abiding citizens. I’d feel better
about it—although I would still ar
gue that these people are very blind
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“MOUNTIES” JOIN
HUNT FOR SLAYER
OFJ.E.CARRAWAY
Sheriff To Broadcast Descrip
tion and Fingerprints of
“Second Man” in Case
Mrs. J. McN. Cameron
Dies of Heart Attack
Funeral Services Wednesday
Conducted by Revs. C. J. Cal-
cote and W. S. Golden
Funeral services for Mrs. John Mc
Neill Cameron, 70, who died Tuesday
in the Moore County Hospital where
she had been receiving treatment for
several weeks for a heart ailment,
were conducted at 2:00 o’clock Wed
nesday afternoon in the Vass Pres
byterian Church by the pastor, the
Rev. C. I. Calcote, and the Rev. W.
S. Golden, Presbyterian minister of
Cartilage. Interment followed in
Johnson’s Grove cemetery.
Before marriage, Mrs. Cameron
was Miss Emma A. Monroe, a dau
ghter of Malcolm and Mairgaret Pat
terson Monroe, who resided in the
Raeford section. She was held in high
esteem by a wide circle of friends.
Surviving are the widower and the
following sons and daughters: Misses
Bertha and Margaret Cameron and
John Marshall Cameron, who reside
at the ’ Cameron home on Carthage
Route 2, Mrs. Calvin Crabtree and
Mrs. Dan McNeill, both of Vasa;
also four sisters, Mrs. Annie Chap
pell of Vass, Mrs. Tom Culbreth and
Mrs. Jim Wilson of Raeford and
Mrs. John McCaskill of Jackson
Springs.
Encouraging progress toward the
solution of the Carraway murder case
was made last week by Deputies
Grimm and Dunlap on their trip to
Springfield and Boston, and officers
are confidently expecting the appre
hension of John Baptiste Caron, the
‘‘second man,” who is believed to
be responsible for the actual mur
der.
Just as officers here suspected
when Massachusetts police failed to
find any trace of the wanted man,
the name which he had given Robert
Svendsen, Swedish youth now being
held in connection with the crime,
was not his real name.
Upon arrival in Springfield, an ef
fort was made to locate the home of
the second suspect, which Svendsen
had visited last year. After riding
around for about a day, the youth
succeeded in pointing out the place
to the officers, but the family had
moved. However, the man’s real name
was learned and valuable informa
tion as to his family was gained.
Caron is known to have a police rec-
ord and Sheriff C. J. McDonald ex
pects to have this, with fingerprint
classification, in hand this w'eek. He
plans to get out a circular carrying
Caron’s picture and all available in
formation and distribute it widely.
It is thought probable that the
m^, who is said to be a Canadian
by birth, is now in Canada and the
Sheriff has written letters to the
Northwest Mounted Police and the
Royal Canadian Police asking their
cooperation in his apprehension.
The Moore county deputies and
Svendsen returned to Carthage Fri
day night.
NAME APPRAISERS
FOR REVALUATION
OF PROPERTY HERE
County Board Appoints Van
Camp, Ben Wood, D. J. Blue
For McNeill Township
D. AL BLUE A SUPERVISOR
At a meeting of the of the Board of
County Commissioners on Wednes
day of last W'eek, Miss Maida Jen
kins, D. A1 Blue and O. U. Alex
ander were appointed tax supervis-
ers for revaluation for Moore coun
ty. Mr. Blue and Mr. Alexander are
to be paid $6 per day and five cents
per mile for travel in the supervision
of the revaluation.
The following appraisers were ap
pointed at a salary of $5 per day,
without mileage:
Carthage township; R. W. Pleas
ants, W. E. Kelly and J. E. Muse.
Bensalem township: B. Deaton, E.
C. Matheson and J. D. Mclnnla.
Sheffield township: Stacy Brewer,
Dan Dunlap and D. R. Brown.
Ritter township; L. B. Ritter,
Frank Howard and Frank Brady.
Deep River township: L. W. Ed
wards, Geoige Wilcox and W. A. Ty
son. • " ,
oreenwood township: J. A. Sbaw,
E. B. Harrington and D, W. McNeill.
McNeill township; C. F. Leavitt,
W. R. Johnson and Lacy Currie.
Jury List Drawn
The following were drawn for jury
s>ervice in Superior Court for J*ettru-
ary;
Oarthage township: C. J. Liven-
good, Earl Dowd, P. W. Cockman,
Chester Vaughn and J. M. Fields.
Bensalem township: Elias Morgan,
Odell Williamson and E, W. Borst.
Sheffield townsh.p; D. R. Dunn,
L. C. Cagle, R. S. Williamson, and
J. C. Davis.
Ritter township; Lacy Kidd, N. R.
Hussey and K. R. Kidd.
Greenwood township; James A.
Graham.
Sandhill township: J. L. Fulk, W.
L. Batchelor, T. M. Sharpe, A. G.
Wallace and D. F. Campbell.
Mineral Springs township: L. H.
Wicker, W. S. Thomas and D. B.
Lewis.
STRUTHEKS BURT TO SPEAK
AT CrV'IC CLUB ON FKIDAV
Page Joins Emery In
Insurance, Rea! Estate
New Combine To Occupy Mr.
Emery’s Quarters in General
Office Building, Pinehurst
Robert N. Page, Jr., of Aberdeen
is now associated with Harry B.
Emery in the general real estate and
insurance business in Pinehurst, it
was announced this week. Mr. Em
ery will continue to occupy his pres
ent office in the General Office
Building.
Mr. Page has been in the insurance
business in this section for about 13
years. For the past five years he has
been associated with L. L. Biddle, II,
at his Pinehurst office. Mr. Emery
has been associated with Pinehurst
since 1898, and for the past 17 years
has been engaged 'in the real estate
business. Ten years ago he started in
the insurance business.
Mr. EJmery and Mr. Page combine
long and varied experience in real
e!«tate and insurance in the Sand
hills.
Struthers Burt has accepted an in
vitation from the Civic Club to give a
talk on his favorite subject, “High
ways” on next Friday afternoon, Jan
uary 28th at 3:30 o’clock. Mr. Burt
will be away from Southern Pines for
some time and has many suggestion"
to make not only to the Civic Club
but to all good citizens wherever
they live, to help beautify the coun
try and it is always worthwhile to
hear him. On this occasion the Civ
ic Club invites all men to attend,
including the Kiwanis and Chamber
of Commerce. But Mr. Burt says he
always makes suggestions to the
women which he wants to see carried
through. Tea will be served after
the meeting. Mrs. Paul Pelton and
Mrs. George Graff will be the host
ess.
Today, Friday, there is a subscrip
tion bridge tea at the Civic Club to
which visitors in town are invited.
It is not necessary to malce up a
table. Hour: 2:30.
jCAROLIN.\ POWER & LIGHT
OFFICIALS GATHER HERE
Some 50 representatives of the
Carolina Power & Light Company
in this division gathered Tuesday af
ternoon at the Church of Wide Fel
lowship to hear high officials of the
company outline plans for 1938 ac
tivities. Present from the headquar
ters office in Raleigh were S. P.
Vecker, general sales manager; H.
G. Isley, residential and commercial
sales manager; C. N. Rackliffe, in
dustrial sales manager; T. F. Drew,
district and service manager, and E.
N. Pope, advertising manager.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WIN
Thc‘ high school girls gained a vic
tory over Carthage Tuesday night,
defeating them 24-21. The local girls
piled up the score against Carthage
in the first half with Louise Blue and
Wilma Rorie, caging one basket af
ter another. The opposing team ral
lied in the last half, but the home
team maintained a lead in score.