SOUTHERN PINES
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RESORT NUMBER
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, November 18, 1938.
FIVE CENTS
Southern Pines Extends a Hearty Welcome to the Winter Guest
ALL IN READINESS
FOR INVASION OF
WINTER VISITORS
**House in the Horseshoe^’
Only Contemporary Relic
Of Revolution in County
Stately Southern Pines Hotels Invite the Winter Resident
Scene of Armed Coiflict Between
Alston and Fanning But Short
Drive from Southern Pines
At a Glance
GOV. WILLIAMS’ HOME
By Charles Macauley
The "House in the Horseshoe”
once the home of Revolutionary Col
onel Philip Alston, and in later
years that of Governor Benjamin
Williams, relic of the only armed
conflict within the borders of the
present county of Moore, and only
contemporary memorial of Kevolution.
ary days therein. The grave of Gov-
«rnor Benjamin Wiliams, with the
monument inscribed with his patriot
ic services to the cause of the Col
onies and to the State. The house
and the grave separated by the slow
ly flowing dun-colored current of
Deep River, but linked by the lives '
of two notable men active parti.sans
for the Colonies.
The house, well kept by the John
Willcox’s, and not so changed in its
outward aspects for all its years, is
a fine example of the first homes
built on the Eastern seaboard by the
English colonists, a type continued by
their descendants to this very day.
In disheartening contrast to the well
kept house and cultivated acres are
the tombs of Governor Williams, his
wife, and his son’s wife. Embowered
in the ancient oaks and surrounded
by the crude markers of many other
interments this family cemetery in
the woodlands is sadly neglected, tlie
tombs fast becoming the prey of van
dals.
Easily reached are Ihese memor
ials of a historic past, the journey
and return by car only a little more
than fifty miles. From Southern Pinaia
to the Moore Cuonty Hospital, six
miles, turning right there for Carth-
pge ten miles distant over a wind
ing road, brilliant in Autumn with
Its borders of many-hued foliage.
Passing the courthouse on Route
Southern Pines has a Commission
form of government, with D. G.
Stutz, mayor; Howard F. Burns, city
clerk and treasurer; L. V. O’Callag-
han, Charles S. Patch, Eugene C.
Stevens, Robert L. Hart and H. J.
Betterley, commissionera.
Chief of Police, J. A. Gargis.
Fire Chief, L. V. O’Callaghan.
Tax Collector, Mrs. J. H. Tilghman.
Civic Bodies
Chamber of Commerce—Robert L.
Hart, president; H. J. Betterley, sec-
retary.
Civic Club—Miss Florence Camp
bell, president; Mrs. D. D. S. Cani-
eion, secretary. j
Sandhills Kiwanis C'lib—J. Vance '
president; Nelson C. Hyde, ■
secretary.
Southern Pines Rotary Club—June
Phillips, president; Garland A.
Pierce, secretary.
Southern Pines Junior Chamber of
Commerce—Roy Grinnell, president;
J. D, Arey, .secretary.
(’hurches
Emmanuel Episcopal, First Baptist,
Church of Wide Fellowship, Chris
tian Science, Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian. St. Anthony’s Roman
Catholic.
Schools
Southern Pines Public School, high
and graded. Frank T. Webster, sup
erintendent; The Ark, private school,
Mrs, M. A. Hayes, principal; Notre
Dame Academy, Southern Pines
Nur.'ery School, The Misses Coble
and Kopf.
Library
Miss Katherine Martin, librarian.
Hours: 10:00 a. m. to 12:00 a. m.
and 2:00 to 5:00 p. m. daily except
Sunday. Open Wednesday night un
til 8:00 o’clock
Banks i
Citizens Bank and Trust Company, >
Hotels Open, Full Program of
Sports and Recreations For
Seasonal Guest
I GRASS GREENS FOR GOLF
The Pine Needles, At )p Knollwood Heights
Number 27 continue for seven-tenths ; N, L. Hodgkins, Cashier. Hours 9 to
of a mile and then turn right on the
Glendon road. This is a well gravelled
road, some portions of which are
much older than the county, bordered
by pines9, oaks and dogwoods, giving
glimpses of deep-cleft valleys anJ
far-off pine-clad hills shimmering in
a blue haze. Follow this road for six
miles, then turning right on the Car-
bonton road at the Harrington house,
and within another two miles is a
marker, “To the Grave of Governor
Wiliams.” Let us pass this marker
for the time b<ing and turn left over
the iron bridge spanning Deep river,
known as ealry as 1828, as "Williams
Bridge” and keep on for another mile
to the WUlcox home, historically the
"House in the Horseshoe” the "Phil
Alston House” but knowing many
owners In its history of 175 or more
years.
Dates Back to 1765
Perhaps the house is much older
for there is an apocryphal tale to the
effect that the first occupant of the
Horseshoe was a Scot, McAskill, who
had several white slaves, and called
to account for beating one of them
returned to his native shores. Be that
as it may Philip Alston ia said to have
located in this then sparsely settled
northern part of Cumberland county
2; Saturday, 9 to 12.
Bank of Pinehurst, Aberdeen, Car.
thage and Pinehurst. Hours 9 to 2;
Saturdays 9 to 12.
Postoffice
Hours: Windows open from 8:00 a.
m. to 6:00 p. m. daily except Satur
day. Open Saturday from 8:00 a. m.
to 12:00 noon. Money order window
closes at 5:00 p. m. daily and noon
on Saturday.
Railroads
Two through New York to Flor
ida and two through New York to
Atlanta trains stop at Southern Pines
daily. Local train service is excep
tionally good with two local trains
each day stopping here.
Volunteer Fire Dept.
Now In Its 40th Year
Has Remarkable Record For
Speed and Efficiency in
Emergencies
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By Chaiies Macauley
The Southern Pines Volunteer Fir©
Department, now in its 40th yep.r of
active and efficient service to the
community, answered many calls for
assistance during the 11 months of
1938. Of these alarms only seven were
as early as 1765—Governor Williams | dwellings, two for offices, one
Btated that Alston had lived there j^ouse and
about 25 years—which period would j extinguished with
closely approximate that date. In this, tdamage, the only exception
quarter of a century he became the ^ Southern Pines
owner of several thousand acres on
both sides of the river, his last grant,
one of the first recorded for the new
county of Moore, bearing date of
May 15, 1787, for 200 acres” on the
South side of Deep river, joining his
old line and Hardin’s comer.” All the
acreage from the house to the river
came under cultivation, making one
of the few real plantations of Moore
county, a distinction it bears to this
day, for the coimty was noted as a
region of small farms. In 1790, the
largest slave owner was Burwell La
nier with 28. Only 118 out of 713
(Pltasti tmti to ‘pnge three)
where a delayed alarm gave the de
partment no chance to save the
dwelling.
The recent Park View hotel fire
gave the men their stiffest battle
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Highland Pines Inn on Weymouth Heights
Winter Sports Schedule
Golf, tennis, riding and shooting twice weekly putting tournaments
are the principal sports In the Sou
thern Pines country and in these the
feature events each winter season
are:
Annual Women’s Mid-South Golf
Championship tournament. Tentative
date, Monday and Tuesday, March
20 and 21, 1939.
’The Spring Tennis tournament,
scheduled for the week of March 13,
with trophies for men's singles, men’s
doubles, women’s singles, women’s
doubles and mixed doubles. On the
city’s four public courts.
The annual race meeting of the
Sandhills Steeplechase & Racing As
sociation, with timber, brush and
hurdle events on the Midland Road
course, Saturday, March 18th, is the
tentative date.
Events schedulea through the sjea-
son are as follows:
at dates to be announced.
Tennis touvnaments and other
sports events in preparation.
Mid-P’Jies Club
l£oy Brondson, Professional
Tournament schedule to be
nounced later.
an-
TENNIS
Week of March 13—Spring Touma.
ment In Men’s Singles, Men’s Dou
bles, Women’s Singles, Women’* Dou
bles and Mixed Doubles.
Week of April 24—^Dogwood Tour
nament in Men’s Singles, Men’s Dou.
bles and Mixed Dougles. ^
GRASS GREENS ON
ALL GOLF COURSES
Great Improvement Made On
Three 18-Hole Layouts in
Southern Pines
COBBBCTION
The reader’s attention is called
to the fact that due to a mechan
ical error in make-up of this sec
tion of The PUot, Pages 3 and
7 are transposed.
GOLF
At Country Club
Roy Grinnell, Frofesslonal-Manager
Weekly Sweepstakes and Handi
cap events throughout the season.
Special events at future dates to be
announced by Tournament Commit
tee.
At The Pine Needles
Ted Tumor, ProfeBslonal,
Johnny Oapello, Assistant
Week-end Kicker’s Handicap and
HORSE EVENTS
Starting Friday, December 2—
Equestrian Gymkhanas in Horse Show
Ring. Events open to all ridera.
These g^mkhan''s will be held alter
nate Friday afternoons throughout
the winter season. Suitable prizes for
winners in all events.
Saturday, March 18—Fifth Annual
Race Meeting, Sandhills Steeplechase
& Racing Association. Timber, brush
and flat races.
Although golf, of late years, has
been hard pressed by other forms of
diversion to hold its place in the
sun as the principal attraction for
Samdhilla winter vacationists, a pro
gram of change from sand greens
to grass greens, calculated to inject
a new enthusiasm into visiting golf
devotees, has been under way during
By Ben Bowden
With the majority of the local
hotels already open and reporting ex
ceptionally heavy patronage for so
early in what we, here, choose to
term “the season,” and with heavy
advance bookings as far ahead as
April, Southern Pines and the Sand
hills stand on the brink of another
six niontlis of influx of visitors from
every corner of the United States—
i our winter vacationists and cottage
colony guests and visitors—who, for
the next six months, will set the pace
for and dictate the tempo ot life
hero in the Mid-South resort.
As each year passes the fame of
Southern Pines spreads further afield,
and each year, too, new faces appear
in our midst in re.sponse to the lure
of our incomparable scenery, the
healthfulness of our temperate cli
mate, the modernity and progressive,
ness of our community and the di
versity of our recreational attrac-
Lioris.
Located in the heart of the fore
most golfing center in the country,
and within over-night train travel of
all the important industrial centers
of the north and near middle west,
Southern Pines naturally draws many
golfers to the six world-famous golf
courses in and around hei- immediate
vicinity. This past year has seen the
passing of the sand green from the
area and golfers this year will have
their choice of grass greens at Sou
thern Pines, Mid-Pines, Pine Needles
and Pinehurst.
The Horse in Ascendency
Of late years the horse has been
threatening golf’s place in the Sand,
hills’ recieational spotlight nrtd this
.year all of the attractions that have
been so popular in the past will be
;n evidence. The section is thick with
picture.sque bi'idal trails and there are
horses available for hacking, as well
as riding to hour.ds, steeplechaaing
adn participation in the weekly
gymkhanas that are features of the
;ocal winter sports programs. In ad
dition there is the private pack of
James and Jackson Boyd’s Moore
County Hounds, with whom friends
ride three times a week; polo matches
for those so inclined, and, at nparby
Pinehurst, the fastest growing win
ter training quarters for troting and
pacing horses in the south, where, in
Che spring of the year a series of
matinee races give the railbirds an
advance picture of how some of the
foremos trotters and pacers in com
petition can be expected to perform
a lltUe later around the Grand Clr-
cul meets.
Other sports are tennis, with two
co!uts lighted for night play right
in the center of town; deer, duok,
quail, dove and turkey hunting, in
season; some of the fines; fishing
to be had anywhere; nationally fa
mous field trial events, archery, trap
and skeet shooting and many others.
The climate, of course, is one of
the principal drawing cards to the
Sandhills and, although every resoiri
has an "Ideal climate” we’ll match
climates with anyone. The water sup-
the past two years and with its
completion this fall, the stage is set j ply is pure—tested weekly by State
for a great revival In the Southern j chemists—and the local milk supp y
ROQUE
Informal matches throughout the
winter season on the courts o£ the
Southern Pines Men’s Club, open to
all.
Pines area of interest in the sport
upon which the original world-wide
fame of the Sandhills was built.
Two years ago Pinehurst took the
lead when it eliminated ti.e last of
its sand green courses. Last year
is certified pure.
Schools Unsurpa.ssed
The schools are unsurpassed in the
state and the private schools in the
vicinity enjoy national reputations.
There Is a wide variety of churches;
The Pine Needles followed suit with i the Library is rapidly develop n^
a beautiful grass green lay-out there,
and this spring, at the conclusion of
the season, work was Immediately
started at the Southern Pines Coun
try Club and the lifid Pint* Club to
complete the program and sound the
death knell of the sand green In
the arta. That work has been com
pleted and as a result Southern Pines
a»’<1 ita vicinity can boa.st of three
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into one f'f the finest to be boasted
by any town of its size anywhe;e.
The motion picture theat*irs offer the
newest and best in current releases
and the general progressivenesa of
the community is attested by the
fact that it has almost a complete
roster of service clubs; namely Ki
wanis, Rotary, Civic, Chamber of
Commerce, Junior Chamber of Com-
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