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VOL. 19, NO 32.
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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern. IMnes and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, July 7, 1939.
FIVE CENTS
SANDfflLLS TEAM
DIVIDES HONORS
WITH WEST END
l^als Lose Morning Game 3-2,
Take Aftern<M)n StrugKle on
Fourth, 5-4
SECOND GOES 10 INNINGS
Two close and exciting bajpball
games featured the Fourth of July
holiday in the Sandhills, with the
Sandhills baseball Club dividing hon
ors with West End. In the morning
game, played at West End, the
home team won, 3 and 2; in the af
ternoon, in. a ten-inning battle, Sand
hills w'on out^ 5-4. Good crowds wit
nessed both tussles.
In the morning Sandhills got off
to a shaky start, soon recovered, but
not quite soon enough to take over
the lead. In the second' inning the
first man up for W'est End, Auman
hit a fly ball into right field that
was misjudged and fell for a double.
VonCanon, next up. singled him
home for the first run. In the third
Mauney and Wallace started things
off v^’ith successive singles which,
with a sac.’ifice and Mclnnis’ hit into
deep left netted two runs.
The Sandhills remained scoreless
until the fifth, when an error, a sin
gle by Frankie Buchan, a fielder’s
choice and another error netted one
run. The locals started a rally in
the ninth that looked for a time as
if it might pull the game out of the
fire but fell one nm short. Tumley
opened up with a single, advan'^ed
on Buchan’s second hit of the game,
and scored on an error. Then Pitcher
Vest tightened and erided the battle.
Buster Buffkin twirled for the
Sandhills, allowing eight hits, and
Prank Buchan led the hitting with
two out of four West End’s leading
hitter was Jess Thomas, two out of
three.
Afternoon Game
In the afternoon, on the Southern
Pines diamond. West End ran up an
early lead of four runs and things
looked bad for the Sandhlllians.
Mauney tripled in the first and scor
ed on an infield out. Singles and er
rors netted thre*i more runs in the
fourth. It was not until the sixth
that Sandhills got on to the offerings
of Pitcher Ed Hinson. The first man
up, Matthews, singled to right, ad
vanced on Lester McNeill's out aJid
an error. Errors and Buchan’s single
netted two more runs^ making the'
count 4 and 3.
Trailing by one run in the ninth.
Buchan again singled, stole second
and scored on an error, tying things
up and sending the game into an ex
tra inning. In the last of the tenth
Matthews singled, advanced to third
on an error, and scored on a nicely
laid down bunt by Lester McNeill.
James McNeUl pitched the after
noon game for the locals, allowing
eight hits and striking out 13 West
Enders. The batting honors for the
Sandhills were divided by Joe Mat
thews and Buchan, each with two out
of four. Ed Hinson and Buster Thom
as pitched for West End, allowing
seven hits. Thomas was charged with
the loss. Mauney led the hitting for
the visitors with three out of five.
The Sandhills will play either Rock,
ingham or Laurinburg here next
Wednesday afternoon.
Zilphy Hines 99 on the Fourth
Aged Colored W'oman, liorn in Slavery Under Pre.sidency of
Martin Van Huren in 1810, Sews, Cooks and*Gardens and
Looks Forward To Her Centennial Next Year
Martin Van Buren was President of the United States when, on
July 4th, 1840, Zilphy Hines was born. That’s a long time ago, for
we’d only had seven Presidents before VanBuren.
But despite her 99 years. Zilphy is in good health -good enough
to sew and cook and do a little gardening around her home in West
Southern Pines. And good enough to enjoy a birthday party arrang
ed for her on Tuesday by her son, Ped Hines, and others. They
brought her presents and wished her many more happy anniversaries.
Zilphy ^wants to see her centuiy out,and it looks very much as if
she would.
She was born on the plantation of Duncan Jones in that part
of Richmond county which is now Scotland. Duncan Jones owned
her pappy. It was there, about .seven miles from Laurinburg, that
she grew to womanhood. She was,as you can see^ 21 yeans old when
the war broke out, and she remembers much of those days and the
ileconstruction which followed. She has lived in West Southern Pines,
with her boy Ped, who is only 58, for about ten years now.
So far as The Pilot knows. Zilphy is Southern Pines’ oldest
inhabitant.
STABLE EMPLOYE
TURNS FEED INTO i
CASH, DISAPPEARS
Sells Hay, Oats, Equipment and
Deserts Stonybr<M)k Horses
I.eft In His Care
To Speak Here
NO CLUE TO WHEREABOUTS
TOBACCO MARKET
TO OPEN 6 DAYS
EARLIER, SEPT 7
Big Advantage Seen For Aber
deen and Carthage Ware
housemen
New Schoolmaster
The Middle Belt tobacco market
will open this year on September
7th, six days earlier than in 1938, It
was decided last week by the U. S.
Tobacco Assoclatidn in session at
White Sulphur Springs, West Vir
ginia, pnd the announcement was re
ceived with pleasure by Aberdeen
and Carthage warehousemen and
others interested in the Moore coun
ty markets. This advanced date
should prove of great advantage to
the local warehouses, giving growers
in this section an opportunity to sell
their early leaf locally Instead of
hauling it off to the Eastern Belt.
Chambers of Commerce in Aber
deen, Carthage. Sanford and Fuquay
Springs had petitioned the tobacco
association to open the markets in
these four towns simultaneously with
the Eastern Belt opening, but though
this request was not granted, the
Middle Belt opening was moved for
ward more than that of any other
belt except the Old Belt where sales
will begin 17 days ahead of last
year. Georgia markets open five days
earlier. Border markets three days,
and Elastern one day earlier. The
Eastern Belt opening will be on Au
gust 22.
Leaf throughput this section looks
'^ine after the recent rains, and both
quantity and quality are looked for
on local warehouse floors when the
old familiar cries of the auctioneers
start up on September 7th.
AUTOS CX>IUDE BinrWEEN
SANFORD AND CARTHAGE
An automobile accident «arly-WedT
nesday sent H. E. “Speed" Blalock,
of Sanford: Jake Wilcox, of near
Carthage, and W. R., Jones, of Ben
nett, to Lee CJounty Hospital.
Accordtaf to I>eputy Sheriff D. F.
Holder, who investigated it, the acci
dent occurred on Highway 421. about
two miles north of Sanford, when
an automobile driven by Blalock, who
was accompanied by Wilcox, en
route South, was involved In a wreck
with an automobile driven toy Jones
going in the opposite direction.
19S9 ACCIDENT TOLL
No serious accidents marrid
celebration of the Fourth in
county. Thus far this year the
cord stands: Three persons
IS injured.
the
the
re-
killed;
Throngs Celebrate
Page Church Birthday
25 Anniversary Commemoration
To End Sunday With- Visit
of Bishop Peele
A trusted employe, left in charge
of horses and property of the Stony- ■
brook Stables on Youngs Road,
Southern Pines when the owner.s,
r^rederick H. Burke and Will J. Strat-'
ton, left for the summer, liesertecl his
post last Saturday. Neighbors com-
.niunicated with the owners, and Mr. j
Burke hurried down from his sum-1
mer home at Madi.son Conn.. to find '
that his employe had sold a quantity |
of the hay and oats from the sta-'
bles, all the bed linen from the
gi'ooms' quarters, and with the pro-1
ceed.s had disappeared. j
Mr. Burke swore out a warrant i
Wednesday morning, but police have I
no clues as to the v/hereabouts of
the mis.sing stableman. While here |
Mr. Burke arranged for the shipment
of the horses which had been left for
the summer to W. O. Moss at Lin-
ville, where they will be turned ' at.
Mr. Stratton is managing a riding
club in Minneapolis, Minn., this sum
mer.
Asks $5,000 As Result
of Street Fight Here
Frank Bron Brings Action
Ag:ainst C. W. Short for Brok
en Nose and Other Injuries
GUBERNATORIAL
CANDIDATE TO BE
'^’WANIS SPEAKER
'iifhton of Raleigh
.idhilis C!ub Next
♦iiesday Noon
AT LAKEVIEW HOTEL
.1. M. BKOUGHTON
NDS ENJOY
GALA FOURTH OF
JULY IN CARTHAGE
Hear Lieut. Gov, Horton, See
Beauty Queen Crowned, Ath
letic Events and Stunts
J. Melvillne Broughton, prominent
Raleigh attorney and one of the
leading candidates to succeed Clyde
R. Hoey as Governor of North Caro
lina. will address the Sandhills Ki-
wanis Club at its regular luncheon
meeting next Wednesday. July 12,
12:15. The meeting is to be held in
thp Crystal Lake Hotel, Lakeview.
Mr. Broughton is regarded as one
of the best speakers in the state, and
the local Kiwanians are inviting mem
bers of other civic organizations in
the county, the Chambers . of Com
merce and Rotary and Lions clubs, to
hear him with them. Mr. Broughton
is coming upon the invitation of
Judge J. Vance Rowe, who will pre
side at the meeting.
Mr. Broughton is a graduate of
I Wake Forest College, 1910, and
J studied law at Harvard University
! in 1912-13, after which he engaged
j in the practice of law in Raleigh,
! He is a member of the board of
j trustees of Wake Forest College,
and of the Olibia Raney Library in
A crowd of between 3.000 and 4,000
persons joined in the celebration of
the Fourth of July at Carthage on | served'as president
Tuesday and was entertained with | of the Raleigh Chamber of Com-
PHILIP ,1. WE.WER
Recent photograph of the newly
elected Superintendent of Schools of
Southern Pines, who is expected here
during the coming week to assume
his duties.
In an action started recently in
Moore county Superior Court, Frank
Bron is seeking to recover damages
in the amount of $5,000 from C. W.
Short, who, Bron allegtys, on or
about the 31st of May, 1939 inflcit-
ed serious injuries on the plaintiff in
Southern Pines when he beat him
about the face, head and person and
a varied program of entertainment
featured by an address by Lieuten
ant Governor W. P. Horton, all
manner of ^(thletic contejsts, /and
the crowning of a queen.
Miss Virginia Fry was chosen
queen of the day over a beauty
field of 18 contestanlps, with the
runners-up in the contest, '.the
Misses Lorraine Willcox, Emma Muse
Burns, Margaret Penn and Mary
Worthy Spence, making up her Court
of Honor. F'ollowing the beauty con
test there was a diving and swim-
merce, of the Clvltan Club, the
Raleigh Community Chest, and a
former member of the Raleigh
School Committee.
He served in the State Senate
I from Wake county during the ses
sions of 1927 and 1928 and was
t
1 president uf the North Carolina Bar
I Association in 1936. Mr. Prough-
1 ton was keynote speaker at the
j Democratic State convention In ’36,
and a i^tate ;Elector-at-J^rge. He
has been superin\tendent o|f (the
Tabernacle Baptist Sunday School
of Raleigh since 1913.
Burney Heads Board
of Aberdeen Library
Town Commission Names Group
to Manage Institution; Com
mittees Are Appointed
knocked him from the sidewalk down|m*ng exhibition, greased pole event, | NicholS Wcds
into the street. The fight occurred 1 ^ pie-eating contest, attempts to
near the postoffice. catch a greased pig, a watermelon
_ ,, contest, and a watermelon fight in
Bron alleges that Short was wear- ^
Large congregations have attended
the nightly anniversary services of
the Page Memorial Methodist
Church in Aberdeen throughout the
week, and have heard stirring sermons
by former pastors and special music
by an augmented choir. The 25th
anniversary of the dedication of the
present edifice has been fittingly ob
served, with the feature event of the
ceremonies coming on Sunday mom-
iag-wh«i»Bishop W. W. Peele, pas
tor here in 1910 and 1911, will de
liver the sermon.
The Rev. W. C. Ball of Goldsboro,
popular pastor from 1930 throusrh
1933, preached on Sunday evennig be
fore a congregation which overflow
ed the church. The Rev. W. C. Cul-
breth. New Bern, pastor in 1919 and
1920, delivered the sermon on Monday
night; the Rev. W. V. McRae of Fay
etteville on Tuesday; the Rev. W. H.
Brown of Jackson Springs on Wed
nesday, and the Rev. F, S. Love of
Wilmington last evening. Tonight.
Friday, the Rev. E. H. McWhorter of
Raleigh will preach, to be followed
Saturday night by the Rev. F. M.
Shamburgen.of Oxford, with -the
services ending Sunday morning with
Bishop Peele’s visit
A new Library board has been ap
pointed by the Mayor and Commis
sioners of the Town of Aberdeen to
supersede the Library Association,
which was formed when the library
was opened 32 years ago. The board
is composed of A. L. Burney, J. M.
Taylor, J. C. Robbins, Mrs. E. L.
Barber, Mrs. R. M. Caldwell and
Mrs. F. S. Weaver, with the mayor
and librarian as ex-officlo members,
and Miss Mary Page as an honorary
member.
The board met and elected Mr.
Bumey chairman, Mrs. Weaver sec
retary, Mrs. Caldwell, treasurer, Miss
Bertie Goodwyn, librarian and Mrs.
Ella Juat as substitute. The chairman
appointed committees as follows:
Finance Committee, Mrs. Caldwcil,
Mrs. H. E. Bowman and Mr. Robbins.
Book Committee, Miss Mary Page,
Mrs. Barber and Miss Bertie Good
wyn.
House Committee, Dr. E. M. Med-
lin, Mrs. Weaver and Mrs. Forrest
Lockey.
There is every reason to expect
that this Library board will put new
life into the library, and to enlarge
its usefulness and increase its effi
ciency. The friends of the library
are greatly pleased with this forward
move.
Ing at the time a heavy metal ring
with a large set which had sharp cor
ners or edges and that the ring was
of such weight and character
made it a deadly weapon.
which members of the Carthage Fire
Department took part.
The Burlington High School band
as' gave a concert in front of the Car-
I thage Hotel «t 11:30, and Mr. Hor-
Th^ plaintiff, ■'according to the al-, ^
legations, suffered a brojten nose and, noon hour,
was seriously bruised In several 1 The grand parade started at 1.30,
places about the face and head. He I with prominent citizens of the coun-
was required to receive treatment at. ty, members of the American Legion
the Moore County Hospital, but even' its Auxiliary, Boy and Girl
though he had proper medical atten- j Scouts, the Burlington band, the
SoutherH Ry. Counsel
Former Wife of Pag:e Trust Co.
Officer Here is Bride of
Sidney R. Prince
tion. as a result of the assault his
nose is crooked and there is an ob
struction of some kind which greatly
Impairs his breathing and sense of
smell and he suffers Intense head
aches, Mr. Bron alleges.
MOVE INTO NEW HBRARY
EXPECTED IN TEN DAYS
Queen and her Court and others in
the line of march. The Pinehurst
Silk Mills of Hemp won the float
award.
Athletic events at the high school
grounds followed the parade, and in
addition to track events two softball
baseball games were played, with
the honors shared by the Carthage
and Sanford teams. The evening
wound up with a square dance, fol
lowed by general dancing, and the
occasion was voted a brilliant suc-
Praise for P. 0.
Interior decoration of the new
Southern Pines Library building is
progressing rapidly, and new furn
ishings are expected to arrive during | cess by all present
the coming week, in preparatior. for, ■ • —
the move from the present quarters,
within the next ten days. j
During the past week the corner
stone was set into the building, beam
ing the following Inscription:
"Federal Emergency Administra
tion of Public Works. Franklin D.
Roosevelt. President of the United
Stated. Harold L. Ickes, Administra
tor of Public Works. Southern Pines
Library. 1939."
SANDHIIXS VS. ARTnLLERY
TEAM AT BRAOO SUNDAY
The Sandhills Baseball Club will
play the 83d Field Artillery team at
Fort Bragg this Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock. It was announced yester
day afternoon. A large delegation of
rooters is expected to accompany the
local team to the post for what is
expected to be a hotly contested
game.
TO REMODEL OSGOOD
COTTAGE FOR OFFICES
Dr. Thomas Walker, chiropractor
with offices at present in the Ste
vens Building on West Broad street,
has leased the Osgood Cottage, the
foriper home of the late John Hay
den, on North Bast Broad street,
which he will remodel into a suite of
offices for occupancy in the near fu
ture. Dr. Miller, a graduate of Sou
thern Pines High School, has been
practicing here for the past year af
ter several jrears absence from town.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Pays Tribute to
Southern Pines Force
“It gives me great pleasure to
/idvise you that I was indeed
pleased at the splendid condition
of the building under your admin
istration on the occasion of my
visit on Monday, July Sd,” wrote
Smith W. Purdum. Fourth Assist-
int Postmaster General, to Post
master Frank Buchan of Southern
pines this week.
“I want to take this opportunity
to commend you and your Custo
dial force and the other postal
>mployes in Southern Pines for the
nterest being manifested in the
>peration of government property.
Mr. Purdum ran down from Ral-
sigh, where he attended a postal
clerks’ convention oarly in the
week.
The marriage of Mrs. Temple Har
ris Nichols, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Alvas L. Harris of Greensboro,
and Sidney Rhodes Prince of Wash
ington, was solemnized last Thurs
day evening in the Presbyterian
Church of the Covenant in Greens
boro with the pastor. Rev. R. Mur
phy Williams, officiating.
The bride, formerly the wife of
John G. Nichols, for many years
vice-president of the Page Trust Com
pany, Aberdeen, was escorted by her
father, and Mr. Prince had as best
man E. E. Norris, of Washington,
president of the Southern Railway,
with which Mr. Prince is connected
as general counsel. The bride wore a
floor-length dress of pink crepe and
carried an arm bouquet of pink roses,
tied an arm bouquet of pink roses,
blue delphinium and orchids. After
the ceremony, which was attended
only by the Immediate family and
out-of-town guests, Mr. and Mrs.
Harris received informally at their
home, 800 Walker avenue.'
Mr. and Mrs. Prince left for New
York city where last Saturday they
sailed for a stay in England and
France. They will return about Au
gust 18 and be at homajn Washing
ton. Mrs. Prince la a native of Reids-
ville.
Mr. Nichols, from whom Mrs.
Prince recently was granted a di
vorce, is an official of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation in
Washington.
TELEPHONE CO. OFFICL^L
ARRIVES: r£A8E8 HOMB
L. W. Miner, head of the Account
ing department of the Central Caro
lina Telephone Company, recently
transferred from Newton, Iowa to
Southern Pines, haa amved here and
has leased the Jordon house on
Coimtry Club Drive, {through Ah«
E. C. Stevani agency. Hr. and Ur%
Miner will make their home here.