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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
-Aberdeen, North Caroiina, Friday, October 13, 1939
L L BIDDLE HOME
ON OUTSKIRTS OF
PINEHURST, BURNS
Mr. and Mrs. Hiddle, Trapped by
Smoke, Escape Down Tree
From Bedroom Window
HOUSE IS TOTAL LOSS
Awakening to find their home fill
ed with smoke shortly after midnight
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Livingston L.
Biddle, II of Pinehurst escaped by
climbing down a sycamore tree from
their bedroom window. Mr. Biddle
jumped in his car and drove to the
residence of W. M. Herndon, on the
adjoining Chapin estate, and tele
phoned an alarm, but without hy
drants the Pinehurst Fire Depart
ment was helpless and the flames
completely destroyed the house.
Downstairs furnishings, however,
were saved.
Mr. and Mrs. Biddle returned on
Sunday from a summer spent in
Spring Lake, N. J., and were alone
in the house Sunday night When
they awoke a little after 12:00
o’clock midnight the smoke was so
thick they were shut off from escape
by way of the stairway. Remember
ing that his son, "Toby,” used to climb
down a tree from the bedroom win
dow when a youngster, Mr Biddle as
sisted his wife to the ground by this
route, both escaping injury.
T#le fire department was followed
to the scene by crowds of Pinehurst
residents and all hands set to work
to save the furniture on the ground
floor, succeeding even to the extent
of removing the electric stove from
harm’s way. They then moved the
boxwood surrounding the house to
safe distances from the flames. Mr.
and Mrs. Biddle also suffered no loss
of clothing, their trunks not having
arrived from Spring Lake.
The origin of the fire is not known,
though the opinin was expressed that
defective wiring may have been the
cause. The house, which sets back
several hundred yards from the
Pinehurst-Aberdeen highway, about
three miles out of Pinehurst, was
completely covered by insurance. Mr.
and Mrs. Biddle are occupying an
apartment in The Cloverleaf for the
present.
Mr. Biddle is president of the Pine
hurst Chamber of Commerce.
WILL GOINS SHOT
WHILE GUIDING
HUNTING PARTY
FIVE CENTS
New Community House Under Construction in Aberdeen
Third Shooting Accident Since
Season Opened Here
Proves Fatal
HUNTER IS EXONERATED
In the third shooting accident in
this vicinity since the opening of the
deer season October 1st, William G.
Goins, 56 year.s old, who lived on
Youngs Road near the Moore-Hoke
county line, was killed late yesterday
afternoon when mistaken for a deer
by Stanley Dunn of Youngs Road,
near Southern Pines. The accident
occurred at 5:30 oclock in the Cranes
Creek section of Hoke county.
Goins was driving deer for a par
ty of four which included Dunn. He
was wearing an old grey hat, in
stead of one of a warning color us
ually worn when deer hunting, and
Dunn mistook him for abuck as he
moved through the woods. Of five
buck shot which penetrated his body,
one through the throat caused Coin’s
death.
“Accidental Death"
A coroner’s inquest was held at
10:00 o’clock last night and Hcke
county Coroner £ave a verciict of
"accidental death."
Goins is survived by a wife and
three children, his mother, Sarah
White and a brother, Lawrence. Fun
eral services will be held in the West
Southern Pines Baptist Church at
3:00 o’clock tomorrow, Saturday af
ternoon, with burial in West South
ern Pines cemetery.
During the first week of the seas
on Mack Morgan of Albemarle was
shot in the vicinity of Youngs Road
and the Fort Bragg reservation, and
Luke Seals of Montrose between Ab
erdeen and Raeford, both serious but
not fatal.
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NEW BUILDING FOR
MACK’S 5 AND 10
ON W. BROAD ST.
Frank Welsh Acquires Old Tele
phone Co. Site For Mod
ern Structure
IKN-YhAK LKASE SKilNhU
Plans for the new Aberdeen Community House, tor which a bond issue was voted on Tuesday, were
drawn by Ayma?r Embury, II, noted architect who has designed many of the attractive buildings in Southern
IMnes, including the new postoffice and library.
ABERDEEN VOTERS
APPROVE $15,000
NEW BOND ISSUES
Rentals, Sales Continue;
Chandler Buys Garage
Barnum Agency Announces
Sale of Residences in Aber
deen and Southern Pines
The P, T. Barnum agency this week
announced the following rentals and
sales in Southern Pines:
The Britt house on Highland Ro&d
leased to Mrs. John G. EJi’hardt of
Washington, D. C.; Apartment No. 1
in the Citizens Bank building to W.
L. Barksdale of Southern Plnea; the
Bloj^dale property on May street
sold to Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Johnson,
Southern Pines.
The garage building near the
Southern' Pines Mena Club has been
sold to I. F. Chandler who plans to
make repairs and improvements to
the building which will be used for
equipment of the Powell Funeral
Home.
The Osborne property on Poplar
street in Aberdeen has been sold to
Mr. and Mrs. Alton D. McLean, who
have improved the house for a tourist
home.
SANFORD OFFICE HAS LIST
OF QUALIFIED EMPLOYES
The Sanford office of the North
Carolina State .Employment Service
is anxious to be of service in supply
ing qualified employes in the Sand
hills. It has a sizeable list of domes
tic and other available help, residents
of Moore county, and can recommend
the right person for the right job.
"Employers needing additional help
during the winter season may com
municate with the office in San
ford.
Legion Post Looks For
Big Crowd at Banquet
state and District Commanders
To Be Honor Guests at
Country Club .
Judging from the sale of tickets
the banquet to be held next Friday
night, October 20th by the Sand
hill Post, American Legion at the
Southern Pines Country Club will
be a brilliant success. With the State
and District Commanders of the Le
gion, June 'Rose of Greensboro and
Henry Ingram of Asheboro, respec
tively, on the toast list, and looal
talent offering other entertainment,
the affair is «xpected to be a most
enjoyable one. —
All World War veterans and lad
ies eligible for the auxiliary are in
vited to attend. Tickets are on sale by
officers and members of both organi
zations and at the Broad Street
Pharmacy. The Country Club is
promising a bang-up dinner.
Commnder F. M. Dwight of the
locaal post wishes to thank all mem
bers of the post and auxiliary for
the fine spirit of cooperation shown
in the organization during the past
year, stating that much has been
accomplished.
TWO SMALL FIRES HERE
FOR “PREVENTION WEEK’
Two small fires, one a pile of to
bacco on a truck passing through
town on May Street, the other a
grass fire on Ridge street, marked
National Fire Prevention Week in
Southern Pins. Both were on Wed
nesday, both called out the dpart-
ment but neither entailed much of
any loss.
ERECTING NEW BUILDING
On NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE.
Dr. L. M. Daniels Is erecting on
New Hampshire avenue, Southern
Pines, between the Page garage and
The Valet, a brick and tile store
building 15 oy 40 feet, one story, 15
feet high, with artistic front. He has
received already several applications
for the new Luilding.
Community House, Water Works
N*2w Fire Truck and Street
Improvements Carry
Residents of Aberdeen voted fav
orably on all four proposed bond is
sues in Tuesday s special election,
nnd will have as a result a new Com
munity House, an extended water
works system, new fire truck, new
road machine and widened and im
proved strees. The issues total $15,-
000.
The Comunity House project, over
which there was the most talk prior
to the election, carried by 222 to 60
votes, /a much greater majority than
anticipated. The proposition called
for the expenditure of $2,500 for a
building to cost approximately $19,-
000 balance coming from a grant
of the National Youth Administra
tion Work on the structure, to be
located on U. S. Highway No. 1 just
south of town, has already started
with NYA labor.
The vote on the water works ex
pansion was 224 to 38; on the pur
chase of a new fire truck and road
machine, 257 to 29, and on the street
Improvement's, which includes the
widening of South street from High
way No. 1 to the Seaboard tracks,
235 to 43.
Thirty-six hundred dollars is the
amount of the bond is.sue for the
water works, $5,000 for the fire
truck and road machine, and $3,400
for the street improvements.
A total of 315 registered for the
election, and a majority of the regis
tration was necessary to carry the
Communit Hous project.
Tobacco Sales Here
Cross Million Mark
Firemen and Jay-Cees To Meet
In Donkey Baseball Game Here
Detour Week
It’s Almost Imj^ossible to
Follow Regular Routes
in Sandhills
This may be National Fire Pre-
vention Week, but in the Sandhills
section it came to be known du-
the last fortnight aa "Detor
Week.” It is practically impos
sible to drive in any direction
■rom Southern Pines without en
countering detour signs.
You have to go to Sanford by
way of Pmehurst and Carthage.
You have to go to Raleigh by
way of Pittsboro. The short cut to
Carthage via the Airport is clos
ed.
You cant drive from Aberdeen
to Pinehurst on the main road,
and you’ll find other detours in
the direction of Fayetteville and
south of Aberdeen. The State
Highway and Public Works De
partment is prepairing for the
winter season and hopes to have
everything completed before the
haw flow of traffic.
Market in Aberdeen Reopens
With Crowded Floors
on Tuesday
The Aberdeen tobacco market re
opened with a TAng on Tuesday, and
by Wednesday had crossed the mil
lion pound mark In salse for the
season. More than one.quarter mil
lion pounds were sold Tuesday at an
average price of $13.25 a hundred,
considerably higher than when the
market was closed a few weeks ago.
The floors of both warehouses
have been covered w'ith leaf every
day this week, and the prospects
appear bright for a record season
in Aberdeen. Prices throughout the
state are expected to pick up when
the farmers have unloaded their
“sorry” tobacco.
Up to the time of closing the
markets, September sales in Aber-
den totaled 543,682 pounds at an
average price of $11.47.
GEORGE R. ROSS TO
HEAD PRODUCE MARKET
George R. Ross of Jackson Springs
former head of State-owned Farms,
has been selectd to promote a whole
sale farm market for Raleigh to
provide an outlet for standardized
pr^sce of the section.
Officers Installed by
Legion and Auxiliary
F. M. Dwight Heads Former,
Mrs. Dwight Latter—Banquet
on October 20
The local post of the American
Legion and the American Legion
Auxiliary joined forces on Monday
night and installed officers for the
ensuing year.
Officers of the Auxiliary for the
coming year are: President, Mrs.
F. M. Dwight; Vice-Pesident, Mrs.
C. B. Fields; Secretary-Treasurer,
Mrs. Dan MacNelll; Historian, Mrs.
Dan Horner, chaplain, Mrs. E. Hew
itt, and Sergeant-at-Arms, Mrs. Em-
(Pleaae turn to page five)
Another important real estate
transaction was closed early this
week in Southern Pines, one which
means the immediate removal of a
West Broad street landmark and the
erection on the site of a modern
building for the Mack Five and Ten
Cent Stores- Upon completion of the
building the block on West Broad
between Pennsylvania and New
Hampshire avenues will present a
solid front of brick structures.
The building now being removed
was the former office of the local
telephone exchange, built by the late
(ilood Laugh in Store for Citizens' Eugene Leavitt in 1901. it was of
at Southern Pines Ball
Park Monday Night
wood construction and residential in
architecture. When first used by the
Leavitts, Eugene and Bernard W., the
exchange had 35 subscribers in Sou
thern Pines six in Aberdeen. It was
Southern Pines has a good laugh
in store for it next MoncTay night,
October 16. There is no more hu- company’s headquarters
morous sport than that which has' 1929 when the Leavitts sold out
come to be known as "Donkey Base. I Central Carolina Telephone
ball,” and with the members of the Company.
local Fire Department pitted aganst
members of the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, there w'ill be spiritetl riv
alry as well as comedy when the
battle starts under the floodlights
In the baseball park at 7:00 oclock.
The Diamond T. Ranch i.s bringing
the donkeys and the floodlights. A
V^'elfh is Purohashcr
The property was acquired from
Bernard Leavitt by Frank Welsh of
The Belvedere, who owns the adjoin
ing Arcade Building, Harry A. Lewis
negotiating the sale. Upon the pass
ing of the deed Mr. Welsh announced
the plans for a new building to be
regulation baseball game will be play-1 erected for the Mack store, now lo-
ed, except that it will never last | cated a block farther north on West
nine innings. Batters bat from the j Eroad. The new building will be a
ground but have to leap on donkeys’ I replica of the Mack store in Sanford,
backs—or try to— to get to first | wnth a 32 1-2-foot fronta£c and a
base. All base-running is aboard the | depth of 100 feet. The facade, of brick
donkeys, and the fielders are mount-' with chromium plated trim, will
ed, except that they may jump off j have two entrances, each with double
to field a ball. 1 doors, two double windows and two
Po.stmaster Frank Buchan reports | single windows. It will be one-story
that he is still sore from the last in height, with an insnjlated roof.
game played here some time ago.
He will not be in the line-up on Mon
day. Chief O’Callaghan of the Fire
Department was seen entering an ac
cident insurance office yesterday and
it is believed that he intends to play.
There is a reported squabble in the
ranks of the Jay-Cees over who shall
get what donkey. Investigation by
The Pilot reveals the fact that one
of the animals is named Mae West
Here are some of the other names:
Popeye, Bungle, Moon Mullins, Huey
Long, Andy Gump, Wimpy, Pretty
Boy, Madame Queen, Dillinger Amos,
Andy' and Jesse James.
A fast and furious donkey race
will be held Just before the ball game.
The winning jockey will receive a
beautiful hand painted red plush pil.
low filled with nice, soft gooper
feathers which he will be permitted to
use in the ball game.
A charge of 25 cents for adults
and 15 cents for children will be
made, the net proceeds going to the
Junior Chamber for its ctvic |5i^gram.
North Carolina Library Ass’n.
Meets in Southern Pines Oct. 26
The North Carolina Library Asso
ciation, which is to hold its annual
meeting in Southern Pines the 26th
27th and 28th of October, was or-
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ganized in 1904. Its oTJject, as quoted
from the Constitution—shall be to
promote acquaintance and fraternal
relations among librarians and those
interested in library w'ork, and by
consultation and cooperation to in
crease the usefulness and advance
the interests of libraries and library
work in North Carolina.”
From it srvery beginning it has
been a means of uniting and coordi
nating all library effort in the state.
In August, 1936 a bookmobile began
operation under the sponsorship of
the North Carolina Library Commis
sion. The money for its purchase was
collected by the association. As a
nart of Its 1937‘and 1939 programs,
the association worked for state aid
Juring the sessions of the General
Contract for the construction was
let early this week to E. V. Perkin-
son, who expects to have the build
ing ready for occupancy in time for
the Christmas trade.
This will be the third new build
ing to arise on W’est Broad street
this year ,the Stevens Building, to
be occupied by E. C. Stevens', real
estate and insurance, and Jack'|
Grill, now nearing completion and the
new Southern Pines Library already
being occupied.
The Mack store has been in Sou
thern Pines for several years, and
during the past year has found it ex
pedient to find larger quarters and a
more modern building than It oc
cupies at present. A ten-year lease
has been signed.
No announcement has as yet been
made as to tenants for the building
now occupied by Jack's Grill, recent
ly purchased by Miss Catherine
Pierson. This will be completely re
modeled as soon as the grill has
moved into the Stevens Building,
with stores on the ground floor and
apartnienta above.
Assembly, and is constantly working
to achieve Federal aid for North
Carolina libraries. At the 1927 Li
brary Association meeting, a citizens
library movement was started. The
following is quoted from this move
ments 1928 handbook: North Car.
olina stand.s at the bottom in the
American Union in local public li
brary facilities. Forty-six counties in
North Carolina are without a single!
Albert Burker Dies
At Home in Baltimore
Marketed Peach Crop of Several
Growers in Sandhills
For Many Years
public library in their borders. Only!
fourteen have a county-wide library
service.
“The members of the North Carolina
Library Association . . . resolved
themselves into a state of war a-
gainst these apalling library condi
tions . . . more than 150 citizens,
men and women in all parts of *|'.e
state enlisted in this public enter-
prize. Scores are still enlisting.” The
Albert Burker, well known In the
Sandhills, died at his home In Bal-
prolonged Illness. Mr. Burker had
handled the marketing of peaches
for a number of growers this sec-
j tion for the past ten or 15 years,
i first having an office at Aberdeen
and in the later yaers at Pinehurst
where his family also spent summers.
Funeral services were held at the
Baltimore home Tuesday.
Surviving are Mrs. Bv..’l;or, a son,
Lee Burker, and a daughter^ Mrs.
Leslie Casten, all of Baltimore
Among those attending the fu
neral were O. H. Stuvts of Pinehurst,
Citizens Library movement Is still 1 David Wilson, Clyde Auman, P. C.
Cochran and Sim Cochran of Wost
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End.