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Pngc Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, February 23, 1940. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE I’lI-OT, InrorporaU'd, Southern I’ines, N. C. NKUSON t. IIVDK Ktlitor DAX S. Kay, (ieneral >Iana|;er CH.\RU:s MVCAIXEY Ailvertisinjf ManaRer ■clen K. Butler. rnmvron Smith, Asiiociates SiitiArriptlon Kites: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months 50 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail «>»tt«r. THE POCKETBOOK 0/KNOWLEDGE toIpps "'MODCPN P»0WC6«S CELEBffATiONS IM PfBRUAfiy HONOR INVENTOR^ NcW5 ITfcm. OH A^NlVtOSABY OP U.S. PATENT SYSTEM.* HERE Afi6 SOME OP TME RESULTS OF »NV6NTiOH \H ; the last few eENtHAHONS —- yESTEBOAVS ■HOROCLtSS CARRIAGE* HAS BESuaeO IN MORg than 6 MILLIOH p RECT IhDlRECr JOBS TODAY! FOR FINLAND AND THE Fl Tl'RE j Pightinp Funds for Finland. There’s the name of the cause, the appeal, the slogan, all rolled into one. That’s all that’s needed—that and the address of where to send the check. Fighting Funds for Finland. Yes—and Fightinj? Funds for Us. Little Finland is holding those front line trencjie.'^—we don’t mean 1;he Mannerheim Line—not that—: the front line trenches behind which we—you and I—constitute the rear. On they come, Boy.s, unless we get| help up to the front—on and on and on but for little Finland, and bigger Scandinavia, and— eventually, who knows—the At lantic Ocean alone! Neutrality? Yes. By all means. But neutrality with hon or. Not sitting by while the school bully beats Hell out of the little fellow who brought Teacher the apple. Fighting Funds for Finland. Rush the reserves up today, be fore it’s too late. Ciive—be it dimes, quarters, dollars, hun dreds. For Finland—and the Future! ^ VAST MARKET F0« THE FARMER'S COTTON AND fOR WOOD PULP— means 113,SOO JOBS' MIN ^ OHCE (T rahked MITH 60^0 IN VALUE. AN AMBQICAN iNveNTOR fOuND MOM VOMAKE IT CHCAPiV- 3i.OOO MBS' grandmother »<AD to do meb own CANNING.' TOOAY THIS INOOSIRV HAS 167 000 M£H ^ ON ITS payroll - HD HEW iMOOSTSlE? LIK6 THESE Akt BEINS DEVELOPED H5W \NTHE mOUSTUlALLABOHATORy 6v THE ’mopeRN pionegpf OffODAy! Variety of Cases in Week’s Recorders Court stealing, .\handonment of Wife and Chid, Drunken Driv ing Charged THE PASSING YEARS BY CHARLKS MAC.\rLEY Fourth Week in February I — IN >IEM()H1A.M From the file.s of The Pilot. Feb ruary 22, 1935, five yeans .'.go ttiday. Little Nancy scratched at the door as was her wont, hut there was no answering word for the little Sealyham on Thur.sday morning. All was quiet at Valhalla. Bion Butler had gone on his last assignment. And bequeathed to others the task of writing the story of this day long dreaded in The office, his Pilot office. Bion Butler made The Pilot. And more than any other one per.son. Bion Butler made the Sandhills. Here was his heart for more than forty years. Here, 1939 "Famous Lecturer To Speak To. night On Americanism. Charles Mil ton Newcomb Will Bo Presented at High School by Civic Club." "Harold Diliehay Heads, $l,r>00,000 Housing Project." "Mad Negro KilKs 2, Turn? Gun on Self." Grains of Sand iJames .lackson. colored, of Aber. rieen plead guilty in Recorder's Court Saturday to a charge of stealing corn from the field of .Jack Puckett and was given three nonth.= on the roads, or at the county home if the commissioners approve. Clyde N'all, found guilty of aoan- donment and non-support of his wife and children, was given three moths on the roads the setence to be suspended upon payment of the costs and upon further condition that he provide adequate support for his wife until further order of the court. He gave notice of appeal to the Su. perior court and bond was fixed at $250. C. N. McArthur was charged with abandonment and failure to provide adequate support foi his wife. By agreement between the two parties, the ca.se was continued upon condl. tion that he pay to hi« wife. Clara Me .Arthur. $10 every two weeks, and , fhe agreed to move out of the de fendant's home within 30 days. James Bunting, white, of Ashe- boro, was given 60 days on the rt>ads for careless, reckless and drunken driving, the sentence to be suspended upon pa>*n\ent of a the costs. His for a year'. fine of $.'’)0 and license was revoked Coleman \V. Roberts, president of the Carolina Motor Club, predicts a record spring a;,d summer for North Carolina. Just back from a tour of Florida, Cuba, Costa Rica and Pan. ama, he says the multitude of tour ists down there will return north through this section. Furthermore, "the greatest volume of summer B.Vl’TIST KOITOK PKE.VCHKS HF.ItE M.VUCll 4TH TO lOTH Comfortable Houses For Rent Beautiful Properties For Sale Eugene C. Stevens The Rev. J. A McMillan of Thomasville. mnraging editor of "Charity and Children,” well known to Southern Baptists, ''vvill he at the Southern Pines Bapti.st Church for R preaching mis.sion beginning March 4th through the 10th. Mr. McMillam is a popular and travel in history will come through I pleasing preacher, one of the most Norf . Carolina and South Carolina ' widely known and best loved minis, in 1940. provided an intelligent, co-! ters in the state of North Carolina. ]/)perative effort is made to attract | The public is cordially invited to I-IigHland I-jodge A (IUIET home like family hotel Pleasantly Located on Vermont Avenue Near the Pines SF.ASOX (H TOBKK 1ST TO JI XE 1ST 1935 "Bion H. Butler, Kditor of The Pilot, Dies, Aged 77." "Hugh J. Betterly Elected Presi. dent of Chamber of Commeice." "Guilford College Choir Here on Sunday." 1930 "Bootleggers Captured. E.\tensive Bottling E.stablishment at Lakeview. Self Uichard.son, Gardner Young. L. \V. Evans and Gladys Smith Arrest ed." "E. J. Woodward and Son Bill, H. Pilot; B and Hubert Weather.spoon spent Sunday at Wilmington Playing Golf" the tour trade." Predictions that the ti?»vel indus try may become our state's biggest money crop are basically sound he said, blit first we niust provide fa. cilities adequate to care for the va. canonists and travel-minded peo ple. Commander Felix I.^slie Johh.son of Aberdeen is in command of the V, S. S. Lang which is accompany- i ing President Roosevelt's ship, the Tii.scaloosa, on his present cruise in Pacific waters. The I.Knng cartics the newspaper men as well as some of the secretariat. come and hear Mr. McMillan. Free Christian Science lecture at Carolina Theatre, Southein I’ines, Sunday. Feb. 2,‘>, at .3:30 p. m. All are welcome, "i"*! IMrs. I\I. F. Grearson e I. >iie C933 Southern Tines N. C. i‘jio This Congre.ssional district bids fair to become known as "The Bloody "The Japanese magnolias In Mrs. Eighth." Another battle such as we E. A. Tracey's yard are a vision of went through in 1938 is in the offing, loveliness in purple and white, and with four candidates already an. with never a thought of self, of i the plum trees in the Oity Park are - nounced and the possibility that Wal. personal gain, he told the story | well worth a visit." ter Lambeth may enter the lists, of the pine trees, the bird.s, the| "Masquerade Ball, r.ala Washing-: The former Congressman .says he'll sprouting little villages, the ■ ton Birthday event at Highland Pines decide by next Friday. farmers, the small industries, 1 inn a great success. Several hundred ^ present." ! Southern Pines has had a lot of the “folks,” all friends of his, no matter of what walk of life, what condition of serviture. He loved us all. No man ever heard Bion But ler say an ill w'ord of anyone. Through his new'spaper years he For a Park, should See That the of. ^ here for the fir.st time in the south fought many a hard battle forlfer Does Not Lapse.” | those things he believed in. He! “At Highland Lodge the guests sorTHi':R\ pines girus pitted himself against many a land a few neighbors enjoyed a de-; lose bit boys win ~ lightful musical arranged by Mrs Grearson.” j publicity over the Horse Show which 1920 ! is on today at the Country Club. “Proffer of a New Park. Is Is To' Both Charlotte and Greensboro pa- Be Accepted? Southern Pinea Has, pers publi.shed big pictures of “Little the Offer of a Fine Tract of Land Squire.” champion jumper .showing worthy foe. But he never left an ene>Tiy in the wake. Gentle, kindly, thoughtful are words which come to us. His fairness in all things brought men in all 1915 The Southern Pines High School girls basketball team won one game and lost two this week, losing to ! ^ w I. u •* 1' Pinehurst 36 to 15 and to Wadesboro The Country Club held its anual . . _ , . . . ™ ‘to “■ and winning over Hoffman walks of life to that httle paper-1 meeting on Tuesday night. The off.. ^ Strewn study of his out at \ al-j cers for the coming year are as fol- halla;men seeking counsel, ban-: lows: President, James Boyd; Vice- kers. politicians, busine.ss men, l Pre.sidents, J. N. Powell, C. L. Hayes, the clergy, the colored man M. H. Turner; Directors, T. A. Kelly, with his litte problems. They; Dr. W. C. Mudgett, H. W. Goodman. .sought out a friend ard thev; J. E. Piushee, Mayor R. E. Wil^y, w found a philosopher, a mind al- P. Alien, James Boyd." ways clear, always able to grasp, "Annual mjeeting Maine Associa. the subject and render a just tion.” verdict.' i He ha.s seen the Sandhills i9io grow from the day when pigs^ "Two special Pullmans brought wandered about its sandj' .streets Owner Fogel, Manager Dooin and in all three games. The local boys won over Pine- a score of 36 to 20 and over Hoi fman by a score of 2h to 22 this game going an extra quarter. The locals boys winning streak was broken by Wadesboro last Tut-.sday night by a score of 19 to 11. The local team had a winnir.g streak of six games before the contest with Wadesboro. to the communitv of fine homes ^ thirty odd Phillies from Philadelphia and hotels and shops and come- this morning. They had a cold wel ly thorofares of today. His come, as there was a thin crust of fluent pPJI has guided its des-'snow on the ground, but there was tiny and heralded its glories; little left of it at night, and as soon the world knows of us today be-' as the wind swit CliO around to the cause of Bion Butler. I South they will be able to get to Our heart goes out to those work in good earnest.” .sterling characters most vital ly affected by his going_ away. Ours is a great loss; theirs im measurable. Clarke's opera house on March 9th.'' 1900 / The Biggest, Most Completely Equipped GENERAL ELECTRIC Ever Offered at this Low Price The Big New G-E Thrifty-Six Yours Today for only You'll Always Be Free Christian Science lecture at Carolina Theatre, Southern Pines, ■>>? fit 3:30 p. m. All are wel-'ieunion of Pennsylvanians 1905 “A Great Si<ccess. W’ashington's Birthday Entertainment Realizes Over One Hunditd Dollar.® for the library.” "Pennsylvania Reunion. The first will be ■"i-es p.t Cnpt. A. M. Two Gala Days at Southern Pines Old Time Southern Sports. Magnifi. cent Street Parades. Fox Hunts. Seaboard Air Line Band, 30 Pieces. Acting Mayor R. M. Couch Introduc. td C. E. Grover who made an ad dress.” 3893 I. F. Chandler builds factory for manufacture of peach crates and grape baskets, on the southeast cor. ner of Bciuiett street and Wiiconsia avemie.” Thrijty hi Price—in Current~in Upkeep! The same sturdy, electrically welded all-steel cabinet con struction—the same quiet sealed-in-steel coJd-mak- ing mechanism that have made G-E Refnigerators world-famous for long life and enduring economy. And you’ll see the difFerence! S-303 PD^EHUBiST, N, C.
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