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of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOL. 19, NO. 43.
Aberdeen
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, September 20, 1940.
Pinehurst
DR. W. L UNGLE
BETHESDA’S GUEST
ON ANTORSARY
President of Davidson College
and Dr. Thompson,.Union The
ological Seminary to Speak
AT SESQUI-CENTENNIAL
By Howard F. Burns
Bethesda Church, located at the 1
head of the Rockfish Creek near'
Aberdeen, will celebrate its 150th
anniversary on Sunday, September
29th.
The Church history dates back to
1766 when King George of England
gave grant for a 5o-acre tract of
land to John Patterson on the site
where the present Old Bethesda is
now located. This was the beginning
of Presbyteranism in North Carolina.
Dr. Walter L. Lingle, pres'dent
of Davidson College, will speak in the
forenoon and Dr. W. TalUaferro
Thompson of the Union Theological
Seminary will make the afternoon
address. Presbytei-y is sending its
moderator.
Plans are being made for Presby.
terians from all parts of North Caro
lina to gather on the grounds at Old
Bethesda. There will be a large fore
gathering of the clans. Angus Shaw
of Charlotte will address the Shaw j
clan. John McQueen, whose fore
fathers were among the original set
tlers from Scotland in the Cape Foar
county will address the McQueen
clan.
The official records of Bethesda
date back to the year 1790. There is
evidence, however, that the Church
existed in 1765 although on a differ
ent site. About that time a pastor
by the name of Hugh McAden came
into the Cape Fear country from the
Pennsylvania colony. It is known
that he made an unfavorable report,
stating that these Scotchmen “were
too familiar with drinking and friv-
Monument To Forebears UnvMed ! TOBACCO SEASON
By Blue Clan Sunday at Lakeiiiew\ HERE WITH
. _
Bethesda Speaker
Five Hundred Gather for Simple
Ceremony Memorializing Dun- I
can and Margaret Blue 1
Home to Lakeview from nine states
came half a tthousand descendants of
Duncan and Margaret Campbell
Blue last Sunday to unveil a home-
' made monument to their tribal an-
} cester, to eat a gargantuan picnic,
and to explore the roots and the
[ branches of their lusty and wide-
I spreading family tree, wrote Ben
! Dixon MacNeill in the Raleigh News
j & Observer.
! Here upon a bit of ea,rth that has
Close to 200,000 Pounds on
Floors of Two Warehouses
in Aberdeen
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— O'
FIVE CENTS
October 16 Set ^^'^ate For
Registration of g Men
In County Between 21-35
AVERAGE AROUND $17.00
Field Day Planner
I First Peace-Time Conscription of
Man Power in U. S. History
Becomes Law
With sales totalling close to 200,000
pounds at an average price of $17.00
a hundred, the Aberdeen tobacco
market got under way Tuesday sim
ultaneously with eight other mar
kets in the Middle Belt. Farmers
seemed generally satisfied with open-
[ belonged to nobody hut the Blues Aberdeen, turning few
■ Fince George III deeded it to them Considering the large quan-
! iro years ago, beside a pleasfent lake
, made by Duncan Blue not long after warehouses, the
he had .settled himself upon the hill splendid.
DR. WAT.TEE L. UNGJLE
Carthage sold around 160,000
pounds Tuesday, claiming an average
above it, the descendants gathered,
unveiled their monument with a min
imum of ceremony, ate and set out ^^9 00 and Sanford, with
upon their explorations of their own 200,000 pounds,
tree. Almost any antiquarian might ^^9 02 per
have offered them more for the be- , , ,
. , hundred.
ribboned deed than thev could get j j
” ” i The market sagged on Wednesday,
for the 50 acres of land that it de- . ,
as IS usual when the opennig day ex-
scnbes. The deed was exhibited be- .. . . ' ^
citement is over, but Aberdeen looks
fore the wondering eyes of scores of ^
off.yonder cousins who were, many
of them, in North Carolina for the
first time. Oldest among the home- , ■. • m n
comers was Daniel Jackson Blue, aged 1 UDerCUiOSlS lO KeCOmC
87 and ver}' hearty, indeed, who
came up from Georgia to look at his
I kin and the place of his origin. McCain Cites Progress in
AI Blue, who used to be .sheriff of Fiirht in Talk To
N. C. Tuberculosis Ass’n. Plans ^ this county of Moore and his cousin, '
FIRST CALL NOVEMBER 15
REV. T. A. WIIXIAMS
PLAN SEAL SALE
AT MEETING HERE
ON OCTOBER 2D
Rare Disease in Future
I
BOY SCOUTS HOLD
1940 FIELD DAY
HERE SATURDAY
District Meetings in Six
Sections of State
the Rev. Frank Blue, who. until re
cently, pastored a Presbyteran church
‘It is no longer an idle dream
in Raleigh, were the joint projectors tj,at tuberculosis will eventually be-
of occasion. But it was the former ^ome a rare disease,” Dr. Paul P.
s en who, years ago, discovered the McCain of Sanatorium, pre.=ident of
Model Camp Demonstrat'nn and
Ath’etic Events Feature
Full Day Program
The North Carolina Tuberculosis |
Association is planning six District |
Chiistmas Seal Sale meetings over'^^o t „ eranit^ «r<ip ‘ i
• ... ! >•^0" granite stone- that was National Tuberculosis Associa-
Boy Scouts of Moore county are
going to have their a^nuf^l Field Day
tomorrow, Saturday, starting at lO'.Qft
the state for seal sale workers, health ! ifi^Q pjjjpg jq ggryg members of the Sandhills ■ ° morning at Southern
doctors, public health nurse.s, and oth- jai. j Wednesday at their '
ers interested in tuberculosis. These History Recounted 'meeting in the Southern Pines Coun-
meetings will be held at the follow-' At the unveiling in the ancient try Club. i <^emonstration, with each troop in
ing places on the dates listed Sep- | cemetery that began when it received McCain showed by statistics county a.ssigned a part in the
tember 23, Charlotte; September 25, the bones of Duncan and Margaret \vhat had been accomplished gj^^g exhibit. The following troops will take
TTmeT'^^amnbell who! September 30, Greenville: October 1.. there was not much ceremony. Right ,ogis cattle, “the most outstanding' Aberdeen
nailieu uaiuco v.^ ^ 1 O J *■ ... . . . . . ! Wotvirv V>ir
m&n IlitlTItlU uailjc^a
rierved his congregation for about | October 2, Pinehurst. ; lustily the 500 Blue sang the ancient i t i ' Womr.
. . , . , * „ All nf the distrirts will have one' v ^ iin-ieiii. fxample of tubercillo!5iS control the Hemp
15 vonra and had to preach twO: aisiricts wm nave one “Come, Thou Almighty Kine” ,j u
■ i . “ " ““S“Ly xving, „.Qrid has ever seen.” In 1918 upwards ™rop
13 years, and had to preach
sermons, one in lilnglish and one in' sessions. The morning session
Gaelic, as the immigrants understood I conducted by Mrs. Florence
little Elngli
Old Log Church
The first church at iiethisda was
of log construction located on tHe
west side of Helicon Ridge. In 1832,
larger quarters were required for the
growing community, and a new church
was built on the site of Peedee Road
labout where the present church now
stands, and was taken down prior to
the Civil War for the erection of the
present structure which now stands
as a shrine of the Presbyterians of
the Sandhills. The lumber for these
buildings was sawed, from long leaf
pine timber at Major Ray's sawmill
on the creek where the Southern Pines
Country Club lake still exists and is
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Asheville: September 27, Greensboro;' Blue much more than a century ago,' ipig" in'the'^erad'ication of' tubercu-;
Cameron, Carthage,
Pinehurst, Southern Pines
63 and Southern Pines Troop
and the invocation was said by the $9000000 a year was lost to j’^3. Space in the encampment has
Rev. Mr. Blue. The sheriff read a cattle men in condemned meat, hela'so- been reserved for troops from
brief, succient account of the coming ^ has cost $272,000,000, besides
of Duncan and Margaret to this piecs cattle owner.s, to rid the
of land in 1767 directly from the united States of the disease since
Breed, National field adviser. She will
discuss some of the highlights for the
1940 Christmas Seal Sale.
There viill be a luncheon meeting,
at which one of the leading doctors
will discuss the subject: “What Can
Tuberculosis Organizations Do To
Help Eradicate Tuberculosis?”
Dr. Paul Ringer of Asheville, for-
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West Southern Pines
School Opens Tuesday
jthen. he said, but it has been ac
I complished the point that we now
visiting counties which have been
invited to participate.
Demonstrations have been assign
ed the various troops as follows:
Hemp, pitching tents and.setting up
have accredited herds in every state! camp: Aberdeen, assembly and in-
in the union. j spection: Cameron, cooking; Vass,
We can do the same thing for the ^ projects for the day; Southern Pines
human being, and the figures reveal j 63, water work, swimming instruc-
Rural Electric Lines To
mer vice president of the National principal P. R. Brown Wins ^ are making steady and rapid; tion: Southern Pines 73, first aid;
Tuberculosis Association, and now a
member of the Board of Directors
of the national association, will speak
in Charlotte. Dr. C. H. Cooke, of
Ashevlle, governor for North Caro
lina of the American College of Phy
sicians, will speak In Asheville. Dr.
David T. Smith, professor of Bacter
iology and assistant professor of Med
icine in charge of diseases of the
chest, of Duke Medical School, will
speak in Gi-eensboro.
11 OA hjt*! McCain of Sanatorium,
Be EiXtended 80 Miles! president of the National Tubercu-
i losis Association and the superintend-
Master’s Dearree at Uni
versity of Michigan
To Serve 250
Dairies, Four Churches in
Moore County
Families, Two'ent of the North Carolina Sanator
ium, will be the speaker in Raleigh
and Pinehurst. Dr. Corbitt Howard,
radiologist of Goldsboro, will be the
Eighty miles of rural electric line speaker in Oreenviire.
has been approved for Moore county, j Mrs. Thaddeus A. Cheatham, Plne-
K. H. Garrison was notified Tuesday; hurst, will discuss organization at the
orosress he said. Dr. McCain told the : Pinehurst, campfire ceremonies,
r o * j ftsA rwrkcri
Kiwanians of new x-ray films for
spotting the disease, and said the
Army planned to use them on men
drafted for service, something that
The West Southern Pines School
opens the school year on Tuesday,
September 24 at 9:00 o’clock. As in gave the country millions,
former years the administration is
happy to Invite the parents and
friends of the school to the opening;
exercises. |
During the past summer, several
New Funeral Home
•To Open on Monday
The order of the day’s program is
as follows;
10:00 a. m—Registration. Set up
camp and individual camp exhibits.
12:00—Mess call. Scouts bring their
own lunches.
1:00—Parade.
2:00—Model camp exhibit.
3:30—E!vents, tncluding 100-yard
dash, knot-tying relay, 50-yard dash.
order to improve their services in the
school and community. Wilma G.
Hasty and Cora E. Steele studied at
Fayetteville State Teachers College,
Fayetteville. D. Shelton Harris at
tended Columbia University of New
ovated-
-Formal Opening on
October 6
The Sandhills Funeral Home, in the
remodeled and modernized former res
idence of the late Dr. A. McNeil Blair
morning, and work of building the
power line will begin at an early
date.
“We had been at work on this for
about two month«,” the County Agent
reported, and there Is general satis-'
faction over the approval of the line,
which will serve approximatdy 250
families and make electric current
«vailable for two dairies, four
churches and a clubhouse.
The line will start near Pinehurst
at a settlement known *s Murdochs-
ville, continue by Culdee Church and
into jQastwood, thence by DouVp
Chapel, through the Thomas section,
by Harri* C^oss Koitd and hack to
Zion Church where it will branch to
ward Hemp. From Zion It wfll con
tinue to Beaxalein, S9|r OA. W«>t
Philadelphila and on to Brown’s Iflh
The line will branch out to reach peo>
pie JuMt oft these ToaOB, lit. Qftrrl*
son Mid.
Pinehurst meeting.
Frank W. Webster, managing di
rector, will preside at these meetngs.
TO IMPROVE mOHWAYS
m MOORK AND viciNmr
teachers attended summer school, in Blair Residence Competely Ren-; half mile relay, fire by friction race,
j running broad jump, fire by flint and
j steel race, running high jump, water
j boiling, three-legged race, Indian leg
wrestling, and tug of war.
6:00—Mess call, with supper to be
cooked by Scouts working in their
respective patrols.
7:00—F\in events, all surprises.
8:00—Court of Honor.
8:30—Annual board meeting of
Moore County Scout Committee, with
election of officers for year.
9:15—Campfire and closing cere
monies.
Prizes will be presented the win
ners in the various events. Proml-
York City where she did graduate | on South Bennett street, Southern
work in Elementary B:ducation. P. R. | Pines, is announcing its opening on
Brown and wife did graduate work at Monday next. The formal opening, to
the University of Mfchigan, Ann Ar- j which the public is invited, will be
bor, Mich., and P. R. Brown complet-[on Sunday, October 6th, from 10:00
ed the requirements for his master's a. m. to 10:00 p. m.
degree and received a notice of thcj x. Bynum Patterson, r:!inager,
same on September 8th.
There will be a short program in
completed the transformation of the
building into an up-to-date funeral
Al'CiC *ai c» _
chapel and immediately after the op- home during the past week. In addi
ening exercises, registration of all tion to complete, modem equipment
children will take place in all classes throughout, he has acquired a Pack-
and free books will be distributed to|ard ambulance, and a Studebaker
the pupils in the grammar grades.
lOCAL PENDiai S’TORE WINS
combination funeral car and ambu- j monies. The public is cordially invited
lance. The garage on the property, to visit the encampment and join In
Bids have been asked by the State
Highway and Public Works Commis
sion on these projects In this section:
Moore and Montgomery counties,
widening structures on Route 27 be
tween Carthage and Blscoe.
Chatham, grading and structures!
on 16.77 miles of Route 64 between! ■
Siler City and PIttsboro. j “Most effldenUy operated P*nd« MCNEUJL TO SMCAK AT
Lee, grading and widening 3.Mjstore In the eastern Carolina district,”| O. O. P. RAIXY -AT HEMP.
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Young men of Moore county be
tween the ages of 21 and 35, inclusive,
will be compelled to register on Wed
nesday, October 16 for possible mili
tary service under the first peace
time con.scription of man power for
national defense in the history of the
United States. The draft measure be
came the law of the land when Pres
ident Roosevelt on Monday signed
the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory
military training bill parsed by Con
gress last Saturday.
Governor Hoey is prepared to select
draft boards in the various counties of
the state as soon as he receives final
instructions from Washington. The
appointments will be based on rec
ommendations by three officials in
each county, the school superintend,
ent, the elections board chairma.'v, and
the Superior Court clerk. In Moore
county, these officials are H. Lee
Thomas, John A. Fry and John Will-
cox, respectively.
Married men as well as bachelors
within the 21 to 35 age limits will
have to register, but the Army does
not intend to include any married
men in the first draft call, even
though their wives or children are fi
nancially independent. For some time
to come the Army will presume that
all married men have dependents and,
therefore, should not be taken away
'irom their jobs and incomes. The
Army is able to be so generous be
cause it plans to draft only 900,-
000 men annually out of the vast res
ervoir of 16,500,000 provided by the
Burke-Wadsworth law.
First Call .Xlmut Nov. 15
About a month after the 16,500,-
000 are registered the Army will call
up the first contingent of 75,000 men.
Subsequent quotas will raise the to
tal under training to 400,000 by the
first of the year and to 900,000 by
spring.
The first 400,000 to be drafted will
include about 36.000 Negroes, it is
estimated.
“T want to be sure that we are
right before we name boards,” Gov
ernor Hoey .said this week. “I also
want to know whether the board
members will be paid. The present
law makes no provision for their pay
but a lot of work will be demanded
and it seems right there should be
some pay Some persons might not be
able to quit their regular work to .«>it
for days without pay as draft board
members.”
At least one draft board will be
named in each county, and one for
each 30,000 population. An additional
board may be named whenever the
population exceeds 30,000 but does
not equal another base unit of 30,-
000. A county with 120,000 population
would have four boards but one viith
118.000 might have only three.
The boards will classify and Induct
the men Into federal service. Each
man registered will receive a serial
number. If his number is drawn, he
will receive from his board a ques
tionnaire. His answers will be the
basis of his classification—he will
be placed In the “one” category if
he is eligible and has no dependants.
The registrant will then take a
physical examination and if found
acceptable will be classed as "one-A."
When the call for nen comes, the
nent local citizens will act as judges
The Rev. Thoms^s A. Williams of«n ’ T’
, I board will fill the quota with men In
Southern Pines is master of cere-
has been rebuilt to care for the three
EFFICIENCY BLtnE RIBBON cars.
the day’s fun. •
STATE TO IMPROVE ROAD
UCADINO TO FORT BRAOO
miles of Routes 1 and IS between
Sanford and PIttsboro.
Hoke, concrete widening of 7.S7
miles of Route ISA between Raeford
and Cumberland county line.
ScoUutd, structures and approaches
on Main street, Laurinbury.
Is the title conferred last week upon
the Southern Pines store. Manager
O. A. Smith received the blue ribbon
Robert H. McNeill. Republican can-
Adate for Owemor, will address a Re-
for the quarter, which Is on display In publican rally sponscred by the Will-
the store bearing his name and thatj kie-MlcNelll-SeaweU dub at Hemp
of Japon Christmas, assistant man* next month, the date to be announc-
ager. ied after October 5th.
this classification.
Appeals may be taken from the
county board to, a district board by
either the potential draftee or the
government appeal agent, who will
look after the interests of both the
government and the registrants. The
Improvement^^ Connecticut ave-;»PP«»l «*-
nue Southern Pines and its extension, c«Pt cases which might be
the’old Raeford Road leading to the «<> *»>• P«*ldent
Fort Bragg Reservation is In project j If the regUtrant is inducted Into
by the SUte Highway Department, federal service, he wUl be re-examln-
local officials were Informed this ed by army physicians before begln-
thls week i ^is year’s service.