I^age Twd
THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, December 6, 1940,
ACORN TO GREAT
OAK IS STORY OF
LOCAIJCHOOIS
Started in 1886 in 12x16 One-
Room Buildinj? on Patch
Store Site
NOW FULLY ACCREDITED
The Moore County Hounds
By CH.\RLES IVtVCAlTLEY
Comparable with that tall oak
T»hlch grew from a small acorn isj
the splendid growth of the Southern ^
Pinea School which had its beginning:!
in a building smaller than any ‘‘little
old red schoolhouse” ever thought of
heing. j
Southern Pines had hardly started
85 a tow^n, in fact moat of its streets
tind avenues were scarcely more than
lines upon a map when the demand
for a school arose. Town founder John
overnight and week-end camps and
are working on the National Scout
ing Plan of cooperation in the na
tional emergency.
The District Committee comprises
the following:
N. L. Hodgkins, Southern Pines,
chairman; Gordon M. Cameron, Pine,
hurst, vice-chairman; T. C. Bobbitt,
Aberdeen, Scout commissioner; W. A,
Leland McKeithen, Pinehurst, secre
tary; M. F. Grantham, Southern
Fines, chatrman, Finance commit
tee; Paul C. Butler, Southern Pinea,
chairman, Advancement committee;
rt. N. Hassell, Southern Pines, secre
tary, Advancement committee; the
j Rev, T. A. Williams, Southern Pines,
j chairman. Camping and Activities
I committee; Dr.fJ. P. Bowen, Aber-
, deen, chairman, Health and Safety
jommittee; M. P. Wilson, Pinehurst,
I chairman, Training conomittee; Doug
las David, Plnebluff, chairman, Or
ganization and Extension commit*-
tee.
There are Troops at present In'
Aberdeen, Cameron, Carthage, Hemp,
Pinehurst and Vass with two white
troops in Southern Pines and one col
ored troop in. West Southern Pines.
To enable the carrying out of a
uniform District and Council program
including supervised camping, train
ing of leaders, and building of pro
gram, an annual County Finance
campaign is undertaken. The Sand
hills has always supported this wor
thy work and the committee knows
that this year will be no exception
for We of the county know that *lt
Is Better To Build Boys Than Miend
Men.”
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County'B Leading News-Wtekly,
One of the country’s finest packs of foxhounds hunts the country around Southern Pines
throughout the winter season, with hundreds of horsemen and horsewomen hunting upon invita-
T. Patrick induced the officials of tion of the masters, James and Jackson Boyd. This photograph shows pack and field leaving ken-
the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad to nels on the Boyd estate in Weymouth Heights,
donate a lot for the purpose. Selec
tion fell upon the southwest comer
of West Broad street and New
Heunpshire avenue, a comer long oc
cupied by the Citizens Bank and
Tmst Company, and now the Patch ■ ~ ,,, ,,
. . * / T, (Continued from pnge onej another. We were generally aware
department store. Here m 1886, a ' \ ^
^ i ^ rnmnaniniKi a rirl ever had for a fa- of the new developments and met
small one room structure 12 by 16 ever uau lur a l
feet was erected, Mrs. Ada E. Rock-iyears rolled around,! e peop e
uell, long a prominent factor in our
early schools, teaching all grades. surface
Recollections of Bion H. Butler
! And The Early Days of The Pilot
the people behind the different
miles and miles of sand-clay and hard terprises, and occaionally fnll in with
roads slipped up over our, the trangers here for a visit,
wherein
l?om‘irario7a“tL‘rthr‘schoo7w^ or' family frlend.ships grew up t^t have
to a somewhat larger structure, two typewriter ribbon flowed through been dehghtful experiences. We knew
lots on Bennett street near MainesPool to spool, diminishing when a road was underway out near
avenue being donated by Mr. Patrick,'-tacks of foolscap that represented a, Jugtown, and re^ahzed when <5W
for that purpose. From these semi-1 < ^responding mileage in copy for covered bndge b^^een High Falls
private schools emerged the town’s, Dan Ray and his linotype. When c onne ne e ®°
first public school housed in the sec-i newsprint is made by the yaid over o it es rue ion. e e ve no e
rnd story of the King's Daughters U period of year,.? it .-tacks into an history of the Deep River country.
Hall on Connecticut avenue. This was i heterogeneous pile of junk and while and grew familiar with the red cl^
opened for pupils in the Autumn of, It 1 soon as “dead as last weeks edl-| hills of upper re. e
1897. Enrollment 58 pupils, faculty tonal,” it is a high adventure while there were many ages represented in
n.embers three. I't is in the making. : the rock formation in the Mt. Car-
Eleven years later the part of the | were not always alone
present school building facing Ridge Iout for news for The
street was erected. In 1923 the build- partnership frequently turned remember the Patuxent Development
when niel section and that it is one of the
Pilot.' entertaining spots on the globe. We
ing was enlarged to its present pro
portions. Enr-illment in that year was
Nancy the dog, | Company took its name* from the com-
and then occa-.pact sand and clays known in the
into a triumvirate,
was often included, tuiu v.ivn
275 pupUs, with a faculty of eleven •-ionally Mother could be per.^waded, geological word as the Patuxent for-
members. Within the past few years Joi" «P with the outfit, spending'matlon and that some of Moore coun-
the increasing enrollment has com-1 best part of a day on country ty’s rocks ere the oldest above the
peUed the use of the new brick build-,“"^il It was time to get home , sea. We also knew when the Carolina
ing on Ridge street, designed for
Home EJconomlcs, for clasa.room
work, and the acquisition of the for
mer Baptist church edifice on Con.
nectlcut ave*ue for the use of the
primary grades.
School Ranks High
The Southern Pines High School
now ranks with tlie best In the
state. It is a member of the Associa
tion of Secondary Colleges and
Schools of the South, giving it the
rating of a fully accredited institu
tion whose graduates are acceptable
to collegiate institutions without en
trance examinations, and it offers. In
addition to its regular collegiate pre
paratory curri«ulum, training courses
In Inisiness with a wide variety of vo
cational choice for the pupils.
The school also has a Science Club,
an honorary scholastic society known
as the Beta Club, and a chapter of
the Hi-Y Club, a Christian Fellow
ship organization. It employs the ser
vices of a full-time, specially trained
librarian.
In extra-curricular activities the
Dramatic Club has won the cham
pionship of North Carolina several
times. Its Choral Club has also 'iron
high State honors many times. In
to Armagddon, the cat, whom father donned a new coat of paint, when the
always addressed as Mr. R. McGed. theatre put on fresh raiment, who
don. When you dig very far into rec-
■’e was served from Charlotte and
hau a group of active Scout leaders
lesiding in the county. W. Duncan
Matthews was the chairman of this
committee and it w'as under his guid-
pnce that much progres.s was made.
Dr. E. Levis Prizer was the chairman
of the Court of Honor committee and
was the leading factor in rai.sing
standards of Scouting to the high
plane of today.
Scouting has never been in a more
healthy state of existence. A very
active District committee meeting
monthly administers Scouting in the
.Sandhills, cooperating with the Coun
cil office in Raleigh under the direc
tion of Claude Humphreys, Scout Ex
ecutive, and C. M. Calhoun, Assistant.
Executive. The Court of Awards is
held monthly and at a different town
each month, keeping standards uni
form and Interest high
During the past year Scouts from
Moore county have attended Occonee-
ci.ee Council camporees In Sanford,,
Chapel Hill, and Lillington, making j
good records while there. There have
been two County camporees on prop
erty loaned by Leonard Tufts of
Pinehurst. There has been a Field Day
at tlie Southern Pines ball park. At
oilections they have a way of grow,
ing personal and th“ tendency is to
bring in the family and that includes
the cat and the dog and, being brought
up in a newspaper household, they
*oo inclined in the footstep.® of their
leader. Nancy found favoritism with
Father and the result was she
threaded through more than one bit
of print. In an editorial concerning
“Nancy and Doc Neal.” Father wrote:
“The first time you see a Sealyham
terrier you wonder who drew the
plans for that kind of funny-looking
mutt. But wheii you get better ac
quainted you realize that character
is not wholly a matter of length and
breadth. Her ears are big enough for
a cow. Her tail is just long enough to
wag conveniently. But he gets the
worth of that tail. Nancy has a head
like a pug mill In a brick yard, which
Is big and powerful in comparison
with the rest of the construction.
She has engine power and a founda
tion like a duck, which Is hard to
trip up, and legs with one dimension,
diameter. She Is a friendly little tike.
She doesn’t know all the words in
athletics it has teams in tennis, bas-|^he dictionary, but she knows enough
ketball, baseball and golf that cred- j he can talk with Doc Neal when
itably represented the schools. The, he happens along at the stables
school also has a 30-piece band, con-,when she Is in the nelghborho'jd.”
ducted by Mr. Stirewalt. And then came the day when Nel-
The faculty of the Southern Pines wrote: “Little Nancy scratched
Schools now numbers 19 members; ®t the door as was her want, but
Philip J. Weaver, superintendent; j there was no answering word for the
High School and 7th grade; Mrs.''‘ttle Sealyham. Bion Butler had gone
Sara A. Ellis, Miss Pauline Miller,!on his last assignment.”
was in the toumamenU, who was present the Scouts are plannnlg many
playing polo and so on Infinitus. We
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Located Highway No. 1, North of Southern Pines.
Horses Boarded and Trained—All Stalls 12x12 Boxes
Tel. 5182 Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Moss
Charles P. Everest, Jr.
picked up a lot of junk, the same
junk that is available to anyone with
an inquiring disposition.
We never did pretend to know very
much but hands on a roving automo
bile and fingers on an active type.
WTiter tend to soak up news, so if
we happen to recognize Jupiter and
Saturn, the pair of bright stars in
the eastern sky after nightfall, it
has something to do with The Pilot
and Rassle Wicker and the jack-leg
astronomer of Valhalla who kept a
certain tab on the heavens for The
Pilot along with other happenings
that transpired within the county.
The Pilot has a birthday and before
the last friendly word is said In be.
half of its anniversary a fuller knowl
edge of many things is mine because
of its existence—and many of the
fine friendships I proudly possess are
due to the village paper. I owe Tlie
Pilot a debt and no small one at that,
and I never hope to cancel or be able
to do anything about.
Boy Scout Troop Here
Among First in U. S.
Troops Now Active in Aberdeen,
Cameron, Carthage, Hemp,
Pinehnrst, Southern Pines
Moore county has always been
•Scout.minded. In 1912, just two years
after the Boy Scouts of America re.
celved its charter from Congress a
troop was established in Souther Pines.
This troop soon was the proud pos-
Mts. Ruth W. Warner, Mi.ss Elizabeth i Along with grinding out stuff for
Scarboro, MJss Aline Todd, EMward The Pilot father contributed editor-
N. Stirewalt, D. W. Gamble, Amos C. to one of the state dailies, and
Dawson and Miss Martha Davis, II-'weekly articles to several others, so
brarian. ] there was always a lot of dictating *" *—■— ” " —-
Elementary grades, Miss Sophie on, as I wrote as he talked. He
Howie, Miss Abbie Sutherland, Miss ® fashion of dropping his pa-
Bess McIntyre, Miss Jessie Fitzger. pers on the floor when he began and
aid. Miss Mary Buckner, Miss AJinie at the first click of the typewriter' Individual basis. The Scoutmaster
P. Huntington and Miss Selma Ste- ><eys Nancy appeared in the* library 1 Scouting, but as the movement
gall, music. I door and curled up on the outspread; Scout Councils were organized
Primary g^des: Mrs. Jessie W. j>''heets. The habit became a fixed one^^^b trained executives In charge.
Dwight and Miss Emilie Mae Wil_ ®he would pad restlessly over the executive was given a certain
Is in use today. Property was acqulr
ed at Yates-Thagards where a Scout
Camp was operated for some time.
In the beginning Scouting was on
WITH ALL BEST WISHES TO
THE DILCT
€N IT/2CTH EIClHDAy
son.
I house in het later years unhappy un.
The enrollment on opening day for til some one dug up a paper for her to
the Autumn term was 444; 275 In the sleep on. Today she lies asleep In the
elementary grades, 169 in the High Eun-dlal on the hill, and the news-
School. Within the past two months paper was not forgotten, as the little' horo,
the number of pupils hM increased dog was faithful to her world. j Some
rumber of counties to serve. Because
of this county’s location, distant
from any large center, Moore was
served at different times from Golds-
Wilmlngton and Charlotte,
time later the Walter Hines
to 496; 185 In the high school, 311 In i I owe The Pilot many things. Per- Page Scout Council was formed with
the elementary grades. |haps one would wonder why or how headquartei-s In Sanford. This Coun-
The Southern Pines School Com- a human being could be indebted to j cll was of short life and Koore coun-
mlttee, popularly ' known as theja newspaper. Friends galore wer6|ty was again served from a distant
"School Board," is a City Admlnis-| made through its contact. Knowledge. point.
♦ratlve Unit, comprising five mem- of the county and Its physical fea- Five years ago Scouting received
b«. Dr. George G. Herr, chairman;' tures were made more familiar to^ new life with the organization of the
N. Ij. Hodgkins, secretary, Mrs. us than if the Butler caravan had • Moore County District Committee as
JunM S. IfiUUcen, Frank Maples and never set sail in exploratory expedl- ^ a functioning district of the Central
John Ml Howarth. jtions from one boundary line to.Carolina Scout CouncD. This commit-
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