=5Wf* ™S5*5" 1 , MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 20, NO. 35. Aberdeen W ^^^AWTHAOE &ACL.E 9Pf^lNCS W^9T e.NO LAKCVIEW HAHt^V 90UTHCRH JACKSOH SPRIHOS PltiCS ASHUSy H&tCHTS A6Cf\OC.E>4 PIMEBLUPF PILOT FIRST IN NEWS, 1 CTKCn.l ATIOX & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territo^'»/A North Carolina Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, August 1, 1911. I’inehurst Moore County Preparing For Fall Army Maneuvers Local Officials Attend Raleigh Session to Hear Plans for Handling “Battle” This Time Moore County people may wake up some morning next October or No vember to the rattle of machine guns j and the inmble of tanks, but you won’t need to grab the old shotgun in the corner, because the soldiers mak ing that noise down in the woods will belong to our own U. S. ^rmy and will be training for the defense of democracy in the biggest military maneuvers ever held in this country in peace or war. What war at our doorstep will i mean in terms of the three basic problems of health and sanitation traffic control, and law enforcement' was explained in Raleigh Wednesday I to representatives of county and | municipal governments in the troop j concentration area meeting at the ^ call of Governor J. M. Broughton, j Town officials and police officers who attended the meeting from thiSj section are Mayor W. D. Matthews and Chief Ed Newton, from Southern Pines; Earl Freeman, from Aber deen; Cadwallader Benedict and Chief, O. C. Combs from Pinebluff; and Dr J. Symington, Moore County Physi-! cian, from Carthage. ; Eight counties in North Carolina, j ———— including Moore and e»ght in South UPiyiD OT Carolina adjoi|ing them, will be the ili i vl battle-ground where two "armies," j each of which will be more than three | times the present strength of Fort ^ Bragg, will meet in the swift and, complicated combat of modern war. j Even if you don't need the old shot- j gun, in two months you will be living I m a blitzkreig involving almost half j pinggj; display ot farm livestock in a million men. I these parts is planned for Augfust 30 The Raleigh conference was ad- j Hemp by the Moore County Breed- dressed by the Governor; Dr. Carl V. | A.ssociation, which has sponsored Reynolds, State Health Ofticer; ; tijree successful livestock shows in as Ben Prince, Chairman, State High- years. way Commission; Major John T. ^ Officers of the association began Armstrong, Commander of the State, arrange- Highway Patrol; Wade Bruton^ i ments for the annual event, which sistant Attorney General; Dr. Wil liams, liason officer between the Army and the Public Health Ser vice; and by the following Army of ficers: Brigadier General J. Van B Motts, Adjutant-General of North Carolina; Colonel T. R. Goethalls; Colonel James E. Bayliss; and Brig adier General H, C. Coburn, Chief Surgeon, Fort Bragg Hospital. Col- All Stores and Offices on Da;^ light; Post Office, Trains and Husses. on Standard ^ Without too much confusion, tho Sandhills this week became adjust ed to Eastern Daylight Saving Time, while certain of the insti tutions remained on Eastern Stan dard Time. With the exception of the Southern Pines Post Office, bus and railroad schedules, all lo cal stores and offices are now op erating on daylight time. Postmaster P. Frank Buchan said that betau.se of the train and mail schedules, which were not changing, the • post office hero would be able to give better serv ice by maintaining former work ing hours. This means, to those on daylight time, that the post office is open at 9 o’clock, instead of 8 o’clock, and closes at 7 o'clock in stead of 6 o’clock. However, the post office clock remains set on Eastern Standard Time- In The Pilot all time references are Eastern Daylight Saving Time, unless specifically stated other wise. Work to Ik'gin Soon on Route One Between Southern Pines and Aberdeen MUDGETT NAMED HIGEAND PINES NEW PRESIDENT Stockholders Meeting Elects „ ,"TT ^ . »T„. ei 4 I- The Town of Aberdeen s efforts to New Slate ot Officers, Di- _ f II J 1 obtam ft mile-long, 100-foot right-ot- rectors of Hotel way through its residential area, one HODGKINSIsl^ECRETARY T.f Sfeet, were successfully compictod last week, as- The disputed June election of di- the new rectors for the Highland Park Hotel th'-''*'-’-''"'’ highway to carry U. S •f FIVE CENTS *J LEE HART New Three-Lane Road Assured With Rights-of-Way Obtained SUDDENLY ~ BY HEART ATTACK Dies LIVESTOCK SHOW Raisers of Farm Stock Arrange for Fourth Annual Exhibit in I’pper Moore brings together in the upper part of Moore some of the choicest speci mens of farm mules, horso.s, cattle and, for the first time, this year, sheep. ■ Last year, 98 head of livestock were on display and the planning commit tee is confident the number will go far over 100 at this year’s event. C. A. Hussey of Hemp is president onel J. W. Harrelson, Chairman of, association, and among others the North Carolina Council for Na-, taking part in laying the ground tional Defense, presided at the ing. Here is how these civilian ana mil meet-1 \v-ere Lewis Hussey, D. A. Dun- ! lap. Stacy Brewer, E. H. Oarrison, County Agent; and W'. C. Eagles, itary experts say that an ordinary I conservationist. citizen in .the maneuver area will be | affected in the days to come. | To insure safety on roads crowd- r ed with military traffic, your auto-1 mobile will be subject to Inspection by | the State Highway Patrol, and will, \\'ife of Retired Minister Dies in Mrs. Sheldon Passes After Long Illness be given a windshield sticker of ap proval only if brakes, lights, horn, tires and mechanical condition are good. This inspection, according to Major Armstrong, will begin immed iately- Prom October 1 to December 1, the Duke Hospital; Services in Connecticut Mrs. Susan Mantle Sheldon, wife of the Rev. Warren French Sheldon, retired minister who lives in South ern Pines, died Sunday evening at period of the maneuvers, the speed [Duke Hospital, in Durham, after a limit on all State highways being!long illness. used by the Army has been set by Dr. Sheldon left Tuesday for Plain- special statute at 30 miles per hour.' ville, Conn., where funeral services Portable signs will designate this!and interment will be. He has been speed limit and will be removed from filling the pulpit at the Church of highways when the road is not under military use. A force of from 75 to 100 State Highway Patrolmen will be stationed in the maneuver area, and a military police officer will be assign ed to each patrol car. If you own a cafe, or s«ll beer or milk, if you run a tourist cabin or trailer camp, your premises will be inspected, graded and placarded by the State Board of Health. To open or operate a trailer camp, a State permit must be obtained, since both civilian and military health officers pointed out that these establishments have become a center of prostitution and venereal disease infection. Cafe inspection begins August 1. The hundreds of disreputable camp followers, gamblers, proflteers, and prostitutes who are expected to pour (Pleatt tMm io pog* Wide Fellowship during the absence of its pastor, the Rev. Voigt Taylor. Mrs. Sheldon was in Pine Crest Sana torium for a number of years. Mrs. Sheldon was bom August 11, 1871, in Portland, Maine, and after graduation from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., taught in Maine high schools until her marriage in 1899. She was a daughter of Captain John Darling Mantle, a sailing cap tain of Eiigland, and Mary Jane Brown of E3astport, Maine. The Sheldons have been living here for about three years. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. Cecil G. Farrell of Pinebluff announce the birth of a son, Cecil Graham, Jr., Thursday, August 31. Mother and son both are doing nicely. Company wus settled this week at a special stockiiolders’ meeting with the election of a new slate of offi cers and directors, headed by Dr William C. Miidgett as president. Adhering to the by-laws of the Hotel Company, owners of Highland Pines Inn, the stockholders elected three officers and five directors as follows; Mudgett, president; Kugene C. Steven.s, vice-president; and Nor ris L. Hodgkins, secretary- treasurer; Mudgett and Hodgkins were also elected directors, along with Dr. E. W. Bush, Dor.sey G. Stutz, and Gar land A. Pierce. Reason for special meeting of stockholders Wednesday was ques tioned over the legality of an elec- highway will branch into tion held in June, when seven direc- Route 1 traffic between Southern Pines and Aberdeen. Johnson and McCluer, attorneys for the town, announced that they had obtained necessary title to all lands needed for the now highway, although removal of seven buildings from their present site will be necessary. Construction of the new stretch of I’. S. No. 1 is expected to start in about 30 days, it was understood. The three-lane concrete road will be gin at the bottom of Sugg’s Hill, leav ing the present roadway, and continue in a straight line, right through Aberdeen, acro.ss South Street be tween the Pilot Restaurant and the Ford Garage, and extend about 300 yards South of this intersection KOBKKT LFE HAKT Funeral Service Set for 10:30 o’clock Friday in Episco pal Church SERVED HERE 2 DECADES DRAFT CATCHES 15 MOORE YOUTH tors, but no officers were elected. At this time, the extant copy of the corporation’s by-laws could not be found, but later, when by-laws were (u located, it was found that they call ed for election of officers and five directors. According to the by-laws, officers were not members of the board of directors, unless especially elected. a "Y,” the western leg coming into junction with present U. S 1 about a n\ile south of Aberdeen, and the eastern leg joining the Laurinburg S. 15 and .5011 around 300 yards south of the present turn, just | outside of Aberdeen. ■ T(» Cost !i!3.>0,0 j Bom in Henderson fin May 29, Mr. Okay, kids, here’s the kind of bath i Southern Pines in 1921, you’ve been looking for-and you’d' probably want one three times a week I Reidsville. Mrs. Hart instead of just on Saturdays. ' ^ 14-year-old daughter, Lina Lee. Beginning Friday afternoon at 5 I survivors, o’clock, the Town of Southern Pines ' for the funeral will be A , Albert Bretsch and Clifton Johnson, will turn on the showers on Ashe ’ long co-workers with Dr. Hart; Henry I Upon reporting to Carthage, men will be sent to an induction sta tion at Fort Bragg, to begin their ser vice under the Selective Service Act. Following are those ordered to re port August 7: Eivin Claude Pope, Caithage; John Gilbert Monroe, Car thage route 3; Oliver Lee Marsh, Cameron route 1; Harold Burgees Fowle*-, Southern Pines; Harrison John Speer, Carthage route 3; Sulon Burpee Cassady. Hemp; Paul Augus tus Klein, Pinehurst; June Cockman, Carthage route 1; James Fletcher Martindale, Highfails; Payton Rowe Edwards, Glendon; William Jason Dennis, Hemp: Marvin Marshall Saun ders, Aberdeen; Donald Clifford Gar ner, Pinehurst; Oscar Sheffield, Hemp route 1; and Robert James Austin, Pinebluff. Kids! Here’s Answer Town Starts Sprinkler Shower for Children to Cool Off. —and Get Wet street between New York and Penn- ' Clark, Norris L. Hodgkins, Frank Milliken. I MOORE 4-H CLUB OIRI^S I Miss Dorothy Tate will become the ATTEND STATE SHORT COURSE ] bride of William Eugene Blackwelder jof Hamlet in a Church ceremony to Misses Jean Howie of Pinebluff, I be performed at 4 o'clock Monday, Gertrude Pressley of Carthage and j August 4. in the Church of Wide Fe’.- Iris Brown of West End are attend-1 lowshlp. Ing the State 4-H Club Short Course | Miss Tate is the daughter of Mr. at State College, Raleigh this week, j and Mrs. R. W. Tate of Southern Miss Press'iey, who was Moore i Pines and a popular member of the County health queen, wUl take part | younger set here. Mr. Blackwelder is in the pageant given in Raleigh when the son of Mrs. Grace Blackwelder of tha State health king' and qu^n are crowned. Laurinburg and is con;iected with tha Hamlet laundry. sylvania Avenues, for children to get relief from the heat-and get a good' ^ sogjjing I and Dr. W. C. Mudg:ett and Dr. J. S. The special sprinkler will be at tached to a hydrant in the middle of the block; the street will be roped off from traffic, and the water will be fine. Howard Bums, town clerk, said the sprinkler would be turned on Friday, Saturday and Tuesday, from 5 to 7 o’clock in the evening. The water will spray into the air. so that the chil dren can dart in and out. Parking will be provided for parents bringing their children, he said. JAYCEES EAT W.\TER.HEU)N It was a regular meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce Mon day night, but the only business scheduled was disposition of a goodly number of watermelon, supplied by President Paul Butler. Thirteen mem bers and two guests were present at the meeting at Aberdeen Lake, and ably disposed of the business at hand. Tax Collector Hits “Foreign” Pedlers Huntley Cites Company for Sell- ins Merchandise in County Without Licensc W. T. Huntley, whose business it is to collect taxes of various and sun dry kinds and "schedules,” is crack ing down on pedlers from other coun ties who are coming into Moore to dispose of their w^res without obtain ing the necessary licenses. A warrant has been Issued against Hallum Furniture Company and Tom Hunter, charging them with peddling goods, wares and merchandise in the county without license, but the case was continued In Recorder’s Courts until next Monday. County merchants who are paying to operate in the coun ty are watching the outcome of this case with interest.