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JIGE0DEE11 PLANS
FOR THE FUTURE
Chamber of Commerce
JHolds a Promotion
., ... -r
' Banquet,
The Aberdeen Chamber of Com
merce held a prdraotion banquet' in
the Aberdeen hotel Friday night,' Jan
uary 16th, from 9 o'clock to 11. There
were" forty of Aberdeen's- best busi
ness men and their guests present.. A.
S; Newcomb, of Pinehutst,; was ; the
toastmaster for the evening. Mr. New
comb made an introductory speech in
which he said, "I am a Yankee born,
Yankee, bred, but when I 'die 111 be a
,Tar Heel dead.", yHe said that when
lie and the good" "mada'm arrived, in
Aberdeen sixteen ' years ago he could
not see the town for a cow, but Aber
deen had arrived at that, point '; of
progress of which it had reason to be
proud.
Introducing Prof. II. W. Doub, sec
i retary of the . chamber "of commerce.
JUr. Newcomb illustrated 'the splendid
way . the Aberdeen people had - been
pulling1 together. , . '
Prof. Doub" made a Splendid speech
outlining the work 'already accom
plished by the chamber, of commerce
and some of the things hoped for. in
the near future. - The first work of
the chamber of commerce was to es-
tablishttempflrary arrangements with
the Sandhill Citizen for section of
-news service in thaii publication. This
. was followed by a visit to Mr., Rhine
heart in- regard: tooths Sweet Valley
, "Wine" Company for the purpose of se
curing .branch of their business here.
On December the 30th, Aberdeen voted
overwhelmingly ; favor of water
- -works and sewerage.t Th chambet of
J commerce and the spirit of co-dpera-.tion
which it foseredade this pos-
: siblev- The: prospects "of day current
were good,'said"the secretary because
of the effort put forth by the chamber
of commerce. The chamber of com-
merce had. been a big factor in draw
ing tobaccd, growers to this section by
letting the value of the surrounding
country be known.. V - ,
W. A. Blue, president of the cWam
ber of commerce, gave valuable infor
jnation on" the light and power situa
' tion. He said that by fall Aberdeen
would be able to secure day current to
a limited -extent and that ; by 1921
Aberdeen should have connection with
, much larger supply of power, r r
. Mayor .J. Talbot Johnson toldof
the present progress being made to
ward the selling of the bonds and the
installation of the system of water-
works and sewerage. The facts are,
lie said, that JB' McCrary and Com-
patiy of Atlanta, said to be the best
engineers of the South, had already
made a survey of Wigtown lor tne lay
insr of the lines. .--:''-.V.'.U :'-
M. S. Weaver, who has just recently
moved to Aberdeen because he - be
lieves in the future of the town, 'spoke
on the solution of the housing prob
lem. He said that it was easy to see
the crying need of houses People
came and moved away on account of
the lack of houses. The solution, he
, .said, was money. Material and labor
could be secured. Houses of moderate
prices and simple arrangements should
.be first constructed.-', -
' E. T. McKeithen followed with the
' .subject, "The Need of New Buildings
and the Solution." He said that peo
ples-were seeking to move into Aber
deen and new buildings would make
this possible. :p - ' '. -'
H. A Page, Jr., spoke on financing
enterprises. He said that the banks
of Aberdeen were prepared to finance
ny worthy company or individual.
' George Carmichael spoke on the ad
vantages of manufacturing enterprises
V and predicted that Aberdeen would
oon mcrea'se in such enterprises be
cause of its logical shipping facilities,
splendid agricultural resources, huge
financial backing, capable young men,
and the spirit of hearty co-operation
in town. , r
.Frank Maples spoke on the success
f manufacturing enterprises in Aber
ieen at present. He said tnat his com
pany had more orders than it could fill
and that raw material was available.
Dr. A. II. McLeod spoke on the need
of good roads, saying that we had bet
ter roa !s than we had twenty or ten
years r
- lay 1
thoro
o, 1 ut tne neavy traiac 01 to
- ' 1 nfw e .ort and more
,t for U.e j-
board and Norfolk-Southern, discussed
railway station improvements. He said
that an umbrella freight shed was a
possibility .if the people pulled togeth
er with the railroads.. V.
' J. W. ' Graham, farmer,' merchant
and manufacturer, discussed the news
paper situation and offered plan
which he considertd feasible. The sub
stance of what Mr. Graham proposed
was a co-operative plan which would
afford one big useful " paper for the
Sandhills and at. the same time pay
dividends to the stockholders.'
The banquet was" made complete
with a toast to the Old North State.
After the banquet a most enthusias
tic spirit was manifested for realizing
on the plans set forth in the speeches.
The banquet served during the even
ing was most enjoyable. . "
' . TACKY PARTY
t There will be a tacky party at West
End school Friday night, Jan; 28d. " ;
5 Attend, dressed acky, or pay 25 cts.
admission. " ." a ; ' . ;
Refreshment will be so'd.
For the benefit of the school.
MT. CARMEL PUNCTUALITY ROLL
Ella Brown, - Willie' Henson, Essie
ee Brown, Wilma Brown, Lillian
Brown, Beulah Mae Kennedy, James
Barrett. .," . v.
SONGS OF THE .
SANDHILLS
Book of . Veirses by a
Carthage Young
Woman
"Songs of the Sandhills' is the title
of, a book of verses written by Meade
Sea well, so the title page; says, but
Mead Seawell la the jiame of a Carr
thage girr, daughter of tne local at
torney.' TThe volume is not" a very
big one," but it makes up in quality
what it lacks in the number of pages,
for it is decidedly above the, ordinary
rhymes that we" expect from . the
fledgling writer. . Jt is J what the
name implies, songs of the Sandhills,
and the dialect into which the writer
drops through most of it, is accurate
enou&rh to claim for her the ratine of
a' skilled hand. . The young woman
shows a familiarity with local expres
sion, and with Sandhill pholosophy,
and she uses the one to present the
other In' entertaining manner. She
stays safely away from that sin of
many young. writers, effusiveness, and
tells her story with much simplicity
of style and point. J '
At times her theme is pitched on a
little higher plane, and she offers a
song that s serious and that will be
worth a place among the work of old
er workers in the literary field. Taken
all the way through the little volume
is one of the best collections of rhyme
that has come from the pen of a North
Carolina writer in some time, and is
good enough to be on the book shelves
of the homes of the county and state
as typical of the' community life of
this section of the Union. - The News
is informed that , Miss Seawell pro
poses at some time in the .future to
give an occasional reading or the
thingsshe has written, and suggests
that when that time comes 'she can
read many selections from the "Songs
of the Sandhills" with satisfaction to
the people who hear .her and her pro
duction. She has imagination, obser
vation and the command of language
that will be heard from again before
she Is through. t Her work is cteyer,
amusing where she wants it to be, ami
entertaining. . . , . V . . "
Besides being an' interesting little
volume the book will gratify Moore
County folks because so gooa a jod
has been done by a young Moore coun
ty woman, r ;.;:.'. . -: r,
' WEST END HONOR ROLL j
For November and December.
First grade: Brownlee , Barnett,
Nellie Lewis 7, ' '
' Second grade: Carrie Barnett,
Francis Lewis. ' : ;
Third grade:" Maxtne Lewis, M. C.
McDonald, Jr., Lillian 1 Purvis. , '
Fifth tradei . Qvde Auman. Wil
liam Henry Marlett, Joe Purvis, Os
car Bryant, Bennet Bryant.,
Sixth grade: Jennie Barnett, Ber
tie Hitter. ' s
Eighth grade: Thelma Auman,
Treva Auman, Cora Ecll Donaldson,
I.; " 1 Cordon, Ronnie Gordon, IJella
, I.lleniio, Eitclj KcXenzle..'
JOIN GEI1E0AL WM
I li SAVIliG
Gbvernor" Williams SMemonallSAssociation
Invites Membersliipiin tKe Society
The Governor
Williams
Memorial
Association is asking the"" people b
Iloore County, Or tliose of any.pther
section who are moved by ; patriotic
impulses, ; to join' with them r the
work of xestoring the burial place and
caring for the grave, - The Association
ha sent, out the circular below, and it
has a right to expect a free response.
Gen. Carr is leading ' a-work in
Moore County that . the : Association
does not think should be 'allowed "to
hesitate and they do not mean to. per
mit it to do so if it can be avoideil, a
all are: asked to 5share iij 'fhe -modest
fee of membership and lend a hand nx
the movement. ,W i--I
The letter followsr V i'Jt'MtM
A movement has, at last,, been start
ed here to properly mark arid care for
the grave of Governor Benjamin. Wil
liams, whose body has been resting in
an unknown and neglected spot on
Deep River ,vabout twelve miles North
of Carthage, for more than a century A
Governor, W"ams . was the great
est man Moore county, ever gave to
the State and the Nation ?r He, was a
revolutionary soldier, a member of
the State Senate for several terms,!
twice Governor of the ; State arid a J
Representative from this district in
the Congress of the United States;
A patriot, a soldier and t statesman '
whose life and services were given to ,
establish the "independence of this
country and to the formation of our"
state and. national . governments, he ,
made history arid the record he left is
njenduringniatorical; assets
people of : Moore County and .of .
North Carolina, . one that we should
proudly preserve and hand down to
those who follow us.
With this object in view, tha-"Gov-
ernor Williams Memorial Association"
has been formed, and the purpose is
to secure possession of the ground
where he is buried, to properly mark
the grave, and to care for same for all
time, and to make it a spot where ev
ery patriotic citizen of Moore county
and of North Carolina will wish to go,
and where we can renew and strength
en those ideas and ideals of liberty
and freedom, which the men of the
revolutionary period held and fought
for, and: which" guided and -inspired
them in their great work for the for -
LISTING . PERSpNAL
7 UNDER
(Bulletin by State Tax Commission)
Personal property will be listed as
of the first day of January, and will
be actually -listed between the first
day of January and the 15th day. of
May 7 .:7'.77:,: v v -7 V-(, -
Between these dates the county su
pervisor will publish . notice , of. a
schedule of appointments in each
township in his county to meet the tax
payers and receive their list.. a . i
Any citizen who wants to get it off
his hands before these appointments
can give in at any time to the county";
supervisor at his office -in the county
seat town, s
Personal property is to be valued at
its actual cash value on January 1st,
The state is putting it up to you
good and hard now, Mr. Citizen, to do
the square thing. It has given you
an exemption of three hundred dollars
in value, has valued. real property at
ita cash value, and guaranteed a pro
portionately reduced tax rate,
Personal property of practically all
kinds has increased in cash value in
about the same proportion as real
property. -'.'; ' . '
The tax lister is expecting you to
have this standard of value in mind
when listing your( personal property-
conservative actual cash value, Janu
ary 1st basis. ' . '
Ie also expects you to have a good
memory and return a complete list of
all the personal property owned or
which you may be under obligation to
return as trustee in any crpacity for
another. '
The admlniiitration of t'le revalua
tion act will te a grc.t CI..; ; ; tme;.
WiLUAli
GRAVE
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iation of a new nation. -
f The association earnestly desires
your help and co-operationr We ask
you to become a member of the as3o-
iaiion at once and help Us in this pa
triotic task. The work of the asso-
ciation is directed by "its president,
Gen.3 Julian S. Carr, North Carolina's
foremost1 citizen and one -of the la
state's most patriotic and, generous
sons, and he is taking 'deep interest
in this work, and the fact that he is
connected with it is ample assurance
at it will be well done. . The other
'.eew are given below. i; y .4
The membership fee is $1.00, arid we
amount at once, and authorize us to
enroll your name in the list of mem-
bers. -A general meeting will be
held soon in Carthage, to outline plans
etc. and -you will be notified of the
date and we wish you to be present.
We hope that you will show your in
terest in this important matter by
writing us at once.
Yours very truly,
The Gov. Williams ' Memorial Ass'n.
T. B. Tyson, Vice-President.
;W." H. McNeill, Secretary.
S F. Cole, Treasurer. ;
Committee on Organization: D. Al.
Blue, R. L. Burns, J. Alton Mclver,
Dr. M. E. Street, Evelyn Harrington,
,T. B. Tyson, S. F. Cole;"W. H. Mc-
Neill, John Willcox, W. G. Tyson.,
PROPERTY
REVALUATION ACT
if. it fails to disclose the listing of a
vast amount in quantity and value of
personal property, both, tangible and
intangible.
The revaluation act anticipates
full listing of solvent credits. No cit
izen can hereafter satisfy his con
science by dodging this issue, for tax
rates that confiscate income from sol
vent credits will no longer prevail
against them. . Any one who here
after evades his legal obligation in
this matter becomes a plain tax
and with the knowledge that a
real effort will be made to locate him1
if he does dodge. .' . -' t; , .J
It has for several years been writ
ten in our tax laws that' payment of
credits could not be enforced in this
state if the credit were not listed for
taxes, Tbut there was a loophole, in
that credits were listed in a lump sum
and not itemized, ' So a nominal sum
could be listed, and this used to cover
the particular credit on which recovery
was sought The revaluation act re
quires an itemized schedule of all
notes, with name of maker. Bank ac
counts may be listed in lump sum. Lia
bilities claimed as : offset against
credits listed are also required to be
itemized. .. "A" will list indebtedness
to "B" as an offset. That will give's
check against "B" if he fails ttf list his
credits against "A." 0 '
All personal property located in the
State must 4e listed. Our Supreme
Court has said that the legal fiction
that personal property , follows the
domicile of the owner has no applies
tion to matters of revenue, and our
tax laws provide that it shall not apply
io tangible personal property, but
that such property shall ' be listed
where located. ,tV '; u V
" There are vast quantities of person
al property in the State belonging to
non-resident owners. VA11 such prop
erty must be listed where' located, eith
er by the owner or'some orie as agent
for the owner., , . v v"vt ; .- i,-
. The general rule that personal prop
erty follows the domicile 6f the owner
does riot even apply to solvent credits
n many cases. . (Redmond v,, Commis
sioners, 87th N. C.) If, the owner
maintains an established business in
this state,' witVan established agency,
all credits incident to such agency in
this. State, and extended in the course
of such business located in this State,
have a taxable situs here and must be
so listed.., : In all cases of non-resident
corporations doing business in this
State, Teport of such credits will be.
made to the State Tax Commission And
certified to the county iri whih agency
is located. ' Xx:rN ' r'-
, Our tax laws establish a definition
of citizenship for purposes of taxation
that is clear and simpler "When a
person has two or more places in which
HJie occasionally dwells, hisvresidence
shall be the place at which he. resided
the longest. period of time the preced
ing twelve months.'' ' 1
DEVELOPMENTS '
AT SO. PINES
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ThexBig Boyd Propo
sition Working V
Into Shape
Working blue prints of the big de
velopment on the Boyd property at
Southern Pjnes Jiave been completed,
U, C Lemons with new Fordson
tractor "Kdugnt 'from H.-Ar Page;- Jt:,
has already; completed , some of the
roads, and buyors have commenced to
negotiate for building sites. The lots
that are attracting first attention are
those on the ridge just back of the
Weymouth Heights golf ground, and
possibly by the time this is printed
some of the sites may Jbave passed
nto the hands of buyers. These lots
run from a little more' than an acre
up to mote than two acres, and being
irregular in shape are all of different
sizes. Nowhere in the state are more
picturesque building sites than on the
ridge just opened, and particularly
those that front toward , the east
where a view is obtained covering the
mountain knobs away down in Hoke
county and in the Camp Bragg boun
dary.- '. ' ...
The survey has been made for the
water lines, which will be laid at
once, as it is the intention to provide
the building plots with water facili
ties as well as the opened streets. The
type of buildings that will be erected
is limited under the building restric
tions. so that the development will be
of a high class and agreeable to all
the new owners. All. buildings must
set back a prescribed distance from
the street lines, and nothing but resi
dences will be permitted on the ridge,
THE NEW PINEHUBST ROAD
The new road from Southern Pines
to Pinehurst seems to be approaching
actual work. H. A. Page has plan
ned for two, roads to go " out from
Southern Pines. The one wil follow
the east side of the railroad down to
Manly and there take the course of
the old Yadkin road where it will con
nect with the other road that comes
out from Southern Pines on the west
Uf the railroad. This west side road
will wind among the hills through the
park that Mr. Page has offered South
ern Pines down by the big spring, and
will join the Yadkin road near' the
creek crossing. ' From there the road
will go out by the Osborne place where
it will join the Tufts road to Pine
hurst by the Lindle'y orchard. From
the orchard the road will be two ave
nues, one on either side of the old rail
road, with parks the entire distance
Buyers are already asking for loca
tions on these roads, and work will
soon begin on the Southern Pines end
and probably on the Pinehurst section.
This road will shorten the distance
from Carthage to Southern Pines, and
Manlv and give a better road. ' The
new road built by H.-'A. Page, Jr., be
tween Manly and Lakeview is now
open, and it is a better road for traffic
than the old one, and will be the road
that is used. It is free from hills
and much straighter. ,
PEACH I11DUSTRY
! HITTING ITS CLIP
TJfae Fruit Section of
The County Doing
a Full Share
,i While the whole-world and Tom '
Walker are centering their focus on
the tobacco crops and the rush to get v
a holding for the growing of the weed,
there has been no less activity in the , '
preparation being made to put the
Sandhills on the may as a first-class
peach district. i' , - ,
.During the last six months the ac- 7
tiyity in the. land market about Pine- 1 "
hurst and up the Norflk-Southern has
largely been a reflective of faith" in
the orchards.; T. S. Fuller of New -Yoi
k, a son of W. W. Fuller, Nat Hurd
Of Finehurst and Col; William' II. Os-
bourne. of Greensboro have joined
with Ralph Page and Consolidated just .
outside of Pinehurst in a lf)0,000
corporation.'' ' They"'" are at present "
clearing another hundred, acres to be
planted next year. i ;-7 '7 7t7; ' '
In the same vicinity" the old Sun- -t
bright "Tract ppsite Viiut'. Vista on 'l
the road from; Pinehurst to- Aberdeen
is 'being deveined and sold bv S. B. :
Chapin. ' He hfrs cleared and at pres
ent writing , is planting 125 acres in
Elbertas and Belles;;',; A part ,of ' this
tract has been bought by Fred Page of 7
Aberdeen, 300. acres, and a Pinehurst '
syndicate has taken Vover. 200' more u
acres to be put in fruit, " Ralph Page '
bought 60 acres of it last week at $99 ' ';
an acre.. .
Jack Lasting has about 'completed 7 '
the. clearing of 25 acres on the Pine- .,
hurst-Jackson Spring road j for his
own orchard, and is reported to have ' '
sold 100 acres opposite the Dana place
for 60 n acre:. iK:.-'':-1. , i-
'IJL'Wf'wwd VVlart fcf the old
Green land out" fn that direction lai.t',7
Friday, a two hundred residue, to Arthur-Newcomb,
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The result of all this has been to
open up the great ndge beyond
Crockers, as part of the immediate
Pinehurst orchard development, and
new road has just been completed
from Linden to Sandy Run, where
Carl Buchan and a syndicate have al
ready opened up 60 acres to go in
fruit this winter. ' 5 f - . S
A survey of the district shows that
this activity in the Pinehurst neigh-.
borhood is typical of all the fruit cen
ters. At Southern Pines Alexander
Ogden Jones, a brother-in-law of
Raphael Pumpellys, has bought the
old Niagara vineyard and orchard and
is already about making himsfelf one
of the most attractive places in the .
region. At Eagle Springs Courtley
Jones is turning the Old Frix siding
into a plantation, and has already sold
off part of his surplus holdings.
Charlie Mason and Jerry. Healy of
Pinehurst have purchased a tract of
the Ehrehart land and are getting in
to the game.
PROBABLE BRICK PLANT
' IN UPPER MOORE
Before the war James McConnell
was attracted by the apparent super-
ior quality of some smooth red clay
that is. found in the line of the Ran
dolph and Cumberland railroad and
he began to investigate concerning its
fitness for a high grade of brick. But
with the disturbance of the war every
thing stopped, , brick , projects along
with the rest. ; . . .
Lately the matter has come up
again, and in the last few weeks inves
tigations have been going on, and a
large number of clay samples have
been taken out. A 'considerable amount
of clay- has been sent over to Brick
Haven to be tried out; in the kilns at
that place, and on Monday, W. G. Jen
nings sent to the Kushequa factories
in Pennsylvania, a barrel of the clay
to be tested in the kilns up there where
the highest grade of press brick, road
pavers and tue are made from dry
clay for high class of trade.
These who have looked over
t!)8
cf
clay regard it as a higher tyre
brick and tile material than t' a
dinary clay that Is more al i
and some of the prophets say "
it is what it looks like it wi'.i ;
the, establishment of a brick
an entirely different type tl; n 1
this section. Mr. Jennies 1
Wallace, Brothers are at t'. e !
the movement, and if ti e i1 : '
what it . is hoped t' y v. ! I ; ,
plant of coTv-.Mon ' ' : i
rij.taway.'