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TV J: y" CONSOLIDATED WITH THE CARTHAGE ELADE JANUAR Y 1, 1912. 7 the Blade Ectsl'hed 1875. For the UpbuDilz; and. Devcl:?ne-t of Moore County. The News Estat'JedTeb. IZZZ. VOLUME XV. N6. 4i CAR1TIAGE, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920. tS9 ATEAR ADVAi;C3 'V.: ') 02UE!.r::::r:;, LjTlOOIiG!;! Southern) Pines -Pine-! hurst , Road , Takes PositiveShape ' Last -week the News told that the . proposition to build the new road from Southern Pines to Pinehurst was taking: shape and that work would i probably begin soon. Before that pa per was printed the plans had been .concluded. ' Leonard Tofts, A. S. New- comb, Carl Buchan and H. A. Page, ...Jr, who are the land owners along the route, have concluded to begin the . . work and i 15 expected that the pre- limin&ries will start almost any day: " As nas already been 'announced in ; the News,' this will be the foundation of one of the biggest developments ev ' er undertaken in North Carolina. Prom Pinehurst a double avenue will staYt down toward the Van Lindley orchard, following the old railroad line. An avenue wiUbSTuilf on either side of ' the railroad, with a park alongside the avenue big enough, for an extension , row of tees for miles. '. This double avenue wilf reach to. -the orchard at : the end of the railroad. 'From there the" road will continue to the Osborne farm on the Carthage and Southern Pines road, where it reaches the Page A property, and from there: it will be extended across the creek to Manly " and Southern Pines,' the Manly road also going into Southern Pines by way of the new road through Edgemoore Heights, and also connecting yjth the - Toads jther Boyds are making on their neu( development 1? on Weymouth Heights', so that the drive "from Pine- ' - --' 1 Jhurstj-j . - tinued through the three big develop ments of Pinehurst and - the Van Lindley orchard, theJVPge ; property - and the Boyd property. ; : ' 'At the Southern Pines end of the road, D. C. Lemons has a force 0 men, and a Fordson tractor opening picturesque roads on $he Weymouth Heights "on the plan designed by the landscape architect, Mr. Yeomans, who - lias been for weeks making the survey and maps for this work, and the lots are now ready to put on the market. Eight here it might as well be remark- -ed that as at any place that the day of two-dollar land in the Sandhills has gone forever. The lots on the Wey mouth heights will 'bring about one thousand dollars an acre, and they are going to sell without the slightest hes itation of price. The unparalleued 10 cation, the view, the pines, the artistic plan that Mr. Yoemans has followed in layhjg off the property with a view to picturesque - home sites, settles "at once any doubt of the popularity of the' lots or of their early sale at the orices fixed. ' Mr. Page has been selling some of . the lots on the Edgemoore property at - two hundred dollars an acre., but the prospects are that these figures will not-prevail very long, for with the new road opened and the property available as it will be for quick move - ment to all parts of Pinehurst and Southern Pines over one of the most Interesting roads in. the state, two lundred dollar for an acre building site wU look so much like bargain counter prices that it is not possible for the figure to stay down at that ' ' sum. . I .At the Pinehurst end of the road ., prices are mentioned as around five ' hundred an acre for locations along the avenues. Figures approximating this sum will probably prevail well out into the orchard region for the land lies high and in' excellent shape for lomes of five or ten acres, and for the class of houses that will be built a few dollars more or less will not be ques tioned when the really desirable loca tion is to be had. . Going out from Southern Pines the shortest, route 'will be the present Toute out Broad street, west of rail Toad, unless a Bennett street exten .inn khould be built. This will go down into the ten-acre tract that tlr, t. v. ,".' rulhern Tine? as . -,',. It win v.! i among the h" jrr. I- t', ere; k valley ur.Ul it atr" i:,r ' in T' 1 1 C o re. 1 t! rt :'.l cross from .,rr t i ' a 0.,!,orne farm, and t v. ". I 'i t' i r'.i "" the little hill country all the way. It will be located by Francis Deaton, and nothing further is heeded to tell that it will be located right :. It is, to be noted that the entire proposition from Southern Pines i- Pinehurst is in the hands of the most capable of engineers Wftrirsr,lhe; Boston- landscape ar chitect, being the chief adviser at the Pinehurst end, Yoemans of, Philadel phia having thtf poyd work and Dea- ton the Page' work. 'r 's; '' .- "' --. . ' . " , ' The second road from Southern Pines will also go through the Page Property passing out . May. street and joining the Page lands at the town line and then following a ng the eastern side of the railroad to a point near the Presbyterian church at . Manly, where it joins the Yadkin road, which it will follow until it connects with he It road above mentioned -running through the park. ' The third road out of Southern Pines will be the "Yadkin road through the Edgemoore proper ty with the connections from the Boyd property. The Boyd development will be a vast park on the hill-top, its road connecting on .the north side'with the roads of the Page tract, all leading in. to the Yadkin road and joining the Pinehurst" road at the "Presbyterian hurch in Manly..' :-y":-; '.f1? . The fact fs that when the road en ters the Page property, near the Os borne farm it does- not go far until it fans out into a series of roads in what will in time be practically a continuous park all through the entire Page prop erty and the Boyd property on half of the boundary of the present. Site of Southern Pines. - The most gratifying feature of -this .ten-mile development is that it ,is not to be a speculative proposition. The man who. buys within the boundary of the various properties along the roads buys io develop. This .is one of the most ' pleasing features of; the . whole scheme.- : - Every; man, who ges a iq- rafin 'In th forrinrv Vippompa a fac tor in the.'future dvnnp('"t or,the coinmuiiily, and i.i .iu, u..uoi and Southern Pmes into one big neigh borhood with one common ena. - ine type of development is stipulated, so that the man who gets in Knows ,ne is" going to be located in one of the most desirable communities that men know how to create. - H r ; . Mr. Page has been selling farms and building sites, having at the present time disposed of about f 100,000 worth of property from the Von Herf land since he bought it last summer." He has spent .many thousar dollars ih building roads, , improving the build ings, getting the farms in shape to sell, tfnd opening the country, and be has located some good farmers ?. and citizens in that tir - The Boyds are-f getting inquiries for location on their property, as is the case on the end 01 the road toward Pinehurst; 1 As soon as the plans are completed it is evident that sales are to be made rapidly, and as sales require development it takes no prophet to aee that the Pinehurst- Southern Pines road in the immediate future is to be the scene' of remarka ble activity. ' MR. HAMMER IS BUSY When Mr. Robinson announced that he would not again be a candidate for congress The News wrote to the vari oui candidates asking for a picture, and a brief article. W. C. Hammer writes as follows: - r ' Mr. Bion H. Butler; . 1 ! I thank you for your letter of the U9th inst asking for cut of myself and a little account of my life work and a word to the voters and my plans and ideas, should 1 care to say any thing. "... ' ', I have no cut of myself now. Later I shall be glad to avail myself of your kindness. My purpose is to reach the voters of the district, but five months is a long time, to make a vigorous campaign; I do not mean by this that I shall not make a vigorous cam paign from the beginning, but I can not afford to take any timefrom my oftical duties and I am just now en gaged in most arduous work investi gating the high eost of living. I have some indictments- against profiteers, and if the two cases are tried at the approaching adjourned term of the Creensboro United Slates Court, the first week in February, and they are convicted, as I tLink they should be, it uu-r.l have a most wholesome e.Tect on prof, leers who f 11 wearing apparel 6r,J some fool tlu.Ta. rt - ti r you v "Mn the next few i- i. -:i Authoit of the Brilliant Book of Verse,; Issued from the Pms and now. An COuES SECOIID State's Tobacco Crop Only Exceeded by; , Kentucky ; Tobacco has been the primary crop ta make North Carolina rank fourth in the value of all crops among the states of ,the Nation, according to F. Parker, director of the - state's crop rtrinrfTtg services iTh is enviable rank tiaoats her next to Illinois and lowar This is no idle dream as it is so an nounced from the Federal bureau of crop estimates. - We hold the first place in the value of the tobacco crop last year notwith standing Kentucky's large lead in pro duction; so it is but fair to give our competitor first place- with the 1919 crop. ' We can still bow to her and remark, our weed is. recognized the world over as the best, for it sold eight cents above Virginia, who .is our nearest competitor in average price, and over fifteen cents a pound higher, than Ken tucky's crop.'.: -.f'v;-v -W-' ' As with cotton, the preliminary es timates were too low, there having been a natural ' farmers' bias down ward in acreage and yield of the tobac co crop. . The July estimates were for 264,000,000 pounds but the October" es timates suwey, together, with the sales to that date, indicated a probable crop of 310,000,000 pounds.. It now looks like the crop . may reach more . than 315,000,000 pounds with a total value of $167,000,000.' The bulk of our sales were made during the low and ascend ing price period while Kentucky is benefiting, by the later , and higher prices. : " . i- , v-r;: , North Carolina's sales averaged ap proximately as follows: July eight millions at $21.66; August 12 millions at $25.61; September 79 Millions at $41.10: October 103 millions at $56.85; November 50 "millions at $67.94. , De cember sales averaged $53.94 but the drop from, November is due largely to big sales of scrap and low grades us ually .common at the close of the sea son. it is now estimateq mat n.vw,- 000 pounds of the farmers' virgin weed, is still unsold. , Only two per cent of the crop sales were unreported by warehouses according to the crop reporting service estimates.. The December producers sales all amounted to 33,159,298 pounds which was about two-thiHs of the amount sold last December, y The season's first hand sales have already amounted tp over 300 millions of pounds,' which averaged about 52 cents. . The average harvested is officially estimated by the bureau of crop estimates at 654,000 acres, and, the yield at 6C0 pounds per acre, making 810,40,UU0 pounds. ' The" nation's crop is estimated by the Federal department of Agricul ture at 1.001.200 acres: the yield at 731 pounds per acre; the total pro- auction 1,SC3,4C3,CC0 pounds with an average price of 39 cents, giving the entire crop a value of $542,547,000 which is quite a record. Kentucky leads wilh.4r",rCO,C00 poun,."'i aver- vnl f ?171, 1 VI! ( J yagj of'the Sandhills," Recently af 2 in Carthage. - '. RponroF DOIl.'GS III COURT Grand Jury' Gives ; Few Orders as T ;: to Needs Superior Court for the trial of crim inal causes cenvened Monday, January IQEh. A Mr. John A, Fry was made foreman. of the grand jury. '.The fol lowing cases.-were disposed of : -w ' " - ? Thomas- Bitter, A D: W. . - . - .... - guiiby, jzo.uu ana cost,-:;':J:i - State vs.. John Carter, larceny and feleuious breaking, judgment suspend ed upon payment of cost. . State vs. W. W. Sheffield, assault, $20.00, and cost. State , vs.! Moses Smith, accidental shooting. Defendant pleaded guilty, judgment suspended upon payment of cost. . , . . - te vs. Blake Webb, perjury. De- con with fendant tendered plea of nolo tend.ere. .Four months in jail privilege to hire out. . ; State vs, Chas. Smith, perjury. De fendant, tendered plea of nolo conten dere. Four months in jail with priv- legfc to hire out. "State vs.; Ompel Barrett, perjury, defendant tendered plea, of nolo con tendere. ; Four months in jail with privilege of hiring out, , : . '? State vs. Blake Webb, C. C. WM guil- ty, $50 and cost. - -.-V ky State vs. Ivey Morley and Lucy Jones', F. and A judgment suspended upon -payment of cost. ... . i .. State' vs. John, Miller, L. and R.r and felouious breaking, four months in jail with privilege to hire out. , - - SUte vs. K. H. Sanders, A. D. W, judgment suspended upon payment of cost.- .. ; ;:-'-: January Term Court," North Carolina, Moore County. : ' To the Hon. Judge; of , the ? Superior Court of Moore County: We, the : Grand Jury, for January Term 1920 of Superior Court of Moore County: '. ',-. ;-;. r- --v - We have acted on all bills and re turned same to the Court. We have visited the several offices in the court house and find them well kent. excent for want of space. We recommend that more room be pro vided for Register's and Clerk's offices. We1 find bur county jail in excellent condition, but with only, one prisoner, of which we" are proud. A committee visited i the County Home for Aged and Infirm and report home- in good condition, except some broken plastering. We recommend that repair work be done, at once, The inmates are very well cared for. we recommend that the county commis sioners furnish hose for fire protection at the home. i.; , Respectfully submitted,; , : - John A. Fry, Foreman, GLEE CLUB AT SOUTHERN PINES The Civic Club of Southern Pines announces the- next entertainment of the course to be the Metropolitan Glee Club, at the Princess on Friday even i January 30th, at 8 o'cl oc.k Sea Hkfts. 12.00. Sincle admission GIRL SCOUTS SALE A AT SOUTHERN PINES The Girl Scouts of Southern Pines started out to raise money that would go towards buying their uniforms. On last Saturday afternoon they held a sale in the Kings Daughters hall from one o'clock until six. They had a fan cy work booth, a table of home-made candy, and one of home-made food, which was all donated by those who were interested in the girls, and this time their friends were many. They sold ice cream, cake, sandwiches, coffee and cocoa at small tables scattered ov er the room which continued in their popularity as long as the bill of fare held out. . : .f ."' "X-'-'t Up-stairs, in the room above, an en tertainment was given, with an ad mission price of twenty-five cents. The entire program' was planned by the girls, who arranged- every number. And all those who had any ability in providing for an afternoon's entertain ment were called upon to contribute. And here the girls found some inter esting features and real talent, among the collection of winter visitors and folks of the town.. ; One of the num bers was an interesting trip of young girls, all sisters. . They are the St. Maries, who have located in Southern Pines in the Palmer house with then people for the winter.. One of the girls played the piano, one a cornet, and the other a fiddle. As it is seldom, you see three musicians in one family, and ones so young, they added no small amount of interest for their ap preciative audience. " Mrs. John Box ham of New Jersey and Miss Anna Patch of Southern Pines sang a duet, and Mrs. Lewis of New England, a solo. Charlotte Clark, one j- of , the scouts, danced a fancy dance or two that would rank with some of the pro fessionals.' Little Helen Blair, in cos tume, did the Highland Fling. Eliza beth Kimball and, Fred Cole recited, and Ethel Day played a piano solo. '' ; Over two , ' hundred dollars - were taken nilrqm the. sale anrX entertain ment. Theiri .expenseswere R trifle over ten dollars; leaving close to two hundred for the uniforms the girls have been working for.' The girls are doing good work, and with a leader as broad and fair minded as Helen Ruggles, they will do more, TOBACCO SELLING HIGH, IN KENTUCKY Campbellsville, Ky., Jan. 20, 1920 Moore County News; I am sending Borne prices on tobacco in Kentucky, which please publish and let our to bacco planters know the way the tide is coming. , ' It going oo sell high again this season and if a good crop everybody wlil maket money and be glad, I tred to get some seed to put at Mr. Miller's Hardware for the people but my check has been returned to me, saying they had more orders than they could fill. ' However I think most of the people saved their own seed. Here are the figures it is going at out herein old Kentucky: ' Lexington. Another world's record was made when .9,050 pounds in the three crops raised on the farm of Horace Davis in Fayette county, sold at an average of $1.03 1-2 a pound. .Maysvillev Prices ranged from $: to $105 a hundred pounds. ; ; FleminKsburg. Sales. 75JD00 lbs. at an average of $54.20. ' ; , - Mt. Sterling Average $35.59 for 174,250 pounds. . v: ''K Lexington. Sales 1,500,000 pounds at .average of $58. ; And our Tar Heel farmers will do just as well, if they will only have the faith and stick to it, and attend to it close, and don't over crop so as to neglect it, and do their best to have it good, and they will be in the boat. Best wishes for the New Year. Yours truly, ;,.! J. R. Hutchings. A SURPRISE PARTY Contributed: One of the .most delightful social events of the season took place on the night of Jan. 20th, when a large num ber of friends in the community gath ered at the country home of Miss Hel en Turnley' on Cameron Route Two, who Ms just home from her school, to give her a surprise party. An . artis tic arrangement of Christmas decora tions made the home especially attrac tive and the evening was characterized by an air of genial and cordial hos pitality. - After several hours spent in conver sation and' few piano sdo lions, c STATE JIBJIVAY - LICE SUGGESTED '.' ' ",1 " s (- , - - - B. F. Butler Favors the Line by Big Oak and Mt. Carmel To the Editor of the Moore County . News: '" 1 A growing discontent has been no- " ticed among the people of the western half of the county concerning the progress and location of the proposed Raleigh-Charlotte Highway. : : The engineers have now been since Sep tember locating the line from Troy to a point about eleven miles east of ' Biscoe. ; .This progress, however, would not have been so bad, had pre liminary surveys been made over sev eral different routes, so that competi- . tive lines and profiles might be had on which to decide the "most direct and practicable route" as called for in) the bill providing for this work. Wei ' have been repeatedly told by those int : authority that.the final location wast "up to the engineers,", and it is hard-1 ly conceivable how they could adopoj different, method for such a large? and costly piece of work than com-' paring lines and grades of several ap-j parent routesr but it, now appears I from a letter written by the Hon.'R.i N. Page to M. A. Monroe, under date! of January 16th, that the entire ques-; tion of the line from Biscoe to Car-; thage was settled by a single auto! trip between these points, including,) of course, - an investigation of the available materials of construction! - Mr.-Page stated in this letter that the " trip watmada by himself, his son, and an engineer.ThyWetiy" Big Oak, i s and Bensalem, over the old; Troy-Car-1 thageetagV road; as now changed in-! ' to a "neighborhood road," and which I does not now follow the old, more di-1 rect and feasible route. They found i the distance to be 23 1-2 miles from Biscoe to' Carthage, They then re-1 turned to Biscoe by the Old Plank ! Road,. Garner's and Deaton's stores, ! making the distance one and a half 1 miles longer, and the statement fol- lows that the distance by"- the old i stage road would be Increased by a! mile and a half by a proper crossing at Wet. Creek, whereas the route by j Garner's and Deaton's stores1 could be shortened by a mile. - Any .one who ! has traveled over the latter road with. I his eyes open would know 1 that in j crossing the five creeks and branches j between Deaton's store and the Plank road that to obtain a road with the! proposed ruling grade would mater-j ially increase the distance instead of i shortening it. The. same argument should hold for both routes. . I have seen a map showing the lino, 1 of the old stage road (not as it exists today with twists' and excessive grades introduced to bring it past several houses) which the supervisors of Ben salem Township, who were naturally interested in the location of this road through Bensalem, had made last sum mer. This map' sjiows the distance r from the Montgomery-Moore county line to Carthage to be 18 1-2 miles. This distance is based on an improve; crossing at Wet Creek, and an inspec tion of the map shows that this dis tance might be shortened between A. E. Lewis and Big Oak, with improved grades, and also between Mt. Carmel Church and Carthage. I have talked about this matter with men who are well acquainted with this route, and the "entire section, and all agree as to the correctness of this statement. The route from Deaton's store to me Plank Road lies at right angles to the main drainage, whereas on the Old Stage Route, the. drainage is crossed diagonally, so it can Easily be seen that better grades might be expecteJ on the latter. The way it looks to me, Mr. Editor, is this. The distance from Eiscoe t Carthage by the Old Stage Roa,l v improvements would be not to e 21 1-2 miles, while the distar - i Deaton's. and Garner's etovr t the Plank Road wul be at 1 miles, and there wi.l be moi a required on the latter line. Our County Gomnr. ',' ? authorized the r'r ' L 1 this road. Is il r,U v. f t that the county f'?v ' ' the woik V. y f j- " "! W! ie f rwi i y I ! ly 1 r i;, ions ri "r
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