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ni I n .n . rJ, . i, Ji iJ i mka r'J nI HUUf. i v 71 i 1 t : m I "'The Blade Established 1875. a . v For the Upbuilding and Development of Moore County. - ' "' Th News Established Feb. 1905. VOL. XVI. NO. 14. .... . . CARTHAGE, N.C., THURSD V Y, JUNE 10, 1920. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE FRANK BUCHAN'S GOOD WORK New ' Status Given Moore County By His ' Enthusiasm ' In the last six months Moore county .Jin ft iinrickrcrniiA a troncf Arvnfttmn that will be lasting, and a man who has had a prominent finger in it i3 Frank Buchan. A prophet is not without "konor save in his own country, so we 4Je all disposed to overlook the work oi the chap who grows up in the com munity,' because he is never a hero to those of us who , have known him from: the days of his kilts. - .Frank Buchan was 'a cub of a boy around Manly, .then about Southern Pines, and it was hardly suspected that he waij going to be one of the most influ ential fellows in the . community in calling attention to the resources of the Sandhills and advancing -land v - prices until his work probably means of making things on that land. He at least a million dollars if not several has held up to observation the produc millions for the people of Moore, tive power of the county, and proved When Frank Buchan ' hooked up it by attracting to Moore, men who with H. A. Page, Jr., a little discus- are making more out of the land than sion took place as to the value of the' they paid for the land. It is one thing land that was to be sold at Edge moore, and when they finally decided to start some of it at a hundred dol lars an acre it looked like v a high price. But the fact was there that the land would produce a crop worth a hundred, dollars on an acre, and Frank set out to sell some pf jat a hundred dollars. A mighty well, post ed man of the community caught up with Frank one day and told him when he sold any land in the sand for a hundred dollars to. say something about it. . Frank said something about it within three or"four;m6ntbi wheA he sold that man some 'of it at much more than a hundred. , ' ' ?r Frank took oh his hands the job' of introducing the Edgemoore land to the . people, and he did it so clearly that he soon had inquiries coming from all directions, and as a result he has scattered around Southern Pines and Manly in the last six months more operative big farm schemes than had come to that neighborhood before in years. While doing that job he had the oversight of a big job of road con struction, the management of a saw mill proposition! and various matters on the side. He has given the neigh borhood a new road to Lakeview, a new one from Southern Pines to Pinehurst and Carthage, -and a lot of roads between Manly and Southern Pines that will become a part of a sys tem of village streets within the next But the big thing that Frank Bu-j chan has done is to give to Moore county an entirely new idea of the worth of its real estate. Previously we had figured Sandhill lands as worth around ten to fifteen dollars an acre. Frank Buchan has showed us that. it is worth a hundredr two, and he has not only claimed that it Is worth that, but by selling tract after tract for that amount he has proved by the purchaser's action that the land ia worth the money. ' He has shown us that the land of Sandhills , and Mc Neill's townships is worth far more than we had suspected all the proper ty of Moore .'county was worth. He has given Moore county an intelligent idea of her'possessions, and we all see now that Moore is one of the really wealthy counties of the United States. . Frank Buchan has brought this matter not only to the people of our PRIMARY VOTE The Democratic primary passed oc very quiety in Carthage. The incle, ' ment weather in the morning probably deterred somewhat from the affair, but did not effect the vote much. The total- county vote, as canvassed by the board follows: , United States Senator: Aubrey L. Brooks 180: Lee S. Overman 903, . , Governor: O. Max Gardner 72; MnrrUon 821 1 Robert N. ' Paw 711. Lieutenant Governor: t. W. B. Cooper ' 635; F. C. Harding 296. ; SUte Auditor: ; James P, Cook 64 ; William T. Woodley 77; Baxter Dur ham 59: D. A. McDonald 860;. D. L. Rtte Treasurer B. F. Renf roe 360, B. R. Lacy 680. v ".V'.. own community, but he has put it so forcibly before those of other sec tions that he has made property own ers of people who live in the North, but who are buying Bites in the sand for winter homes, orchard sites, to bacco plantations, and other purposes, and in that way he has scattered in all directions a knowledge of what is to be had here in the county . ' -' In all of this work Frank Buchan has picked up a little money, but what he gets for himself is trifling beside what he has .done for, the rest of us. He has done more than simply add" a bigger value to the price of land in the county.' He has wonderfully broaden ed the knowledge of the possibilities to add to the value of land a hundred dollars an acre, but it is more to add to that land a productive value of a hundred dollars every year. Frank Buchan has shown us that the land he has been bringing into notice will bring each year a fortune to the own ers who operate f it and that Moore has gold mines of many varieties on every acre..? ' . .. . ' h ' We will alf owe him a debt forever, for it is bigger than we can ever pay. Then it is not the kind that is ever paid, arid probably he does not want imbibe ,.)aid.;S But In the days -when the"men who navaniade' Moore xotfhty are named over it must not be forgto- teh that one of those men is Frank Buchan and he has set on foot one of the movements of making that is young yet in its influence. . ,And just to show more of his good sense, Frank Buchan married one. of the nicest Pennsylvania girls that ev er came to North Carolina, and that'3 worth more than all the money he ev er made or ever will make, for him self or anybody else, now and forever. HUGH M. STREET DEAD Hon. Hugh ,1.. Street, a native of Moore county, but for many years a resident of Meridian, Mississippi, died there a few days ago, at an advanced age.' Mr. Street was born and reared on Deep river in this county, and was a kinsman of the Street families now re siding here. In 184? and 1848 he was a student in the Carthage school, con ducted by the late Mr. McNeill. . He left Moore county in 1852 and moved to Mississippi, and during his' long life there became prominent in the financial hd political life of that state. He has been president of the Citizens National Bank of Meridian for many years, and was frequently , a member of the. Legislature in Missis sippi, and for several terms speaker of the house. . . V To the end of his life he retained a deep interest in his native county, and was a regular reader of the Moore County News. - I ; V:-;.'; His death will bring regret to many of the older people of this section. OF THE COUNTY Commissioner of Agriculture: .' H, E. Thompson 604; W. A. Graham 435, Commissioner Labor and Printing David P. Dellinger 899; M. L. Ship man 626. .' ,' ' Commissioner of Insurance: C. T McClenasrhan 210; John Underwood 3; Stacey W. Wade 811. Associate Justices (two) of the Su preme Court: B. F. Long 163; WJ Adams 1,046; W. P, Stacy- 95; W. A, Hoke 609; Needham Y. Galley ,43; 0 H. Guion 13; Noah James Rouse 16(1 -i Representative in U. S. Congress Walter & Brock 600; J. C. M. Vann 208;-WUliam C. Hammer . - SUte Legislature . Geo R. .' Rosi 690; Roscoe C. Barrett 890.1 I " i i Register of Deeds: -Ej C. Ma'theson 654; J. C. B. Mus 418. ' ,; ), , CONSOLIDATED WITH THE ICARTHAftlS BTjADE JANUARY X 1912. LAWIION'S , : ' REMIWISCENSES Many Friends Of Veteran Minister Will Greet His Pea Again T have been requested by so many of my friends to write Borne more o my reminiscenses for the, News that 1' will try to do so', and will speak of the changes that' have taken place in m$ day, and they are many. . Some "are for the better and some r do not ap prove. hi my boyhood days; nearly everybody went to church and the few who did not go were thought very, lit tle of, but it is evident that in propor tion to population In the country Con-' gregations are not so large as they were sixty yeart ago. Then the most of the people walked to church. ''' I remember at Bethlehem,.' Noah : Rich ardson was preacher, and the people for five and six miles would come and but very few - would travel only; on foot. Some would, like my father, go in a wagon and the older ones' and the' smaller children, would ride, the rest of us walking, f:- Some young . men who had a horse and saddle would ride horse back and very often carry a lady home on his horse. The boy having a horse, and saddle would have a large saddle blanket it was called, when spread out would cover the horse's back for the lady to sit on, and she could hold to the boy!s coat.: This was considered the most stylish way. of travel in those days. No young man wanted a horse that would not "tote double," and some' of the ladies had their saddles and would go on horse back, but most of the people would walk. I nave often seen the girls of ,thafcday:rgoii,..:ihiwJi'. w.Jeirigrm aid "well I m sorry for her, shoeaitf their 1iand, and when they goflShe;?!!! have to wear her shoes all the near the church would put on: their shoes, and after preaching they would start home, get a little way from the church, pull off their shoes and carry them in their hands, walking bare footed. What would you think of such things as that in the year of 1920 ? I remember riding behind my sister, AT Progressive FERTILIZER Town Starting Enterprise Aberdeen is to have a big new fer tilizer mill, and the Weaver and John son concern are already at work on the buildings, which will be located on ten acre tract of land on the hill above the coal chutes of the Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad about a mile east of the town. The main building will be 110 by 160 feet, and the fac tory will have a capacity of .i5,000 tons a year when it gets up to its full wing. ''""' '. ' The new concern is the Blue Fer-I tiliaer Company, with W. A, Blue as president and treasurer, E. B. McNeill of Raeford as vice-president, J. A. Bryant the secretary, and among the stock holders are M. C. McDonald oi West End, T. B. Upchurch of Raeford, Emory Smith of Pinehurst and others. V; H. Johnson, wno was ionneny wn Ashley Horne at Clayton, and later at Pittsboro, will be the superintendent, and he is a man who is familiar with making fertiliser. - The building will be ready by the middle of September, and the machin ery will be placed during , th fall months so that by December the fac tory will be in shape to start business. The first -year it is not, expected , the comoany will be able to turn out .more than 6,000 tons, but this will be increased as rapidly as possible until the full capacity of the mill is reached About thirty hands will find work on the iob when the mill is under way, and while it is building a large num bar will be at work. , -; - - - - t While the new mill is on a shipping location that gives, it access to the Seaboard, the Norfolk-Southern ; and the Aberdeen and Rockfish, it is the intention to distribute much of the With Pleasure r 1 Iff m :, LU $ .-p Rev. W. H. H. Lawhon. 1 f Martha, to Bethlehem one Sunday. She had a side saddle. And after preach ing sister Martha and some of her friends got out at the south end of the church talking and having a social time.) I stood close by, waiting for hSy1 sister to get ready to start, and a oting man and a young lady came byypassing on up the road. One of the girls in the group said to the oth erat "Look, look, that girl has caught a Seau.", One of the others in . the way vhome-and it is four miles, the sand is so hot -I know she will have sore feet next' week." People did not only walk to church on Sunday, but everywhere I have known men to walk ten or fifteen miles to Carthage when they were on the jury or' a witness. Several times ABERDEEN On A New product by trucks to the farms in the territory that will naturally be served, and this means that the Moore, Hoke, Richmond and neighborhood farmers are going to have a convenience that they have never known before in the way of fertilizer. The factory will carry a big stock all the time at the warehouses, and farmers can place their orders and have their stuff for warded to them immediately and di rectly without railroad delays. Those who have their own trucks can get it at any time themselves and. in such quantities as they want. The company is starting out on strong, basis, with a capital stock of $125,000 and the men behind it are men of strong financial poweiC They are also all of them farmers, and know what they want. But better than that they are planning an innova ion in fertilizer manufacture for they propose to make such mixtures as will be adapted to the needs of the Sand hill country and for fruit and cotton and tobacco as well as for general farming in this territory." The fruit man can have his especial needs satis fied, or so can the tofotco man, and they can all get right into the front line and see . what they are , getting, With this stuff made right at home for them, and delivered where and as they want it, the fertilizer situation will assume a new aspect with the coming of the next season. ,'Tne new nlant will hot have acid tanks for reducing the phosphate rock! but will set that in shap all ready for mixing. Other ingredients will be obtained f or the mixtures, cotton seed meat being especially available at the I mll'.s fit Sahf rrd Phd et Raeford.; PLANT SOLDIERS DID THEIR FULL DUTY Shields Cameron Protests that Congress Falls Down , Editor Moore County News: It has been with a growing sense of disgust and indignation that I have watched that short sighted, politic-lobbying assemblage of personages called the Congress of the United States in their mad scramble to stifle the new spirit of brotherhood and internation alism' that has arisen in America since April 1917, and which is embodied in the proposed League of NationB as it was written at Versailles. This feel ing has been heightened in me by reading of the conference being held at San Remo by the representatives of the other great powers of the world who have already adopted the league. The way in which those other great powers have gone about settling the affairs of the world, with no represen tation from this country that scarcely three years ago threw her all into a conflict to make the world safe for de- mocracy has made me blush in shame for my country. I know that I am speaking the thoughts of many oth ers of my comrades. With every sol dier that I have talked the expression has always been the same "they seem to have forgotten the high ideals and purposes under which we went to war in a broil of political cajicausing and lobbying." C What I am going to say now. is so sacred to me that I hate to even speak , but yet I must. The average Amer ican boy, be he Hungarian, . Polock, Jew, Italian, Southerner, Westerner, Mexican or. what'fiot, had no artjcles of cohfederatldtf iol this, new leagafe that was to come forth from his ef forts jotted down in a little book and carried in his pocket along with that I remember men from the upper end of the county came to our home on Sunday night so they would have only seven miles to walk Monday morning, and have no fears of being called and fined for being late. Just think of the changes that have taken place. Sixty years ago, no railroad, only a few stage coaches running from Fay- etteville to Salisbury once a week. Sixty years ago hot one mile of rail road in Moore county or in any ad- ioiniwr county. Now we have I sup pose one hundred or more miles oi railroad in the county and on every public road the automobiles are to be seen running every way, reminds me of what the Irishman said: "An' faith if the method of traveling be improv ed as much for the next fifty years as it has been for the last fifty, we will be getting there two hours before we leave home. I W. H. H. Lawhon. HORNE-BLUE Elizabeth Horne, Miss Elizabeth Horne, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Horne was married to Robert Blue Saturday, June 5th. The young couple went to Cameron where they were married by Rev. M. D. McNeill. Both young people are of the Eure ka section and are well known in their community. Miss Horne before her marriage was one of the student nurses in the McConnell Hospital. Mr. Blue is the son of N. C. Blue, one of the substan tial farmers of Moore county. GURRIE LUMBER Damage to the extent of 815,000 or $20,000 was suffered by the J. L. Cur- rie Company, when fire occurred at the company s planing mm in carinage Tuesday night, "."v.."' When the fire was discoyered about one o'clock, the mill house was blazing and the fire had gained such headway that it looked as if nothing could be saved. . However, the fire department responded promptly-and did such ex cellent work that, a lar.ge amount of lumber on he jard was saved. - i s. Something like $4,60Q worth of .fin ished lumber which was, in, and near the mill house,"was destroyed..' Alfof the 'machinery was damaged to such an extent th,at ft, will probably be nec emery to install new.' N ' , ' little pocket testament mother had given him and that picture of his best girl. He had neither of these, but he had ia his heart the feeling that if he did his part the legislators who were empowered by the people to act in the higher things for him would not fail . in theirs. ' . ' Germany fell, the conference met at Versailles with Woodrow Wilson him-, self, who had uttered the principles under which we went to war, sitting at the council board. Doughboys do- ing lonely guard duty on the Moselle, artilleryman grooming muddy horses dark, dirty German stables, engineers mending roads, all kept their eyes and ears on Paris. "We know Woodrow, will bring something good out of that conference when they do finally get it finished," they said. And he did not fail them. There was no question, in the minds of the majority of the wear- ers of the O. D. as to whether Article (I guess that's the one)" might cause the ' United States to have to help quell a dispute between two South American states, or even have to help lick another Germany if such a power ever arpse again to menace the world. They had crossed the ocean ortce and even if they did re member that they had sworn that day they were seasick that they (meaning "Black Jack" or Woodrow) would have to build a bridge to get them across again, they knew that a just cause was all that was necessary to call them to do it again. :; But then they said, "that leagne-"will 8ee to it .that therti won't ' . . at 'ii 1' 1. oe any more wars. so mey accept ed the league as o. k and went back to discussing what particular M. P. had won the war. There was no thought in their minds that the Congress would fail to come across with their part of the game and finish it all up fine.' We 'told the Frenchmen, "Allez toot sweet, and ratify it before we beat you to it." And the Frenchmen said, "Mes comarade, les Americain, are al ways in a hurry, nut we must try to keep up with them in ,this plan of theirs and Monsieur Weelson." But alas, our former comrades, the Poilus, the Aussies, the Tommies, are losing faith in us. Congress has failed us who looked to them for the right. In what has seemed to. me a blind, jealous hatred of our great leader they have suffered our country to drop from its position of eminence in In ternational affairs to that of a mere outsider standing outside the candy pulling circle and saying, "Oh, I want some of the candy when you get it rVady, but I don't want- to put my hands in it and get them sticky." They might try to salve over this breaking of their faith by soldier bo nuses, free lands, insurance, the. priv ilege to vote one year withou paying poll tax and other ways too numerous to mention; but can we forget that they shall not sleep in Flanders field, neither on the banks of the Marne, the valley of the Vesle, in the red mud of St. Mihiel, or the fastnesses of "the Argonne, if they, fail to keep their trust! ' :, Yours truly. ; . ' D. D. Shields Cameron. - Guilford College'; June 1, 1920. PUNT BURNED 1' Several fires have' occurred at this plant in the past few years, but none . compared with the Tuesday night fire There was no insurance on the plant. No one. it seems, has any accurate information as to how the fire started. THREE WEDDINGS - 'Squire Jesse Fry .." continues tho good work. On May 17th he made Lu la Smith and L. E. Weatfcerapooa mat and wife and en May 27th, he mv-. ried Ws167th couple when, he united Annie B.-Spencer and John Smith. AH: parties colored. . ".''; i . Ort June 5th, 'Squire. Fry united James Oliver and'Core, Foster, colored,, residing near Carthage.