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J . i i t ill ft i The Blade Established 1875. For the Upbuilding and Development pfMoorc County. , The News Established Feb, 1905 CONSOLIDATED WITH THE CARTHAGE . "URY1, 1912. -. VOL. XVIL NO. 5. 12 PAGES TODAY CARTHAGE, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 192lr PART ONE, EIGHT PAGES. $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE - Several Buildings Destroyed in Early Morning Blaze Pinehurst and Carthage Departments Respond to Appeal for Assistance . Southern Pines Wednesday morn tag suffered from a fire that burned out the block bounded by Broad street and Pennsylvania avenue and the al leys to the west and north. The total loss amounted to over $100,000. As nearly as could be gathered the losers are Harry Lewis, building and stock, $20,000; R. E. Wiley; $1,600; The Perkins Hotel and minor-build ings connected with the hotel, $30, 000; Home Furniture Co., $5,000; J. F. .Reynolds, $7,500; H. F. Howe, Jew ler, $1,500; J..M. Windham, $1,000; Tom Cameron, stock, ets., $4,500; E. C. Eddy, photograph establishment, 3,500; Telephone Company, $3,500; N. J. Mills, stock, $3,000; besides oth er smaller losses. The insurance could not be detormined, but it is not large as the rate was high. The buildings were alk wooden and ; most of them old, but in good shape. The origin, of the lire is uncertain. It was discovered about 2 o'clock in the -morning but was under "such headway It could not'be stopped until the whole wooden block was completely burned out. The Southern Pines fire depart. Sudden Death of Dr. Wm. P. Swett ; Caused by Excitement During Fire One of the most deplorable features of the fire at Southern Pines was the sudden death of Dr. Wm. P. Swett. He had been called to attend, en in valid at one of the hotels near by, and in the. excitement of the fire, which seemed. likely to sweep toward the ho tel, the patient collapsed. The death of the patient, and the threatening approach of the fiTe affected the doc tor and without warning he fell dead. Dr. Swett was one of the early set Sandhill Peaches Will be Exported to the Old World Some of the present crop of Sand Mi peaches will go to Europe., The Fruit and Produce Company of Great Britain has notified the fruit growers of Moore county that the export of peaches to London and other English ports would be profitable and the com pany offers to undertake the export of any quantity. The company has its .Agency on this sid of the ocean and its offices arid marketing arrange ments in several of the British ports. .It -will receive the fruit at New York .cars for it there while in transit to ? the ship, receive it in London and han .die the sales in the old world where Carthage Boys. Playing Good Baseball Carthage easily defeated the Rao ford baseball team Thursday after 'noon on the local grounds by a score of 12 to 1. , ' ' ' '';- ' J ' The- visitors were outclassed In'ev ry' department and- only threatened the goal ' on one occasion, that com ing in the final inning, after one had walked and was advanced by a single but Mclver put the brakes on and re tired the side in big ' league style. . Aside from the heavy slugging of the entire Carthage club, and a one hand tab by Muse, the game was without features. ' The score in the games be tween Raeford and Carthage are now .'evehl tne deciding game to be played 'at" Southern Pines Friday afternoon. .t Raeford ....1.- -100 000 000 1 . Carthage r.-....-.50l 031 032-1-12 ''. 'Batteries McLean and Talbert, Mc lver and Rose; umpire, Person. VV . Carthage Plays Sanf ord- Tuesday ' . The Carthage- learn met i Sanf ord on the local grounds Tuesday after noon which resulted in a score of 5 ;-t,14 in favor of , Carthage. , J r. f The Carthage team has already de Y ment was quickly on the. ground, and good action saved the -rest of the town as the flying sparks set fire in several other places. At a critical moment, when it was thought that the fire would get over to the Jefferson Inn and the Congregational Church, the Pinehurst fire department arrived and by its help and the brick walls oi the Hayes store and Wiley's stor& the fire was cut off after burning ta or three wooden buildings back of the telephone office and toward the Congregational Church. Not much was saved from the burn, ing; buildings as the fire had gained such headway Lefore it was discov ered that it was with difficulty the buildings conid be entered. As the News is printed the firemen are still pourin? water on thp smok ing ruins, but practically evetything except the Mills store -that stood in the block is burned to the ground and the destruction is complete. Bold spirits who stood by the scene predict that from the desolation will spring up new buildings that will add , much to the facilities and appearance of the town. tlers in Southern Pines, going there from the "north some thirty years ago. From the start he was identified with everything that had to do with pro gress.. He was ;ratear;ttjhe''f bfth$ most skillful doctors in this "section of the state, as well as a man of char acter-and ability. Besides all this he was a student and a thinker and in all matters of general interest he was looked on as an authority. He leaves a widow, one son, James Swett, and two daughters. the manager of the concern says Moore county fruit will sell to good advantage. The New York manager says his company will give advice as to packing and shipping, and that all the details will be in the hands of the company after, the fruit has reached New York. Some of the Moore coun ty growers have agreed to take hold of the proposition so it s certain that fru't from the Sandhills, will be on sale in England during the summer. It is an sy matter with ice and re frigerator cars and ships to pub per ishable stuff across the Atlantic, and the peach men hope for a good trade in that quarter in a few years. '-"" feated Eureka and Sanford and will play-' off the 'tie with "Raeford at Southern Pines Friday They are making an effort to be eligible to go to Chapel Hill to meet Jthe team there. 4 Alton Mclver, Carthage pitcher, has made a splendid record, In both the games with Raeford. and San ford he held down , three pitchers on each team, and to his fine work is doe much of the success of the Carthage tea. ;"' . .:' ,. . ;.. "v-. 1 ' . 1 " ' .' ''' :-: :h NEW GARAGE WILL BE ? v -. Z OPENED IN GLENDON i Glendon has secured- , a garage in which automobiles and trucks tan be kept in repair and supplied with es sentials for motive power. A y. , ; J.' B. Goldston, of Goldston, who has had years of experience on all kinds of cars, with his brother, H. M. Goldston, , is ready to supply.,, the .needs of the automobllists. He. comes from the R. G. Sloan Motor Company, of Greensboro: and is Kn' efficient me- chanjc who is competent to make re pairs on all kinds of cars, WORK TO START Oil CLUBHOUSE Superintendent Making ; Preliminary Arrangements and Expects to Have 75 or More Men Employed in Few Days Material Arriving. The new club house at Mid-Pines starts. in a few days. C. F. Ballard, of Hamlet, who will be superintendent of construction, arrived in Southern Pines Monday to make arrangements for beginning wrk, and will' at once begin the organization of his forces. He will bring in I. few days four fore men, and as the work progresses, he counts on from "sixty to seventy-five Carpenters and bricklayers. The im mediate problem that he is wotfking on is to find a place to put his men. Material is on the way, and as fast as it comes it will be moved over from the station to the building site by the help of three or four trucks. , Mr. Ballard is figuring with S. B. Richard son for several houses, in which men with families can be cared for diking the summer, and if his workmen can not be provided with places to stay in Manly or Southern Pines he will build barracks for them at the job. ' i It will take a few days to get or ganized and put material on ' the ground to get under way, but as soon as the freight begins to arrive - the truck qrew will be started on that and gradually the carpenters and masons will be taking hold, and by the end of the month Mr. Ballard hopes to see a right fair army in action on the job. SALE OF ANOTHER WEYMOUTH! HEIGHTS LOT THIS WEEK. S?' BriRichardsiMir oiiTuv;;:kold1i riiP to 'Charles ..Eaton,." of Bethlehem, N, H., a lot of nearly two acres on Wey mouth Heights at Southern Pines. The location is on the Raeford road, opposite the park. The price was $J,840. Like the Lewis lots the Eaton lot is on the extreme summit of the heights, and it commands a view in all directions, away down into .Camp Bragg as well as in the other course to the westward. This makes about twenty acres sold so far on this prop erty. MORE SALES AT KNOLLWOOD. Two more lets were sold last week at Knollwood.. These went to Fran cis Keating and C. L. Fuller. . The lo cation is on the new road that Frank Buchan has started to make across the Midland road at the west end of the golf course and adjoining. the club property, This new road is parallel to the. Carthage and Southern Pines road on top of the ridge. It will be one of the finest roads on the proper ty. .This makes six lots sold up to last week. ' t. Judge W A. iWay, of the Common wealth Trust Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., bought lot 313 at Knollwood and will build a new house at once. Several memberships have been taken in the clubr The new members outside of . the I original ' stockholders are WUliam Bloodgood, of New York; E. J. Barber and S. B. Chapin, New York; George N. Clemson, (Middle- town; N. J.; C. T,' Crocker, Fifchburg,' Mass.; Mrs.' Dull, of Harristurjr, Pa.; George T.- Dunlap, Pinehurst; and 1 Francis Keating Pinehurst: " . These' people Are all thoroughly fa miliar with this section,' as they have all been here year after year.i In buy-J 1 il ing locations or club . membership they know what-they -are doing and why. - . . . V. . Pinehurst reports some important sales in the week. . P. C,. Thomas and Mrs." Thomas, of Rome, K. who are well-known in social aflairi at Pinehurst have "bought wb' lcts op posite jthe residence of Henry Horn blower and a fins ho'isc will be built at once. l The pries of tha two lot s was $8,000.' FIDDLERS' CONVENTION. ' . There will be a Fiddlers' t. Conven tion at Mount Carmel school Saturday night afj 8 o'clock. The public is cor dially "invited to come out and enjoy the music.'''1" - 'v ' " ' A Moore County Model Road V 4 f ' 1 si ; til ve V v x - '' Scene on the Midlands road near where the sales of building lots have re- ; t cently taken placein the vicinity of the clubhouse. M assiMeeting Pames Barrett r'S Ticket of municipal officers nomi nated at a mass meeting held in the courthouse at Carthage Tuesday night: Mayor Jesse Barrett. .Commissioners W. H. Currie. . O. D. Wallace " .Mrs. Margaret Mclver Blue. C. M. Muse. A. T. Lewis. A mass meeting was held in the courthouse in Carthage Tuesday night at 8 p. m. for the purpose of : nominating a ticket for mayor and five municipal commissioners. J. B. Muse acted as chairman, told the object of the meeting, declared' it organized for business and Mrs. Fan nie Downing was appointed secretary. Attorney R. L. Burns stated this wag the first time the right to vote had been extended to the women, of the. town, spoke of . the object of the meeting, and that Tuesday, May the 10th was election day reminding all the women Jo register..: before that date, and ' concluded , with - placing I4he nams of Jesse Barrett in nomina tion for mayor as he thought he was the one man to rigidly 'enforce the liquor laws. , . C. F. Leavitt took the floor to state that Mr. Barrett was needed, where no was as fire commissioner, he was too valuable to that department to do removed. J He. thought it a good; idea to, nominate two candidates for mayor and ten for commissioners, as at a previous meeting some years ago one ticket had been agreed upon and at the end of a week another new ticket had been formulated and final ly voted upon. ' , ; ; ; ; Rev. John f E. Ayscue opposed the double ticket idea, thinking it, best to decide definitely upon one ticket ' ,, He made a fearless appeal for a bettet town an4 ,the cooperation of both of. fleers and citisens in. making it so. - B. P. Barron said this, is only a "Law and Order League," not a reg ular election and only for a nomina tion, v'- .. - ' 1 ;- '"f "'"' I George- McNeill seconded Mr.' Lea vitfsnlait' v- . R. L. Burns did not approve pi two candidates.' If his nominee. Mr. Bar ret, was not the choice of the meet ing, then nominate some one else. lllillli . -m i 9 . " - wmm mmm as Candidate V!iiMawS"k -"T - rri .-: --7 -r- -j x,, a. wmjrww asuea oy me cnaw man to preside until he made a few remarks. He strongly advocated tnV assistance of the women and favored one nomination for mayor and five commissioners. Mr. Camp wanted to know if the citizenship had been duly notified oi the mass meeting. Mr. McNeill thought it was not a majority meeting. Curtis Muse arose to state that the question of notification was answered by the representative citizenship present if it were not a gathering ot representative citizens there nev er had been one in Carthage. He thought it not a wise course to pur sue in the nomination of more than one group of municipal officers. Mr.. Leavitt withdrew his plan and placed in nomination for mayor C. M. Muse. George McNeill nominated the in. cumbent. W. H. McNeill. J. G. Parks made a talk against the postponement of definite action on one set' of officers and pleaded for a clean town. O. D. Wallace made a motion to close the nominations for mayor. George Humber, at this, point got the floor and. stated there was more than one man qualified for mayor,! and after a brief statement of Mr. Muse's ability and his unselfish and able assistance extended formerly in dealing with the whiskey element, seconded the motion of nominating C M. Muse' for mayor. ' . Mr., Humber then read a ticket ot names y lor. commissioners: F. &. Kennedy; Wilbur Currie, A. T. Lewis, D. Carl Frye and 0. D. Wallace. . R: L. Burns nominated Mrs. Mar' garret Mclver Blue for one of the com. missloners. - ' George McNeill withdrew the name of W. H. McNeill. . v : ' The ballot was then taken on the two nominees for mayor: CM, Muse and 'Jesse Barrett, which resulted in Barrett's nomination with a margin of 18 totes Barrett receiving 82 votes and Muse 64, 41 fMr. Muse extended his' services1 to Mr. Barrett should 'he be elected as may or 'jot. Carthage, and. asked that the vote be made v unanimous. But i j two. noes Deing received. 'l C.M. Muse was then ' nominated as one of the commissioners, this was seconded by Mn Burns, who again (Continued on Pare Eight) j THREE STRUCK BY AUT0L100ILES lamate of the County Home Almost Loses Ear; Small Boy Receives Cuts on His Face, While Another Li Knocked Down But Not Injured. Three persons have been struck by1 automobiles in or near Carthage dur ing the past week, and two received painful injuries. In each of these accidents the drivers of the cars were exonerated of blame, and those struck were held to be at fault It is also stated that there have been other ac- , cidents in the county the past week, but the News man failed to learn the. details. While running across the street in , front of the home last Thursday eve ning, Hugh Powell, the five-year-old r,on of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh P. Kelly, was struck by M. G. Dalrymple's auto.' Mr. Dalrymple saw the boy as he left -the sidewalk and realized that his car could not miss the little fellow unless the boy stopped. He turned his auto sharply to the left and lessened the force of the collision. The child col-, lided with the car and was thrown back a distance of several feet. Mr. ' Dalrymple brought his car to a stop within a few feet and he picked the boy up and carried him into the house A doctor was hurriedly summoned and upon examination found that the boy was not injured. i The next accident occurred Friday , afternoon as Ernest Campbell, 6f Rae ford, was coming to Carthage. As he ; was passing the County Home two men were standing in the road, and he " blew his horn to warn them his car was approaching. ' James L. Starnes, - "r"jlT " .-rrr. . T aTM-wno -ig-pamaHy paraiyao,-waa one 0f men, and instead of step- ping to the side of the road, he be- 1 came confused and stepped in front of the auto. He was knocked down, ' and Mr. Campbell, seeing that he was injured, rushed him to Carthage for treatment. Dr. Blue found that his right ear was almost severed from his head, and after sewing it back, he permitted Starnes to return to the County Home. Sunday afternoon Jack, the three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Hooks, ran out of a neighbor's house into the street in front of a passing auto, and the little fellow was knocked down, but the car fortunately did not run over him. He received two ugly cuts, one on the forehead and one un der the eye. The car was driven by Will Morris, colore, of Southern Pines, who did everything in his pow er to be of assistance until a doctor could be found, going to the McCon nell Hospital in search of a phvsician.' Before he returned, however. Dr. Mc1 Leod was found and rendered treat- ment. EMBURY'S DESIGN , FOR COURT HOUSE Aymar Embury, II, the architect ' who ..designed the Mid-Pines club house and other notable buildings in the county, has made a plan for a re built court house in Carthage and the picture is at the office of the Register of Deeds, . - , ; '. '. -, t ;- .. " It shows the remodeled courthouse with two wings, each to have a vault and large office. Also planned iq columned '. vestibule, -and a rebuilt roof.- The picture is of a very attrac tive building and it is said the work can , be done for 'less than $40,000. This would mean a saving of probably $100,000 as against a new . building. The - wings as planned give plenty of room and the new roof would make the, building entirely safe, while it is well-known ; that anything Mr. Em bury plans is always agreeable to look t ., , '. r ,. . : - :, ' ' ICE CREAM SUPPER AT " ' ' ' BUELAH HILL SClIOOt There will' be an' ice cream supper at the Buelah Hill School 'Saturday night; April 16.V The public is cor dially Invited to' attend. 'v MISSES BREWER AND DEATON, ... ... .,: Teachers.
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