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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
4
Advertising rites reasonable and furnishes on application. Notices of Marriages Births and Deaths inserted free. Advertisements such as Wanted To Let For Sale not exceeding five lines 25 cents per week. Address all orders to Franks Sprinky Publisher. Postal entry Pinehurst Moore County North Carolina.
A historic roster lists Moore County government officials including Commissioners John Bs Watson and William Currie, Clerk Superior Court D A Medion, Sheriff Samuel M Jones, Register of Deeds W TH Battle, Treasurer Diilel Chinnen, Coroner D G McLeod, Surveyor G Seawell, and Justices of the Peace W W Cole Daniel Blue M L Morris James L Currie A Thomas M Brown Patterson Bridge M M Thoms Clark's Mills C D Benbow Pinehurst.
A relief committee is organized to assist victims of forest fires near Pinehurst. Applicants should send for aid or notify the committee to prevent duplication. Miss Gilbert will accept bedding clothing and provisions at Benbow's front office 10 to 12 and 3 to 6 daily except Sunday. Funds may be given to Tobey Spinney and Jenney or Miss Upham at the post office, with Miss Drew as treasurer. New destitution cases are reported continuously and all contributions will be expended and distributed judiciously.
An old anecdote recalls a general camping on the lower Mississippi. His boy Harry jokes that in the evening the mosquitoes are so intoxicated they ignore Mars George, and in the morning the skeeters are so drunk they do not mind Mars George.
A village entertainment night featured the play Esmeralda under Miss Eugenie Upham with a large audience. Proceeds from reserved seat sales will aid forest fire victims. The item also recalls local anecdotes about artists, a Raleigh chicken breeder, and a remark from a black man about incubating chicks.
Senator C. M. Cooke of Louisburg will give the principal address on Washington's Birthday at the Village Hill celebration with Postmaster Powell of Aberdeen aiding. Ex-secretary Cooke, a former Confederate army captain, is described as an able lawyer and eloquent speaker. Gen. TB Carrington will preside. an orchestra will provide music. Two young rivals share a comic note about an umbrella incident.
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