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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1900
Page
2
A playful verse to Anna Hubbard on a birthday laments a bare cupboard. The speaker asks for a feast of poetry, imagines a kite of inspiration, and urges Anna to share her best verse to feed the multitudes and keep singing like a spring bird.
A village excursion last Tuesday on a five coach special train carried nearly 250 travelers to Raeford. The party visited a turpentine still and Raeford Academy with speeches by Dr. D. W. Abercrombie and Rev. Edwin H. Dickinson. The trip proceeded via Aberdeen to Raeford with pleasant forest scenery and hospitable villagers.
A local party traveled by special train to a large sawmill to view pine logs turned into lumber. Logs were hauled from the forest on a treacherous path. The group then returned aboard the cars, arriving home around 6 50. The trip was enjoyed and future excursions to nearby towns are being discussed.
Narratives describe a fox hunt near Pinehurst with Messrs. Puff stickler Wicker and Powell, a crowd witnessing the chase from Village Green to Holly Inn. The fox was captured after a long run and tied to a saddle, then the hounds resumed the chase before plans for another hunt were announced.
A church song service last Sunday prompted a five year old girl to whisper to her mother during prayer asking what people want to steal away for. The girl heard a selection about stealing away and wondered why good people would want to steal them. Washington Steer reports.
The regular Sunday evening concert in the Holly Inn music room drew the season’s largest audience. Miss Marian Carpenter’s violin solos impressed and were heartily encored while Mr Claude Barker’s cornet pieces were well received. The fall program featured Wagner, Wieniawski, Bizet, Grieg, and Saint-Saens pieces with audience hymns.
A village group led by Mr. Shizen Weeks enjoyed a four seated excursion wagon trip to a goat farm then McKenzies to see cotton work and a hand loom. The outing featured young goats, log cabin fireplaces, scenic pond views, and concluded with dinner. Participants included H. H. French of Peterboro George French of Duluth miss Houghton miss Grant Alice Reynolds Thizen Weeks and family from Belmont.
The Cedars parlors hosted a cottage group event last evening with tasteful cedar trim and bunting. The program featured drums stories games recitations and musical selections with contributions from Mrs McKown Mrs Tucker Mr Rogers Miss L E Carpenter Mr St Clair Mrs Daniels and Dr Parcels.
A fragment notes free vegetables offered by German Kali Works located at 3 Nassau Street in New York. No further context or dates are provided.
Present wrote verse and displayed talent at a Cedars social. A peanut hunt yielded two quarts of peanuts hidden around rooms with prizes for harvest and fewest peanuts won by Mrs Wentworth, Miss A B Robinson, Mr St Clair, and Dr Parcels. Refreshments included lemonade exke and candy, and attendees regretted inviting only residents.
A fire company foreman shouts through collapsing glass that the door is open and they know their business. An owner protests the window smashing as the blaze threatens the adjacent house in Philadelphia.
Analysis from RaLenu North Carolina dated April 1807 notes Pinehurst water from tube well system shows total solids 0.02 grains per gallon hardness 1.00 Clark, lime carbomate 0.00, chlorine 6.08 grains per gallon, free ammonia 0.082 ppm and albuminoid ammonia 0.060 ppm. Water described as exceptionally pure and a valuable source for drinking water. author signed H. Bh. Batt.
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