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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1897
Page
2
Frank T. Spinney publisher offers advertising rates on request with marriage birth and death notices free. Correspondence invited on matters of local interest. Notices and ads such as wanted to let for sale etc not exceeding five lines, 25 cents per week. Postal entry Pinehurst Moore County North Carolina second class mail.
Commissioners John Dh Willson Juneshore William Currie Curriesville It BE Creel Aberdeen Clerk Superior Court D A McDomild Sheriff Samuel M Jones Register of Deeds W H Dattley Treasurer Daniel Hinnen Coroner Dr G Mc Leo Surveyor J G Seawell Mineral Springs Towns Magistrates Daniel Blue William Chirk It L Melvensle
The piece praises Governor Wolcott as an honorable leader, noting voters chose him for another term. It also mentions the death of Henry George and a political race in New York, stating the bassist presence endures after the recent elections.
We have received the first copy of the Pinehurst Outlook printed at Pinehurst North Carolina. Arthur U1 Spinney, formerly of this city, is editor. The eight page issue is neatly produced with handsome cuts and fine presswork.
The postmaster FP.P. Spinney and ex-attache Arthur H. Spinnney edit the Pinehurst Outlook. They commend the publication as a bright, newsy and well printed exponent of the town’s cause. The note predicts a brilliant future, with articles on beauties and health aiding local prosperity.
A Pennsylvania editor reports Pinehurst North Carolina as a New England style health resort in Moore County six miles west of Southern Pines. It highlights mild climate long leaf pine air purity and a model village with amenities from running water to a circulating library. The piece notes rail lines electric trolleys and a park with deer and turkeys, plus the town’s aim to attract visitors seeking rest and restorative health.
A country elderly woman in Raleigh heard of a brick house named Wonner's Exchange and, puzzled, learned from a passerby that men supposedly exchange wives there. The tale, linked to a prosecuting attorney and a famed expert, riffs on skulls and law, ending with a quip about pain from a kind old man and a boy.
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