Oh War’s wild alarms
Would hold many charms
Denied the sleepless mortals
Living near the jail portals.
This is the concluding verse of some handmade poetry constructed by one of the unfortunates aroused by the siren in the jail last Friday night. He alleges that in spite of the fact that it rhymes and states a fact and was not made in Armenia or Heligoland, it is poetry. I reckon his head is still spinning and he will get over it.
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Mr. Pottle of the Hollywood has commenced an addition to that popular hotel, that will place 21 more rooms at his disposal by next fall. The new Extension, 60 by 40 feet, will be added to the east, or May street side of the hotel. On completion of this work, a seven-room cottage will be erected on Pennsylvania avenue between May and Ashe streets, directly in the rear of the Hollywood.
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Sunday, with its benignant rain falling like a benison on the shining green of the foliage. Peace. Ululating dogs all hidden under the porches, out of sight and out of hearing. Snorting flivvers exhausted and resting for the day. Silence, save for the drumming of the softly falling rain on the roof and the patter of the drops in the grateful trees. A lullaby to cheer the weary heart.
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The much sought-for Arbutus is nearly gone and only here and there can now be found the rarely beautiful Prixie Moss, its white star-like blossoms so vivid against the dull red or more rarely, green moss nestling in the dull browns of the scrub oaks, unnoticed until the burgeoning forth of the profusion of pink buds and white flowers makes a fairy carpet. But now the Wood Violet, or “Bird’s Foot Violet” in light blue or lavender replaces the Arbutus, and here and there the dwarf Iris in blue and gold. Anyway ahead of time the blue Lupin and its foliage appears on the sandhills and the blueberries show pink and white blossoms in the swamp borders.
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Unique among other blossoms are the wonderful red Dogwoods in Mr. Gould’s yard and the beautiful rosy red flowering Peach in front of Mr. Lachine’s Massachusetts avenue property.
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The Southern Pines Disposal Plant is finished and in complete working order. Commencing last Wednesday night the plant has undergone an unceasing best and Mr. Maze, the Commissioner in charge of the installation of the plans expresses himself as completely satisfied. From the main outfall of our sewer system at Massachusetts avenue over a mile of18-inch pipe leads to the plant near McDeed’s Creek, below the Knollwood road. Here the pipe discharges into the ”Screen Chamber,” 33 feet long, 8 feet wide and three feet deep; from this chamber the flow continues to the “Imhoff” tank, a receptacle 37 feet long, 20 feet wide and 32 feet deep. Purified in this tank and freed from solid matter, the flow passes to the ”Dosing Tank”, 26 feet in diameter and six feet deep, which automatically discharges this purified waste water on open ground, exposed to air and sunlight. As installed, the plant is large enough to care for a town 10 times our size, and we are assured that no offensive odor will defile the air and that our sewage problems is now solved.
From the front page of The Sandhill Citizen, Southern Pines, Friday, April 10, 1925
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