The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-12-16
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WILL BE A GREAT GATHERING
Reunion of the Virginans and Caro-.
linians at Southern Pines.

Reunion of the Virginians and Caro-.
linians at Southern Pines.
All the arrangements have been per.
fected whereby the people who have left
the three old States of Virginia and the
Carolinas will meet in a great Christmas
reunion. The meeting place was given
to North Carolina because it was the
central State, and Southern Pines, n. c.,
was selected on account of it's large
hotel capacity.
The railroad rates from Texas and
the South will be one fare for the round
trip. Tickets on sale December 10Th and
Goth, good to return in thirty days. The
rates from Boston, New York, Baltimore
and Washington will be very low. This
enables those who have their Virginia,
North Carolina and South Carolina
homes to attend the reunion and then
go to their old homes and spend three
or four weeks with the friends and
kin people.
Many of the Virginians and CAROLYN
ians have written and urged friends in
distant States to come to the reunion
and visit the old homestead and the
land they love so well.
To enable the people in the States of
Virginia and the Carolinas to meet with
Wanderers, the Seaboard Air Line has
agreed TO place ON sale tickets Deem
Der 21st, 22nd and 23rd. good till the
25th, at one cent per mile and the re-
union will be largely attended. Men
who have gone to other States and made
themselves prominent in the various
professions will be present and make ad-
dresses.
A good time will be had, low hotel
rates will be charged. The Piney
Woods Inn, the elegant new hotel, will
put in rates down to what the country
would charge-two ($2) dollars per day.
The Southern Pines hotel, the next larg-
est hotel, will make rate of one dol
lar and fifty cents per day. Boarding
houses will charge from one dollar to one
and a half per day. Those coming in the
morning and returning same day can get
dinner or lunch at either the Piney
Woods Inn or Southern Pines hotel at
from so cents up.
During the two days there will be
many things to amuse and interest the
crowds, including old time games as
well as modern games of amusement.
The round trip rate from Raleigh will
be only one dollar and forty cents.
Southern Pines is an interesting place
to visit, and it is worth the cost of the
trip to see the place and its surround
ings. The elegant notes.-the beauti-
full cottages-the magnificent orchards
of peaches, the State Experiment Farm,
the largest peach orchard in the country,
the magic city of Pinehurst that inside
of one year and half has been built in
the most artistic and beautiful style of
any similar undertaking in the country.
Vanderbilt's work at Asheville n. G.
or Pullman town in Illinois, cannot COM
pare with Pinehurst, with its electric
railroads, electric lights, beautiful parks,
drives and lakes, all this and much
more is to be seen by those who attend
the reunion at Southern Pines on the
22nd and 23rd.
The hotel accommodation will be am
pie for all those who attend, as there is
more hotel accommodation at Southern
Pines than at any other place in this
section.-News and Observer, December
10, 1896.