THE WEEKLY PILOT
Published every Friday morning by the
Pilot Printing Company.
STACY BREWER, Manager.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, N. C.,
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FRIDAY, DEC. 17, 1920
The New Development
The story that comes of the
new development that is begin
ning down the Seaboard this
side of Southern Pines is bound
to revolutionize everything in
JMoore county. A groupe of
capitalists headed by some
wealthy and successful north
ern business man, and associ
ated with some of the most able
men of our own community are
planning a work that will out
rank any thing yet undertaken
one time in the county. This
week the active work begins
and it will include all the
country from Pinehurst to So-
-uthem Pines and from there up
to a point half way to Lake-
view. The immediate appro
priation for the work is around
$200,000, and the ultimate
amount involved is two or
three times this much, with a
-future that cannot be calcu-
lated. at all.
Sooner or later this develop-
.ment will reach out and include
Lakeview^ and Vass will be the
third corner of the movement
as Southern Pines and Pine
hurst are the other two. It is
not to be presumed that this
will all happen at once. It is
not desirable that it should. We
up here have too many things
to do to have it at once. We
must get familiar with the ad
vancement that is starting^ far
ther down the road, and grad
ually we must accustom our
selves to the higher prices of
land and the more intensive
style of development. When
-Henry Page and Frank Buchan
commenced to talk about hun
dred dollar farm land they
were laughed at. But that is
an old fashion of humor now,
and over on the Knollwood de
velopment they are talkin'g now
of land that is to sell at $1,500
an acre. It will sell for that,
-and for the one reason, that it
is worth the money. We who
live here have not seen the
vision. But the stranger people
who come here and find this
magnificent climate and who
will find all the advantages
that Xnollwood will offer them
will be perfectly willing to pay
the price asked. And what is
fifteen hundred dollars for an
acre of land if you happen to
want the acre or two or three
acres, and happen to have the
money? There is the whole
point. In New York the man
who wants the land looks on a
million dollars as a low price
for an acre.
Here around Vass we are
still thinking that twenty or
thirty dollars is a high price for
land, and so it is. But we are
presently going to understand
that this land is worth far more
money, and then we will begin
to make it prove up on its new
value. We need to get a lot
more good people on our land
while it is cheap so that we can
have a thrifty community of
industrious neighbors workinb
to share in that prosperity that
is ahead. Ours will not be so
much of a winter resort feature
of the county as it will be a
manufacturing and farming
section, but as the resort grows
our part of the county will grow
with it. We will make many
things the resort section will
want and we will find mixing
with our rural residents the
overflow from the resort cent
ers, for many will want to get
a little farther out yet close
enough in to be in touch with
the development and progress
that are certain to be part of
the whole community.
New methods of farming will
come from the contact with the
farmers who will be making
homes on small places. More
advanced orchard methods will
become part of our practice,
and we will be following in the
production of that new honey
dew melon that is exciting
Manly and of the other things
that will be coming. All these
influences w*ill be reaching up
into the Vass regino, and before
we know it that high priced
land will be setting an example
around here because the de
mand for this kind of land in
this climate among these people
will make the price.
It is a big story and it is use
less to try to forecast it. But
there is not the slightest doubt
that we are going to have our
share of it up this far. The
main thing is that we join in
with the folks who are starting
this work and that we have
confidenec in what they are do
ing and that we try in as far as
we can to encourage the efforts
they are making. We can do
this best by doing for ourselves
and our section everj^thing we
can that is along their same
line.
$1,500 looks like a big price
to pay for an acre of Sandhill
land, don’t lose your head over
it. These yankees who say it
is worth that much know, for
it is they who are making the
price, and they are long head
ed men. It is we who have
been fooled. We thought Moore
county was worth nothing. It
hardly worth while for us to
have much to say about prices.
Billy Shakespeare Said
Pleasure and action make the hours seem
short
Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss.
But cheerly seek how to redress their
harms.
All things are ready, if our minds be so.
PERSONi
Now is the Time!
CHEARS THE PLACE
lO per ct. Reduction
Owing to business conditions we are offering to our
to our patrons 10 percent, reduction on everything except
Watches, Grafonolas and Fountain Pens. We have a
large stock of reliable merchandise of good quality consist
ing of
Watches, solid gold; Jewelry, sterling and plated
silver; Sheffield plate sterling and silver plated
Vanity Cases, Nesh Bags, Hand Bags, Etc.
We are laying aside presents daily, all jewely put in nice
boxes. Our goods are not marked to high and this 10 per
cent, reduction is your gain, let us have your mail order.
Gifts That Last
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The Holidays are rapidly approaching, its a good
idea to buy your gifts early, we make this suggestion be
cause for the next few weeks will be busy ones for you and
us too, one trip through our store will give you more good
ideas for Xmas than you will get in a month at home.
It’s what we say it is.
W. p. CHEARS
Sanford, Ph„oeio9 N. C.
KEITH STORE CO.
Specially reduced prices on DRY GOODS, SHOES and
UNDERWEAR. Come to see us, '
Mr. William D. Smith spei
in Raleigh on business.
Mr. Charles J. Temple mf
Sanford last Monday on busi
Mr. D. A. Smith and Miss
cott, spent last Sufeday week
Mr. J. D. Tyson, of Cartn
Vass last Saturday paid thq
visit
Mr. D. C. McGill, of Wendl
the guest of his family he
week. I
Mr. John B. Blue and Mij
motored to Carthage last
noon.
Mr. Alton M. Cameron
Shriner’s meeting held at
week.
Mr. Walter B. Graham is|
Federal Court, as a juror,
week.
Mrs. Charles J. Temple
Cameron were visitors in
Monday.
Mr. T. W. Churchill, of
last Saturday with his d?
K. Gunter, this town.
Mr. Fred Cash, formerly
Belt Tobacco Warehouse
Monday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McCh
were the week-end guests
W. J. Cameron, this town.
Mr. Lacy Fry, of Midi
spending the holidays withj
relatives in and around Vaj
MiV L. A. Jordan, our po]
artist, was a visitor in Ab(
ford last Monday on busing
Mr. Charles Brooks, of
the week-end at the hoi
Mrs. Geo. W. Brooks, this tj
Mr. Angus Cameron |
Stewards meeting of the
copal Church at Laurinburj
Master Henry Borst, Jr.,
Mrs. Henry Borst, who ha:
ill, we are glad to note, i\
cent
Mr. M- C. Thompson, oi
Brick Company, of CheraJ
Vass last week on busim
Cameron.
Mr. Z. S. Boone, of Greej
resents the Mergenthaler
pany, of New York, spenj
the Pilot office.
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