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THE WEEKLY PILOT Published every Friday morning by the Pilot Printing Company. STACY BREWER, Manager. Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, N. C., as second-class mail matter. FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1921 JOINING nOORE COUNNY The legislative session is draw ing to a finish and the little triangle which has been cut oft of Hoke coun ty by the camp is still out there in the wilderness isolated from everywhere. During the last year or two considerable talk was heard about attaching that separate strip to Moore county. But so far it does not seem to be attached. If those who have beer getting petitions for this purpose are' interested in the matter it would seem that they had better move quickly or the legisla ture will adjourn. Moore county is the proper place for the abandoned part of Hoke to turn and Vass is ihe convenient trading center and banking and business point for the people out that way. A direct good road come right up to Carthage, the county seat, and as the interests of that bit of country are identical with those of upper end of Littlo river valley the matter ought to be pushed to a finish. NO RAILROAD CROSSING While other places are talking about the dangers of railroad cross ings Vass is one town that is not concerned in this respect. Every other point along the Sea Board Air Line has its dangerous crossings and some of them are wholly inexcusa ble death traps. Vass has nothing of the kind. From one side of the town to the other two substantial bridgers carry the highways for above the tracks. And no fear is felt by the traveler of collision with its serious results. Of course no credit can be claimed for the town for such conditions as exist but we have those conditions neverthless. Credit is of small con sequence. The fact is the main thing. Vass is the one town of any consequence in this county or up or down the Sea Board Air Line for miles that can not have a rail road crossing collision under any circumstances. It is practically im possible for a vehicle to get on the track as no road leads to the rail roads except at the station and even there the station is between the road and the tracks. THE YARN TRADE Reports from textile and knitting centers note a better demand for cotton yarns. Slowly the mill situ ation is improving and it is hoped that with spring business coming in the textile mills and the knitting -establishments will both be running on such schedule that the demand for yarn will keep the spinning mills busy. As was expected the tendency of wages is downwards but with other things getting very much lower nothing else was in sight but wagb reduction. In this respect communiiies like Vass are better off than those in the north or in larger places. In a little lown an operative has a much better chance to live at a lower figure than in the bigger places. The main supplies of every kind cost less. A garden, some chickens, a pig and possibly a cow go along way to help- out the family expenses. Fuel is not expensive or hard to secure. And many of the ways to spend money that are on every hand in the big ger places are avoided in a little town. The prospects for the mill worker in Vass are good. The thrifty operative who will work and take proper care of money that is earned will come through all right. Prices of everything will be on a lower scale but the outlook is good for 1921 in this community. THE MID-PINES CLUB HOUSE McNeils township a few years ago enjoyed the reputation of being one of the most sterile townships of one of the most sterile counties of North Carolina. Today conditions are ex actly the reverse. It is one of the most progressive and resourceful townships of what is probably the most progressive county in the state. And North Carolina has come to he a mighty progressive state. In another three or four years McNeils township will probably be far in the lead of the other townships of Moore and Moore will hold a posi tion among the North Carolina coun ties which will be entirely satisfac tory. Next week it is expected that a contract will be awarded for the con struction of the Mid-Pines club house, just this side of Southern Pines. This club house and the development that follows it is des tined to run into millions of dollars within a very few years. Already a number of Northern men of un limited means are making an invest ment there in the Knollwood terri tory and it is useless to try to guess what they will do before they get through. The Mil-Pines country club will have a membership of one hundred ,and the membership fees will total a quarter of a million do- ars. This will constitute a fund to establish the club house and the golf grounds which will be only the be ginning of what is to be done. The next assessment of property in Mc Neils township will find considera ble land that will be valued at a thousand dollars an acre or more and no doubt some of it in the im mediate vicinity of the Mid-Pines club will be worth double that sum. By that time no doubt, buildings that will be put on some of the land will make individual acres with their buildings that will run up to ten or fifteen or twenty thousand dollars an acre. It may seem that The Pilot is lay ing undue stress on development that is at the farthest end of the township but that development is going to give this township and this county a stimulus in more ways than any of us can predict. In the matter of taxes alone the five thou sand acres of the Knollwood hold ings will produce a revenue that will add a big percentage to the present income. Good roads will be built. Not only around the Mid- Pines country club and Knollwood and Edgemoore but running out from those places to all directions. The Mid-Pines club will not be happy until the national highway from the north through ’Vass and Lakeview will be one of the best l oads in this part of the state. The Knollwood influences and the peo ple who come there will bring more attention to Lakeview and the ad- *, antages of that charming resort. Five years from now Vass will be on the suburbs of a thrifty exten sion of that Knollwood center and we will have all the advantages ol the resort settlement, although cn the outskirts and without the re sponsibilities. Columns could be written about what this thing means but they would not tell the story. The beginning at Knollwood means just as much as the beginning of Patrick’s work at Southern Pines or the beginning of James Tufts work at Pinehurst. It has this advantage, the Knoilwood beginning starts at a point infinitely in advance of that from which Southern Pines and Pinehurst commenced. With that advantage the result should be p.*o- Dortionately greater. And it will. Last Friday Representative George R Ross, introduced a bill in the House to amend the charter of Carthage. Camp Bragg, about eight miles from Vass, has received an appropriation of $13,000 for its artillery school from Con gress. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The Bank of Vass at Vass in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business February 21st, 1921. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $160,017 36 Overdrafts unsecured $183 00 183 00 United States Bonds and Liberty Bonds 12,300 00 Banking Houses $1661 02 Furniture and Fixtures 1,788 00 3,449 02 Cash in vault and net amounts due from Banks and Trust Companies 24,554 35 Total LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in Undivided Profits, less current expenses and taxes paid Bills Payable Deposits subject to check Savings Deposits Cashier’s Checks outstanding $200,503 84 $ 20,000 00 3,034 28 6,000 00 75,519 77 93,902 27 2,047 52 Total $200,503 84 State of North Carolina, County of Moore February 28, 1921. I, D. A. McLauchin, Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. D. A. McLAUCHLIN, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 2nd day of March, 1921. A. M. CAMERON, Notary Public. My commission expires Feb. 13, 1922. J. A. KEITH. S. R. SMITH, A. D. McLAUCHLIN, Directors. 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