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, AUGUST 5, 1921
GOOD
CROPS
Throughout the county the
crops are good. If the prices
are low the production will be
big, and that is far better than
low prices and poor crops. It
will not always be low prices for
what is sold and high prices for
what we buy, but Moore county
has really little to kick about in
this readjustment of conditions
to normal. The cost of the crops
made this year will be much low
er than of those made last year,
and if prices of things the farm
er buys will get down to where
they should be it will turn out a
pretty fair year. At any rate
we have not lost the knack of
making things in Moore county.
FURTHER
EXPANSION
Leonard Tufts, in a remarkable
interview in the Moore County
News last week, tells of his ex
pectations that in a few years
the whole county from Pine-
hurst eastward will be a big com
munity of winter homes of well-
to-do northern people who will
establish in the county a con
tinuation of small and compara
tively large estates that will re
sult in a settlement that will be
unique. From what he says the
idea of the town lot will not enter
into the development, but the
unit will be acres, or small mul
tiples of acres, five, ten, twenty,
or thirty, giving plenty of room
in this land of abundant room
for each individual property to
be a distinctive and individual
home.
A man may make a right at
tractive home on an acre of
ground. On two acres he may
do still better. When it comes
to three or four or five acres the
skill of the architect and land
scape gardener will have no lim
it, and it is presumed that plots
of this size will be the predomi
nating house tract. It was with
this in mind that the Midlands
farm property was cut into five
acre lots and they found a ready
sale at fifteen hundred dollars
for the tract. Mr. Tufts alludes
to schemes that he has been go
ing over with Warren H. Man
ning for the further development
of several thousand acres of the
Pinehurst property, and it will
come as a surprise that he has
been working on this expansion
plan for two or three years. He
says that a few years more will
see a condition in Moore county
as far ahead of the present as
we are now ahead of the shacks
of limited capacity and number
at the beginning of Southern
Pines years ago. He speaks so
bold that unless the word had
come from him no one would
have the audacity to make claim
for what he now indicates is pro
posed.
Development at Pinehurst and
Knollwood affect the whole east
side of the county. It is wise
for us here at Vass to open our
eyes to the surecoming of expan
sion in our town, for already the
powerful influence of our bigger
neighbors is felt. We cannot
escape the further contact with
this development if we wanted
to, for it is widening out with
each new move down that way.
Our play is to join with it and
keep our community as nearly
abreast of the big things of our
neighbors as possible, for it is
much more profitable and pleas
ant to walk alongside than to
trail behind. Vass cannot sleep
at this time. Progress of the
most vigorous type is in the air,
and we must be in the proces
sion.
OUR VARIETIES OF
FARM OPPORTUNITY
Mr. D. McGill, of Morrison’s
Bridge, says he is not making
any cotton this year, but is mak
ing corn and other things that
will serve the purpose better. Mr.
McGill is not introducing any
new doctrine in this country
when he says he is doing better
with corn and live stock than
with cotton, for gradually is
growing up in the county a big
truck business that finds en
couragement in the winter mar
ket afforded by a big army of
visitors. Down his way is good
land. It is adapted for turkey'^,
which he says he finds profit in
raising, and it should become, a
community famous for its tur
keys. The remarkable develop
ment that is planned by Leonard
Tufts and others associated wi th
him is certain to bring still fur
ther revolution in the agricul
ture of the Little River valley.
Right in our own town is a new
hotel that will be calling for
more poultry products and more
things to eat. But beyond that
hotel are others, and also many
private homes that will be in
creased in numbers every year
for many years.
All this new population will re
quire eatables. The big club
house at Knollwood will feed a
big population, and if turkeys
are available in this township
they will get the first call at that
market. It is not too much of
a prediction to forecast that be
fore much longer the man who
depends on cotton and tobacco
as his chief crops in Moore coun
ty will be behind his opportuni
ties. Cotton and tobacco are
staple crops, and it is wise to in
clude them with the rotation of
crops on most of the farms. But
they are merely a part of the
schedule that the money-making
farmer of this county must
make if he wants to profit by the
best that is in front of him.
The farmer, as well as every
body else, must begin to under
stand that the big developments
are for him and that if he wants
to measure up to what is in store
for him he must make what the
expanding market will use and
pay for. This is a remarkable
market in that it will pay a high
er price than in any other sec
tion of the state. The wealthy
people who are beginning to
come to Moore county do not
haggle over cost if they get the
right sort of an article. Let the
farmer have turkeys that strike
the northern visitors as gilt-
edged stuff and the price is a
wholly unimportant considera
tion. But on the other hand it
must not be supposed that the
Yankee visitor is an easy mark.
He learned to trade to advantage
long before our people knew
what the word meant.
If the farmers of the Little
River valley will look around
enough to know what this new
and expanding market will use,
and then turn in and make that
stuff and make it right, they can
snap their fingers at cotton or
tobacco, and be sure of a pros
perous future, for the market
will always grow bigger, and if
they establish a trade it will be
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ready for them with each return
ing harvest. The plain truth is
that farms in this country can
find that they can skim the
cream from the winter resort
business if they will go at it in
a business way. Turkeys are
only one way. If the farmers
down in the river country would
start making choice hams from
hogs that would weigh about 200
pounds, the right kind of hogs
mind you, curing the hams right
after they are made, and putting
those hams before the trade,
there is here in McNeills town-
shir a fancy trade that would
take the stuff and pay highway
robbery prices for it. But not
for second rate stuff; that high-
class trade will not buy seconds
to feed their dogs.
Mr. McGill has established
this turkey market. He has
only done what can be done in
various lines and by other farm
ers, and if the right course is
pursued on the farms down that
way a fifty acre farm will make
an industrious and tactful farm
er rich in a few years.
And what has become of the old-
fashioned city girl who used to dance
with her feet.
It’s an ill wind what doesn't dry out
the family washing on Monday morn
ing.
And there never was a war or a
neighborhood row but each side could
prove that the other side started it.
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CHEARS’ JEWELRY STORE
Sanford, N .C.
every Wednesday in each week from
10:00 A. M. to 4:00 P. M.
Glasses fitted that are easy and rest
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people given special attention. Cross
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Consultation free.
BRIEFS AND
Mrs. F. W. Taylor
Jr., spent Tuesday in
Mrs. J. W. Allen ha
tatoes for dinner last
Mrs. R. Weber has
a trip to New York
Mr. W. D. Smith w
Monday.
Mrs. D. A. McLau
Raleigh Tuesday.
Master Leon Keith s
in Raeford the first o
Mr. Gordon Thoma
from Raleigh for the
Miss Caro McNeill
while in Rocky Moun
Mr. and Mrs. S. R.
to Pinehurst Tuesday
Mr. J. Bruce Camer
was visiting home fol
week-end.
The average citize
rule the roost usually
body else doing a lit
Mr. Ervin Ray a
O’Briant, of Camero
at the Pilot office Wed
There’s mighty littl
fellow who does an h
stealing at nig*ht.
Mr. Jess Thompson
Gunter, of Aberdeen,
here Sunday afterno
If the average man
all answered it would
troubles.
Miss Ossie Edward
attending summer s
College, Raleigh.
A caterpillar eats
weight of its- own
wouldn’t if it had to
Mrs. S. W. Lassiter,
field, is visiting her p
Mrs. G. S. Edwards.
Mr. and Mrs. J.
family were the guest
relatives near Camer
Mr. and Mrs. D. A.
Agnes visited friends
day of last week.
Mr. J. N. Cameron
of Mars Bluff, S. C.,
first of the week.
Mrs. John Allen, o
1, has been on a vi
Mrs. J. M. Tyson.
Mr. and Mrs. Sta
children. Mac. and F
thage Monday.
Mrs. T. K. Gunter a
Miss Rosa Churchill,
friends and relatives
Miss Myrtle Leslie
from an extended visi
and Lilesville.
Prof. W. D. Mat
Franklin Byrd, Turne
Neill Smith made a
Tuesday.
The burning questi
many families on Sun
'‘Who’s going to use tl:
noon ?”
Mrs. Julia McDugd
granddaughter, Margj
of Wachula, Fla., Mr-.[
Tally and Mr. Ira Thj
ron, visited friends i
the vicinity of Vass.