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Devoted to the UpbuUding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
JACKSON SPRINGS
All those wanting fun, go to the
high school auditorium to the “Old
Maids* Convention,” on Tuesday,
August 23, at 8:15 p. m. There will
be a double play. The double play
first, an Obstinate Family, and Mrs.
R. G. Matheson says come and see
what is next. There will be jokes,
songs and recitations. The proceeds
will go towards paying off the in
debtedness of the manse.
Rev. A. S. Parker, of Biscoe, has
been conducting a very successful re
vival at the - Pleasant Hill M. E.
church near here. The meeting will
continue on until sometime this week.
A large number have confessed their
faith in Christ. Sunday School at
this church has been reorganized and
will be every Sunday at 10 a. m. Rev.
Parker will begin a revival next Sun
day at Marcus M. E. church near
here.
Rev. R. G. Matheson is conducting a
revival at Bensalem Presbyterian
church this week.
Rev. J. M. Clark, of Statesville,
who has been Presbyterial evangelist
for Concord Presbytery for the past
few years since returning to his na
tive state, will conduct a revival here
from November 6th to 13th. “Mac,”
as Dr. Clark is familiarly known in
this section of the state, has many
friends and relatives who will be glad
to learn of his coming again to his
home church where he has conducted
some successful revivals.
H. G. Poole spent the week-end
at home. Herbert was recently elect
ed cashier of the Bank of Moore at
Carthage. He has had considerable
banking experience, and is one of
our boys who has been making good
in his chosen work.
Miss Maggie Clark is at home for
her vacation from Durham where she
is assistant welfare officer.
C. A. Armstrong, of Troy, is hav
ing an addition made to his cottage
here.
A large crowd is at the hotel and
boarding houses, and seem to be well
pleased with our famous resort.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Blue,
a daughter, August 9th.
Marvin Poole will go to High-
smiths Hospital at Fayetteville, for a
slight operation this week.
Freeman Patterson is at home from
State College at Raleigh where he
has been doing some work prepara
tory to reentering college this fall.
We want to see a baseball league
in the county next summer, and we
hope mistakes and criticisms will help
every community that puts out a
baseball team another year.
Robert Rankin returned from Char
lotte Friday ‘morning where he had
been on a visit.
OPENING A NEW LEAD
Who would have thought they’d
live to see the time when a congress
man would speak of a billion dollars
as carelessly as most of us speak of
a five-cent cigar.
One of the most significant things
that has happened in a long time was
the closing, a few days ago, of two
big real estate deals by Henry
Matthews. On6 of these was the
sale to James Garner and to B. 0.
Cornelius and John and Ernest Han
cock, of the Shaw tract northeast of
Vass. This lot conljains something
over 500 acres, of which Mr. Garner
gets 90 acres and the others the bal
ance. Mr. Garner is already living
out in the vicinity of the new acquisi
tion; the others are Winston-Salem
folks. Mr. Cornelius is a Southern
railroad conductor. It is their in
tention to get the land under culti
vation. This tract is out in the
territory near the Soke and Harnett
corners on the Moore county line,
and on the road that is projected to
run from Vass to Pine view over on
the Coast Line in Harnett. It is
about five miles out from Vass.
Close by this purchase is the Ijig
tract of 857 acres known as the Poole
land. This Mr. Matthews has already
sold, the buyer being John M. Taylor,
of Winston-Salem. It is Mr. Tay
lor’s intention to get the ground in
order soon and set peach orchards
and dewberry vineyards. He is. a
man of means, and is much interested
in the Moore county Sandhills. This
tract is also on the proposed new
road, and when that road is built will
be one of the valuable locations of
the county.
Out along the Harnett county line
is an empire that awaits development.
One of the finest ridges in the state
extends from Vass out toward the
hill country of Harnett, and from the
towering height of Cameron hill, not
far below Pine view, clear through into
Moore county that ridge dividing
Little River and its tributaries from
the Cape Fear and its tributaries, is
a commanding elevation. On the
Poole tract the ridge is the highest
for miles, a view from the top of it
extending down into Hoke and Cum
berland, counties on the south, and to
the far distance in* Harnett and Lee
on the east and north. It would be
hard to pick a better peach range in
all this sandy belt than that one that
runs out into the Poole lands, and
with a good road to permit easy
shipping of fruit from out that way
those who know that section predict
that it will become one of the most
profitable peach belts in the district.
Good crops of cotton, corn and tobac
co on* the farms out that way show
that it is good general farming land,
as it is heavier in its type than most
of the sandy land of the county.
Some excellent farms are found on
the road out that way.
The region of the new purchases
is historic. At one spot is a mound
near what is called the Huckleberry
pond, and the mound is said to be
a burial place used by the Indians
in one of their wars in remote days.
The story runs that away back the
Roanoke Indians came down this way
and encountered the Cherokees, with
such disaster that most of the Roa-
nokes never got back. At the mound
out on the Poole ridge curio seekers
have dug from time to time in search
of Indian implements, and even now
the ground shows that digging has
taken place in recent years.
Another point of interest out that
way, but a little farther toward
Cameron Hill, is the old race track.
A generation or more ago a track
was maintained out on the broad
table land, and it is told by tradition
that many an exciting meet took
place there in the depths of the thinly
settled pine forests. Much fine land
awaits settlement there on fhe broad
high planes, and it is assumed that
the beginning that%will be made by
the new purchasers means the open
ing of that country to a population
that will develop it.
Farther out, and southward toward
Lobelia, many new settlers have been
going in to plant tobacco, and Mr.
Matthews says that if tobacco brings
any price this season he will have
more folks down here from the moun
tains to locate o^t between Lobelia
and the Poole place, and he has hopes
of filling that region with some good
people.
A road from Pineview is talked con
siderably, and as it would be an easy
road to build, with few grades and
few bridges, and several miles of the
route already in fair shape, it is
not beyond the probabilities that the
road will be undertaken one of these
days. Some day that region, with a
good road through it, and a railroad
on each side, will be one of the best
bits of farming country in Moore
county, and it may not be a great
while in developing. A few farms
are out on the county line, and a
little saw mill work is carried on out
that way, but aside from that the
country is pretty much a new world,
and ready to take care of a goodly
number of people.
A drive out that way is interesting.
The road leads out past the Metho
dist church, and at several points
a turn can be made to cross over
to the Lobelia road, or by Cameren,
or even if a longer ride be desired,
by Pineview and back by Lemon
Springs. Some of the road is nothing
extra, but it can \)e negotiated with
little trouble all ^he way, and the trip
is worth taking. It gives a broad
view of all that wild country after
the ridge is reached, and the picture
is a great one.
The man who is unable to work
and smoke at th^ same time usually
smokes.
Every session of congress is just
like the one before it—in the matter
of free garden seed.
THE SANDHILL FAIR
The Annual Sandhill Fair will be
held at Pinehurst, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, November 16th, 17th,
and 18th.
That it is going to be “bigger, bet
ter and more interesting than ever”
is a foregone conclusion.
Much more elaborate preparations
than ever before are being made for
the various exhibits, both agricultur
al and otherwise, and the exhibits
will be on a much larger scale than
has ever been shown.
The Berkshire Hog Show is now an
established feature which has become
famous throughout the Eastern
states and is growing larger and more
important every year, and we are al
ready assured of a show this year
that* will far surpass any previous
one. The Ayrshire Cattle Show is
a feature which was inaugurated last
year and which will rival the Berk
shire Show this year in size and
quality. Some of the finest Ayr-
shires in the country will be there
and you may depend upon it they
will be good to look at.
The entertainment features are
looming up big and there will be so
many of them that tliere will be
“something doing every minute.”
The Annual Parade, the Annual
Pageant, Baseball Games, Basketball
Tournament, Athletic Track Meet,
Football Game, Shooting Exhibition,
Special Dances by the schools, and the
big races, are a few of the attractions
that will keep you running from one
place to another to see them all.
We expect to be able to announce
two or three other big features, plana
for which are not quite completed.
Now is the time for every farmer
in the Sandhills to lay by some of his
products to exhibit at the fair. The
Premium List will be out this week
and contains very liberal premiums
covering a wide range of exhibits.
From now on let every Sandhiller
talk Sandhill Fair day and night on
every corner, with every neighbor un
til no one can possibly forget it.
The secretary desires to have a
copy of the Premium List in the
hands of everybody, but if he misses
you, just drop him a line and he will
see that you get one.
LET’S GO!
DEWBERRIES FINE
All through this section the dew
berry plants are looking fine. They
are up a foot high or more, and green
as in the early spring. The farmers
cleaned out the old canes early in the
season after the crop was harvested,
and gave the new canes a chance to
come up, and they are along well to
ward a good growth for the coming
spring. The good returns this year
will lead to preparation for a much
bigger crop next year if the weather
should prove favorable, ^nd dewberry
money can be expected as a feature
another spring.