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Moore County Commmiity Fwrs Start Monday, October 3, at Hemp. N.C.
THE PILOT
VOLUME
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CHARLIE PICQUET
About this time of the year Charlie
Picquet looms up before the county
and folks begin to note the influence
that he is exerting in making Moore
county show what it can do. Much of
the time he is trying to provide at
his picture houses a high-class amuse
ment for the county, but along in the
fall the fair comes on and then he is
digging in to find somethi:*g that will
help to pyt Moore in a little different
society than anything else that un
dertakes to conduct a county fair.
Charlie Picquet, like Judge Adams
and Solicitor Nash, and some of the
rest of them, is a preacher^s son. He
came down into this country from the
hemlock woods of Pennsylvania, and
joined the farmers and learned enough
about farming to be good authority
on the fair. As he had been in the
amusement line before he took^ to
farming he had two leads in the fair
business, one of providing something
to interest the people, and the other
the faculty of gathering up big pump
kins, Ayrshire cattle, Berkshire pigs,
prize tobacco and that sort of thing,
and so he has made the Sandhills
fair a novelty that is in a class by
itself.
One thing about this scout is that
he is always on the trail, and if aany-
thing shows up in the county that
ought to be at the fair he is there to
get it. If everybody would put in
the licks to make Moore county a
success ^ that Charlie Picquet does the
Sandhills would be still livelier than
it is.
Now that the fair is so nearly in
sight he is burning a lot of twenty-
three cent gasoline going up and
down the road to see that the trophies
are all getting ready for the eventful
day, and if anything is overlooked
it will be something that is not in
plain sight, for Charlie has an eagle
eye and a right good power of recog
nizing what is worth while as a fair
attraction. lie says the fair this year
will be the best ever, and particularly
if everybody helps whereever it is
possible.
Read This and Everybody Get to Work for Their Fair
There will be given $550.00 in special
prizes and premiums at the eight
community fairs in Moore county
next week and the two days of the
following week. The Eureka and
Vass community fairs gave more
special prizes than any of the others
but even at this there are offered
about $50.00 in prizes at each of the
others besides what special prizes may
be offered. This is an excellent ‘ op
portunity to win a few cash prizes
and the distinction of having the
best exhibit of its class in your
community. After these community
fairs are held the committee in charge
of each will take their respective
community exhibits to the Sandhill
Fair at which time $150.00 are offered
for the various communities. They
are as follows: 1st premium, $50.00;
2nd premium, $40.00; 3rd, $30.00; 4th,
$20.00; 5th, $10.00; one-half of this
amount is given by the County Board
of Education; the other half is sub
stituted by the Sandhill Fair Associa
tion.
The Secretary of the Sandhill Fair
Association has received five beauti
ful ribbons which will be placed on
the five winning community fair ex
hibits. The money won from these
exhibits will be turned over to the
Community Club.
Farm and Home Exhibits.
These exhibits are to be collected
from this year’s home and farm pro
ducts. Special space of 6 x 12 feet
has been allotted for these exhibits
and the association will render every
courtesy possible in arranging them.
The prizes offered for these are as
follows: 1st, $25.00; 2nd, $15.00; 3rd,
$10.00.
Subscriptions for the Community
Fairs • •
The following papers have offered
us a fifty per cent subscription rate
for our community fairs:
The Moore County News, The Pilot,
The Sandhill Citizen, The Country
Gentleman, and The Progressive
Farmer. Each community fair pro
poses to have a subscription commit
tee who will have sample copies of
these papers and will be in position
to write subscriptions for each at
their respective community fairs.
With every siibscription written for
each 50 per cent of the amount will
be given to the ^lommunity fair to
help pay off premiums; and it is
hoped that we will get one or all of
these papers in every home in the
county on this drive.
Judges for Home Products at Com
munity Fairs.
Miss Elizabeth Bridge, of Lumber-
ton. Miss Gertrude Little, of Sanford,
and Mrs. Redfern from Wadesboro,
will judge the home products at the
community fairs.
Rules and Regulations Governing
Community Fairs in Moore
County.
1. Competition is open to every one
in the community in which the fair is
held, but no one will be allowed to
make the same exhibit in more than
one community fair in this county.
2. Each department will be under
the supervision of its director.
3. Exhibitors must provide at
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Niss Louise Graves of Carthage Takes Lead in Start
BEHKSHIRE SHOW
We are inclined to think that few
people of the Sandhills realize that
the Southern Berkshire Show at the
Sandhill Fair is one of the biggest
and most important Hog Shows in
America. Until this year the exhibits
in this show were confined to states
east of the Rocky Mountains, but this
year you will see Berkshires that are
sent clear from.California. Two hun
dred Berkshires from all over Ameri
ca, and all of them prize winners,
will be seen at this year’s fair.
Won’t that be a show worth going
to see?
Miss Louise Graves, of Carthage,
leads in . the first week of balloting
for the Fairy Queen in the Parade
of the Fairies at the Fair.
Carthage believes in “voting early”
and jumps ahead with two candidates
for the honor.
The result of the first week’s vot
ing leads to the conclusion that many
are waiting to see who will appear
as candidates before sending their
votes in.
In order to have credit for votes
each week it is necessary that they
reach the Secretary not later than
Tuesday.
Here is the vote:
Miss Louise Graves, Carthage 100
Miss Margaret Mclver, Carthage.. 95
Miss Helen Ruggles, So. Pines 75
Miss Mabel Kelly, Pinehurst 20
Miss Mamie Smith, Niagara 10
Miss Lucy Monroe, Pinehurst 5
Miss Hattie B. Yow, Carthage,
Star Route 5
Total vote - - 310
Aberdeen, Cameron and Vass was
not represented.
‘A LITTLE CLODHOPPER”
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A play, “The Little Clodhopper,
will be given at the Vass School Au
ditorium on Friday night, October
7th, at eight o’clock. This play is a
comedy-drama in three acts. It is
full of witty sayings and relieved
with touches of pathos. An evening
of fun for both young and old.
Cast of Characters.
Septimus Green, a young book
agent, full of pep—N. N. McLean.
Ocey Gump, a fresh country pro
duct, by Heck—F. W. Taylor, Jr.
George Chiggerson, an innocent
little lamb from the city—K. G. Dea
ton.
Mrs. Chiggerson-Boggs, his doting
mamma, with a smooth scheme—Edith
Cameron.
Miss Julietta Bean, a Splinterville
boarding-house keeper—Lillian SmitJi.
Charmian Carter, who thinks she’s
a vampire—Margaret Keith.
Judy, a little Clodhopper from the
poor-house—Lois Sanford.
Country Folks.
Admission—adults, 35c; children,
20c. Proceeds for benefit of school.
CUMBERLAND IS WILLING
Hector Smith was up from Hoke
county a few days ago, and in talking
of the new road to Fayetteville he
said that Cumberland is willing to do
a fair share on the job. He was in
Fayetteville recently and said that he
had taken up the matter with the
county commissioners and they talked
favorable, and thought the extension
of the road from somewhere about
the Lamont place would be about the
proper act. If Cumberland will build
the few miles necessary that will fall
to that,cqunty the road is as good as
settled, for the Hoke county people
will not stop now until they have a
good road from the county line near
the Lamont farm to the Moore county
line where it connects with the road
to Vass and the rest of the Moore
county system.
GOOD GRAPE CROP
After a man has worted and scrap
ed up and saved a lot of money the
hardest thing he has to decide is
whether he’ll buy a house or a porter
house.
SANDHILL FAIR BALLOT
These Five Votes are Cast
FOR
OF
to represent the Fairy Queen,in the Parade of Fairies at the
SANDHILL FAIR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1921.
Fill out the above ballot for your favorite candidate and mail it to
CHAS. W. PICQUET, Sec’y, Pinehurst.
The scuppernong and the musca
dine grape crops have been good, and
the folks can have any quantity for
preserves and jellies, to say nothing
of unlimited supply to eat. With all
the other things that the Sandhills
produce in lavish manner mighty lit
tle gets ahead of the scuppernong or
the muscadine grape, and we might as
well count it in with the rest of the
resources of the county.
FOX HUNTERS PLENTY
Cars of fox hunters and dogs are
passing through Vass to the lower
country every few days. Packs of
twenty and thirty hounds are not in
frequent. Foxes are reported fairly
abundant down that way, and the
hunters appear to think they get valie
for their time and money.