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VOLUME
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THE PILOT
NUMBER
46
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1921
PRICE FIVE CENTS
FROM OHIO
The Pilot received the* following let
ter a few days ago. Mr. Burba is
the Sunday editor of the Dayton, 0.
News, one of Gov. Jim Cox’s papers.
Dayton, 0., Sept. 25, 1921.
Friend Brewer:—
It’s awful tempting, that Pinehurst
booklet and Sandhill Fair catalogue.
And it is just like being locked up in
jail and receiving an invitation to
come on out to a frolic. But I’m
afraid that I have fixed things so I’ll
never be able to get away from this
immediate vicinity for a good while.
Bought a weekly newspaper in an ad
joining county last week, and have
to get it straightened out. First time
it has changed hands in 37 years, and
most of the things are thrown around
in the shop for the same period. So
while I am still holding down job of
Sunday Editor here I am also going
to edit that weekly, and spend all my
spare time trying to get it straighten
ed out to a point where I won’t lose
much over a million dollars a year on
it.
I wish I could take a few days off
and make the trip. You can’t know
how badly I’d like to be with you
folks. And while I can’t get there
to the fair maybe a little later on
I’ll have things running so I can hop
on the train and spend a few days
gossiping with you and your people,
and making a few new friends. At
the present time, however, I must be
content to stay here and prove that
somebody lied when they said “Abe
Lincoln freed all the slaves.” With
my sincere thanks for the invitation,
and hoping yo^u’ll have a rousing good
time, I am, Your friend,
HOWARD BURBA.
TWO GOLD EXCITEMENTS
Last week while hands were boil
ing some sand from the deep well at
the hotel a bright shiny substance
came up with the sand which excited
the curiosity of the spectators. A
man who recognized the stuff pointed
out the mica and some shiny silica
grains and the excitement subsided
until a yellower metal that was clear
was brought up. It had neither the
transparent character of the mica,
nor the crystalline form of the silicia,
and the man who Suggested that it
might be fools gold was speedily
quieted by the fact that iron pyrites
which is fools gold was too hard for
the samples from the well. So an ap
peal was made to a bottle of nitric
acid at Dr. Rosser’s office, and it prov
ed the metal to be brass, apparently
from the valve at the bottom of the
pump.
RED CROSS MEETING
The regular meeting of Moore coun
ty Chapter American Red Cross wil
be held at Eureka Sunday afternoon,
October 9th, at 3:30 o’clock. The
public is cordially invited.
LUCILE M. EIFORT,
Secretary.
MORE SETTLERS COMING
The Pageant at The Sandhill Fair
Last week the Secretary promised
i;hat in another week he would make
a definite announcement concerning
this big event and, true to his word,
le has everything arranged and in a
i:ew days the girls and boys of the
Sandhills will be hard at work on this
:'eature.
The title of the new Pageant is
“Autumn.” The scenario of the pag
eant has been prepared by Alice Page
i Shamburger and one has but to look
back to her “Victory and Peace”
: Pageant of two years ago to know
I that it is well done.
The Secretary feels that he is very
fortunate also in securing Miss Ann
Gregory, of Virginia, to direct it.
Miss Gregory will be very favorably
remembered in the Juvenile Chautau
qua work in this section not so long
ago. She will arrive October 15th,
ECCENTRIC WEATHER
September has been the most un
usual month for weather that has
been known in the history of the
weather department of the state. It
has shown more extreme hot days
than any September ever recorded. It
has had less rain, and the whole
summer has seen less thunder showers
and lightning than any summer any
man in this section can remember.
The prophets are all trying to tell
what is to be the condition through
the winter, but they will all know
more about it by next March or April.
THE OLD STORY
Already farmers who have been
elated over the high prices received
for cotton are beginning to figure on
a bigger acreage next year. It is
the old story that hjgh cotton makes
low cotton and low cotton makes high
cotton, and low cotton last year has
started plans for making a crop that
will probably mean low cotton and to
bacco another year.
Henry Matthews has been locating
some more new settlers and he has
on the string some fair prospects for
the winter. He says he is not count
ing on much before it is transacted,
for often things that look good fail to
materialize, but he has inquiries that
look like final conclusions. A recent
sale was to I. W. Key, of Greensboro,
v/ho has taken a place down the Lo
belia road near the Patterson farm.
Mr. Key will make a farm home, and
proceed to develop.. R. B. Chrissman,
of Ruffin, N. C., is about to close on
a tract not far from Vass, and possib
ly the transaction is finished by this
time.
J. M. Taylor, who recently bought
the 800 acres of the Poole tract, a few
miles east of Vass, was down from
Winston-Salem a few days ago, and
he is making arrangements to put
some houses on the property and be
gin development. The magnitude of
the work is not yet announced, but
it promises to be the beginning of a
considerable enterprise. This is' a
good piece of property and is the op
portunity for a profitable industry.
The amount of clearing that is go
ing on between Vass and Southern
Pines is astonishing. If this thing
keeps on another year will see the
whole distance one succession of
farms after another, and it looks as
if most of the distance will be planted
to peaches. The whole appearance
of the country has been so changed
in the last year or two that it does
not look like the same old place.
Nothing tests a man’s patience like
having to ride ten miles on a flat
tire with a quarrelsome wife.
Second Week of The Voting Contest Has New Candidates
As was surmised last week, many
votes were held up to see “who’s
who” and this week has brought a
larger number of them out.
Miss Louise Graves, of Carthage,
still leads with Miss Pearl Hurley, of
Aberdeen, and Miss Anna Patch, of
Southern Pines, “runners up.”
The vote this week brings the totals
as follows:
Louise Graves, Carthage 200
Pearl Hurley, Aberdeen 130
Anna Patch, So. Pines 125
Margaret Mclver, Carthage 120
Helen Ruggles,, So. Pines 95
Virginia Caddell, Carthage 55
Lucy Monroe, Pinehurst 30
Mamie Smith, Niagara 25
Ethel Battley, Carthage 25
Mabel Kelly, Pinehurst 20
Sallie Harris, Carthage 20
Margaret McKeithen, Aberdeen 20
Mary Ritter, West End 5
Hattie B. Yow*, Carthage 5
Dora Hartley, So* Pines 5
Total vote - -
Votes this week, 575.
885
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.
CAN’T NEVER GIT FIRST
Ah sta’ted soon as ah got my evenin
rations, and ah done tole de ole mule
we gwine ter git on dem gin house
scales before anybody else arrive in de
mawnin, and we put de brakes on de
ole wagon jes about midnight wid two
men right ahead of us. It looks to
me dey been stayin up two days to
git to dat gin, an’ ah tole de mule
right now dey nobody can’t never git
da’ fust.” So said a darky who had
tried to be in at the beginning one
morning in order to have his cotton
ginned speedily and get back home.
But he was not half so bad off as
some who started later.
During the past week the cotton
that has been coming in makes a new
record in ginning. The crop is early
in maturing and seems to be all com
ing off at once and the people are
bringing it in. As many as twenty
wagons could be counted at the gin
at one time waiting their turn, al
though the gin is in shape to dispose
of a bale every twenty or thirty minu
ets.
A movement of cotton from this
section has been going forward to
some extent. The local mill is pret
ty well stocked with lint that has
been accumulating in the past, and
some of that taken in now is passed
along to the buyers who are caliiftg
for cotton.