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A NEW COURT HOUSE.
On Monday the County Commis
sioners of Moore county decided to
build a new court house. There has
been much talk pro and con about
the matter because of the increased
amount of taxes the people will have
to pay, some thinking that our taxes
are high enough and others wanting
to build it before the county is di
vided. Of course no one takes the
matter of a new county seriously, as
the older heads in the SandhHls are
not in favor of a new county.
One man was heard to say at Car
thage Monday that “we had a good
enough buildling to try people in that
ought to be killed anyway.” Another
said that we needed one that would
be an honor to the county and its
people, and if we had to be sold out
for taxes “at the court house door,
let it be one that was an honor to
him or her.” A great many of the
people were offering suggestions as
to a location, some wanting it to
stay at the present location. One
man suggested that it be put on San
ders street opposite to Mr. J. M.
Way’s home, where it would be quiet,
and that in taking the prisoners from
the jail to the court room they would
not be brought out on the public
square where the outside world would
see our criminals. Another one said
that he “had vacant property in Car
thage and he wanted the commission
ers to go look at it, set their price,
and then he would cut the price in
half.”
This is about the way sentiment
was running; no one seemed to be
very hot in the collar either way
about the matter, as a big part of
the crowd was interested in an argu
ment between two of our distinguished
citizens of the county, one from Shef
field township and the other Green
wood township, about Hades.
UPPER HOKE
Mr. Watson McFadyen, of Greens
boro, is spending a few days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. G. McFad
yen.
Mr. Frank McFadyen, of Raeford,
visited his grandmother one day this
week.
We are glad to say that Mr. J. W.
Smith, who was quite sick last week,
is able to be out again.
Mr. and Mrs. Neill N. McLean call
ed on their grandmother, Mrs. H. A.
Smith, Sunday afternoon.
Miss Mayme McGill spent the week
end in Raeford.
Mrs. A. D. McLalichlin has been
very sick for the past few days, but
we are glad to say that she is some
better than she was.
There will be a box supper at the
Hopewell school house on Tuesday
night, December 20th for the bene
fit of the school. Everyone is in
vited to attend. It is reque<^ted that
the girls bring a box and for ,the
boys to be liberal with their moi^y.*
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VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1921
ISSDES CALL FOR TEW HlflPSMID VflLlliniM.t
Tobacco Growers in Old North State Out to Beat Sign
Up Record of Kentucky
Calling for 10,000 volunteers to
help North Carolina beat Kentucky
in the sign up for co-operative market
ing of tobacco. Dr. J. Y. Joyner has
issued the following statement on be
half of the state organization com
mittee:
“Kentucky has signed Hip 85 per
cent and is well on the way to 90
per cent of her tobacco crop for co
operative marketing under five year
contracts like ours, has incorporated
under the North Carolina Co-opera
tive Marketing Act, and the Associa
tion will pool and sell this year’s crop
of Burley tobacco. Virginia has al
ready signed up between 60 and 75
per cent of her crop and hopes to
beat Kentucky before January 1st.
News from South Carolina indicates
that her growers are signing a mil
lion pounds a day and that she will
have her minimum sign-up by Janu
ary 1st, or before.
“North Carolina, the biggest grower
of bright flue-cured tobacco in the
United States, must not lag behind—
must beat Virginia and Kentucky be
fore January 1st. The bigger the
sign up the more assured the success
of the association, the less the over
head expenses of marketing, and the
bigger the profits for the grower
members.
“The Organization Committee has
set the goal and inaugurated an in
tensive campaign for not less than
75 per cent on or before January 1st.
This means that about 50 million
more pounds of tobacco must be
signed up during the next three
weeks. The time is short. The task
is great. It can be—it must be done,
but it will require hard work, active
co-operation, and some sacrifice of
time from all interested in this great
movement.
“The members of the Organization
Committee for twelve months have
given freely of their time, thought,
and labor for the successful organiza
tion of the Tobacco Growers* Co-op-
erative Marketing Association, with
out compensation, without reward or
the hope of reward, except to help
tobacco growers to secure a more
business-like, intelligent, proiStable
system of marketing their tobacco
and to promote the general prosperi
ty of the state by increasing the
profitableness of one of its chief in
dustries and the prosperity of one of
its largest class of citizens.
“The movement is receiving the
endorsement and active support of
many of the leading bankers, mer
chants, and other business men, even
of some of the leading tobacco ware
housemen of the state.
“The responsibility for the success
or failure of this final three-weeks
campaign for enough new signers to
secure the biggest sign up for the
co-operative marketing of tobacco in
the biggest bright tobacco growing
state in the nation, rests now upon
the thousands of signers of the con
tracts and upon every other progres
sive, patriotic citizen interested in
the general prosperity and progress
of North Carolina.
“On behalf of the Committee, I
earnestly appeal to every one of these
—farmers, bankers, business and pro
fessional men—to volunteer for ac
tive service in securing signers. Let
us have ten thousand volunteers. Get
in touch with your county leaders,
who will tell you how you can help.
Let every signer and every other
volunteer sign up at least one un
signed neighbor and have a part in
the biggest movement ever started
for making our state more prosper
ous and powerful by making its
chief industry—agriculture—^m ore
profitable.” J. Y. JOYNER,
Chairman Organization Com.
Beat the Boll Weevil with PIGS
(Berkshires), POTATOES, PEAS,
PEACHES and POULTRY.
LAKEVIEW
Mr. Fred Lane, of Lanes Mills, Pa.,
was a business visitor in town Tues
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pleasant, of
Aberdeen, spent one day this week
with theiF daughter, Mrs. W. D. Cavi-
,ness.
Mr. H. M. McCaskill and son Wal
ter were in our town Tuesday on
business.
Mr. A. J. Oldham, our S. A. L.
agent here, was called to his home in
Goldston, Monday, on account of the
sudden death of his father.
Among the guests at the Sewaid
Inn this week were Mr. A. C. Rotcn,
of Raleigh, and Mr. N. H. Canady, of
Oxford.
The Ladies’ Aid of Lakeview church
will meet next Thursday, the 8th inst.,
with Mrs. S..J. Stutts.
The birthday party on Monday af
ternoon, given by Mr. and Mrs. T. O.
Gibb, in honor of their little son
Hamilton, who was two years old, was
much enjoyed by all who were pres
ent.
The new tea room to be operr.ted
at “Three Oaks/’ the attractive lit
tle cottage of Misses Bacon and Lit
tlefield, will be opened to the public
shortly, and the ladies conducting it
are well worthy of your patronage,
as the dainty lunches that they are
prepared to serve cannot fail to
please those who are fond of good
things of gof^ gu|l;ty, daintily and
carefully placed before thei;n.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WHEN YOU BUY
In making purchases for household
and personal use, many Vass people
act with careful deliberation. Yet
it is a busy world and a great many
things are done without much thought
or planning. It will frequently hap
pen that the idea will suddenly occur
to a person that they need certain
merchandise, and the impulse to go
and get it at once is acted upon.
How is the decision as to where to
trade reached in such cases? Some
would say that the purchaser would
go to the nearest store, but that is not
the usual governing influence in these
times. The desire to make the best
bargain has become very powerful in
recent months, and even when they
are hurried people like to hunt up the
best place to buy what they want.
From some little source back in the
mind some kind of a suggestion oc
curs that such and such a place would
be the best for that purchase. But
what creates the suggestion? In a
majority of instances it is created by
the store that has inade a constant
effort to impress itself on the minds
of the people. Such is the case in all
aspects of thought, for people remem
ber the things they hear over and over
again, and they forget the things they
rarely hear about. The advertised
store impresses itself on the public
mind by constantly repeating an idea.
When you ask your mental faculties
to tell yoti where would be the best
place to make a purchase they re
spond with the idea that has been
most constantly impressed upon them.
The stores that constantly keep them
selves in the public mind by steady
advertising are the stores that are
not only the first ones thought of
when it is necessary to make a pur
chase, but they are the stores that
are longest remembered.
DON’T ENCOURAGL THEM
Transients with stuff to sell that
can be purchased here in Vass should
not have the encouragement of our
citizens. The man who carries his
stock in a “flivver” and makes the
street corner his place of business
should be urged, before he has had an
opportunity to display his wares, to
move on to the next town. The ped
dler with goods slung across his arm
or piled in a pack on his back should
be given to understand that the very
streets he walks on are partly paid
for by our home-town merchants, and
that they, too, help in keeping those
streets in repair. The little they pay
in license, these transients, doesn’t
benefit the town enough to warrant
their presence. If the license won’t
keep them olit, put it up to where
it will. Local merchants, men who
have their money invested here and
who pay taxes here, are entitled to
every consideration. And protection
from cheap-john transients is a con
sideration not to t>e overlooked.
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