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THE EARLY FLY
“The early bird catches the worm/’
is a favorite saying at most any sea
son of the year. It might also be
said with equal emphasis and truth
fulness that swatting a fly now means
a million less flies a little later on.
Citizens of Vass are aware of. the
fact that the breeding proclivities of
the housefly are unequalled in the in
sect world. . For that reason it is
good judgment to start swatting be
fore they have the chance to breed.
The fly swatter, tanglefoot paper and
other devices for cutting down the
ranks of the dangerous pests should
find ready sale even this early, for
they can be used to greater advantage
now than they can later on, when
warm weather, fertile breeding places
and the ability of the insect to multi
ply its kind results in great numbers
where there are now but a few.
It is the first flies of spring that
do the most damage, in assuring
swarms later on. Get the fly swat
ter now and practice up on killing
them. Rid the house of them as
rapidly as they appear. If persisted
in, a daily attack will insure compara
tive freedom from the disease-car
rying, food-infecting and baby-men
acing destroyers. Make it your busi
ness to kill the first fly you see, and
continue the practice every day.
WORDS OF PRAISE
Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Health Com
missioner of New York, whose “health
hints” appear daily in several hun
dreds of newspapers, is without, doubt
the best known physician in America
today. He is wise along other lines
too. And for the benefit of Vass
merchants who may look upon adver
tising as a liability, instead of an as
set, we want to offer these few words
from Dr. Copeland’s pen:
“I have never urged that the in
dividual physician should advertise.
I don’t care to see in the paper that
Dr. Smith is the best doctor on Broad
way, or anything of that kind, but
I want to see medical men use the
engine of publicity to enlighten the
public and combat diseases which kill
hundreds of thousands because there
is not the contact between the medical
man and the public that there should
be, and because so many, through fear
of ignorance, fail to obtain treatment
in the initial stages of a disease which
might be cured if taken early and
cannot be cured later. The newspa
per is the most powerful engine of
publicity in all the world—fUse it
often.”
BIRD REFUGES
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the men who have already grown up
should remember the monetary saving
—$400,000,000—due to the birds of
this country, and give them protec
tion wherever and whenever it lies
in their power to do so.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere ap
preciation to our friends for the many
acts of kindness and sympathy during
the illness and death of our husband
and father.
MRS. N. H. McNETLL,
MARY McNEILL,
JOHN McNEILL.
ANNOUNCEMENT
There is a necessity for preserving
bird life in the agricultural districts
of this country. The Department of
Agriculture at Washington, declares
that the destruction of damaging in
sects by this wild bird life in the
United States saves to the farmers
no less than $400,000,000 annually.
For that reason the department is
encouraging refuges for birds on the
farms of this country. It is said
that hardly any agricultural pest
escapes the sharp wits and beaks of
wild bird life in our rural communi
ties. Many Vass citizens shoot to
kill birds without considering the fact
that they are thereby lessening the
number of insect-destroyers, and thus
lessening our grain crops. It would
appear that a little campaign of edu
cation in our schools, where the men
of tomorrow are growing up, would
be valuable in the years to come, while
To the Voters of the Thirteenth Ju
dicial District:
I hereby announce my candidacy for
the office of Solicitor, subject, how
ever, to the action of the Democratic
party at the next primary.
If I am nominated, I shall make a
vigorous campaign in behalf of my
party and its candidates. If elected,
I shall discharge the duties of the
office in an honorable, efficient and
conscientious manner and protect the
interests of the state and society. I
shall, also, see that every defendant
gets a “square deal.” I shall prose
cute, but I will never persecute. I
shall make a fair and impartial prose
cuting attorney and know nothing in
my work but to do my full duty.
I shall make no fake ^promises to
influence voters to support me. I
will not “camouflage.”
Upon this platform I ask your sup
port. Sinecerely yours,
GILBERT H. RUSSELL.
Laurinburg, N. C.
NOTICE!
To Mrs. S. F. Cummings:
TAKE NOTICE; that at a sale of
real estate for the non-payment of
the taxes assessed against said prop
erty for the years 1919 and 1920, the
same having been made at the Court
House door in Carthage by D. Al.
Blue, Sheriff of Moore county, on
Aug. 1st, 1921, the undersigned pur
chased 14 acres of land listed in your
name in Sandhill Township, sold for
said taxes. Unless the same is re
deemed by the payment of the pur
chase price and costs on or before
the expiration of one year from the
date of said sale, to-wit, Aug. 1, 1921,
the undersigned will apply to the said
Sheriff for a deed fof said land.
This April 7, 1922.
THOS. B. WILDER,
Purchaser.
NOTICE!
To J. A. McIntosh:
TAKE NOTICE; that at a sale of
real estate for the non-payment of
the taxes assessed against said prop
erty for the year 1920, the same hav
ing been made at the Court House
door in Carthage by D. Al. Blue,
Sheriff of Moore county, on Aug. 1,
1921, the undersigned purchased 89
acres of land listed in your name in
McNeill Township, sold for said taxes.
Unless the same is redeemed by the
payment of the purchase price and
costs on or before the expiration of
one year from the date of said sale,
to-wit, Aug. 1, 1921, the undersigned
will apply to the said Sheriff for a
deed for said land.
This April 7, 1922.
J. E. McINTOSH,
Purchaser.
MONUMENTS & TOMBSTONES
If you are interested in Monu
ments or Tombstones, Write
Rockingham Marble Works
ROCKINGMN, N. C.
—Or See—
D. CARL FRY, Carthage, N. C.
A large and well selected stock of monuments,
tablets, etc. on hand at all times. Quality, work
and prices guaranteed. Equipped with latest
pneumatic machinery driven by electricity.
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