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NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
PINEHURST NEWS
Our Boy Scouts are deriving a
great deal of pleasure from camping
out these nights. Occasionally they
take provisions with them and cook
breakfast before returning to their
homes. The many inviting groves
about town offer ideal camping sites,
ard the ponds on the golf courses
have not been overlooked by the boys
when picking their locations. Mr. A.
C. Evans, a former assistant scout
master of Richmond, has been help
ing the scout master at Pinehurst
* recently, and all are taking great
interest in belonging to “the largest
boys’ Club in the world.” One night
last week, the entire troup boarded
a large truck and journeyed out to
Thaggard’s to fish. Our Boy Scouts
are fine, manly fellows and can be
depended upon at all times to do more
than their share of anything good
that needs to be done, and not one
of them overlooks an opportunity to
“Do a good turn daily.”
* * *
Weather permitting, the Caligan
Evangelistic (’ympaign wll be ho'd in
the open air in front of the Com
munity House. A large platform is
now being built to be used as a choir
loft and four portable grandstands
have been secured from the Sandhills
Polo Club. These, together with the
large number of seats from the Com
munity House, will care for several
hundred people. Should inclement
weather prevail at any time during
the meetings, the seats and piano
can be replaced in the building in a
few moments’ time. The Boy Scouts,
of course, will be on the job through
out the campaign and all will be pre
pared to see that those attending the
meetings are made comfortable. The
Caligan Choir continues to hold re
hearsals at regular intervals and will
be well organized and drilled ere the
meetings begin. We are very for
tunate in having with us Mr. C. T.
Dowling, of Spartanburg, S. C., who
is at Pinehurst this summer look
ing after the interests of The West
ern Union Telegraph Company. He
is a member of the Billy Sunday Club
of Spartanburg and is taking a very
active part in assisting those in
charge of the Caligan campaign. Hav
ing been privileged to go thru a Billy
Sunday campaign, Mr. Dowling’s ex
perience is of great value in prepar
ing for the Pinehurst meetings. The
pastor. Rev. W. L. Wilson, will fill
his regular appointment at Pinehurst
next Sunday night, and has arranged
to stay over until the following Sun
day, when Rev. Caligan will start his
meetings. Attractive window cards
have been distributed throughout the
county announcing the meetings, as
We want all to know about them and
come and enjoy the week with us.
During the coming week. Cottage
Prayer Meetings will be held in be-
half of the campaign. . Don't forget
the date, June 11 to 17, inclusive, and
plan now to come as many nights as
possible, as we know all will delight
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1922
NO WONDER THEY FIGHT YOU!
These figures show what four North Carolina ‘‘auction’
markets have cost the farmers in the last three years:
Market
Wilson ....
Year
1919 c
1920 V
1921
Greenville 1919
1920
1921
Kinston 1919
1920
1921
Rocky Mount
1919
1920
1921
Pounds
Sold
32.000.000
50.000.000
36.000.000
27.000.000
34.000.000
20.000.000
23.000.000
26.000.000
20,ooa,ooo
•^20,000,000
24.000.000
14.000.000
Warehouse
Charges
$500,000
475.000
350.000
$1,325,000
425.000
340.000
V. 225,000
$990,000
'350,000
^ 260,000
200.000
,|8io^ooo;
• ' 300,ooa -
' 240,000
■ 160,000
$700,000
Average
Price
$50.75
21.36
28.54
53.22
20.66
28.70
50.71
18.80
23.54
51.12
18.76
25.00
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These figures are conservative/estimates, according to ex
perienced warehousemen of the bright belt, ^nd do not’Include
charges from pinhookers and rehandled tobacco..
By Co-operative Marketing, farmers can save money each
year and own the warehouses within five years.
in hearing Rev. Caligan and in help
ing to make his campaign a great
success.
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In last Sunday's issue of the News
& Observer, we read with considera
ble interest Mr. Arthur D. Gore’s his
tory of the hustling little town of
Raeford. This word picture took the
for-11 of a family tree, the principal
branches of which are made up of all
settlements from Sanford to Laurin-
burg. The genuine Scottish ancestry
which he claimed for all of these
tonvns was particularly emphasized.
After lauding everything around us,
he makes this statement: “But South
ern Pines and Pinehurst! They are
immigrants of a more recent date and
do not claim kin with the rest of us
except in mid-summer when all their
guests are gone.” We do not feel
disposed to allow the great writer to
get away with this—not without a
stimggle, at least. However, it might
be that he has not visited these places
enough of late to speak with authori
ty regarding them, and perhaps we
should make allowances for this.
There are many reasons for our not
wanting to be pruned from the family
tree above mentioned. And then he
might not be aware of the fact that a
very prominent community worker of
Pinehurst keeps in close touch these
days with the newly elected presi
dent of the Scottish Society in Ameri
ca. All of which leads us to the be
lief that Mr. Gore’s efforts to rule
us out of the Clan will prove futile.
Bring us your Job Work.
Lx\KEVIEW NEWS
Several crates of peaches have been
shipped from here during the past
week.
Mrs. T. J. Coore and children were
visiting relatives in Lakeview, Friday.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hen-
dren. May 22—twins—Mary Conley
and Louise Blue.
We have Sunday School here every
Sunday morning at 11:15. Everybody
come.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. McQueen have
returned from a trip to Meredith, New
Hampshire.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Cox went to see
his fatl\er who continues very ill in
Randolph County.
Mrs. Oris Seagroves and child visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Will Richardson,
Saturday.
There will be a meeting of the
Lakeview Canning Club, June 20th,
at 8 a. m., at the home of Mrs. W. H.
McNeill. All women and girls that
are interested in canning are urged
to attend, as Miss Bradford will be
there to help in the work.
Miss Elizabeth Byrd spent the lat
ter part of last week with friends and
relatives here.
Mr. Harold G. Sand, representing
the Produce Reporter Co., of Chicago,
passed through Lakeview, Monday.
There will be song services here
every Sunday night at 7:30 p. m.
Everybody is requested to come.
It has been our observation that
the man who falls in love with himself
never has any rivals.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
KY. GROWERS GET SECOND
ADVANCE
Some days after the organized
growers of Kentucky had received
notice of a second advance of nine
million dollars to be paid them for
their deliveries, and following the
statement of James C. Stone, that
the Burley Tobacco Growers Associa
tion had received $29 per hundred
pounds for its February sales, as
compared to $20.02 for sales by the
unorganized growers, the opponents
of co-operative marketing paid for
the advertisement of a letter from
one Leon Oettinger, at Lexington,
Ky., with the somewhat obscure
statement that “Farmers here who
brought their tobacco have only had
the one advance on it.”
Paying for the space to advertise
that advances to members of the
Kentucky pool had been but seven
cents per pound, in the same paper
which two days previously had pub
lished the fact that the Burley Tobac
co Association was sending checks
for $9,000,000 to the members in a
second advance, an amount sufficient
to bring their receipts to over fifteen
cents a pound—the opponents of co
operative marketing^ have gone to
lengths to discredit the organization
of tobacco farmers which make their
efforts pitifully futile and ridiculous.
, Facing the adveri^isement of those
who seel^ to befuddle tobacco farmers
of ^ North Carolina by misleading
statements -from Kentucky, and on
the opposite page in a leading daily
of North Carolina were these words
of James C. Stone, an outstanding
figure in the tobacco world, and Presi
dent of the Bufley Growers Co
operative Association, taken from a
telegram: “Farmers have been ad
vanced about 8c per pound and pay
ment of about same amount is being
made this month. Growers will aver
age 4 to 6 cents a pound more on
final returns for their tobacco than
outside growers. Reported sales dur
ing the month of February averaged
$29 a hundred pounds. Sales over
auction floors in Kentucky averaged
$20.02.”
Completely contradicting the state
ments of one, Oettinger, who migrated
from North Carolina to Kentucky, in
the letter which anonymous sponsors
of the speculative system had desper
ately used as an eleventh hour device
to bolster up their case, came letters
from leading bankers, farmers and
merchants of Kentucky, men of stand
ing, from several counties and com
munities. These letters repeatedly
disprove the statements of those cow
ardly opponents of the Marketing As
sociation whose ambiguous and un
signed thrusts at 70,000 organized
farmers are stinging the real pro
ducers of the wealth of both the Caro-
linas and Virginia into an eleventh
hour campaign which is bringing
thousands of new members into the
greatest Co-operative Marketing As
sociation of the United States.