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VOLUME
THE PILOT
NUMBER
31
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CAMERON NEWS
Miss Lilian Cole left, last week, to
attend the summer school at A. & E.
Miss Lady Loving is attending the
summer school at Asheville.
Misses Mamie Arnold and Vera
Wooten left, Tuesday, to attend the
summer school at Chapel Hill.
Rev. L. H. Joyner has returned
from attending the preachers’ sum
mer school at Trinity.
Miss Burdette Joyner has returned
from a pleasure trip to Washington,
D. C. and Phila.delphia.
Miss Flora McDonald, of Carthage,
visited relatives in town for the week
end.
Mr. M. J. McFayden came up from
Aberdeen to spend Sunday with home
folks.
Mrs. Opal Jones, of Richmond, is
the guest of Miss Mabel Muse.
Mr. and Mrs. D. W. McNeill spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Wat
son, of Goldston.
The Young Ladies' Auxiliary will
meet with Miss Thurla Cole in the
afternoon of Friday, June 30th.
After a two weeks visit to his aunt,
Mrs. J. D. McLean, Master Robert
Lancaster returned on Monday to his
home at Vanceboro.
Friends and relatives in Cameron
have received invitations to the mar
riage of Miss Kitty May Snipes to
Mr. William McKinley Heustess, both
of Clio, South Carolina, Tuesday
evening at eight o’clock. First Pres-
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Mrs. Jane Finch, of the White Hill
section, is staying with Mrs. H. T.
Petty as practical nurse.
Mrs. W\ A. Simpson, of Cypress
Community, spent Sunday with her
sister, Mrs. J. T. Doss.
Mrs. L. B. McKeithan returned on
Monday from a visit to her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ritchie, of Clarkton.
Miss Bessie Doss is expected home
this week after a visit to her sister,
Mrs. Brewer of Winston-Salem.
Mr. Clyde Gaddy, of Sanford, spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. C. Gaddy.
Pleased to report Mrs. T. C. Gaddy
improving after a week’s illness.
Dr. and Mrs. John D. Muse, of
Henderson, are visiting the family of
Mrs Loula Muse.
Mrs. J. D. McLean and little neice,
Margaret McLean, left on Monday for
an extended visit to Mrs. McLean’s
mother, Mrs. Sarah Smith, of Vance
boro. On June the 28th they will
go to Winterville to be present at the
wedding of Miss Dorothy Johnson, of
Winterville, to Mr. Robert Smithwick,
of Louisburg, N. C., and when little
Miss Margaret will act as flower
girl for the occasion. Margaret is
a bright little girl of three sifmmers,
and when leaving told her little
friends she was going away to be
married.
Miss Rubell Smoak who has been
the guest of Miss Mary Emma Thom
as, left Monday for her home at
Rural Hall.
(Continued on page 8)
The Dewberry Hills of Moore County,
North Carolina
By Mrs. J. McK. Harrington
WE READ about the vine clad hills of France, and other South
ern countries, but they may not compare in beauty and
picturesqueness with the rolling dewberry hills of Moore Cotinty,
N. C., U. S. A. There is no cultivated scenery more beautiful
and artistic than the berry fields abloom. Acres upon acres of
hillside, valley, and plain, staked in rows of uniform width, with
their flowering vines of green and white. Later, when the vines
are heavy with their luscious purple berries; for picturesque
beauty, behold the picking and packing time! Imagine a hillside
of rows in tiers, with from seventy-five to a hundred people of
all ages, size and color in costumes befitting, with carriers and
cups all busy picking the rich purple, profitable dewberry. At
the pack houses, you will find—
The handsome youth, and pretty maiden.
Packing crates with berries laden.
Trucks, cars, wagons, carts, even buggies are constantly pass
ing and repassing with crates upon crates of the luscious fruit
to the shipping station at Cameron, Moore County, the largest
shipping point for dewberries in the world.
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Johnson Grove M. E. Church
Host to District Conference
(By Rev. W. H. Brown)
The Rockingham District Confer
ence of the M. E. Church, South, con
vened with the church at Vass, Tues,
day night, June 20th, with a sermon
of wonderful information and great
spiritual power by Rev. Euclid Mc-
Wharton, of Aberdeen, N. C.
The attendance upon the conference
at this busy season is simply inspiring,
there being ninety-six preachers and
delegates and nine connedtional
brethern, and enough others to keep
the house full all the while. Every
interest of the church has been rep
resented and in such a manner as to
hold the fixed attention of the entire
audience.
Wednesday’s Session
The reports of the preachers show
that the financial situation is excel
lent for the times. The Sunday
School attendance in some places is
larger than the membership, in a few
it is double the membership of the
church. New churches are being built
and old ones have been repaired.
Growth is apparent everywhere.
Rev. A. N. Plyer, the editor of the
Advocate, made a pleasing talk and
stated that our Advocate had the
largest circulation among the Con
ference Organs in our church. The
Conference expressed its appreciation
of the paper.
M. E. Cotton, representative of the
Anti-Saloon League, made a stirring
address on Law Enforcement and the
following strong resolutions were
adopted by the Conference:
No nation or people can be any
more trustworthy than their respect
for known law. Respect for law is all
that saves us from anarchy. This is
especially true in a government like
ours, where the will of the people
is written into our law. Your com
mittee, holding these facts as axio
matic, beg to make the following re
port:
First—We call attention to the lax
ness or inability of our public officers
to enforce our prohibition laws. If
these officers were employed by a rail
road corporation, and were for any
reason as unsuccessful in the perform
ance of the task assigned them as they
are in enforcing the prohibition laws
on our statute books, they would not
remain in the employ of that railroad
corporation any longer than Pat stay
ed in the army. Your committee
holds that if our officers cannot en
force our laws they should be asked
why and squarely.
Again—Since the eighteenth amend
ment has been written into the con
stitution the whiskey business has
become outlawed. Therefore, who
ever makes, sells, drinks or gives
whiskey, as a beverage, is guilty of
aiding and abetting an outlawed busi
ness, and thereby becomes particeps
criminis. This is true whether done
by a common boot-legger or in so-
called polite society.
We ask that our court commission
ers discontinue the custom of paying
for captured distilleries, and in its
stead pay, if need be, for captured dis
tillers. We commend our judges who
have the custom of sending convicted
whiskey handlers to the road instead
of fining them, and respectfully ask
all our judges to adopt the plan.
Another flagrant violation of the
law of God and man is the open Sun
day at Pinehurst and other resorts
(Continued on page 3)
CYPRESS CREEK ITEMS
We are sorry to say that little Mar-
garette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Blue, died at one o’clock, Monday
night and was buried at Cypress
cemetery on Sunday at four o’clock.
Miss Emily Cameron arrived home
from Hope Mills, last Monday. She
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs.
James Thames.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Stewart spent
Monday night with Mr. and Mrs.
George Stewart.
Misses Mary Martha Ballard and
Cassil McDonald and Mr. Floyd John
son motored to Lakeview, Sunday af
ternoon.
On Sunday, June 11, Misses Emily
and Bertie Cameron and Mr. Mur
dock Cameron were called to the bed
side of their grandfather, Mr. J. S.
Cameron, of Hope Mills, who passed
away at five o’clock Monday morning
and was buried at Manchester ceme
tery on Wednesday, June 14.
Mr. Weldon Guin, of Raeford, spent
Sunday with his grandmother, Mrs.
L. C. Johnson.
Mr. D. C. McCraney, of route 3,
entertained a number of his friends
at a bee robbing, on Wednesday night
of last week.
We are glad to say that Mr. D. A.
Cameron attended services at Cypress
Sunday, for the first time since his
illness.
NIAGARA NEWS
Miss Bertha Garner, of Spies, is
visiting her brother ,Mr. Lexie Gar
ner, of these parts.
Mr. H. L. Harwood, of Pittsboro,
was a week-end visitor of these parts.
Miss Mildred Smith spent Satur
day in Sanford on business.
Miss Alice Parker spent a few days
the past week in Sanford and Jones
boro.
Mr. Adam Keehn and daughter,
of Passadena, California, were visitors
in our village the past week.
Mrs. D. P. Kelly has just returned
from a trip to Georgia.
LAKEVIEW NEWS
Miss Lexie Cameron, of Durham, is
visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. C. Smith.
Miss Helena Vick, of Union, visited
little Miss Pauline Blue, Saturday.
The weather prevented the attend
ance of a large crowd at the services
here Sunday night. May 18, however,
those who were present were impres
sed deeply by the text, “The World’s
Call.”
Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Gibbon, of Wash
ington, D. C., are here for some time.
The new cafe which is being built by
Mr. Coffey, of Duke, will soon be
completed. We are very glad to have
Mr. Coffey and family in our com
munity.
Miss Pearl McN%ill has returned to
her home here for a few weeks.
Remember McKeithan & Co’s Ox
fords.