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THE PILOT
VOLUME
NUNBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CAMERON NEWS
LAW AND ORDER
The law and order meeting
scheduled for a week last Sat
urday at Carthage was confused
by an error in the date, and was
postponed to Friday of this
week. It will be held in the
Carthage Baptist church at two
Miss Lillian Norman on route 3,
spent Sunday with Miss Bessie Doss.
Messrs. Cameron McLean, o f
Greensboro, and Dugald McLean, of
Chicago, were guests last week of
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McLean.
Mr. Haynes, of Orlando, Fla., was
a week-end guest of Miss Powell at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Thomas.
Mrs. J. D. Wilson and daughters.
Misses Emma and Alice, of Manly,
came up Monday for a visit to rela
tives on route*2.
W. J. Johnson, of Red Springs, was
in town last week.
Miss Ella McLean on route 2 was
the dinner guest Friday of Mrs. J.
A. Phillips and Miss Mary Ferguson.
Miss Vera Wooten came over from
Sanford to spend the week-end at
home.
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. McLean and
daughters, of Aberdeen, came up Sun
day afternoon to visit Mr. and Mrs.
H. T. Petty.
Communion services were held at
the Presbyterian , church Sunday
morning with an appropriate sermon,
by Rev. M. D. McNeill.
Mr. Donald McDonald is attending
Presbytery at Laurinburg this week.
Mr. E. M. Borst came up from Wil- j Miss Shalie Stratton, of Southern
mmgton for Sunday. \ ^. ...
Mr. Gilbert Battlev, of Hamlet, was P'"es, was a visitor in our village
in town Monday. | one day last week.
Mrs. Opal Jones, of Siloam, is the | Miss Amy Young arrived Satur-
guest this 'v^ek of Miss abe use. | morning from Harrison, Maine,
Mr. and Mrs. D. ^ "" | where she has been spending the
ford, were in town Jast Monday. summer, and she is now located in
are violated in countless ways.
A recent example of a six-year
old boy driving a car is an in
stance. The reckless grown-up
who hogs the road at lawless
speed is another. Violation of
the hunting laws are too com-
o’clock, Friday, October 6. It mon to speak of. They are all
is desirable thati^a big attend- subjects for looking into, and
ance should be there, for many
things, big and little, need at
tention. Making moonshine
liquor and carrying pistols are
not the only things that need
consideration. The whole scale
of infraction of the law can be
discussed, for as one man said
recently every one is guilty of
some breach of the law nearly
every day. Automobile laws
the sooner we go at law infrac
tion as though we meant to put
it down the sooner we will be a
more agreeable community to
live in. The Pilot urges a good
attendance from this side the
county as possible that some
thing may come of the meeting,
and that the rest of the county
may see that we are ready to do
our share.
NIAGARA ITEMS
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Bilyeu and lit
tle son Perrine, of Pinehurst, came
over Sunday for a visit to Mrs. D.
S. Ray and family. Mrs. Bilyeu and
little son remained for a weeks visit.
Miss Lula McPherson has accept
ed a business position in Charlotte.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. O’Briant, of
Timberlake, were guests last week,
of their son. Dr. A. L. O’Briant at
the Greenwood Inn.
The school house auditorium was
packed Monday night at the Com
munity meeting. The exercises were
opened with prayer by Rev. M. D.
McNeill. Then a pleasant and in-
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TIME AND A HALF
her cozy home on Park Hill Road.
Miss Mildred Smith, of Niagara
and Mr. Will Parks, of Pinehurst,
motored to Raeford one night last
week and were quietly married, tak
ing their many friends by surprise.
The bride is , the very attractive
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith.
She has taught school for a number
of years in this and adjoining coun
ties and was very popular. The groom
is a very industrious young man, and
is superintendent of a large peach , . «
orchard near Pinehurst where they It’s a pretty good thing for every
will make their home. All wish them 'boy in Vass to understand that the
“Burying a union bricklayer in De
troit has its compensation for the liv
ing,” says the “Detroit Saturday
Night.” “When members of the lo
cal bricklayers’ union are selected to
act as pallbearers at the funeral of a
comrade, the union pays them the
going rate of wages for their time.
Some of the brethren who officiated
in that capacity on a recent Satur
day afternoon put in a bill for double
time because Saturday afternoon is a
half-holiday. The business agent ar
gued that they did not lose anything*
by attending a funeral on a holiday,
but compromised by paying them
straight time.”
One of the most dangerous callings
in the world is calling the other man
a liar.
RATS vs THE FAIR
a happy voyage through their matri
monial life.
key to success fits the schoolhouse
door.
By Dr. R. G. Rosser
The Vass Fair will be held in Oc
tober, but rats and mice have been
here all the time. Prizes are offered
for almost everything at the Fair ex
cept rats. I have not heard of any
prizes being offered for the rodent,
probably because he is a worthless
and undesirable inhabitant who de
servedly should be despised, and every
opportunity to eradicate him should
be diligently used.
Rats and mice destroy more than
$100,000,000 worth of grain in the
U. S. A. annually, yet very little at
tention is paid to them in the “Tar
Heel State.” Besides this enormous
expense of feeding these rodents, they
are very unsanitary and filthy in
their habits.
A dreaded and almost invariably
fatal disease known as Bubonic
Plague, occurs in epidemic form in
the oriental countries, and is trans
mitted from one to another by the
bite of a certain species of fleas.
These fleas are carried from one lo
cality to another by rats and mice,
the rodent travelling in droves from
one place to another. In this way
the plague is sometimes scattered
over vast areas of country killing al
most everyone attacked.
The city of San Francisco is said
to be the most sanitary of all cities
of the world. The readers of The
Pilot should be proud to know this be
cause it was a “Tar Heel” who had
charge of the sanitary conditions of
the city. All streets, stalls and
ground floors of all kinds are con
structed of concrete and made rat-
proof. The city water is turned on
and all ground floors, as well as the
streets, are cleaned every day.
All ships coming from the orient
are inspected carefully for rats and
fleas before they are permitted to
land. These precautions are taken
particularly as a precaution against
Bubonic Plague. But in spite of this
an occasional case develops on our
shores and has to be quarantined.
So much for the plague and west
ern sanitation. What about o'ur rats
here at home?- When they destroy
so much grain and damage other
things, why will not someone in con
nection with the Fair tell us the use
or uselessness of rats, or put the
largest rat, the largest number, the
longest tail or biggest rat tale on ex
hibition at the Fair ? *
^^etch, Sausage, Syrup; F erns And I ris, IRare,
All of these we hope you’ll bring to our Vass Community Fair.
S^rnples of your corn and taters, wheat, rye and oats;
Some chickens and a cow or two, and your biggest, fattest shoats.
From the ladies we would like to have some cakes, pies and candy.
And all the fancy work and such that they see lying handy.
I’m sure we want preserves and jam, jelly and butter, too,
Run get your premium list right now, and read it thru and thru.
Contributed by MRS. S. R. SMITH
KERSLAKE’S EDUCATED PIGS
AT SANDHILL FAIR
One of the big daily attractions at
the Sandhill Fair, which will be the
talk of everybody after the first day,
is the wonderful performance of liil
Kerslake’s celebrated educated pigs
which will delight all children from
one year to one hundred years of
age.
Lil Kerslake, the one and only! The
originator and exhibitor of “The
farmer and his trained pigs” has well
earned the appellation of America’s
most distinctive animal Novelty.
This, (his eighth consecutive sea
son under one management) has
shown more demand than ever for
his services because of Mr. Kerslake’s
'inceasing efforts to please the de
lighted multitudes and also that the
act is unique, theie being no other
or an^hing like as effective.
While the pigs are more than fun
ny, well trained and go through their
performance with seeming enjoyment,
it is Mr. Kerslake’s own quaint per-
sonalitv that makes the greatest suc
cess of the act.
Lil Kerslake, the farmer, and his
trained pigs is the best comedy l^ov-
elty act in America today.