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SA.NDFin^l_ F’AIR, NOVEMBER 7, 8, 9 md lO
THE PILOT
VOLUNE
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27,1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
STATE AND COMMUNITY
FAIRS
The State Fair held at Raleigh last
week will go down in history as the
greatest agricultural display ever
held in North Carolina, according to
Director B. W. Kilgore of the Experi
ment Station and Extension Service.
Dr. Kilgore and his associates, to
gether with the county home and farm
demonstration agents, took a leading
part in making the fair a success in
sofar as the educational side was con
cerned, and visitors last week were
impressed with the great value of the
fair from this standpoint.
About twelve counties made coun
ty exhibits. Buncombe won first
prize, Alamance second, and Cleve
land third, with the others down to
ten participating in the prize money.
The community exhibits were more
numerous than before, with the Alex
ander Wilson Commfunity of Ala
mance county winning first monej%
the Calypso Community of Duplin
county second, and the Fairview Com
munity of Wake county third. Indi
vidual farm honors went to John S.
Davis, of Wayne county, W. Henry
Sharpe of Guilford, and E. J. Howell
of Haywood, in the order named.
The livestock display was even
greater than the field crops. There
were more Jersey cattle shown than
all dairy breeds put together last
year. All breeds of beef cattle, sheep,
swine, and horses and mules were rep
resented. Additional tents had to be
put up to house the overflow from the
•regular barns and sheds. This show
of livestock is an indication of the
increasing interest in this phase of
farming in North Carolina.
The Hemp Community Fair
The Hemp Community Fair was
held this year in the adjoining store
of Mr. Madison Brown and it made
an excellent hall for the exhibition.
There were 377 entries this year as
compared with 342 last year. They
are improving both in number of ex
hibits and attendance. From a live
stock standpoint it was a failure, but
from every other source it was a BIG
success
Out of 28 prizes won Mr. N. A.
Morgan captured 15 of these. Mr.
Morgan had some splendid exhibits
and they would be a credit to the
Sandhill District Fair in November.
A complete list of the prize winners
will occur in the Agricultural edition
in early November. Look out for
them.
THE Glendon Community Fair
The rain did pour the day before
and the morning of the Glendon Com
munity Fair, but that did not stop
the people. There were not quite so
many exhibits as last year but the
quality of the exhibits shown were
far superior to those the previous
year. There were 43 farm products
as compared with 26 last year. There
were 174 entries made while a year
ago there were 226.
Wilburn Shields made an exhibit
of 61 different kinds of 3eeds grown
on their farm and Eugene Street col
lected 133 specimen of native woods
from the forrest around Glendon.
These exhibits attracted much atten
tion.
Mrs. E. M. Street showed two
heads of cabbage that beat anything
of its kind ever seen in Moore coun
ty. They were 2 feet in diameter and
were an eye-opener to those who do
not believe such can be grown in
Moore county.
The West End Community Fair
Too much cannot bt; said about this
(Continued on page 8)
CAMERON NEWS
Mr. Charles Loving, of Sanford,
spent Sunday at the home of his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Loving.
Mrs. A. H. Kerr, of Raleigh, is
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Warren G.
Ferguson at the home of Mr. and
M,*rs. H. P. McPherson.
,Mr. W. H. McNeill, of Carthage,
was in town last week.
Miss Frankie Teague spent Mon
day in Carthage with her brother, Mr.
Reece Teague.
We have had some delightful In
dian Summer weather weather, but
every one seems too busy to enjoy it.
Miss Mollie McKeithen, of Aber
deen, was a week-end guest of Mr.
and Mrs. M. McL. McKeithen.
Misses Rebecca Ray and Norman
McKeithen spent the week-end with
Mrs. D. S. Ray and family.
Miss Lucille Loving has a position
as stenographer with Attorney D. B.
Teague, of Sanford.
We regret to report Mr. C. C. Jones
ill of shingles. Mr. Jones is so en
ergetic he does not often succumb to
a disease.
Mr. Roy Hendricks, of Vass, spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. A. Hendricks.
Mr. J. C. Ferguson, one of the high
school boys, is working on a radio
receiving unit that he will demon
strate at the Cameron Community
Fair.
Mrs. D. W. McNeill and Mrs. War
ren G. Ferguson will have charge of
the floral and basketry exhibit at
the Community Fair.
All who have exhibits are request
ed to bring or send them in on the
afternoon of Tuesday, October 31st.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ferguson spent
Monday in Sanford.
Miss Margaret Thomas spent two
days at the State Fair as chaperone
for two junior girls at Meredith.
While there she was the house guest
of Mrs. Furman Betts.
Dr. A. L. O’Briant spent the week
end with his parents at Rockford.
Cap. Doc. Dewberry and Chericola
are the names given four popular
young men in town.
Miss Nonnie Norman spent the
week-end with Miss Ruth Bullock.
Mr. H. J. McNeill, of Smoaks. S.
C., was a business visitor in town
last week.
J. McN. Johnson, of Aberdeen, was
in town recently and left an order
with H. P. McPherson for a bushel of
walnuts and a bushel of hickory nuts.
When Mr. Johnson sits by his “Ingle
side” in the long winter evenings
cracking the nuts, it will add much
to the flavor to know they grew at
the Sandy Morris place.
Messrs. Leyton Patterson and Earl
Goodman with their families have
moved to Sanford.
Dr. Hatcher, Lawyer Saunders,
Misses Kirkpatrick and Lamb, of
Hamlet, were the distinguished guests
of J. F. Saunders at the Greenwood
Inn, Sunday.
Miss Annie Pierce was a gtiest,
Sunday night of Miss Ruth Bullock on
Carthage route 1.
Miss Rachel Gilchrist is teaching
at Troy.
Miss Margaret Gilchrist is teach
ing at Springfield, Miss. Nannie Gil
christ will begin teaching at White
Hill next week.
Rev. Mr. Clark, of Carthage, as
sisted by Rev. Mr. Brown of Raeford
closed a very interesting and success
ful meeting at White Hill Presbyteri
an church last week. Through the
courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Pierce
(Continued on page eight)
HARRISON STUTTS ACQUITTED
(By E. A. Denham)
Just as the hands of the clock were
approaching the witching hour of
midnight, on Friday last, twelve grave
and earnest jurymen and jurj^omen,
bowed with the weight of their great
responsibility, filed into the courtroom
at Pinehurst and announced to H. R.
Vroom, clerk of the colirt, that they
had, each and all of them found one
O. H. Stutts NOT GUILTY of the
charge upon which he had been tried,
to wit, swiping a tire from the off
rear wheel of the automobile of one
Bert Wicker while said Wicker was
attending the movies at the Carolina
Theatre on Friday night, September
15th, Anno Domini 1922.
That’s a good, long, healthy sen
tence but it isn’t a patch on the one
that hung over the head of the terri
fied prisoner, like the sword of Da
mocles, during the long hours of the
highly interesting and amusing Mock
Trial staged that night at the Com
munity Hall by the Community Club
of Pinehurst. The trial was presided
over by Judge R. A. Bartlett, who was
armed with a mighty fifty pound
sledge hammer which he called a
gavel and with a still more ponderous
collection of judicial opinions and rul
ings, several of which had some bear
ing on the case at bar. The presiding
judge’s manful efforts to maintain,
by pounding the bench with his
sledge hammer, a respectful atmos
phere of attentive silence among the
vast assemblage which packed the
hall to its capacity, were ably second
ed and enforced by the sheriff, Fuller
T. Currie, who was also called upon
to summons the jurors and witnesses
and to keep a vigilant eye on his dan
gerous prisoner.
Will Fry, court crier, opened the
proceedings with the familiar Oyez,
Oyez, Oyez and its accompanying in
vocation. Judge Barrett called the
crowded court room to order. Clerk
Vroom read the indictment. Hon.
J. F. Davis, solicitor for the State,
then presented the State’s case, which
FARM LIFE BOYS CARRY OFF
HONORS AT STATE FAIR
Nine of the agricultural students
of Farm Life School attended the
State Fair with their instructor R.
G. Hutcheson, for the purpose of ent-
tering a contest between the voca
tional schools of the state in judging
crops and livestock.
There were 42 schools present, rep
resented by over four hundred boys.
The Sandhill boys stood right at
the top as is indicated by the follow
ing results:— Sandhill Farm Life
team came second in judging farm
crops, with 42 teams of three each in
the race. Prize, $18.00 in cash. The
boys representing the Farm Life on
this team were Bob Morris, Laird
Pharr, and Garrett Dawson. Farm
Life’s livestock team came eighteenth
in the 42 schools, and the following
individual honors were won:— Laird
Pharr and Worth Blue tied for first
place in judging poultry and Garrett
Dawson won second place in judging
dairy cattle.
We all feel proud of the good work
done by these boys, and Moore coun
ty should be proud of a school which
trains for practical problems as well
as for good citizenship.
PINEHURST FARM BERKSHIRES
WIN AT SOUTHEASTERN
FAIR
This week at the great South
eastern Fair in Atlanta the Pinehurst
Farm herd of Berkshires repeated
their winnings of the previous week
at the Virginia State Fair, in spite of
the fact that they met three new
herds, one from Georgia, one from
Kentucky and one from Indiana. The
show as a whole was considered the
strongest Berkshire show that has
been held in the Sduth this season
and it was the universal opinion in
Atlanta that it was the strongest
show that has ever been held at the
Southeastern. In addition to the
Pinehurst herd, the Sycamore Farm
- u ‘ j: 4.U 4. Herd, Douglasville, Pa., Sechrist &
was, m brief, that after Mr Wicker Elkhart, Ind., C. J. Hardman
had parked his car opposite the Car
olina Theatre on the night of Sep
tember 15th, and had entered the
theatre, O. H. Stutts had been seen
hanging around the car in a suspici
ous manner and that shortly after
wards one of its rear tires had been
found sadly and entirely lacking. That
said Stutts had, on the day before,
tried to buy a second-hand tire at
the lumber yard, the postoffice and
at other places where tires are. usual
ly sold. That, on the night of the
crime, he had endeavored to sell a
32 by 4 tire—the sized used on Mr.
Wicker’s car—to a local Ford owner.
That, failing in his argument that it
was just as good as a Ford size and
a lot bigger, he had secreted the tire
behind a barrel in his (Stutt’s) ga
rage, where no spare tire had ever
been seen before. That the tire had
been discovered there by one of the
State’s witnesses and subsequently
identified and gathered in by Mr.
Wicker.
Evidence in support of thev cor
rectness of these allegations and re
lating to many other suspicious cir
cumstances which space will not allow
us to refer to, was offered by the
State’s witnesses, including Gordon
M. Cameron, J. Bruce Cameron,
Frank Maples, A. B. Sally, J. A. Mc
Dowell, Charlie Fields and Bert Wick
er, the complaining witness.
The defense was ably conducted by
Hon. J. F. Cason and his assistant,
(Continued on page eight)
& Bro., Commerce, Ga., Rogers Bros.,
Harods Creeks, Ky., and a number of
smaller breeders throughout the
South were showing. In all, 114
Berkshires were driven into the ring
but in spite of this competition the
Pinehurst Herd again won Grand
Champion Sow on Great Wild Rose
29th, Junior Champion Boar on Laurel
Sensation, and first herd bred by ex
hibitor, and first Get of Sire. The
popular “Peanuts” was again first in
his class.
This is considered, next to the
Berkshire Congress Show at Pine
hurst, the largest and strongest Berk
shire show in the South and this
show will be increased at the Con
gress show in Pinehurst, in connec
tion with the Sandhill Fair, by sever
al other herds. In addition to the
show winnings made at Atlanta by
the Pinehurst herd several good sales
were made to new breeders as the
phenominal showing that is being
made by the Pinehurst herd is at
tracting attention throughout the
country.
COST BILLS EXPLAINED
The unusual number of costs bills
amounting to nearly $2,000.00 allow
ed by the County Commissioners at
the last meeting, was well explained
when the clerk of the court turned
over to the county treasurer a check
for the amount of the convict hire.
Be Sure and See “Deacon Mbs
Rural Comedy in 3 Acts at
Farm Life School,Saturday Oct. 28,8:00 p.m.