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MERCANTILE COMPANY VOLUME THE PILOT NUPIBER Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass tuid Its Surrounding Country SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10,1922 PRICE FIVE CENTS tobacco growers get more MONEY ecause the va- he market is oose from. jssential quali- orth and Style. ;h a guarantee ound otherwise a new pair of tocks over and jfore buy- lere. One Price to AB ^ ::arolina CAMERON NEWS The directors of the Tobacco Grow ers’ Co-operative Association have named next Monday 13th as the date of the second cash payment to every member of the Association who has delivered tobacco in South Carolina and three border counties of North Carolina. Thousands of checks have been mailed to officials of the Association throughout the South Carolina belt and will be distributed upon presenta tion of the participation receipts by members at the markets where they were issued. Oliver J. Sands, Executive Mana ger, James H. Craig, Treasurer of the association, and other directors and officials will address the growers at mass meetings on November 13th and 14th at Mullins, Kingstree, Florence, Dillon and several other points thru- out the South Carolina belt. The opening of the Association’s dark warehouses this week at Lynch burg, Farmville, Bedford, Appomat tox, Amherst, Arrington, Phoenix, Dillwyn, Cumberland, Amelia, Colum bia, Ashland, Milford, Richmond, Petersburg, Blackstone, Drakes Branch and Brookneal marked the successful operation of the Associa tion in handling tobacco of all types grown in the Carolinas and Virginia. The announcement of its directors that the Tobacco Growers’ Co-opera tive Association will go the limit in protecting its contract by bringing legal action against contract break ers has been followed by 63 suits against alleged offenders in North Carolina alone. These suits involve close to $50,000 in liquidated dam ages and attorneys’ fees and are scheduled for late November. More than a thousand Virginia members of the Association welcomed Oliver J. Sands, executive manager of the Association, at enthusiastic mass meetings in Danville and Chat ham last Saturday. Mr. Sands told of the good averages for which as sociation tobacco has sold through out the old belt from Aberdeen to Alta Vista and said, “we have not yet found any merchant, banker, busi ness man or farmer, who would hesi tate to say frankly that if it had not been for the Association the present prices paid on the warehouse floors would not be in existence today. It is conceded by all tobacco men tha'c the present crop of tobacco will yield in the old belt around 250,000,000 pounds net, whereas the last year s crop of tobacco, which was considered a short cropj ran around 157,000,000 pounds and averaged $21.90. There fore we think we have been of great service to the tobacco growers in the thrss states and will by a conserva tive estimate put $10,000,000.00 more money in this section than there would have been had the Association not been in existence. ROAD WORK DELAYED EDUCATIONAL MATTER 5S MERCANTILE COMPANY By A. B. Cameron 1. The contest will be held in Ral eigh on Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 29th, at an hour and place to be se- 2. Each county is entitled to two (2) representatives. Those two rep- resentatives should come, one f^®^ the purely rural or county schools, and the other from the town or city schools. The county superintendent and the superintendent of city or town schools in the county, should get to gether as early as possible and work out plans for selecting the two repre sentatives. 3. The representatives nust come from the 7th grade pupils, (or from Now that the election and communi ty fairs, with the round-up, are over, it is to be hoped that we can all settle down to normalcy. But in the dis tance we hear the gobble of the Thanksgiving turkey and the chime of the Christmas bells. In honor of our community fair be ing a success, our town is dolling up. Mrs. E. M. Borst and daughter. Miss Annie, spent Monday in Raleigh, shopping. Little Miss Helen Parker received second premium at the community fair for the best school lunch. Mrs. Fannie Shaw and daughter, Miss Mattie Kate, and Mrs. Evaline Blue, of Carthage, were afternoon callers, Sunday, at the homes of Mrs. D. S. Ray and Mrs; Janie'Muse. Mr. and Mrs. John Stone and chil dren, of Surry, returned home Mon day, after a week’s visit to Mrs. Stone’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Doss. Mrs. Wm. Rogers and daughter. Miss Lily May, and Mr. James Rogers spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Thomas, of Broadway. Mr. John McDonald, of Marshville, visited his sisters. Misses Sallie Mc Donald and Mamie Hunter, last week. Misses Lucile and Lady Loving en tertained the younger set on Satur day evening at a birthday party given in honor of their brother, Carl Ed win. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the public premiums went to qufte a number of exhibits of the pantry supplies that were not rated in the catalogs. Among them: Car mel and nut cake, Miss Mamie Neal Muse; potato salad. Miss Myrtle Gad dy; layer cake and apple pie. Miss Manda McPherson; cream puffs, Mrs. N. C. McFayden; pound cake, Mrs. T. A. Hendricks; cheese straws, Mrs. L. H. Joyner; devilled eggs, Miss Chrissie McLean; biscuits baked m old-fashioned oven in open fire place. Miss Annie Maples; lemon custards, Mrs. J. D. McLean. This is only a drop in the bucket” of the pantry exhibits that were deliciously tempt ing. Making one’s mouth water. The exhibits of golden butter was beauti ful, indeed. Superb exhibit of canned goods of everv variety of fruits, vegetables, relishes, catsups, grape juice, pre serves, pickles, jellies. If anything was missing no one could suggest the missing article. Cameron Community Fair By co-operating, Cameron and com- munitv held a Fair last week of which they are justly proud. All the farm products were of the best; the can ning exhibits wonderful; pantry sup plies delicious; the needlework and art department magnificent. Worthy mention of just a few: Sofa punch work, Mrs. D. W. McNeill; baby cap in tatting, Lora Norman; Embroidered center piece, Mrs. J. D. McLean; exquisite luncheon set, Mrs. L. H. Joyner. All kinds of fancy work and embroidery, in needlework, crocheting in many beautiful designs, ovely display of bed spreads, fancy quilts, knit embroidered counterp^es. The floral display was grand! Over 100 plants in the collection. Some thing unique and wonderful m the basketry exhibit and pressed flowers, made by Mrs. Warren Ferguson who also had on exhibit the Gourd head family, with a catchy poem m gom-d head patois of why they did not be- ieve in community fairs. _ (Continued on page eight) The contractors on the highway complain that the Seaboard is delay ing the work at the crossing of Little river. Already the grade has been made from Lakeview to the river, and men are at work getting ready to build the bridge. But on the Vass side a big fill is necessary, and the dirt for the fill is to come from a cut this side of the railroad. The Sea board is to drive piling for the under pass so the contractors can go to pulling out the dirt and make the fill at the river. But the Seaboard so far has only made promises of getting at the work. The contractors say, and truthfully, that now while the ground is dry through the swamp they should be making that fill, for everybody knows what kind of a job it will be if rains should raise water in the low ground. It might delay the whole work until away next summer. On the action of the Seaboard in getting the piles driven right away the con tractors say the whole job is now de pending, and much anxiety is felt as the good weather is going, and win ter with its cold wet days approaches. SCRUB BULL TO BE PUT ON TRIAL MILK COWS, PASTURES AND FENCES Slogan: A Cow for Every Farm, A Pasture for Every Cow, A Fence for Every Pasture. > There is no problem before the American public of more importance than the one of properly feeding and nourishing its people. Many of us do not stop to realize that there are 6,000,000 children, or one out of every four in the United States, suffering from under-nourishment and that 350, 000 of them die every year from no other cause than that of poor or de ficient food. It is not so much a case of poverty as it is of ignorance and indifference. The food now ^ven these children cost even more than proper food would cost, because we often do not consider the difference between food that nourishes and food that merely fills. There are 44,000 families without a cow. Shall the children of these families yet to come, be reared with out that most vitalizing food which can be obtained only from the cow? We hope not. We believe that when our people are fully aware of the situation they will undertake to rapid ly remedy the matter. In changing these conditions, pas tures are of first importance. We cannot properly grow and maintain milk cows economically without pas tures. There is no legitimate excuse for not having pastures. Grass gro*ws well when given proper attention. Mr. F. P. Latham, a successful farmer of eastern Carolina, grows ex cellent pastures. He states that be cause of our all-year grazing season and the great number of summer and vinter grazing crops that we possess, there is no other state that offers better opportunities for livestock pro- dr.ction than does North Carolina. Farmers who are interested in this matter should consult their county agent and procure his assistance Counties that have no agents should write to their Extension Service at Haleigh, N. C., for Extension Folder No. 7, and other bulletins on the sub- e2t. One of the features of the North Carolina Livestock meeting to be held in Statesville on November 22, 23 and 24 will be a mock trial of the scrub bull. This will be part of the pro gram on “dairy day” and is being worked out by John A. Arey of the North Carolina Extension Service. Witnesses will be subpeonaed from among the cattle growers of the state and the prosecution will try to show the great harm which has been done the dairy industry in North Carolina by the use of this scrub animal. On the other hand, the value of the pure bred sire will be stressed as con trasted to the record of the scrub. The bull has already been selected and some of the county agents of the extension service have been secur ed as solicitors. W. Kerr Scott of Ala mance county will be one of the pros ecutors. It is expected to give the scrub a fair and impartial trial with due process of the law and then await the judgment of a jury to be selected from among a number of prominent farmers of Iredell and surrounding counties. In case the death penalty is imposed, the bull will probably be turned over to a local butcher. This will be only one of many new features to be put on at this meet ing. R. S. Curtis of the animal in dustry division of the North Carolina Experiment station has secured a number of prominent livestock speak ers to take part in the program and indications point to a most successful meeting. POLK COUNTY LEARNS CANNING home fires burning,” a large deep basket filled with neat oak sticks, pine cones and lightwood kindlings, Attracted much attention. McDonald Bros., Blackat Battery, and Cameron (Continued on page 8) Contentment shines upon the brow Of Farmer Brown; says he, “I used to keep scrub cows, but now My pure bred cows keep me!” It now appears that family skele tons are kept on the front page of the daily papers instead of in the 'losets. As an indication of the value of a home demonstration agent to a coun ty, Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon likes to cite the case of Polk County which employed an agent only last June. Mrs. McKimmon secured the services of Miss Sarah M. Padgett, who im mediately got busy and organized home demonstration work in the coun ty. Later she put on six demonstra tions in judging canned products showing the women and girls just what constitutes a standard pack and r*ointing out the good and bad points of each product judged. So well did the club members profit by this instruction that they sent an exhibit to the State Fair which won first premium for the best products* fi’om any primary county. Four in dividual club members won first prizes also. So interested have the club members become that Miss Pad gett in a recent report to Mrs. Mc Kimmon says: “They are very much interested in our meetings and the programs. One community. Red Mountain, proposes to show other communities of Polk county how to put into operation a nicely equipped teacher’s cottage and to that end the men, women, boys and girls met in the school house, had a box party and out of the proceeds sent the home agent to Asheville to do some purchasing of household equipment. “One of the boys made some pretty furniture for the dining room. The 'hina, curtains, and other furnishings were selected to fit into a harmonious whole. “The girls’ club is making the dra peries, scarfs and the table appoint ments and when the cottage is com- ete wejiope that each girl member will know how to select tasteful furni- ire and furnishings and have some idea of how to make a comfortable, pleasant and artistic home with good taste, willing hands, and a knowledge if how to make a little money go a 3ng way.”
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