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The Good-will of our Patrons and Friends is one
of our most valuable assets. The Spirit of
the Season brings to us renewed appre
ciation of old associates and of
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the value of new friends
Nay your New Year be a Happy One
and that Success may attend you
is the cordial wish of
VASS, NORTH CAROLINA
CAMERON NEWS
(Continued from page 1)
The correspondent has been the re-
ceipient of many, many presents this
Yuletide, from the dainty, the tooth
some, the useful and substantial, and
pleasantly remembered by so many
with tokens of love and affection.
What a blessing as one grows older
for friends to increase, to be remem
bered by the young, when one is old
is indeed a rare blessing. I have been
made very happy, and my heart has
been touched by so many tokens of
love and affection, so many beautiful
gifts- and tender remembrances of
kind friends. May health, happiness,
peace and prosperity be their con
stant guides all through the remain
der of life’s journey.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Borst and H.
A., Jr., of Vass, were Christmas Day
guests of the families of Mr. and Mrs.
E. M. Borst, and Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Parker.
Miss Lula McPherson, who is teach
ing at Mint Hill, near Charlotte, is
home for the holidays.
The family of Mr. J. W. Cameron
are quite ill with influenza.
Mrs. D. S. Ray enjoyed a family
reunion of all her children during the
Christmas holidays.
On Friday night, the 22nd, Mrs.
Harrington entertained at an informal
party for her music pupils and each of
their invited guests. A recital was
given by the pupils. Programs as
follows: Beginning with the begin
ners; correct answers in the rudi
ments of music; the scale of C, Cora
Oakely; “Christmas Bells,” instru
mental, Pauline Snipes; variations of
Annie Laurie, Cleta Jackson; Silent
Night, Holy Night, Louise Womack;
Step Lightly Polka, Mary Lee Thom
as; Holiday March, Viola Thomas;
study in eighths and 8 va., Frances
Matthews; Blowing Bubbles, Ruth
Wooteiv; O Sole Mio, Left hand alone,
Katharme McDonald; Duette: Beauti
ful Rainbow Reverie, Ruth Wooten
and Katharine McDonald. After the
recital ^games were played. A bushel
of apples served and fortunes told
with apples. Several participated in
the old Virginia reel and North Car
olina Scotch ramble, led by the host
ess. All had a merry time. Invited
guests: Mrs. J. D. McLean, Misses
Bessie Oakely, Ruth Badgett, Hellen
Parker, Mary McDonald, Lula Gaddy,
Messrs. LaFayette Thomas, Alton
Shaw, Jack Phillips, Gorrie Jackson,
Enver Thomas, and Haywood Snipes.
I love to look on a scene like this,
of wild and careless play.
And persuade myself that Fm not
old.
And my locks are not yet gray.
WILL EMPLOY COUNTY AGENT
Lee and Hoke counties will employ
the services of a County Agent in co
operation with the North Carolina
Extension Service, beginning January
1, 1923. These counties have not had
an agent for the last few years. The
sudden deflation in prices ^hich was
brought about soon after the close of
the war caused a great many people
to feel that if the County Agent,
Home Agent, and perhaps other pub
lic officials were removed from the
pay roll of the county, that the taxes
they were having to pay would be
reduced. It has been found by ex
perience that the people living coun
ties, and who are enjoying the bene
fits of these public workers are not
paying but little more tax than the
people in adjoining counties who are
not employing their services.
Another reason why these counties
are putting on county agents is be
cause, the people are face to face
against boll weevil infestation, which
will require some change in our pres
ent farm program. The price of cot
ton from now on is going to be good.
There are two outsanding reasons for
this: First, I do not believe that with
boll weevil infestation covering the
entire cotton belt, we will ever be able
to grow a surplus of cotton. This
means that the demand for cotton by
the spinners is going to be strong.
Second, because the old system of
marketing in my opinion is gone for
ever, orderly marketing such as is
being practiced by the recently form
ed Cotton Marketing Association is a
sane and sensible business movement,
that will bring to the people of the
South a reasonable condition of pros
perity, if the Association is made suf
ficiently strong and its members re
main loyal, therefore, it is a fine busi
ness proposition to secure the services
of a man from a boll weevil infested
territory who is acquainted with
growing cotton under boll weevil con
ditions to advise the farmers in the
use of the best methods known for
growing cotton in spite of the weevil.
These counties are to be congratu
lated because of the action of their
commissioners, they have shown good
business judgment by co-operating
with the North Carolina Extension
Service in the employment of a well
trained man to have charge of this
important work. If the farmers will
co-operate as they should with the
County Agent, it will mean that the
county may increase its income in
the production of cotton alone many
thousand dollars. If suitable men can
be found, the work will be started
about the 1st of January, or as soon
thereafter as possible.
T. D. McLEAN, Dist. Ag’t.
CHRISTMAS BUSINESS
According to exchanges reaching
this office the Christmas shopping
season in this state was the best mer
chants have enjoyed for many years.
The volume of business was larger
and the buying of serviceable gifts
was on a larger scale than at any
previous time. Which shows two
things—that the people are again get
ting hold of money, and that they are
learning how best to spend it.
Farm prices, while still not what
they should be, are partially offset
by the fact that there is a ready mar
ket for everything. Production in the
factories of the nation is on a good
basis, and the probleni of unemploy
ment is nothing like as serious as it
was at this time last year. The man
who can’t find work isn’t hunting
very hard for a job. All over the
land newspapers point to an increased
advertising business, which accounts
for the heavy holiday buying. If
Vass merchants didn’t get their share
of it, maybe their failure to use print
er’s ink as liberal as they should is
the reason. Of course, that is water
over the wheel now. But it ought to
serve as a lesson. It ought to con
vince them that people with money to
spend spend it with those who adver
tise.
MORE FREAK LAWS
Every man in Vass will admit when
a doctor’s orders are openly disobey
ed the doctor ought not to be held
responsible for the patient’s failure to
get well, if he does fail. But he won’t
admit that there’s any sense in mak
ing such drastic laws as J. Madison
Taylor, a New York physician, now
comes forward to urge. Dr. Taylor
wants a law to provide that if a man
is bidden to stay in bed and won’t
stay there, the attending physician
can get out an injunction to k^ep him
there. With a deputy marshall sitting
at the patient’s bedside waving an in
junction one can hardly imagine a
very rapid improvement in the condi
tion of the sick man. Dr. Taylor also
wants a law to prevent impulsive peo
ple from changing physicians so often.
He says thousands of people endanger
their lives by the old Custom of
“changing horses while crossing a
stream.” Maybe Dr. Taylor is a good
doctor. We have no means of telling.
But he doesn’t appear to be a very
great success at suggesting some
thing sensible in the way of laws.
It isn’t so hard to love your neigh
bor, as the Bible tells you to. Un
less he refuses to laugh at your jokes.
It has been our observation that the
man who gets by on his looks never
gets very far.
WPKOVED UNIFORM INTERffil
SimdayScli
» Lessor
<By REV. p. B. JPITZWATEI
Teacher of Ens^sh Bible In t
Bible Institute of Chicago.)
Copyrlrht. 1922. Western Newspa;
LESSON FOR DECEMB
REVIEW
CJOLDDN TEXT—The Spirl
Iy>rd is upon me, because he hat
me to preach the gospel to t
LfUke 4:18.
devotional reading—P
PRIMARY TOPIC—Favored
the Quarter.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus Went
Ing Good.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENK
—How Jesus Ministered to the
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADU]
—Some Characteristics of JesusT
Since all the lessons of thl
save one are from Luke, anq
tral and unifying theme
Christ, a profitable way t<
the review, as suggested in
Notes, would be to assign tl
ing topics to the memben
class to make a brief report
1. Christ’s Mission to the
2. Christ’s Helpers and
Used Them.
3. Christ’s Divine Power
He Exercised It.
4. Christ’s Methods of T<
5. Christ’s Love in Its Mi
festations.
6. Christ’s Courage and
Showed It.
7. Christ’s Foes and His|
With Them.
8. Christ’s Pity for Sinnej
9. Christ’s Passing Throui
Experience.
10. Christ as a Missionar]
Organizer.
11. Christ’s Relation to
12. Christ’s Preparation
Climax of His Life.
Another way would be by|
izing each lesson, stating
standing topic and teachinj
lesson. The following fi
are offered:
Lesson 1. The birth of
Baptist, which from the hun
point was impossible, was
to his father, Zacharlas. fJ
belief he was smitten with
<3od expects of his servanj
tioned belief in what He prj
Lesson 2. Jesus was born
hem just as tpe prophet ha|
some 700 years before, and
of twelve years he conscl
tered into the services of Gq
Though conscious ok His di^
and mission. He lived a li^
obedience.
Lesson 3. John the Bap
Istry was a preparation for
Ing of Christ. He fearlesslj
repentance and pronounced[
upon the Impenitent. Thouglj
preacher, he humbly decl|
Christ was immeasurabl:
than himself.
Lesson 4. Jesus Christ
baptism was led by the
the wilderness to be tempi
devil. The purpose was t
reality of the incarnation,
suit was complete victory-
stration of His ability to si
uttermost all who trust Hii
Lesson 5. Isaiah foretoh
age upon the earth wl
^111 reign.
Lesson 6. While Jesus wi
healed all kinds of diseases
®ut devils. He authenti(
mission and proved His po^
sins by miraculous d<
Lesson 7. Jesus taughi
<?iples the principles whi<
Rovem in His kingdom.