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THE PILOT
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Vass, North Carolina
STACY BREWER, Owner
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TBB PILOT
Thursday, NovemK
ROOM FOR
MISSIONARY WORK
The experience of the summer
indicates that the high sandy
lands of this section seem to be
less attractive to the boll weevil
than the heavier lands of the
country farther south. If that
be the cause it is worth while to
consider the possibility of call
ing the attention of farmers of
the South to the desirable oppor
tunities for cotton raising in the
Moore county sands. North
Carolina as a state has steadily
had the highest acreage produc
tion of cotton, and if the weevil
is to be more easily opposed in
this neighborhood the prospects
for the cotton farmer in Moore
county are enviable.
What is still further to be con
sidered is that here is a market
that is of the best. Here at
Vass is a market that has the
confidence of the farmers to the
limit. The Vass market not only
deals on the broadest basis of
fairness, but it pays the highest
prices always. It has such an
enviable rating as a cotton mar
ket that it is tendered practical
ly the entire crop made in the
neighborhood. Up at High Falls
is another excellent cotton mar
ket, and with the new mill soon
to be under way at Hemp the
county will have a third market
of the same type, a market that
is a consuming center. And that
is to be considered. When a
community is in a buying mar
ket that market is always much
better than the selling market.
Where cotton has to be shipped
out from where it is raised for
the purpose of finding a market
that cotton is never as well forti
fied as the crop that is market
ed where it is made and used by
mills in the vicinity of the farm.
The townships of Moore coun
ty along the Seaboard railroad
have plenty of unused sandy
lands that would make good cot
ton farms. Much of this land
can be obtained for a low price.
In the territory surrounding
Vass are many excellent chances
to buy land at a modest figure
and to make cotton farms that
would produce crops to compare
with the yield any place in the
United States. By judicious
work it is apparent that the
weevil can be held in check in
these light soils, and that cot
ton can be made to advantage
and profit. If our people will let
it be known throughout the
country farther south that here
opportunity is at the command
of cotton men who want to es
cape conditions elsewhere that
are unsatisfactory it might re
sult in finding many new settlers.
It looks as if this county is to
be a much more prominent cot
ton county and in a short time.
THE
NEWSPAPER FOLKS
Soon after the holidays the
state press association will hold
its winter association at Pine-
hurst. A big bunch of newspa
per folks of North Carolina will
gather there for a stay of sever
al days. Moore county will not
make any mistake by doing
something to show these news
paper people all that is possible
of what this part of the state is
doing, for Moore county is more
or less of a strange land to most
of the newspaper men. A cer
tain air of mystery hangs over
this part of the state, which
from being the bad lands has
come to be the marvel among the
counties, and the Cinderella of
the story. The pauper has put
on the clothes of the prince, and
now the populace asks to glorify
itself by shaking the hand that
has shaken the hand of the
mighty Sullivan. Moore county
IS interesting enough to be seen.
The newspaper folks will come
over Into Moore county to attend
to their annual* affairs, and then
while here they want to see why
the unfolding of the Sandhills
has taken place. The Pilot has
not received a program of the
event that is ahead, but while
it is yet time the suggestion is
offered that the various com
munities arrange a schedule of
events for the visitors, one that
shall be as wide as possible in
its range, so that they may go
home with as complete a knowl
edge as possible of this part of
the state. Newspaper folks are
notorious for asking questions.
Moore county needs to load to
the guards with information
about this region so that no
question asked may go un
answered. From golf to the talc
mines, and from the orchards to
the gun fire at Fort Bragg the
strangers will be curious. They
should never be allowed to go
away without a load of informa
tion that will hang over like a
load of hay from a full wagon,
so that at any time the editor
is at a loss for something else
to tell his readers about he can
dig down into the Moore county
accumulated fund of wisdom and
haul out an interesting tale that
will entertain the folks who get
his paper.
Moore, county is a wonderful
ly fascinating place for the
stranger. Its romance is never
tiresome, because it is the rise
of a community from the bottom
to a reasonably high station.
How it was done and why it is
continuing will always be a
drawing card. It is a plain duty
to let the visiting newspaper
people see the whole mystery
and from all angles. They are
a good bunch and entitled to the
open door in every community.
AUTOMOBILE
LAWLESSNESS
The multiplying accidents on
the roads of this part of the
country are attributable to just
one cause, the absolute disregard
for the law. Not a week passes
any longer without a serious ac
cident, and every time the story
is one of exceeding the speed
limit. It is useless for anyone-
to excuse fast driving or to say
that fast driving is not danger
ous. We all know that fast driv
ing puts a car under less certain
restraint than the speed allowed
by law, and we all know very
well that a large proportion of
men an women too, for that mat
ter, exceed the legal speed.
Now as long as drivers break
the law, and attempt to justify
the violation of the law by say
ing it is not doing any harm are
bound to have the accidents that
come from fast driving, and it
seems hopeless t o try to prevent
fast driving in any way except
bv rigid enforcement of law by
state authorities. County au
thorities in a spasmodic way pull
the speeders for a while. Then
the matter gets to be an old
stojv, or the standing of the of-
ff^nder is such that he makes the
officer the victim of his resent
ment, and the officer is not back
ed up by the law, and he loses
his enthusiasm, and the law is
laughted at until another spasm
of indignation calls again for
law enforcement.
If the railroads killed as many
people as automobiles do, or did
as much damage every day in
the years as automobiles do, the
indignant populace would be up
on its hind legs insisting that
the railroads pay countless sums
in damages and be made to go to
all kinds of extremes to stop the
outrages. But because it is the
citizen who is the murderer, and
who causes the wrecks, and who
makes the public highways a
danger trap for everybody who
travels we shrug our shoulders
and forget about it.
It is the plain duty of the
North Carolina legislature to
provide some means to stop the
violations of the automobile laws
and to see that the laws have
proper enforcement. To talk
about the horrors of war is ab
surd when we pass the horrors
of automobile slaughter with
out a protest.
Another great trouble with this
country is we heap abuse on our pres
idents while they are alive and then
heap flowers on them when they are
dead.
MOORE COUNTY, PINEHURST
AND THE FAIR
(Continued from first page)
Moore county is accessible now. The
roads are general. The county goes
back a century and a half into his
tory, and it mingles the old and the
new.
It is astonishing how many features
of interest can be found around the
different sections of the county. It
will be worth noting half a dozen
years from now the many new things
that chasing over the county in that
time will disclose. Geologically Moore
county is but little known yet. Agri
culturally we have no idea what our
possibilities are. Twenty years ago
the wise men knew we could not raise
cotton and tobacco to a profit. Now
they are among the big money pro
ducers, and peaches are so far be
yond what was anticipated that there
is a surprise. We need some mission-
airies to chase out the resources of
th county and proclaim their virtues,
not only on one section, but of all
sections that the county may become
more a team worker in its efforts.
The Sandhill Fair is doing a lot
in this direction, and folks will go
home from the fair this year more
familiar than ever with Moore county
possibilities, and more enthusiastic
than ever over the breath of life that
can be encountered here in the Sand
hills. The musical festival has had
a strong influence in getting people
together this year. It can be dupli
cated in other ways. At the fair this
fall Moore county has held up to the
eyes of the thousands who came to
see a mighty intersting collection of
the possibilities of the county, not
only in a materially productive way,
but in thoose things that go to make
life entertaining. An army comes this
way each winter to find the county
winter resorts. They come because
they find it worth the cost and ef
fort. Pinehurst is the best exhibit of
that feature. But Moore county can
show much more in this line year by
year as each year gives a chance to
add new features and try out new
projects and establish an increased
population.
The fair is all right. The county is
all right. And to Pinehurst is due an
appreciation for what has been done
and is doing.
I SEW THE RIP
PATCH THE HOLES,
BUILD UP THE HEELS,
AND SAVE THE SOLES.
W. N. F"OYE
ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP
PINEHURST, N. C.
Mail orders promptly attended to.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks to our friends for their numer
ous deeds of kindness and express
ions of love and sympathy, during the
illness and death of our mother and
grandmother, Mrs. Mary A. Bynum.
THE FAMILY.
New Goods
I have just returned from the North
ern markets, and now have on display the
larg-est and prettiest line of Hats that I
have ever shown, something for every
member of the family from the youngest
to the oldest. Also a nice line of notions,
all at right prices.
I extend to one and all a cordial invita
tion to visit my store whether you buy or
not. When in Cameron make my store
headquarters.
Mrs. J. J. IRVIN
CAMERON, N. C.
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ICent
at
Carter’s Pharmacy
Aberdeen, N. C.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Nov. 8, 0 and lOtH
Thursday, November
VASS AND CO]
Woods, of Cha^
^^Mr EL A. McLauchl
ness trip to Sanford
Rev. Alex McLeod
near Rockfish, were in
Mr. and Mrs. Marv;
High Point, are visit
*^Mr. Peter Grosclos
Salem, was in t^n
Messrs. A. M. Came
lie and C. L Tyson at
at Pinehurst, Tuesda;
Mr. and Mrs. Roy
ited in Carthage, Sun
Mr. J. R- Thomas a
ton, Elvey and Gord
wer® \^ass, Saturdi
Miss Ossie Edwa
week-end at home,
for Goldsboro.
Miss Minnie Muse,
ited Mrs. W. J. Came
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim
from Hope MUls, S
were accompanied hoi
Bynum. ^
Mrs. G. W. Brooks
tie Matthews were
Thursday.
Mr. A. W. Wilson
Washington, after a
pie here. ,
Mr. Martin McLeo
of Eureka, were sh<
Tuesday.
Mrs. J. M. Tyson
daughter, ^|rs. L. C.
thage.
Mrs. T. R. Moflfltt,
Jackson, Miss Retha
R. A. Phillips, of S
town, Sunday.
Mrs. A. M. Camerc
Marian, returned Th
visit to Buies Creek.
Mr. and Mrs. Jam<
tie daughter, Frances
tended the funeral
Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I
Hamlet, spent Saturc
Mr. W. McC. Blue,
in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Lineberry, M
P. Shaw, and Miss
Southern Pines and
Bruton, of Hamlet, w
day.
Misses Mary Pasch
Ruth Gunter and Ho'^
were week-end guests
P. W. Joyner.
Mr. and Mrs. J.
sons, J. W. and Tom
Pines, visited relativ
Mrs. D. A. McLau(
some time in Raeforc
er, who is sick.
The Wiggins Drug
into the new Beasley
N. J. Autrey, a pr<
man, of Autreyville,
line of furniture and|
building formerly o<
drug store.
Mr. F. W. TaylorJ
lor. Miss Myrtle Lei
lie and family mf
ly Springs last
tend the unveiling
Safety Fi|
Means Head(
Norris’ and
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