THE WEEKLY PILOT
Published every Friday morning
by the Pilot Printing Company.
STACY BREWER, Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at Vass,
N. C., as second-class mail matter
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1921
A CHANCE
FOR VASS
The town commissioners have
been figuring on a plan to have a
survey and town design made
by competent persons that the
future of the community may be
worked out along some logical
line instead of permitting the
town to grow up with no system
and no definite street and com
munity outline. At the present
time there are three or four
roads centering about the hotel
and the office building. Even
now persons talk about building
but are in doubt as to how to
figure for the proper street loca
tion, grade, sidewalk frontage,
street width, or anything else
that is essential in creating a
town that will be fit to look at.
When Aberdeen was built
each builder set a structure
where he thought it would fit.
As a result the main section of
Aberdeen looks as if it had been
dropped down during the night
and left where it fell. Vass does
not want to be that way. For
tunately the roads that come in
to Vass have meandered in a
way that gives a chance to base
a survey on some satisfactory
lines. The roads come in from
the directions they should come
and they come on grades that
are not bad, and across the rail
road where good luck has given
overhead crossings, so that the
survey that is anticipated has a
good beginning.
About the town are good
grades for building sites. Over
about the Methodist church is a
fine home site, and so is the
street that runs out the Lobelia
way. Both roads going toward
Carthagef pass through inter
esting hill tops, where fine build
ing sites are to be found, and
the road to Cameron is another
good section. The street lead
ing* down toward the mill houses
offers good possibilities. Back
from the station and back of the
flour mill is another rise that
can be made a choice site for
homes.
Vass is fortunate in being not
far from the river which allows
a park and swimming place close
to the village. A suitable place
should be picked out for a school
house with due regard for the
future. Business locations
;shouid be designated just as for
ischools and public buildings. All
this should be done without re-
jfard for the interests of any in
dividual who may have some
land to sell, but wholly for the
welfare of the whole community,
that as Vass grows it may grow
into the most attractive town in
this part of the state. If it does
grow into such a town all loca
tions will be valuable and desir
able, and the town will be sought
out by people as a place to live
because of its desirability.
If the people will stand by this
project it can be carried out, and
then those who want to build
houses for themselves or to rent
or sell can build intelligently
knowing something of what sort
of a neighborhood they are
building and building into, and
what they may expect for the
future. Vass is at a mighty in
teresting stage of its expansion
just now. We decide here
whether we will be a town built
according to the designs of men
skilled in planning for the fu
ture, or go along in the haphaz
ard way that most towns follow,
to regret forever that we did not
have the foresight to make in
telligent plans when the ground
was bare and the plans could be
made to fit the certain growth of
the town and the community.
PLANT
TREES
One of the things that makes
Pinehurst an attractive place is
the abundant shrubbery and the
many trees that have been plant
ed all over the town. Southern
Pines is planted with trees along
all the streets, and although the
original forest that made the
name appropriate has about dis
appeared, the new forest that
is coming on will make Southern
Pines a veritable Southern Pines
again. On top of the hill out
the Raeford road is the old Blue
plantation. It long ago passed
into the hands of the Boyd heirs.
But before they gained posses
sion of it small pines had begun
to cover the ground. Now it is
one of the most interesting spots
in the state. But if the forest
should be removed it would be
one of the most desolate.
Pine trees, walnut, pecan,
peach, apple, pear, oak, hickory,
and shrubbery without limit
should be planted on the lot as
soon as the house is built, and
it is no difference whether the
house is in town or iii the coun
try. Nature has given us here
a wide variety of forest products
that can be used for crops or for
adornment, and it is a grave mis
take if we do not use them. It
is not necessary to send away
from home for much of the trees
and shrubbery. The native
forest growth supplies almost
everything we need except a few
fruit trees, and they are cheap.
Vass has the advantage of a
wide range of forest trees that
will grow freely if given a
chance, and nothing can be add
ed that will make the town or
the surrounding country more
desirable to live in. In most
places in this community the
tree will provide itself, but
where they have all been cut
away both town and individual
should see that they are pro
vided abundantly for a new crop.
DEWBERRIES
Col. Frank Mebane said to the
News and Observer the other
day that forty cent cotton would
have bankrupted the South if it
had continued. That will apply
to almost anything that is made
at an abnormal cost. But now
that cotton has settled back to
a lower price other things have
a chance again.
It is costing less to make dew
berries, but unfortunately many
planters have allowed the vine
yards to fall into an unproduc
tive condition. Next year the
dewberry crop will cost less to
make than this year or last year.
We ought to have more dew
berries. Every farmer should
have a crop not too big to handle
but big enough to bring him a
little money at the time of har
vest.
Dewberries grow to perfection
in this soil and climate. Any
farm can have an acre or so of
them, and that acre can be cared
for along with the other farm
work. An acre of dewberries
will bring more money with less
cost than most of the farm crops.
It is true that sometimes the
price is off, but not oftener than
with other crops, and dewber
ries are not like cotton and to
bacco in piling up a surplus. The
dewberry crop this year does
not go to market facing a big
carry-over from last year like
cotton does, or tobacco. The
crop finds a clean market every
season. And if it happens that
the market is full today it may
be bare tomorrow.
A LITTLE
PATIENCE
The highway commission is
getting the roads in better shape
and soon the main road north
and south will be in the hands
of the state for future main
tenance. That will let the coun
ty devote county funds to the
county roads, of which the mile
age will be lessened when the
state has taken several roads to
be state roads. The commis
sioners when they were appoint
ed found on their hands a big
job, and they have gone about it
well. All we need is to' have a
little patience and the road sj's-
tem of the county will be in bet
ter shape than never and it will
be kept in that condition. We
have passed through the old day
of the sand roads, and through
the succeeding day of struggle
to build sand-clay roads and now
are arriving at the day of really
good roads. That day hm come
now and to stay.
VASS ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP
HALF SOLES AND WHOLE
SOLES WHILE YOU
WAIT.
Satisfaction
Guaranteed
For UFE INSURANCE see
NEILL N. McKEITHEN
Vass, North Carolina
Representing the
AETNA UFE INSURANCE COMPANY
NOTICE!
I will be in Vass at Mr. Gschwind’s shop
TDESDAY, July 12th
for the purpose of
HORSE SHOEINfi
T. F. CULBRETH
R. WEBER
CEJIVIENX
BLOCKS
MADE TO ORDER
VASS, NORTH CAROUM
COX GROCERY
Near S. A. L. Station
Lakeview, N. C.
Fresh Groceries, Gas and Oil
Fresh Bread every Tuesday
and Friday
Smith’s Garage
Vass, N. C.
Repairing and Supplies, Oils,
Gasoline, Accessories
A.uto Servtc^
PERSONi)
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. li
in Southern Pines Tue
Mr. George P. Thon
business trip to Sanfo
Mr. John McNeill ex
ripe watermelons by J
Mr. C. J. Temple nil
^Carthage Monday.
Mr. D. C. McGill, of
Sunday at home.
Mr. G. W. Baker sp
^nd in Carthage.
Mr. E. T. McKeithai
was in town Tuesday.
Mr. Elvey Thomas
with his people here.
Mr. C. L. Tyson cai
Raleigh for the week]
Messrs. H. T. and R.|
Apex, spent Monday ii
Rev. G. F. Kirkpatrj
ton passed through Vj
Little Miss Aileen Bl|
«d from an extended vis
Mrs. Churchill, of M(
visiting her daughter,
ter.
Messrs. Carl Cashiol
and Kermit Sherrill,
were visitors in town
■Messrs. Stacy Brew^
Thompson went to Sai
afternoon.
Miss Mildred Thomas]
visited their aunt, Mrs.
Cameron Route one
Messrs. W. P. Bern
burg and Ben Robersoi
were in town Tpesday.l
Miss Lula Rogers,
spent a part of last w^
Florence Leslie.
Mr. J. R. Thomas
Raleigh Monday after
week-end here.
Mr. J. W. Smith am
visitors at the home oj
Smith Sunday afternooi
Mrs. Jim Tyson die(
Wednesday evening, a)
at her home near here.
Mr. W. D. Smith an^
tha Sanford and Mai
spent Friday in Raleigh]
Mr. Frank Phillips
Myrtle and Grace wj
Durham, spent the
Miss Bertha Sanford.
Miss Eva Graham
“Graham, of Cameron R(
«d at the home of Mr.
Sunday.
Misses Annie Harts<
Lean and Lillian Hendrl
ron, were shopping inj
afternoon.
Messrs. W. Curtis
H. Waddell and David
Carthage, called at th|
Saturday.
Mr. W. B. Graham anj
W. C. Leslie and littj
Louise and Marjory, s]
in Raleigh.
Mrs. L. C. Wallace,
has been spending a w|
parents, Mr. and Mrs.
of this place.
Messrs. A. Cameron,!