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,'j-tttii'itrriJi II rill rm r*'* ' ' THE WEEKLY PILOT Published every Friday morning l)y the Pilot Printing Company. STACY-BREWER, Manager Entered iti the Postoffice at Vass, C., as second-class mail matter FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1921 A REST KOOM The Pilot has been asked to suggest that Vass have a rest room where women and children from out of town can find a place to put in a little time that is necessary frequently while wait ing for their folks to start back for home. That is one of the ac commodations modem towns are providing and Vass needs such a thing as much as any place. No argument is required to make the matter plain. Women and children in any town are much at sea unless they can have a place to drop in when they are through with their buying or other work, and it is a matter of simple •courtesy as well as of the plain est business policy to make Vass attractive and pleasant to the women from out of town if they are to be expected to make this their trading point. Until something of this sort is provided there is not much use to talk a great deal about any other progressive movement, for something of this sort is the first imperative need. Such a place should be a community room, looked after by the com munity, but if the community will not undertake it some en terprising store should. It will pay the town, and it will pay the store that sets the movement under way, for that store will catch the women, as it deserves to. DEVELOPING THE RESOURCES The announcement that Og den Jones will have probably seventy-five cars of cantaloupes on his farm this season, and that most of them are of type that brings high prices in the market should arouse Moore county to its actual possibilities. Long enough we accepted the old time delusion that Moore was a bar ren county of no prospects after the timber and turpentine were taken off. The farming system of North Carolina had been fastened to cotton and tobacco and we thought nothing else was worth giving much attention. Even after the climate had made the county a winter resort, and some cotton v/as raised in an in different way, the peach crop was looked on as more of a fad for a few people to play with than anything else. It is not many years ago that a returning citi zen coming from the north on the train asked the newsboy for Moore county peaches to be told that the Moore county peaches were not good. At that time the boy was right. Now Moore county peache;^ have a reputa tion that is not surpassed any where on earth. But just as the peach is posi tively established comes the cantaloupe. For years it has been known that the cantaloii])e would thrive in this county, but nobody gave mxich thought to getting out of it what it offered as a commercic^l farm possibili ty. Almost suddenly Ogden Jones brings the honey dew into notoriety, and astonishes the county with this brand new re source. It is plain now that ])Toore coM.ity can do as well with cantaloupes as with peach es, and that the limit of either is a matter for conjecture. Some years ago the Rocky Ford section in Colorado com menced to raise cantaloupes, and did the job so well that several thousand car loads came east in a season, and the quality put the cantaloupe on a new basis. Then the area of big production moved farther westward, partly be cause out there in the arid deserts irrigation was the only method of making a crop, and irrigation is so costly that a high-priced crop must be made or the operation of farming will not pay. So the Imperial valley in California, Arizona and New Mexico, is shipping thousands of cars of cantaloupes east now, and into the markets that are at the door of North Carolina growers. The commission men who are buying Moore county canta loupes say that the soil and climate of the Sandhills makes a better cantaloupe than those that come from the west, and it is generally recognized that the melon made here close by the market is a better one when it reaches its destination a few hours from the field than one that has been hauled for days across the continent. One can be picked when it is ripe. The other must be picked when it is green. All the advantage is in favor of Moor^ county. If Cali fornia cantaloupe communities can ship out ten or twelve thousand cars of fruit a Moore county cantaloupe community can do the same, for we have the market twenty-five hundred miles nearer at hand, and we have water from the clouds in stead of from an irrigation com pany at high cost. The pioneers who have been working out the experiments have proven the ability of this county to make cantaloupes that have the quality and that will sell. If the people want to Moore can be made a famous canta loupe center just as well as those famed spots in the west have been. It cannot be done per haps without some disappoint ments, but the result is so profit able if we take hold of this chance and work it out to its logical end that the disappoint ments and difficulties can be ac cepted because of the benefits that will follow. , It is a big question, but it would seem that Moore county has passed the point of playing along the shore in the shallow w^ater all the time, and that we have arrived at a place where it is business sense to look at things on the big scale that we are certainly facing. WHEN THE HOUSEWIFE COMES TO TRADE When the housewife comes to trade On a hot and sultry day, Do you merchants think of her com fort While she makes your business pay? Her babies she brings along To fit them with caps and shoes. You’re sure to have what she needs, And you ask for all her news. Save your “taffy’’ for the young folks And pass her a fan, if you please. You don’t advertise that way? And electricity furnishes no breeze. The babies are hot and thirsty. No seat, no breeze, no drink; Can you blame her ne’er to return. If for comfort you never think? For a rest room she does ask, Just a cooler or water tank, A little ice, paper drinking cups, And you gain a heart-felt thank. —SUBSCRIBER. ALL THE YEAR ROUND WHERE THE LAUGH COMES IN The average Vass citizen wants something “light and fluffy” for sum mer reading, just as he wants his clothing to be of the same material during the hot weather. Maybe he is too tired to sit down at the end of a long, hot day’s work and pore through column after column of print that requires study as he goes along. So he picks up the lighter reading matter, and waits until the cooler months to do the bulk of his reading. But the wise man never lets the hot weather interfere' with his reading insofar as keeping posted on the news of his community is concerned. He doesn’t want to fall behind the pro cession, so he reads the home-town paper during the hot months as faith fully as he. does in the dead of winter. He knows that missing a single issue means losing out on the current news of the entire community in which he is most interested, so he never lets a week pass without reading his home paper. And that is why the warm weather months are just as good as any other for the advertiser. His ad in the home paper is read because it never gets too warm for people to read it. Not Much Left Tom—“Did the doctor get all you had?” Bill—“No! Ihad my reputation left.” The Way to Come in Wife—“I am ashamed of this dress, it is not a bit fashionable.” Husband—“Cut off two or three feet top and bottom and you will be right in the fashion.” Good Reasons •Two very good reasons why a man should have his salary raised are “twins.” Hard on Mother It does look liad for the mother who has a daughter, when a wash tub and porch hammock both arrive the sam.e day. VASS ELECTRIC SHOE SHOP HALF SOLES AND WHOLE SOLES WHILE YOU WAIT. Satisfaction Guaranteed NOTICE!" I will be in Vass at Mr. Gschwind’s shop TUESDAY, July 12th for the purpose of HORSE SHOEING Advertise in The PILOT. T. F. CULBRETH R. WEBER CEMENT OL^OOFCS MADE TO ORDER VASS, NORTH CAROUNA 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 Sei’vicc BRIEFS AND PEI Misses Bessie and Mil were at Lemon Springs Mr. J. R. Thomas cai eigh for the week-end. Mr. W. B. Graham mj Ruflin, S. C., Tuesday. Mr. G. W. Baker went for the Fourth. Capt. Roy Richardson, in Vass Tuesday. The dearer the woman she can make a man feel. Deputy Sheriff R. A. Bj Vass Tuesday. Work has been started! dition to the school buildii Mr. G. W. Griffin, of l\ at home for the Fourth. And still another form is dangerous is a tax on Messrs. W. H. and of Carthage, were here There were ninety-four] registered at the Hotel Vj day. Messrs. Bill Thompsoi Matthews spent the week^ visiting Mr. Thompson’s Our idea of a genius ,'who can do good work wi one to brag on him. Mr. and Mrs. Marion! Asheboro, visited in Va| evening. We read in an eastern! future wars will be won b^ what started them in the] Mrs. W. H. Shaw an( Willie Edna, of Southern last Thursday with relat| As long as a girl can skirt? she needn’t worry on her neck. Misses Ila and Nonnie Mr. Belton Joyner, of Cl tended church here Sundaj W^hen the average polj think of anything else to in to coddle the farmer. - Messrs. C. L. Tyson Thomas spent the wee] their people here. Some men are best ki dog that precedes thei street. Miss Hattie Smith, spent a while in Vass, Sj noon. Our idea of a coward is knows he is wrong but rc mit it. Mrs. M. B. McNeill, of has been spending awhilj tives here. And if it hadn’t been f( John Barleycorn would have been in his grave. Little Miss Olera McCrj per Hoke, visited Miss Je| son this week. About the best way Vass woman to keep a keep it yourself. Messrs. Geo. W. Brocl Matthews were in Carth^ morning. Some fellows never col selves out of luck as loni get to serve on a jury.
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