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, OCTOBER 14, 1921
THE
COMMUNITY FAIR
can draw against the bank of
natural opportunity by making
the proper effort in work and
understanding, and that if we
make that effort right the draft
will be honored. It has been for
the exhibitors, and that is proof
that the same call will be honor
ed by anybody. That is the les
son of the fair, and it is a highly
important demonstration.
The community fair idea that
has been epidemic in the county
has been a good thing. In Vass,
as in other communities where
these fairs have been held, the
interest was pronounced, and
many new ideas were awakened
in the heads of the people. In
Vass, as elsewhere, the exhibits
were many, and the attendance
was large. A community fair
is not a state fair, and some of
the big adventures were not visi
ble here in Vass, but the main
proposition was in evidence, the
purpose of bringing the people
into closer contact with each
other and of showing all of us
something of what we are doing
and can do if we want to. The
community fair was not a pre
tentious effort, but it was a suc
cess of that type which comes
close to the everyday life of the
neighborhood, and creates a
firmer contact with the things
we depend on. ^
Wichever way we look at the
fair it was a success worth while.
It brought the people together,
which is one good result if noth
ing else followed. But beyond
that it made us all better ac
quainted with our local re
sources, both of natural materi
al and opportunity, but also with
the ability of the people to ac
complish what they want to ac
complish. That one farmer
makes a good exhibit of cotton
or tobacco or com or anything
else is notice to another farmer
that he can do it if he wants to.
That one man can bring to the
fair a good hog or a good cow’
tells all the rest of us that oth
ers can do the same thing. A
fair puts up to the individual
the plain proof that much of
what we do not do is not the
fault of some influences in dis
tant points, but of our own fail
ure to bring about the things
we can if we choose.
The broad lesson of the com
munity fair is not the tempor
ary enjoyment of the communi-
yt gathering of fr}^'^"'! and
neighbors, or the pleasure that
comes from presenting a superi
or product from the farm or the
home, but the general knowledge
that this community has a great
reserve power if we are willing
to draw against it. That re
serve power is largely individual
effort. We have shown that we
cant features of the Southern
Pines and Knollwood boom.
THE SOUTHERN
PINES BOOM
Southern Pines is a separate
community from Vass, and a
few miles away, but we all recog
nize that the great prosperity of
Southern Pines and Pinehurst
has a lot to do with the prosperi
ty of our own community. As
those two centers flourish the
reflected prosperity is bound to
hit in this vicinity.
Therefore it is gratifying to
see the neighbor towns finding
development moving in active
gait. The big event of course
is the Mid-Pines country club,
for there has been expended
somewhere a'round three-quarter
of a million dollars to make a
new winter resort center, and
there this winter will be a big
new crowd in a big new area.
Mid-Pines will be an addition to
the two prominent factors of the
county in attracting winter tour
ists who will be important ulti
mately in the development of the
resources of the county. The
value of Jfrid-Pines to the county
cannot yet. be understood, for
this is a movement that will keep
broadening from their begin
ning.
But the smaller influences are
also at work. Southern Pines
has been carrying out a building
program that has been a big
help in sustaining the prosperi
ty of this county at a time when
other places have felt the gener
al dullness so common over the
country. Carpenters, masons,
plumbers, and labor of all sorts
have had work at good wages
all-summer and these men go in
to the winter with the prospects
just as good as any time of the
year. Building is pushing right
ahead, and nobody is bold
enough to forecast what is just
ahead.
But one sinificant thing is the
modest gait that is starting up
at the Manly end of Edgempore.
Three new houses are announced
this week as about to be com
menced near the Presbyterian
churchy and a beginning of that
sort always means more. This
is the commencement of a new
community center, and from
those centers always springs
the bigger expansion. This Man
ly movement is one of the signifi-
A FAVORED
COUNTY
The report of the cotton crop
of the state shows that Moore
couty will come nearer having a
normal production this season
than almost any other county in
the state. Our county is not a
big cotton county, and it has not
this year its full acreage in cot
ton, and has not a full yield. But
it seems to have on the acreage
planted about the best produc
tion that is found in the state,
and better than is found in many
counties of the whole United
States.
In Moore, as elsewhere, the
weather conditions have been
bad, but in Moore they have not
been as bad as in most places.
In the Sandhill section the
weather has been more favorable
than any in any other part of
the county, or in any other part
of the state. All over North
Carolina streams and springy are
dry but in the sand they are not
much affected. Springs that
have served for generations are
still serving, and in the sandy
townships streams are still run
ning, although up in the clay
townships streams are recog
nized only by the depression in
the ground. They are wholly
destitute of water in many
places. Weather conditions in
the sandy section are better than
almost anywhere else in the
state, and as a result crops seem
to be better here.
It was the custom at one time
to laugh at the sterility and pov
erty of this part of North Caro
lina. Today it is quite generally
realized all over the state that
in the Sandhills this year the
natural conditions for making
crops have been the best found
in the state, and it is also the
general sentiment that in Moore
county is the greatest degree of
prosperity and the most active
industry.
Moore county makes a good
cotton crop and a good tobacco
crop, and a good peach crop, and
a variety of other things, and
when it comes to a local market
for the thing made on the farm
it is here waiting the product.
This has been a hard year in
business generally throughout
the United States and the world.
We have had a share of the de
pression, but as compared with
other places we know little about
real disturbance. With cotton
reduced in yield it is high in
price, and the tobacco crop is
bringing the highest price known
since the civil war with the ex
ception of two years ago. All
of which shows that nothing is
the matter with Moore county.
Harry R. Ihrie, attorney, of Car
thage, has moved his law office from
the Sinclair Building to the Seawell
Building, occupying the front room
upstairs over the Parks Store Co.
LOUISE GRAVES OF CARTHAGE
STILL LEADS
The third week of the voting con
test for the most popular young lady
to represent the Fairy Queen in the
parade at the fair leaves Miss Graves
in the lead by a wider margin than
last week with pearl Hurley, of Ab
erdeen, making a good gain and Vir
ginia Caddell, of Carthage, moved up
from sixth to third place with five
votes; more than Helen Ruggles of
Southern Pines. Vass has thrown
her hat in the ring by starting off
with 190 votes while Cameron divided
her first votes between Miss Hunter
and Miss McPherson. *
There is a growing interest in the
contest as shown by the increase in
the total vote over last week of 240,
and there will probably be one or two
more surprises next week.
The Secretary finds il will be ne
cessary to have all votes in not later
than Monday night in order to get
the report into one of the local papers
which goes to press one day earlier
than the others.
The vote this week brings the total
as follows:
Louise Graves, Carthage........ 520
Pearl Hurley, Aberdeen 235
Virginia Caddell, Carthage 230
Lois Sanford, Vass 190
Helen Ruggles, Sotithern Pines 170
Anna Patch, Southern Pines 145
Margaret Mclver, Carthage ....125
Ethel Battley, Carthage 75
Mary Ritter, West End 55
Mabel Kelly, Pinehurst 45
Margaret McKeithen, Aberdeen.... 40
Lucy Monroe, Pinehurst 40
Hattie B. Yow, Carthage 40
Nellie Hunter, Cameron 25
Mamie Smith, Niagara 25
Sallie Farris, Carthage 20
Lula McPherson, Cameron 10
Valera McCrummon, West End 10
Dora Hartley, So. Pines 5
Alliene Thomas, Aberdeen 5
Total vote - _ _ - 2010
Votes this week, 1125.
S.ANDHILL FAIR BALLOT
These Five Votes are Cast
FOR
OF
to represent the Fairy Queen in the Parade of Fairies at the
SANDHILL FAIR, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17th, 1921.
Fill out the* above ballot for your favorite candidate and mail it to
CHAS. W. PICQUET, Sec’y» Pinehurst.