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Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
new AUTOMOBILE LAW
Vigorous enforcement of the law
conferring police powers upon the
Secretary of State in collecting au
tomobile license fees will begin Jan
uary 1, and within the next few
months the department expects to
add upwards of half million dollars
to the State’s revenues from uncol
lected license fees, according to a
statement by Col. J. Bryan Grimes,
Secretary of State.
Few additional inspectors will be
added to the force, not more than a
half dozen as a maximum, Colonel
Grimes stated. These will begin
their work in the larger cities of the
State where the violations of the
license laws have been most flagrant.
It is estimated that 25,000 automo
biles are operating in the State with
out proper license, or without license
of any sort.
Copies of the new law will be mail
ed immediately to all local officials,
and to all automobile dealers in the
State, and to the register of deeds
in each county, whose duty it now
becomes to register the sale of each
automobile made within the State.
In addition to the provisions for the
registration of automobiles with the
register of deeds, the new law is pre
sented in brief as follows:
Digest of New Law
The Secretary of State* is author
ized to appoint one or more inspect
ors, who, when commissioned by the
Governor, have full police powers
anywhere in the State, in cases of
violation of the automobile laws.
Local officers are not relieved of the
duty now imposed by law • on them
in enforcing the automobile law, but
in addition to their present duties
are required to co-operate with and
furnish aid 'to the State inspectors.
In addition to the appointment of
inspectors, the act fixes penalties for
the following offenses, which were
not definitely provided for in the
automobile law:
Giving worthless checks in pay
ment for licenses; giving fictitious
or assumed names or postofHces in
applications for registration, for the
purpose of concealing identification;
mutilating, painting over and cover
ing numbers for the purpose of con
cealing identification or defrauding
the State of license fees; using plates
issued for vehicles of low horsepower
on vehicles of higher horsepower;
loaning plates to other persons, etc.
No More Local Licenses
It is also provided that dealers*
number plates shall only be used for
purposes incident to the actual opera
tion of an automobile dealers* busi
ness, and the Secretary of State
is empowered to investi^r^te the il
legal use of dealers’ plates, and to
cancel and take po»«essiofi of num
bers found to be so used.
State, county and municipally own
ed cars are required, after July 1st,
1922, to be registered in the office
of the Secretary of State, instead
of being allowed the privilege of
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1921
BIG NEW BUSINESS CONCERN
The New Year will start in Vass
with a big new business concern which
will be one of the largest commercial
concerns in this section of the coun
try. It will be a corporation with a
capital stock of $50,000, under the
name of McKeithen and Company
and will have for its stockholders, J.
A. Keith, W. H. McNeill, A. D. Mc-
Lauchlin ^and Neill M. McKeithen,
with Mr. McKeithen acting as man
ager. The first move of the new
company is the purchase of the Keith
Store Company’s stock and N. M. Mc-
Keithen’s stock, which will be en^
larged and filled with a large stock
of new goods adapted to the trade
of this section. Immediately the cor
poration will condense the building of
a large warehouse on land they own
in the rear of the Keith building, and
the warehouse will be stocked with
the reserve supply of goods to sup
plement that carried in the main
building.
But that by no means represents
the extent of the plans of the new
corporation. While Mr. Keith is re
tiring from active commercial busi
ness in the disposal of his store to
the corporation, he is by ro means
dropping out of the industrial life of
Vass.
With the present building and the
large addition that the new building
will afford, this new mercantile
establishment will have the biggest
floor space of any store room in Moore
county. The company is planning to
carry on business on a scale that will
fit in with the facilities that will be
afforded. The intention is to serve
not only this growing community but
a large part of the county, as well
as that section of Harnett, Hoke and
Lee that are so close by. A depart
ment store operated on modern prin
ciples will be conducted and every
department will be as complete as the
trade of a booming territory like the
Sandhills requires now and in the
future. Groceries, dry goods, cloth
ing, hardware, farm supplies, ma
chinery, equipment and everything
that is sold in this .section will be
specialized in the new store.
It is the intention not only to cre
ate, here in Vass a big store, but to
add one more establishment to those
already here to help advance the de
velopment of this part of the county.
The directors of the new company are
broad enough in theif ambitions to
figure on attracting to Vass a large
amount of the general trade of the
country for miles around. They ex
pect to be in the same class of whole
some influences that already includes
the cotton mill, the hotel and The
Pilot printing office, all of which are
factors in bringing business this way.
The idea is to be more than a local
concern, and to supplement the busi
ness of the other towns of the three
counties by such facilities as will al
low people to buy here in Vass those
things they can not find at their own
trading center.
The managers speak right confi
dently of the success of their pro
jects, and from what they say they
leave little doubt but what they are
going to give Vass another lift into
the prominence toward which it has
been heading for the last two or three
years.
COMMUNITY WORK IN VASS
The Vass community club will be
gin an active program after the holi
days are over, and it is the intention
of the club to take up some substan
tial things for the new year which
will aid materially in expanding the
attractive side of the community’s
custom and method. The program
will be announced later, but it is
comprehensive and wholesome.
operating under markers issued by
their owners. The registration fee
for these vehicles is fixed at $1.00
per year, and the Secretary of State
is authorized to investigate the facts
as to ownership of any vehicle of
fered for registration, to determine
whether or not it is the actual prop
erty of the department, institution,
county, city or town offering it for
registration, and if not the actual
property, the full registration fee will
be collected before license is issued.
More than one resident of this gar
den spot of the world has learned
that it’s a good deal easier td buy
things on the installment plan than it
is to pay for them that way.
THE NEW ROAD LOCATION
It is evident that the new location
for the state road will take it across
the railroad; evidently the underpass
is most favored at the present time.
Engineers have been over the line,
and they have made surveys on both
projects, the one crossing on an over
head bridge, and the other the under
pass as was suggested in The Pilot
in a recent issue. Frank Page was
in Vass a feW days ago with the
locating engineer and went over the
proposition briefly, but with a suffi
cient completeness to get the idea of
what is best to do. The surveyors
followed a line down on the west
side of the railroad to below the cot
ton mill, and there at the deep fill
staked an underpass, following* on
the other side of the track to the
line they had run from the overhead
crossing near the Keith store. This
would bring the other line out at
the same pointi at Lakeview. The
figures will be mapped at the office
in Raleigh, and estimates made of
costs and of the desirability of the
dilPerent lines, and furtkw informa
tion will be f(»*theoiiiiiig before a
great while.
PMCE FIVE CENTS
NEW COMMUNITY WORKERS
E. V. Graves, wife and daughter,
are at the Hotel Vass, where they
have located for some time while they
are engaged in helping Miss McQueen
in community work in the county.
They come from Virginia; It is the
desire to extend this community work
to reach as many as possible of the
children of the various communities
of the county, and also the grown
up folks where the work will allow.
The character of the work has for its
aim to bring the people closer to
gether in their work, entertainments,
and the children in their plays and
training. The plans Miss McQueen
is working out are rather compre
hensive, and will be a part of the
general state and county educational
scheme.
LAKEVIEW NEWS
The Seward Inn is in receipt of
quite a number of inquiries from
parties in the north desirous of spend
ing the balance of the winter here.
The Rev. Mr. Taffe will preach next
Sunday evening in the Lakeview
church, services beginning at 7 o’clock.
The rush of tourists by the auto
mobile route seems to have consider
ably slackened during the past week.
Mrs. Samuel Stutts is entertaining
her brother and sister from the North.
Miss Bacon, postmistress here,
handled a larger amount of postal
matter of all kinds during the last few
days than she ever did before in the
same length of time.
BUILD MORE SCHOOLS
As long as farmers consider the
digging of potatoes, the topping of
beets, the shucking of com or the
weeding of a garden of more value
than school work or as a substitute
for the exercise that comes with play,
just so long are we going to have a
class of citizens under-privileged and
unable to appreciate the full value
of service to the county in which they
live. Of course boys and girls must
not grow up in idleness, but we want
the children of this generation to
have better educations, better trained
minds, than any geiiei'ation that has
gone before. This cannot be done un
til all of our rural communities put
into effect a real health program, and
do away wherever possible with the
little, isolated schools. Let our coun
ties be dotted with consolidated
schools, offering not only better facili
ties for education but also a wider
chance for human intercourse and
the development of that play spirit
so much needed by our fine rural
communities.
Still another way to be happy is to
learn not to care for things you know
you can’t have.
And if fathers knew as much a$
their sons think they know there’d be
a lot of wisdom in this world.