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' The season’s greetings, and a hap
py and prosperous new year to every
body!
Mr. and Mrs. Earl York, of San
ford, spent Christmas eve and Christ
mas day with Mrs. York’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wooten.
Dr. and Mrs. John D. Muse are
passing the holidays with Mrs. Lula
Muse and family.
Married on Sunday, the 25th, by
Rev. O. B. Mitchell at the Baptist
parsonage, Miss Lela Thomas, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ab. Thomas on
Route 1, and Mr. A. B. Lyons of
Fuquay Springs.
Misses Minnie and Bonnie Muse are
home from Roberdell for tke holidays.
Cone McPherson, student at David
son, is home for the holidays.
Frank McNeill of Richmond, and
John McNeill of Hamlet, came home
for the ylile-tide joys and to be with
their parents. Rev. and Mrs. M. D.
McNeill.
Mrs. J. W. Canleron and little
daughters Virginia and Johnsie, are
visiting Mrs. Cameron’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Coon on Route 3.
Miss Kate Harrington came . over
from Charlotte to spend the Christ
mas period with her mother.
After spending Christmas with her
home folks at Huntersville, Miss Callie
Hunter returned to Charlotte on Tues
day.
Misses Mary and Alma McLean, of
Raleigh, are spending the holidays
with their mother and family, Mrs.
Margaret McLean on Route 2.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan .Graham and chil
dren, of Ruffin, S. C., came up for
th6 holidays and a visit to relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. McNeill and
children, and Mr. Vance Lawhon, of
Smoaks, S. C., are visiting relatives
in town and community.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McLean left,
Tuesday, for Vanceboro where Mrs.
McLean will remain for ' a week’s
visit to relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. W. G..Parker enter
tained at a family Christmas dinner
on Monday.
Miss Burdette Joyner, of Louis-
burg, with Messrs. Paul of Oxford,
• and Belton of Trinity, are here to
spend the yule-tide with their parents.
Rev. and Mrs. L. H. Jojmer.
Rev. Mack McDonald, of Columbia,
S. C., and Mr. Pat McDonald, of Car
thage, visited relatives in town Mon-
da.
The correspondent has been very
beautifully and bountifully remember
ed this Christmas. In Christmas
cards and booklets, 38; in presents,
24; making a sum total of the useful,
the beautiful, substantial and finan
cial.
Allie Smith, teacher of Cameron’s
colored school, and Will Harrington
(col.), a Seaboard employe, were re
cently married at Stone’s Crossing,
the home of the bride; they have gone
on a wedding trip to Florida. After
Christmas they will be at home on
Cedar Hill, Cameron.
On Thursday night, December 22nd,
at eight o’clock, a very pretty wed
ding was solemnized at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Vick. on Route two
vhen their daughter, Miss Prances
became the bride of Mr. Mallie Kelly
of Thagardville. The home was ar
tistically decorated in the colors of
the yule-tide. Just before the cere
many Mi$s H«rminia Haynes of Lake
view, and Mr. Turlington of Farm
Lifo School sang “I lore yon truly”
to the piano accompaniment by Miss
Vera McLean of Cameron; then, to
the strains of Lohengrin, the bridal
party entered as follows; Miss Her-
menia Haynes maid of honor; Mr.
Carlton Wicker of Southern Pines,
best man; Miss Flora Kelly, Mr. Bert
Vick, Miss Letty Rowan, Mr. Turling
ton; the ceremony was performed by
Rev. K. C. Taffe. The bride wore
a midnight blue coat suit with ac
cessories to match, carried a bouquet
of white and pink American Beauty
roses. She was the recipient of many
landsome and useful wedding gifts.
The old cake walk song, once so
popular, has been vividly recalled for
:he past few days—“You buck up to
me and I’ll buck up to you, for I’m
from away down in Georgia, and if
the Georgia girl is sweeter than
sorghum molasses, the cracker is a
cop that naught surpasses.”
To be returning from a festal board
at the Christmas season, to get stuck
in the mud, to have to cold-foot-it to
town, a distance of three miles, ar
riving in the “wee sma’ ho^rs,” would
seem to be tough luck. However, it
all depends on the company one is
keeping. Love turns winter’s cold
to spring, and the hoot of the owl is
like a warbler on the wing.
Mr. Roy Blue Smith, of Raleigh,
and Miss Lena Watson, of Wendell,
were married during the holiday com
mencement. Mr. Smith is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith of Niagara,
and holds a responsible position with
the Norfolk and Southern, with head
quarters at Raleigh.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thomas enter
tained a number: of their relatives
and friends at a Christmas dinner
on Sunday.
Mr. J. D. McLean was handsomely
remembered by his Sunday school
class, from the Christmas tree at the
Presbyterian church.
Miss Mattie Thomas on Route one,
and Mr. Hennings, of Clay Road
Farm, were married during the Christ
mas festivities.
BUSINESS CODITIONS
By W. Biddle Gilman
The retail Christmas business was
rather disappointing, notJ nearly as
much money being' taken in as was
one and two years ago, the people
passing by the high priced goods and
buying the more moderate priced ar
ticles, those of a more useful than
ornamental type. The profit was less,
though more goods ‘were sold, the
parcel post being heavier than ever
before.
Bank clearings, according to the
Federal Reserve Board, gained 21 per
cent over last week.
The cotton goods market fairly
firm, increase 30 points.
Wool is firm with improvement in
prices; at the wool market at
Dunediu, N. Z., prices were very firm
and higher, due to much competition.
Woolen goods are selling higher and
more of them, (hie to the use of winter
underwear increasing.
Steel market dull; tin plate about
normal; very little doing in pig iron,
it selling $1 below quoted prices, an
Alabama furnace offering it at $16.50
with expectation of having to reduce
to $15.
Greater demand for wheat, both do
mestic use and export, with a more
active market and some increase in
price; com advancing in sympathy.
Slight increase in price and some
what greater demand for live hc^s^
lard dull.
Vass
Mercantile Co
YASS, NORTH CAIUHilNA
The Holidays are nearly
over, and we take this oppor
tunity to extend our thanks
to the purchasing public for
its liberal patronage through
the season just closing.
May all the good things of
life come to its doors — and
go in to stay.
Fruit, Nuts and Candy lor New Year’s Day
VASS MERCANTILE COMPANY
VASS, NOttTB CAIIOLINA
VOLUME
SUBSCRIPTION $2.
LUXURY TAX REP]
In response to numeroul
taxpayers are advised tl
taxes, among them th<
“nuisance” and “luxury”
pealed, effective January
the Revenue Act of 1921.
Patrons of soda-water
ice cream parlors aiid “sii
of business” no longer are
pay the tax of 1 cent for ei
or fraction thereof on the
pended for sodas, sundaes,
articles of food or drink.”
boy may rejoice in the f^
ice-cream cone doesn’t cos
penny. The tax imposed bj
nue Act of 1921 is on “be^
the constituent parts therj
paid by the manufacturer.]
The tax on the trans]
freight and passengers i|
effective January 1, 1922,
paid by the purchaser
paid for men’s and womej
apparel (shoes, hats, caps
shirts, hose, etc.) in excess
fied price.
Taxes imposed under
(which under the Revenue
included the taxes on wearil
are now confined to a 5
on the following articles;
the amount in excess of $4|
yard; rugs on the amount
$6 a square yard; trunl
amount in excess of $35 e^
traveling bags, suit cases
used by. travelers and
cases, on the amount in ei
each; purses, pocketbookj
and hand bags, on the ai
cess of $5 each; portable
tures, including lamps of
the amount in excess o^
fans, on the amount in
each. These taxes are in(
manufacturer’s excise ta:
payable by the manufa^
dticer or importer, and
purchaser, as required by
Act of 1918. The manufl
reimburse himself, by a^
the purchaser, by quotinj
price and tax in separal
aiihounts, or by stating
chaser in advance of th<
portion of the quoted pri<
the price charged for the
what portion represents
The taxes on sporting
nis rackets, fishing rods,
football uniforms, etc.,)
also the taxes on chewing)
ble electric fans, thermos!
ers, articles made of fuij
articles and musical insti
The tax on sales of j<
or imitation, is 5 per cent, I
ble by the vendor. The]
sale of works of art (pj
tuary, art porcelains, an<
reduced from 10 to 5 pei
payable by the ves
except in the original sal
tist, or to an education
or public art musemm, oi
recognized dealer in suci