Vass Communitv F’air, Two Big Days, Oct. 2B-T
THE PILOT
VOLUME
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MOORE COUNTY COMMUNITY
WORKERS INTERESTED IN
HARNETT SING
CAMERON NEWS
JACKSON SPRINGS NEWS
Several citizens of Moore county
who are interested in Community bet
terment are planning to c'xttend the
county-wide sing at Lillington next
Saturday. Those who have been for
tunate enough to be present at these
sings in former years are loud in
their praise of the great good the
movement has accomplished, and ex
press the hope that it wil develop into
an Inter-County affair ere another
year passes. Mr. John A. Park, di
rector of Community Music in Pwal-
eigh, will have charge of the general
program this year. He will lead the
community singing in which all pres
ent will participate, and will also con
duct the feature program in the af
ternoon.
Mr. C. W. Picquet of Pinehurst
will act as one of the judges. Mr.
Picquet is vitally interested in seeing
Moore county take on this work, and
it is highly probable that the matter
will have his attention as soon as he
has finished staging this year’s Sand
hill Fair, which, by the way, promises
to be the greatest the South has ever
held.
Miss Mayme Camp, Harnett Coun
ty’s Community Worker, is responsi
ble for this county-wide sing. Her
plan is to go into each Township in
the county and organize a singing
class. She then calls an instructor
from Community Service, Inc., v/ho
spends several weeks in the county
getting these classes in shape for the
county-wide sing, in which they com
pete for valuable prizes.
Spending next Saturday in Lilling
ton means a day of good music, real
community spirit, and a general good
time. The program begins at 10:30.
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Pinehurst Community Club Notes
The regular monthly meeting of
the Pinehurst Community Club was
held on Wednesday evening, Septem
ber 20th. The program for this meet
ing was in charge of the Recreation
Committee and proved to be one of
the most interesting the Club has
had thus far.
Mr. John R. McQueen delivered an
address on “The Growth of Our Sec
tion,” which contained some very in
teresting history of the early days in
Moore county. Coming from a man
who has played such a large part in
the development of the Sandhill sec
tion of North Carolina, we received
first-hand information which should
be of great value in carrying on the
work so splendidly begun. The im
portant feature of Mr. McQueen’s
address was his admonition to us to
keep a stiff upper lip and not allow
discouragements or disappointments
to interfere with our plans for Com
munity betterment. He stated that
if we would remember some of the
hardships our forefathers were com
pelled to endure, we would realize
that our lot was highly favored and
would be ashamed to even think that
we have any “hard times” in our day.
Mr. McQueen possesses an amazingly
large fund of useful knowledge not
found in printed books, and holds fast
to the cheerful belief that this old
world is a pretty good place after
all.
Mr. A. S. Newcomb entertained the
club with a very humorous conversa
tional address, during which he gave
several pleasing impersonations. Mr.
Newcomb, like Mr. McQueen, has ex
pended much energy in the develop
ment of our section, and the fact that
these men have manifested great in
terest in all movements which tended
for community betterment accounts
for a large part of the progress made
(Continued on page 8)
The Community Fair will be held
here on November the 1st. We hope
the town and community will be pres
ent with exhibits from the parlor,
dining room, living room, linen room,
dairy, kitchen, pantry, poultry yard,
garden, and on to the cow-pen and
hog lot. The garret for antiques.
Exhibits of historical value will also
be interesting.
Rev. 0. B. Mitchell, assisted by
Rev. Fred N. Day, of Winston-Salem,
are conducting a very interesting
meeting at the Baptist church this
week.
Miss Tally Hall, of Siloam is visit
ing Mrs. Georgie Matthews.
Mrs. Loula Muse returned this
week from a visit to her son. Dr. J.
D. Muse and family at Henderson.
Mr. Hearst Rosser, on route 2,
went over to Chatham county Sun
day, calling on friends.
Mr. John Tally, of Sanford, was a
caller, Sunday night, at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Tally.
Mr. and Mrs. Norfleet Ray, of Nor
folk, visited Mrs. D. S. Ray and fam
ily, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Graham, of
Ruffin, S. C., and Miss Eva Graham
on route 1, were callers, Saturday af
ternoon, at the home of Mrs. Janie
Muse.
Mr. F. B. Morgan, of Hamlet, came
up Sunday for a visit to his relatives,
Mrs. E. C. Morgan, Mrs. Mattie Tea
gue and daughter. Miss Frankie.
Misses Lula Rogers, Lucile Loving,
and Mrs. J. R. Loving entertained the
Sunbeam Society of the Baptist
church, Saturday afternoon at the
lome of Mrs. William Rogers. Cake
and cream were served, after which
various games were enjoyed by all
present.
Mrs. Kate Omohundro of Char
lottesville, Va., was the guest, last
week, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Loving.
Some time ago the correspondent
bought two young pullets that turned
out to be game roosters.
After an extended visit to friends
and relatives in this community, Mrs.
C. C. Holt returned on Saturday by
way of Aseville and Hillsboro, to her
home in Concord.
J. Pierce, of Wadesboro, came over
Sunday for a visit to his home folks,
Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Smith on route 3.
L. F. Hartsell spent Monday at
Pinebluff.
J. F. Saunders made a trip to Dur
ham recently.
Miss Dora Boaz entertained at a
r>ound party Friday night in honor of
the graded school teachers, and pupils.
There were seventy-five present,
where there was fun, frolic, and good
cheer.
Th correspondent enjoyed a de
lightful visit, Monday afternoon, from
Mrs. Evaline Blue, Mrs. G’ C. Graves,
and charming daughter, Louise, of
Carthage. Friendship is the wine of
life. The world would be more hap
py if persons gave up more time to
an intercourse of friendship. Nothing
is sweeter than the voices of friends
of a happy long ago.
Mrs. Sarah Smith, of Vanceboro,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. D.
McLean.
Mr. Robert Griffin, of Housten,
Tex., is the guest this week of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. McLean.
Misses Grace and Virginia Thomas,
of Broadway, were guests, last week,
of Mr. and Mrs. LaFayette Thomas.
A Buick Six containing three pas
sengers, two women and a man, was
wrecked, Sunday night, at the detour
crossing in the northern suburbs of
Cameron. One of the women was
seriously injuried. The party were
(Continued on page eight)
The enrollment in the local ?5chool
has increased since last week and a
large number of others are to come
in in the next few days. The high
school will have to make an average
attendance of 70 instead of 60 to re
main on the class A list of the ac
credited high school, and all the re
maining high school students are
urged to enter early so the average
attendance can be made so as not to
drop from A to B list of the ac
credited high schools. The enroll
ment is beyond all expectations, for
the Derby Memorial school is five
miles over in Richmond county. Can
dor ten miles away in Montgomery
county, and with Eagle Springs 7
miles away making an effort to have
a high school when they open their
school; and with West End 4 miles
away, and Pinehurst 11 miles away,
having high schools this year, our
attendance was not expected to in
crease so much.
The local high school defeated West
End highs in a baseball game here
on Friday afternoon by the score of
11 to 3. Although many errors were
made, the locals played some snap
py baseball, executing two double
plays. Two of the visitors’ tallies
were due to Matheson’s errors, who
had been shifted from the outfield
to fill the gap left by graduation.
Cox, pitching for the visitors, struck
out several men but was hit hard
at times, several doubles being made
off of his delivery. Woodley, pitching
for the locals allowed only three hits
and was at no time in danger. With
Lefty Stewart of the Troy high
school and with Howell, a Wadesboro
lad who was on the hot corner for
the Weaver College team last season,
coach Neal will have no worry about
pitchers. Howell serves them from
either side and showed up well in his
old position in Friday’s game.
Prof. W. C. McColl spent the lat
ter part of the week in Greensboro
attending a teacher’s conference.
The smoke from a forest fire could
be seen Sunday afternoon over to
wards West End, near McDonald’s
peach orchard. Farmers should be
gin to plan against forest fires next
spring. The best idea is to burn
some of the wood land in the winter
when the weather is suital)le, and
there is no danger of stunting or kill
ing the growth of young timber.
It is time to begin perfecting the
plans for our community fairs and
our great Sandhill Fair which comes
several days earlier this year. We
must make our Sandhill Fair better
than ever before in its history. Our
Moore county people must remember
that we are competing with several
other counties and we must not al
low them to come here and go away
with so many of our premiums. To
do so we must hustle and see that
all worthy things are carried to the
fair for exhibit and compete for the
rizes.
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS AT THE
SANDHILL FAIR
In keeping with the Sandhill Fair
Slogan, “Bigger, Better and More In
teresting than Ever,” two of the best
known special attractions have been
added to our daily program. This is
a new departure and great care has
been taken to provide the very best
entertainment possible.
One of the attractions is a daily
balloon ascension with a triple para
chute drop by Miss Lucielle Belmont.
The name of Lucielle Belmont is
synonomous with successful aeronau
tics. She does single, double and
triple drops and is the only woman to
successfully do this sensational and
dangerous stunt.
Cap’t Belmont, Miss Belmont’s
manager, is an aeronautical engineer
without an equal, and his expert
knowledge concerning the inflation of
a balloon enables Miss Belmont to
make a flight on ten minutes notice
if the wind is not too strong, a feat
accomplished by no other aeronaut.
The balloons are huge in size*, while
:he parachutes are colored red, white
and blue, so that when open they are
3eautifully effective.
Lucielle Belmont is a sure fire suc
cess, and in constant demand. She
is without a peer in her line.
The other special attraction is the
celebrated Kerslake’s Educated Pigs
which are known all over the land
for the wonderful tricks. More about
the pigs later.
A CLOSE CONTEST SEEMS
NOTICE
Because of the short notice given
for a mass meeting of the citizens of
the county, interested in law enforce
ment, for Saturday, Sept. 23rd, it
was decided then to postpone the
meeting until Friday, October 6th,
2:00 o’clock, p. m., Carthage.
All interested citizens are urged to
be present. Failure to attend will
lend encouragement to the lawbreak-
ing element. The women are remind
ed that they are citizns and share
responsibility equally with the men.
McI. KENNEDY,.
ROBERT N. PAGE.
The voting contest for the most
popular young lady to represent the
American Beauty Rose in the Parade
at the Sandhill Fair starts off with
four candidates very near together,
the fourth in the list being but ten
votes behind the two leaders who are
tied for first place.
As these votes had to go to press
this week one day earlier than usual,
the full vote will not appear Hintil
next week, when there is sure to be
a big jump in the voting and probab
ly many changes.
Here is the line-up as they appear
Monday afternoon, when this is mail
ed to the papers:—
Francis McKeithen, Carthage 50
Betty Scott, So. Pines 50
Kate Page» So. Pines 45
Gladys Dunlop, Pinehurst 40
Emily May Wilson, So. Pines 5
Myrtle Harringtpn, Carthage 5
Doris Eddy, So. Pines 5
Ethel Day, So. Pines 5
Total,
205
NIAGARA ITEMS
Mrs. H. E. Skinner has returned
from Connecticut where she has spent
the summer very pleasantly with
relatives and friends.
Mr. W. E. Lawrence, of Windsor,
Vt., has arrived in town and expects
to locate permantly in the Sandhills.
His wife and little daughter will ar
rive later when he gets settled in the
Sargent cottage in Highland Park.
Mr. Geo. McDermott has sold his
home place to Mr. Stevick, of South
ern Pines and bought the “Detroit”
cottage of Mr. Marston in Highland
Park.
Mrs. J. W. Frank, of West End, is
in town looking after their cottage
here.
Misfe Mildred Smith is visiting her
brother, R. B. Smith in Raleigh.
Mr. Adam Kuhn, of Pennsylvania,
has bought the Bartlette house from
Mr. C* W. Marston which is being
improved with all modem ideas.
Mr. H. H. Fry, of Carthage, was
in Vass, Monday night. • .
Mr. Floyd Gunter, of Raleigh, was
in town Monday.