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VOLUME
THE PILOT
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13,1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CAMERON NEWS
i MERCANTILE COMPANY
Mrs. Rebecca Blue is visiting her
sister, Mrs. Alec Blue at Southern
Pines.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Borst and H.
A., Jr., of Vass, called, Sunday even
ing at the homes of Mr. and Mrs.
E. M. Borst and Mr. and Mrs. W. G.
Parker.
Mrs. C. C. Jones and daughter, An
nie Hollingsworth, and Mr Pearle
Douglas motored to Buies Creek, Sun
day to see Truit Jones who is a stu
dent there.
Miss Lucile Rogers has resigned
her position at the central office at
Sanford and is now at home.
Miss Gertrude Rogers, who for
some time held a position at Spray,
has accepted a position with the cen
tral office at Sanford.
Misses Vera McLean, Laurie Phil
lips, Nannie Lou Thomasson, Jack
Phillips, motored to Flora McDonald
College and Red Springs last Sun
day to call on Misses Sadie Phillips
and Flora McDonald, of Carthage,
who are students at the college.
Messrs. Neill McKeithan and Dan
Smith, two prominent young citizens
of Vass, were in our town last week.
Some additional premiums offered
for the Cameron Community Fair.
One year’s subscription to The Pilot
for best trio of pure bred chickens.
One year’s subscription to the Moore
County News for the neatest made
gingham dress by young lady under
twenty. One year’s subscription to
the Sand-Clay Times for best pound
cake, and best pound of butter. One
year’s subscription to the Moore
County News for best cured ham.
One year’s subscription to the Sand-
Clay Times for best pair of turkeys.
One year’s subscription to the Sand-
Clay Times for best peck of Irish po
tatoes. At ten a. m., the better baby
contest. Bring 'em along. iLittle
silver streams breaking with laughter
from the lake divine whince all things
flow. A prize of $5.00 will be offered
for best baby under one year. A
prize of $4.00 offered for second best
under one year.
Mrs. Georgie Matthews, Misses
Dixie Miller and Tally Hall, Si-
loam, were dinnei^ guests last Fri
day of Mrs. H. C. Boaz.
Mr. John B. Cameron on route 1,
spent a day of last week with M.
McL. McKeithen.
Twelve year old Jack Phillips says
he read every chapter of Tallyrand
and Firefly, from beginning to end
and makes the request that Mr. John
son will write another story for boys.
Rev. J. W. Hartsell, Misses Annie
Hartsell, Mabel Muse, Mr. Hartsell
Hendricks called ,last Sunday after
noon at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Cameron on routel.
Rev. L. H. Joyner preached Sun
day a. m. on “The Doubting Chris
tian.”
Rev. and Mrs. M. D. McNeill re
ceived a telegram last week from Mr.
and Mrs. Gabe Holmes, of Goldsboro,
announcing the birth of a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Alsa Thompson and
children, of Vass, spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gaddy.
Mr. and Mrs. Coy Maples and chil
dren spent the week-end at Manly
with relatives. , ,
Rev. M. D. McNeill, Mr. Donald Mc
Donald and Mr. D. B. Kelly attend-
ed Presbytery at Laurinburg last
week.
Mrs. Georgie Matthews gave a
musical entertainment Thursday
evening in honor of her visiting
guests. , ,
Mr. A. Z. Eason has opened a bar
ber shop in the annex to the Doss
Hotel. If Mr. Eason will keep his
barber shop as neat and attractive as
he keeps his home and farm it will
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RECEPTION GIVEN TO FARM
LIFE F ACULTY
On Friday afternoon, September
30th, the patrons and friends of the
Farm Life School, gave a delightful
reception to the school faculty. The
living room of the girls’ dormitory
was filled with the community folks
who came to bid the faculty welcome.
Mrs. Z. V. Blue presided over the
meeting. The following program was
rendered:—
1. Welcome address by Mr. Martin
Blue.
2. Response, by J. C. Kelly.
3. Instrumental solo by Miss Net
tie Beam.
4. Address by Rev. C. E. Clark.
5. Vocal duet by Misses Mabel
Rourk and Doris Mills.
6. Instrumental solo by Miss
Myrtle McCaskill.
7. Story telling by Alma Fergu
son.
8. Male Quartette.
Delightful refreshments were serv
ed at the close of the program.
Such hospitality is very commenda
ble in any community, and a close
co-operation between faculty and
patrons is the logical outcome of
such gatherings.
LAKEVIEW LITERARY
SOCIETY
JETER BECOMES EXTENSION
EDITOR
On Friday night, October 6th, there
was a meeting held at the school
house in Lakeview for the purpose of
organizing a literary club. After
several very interesting talks on the
subject by the people of the town,
the organization was accomplished
and Mr. M. J. Smith was elected
president and Mr. F. M. Dwight, sec
retary.
The club, which has been named the
Lakeview Literary Society, will meet
every Wednesday night at eight
o’clock, and there will be reading,
declamations, extemporaneous
speeches and debates.
The program committee, consisting
of Messrs. N. L. Gibbon, F. M. Dwight
and M. J. Smith, have mapped out a
course which should prove very at
tractive throughout the winter
months, and the organization of the
society is considered a crowning event
in the life of Lakeview.
The public is cordially invited to
attend the meetings of the society.
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FARM LIFE NEWS NOTES
The Eureka community club held
an interesting meeting on Monday
night, October 2ud. Plans for the
community fair were discussed m de
tail, and much interest was mani
fested.
Farm Life School opened on Sep
tember 19th‘, with a large attendance.
The school enrolled boarding pupils
from Raleigh, Concord, High Point,
Ashboro, Hamlet, Supply, and other
nearby points. ,
Miss Taylor, the new music teach
er, arrived at Farm Life on Septem
ber 29th. T 4-
George Fowler, a Farm Life stu
dent from Southern Pines, underwent
a successful operation for appendi
citis at James McConnell Hospital on
October 3rd.
Farm Life students and faculty en
joyed a splendid program rendered by
the Page Literary Society, on Satur
day evening. The feature of the
evening was a mock faculty meeting,
which was thoroughly enjoyed.
Miss Ellen Kelly is visitmg her
cousin, Supt. J. C. Kelly. .
Miss Janie Dalrymple made a busi
ness trip to Sanford on Wednesday.
Mr. Theron Rice, a member of the
class of ’21, was a visitor at Farm
Life last week.
F. H. Jeter, formerly editor for
the Agricultural Extension Service of
the State College of Agriculture and
State Department of Agriculture, has
returned to North Carolina to take
his old position. Mt. Jeter succeeds
R. W. Green who goes with the co
operative tobacco association. For
the past two years Mr. Jeter has been
editor for the Soil Improvement Com
mittee of Atlanta. In this capacity
he did active work in the South in the
fight made by this organization on
the cotton boll weevil. Mr. Jeter has
studied the effect of the weevil and
methods of combatting the pest in
the states of Louisiana, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia and South Caro
lina.
In addition to this, he has devoted
considerable time in the preparation
of articles on the agriculture of the
southern states. These articles have
been widely used in the large daily
papers, the leading agricultural pa
pers and the trade papers of the
United States. Mr. Jeter began his
new work in Raleigh on September
15. As agricultural editor for the
extension work he will be at the ser
vice of the newspapers of this state
in securing news material and agri
cultural information from the corps
of experts maintained in North Caro
lina by the State and National Gov
ernment.
PINEHURST FARM BERKSHIRES
MAKE GOOD SHOWING AT
VA. STATE FAIR
The Pinehurst Farm herd of Berk-
shires opened their show circuit at the
Virginia State Fair at Richmond this
week and started off in hot company
showing against two Berkshire herds
that have been dividing honors on the
big circuit for over two months. Four
show herds of Berkshires made up the
strongest and largest Berkshire show
ever seen at the Virginia State Fair
and included Sycamore Farm, Doug-
lasville, Pa.; F. E. Kite, St. Paris,
Ohio, and Jas W. Graves, Richmond,
Va.
In spite of this competition with
the leading show herd of the east
and the leading herd of the west the
Pinehurst herd captured the lion’s
share of the winnings and proved
that North Carolina produces as good
hogs as any section of the country.
The senior and Grand Champion sow
was Grape Wild Rose 29th, in the
Pinehurst herd and not only did she
win this great honor but was ac
knowledged the best sow of the
breed to be shown anywhere in the
country this year. She is eighteen
months old, weighs 725 pounds and
is an almost perfect specimen of the
breed. The Junior Champion boar
was also in the Pinehurst herd. His
name is Laurel Sensation and is just a
• ear old. With his litter sisters he
also won the coveted “Breeder’s
Herd” which must be a boar and
three sows under a year old and bred
by the exhibitor. These four pigs
out of the same litter into ring weigh
ing a little over a ton. Master Sand
hill, another Pinehurst Berkshire, met
and defeated a boar of his own age
that has been undefeated in fourteen
shows this year until he met the
Pinehurst entry. Master Sandhill is
known at home as “Peanuts,” he is
eighteen months old and he weighs
very close to 800 pounds. Mr. E. J.
Barker, Thorntown, Ind., did the
judging.
DIPTHERIA
By Dr. R. G. Rosser
Diptheria is a very infectious high
ly communicable! disease, character
ized by fever, pain in the back and
limbs, and usually, though, not al
ways, by a deposit on the tonsils.
It is caused by a germ, called, from
its discoverers, the Klibo-Leafler
bacillus. These germs are very viri-
lant, having been known to live 362
days on a silk thread and four months
in dark, dusty places, and they will
do as good or better in dry places.
They inhabit the throats of patients
in enormous numbers and also inhabit
the throats of people in many in
stances who have no symptoms of
the disease whatever.
People having the germs in the
mouth and drinking water at public
places are likely to transmit the
germ to other parties who develop
the disease.
At present we have somewhat of a
wide-spread epidemic of diptheria,
having been scattered probably in
the above described way.
Owing to the intense toxicity it is
a very deadly disease. Unless treat
ed promptly and properly the mor
tality will be very high. Fortunate
ly we have a specific treatment in the
antitoxin which is harmless and a
sure cure if administered in sufficient
doses early. It neutralizes the toxin
and raises the patient’s opsonic in
dex, and improvement sets in in a
few hours after being treated with
it.
There is also an immmunizing
treatment known as toxin antitoxin
popularly called diptheria vaccine
which is gotten out by the State
Laboratory of Hygiene. If given to
healthy persons in proper amounts it
will prevent the development of dip
theria like typhoid vaccine will im
munize against typhoid fever. If
everybody would take advantage of
this method of immunizing against
diptheria the dreaded disease would
in a few years hence be extinct.
LAW AND ORDER LEAGUE
COMMUNITY CLUB MEETING
There will be a meeting of the
Community Club tonight, Friday, at
7:30 o’clock. Everybody come.
Mr. Editor:—
On Friday, the sixth instant, at a
mass meeting held in Carthage, a
County Law and Order League was
organized. I was honored with the
Presidency of the organization, a re
sponsibility I acce’Dted because of the
great need for the organization of
the moral, law abiding people of the
county that our united efforts may
be concentrated on the inculcation of
respect for law, and to combat the
organized and wilful violations that
are surely undermining our civiliza
tion.
Plans were formulated for the or
ganization of the county by town
ships. This will be undertaken at
once, and every effort will be made
to enlist in the membership the
League all law-abiding citizens of the
county. No effort will be made, how
ever, to see each person and solicit
his or her co-operation, for one who
does not voluntarily enlist will be of
no service. In order that it might
be as easy as possible for each citi
zen, all that is necessary to become
a member is, that, you send your
name and address, stating that you
desire to be enroled, to Mr. W. G.
Jennings, Secretary, Carthage, N. C.
“He that is not For us is Against us.”
It is a question of the protection
of our homes and our children from
the evil disposed minority who would
destroy both, and even the perpetua
tion of our civilization. What are you
going to do about it?
ROBERT N. PAGE,
President.