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Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
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VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24,1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CAMERON NEWS
LET US GIVE THANKS
IT’S a good thing to pause along about this time of year and
take a little inventory of the blessings that have come to you
within the past twelve months. It helps ydu to more fully
appreciate your own worth to the community, it helps you to
realize the worth of those you call your neighbors and your friends,
and it sort of puts you in tune to push on through another year
determined to make it, too, one worth while to yourself and those
about you.
Troubles have come into some of our hearts since one year ago
we were called upon to observe the day of Thanksgiving. Maybe
sickness has laid a heavy hand upon yoHi or a member of your
family. Possibly financial affairs have not moved in the same
smooth line you would prefer. That thing you call “bad luck” may
have crossed your path, and for a moment darkened your life with
its shadows. Not every day can we expect fate to smile upon us.
But sum it up, weigh it with the lot of someone else—and you’ll
find joy in giving thankks that you live in a land where every
man is his own king, and in his own province. You’ll look into
the faces of the loved ones about you, and feel thankful that
they have been spared to keep you company. Yoii’ll shake the
hand of a neighbor and feel in that grip the pledge of assistance
when’ you really need it. You’ll sit by your own hearthstone,
about your own festal board, and thank Providence that famine
and hunger have not set foot upon your doorstep, but that you
are blessed with the necessities of life, and that you got them in
the only honest way—through honest labor honorably performed.
The time of Thanksgiving is with us again, and we do not be
lieve there is in all Vass or the territory surrounding any one so
miserable as to not have at least something to be thankful for.
Then letus, each in his own simple way, open our hearts in
praise to the One who has sheltered us, fed us, protected us and
brought us safely to another harvest time. Let us, as peaceful,
law-abiding, God-fearing citizens of the grandest nation on the
globe, renew our pledge of service to our families and our homes,
and forgetting the dark spots along the pathway over which we
have passed hope for only sunshine for ourselves and our fellowmen
in all the days to come.
EDUCATIONAL NEWS
Womanless Wedding
A mirthful “Womanless Wedding”
was visionized at the graded school
auditorium on Thursday evening,
November 16th, when “Billious Muse
and “Johnsie” Saunders were united
in the friendly bonds of padlock. The
auditorium was packed; there- were
shrieks of laughter and yells of de
light. Prior to the ceremony Flint
Loving, gowned in black crepe de
chine and furs and wearing a black
picture hat, very delightfully rendered
Love’s Old Sweet Song.
Enter: Big Milton Thomas, the
bride’s “black mammy,” to inspect
the beautifully decorated altar and
see that everything was in apple pie
order, for the marriage of her “Honey
Chile.” To the strains of the wed
ding march, played by a master hand,
entered the ushers. Prof. Dowd and
Donald McDonald, very dignified and
handsome; next in order, the groom’s
father, H. D. Tally, grave and courte
ous, with flowing snow-white beard;
bride’s mother, Warren G. Ferguson,
gowned in black satin and pearls and
black picture hat with long white
plume—stately and very patrician;
Mr. Wright, Maiden Aunt and very
dear relative of the bride—it is ru
mored that she holds the purse
strings; Artemus Thomas, aunt of the
groom, gowned in black satin, a mod
ish hat of henna set jauntily on her
dark elflocks—a striking brunette.
Then came Mayor Parson Hartsell,
looking dignified and handsome in his
long Jim-swinger, and carrying the
ceremonial Pad-lock Book. Brides
maids: J. D. McLean, in a lovely crea
tion of white satin and blue spangled
tuJJe, wearing a rose picture hat—a
bonnie buxom lass; Leighton Mc-
Keithen, in white georgette and real
lace, hair a la two puffs—a college
bud girl, very dignified; Jack Phillips,
decollete costume of white satin,
white picture hat—a stunning beauty;
Jimmie Rogers, black lace gown
black picture hat—quiet and reserved;
Carey Phillips, gown of changeable
silk, white picture hat—modest and
retiring; Henry Gilchrist, white or
gandie, white picture hat—a bewitch
ing miss of sixteen summers. Flower
girls: Roger Matthews and George
Wooten, wearing pink organdie, pic
ture hats of pink and carrying bask
et of pink and white roses—charming
beauties, each a peach—and that’s no
joke. Best man: Stanly Graham, gal
lant and debonair. Maid of honor:
Pardner Loving, very charming and
graceful, in a gown of white silk tulle,
white picture hat, and carrying flow
ers of white chrysanthemums.
M. D. 'McLean, ring bearer, wear
ing a dainty gown of white organdie,
pink sash and pink hair ribbon, white
silk stockings, pink garters, white
slippers—decidedly the belle of the
ball. Then came the groom, striking
ly handsome in conventional evening
clothes. Upon his arm leaned the
bride, a vision of loveliness, demure
and sweet, gowned in white crepe
meteor with real lace; her bridal veil
was caught away from her lovely
brow with a spray of orange blos
soms, her only ornaments a coronet
of pearls, the gift of the groom.
After the vows were spoken a re
ception was held on the stage. Re
freshments of cake and cream were
served to over a hundred guests. In
the cutting of the bride’s cake, Mrs.
M. D. McNeill received the slice with
the ring, Mrs. T. C. Gaddy the dime,
Donald McDonald, Sr., the thimble.
The wedding presents were unique.
The groom is a wealthy railroad man
of Cameron, very opular with women
«nd children; the bride is very lovely
and accomplished, and owns a large
dewberry farm in Cameron, and a
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The Moore county branch of the
North Carolina Teachers’ Assembly
met in Carthage, November 18th, with
thirty-one teachers present.
The following delegates were elect
ed to represent the local branch at
the meeting of the State Assembly in
Raleigh, November 29th:
Mr. A. B. Cameron, Mr. J. C. Kelly,
Mr. J. F. Cason, Miss Mamie Arnold,
Miss Margaret Keith, and Miss Sallie
Coleman. This County Association of
teachers has fifty-four paid members,
but there are one hundred and fifty-
three white teachers in Moore county,
and we urge every teacher to attend
these meetings.
In a spelling contest by representa
tives from the grammer grades. Miss
Vertle Lambert and Miss Annie Lee
Thomas won and they will go to
Raleigh to compete in a contest dur
ing the State Assembly.
MARGARET McIVER,
Sec’y of Local Branch.
THE PASSING OF THE PANCAKE
We read where a pancake-eating
contest was recently held in an East
ern town and a native consumed 73
so-called pancakes. And that news
reminds us that we are living in a
^nighty sorry age. It is prooi that
the pancake of today, or at least the
Eastern kind, are not the same orand
of pancakes Vass folks used to know
in days gone by. For no man living,
no ship-wrecked sailor or cinder-cov
ered tramp, could have consumed 7o
of those rich, thick delicious pancakes
of old any more than he could swim
the Atlantic ocean. There never was
a farm-hand hungry enough to get
away with anything like that num
ber. Plainly, the old-time pancake
seems to have passed into niemory.
It has dwindled and shrunk and shriv
eled and contracted to the point where
SECOND PAYMENT FOR EAST
ERN NORTH CAROLINA
With a second payment to members
completed in the South Carolina belt
and arrangements being made for a
second payment in Eastern North
Carolina early in December on all to
bacco deliveried before December 1st,
the Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative
Association is expecting to largely in
crease its membership in these belts
before the season is over. Without
any special effort on the part of the
Association new contracts are reach
ing Raleigh daily from men “who
waited to see” and are again thorough
ly disgusted with the auction system.
Insistent demands for legal action
against contract violators continue to
reach Raleigh headquarters, especial
ly from local units of the Association.
In response to this demand the legal
.!e artment last week filed 54 more
suits against members in 21 cotinties
of North Carolina involving damages
of more than $50,000. Some of the
first suits filed have been settled out
of court while other men are making
settlements without waiting to be
haled into court.
Arrangements have been made to
have warehousemen receive money for
damages and forward it to Raleigh
where the legal department will de
cide whether to accept or reject such
settlements. Each case is being con
sidered on its merits and, while the
attC'Tneys are accepting a number of
such proffered settlements, they state
that in other cases they are rejecting
oTers to settle where the interests of
the association show that a law suit
would be better policy.
an ordinary man can eat 73 of them
at one time and still live! Surely
times are changing, and old friends,
including the old-fashioned pancake,
are rapidly passing away. *
JACKSON SPRINGS NEWS
Rev. J. A. Caligan, a native Moore
county man, of McColl, S. C., closed
a successful revival here on Sunday
night. A large crowd was in attend
ance for every sermon.
Miss Sarah Eliza Currie died on
Wednesday evening at 6 o’clock, after
a long illness, enduring her painful
suffering in a Christian manner and
always remaining cheerful. Not un
til several months ago did she have
to give up. After returning from
Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore,
where she would go for treatment,
she would always be better, but all
that loved ones with medical and
surgical aid could do, they could only
prolong her sweet life. She was six-
ty-six years old, and was from a large
and wiell know family who settled in
this community before the civil war,
moving here from the Union church
community near Carthage. In her
girldhood days there was few educa
tional advantages, but she received
good training and developed a taste
for art, and painted some beautiful
pictures. Her funeral was conducted
in the Presbyterian church on Thurs
day afternoon by her pastor, Rev.
R. G. Matheson, and interment was
made in the cemetery at the rear of
the church beside her mother, Mrs.
Christian Leach Currie. She leaves
four brothers to mourn their loss;
they are J. C. and J. A. Currie, of
Candor, A. McN. and A. L. Currie, of
route 2, at Currie’s bridge. The lat
ter and his family have our sympathy
in the bereavement, as Miss Currie al
ways resided with them in the old
Currie home.
Lee Patterson was bitten by one of
his dogs on Monday. The dog im
mediately acted queer and was shot
and killed. The head was sent to
Raleigh but was shot up too bad
to show whether the dog had' hydro
phobia. Although it was only a slight
scratch Mr. Patterson is taking the
Pasteur 'treatment as a precaution.
Adog belonging to his uncle, D. L.
Patterson, acted queer on Sunday and
was killed. It was thought the ani
mals were poisoned by licking some
empty Salmon cans.
Mesdames Johanna and Mary John
son, of Lemon Springs, spent part of
last week at the home of D. B. John
son, to be here during the revival
conducted by Rev. J. A. Caligan,
brother of Mrs. Mary Johnson.
George Neal, instructor and ath
letic director in the local high school,
spent the week in Charlotte attending
the Carolina-Davidson football game.
Tourists are passing here fast, and
every night usually finds some camp
ing in t& village. One man and his
wife liked our village and its people
so well that they have rented a cot
tage and are here for the winter.
In the commissioner’s proceedings
for the last month we were glad to
see that quite a number of stills were
captured, and that none were from
this section. The commissioners used
to be paving out money to Knight,
Marlette, McLean and others for stills
captured near here; we hope it will
be a thing of the past. The regular
and special terms of court some time
ago sent ringleaders and allies to the
roads for a long period. Rural po
liceman Marlette was getting too
much co-operation from law-abiding
citizens to suit. some whiskey men
and the ringleaders going to the
roads caused others to leave. To
get the ringleaders officers must have
co-operation from the citizens.
Mr. and Mrs.' Geo. R. Ross and
family have returned from Graham
where they attended the wedding of
Mrs. Ross’ sister. Miss Margaret
Galey.