VOLUME
THE PILOT
NUMBER
Devoted to the UpbuUding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
SANDHILL CITIZENS FORM
KIWANIS CLUB
Sixty men, representative of the
business and jirofessional interests
of that portion of the Sandhill sec
tion of North Carolina which includes
the towns of Southern Pines, Pine-
hurst and Aberdeen, met at the Mid-
Pines Country Club at Southern
Pines and with much mirth, song and
eating of good food and under the
guidance of Mr. Van Burschaft, Field
Representative of International Ki-
wanis, organized a Kiwanis Club for
the Sandhills. A meeting previous
to this one of the leading spirits in
the organization of the club had ap
pointed Dr. W. C. Mudgett as presi
dent; R. L. Chandler as secretary,
and H. J. Betterly as trustee. These
officers presided over the first lunche
on and led the organization meeting
to a success exceeding even the hopes
of the organization committee.
As is customary among Kiwanians
the meeting started off with songs,
jokes and food. Mr. Buschaft then
made a talk, explaining the ideals
and purpose of Kiwanis, after which
the president called upon each man
present to introduce himself to the
others and tell his occupation and
the name by which he was to be
known as a Kiwanian. Many amus
ing sketches of life history were here
told from Ralph Page’s tale of how
he was endeavoring to grub out a liv
ing as a writer to Judge Way’s pa
thetic tale of his efforts here in the
Sandhills to live down his past as a
jurist and banker in Pittsburg by
helping to make the Sandhills a bet
ter place in w’hich to live.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, Dr.
W. C. Mud^rett; first vice-president,
Richard Tufts; second vice-president,
Ed McKeithen; third vice-president,
R. N. Page; secretary, R. L. Chand
ler; treasurer, Dan T. McKeithan.
Directors, J. R. McQueen, Judge W.
A. Way, I. C. Sledge, J. T. Johnson,
Frank Shamburger, H. A. Lewis,
Frank Buchan and H. J. Betterly.
CAMERON NEWS
Mrs. Mildred Matthews, of Sanford,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. J
Irvin.
Mrs. A. M. Shaw on Cameron route
2, was in town Friday, shopping.
Mr. Clifton Cameron, of Timber-
land, is assistant salesman and busi
ness manager for McDonald Bros,
during the holiday season.
Now is the time to subscribe to
The Pilot as a Christmas present to
some relative or friend.
Dr. K. B. Geddie, of Raeford, was a
guest, Sunday, of Dr. and Mrs. A.
L. O’Briant.
Mr, Clyde Gaddy and Mr. Wade, of
Sanford, spent Sunday with the fam
ily of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Gaddy.
Mr. W. T. Wright, former operator
at Cameron, returned at an early date
to spend the week-end. Some attrac
tion in the old town.
The eleventh grade high school
girls will give an oyster supper and
a short entertainment at the school
ouilding on Friday evening the 15th,
beginning at 7:30.
Dr. and Mrs. A. L. O’Briant and
JJiss Vera McLean were in Sanford,
^I’Jday, shopping.
^e many friends of Rev. A. R
iVlcQueen will be pleased to know he
IS improving after an illness of in
fluenza.
J. P. Swett, on route 2, has re-
cently harvested a fine crop of “good
eatmg” Irish potatoes, as the cor
respondent can vouch for, having
“^nipled them. Mr. Swett grew the
potatoes on some ground of M. D.
(Continued on page 2)
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15,1922
SECOND PAYMENT DUE NEXT WEEK
Record Meetings of Tobacco Growers Marked
by Flood Tide of Loyally in 3 States
Thousands of organized tobacco
growers of Eastern North Carolina
will double their cash receipts next
Wednesday, December 20th, when
checks for the second payment on all
tobacco delivered to the Tobacco
Growers’ Co-operative Association up
to December 1st will be paid at the
co-operative warehouses in the East
ern belt.
A flood tide of enthusiasm marked
the twenty meetings throughout Cen
tral and Eastern Carolina held by the
Association last week. At Henderson,
Roxboro, Oxford, Durham, and Ral
eigh great gatherings of growers
passed unanimous resolutions of loy
alty and confidence in their Associa
tion and their directors.
More than 150 local associations of
the tobacco co-operative have been
formed in South Carolina during the
past two weeks. An active campaign
for new members gives promise of a
sign-up that will include 80 per cent
^ of the South Carolina crop of 1923,
according to the farmers, bankers and
merchants who are aiding the as
sociation in its new drive for mem
bership in the Palmetto State.
In the South Carolina Belt where
the markets are closed the Associa
tion handled 20,000.000 pounds of to
bacco, and prices received from actual
sales for substantially all the tobac
co averaged $21.54 per hundred
pounds. Following the second pay
ment to the South Carolina growers,
which equaled their first advance,
preparations are now being made to
distribute a third payment to those
members.
A record-breaking series of twenty-
three meetings in Virginia this week
will reach the growers of Pittsyl
vania, Halifax, Mecklenburg, Luen-
burg, Brunswick and Amelia Coun
ties.
Such state leaders as John R.
Hutcheson, director of Extension for
Virginia, F. S. Farrar, J. H. Quisen-
berry and J. G. Bruce, State District
Agents, and directors of the associa
tion will address meetings which be
gin Wednesday in Pittsylvania county,
Thursday in Halifax county and con
tinue Friday and ‘ Saturday, Decem
ber 15th and 16th at Chase City,
Clarksville, South Hill, Victoria, Ken-
bridge, Lawrenceville, Alberta, and
Amelia. •
The record of the co-operative as
sociation in three months of active
operation and the second cash pay
ment to be made to Virginia growers
on all tobacco delivered up to Decem
ber 20th will be discussed at these
meetings, which celebrate the success
of the association at the close of its
first year.
MRS. JAMES W. TUFTS DIES IN
MASSACHUSETTS
I Southern Pines, Dec. 8.—A tele
gram from Leonard Tufts at Med
ford, Mass., announces the death of
his mother, Mrs. James W. Tufts at
the advanced age of about 80 years.
She leaves besides Mr. Tufts, Mrs.
Sherbourne Hugh Prescott, a daugh
ter, of Boston* Mrs. Tufts was in
girlhood Miss Emma Clough, of Gro
ton, Massachusetts. Her people were
of old revolutionary stock. When
James W. Tufts founded Pinehurst
over a quarter of a century ago Mrs.
Tufts took much interest in the pro
ject, and she was a frequent visitor
to the Sandhills, where she became
well known and mufch esteemed. She
was a woman of retiring disposition,
but of broad sympathy with others,
and although she was reticent about
talking of her charities the limited
few who know of her work know
that she had an extremely open hand.
Large sums of money were given to
deserving objects with none but her
secretary aware of the transactions.
Leonard Tufts had been called to
Massachusetts last week by his
mother’s condition, and it was real
ized then that the end was near.
COUNTY AGENTS MEET AT
COLLEGE
MOORE COUNTY NOT A HORSE
RAISING COUNTY
From the last census report there
are 2176 farms in Moore county with
an average of 105 acre per farm. Of
this amount there are 26 acres of im
proved land.
The record shows that in 1921 there
were .988 horses in Moore county, 12
under one year of age with 21 over
one year and under two.
There are 2331 mules or an average
of a little over a mule per farm and
of this number there are 23 under
one year and 40 over one and two
years.
It is very evident from the above
report that horses and mules are not
being raised in Moore county.
M. W. WALL, County Agent.
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 14.—All of the
county agents employed by the State
College of Agriculture and the State
Department of Agriculture are now at
the College for the short course and
conference held annually by the Agri
cultural Extension Service. Approxi
mately 70 agents were here to begin
the conference on Decembr 5. On the
7th, the home demonstration agents
gathered for a three day joint con
ference. Meeting with the agents
are the spcialists of the Experiment
I Station and Professors of the College,
i A full program for the entire 11
days has been worked out and the
agents are finding each day filled to
I the brim with matters of value and
interest. Considerable time for round
i table discussions has been allowed.
Some of the important matters be
ing st idied are those having to do
with the fight on the boll weevil, the
, marketing of surplus products grown
where the boll weevil is damaging
cotton, the marketing of livestock,
. feeding hogs and other livestock, and
, many other matters of concern among
the farmers just at this time,
j The agents are also outlining their
^voi k for the coming year. Plans are
being made for carrying on some of
, the various phases of work now be
ing engaged in by the extension ser
vice and at the same time an effort
is being made to correlate the activi
ties of all the agents so that they may
j fit in with the general agricultural
I program of the College and Depart
ment administrative officers.
HENRY McKAY DEAD
Mr. Henry McKay, who lived in
, Hoke county, near the lower power
plant of the Sandhill Power Company,
on Little River, died Wednesday and
was buried yesterday at Cypress
cemetery. Rev. McNeill, of Cameron,
conducted the funeral services. Mr.
McKay was a native of Harnett coun
ty, from near Lillington.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
MOTHER GOOSE FAIR TO BE
HELD
“Everything is all set” for the
Mother Goose Fair to be held at the
Pinehurst Community House next
Friday, beginning at three o’clock in
the afternoon and continuing until ten
in the evening.
Great effort has been expended by
the ladies to" make this Fair a suc
cess. They tell us that several
booths have been arranged for at
which can be purchased many useful
articles designed to make appropri
ate Christmas Gifts. Chief among
these will be a Toy Booth, a Woolen
Booth, carrying sweaters, caps, etc.,
a Cotton Cloth Booth with towels,
handkerchiefs, aprons, and many other
articles which the house-wife can use
to good advantage every day.
Nor has the innerman been neg
lected; contra, several booths will be
provided with tempting goodies such
as only the Pinehurst ladies know
how to prepare. Mother Goose
characters will be in evidence, both
on the floor and in the booths, dis
pensing their wares and good cheer
to the large crowd of patrons who
will doubtless attend.
At seven^hirty a Mother Goose
playlet will be given, to which a
small admission will be charged.
The entire affair has been looked
after by the ladies of the community
club and practically all of the articles
which will be offered for sale have
been made by them in their homes,
which removes any question regard
ing the quality of the products which
can be purchased. Any profits re
sulting from the sale and playlet will
go into the treasury of the Communi
ty Club.
A good time and value received is
guaranteed to all who will attend, and
the invitation to come is not confined
to Pinehurst, but is meant to include
any and all from other communities
and clubs who might like to see how
the Pinehurst Community Club puts
over these pleasant and profitable
events.
CHRISTMAS CHECKS
Raleigh, Dec. 14.—The first batch
of “Christmas Checks” from the North
Carolina Cotton Growers’ Co-opera
tive Association are due to go out
Saturday. These checks will repre
sent a second advance of $25 on each
bale of cotton delivered to the As
sociation up to December 1st.
The last two weeks has been the
busiest that the headquarters of the
Tar Heel cotton co-operative has had.
In addition to having to prepare for
sending out thousands of checks to
giowers, the association has been re
ceiving cotton right along at the rate
of nearly a thousand bales a day.
There has been a considerable let-up
in deliveries since the close of No
vember, it is stated, but receipts are
still heavy.
The Association headquarters re
port receipts to date of more than
125,000 bales on which advances to
taling more than six million dollars
have already been made and on which
more than three million dollars will
be advanced within the next few days.
The physical task of handling thou
sands of accounts with members will
prevent all checks from going out on
December 15th, but they will begin
moving thep and the various batches
will follow each other in quick suc
cession.
More than one man who was will
ing to die for a girl before he got her
wishes afterward he had.
If you want to make a stout lady
mad, just compliment her on being
light on her feet.