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Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS; N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 12,1923
PRICE FIVE CENTS
be sure to see this picture
The American Legion picture,
“Flashes from Action” which will be
presented by the Local Post of the
American Legion at the Princess
Theatre, Southern Pines, Monday
night, January 15th, will be of un
usual interest to the people of this
section inasmuch as there will be
shown pictures of events and battles
in which some of the local Legion-
aires took active part.
For one example a portion of the
first film of this picture will show
the 39th and 58th Infantry regiments
of the United States Fourth Division
advancing under machine gun and
artillery barrage fire, in that por
tion of the so-called Battle of the
Argonne Forest which took place in
the Fourth Division’s Sector, which
lay between lofty Montfaucon, the
hill from which the Crown Prince
watched his Prussian Guards hurl
themselves against the living wall of
Frenchmen who protected Verdun in
1914, and the village of Nantillois.
Colonel Bolles, who spent last winter
at the Southland Hotel and whose
family is spending this winter in the
Powell House commanded the 39th
regiment of the Fourth Division and
as the Colonel was always to be
found in the thickest of the fight it
is just possible that he may be seen
in this picture. Shields Cameron,
who is Service Officer of the Local
Legion Post, was also a member of
the 16th Field Artillery of the Fourth
Division and no doubt helped to lay
the barrage for this advance which
was filmed by the Signal Corps. Hugh
Betterly was a member of the engi
neer regiment of the Fourth and no
doubt was busy laying roads or build
ing bridges for the infantry as they
made their advance. Doubtless there
were others unknown to us in this
vicinity, who were near, or may come
up in this great picture which was
taken by the members of the Signal
Corps at great danger to themselves
in order that an accurate photograph
ic record of the Great War might be
kept.
Another part of the picture which
may show something of local interest
will be sketches of the 30th Division
in their sector near Bellicourt. The
30th, or “Old Hickory” is North Car
olina’s own National Guard Division
to which many of the boys from thi<
locality belonged.
There are other interesting things
which will be shown in this picture
that have never been shown in mov
ing pictures here before. As we all
know no private syndicate was allow
ed to take pictures on the front. The
government reserr ed this right for
itself in order to keep spys out, and
while some pictures were released to
be shown to the public in order that
they might have some general idea
of the manner of the struggles, the
great attacks, which were planned
and executed with the utmost secrecy
have just now been collected and pre
sented to the public through the
American Legion.
There will be given two presenta
tions of this picture at the Princess
Monday night. One will commence
at 7:30 p. m., the other at 9:15. Re
served seats will be placed on sale
at Hayes Saturday night at 9 a. m.
CAMERON NEWS
JACKSON SPRINGS NEWS
NOTICE
Those who wish to take the Reading
Circle work with the Cameron group
'vill please meet with them at the
graded school building, Satuiday,
January 20, at 10 a. m.
Assignment: First three chapters
of Pittman’s Successful Teaching.
, . J. E. DOWD.
Cameron, N. C.
Miss Elizabeth Ray was hostess to
the Young Ladies Auxiliary an eve
ning during the Christmas holidays.
A sermon that was sublime and
helpful, a sermon that showed us the
right way in the beginning of our
journey through the year of 1923,
was preached Sunday morning at the
Presbyterian church by Rev. M. D.
McNeill.
Misses Lillian and Thurla Cole
were dinner guests Thursday of their
aunt, Mrs. J. A. Phillips, and Miss
Mary Ferguson.
Mrs. D. W. McNeill and Miss Ada
McNeill spent Friday afternoon with
Misses Cassie and Margaret Mc-
Lauchlin, on Carthage route 2.
After spending the holidays with
her mother Miss Kate Harrington re
turned to Charlotte, Sunday, where
she is located as graduate nurse.
Rev. and Mrs. M. D. McNeill spent
Monday in Sanford the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. D. B. Teague.
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Rogers and
family were visitors, Sunday, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Wooten.
Misses Lady Loving and Lily May
Rogers, and Messrs. Carl Edwin Lov
ing and James Rogers were supper
guests during the holiday season of
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones at their
beautiful home, Edgewood.
Rev. O. B. Mitchell, of Goldston,
was a guest, Sunday night, of Mr.
and Mrs. T. C. Gaddy.
Miss Chrissie McLean, the genial
hostess of the Greenwood Inn,, is laid
up with a sprained ankle. All hope
for her a speedy recovery.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. J .W. Thom-
asson, Sunday morning—a son.
Rev. M. J. McLean, of Louisiana,
spent the holidays with his mother,
Mrs. Margaret McLean and family on
route 2.
William Pitt Cameron, Jr., of the
White Hill section, passed away Sun
day morning after a lingering illness,
at the home of W. G. Wicker. Funer
al services from White Hill church,
conducted by Rev. Clark, of Carthage.
Interment in White Hill cemetery.
Miss Cattie McDonald who is at
Waxhaw, at the bedside of her bro
ther, Mr. Duncan McDonald, who is
critically ill, writes there is no im
provement.
The correspondent is pleased to ac
knowledge a strikingly handsome new
year calendar, with the season’s greet
ings from the Brown Buick Service
Station, Sanford. A beautiful Indian
maiden, reclining upon a rock over
looking the deep blue waters of^ a
lake. The picture is bordered with
wampum and Indian trophies.
On Friday night the 12th, there will
be a pie contest at the school building.
Three lovely prizes will be given for
1st, 2nd, and 3rd best.
Mrs. McBryde, of St. Andrews, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ab. Vick
on route 2. , j •
Mr. Esnor Harbour, of Rockford, is
visiting his brother, Dr. Harbour at
Breezy Summit.
Miss Elizabeth Bunn, teacher, of
music in Cameron high school, has
another musical class at Pinehurst.
Mrs. H. T. Petty, who suffered a
stroke of paralysis over two years
ago, from which she has never re
covered, had another slight stroke
last week. She is reported reding
quietly. Mrs. C. C. Jones, Mrs. Dun
can Rogers, of Fayetteville, IV^s. Ed
gar Petty, of Washington, D. C., Mrs.
Charles Sinclair, of Carthage, and
Miss Kate Cole, of Carthage are m
attendance at her bedside.
Mr. and Mrs. Z. V. Hartsell, of
Morven, were holiday guests of their
parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hart-
sell.
(Continued on page 2)
Miss Myrtle Smith, of route 2, was
aniong the eighty-nine successful ap
plicants for state nurses’ licenses at
a recent exainination held in Raleigh
by the State Board of Examiners.
Miss Smith is the very popular young
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emery
Smith, and recieved her training at
the McConnell Hospital near Vass,
and at a Winston-Salem hospital.
School opened here last Wednesday
after the Christmas vacation. Miss
Stepenson who has a music class has
not returned on account being ill with
influenza.
There has been no influenza here
in some time. The situation in the
Big Oak section of this county and
at Norman is improving. Vince Us-
sery, a well known business man and
farmer of Norman died Sunday morn
ing. Mr. Hogan, superintendent of
the Snow Lumber Company Mills in
the Sandhills does not show any im
provement, while Mrs. Hogan with
others who have had pneumonia are
slowly improving. Several nurses are
in Norman and the doctors in the
surrounding section have been giving
constant attention to the victims of
influenza in that community.
Slim Sercy can boast of a fine hog
again this year, although it was
nothing to compare with the weight
of Mr. Maness’ out on the McConnell
road from Carthage. Mr. Sercy’s hog
was not so old. It weighed 444
pounds while its mate owned by Lon
nie Blue weighed 440 pounds. We
boast of our hog weights when they
should be larger. At the Johnson
Boarding house they usually have
large hogs. Before stock law went
into effect the writer remembers Mr.
Johnson killing a 13 months old hog
that weighed 518 pounds. It was a
Duroc and was some hog in those
days.
Speaking of stock law reminds us
that D. A. McDonald has introduced
a bill in the Senate of the General
Assembly to encourage livestock rais
ing in Moore county. We do not
know what he has in mind, but we do
know when he was representating us
in the legislature about sixteen years
ago he passed a bill that he should
be remembered by future generations.
There was some opposition just as
there have been in some of the East
ern counties. It caused some hard
ships on manji, for the people were
not prepared and some did not want
to prepare. Hogs claimed by# some
who owned little land or none at all
made beds under many of our small
school houses. Wje 'remember one
man selling his cows in the woods to
a local hotel. He did not know how
many he had for many of them had
grown wild. One man in Montgom
ery county spent his winter months
splitting rails from long leaf pine to
make a fence 10 rails high for a sand
hill cow pasture when a few dollars
would have bought enough wire to
fence in a pasture and his timber
would have brought enough to on the
ir?arket to have fenced in his pasture
hog tight and horse high.
Since stock law went into effect
this ertire section has made rapid
strides in agriculture and is becom
ing better known than any section in
the United States. While we are
making ^money with tobacco, cotton,
peaches, dewberries and grapes we
should think of our opportunities in
manufacturing. In the last decade
North Carolina has become a great
cotton mill state with the New Eng
land mill men immigrating to the
Carolinas and Georgia for all con
ditions are much better in the South.
Northt Carolina is growing farmers
in many kinds of manufacturing.
(Continued on page 2)
TWO BIG CO-OPS COMBINE
Officials of the North Carolina Ex
tension Division and the Tobacco and
Cotton Co-operatives of three states
completed a three-day of conference at
Raleigh last week, which promises a
program of marketing, and produc
tion among organized tobacco and
cotton farmers that will prove a prac
tical benefit and profit to some 75,-
000 growers of these leading staple
crops, in North Carolina alone.
Dr. B. W. Kilgore, director of Ex
tension for North Carolina at this
meeting of the co-operatives and Ex
tension workers emphasized the gredt
value of local organizations and coun
ty associations of the co-operatives
and said: “The agricultural work on
which so much time and money has
been spent in the past should go for
ward now by leaps and bounds be
cause of -these associations.”
The plan adopted by leaders of the
Extension Division and co-operative
marketing associations provides that
the community locals composed of
members of both cotton and tobacco
associations are to be organized in
each rural school district wherever
these two crops are grown together
in North Carolina. The officers and
other delegates from the local com
munity organizations compose the
county councils, which are to meet at
the court house of each tobacco and
cotton-growing county every month.
In the local meetings which are now
held every week by man community
organizations of the cotton and to
bacco co-operatives, a combined pro
gram is planned for the future, with
the object of securing more of the
crops raised in their district to the
co-operative associations and to gain
more efficient farm production and a
richer community life.
According to the present plan the
county agents and the field leaders
of the associations will meet with
these county councils in their monthly
conferences, will aid in solving local
problems in co-operative marketing
and profitable production of cotton
and tobacco.
Experts of the North Carolina Ex
tension Service will assist the organ
ized tobacco and cotton farmers in
selection of seeds, improvement of
varieties, combating of wild-fire, boll
weevil and plant diseases and in other
immediate problems which can be
more effectively overcome by local
organization than by individual effort.
The local meetings of the co-opera
tives will frequently be open to all
cotton and tobacco farmers both with
in and without the association who de
sire the benefit of advice on economi
cal production and better marketing.
More than 1500 local units of the
Tobacco Growers’ Co-o;:erative As
sociation are now active in North
Carolina, Virginia and South Caro^
lina. F. V. Shelton, in charge of field
work in Virginia, and W. E. Lee,di-
recting the organization of tobacco lo-
!ais in South Carolina, emphasized
the importance of the locals in their
states in increasing membership and
improving methods of production.
New members are signing up with
the co-operatives in Eastern North
arolina, according to the reports of
field workers at Raleigh last week.
Bankers and busyiess men are highly
pleased with the circulation of mo’iey
from the second payments to tobac
co and cotton farmers and many
banks which were formerly neutral
are now enthusiastically supporting
the co-operatives.
A much larger membership and bet
ter delivery are predicted for the 1923
cfjot of tobacco throughout-the three
states by the field service representa
tives of the tobacco co-operativese.