VOLUME
THE PILOT
NUNBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1923
PRICE FIVE CENTS
BANKERS TO MEET IN
PINEHURST
The twenty-seventh annual conven
tion of the North Carolina Bankers
Association will be held at Pinehurst,
Carolina Hotel, Thursday, Friday, and
Saturday, May 3, 4, and 5th, accord
ing: to an announcement made through
the Raleigh headquarters by C. E.
Brooks of Henderson, president of
the association.
In selecting Pinehurst again as a
meeting place President Brooks act
ed upon requests from members scat
tered throughout the entire State.
Pinehurst has splendid facilities for
such meetings and is un-usually ac
cessible. Last year the association’s
convention at Pinehurst was attend
ed by a larger number of members
and guests from outside the county
in which the convention was held than
ever before in the history of the N.
C. B. A.
Special hotel and railroad rates
have been secured for the May meet
ing and a very large attendance is
expected. Announcements as to the
program will be made later.
TOBACCO CO-OP ONE YEAR OLD
CAMERON NEWS
. JACKSON SPRINGS NEWS
The thousands of tobacco growers
in three states who are members of
the Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative
Association are asked to celebrate the
birthday of their association next Fri
day, February 9th, just one year af
ter its incorporation.
The Carolinians and Virginians who
formed their marketing association
for tobacco one year ago have seen it
forge to the front as the largest of
all co-operative marketing associa
tions in America.
Next Friday they will celebrate its
growth within a year from 65,000 to
over 85,000 tobacco farmers; the ac
quisition of the majority of ware
houses in three states, the marketing
of close to 140,000,000 pounds of to
bacco; cash payments to its members
of close to $20,000,000 and the as
surance of future cash payments,
which begin this month in South Car
olina.
Organized tobacco growers of the
South Carolina belt, who are now en
gaged in a successful campaign for
new members, are being urged to
make a special birthday present to
the association ,which many claim has
doubled their receipts within a year,
in the form of a new member.
George A. Norwood, president of
the Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative
Association, in a special birthday
message to its members this week,
says: “Millions of dollars added to
the incomes of farmers this past year
is your work. Let there be some
question as to who gets the most
benefits. I believe there is no one
who questions the fact that the price
of tobacco is higher and that you
made it higher. Business may in the
main be done for again to the doer,
but we must take a broader view and
see that the gain of one is the gain of
all and the gain af all is the gain of
each.”
“Your directors feel that the ac
quirement of the warehouse for you
on easy terms, the financing and sale
of a large part of the crop already is
a success. More uniform and profita
ble prices are now sure. Nearly
everybody will get more good out of
their income if it is in installments
rather than all at once.
Co-operative marketing makes for
thrift.”
You can’t tell, the size of results
the size of the man. The melon
vine raises bigger fruit than the oak
tree does.
Get our price on Tobacco. Cloth.
McKeithan & Company. ' '
February! The month that heralds
Saint Valentine with his thousands of
little loves a piercing hearts with cu-
pid’s darts, and the air is brushed
with the hiss of the rustling wings
of the Immortal Go-Between. What
Santa Claus is to the children, is St.
Valentine to youth and maiden. It
is a pretty custom of refined senti
ment, the sending of Valentines on
February the 14th.
I am pleased to acknowledge an
exquisite calendar of artistic beauty,
entitled “Mother and child.” Compli
ments of Graham Brothers, Vass. N.
C.
Mr. Laurence McNeill, of Raeford,
who is spending some time at Union
Home farm, was in town Tuesday on
business.
Sunday morning at the Baptist
church. Rev. O. B. Mitchell presented
to Miss Minnie Johnson on route one,
a diploma for Bible study graduates.
The Rev. and Mrs. F. B. Noblett,
have found their lost cat. After many
wonderings, trials, and tribulations, of
which her catship bore traces, “Nig”
was located at the home of one Peter
MacMillan. A cat answering to the
description of Nig was reported to
Rev. and Mrs. Noblett, by Mrs. Tliom-
I as who lives on route one. Mr. and
I Mrs. Noblett repaired at once to the
home of Peter the colored, and found
I Nig dozing under the stove. The
j recognition of mistress and cat was
I mutual; and Nig is now at home
I sleeping on her soft cushion by the
i stove. Verily, it pays to advertise
I through The Pilot.
Mr. Flint Loving is visiting at
! Smoaks, S. C.
! Messrs. Clyde Gaddy and Wate, of
I Sanford, w^ere supper guests Sunday
1 evening of Miss Myrtle Gaddy.
Mr. J. L. Thomas has a new Ford.
Mr. A. B. McDonald on route one,
Cranes Creek, is visiting in Concord.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Jones, of Edge-
wood, were dinner guests, Sunday, of
Mrs. Laura Rogers.
The Young Ladies Auxiliary met
last week with Mrs. Jewel Hemphill,
with the following program: Called
to order by the president, Mrs. Hemp
hill. Repeated the Lord’s Prayer in
concert. Scripture reading. Acts, 10th
chapter, by the president. Secretary,
Miss Vera McLean, read the minutes
of last meeting and called the roll.
Monthly topic: China; a very interest
ing talk by Miss Annie Borst. Pres
ent, eight; absent, ten. Absence
caused by the members being school
teachers away from home. Guests of
honor, Mesdames Lula Muse, J. D.
McLean, Misses Jacksie Muse and
Collins and little Miss June Mclver
Hemphill. Refreshments: chocolate
cake, gelatine and whipped cream.
Next meeting will be with Miss Kate
Arnold at her pleasant home, Rother-
wood.
Misses Chrissie and Vera McLean,
Margaret Thomas and Mr. Milton
Thomas, attended services at Union
Sunday.
Messrs. John Blue and Laurence
McNeill, of Raeford, were dinner
guests Thursday of last week of Rev.
and Mrs. M. D. McNeill.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hardy and little
daughter spent Sunday with Mrs.
Hardy’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. 1.
Doss. , __
Mr. A. Cameron and nephew, Mr.
Neill McLean, of Vass, were caller«=!
Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. McLean.
Mrs.' W. G. Ferguson was a supper
guest, Sunday evening, of Mrs. W.
Cjt P&i?k0]?
Ur. J. E. Phillips has returned from
the C. C. Hospital much improved.
Rev. M. D. McNeill conducted the
funeral services of Miss Levana John-
(Continudd from first page)
The score of the basket ball game
between the local and Ellerbe highs,
given in last week’s issue, should have
been 36 to 16 instead of 36 to 6. The
locals, with a crippled team in the
last half, more than doubled the score
against some of the old Ellerbe stars
who have found themselves playing
on the second team.
Farmers are well pleased with their
tobacco sales in the co-operative
houses. Checks of the same amount
of their first payment brought many
smiles, and will bring many more in
to the Co-operative Association. There
is high praise for the Association, and
practically every farmer who raises
tobacco is a member; quite a number
signed up last fall after selling some
on the open warehouse.
Carlton McDonald was host to a
large number of boys on Saturday
afternoon; the occasion was his 12th
birthday. After many games the
youngsters were served with refresh
ments. Not many boys have Carlton’s
weight and physique at eleven years of
age.
The boys literary society of the lo
cal high school entertained the girls
society on Friday evening in the home
economics building. The girls are at
a loss to know how to bring laughter
as the boys did in their evening of
fun.
The local highs defeated the Biscoe
high school boys in a game of basket
ball on the local court Friday after
noon. The score was 22 to 16. The
locals showed superiority in passing
but were weak on shooting. Stuart
led his team with five field goals,
while every boy had two points to
his credit except Carter, who was
substituted for McDuffie in the last
few minutes of play. Lee Thomas
was also given a chance, and showed
signs of a good player.
Prof. Geo. Neal was called to his
home in Mecklenberg county last Fri
day on account of the illness of his
father.
There are too many accidents with
guns and too many going hunting in
crowds; one young fellow here acci
dentally shot another while hunting
with a crowd last week. It was not
serious, but could easily have been
fatal.
Mrs. J. T. Ellis has returned from
Carthage, where she has been at the
bedside of her sister, Mrs. Geo. Muse,
who is not improving very fast.
Miss Maude Poole spent the week
end with her people in Raeford.
Miss Agnes Graham is visiting rel
atives in the Cameron vicinity.
His many friends will be pleaseed to
learn that Alton Smith is back in
Kings business college after a siege
of infirenza. Mr. Smith graduated
from the local high school last spring.
Eubert Styres is at home from a few
weeks visiting in Greensboro and
other towns.
Some of our farmers did not wait
for the boll weevil before raising
more livestock. Charles Dilling, who
raises a variety of crops, recently had
three brood sows to bring litters of
igs; one of the sows is the mother
of fourteen. Mr. Dilling was surpris
ed at the number, but never finds
trouble in selling pigs. Usually he
has nearly all engaged.
Miss Crafts, county health nurse,
was here one day last week.
The correspondent paid the ceme
tery at Cypress church a visit Sun
day afternoon, and was very much
surprised at the way the burial
grounds were kept up. The people
in the community are to be commend
ed for the care of the graves; every
grave can be found. There are many
graves that will become extinct som»^
day, where they are not given at
tention.
BOLL WEEVIL INJURY
THIS YEAR
All of the area north of a line
drawn through from Hickory in Ca
tawba county to Salisbury in Rowan,
across to Raleigh in Wake and to
Washington and Belhaven in Beau
fort and straight through Hyde coun
ty to the coast was first invaded by
boll weevil in 1922 and is due for
only light injury this year, says
Franklin Sherman of the Division of
Entomology, N. C. Extension Service.
Mr. Sherman says that the injury will
be heavier near the line and to the
eastward but it will be iii 1924 be
fore this section will be seriously
hurt and that the cotton grower has
this one other chance to make nearly
a full crop of cotton if he uses good
cultural methods and picks up the
fallen squares.
The heavy damage of 1923 will be
south of the line mentioned.West of a
line from Monroe to Raleigh the cot
ton farmers will lose from 10 to 20
percent of their crop, with heavier
loss to the south. There good cul
tural methods, picking squares once
each week to the end of July and use
of the dust poison in the more heavily
infested areas should be practiced.
West of the line from Lumberton
to Greenville, the injury will probably
run between 20 to 30 percent, and
east of this line, the injury will be
from 30 to 50 percent. On the west
side, good cultural methods should be
practiced to the fullest extent and
the dust method used. East of this
line, though the farmers do not de
pend so greatly on cotton, they should
make still further reductions in acre
age and fight the weevil for the re
maining acreage by using the dust
method, better seed, better cultivation
and fertilization and pick the fallen
squares and burn them.
Mr. Sherman will be glad to fur
nish information about the boll weevil
to any farmer who will write him at
Raleigh or who will call at his office.
He states that now is the time to
make preparation for fighting the
pest and the farmer should inform
himself correctly about the best
methods.
NIAGARA ITEMS
Mrs. George R. McDermott spent
the day, Monday, with her son,
George M. McDermott, at Cameron.
Mrs. J. V. Snipes and little daugh
ter, Evelyn, spent a day or two in
Durham the past week.
Mr. M. J. Clark, who works as ex
tra operator for S. A. L., has been
on the job at Fleet telegraph office
near here the past few days.
Mr. and Mrs. George C. Brown, of
Winthrop, Mass., but who are now
stopping at Southern Pines, were very
pleasant visitors in our town Monday.
Rev. Dr, Green, of Star, was in
town Sunday morning and preached
a very interesting sermon at the Con
gregational church.
Misses Laura Warren and Maude
Stuart, who have spent the past
month visiting the places of interest
in the state of Florida, returned to
their home here Sunday night. They
report an excellent trip.
A CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our .friends for
the kindness and sympathy shown us
during the sickness and lieaths of our
dear father and brothers. May God’s
b eusings rest upon each one who so
kindly gave us aid in our great trial.
Mr. and Mrs. I. A. JOHNSON,
Miss KATIE JOHNSON.
Diamonds worth $500,000 stolen in
New York were recovered in Indiana.
That’s carrying things too far.