VOLUME
NUMBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Snitvunding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 9,1923
PRICE FIVE CENTS
CAMERON NEWS
Last week s Cameron news letter
was mailed at this office on Tuesday
i'fternoon. The d;*y beinu inclement,
the letter was m?iled earner than
usual. It is a mystery why it did
not reach the Vass postoffice until
Wednesday evening.
Farmers and dewberry growers are
beginning to hustle. A car load of
dewberry crates were unloaded here
last week for C. A. Hunter, who in
addition to his eight acres has three
and one half acres more in dewber
ries. Mr. J. D. McLean has staked
his dewberries. M. McL. McKeithen
has added more to his extensive dew
berry farm, and has them staked.
Soon the tiers will get busy, then
the fields abloom; and then the grand
finale—the picking season.
Mr. P. G. York, of Sanford, was a
Sunday visitor at the Greenwood Inn.
Mr. Stacy Brewer of the Vass Pilot
was in town a day of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Johnson, of Red
Springs, were in town Tuesday and
called at the homes of Mrs. Janie
Muse and the correspondent.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Phillips, Miss
Mary Ferguson, Mrs. M. McL. Mc
Keithen, Mrs. G. S. Cole, and Mr.
Alton Cole went to Buffalo Tuesday
to attend the funeral of Mrs. Cathar
ine Cole who died Sunday at her home
near Tramway in Pocket township.
Mrs. Cole was the mother of Miss
Annie Cole, who taught several terms
at Springfield.
Mr. H. A. Matthews, of Vass, and
the Rev. F. B. Noblitt left Tuesday
for a trip in the western part of the
State. Rev. Noblitt will visit relatives
at Old Fort, but will return in time
to fill his appointment Sunday morn
ing at Cameron, and Sunday evening
at Yadkin Hill.
Lawyer Saunders and wife of Har
nett, visited J. F. Saunders, Sunday,
at the Greenwood Inn.
Mrs. J. W. Cameron and children,
Virginia and Johnsie, spent the week
end with Mrs. Cameron’s parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Coore on route 1.
Mr. F. P. Womack and daughters,
Misses Louise and Agnes, and Mrs.
W. E. Thomas spent the week-end in
Cheraw, S. C.
L. F. Hratsell and W. A. Muse spent
Sunday in Rockingham.
Mrs. Janie Muse and daughter, Miss
Jacksie, were shopping in Raleigh
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Swett spent Sun
day with Mr. Thomasson on route 2.
Mr. Thomasson • and Mr. Swett are
Confederate veterans, and love to talk
over the days when they were in
Longstreet’s corps and Hood’s divi
sion. Mr. Thomasson is ninety years
of age and very feeble.
Mrs. Lee G. Mclver and children
spent Sunday with Mrs. W. M. Rogers.
Mrs. Earl York, Miss Vera Wooten,
and Mrs. Anna Culberson came over
from Sanford to visit Mrs. W. M.
Wooten who is on the sick list. Mrs.
Culberson remained over with her
daughter, Mrs. Wooten.
Mr. J. H. McDonald and son, and
Mr. Patrick, of Carthage, visited rel
atives in town Sunday afternoon.
Dr. C. D. Dawkins spent Sunday in
Hoffman.
. Miss Mary Smith who is in train
ing at the Presbyterian Hospital in
Charlotte, came home Sunday for a
week’s visit to her mother, Mrs. J. P.
Swett, who is quite ill at her home on
route 2.
Misses Annie Hartsell, Chriasie and
Vera McLean were visitors of Mrs.
R. McQueen at LakevieWj Friday
Misses Lady Loving
Johnson, teacnerist
spent the week-end witi
J* R. Loving.
Mrs. J. W. Hartsell was a gruest
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TOBACCO MEN MEET
Last Saturday a meeting was held
at Vass by tobacco men of this section
with some of the leaders from other
sections, for the purpose of organiz
ing a tri-county unit of the tobacco
and cotton associations. C. C. Zim
merman, of Raleigh, was the speaker.
The organization was perfected by
the choice of J. R. McQueen as chair
man, Zeb Blue as vice-chairman for
the tobacco interests, J. W. Graham
as vice-chairman for the cotton inter
ests, and W. D. Smith, secretary. J.
S. McLauchlin, George R. Ross and A.
Cameron were made directors. The
discussions at the meeting were large
ly concerning the work of the co-op
erative associations and the plans for
the further organization of the farm
ers of Moore, Hoke and Harnett. An
other meeting will be held in
Vass the first Saturday in April, at
which time further work of organiza
tion will be taken up. It is the in
tention to organize local units at dif
ferent school houses in the section so
that all the tobacco and cotton farm
ers can be reached.
The success of the co-operative
markets has been right satisfactory
to the members of the associations,
and an effort will be made to get
more farmers into the associations.
It is also the intention to bring suit
against those members who violated
their agreements to sell through the
associations. They will be asked to
pay five cents a pound to the associa
tion for all tobacco they marketed
through other channels.
STEADY INCREASE BY
TOBACCO CO-OP
The farmers in three states are
steadily joining the Tobacco Growers’
Co-operative Association. The addi
tion of 345 new members and the sign
up of 1,417,440 pounds of tobacco to
the association in February show the
increasing favor with which the grow
ers regard their big selling organiza
tion.
The payment to South Carolina of
105 per cent of the loan value of their
tobacco to date, has brought in new
members from all parts of the South
Carolina Belt. Some of the co-opera-
tive growers in South Carolina have
made phenomenonally high averages
and are now looking forward to their
fourth and final payment.
Among many happy co-ops in the
Palmetto State are J. H. Joyner, of
Lake City, who averaged 45c per
pound on 3,033 pounds, George Single
tary, of Cowards, who has already
drawn $1201 from one and seven-
eights acres of tobacco from his first
three advances. C. R. Floyd and J.
N. Floyd, of Lake City, have so far
averaged over 50 cents a pound on
their crops which ran over five acres
apiece, J. N. Floyd having received
$766.88 on one load weighing 1300
pounds.
More than $30,000 has been col
lected by the Tobacco Growers’ Co
operative Association through its
force of collectors who have taken
the field at the request of the loyal
membership who insist that all con
tract breakers of their communities
pay the damages of 5 cents a pound
for tobacco delivered outside of the
association.
The three tobacco co-operative as
sociations of the Carolints, Virginia
and Kentucky have now gained a com
bined membership of 220,000 farmers.
WARMER WINTERS
There may be something after all
in the belief of some of the older citi
zens of Vass that our winter seasons
are “not what they used to be.”
Weather men find, by studying the
records, that the climate of Chicago,
for instance, is now what the climate
was half a century ago 250 miles
south of Chicago. Testimony shows
that this is not peculiar to the Miss
issippi valley alone, but that the cli
mate all the way across the continent
is moving north ward, with every sec
tion of the United States affected.
But, regardless of whether the win
ter months are growing warmer, or
whether they are as cold as they used
to be, we are always thankful to see
the days getting longer, to note that
the seed catalogues is again in our
mail box and to feel that annual “gar
den-making fever” mounting in our
system. We’ve been more or less
housed up for a spell now, and like a
young colt kept long in the stall, we’re
anxious to get out and run around a
little, sort of kick up our heels and
work up a sweat.
Only a few windy weeks now until
we’ll be welcoming spring and giv
ing thanks that the green is getting
back in the trees. We’ll be fixing for
good things from our own garden.
It’s hard work getting them started,
and keeping the weeds from taking
them away from us once they are
started. But it’s worth the work and
worry. So if the winters are getting
warmer, why complain? Doesn’t it
mean that we will get into the garden
patch that much sooner?
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and according to estimate have se
cured $100,000,000 more for the
southern tobacco crop in the last two
years than would have been made
without co-operative marketing.
Have you heard about the Community
Club’s “Smile Social?”
Frolic for the kiddies;
Fortunes for the lovers;
Fun for the grown-ups,
And eats for one and all.
WHERE? ?
At the Vass School Auditorium, Friday
evening”, March 9th, at 7:30.
JACKSON SPRINGS NEWS
The local high school girls tied
Hamlet highs here Saturday after
noon in a hard fought basket ball
game. The score stood at 14 to 14
when the final whistle blew, and an
other game will have to be played.
This game will be played on the Ab
erdeen court Wednesday afternoon, at
3;30 o’clock.
The Hamlet girls exhibited some
beautiful passing and used good head
work. In the early part of the game
several fouls were called on the lo
cals and in the last half several were
called on the visitors, and Patterson
shot 4 field goals that failed to count.
Barnhardt was off in shooting fouls
and could not make them count, while
three forwards used by Hamlet made
good with the exeception of Stafford,
and she only lost one out of five
chances. Barnhardt for the locals led
with field goals with four to her credit.
We believe our girls would have won
but for the fouls that came near re
moving Donaldson and Bernice Currie
from the game.
Jax. Spg’s position Hamlet
Patterson r.f. Stafford
Barnhardt l.f. Pegram
Currie B c. Shortridge
Donaldson r.g. Owen
Currie L. l.g. Land
Substitions: Jones for Pegram, Pe
gram for Stafford; refree Ashley.
The boys team played a double
header showing their strength with
Markham a star, and Ted Thomas a
close second.
The first game was with Pinehurst,
an resulted in 15 to 12 defeat for the
locals.
Jax. Sp’gs position Pinehurst
Markham r.f. Kelly
Stuart l.f. McAskill
McDuffie c. McAskill
Thomas L. r.g. McAskill H.
Thomas T. l.g. Frye
Substitutions: Jackson Springs,
Thomas Lee for McDuffie.
The game with Hamlet was a hard
fought one and resulted in a 17 to
14 victory for the locals who grew
stronger as the game advanced.
Jax. Sp’gs position Hamlet
Markham r.f Currie
Stuart l.f. Austin
McDuffie c. Shortridge
Thomas L. r.g. McSwain
Thomas T. l.g. Moore
Substitutions: none. Refree, Little
john, Wofford.
The locals defeated Biscoe Thursday
afternoon on the Candor court in the
deciding game of a three game series.
In this game Markham led with five
field goals to the three shot by his
opponents. He could not play one
game last fall, but he is one among
our crowd that has developed physi
cally and mentally.
Miss Mary McDonald of route 2 has
found an owner for the ^rge trap
she found on the leg of a large hawk
she caught on a chicken. D. A. Stu
art set the trap and the large hawk
robbed him as he would a chicken
yard, and had been giving people in
Miss McDonald’s community trouble
for a few days.
“Lone Star,” a play by the faculty,
was postponed on account of Miss
Mary Bruton who is improving from
an attack of influenza and will return
here this week to resume her place in
the faculty.
The high school students are pleas
ed that Miss Lucile Eifort, of West
End will fill the vacancy in the high
school teaching force made by the res
ignation of Miss Sallie Coleman, of
Paradise, Ky. The latter was.a teach
er with excellent training and experi
ence. Miss Eifort has made a name
as an instructor in the high school
here and is popular among the stu
dents.
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