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d Get Them! h Carolina VOLUME 3 ' THE PILOT NUPIBER 21 tKET. We carry •ws, Cole’s Cotton, Corn and ibutors, Disc Harrows, Drag e, Field Wire, Poultry Wire, oofing, Stoves, Paints, White ids of Hardware, Wagon and ! close prices on Hay unded. All kinds of ilES NTILE COMPANY V V V > a* o 0 § 1 GO CO > Devoted to the UpbuUding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country SUBSCRIPTION $1.80 VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 13,1923 PRICE nVE CENTS JACKSON SPRINGS NEWS The local high school baseball team have new uniforms. They started out on the war path last week by defeat ing the Eagle Springs town team on the latters diamond on Thursday af ternoon. The final score was 13 to 2. The feature of the game was the pitching of Lefty Stuart for the lo cals. He was relieved in the seventh inning by Woodley to give this husky youngster practice. On Friday afternoon they defeated the Pinehurst highs on the local dia mond by a score of 11 to 4. Woodley for the locals and McAskill for the visitors pitched good baseball, but the fielding was slow but without many errors. Diling caught a good game and has developed a wonderful peg to the bases. Every man has his place cinched now with the exception of one of the outfield positions, Matheson, McDuf fie, Markham and Neal playing the infield like veterans, and are hitting heavy. McLeod and Styers are fast outfielders but have not had many chances in the two games played. Dr. A. C. Bethune has returned from Highsmith’s hospital at Fayette ville, where he has been for several weeks. He has not regained the use of his right hand that was caused by his arm being cut severely with broken glass in an automobile wreck some time ago. We are glad his in juries are no worse, so that he can resume practice. The Athenian Literary Society were at home to the McLeod Society in the high s^chool auditorium on Saturday evening. Numerous games were en joyed after which refreshments were served. Carpenters, painters and laborers continue busy ren vating the Jack son Springs hotel, cottages and grounds here. The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian church held an im promptu meeting on Sunday evening. The contract has been let for the construction of the new highway be tween Aberdeen and the Montgomery county line near Samarcand. There is a large amount of traffic on this road and when completed will be one of the best in the Sandhills. If it takes as long as it is taking on the fill on Drowning creek it will be a long time before it is completed. When the above mentioned fill was built a few feet high, a few years ago, only a short time was used. To build it two feet higher it will take several months with the force that has been at work. Among the children receiving test aments for reciting the catechism were Misses Evelyn Clark Holliday, Mary Black Buie, and Mary Leone Currie. Quarterly Conference of the group of M. E. Churches in this section was held at Hoffman, Saturday. Ex-Sheriff and Mrs. D. A1 Blue, of Carthage, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Markham and attended bunday school at the Presbyterian church shaking hands with o 1 d friends. . Mrs. R. B. Norris, Jr., of Charlotte, 1? ^ ^ests of her parents out on the Rockingham road. Miss Viola Stepenson who has a class m piano in the high school here. Will give a recital Friday night at tne auditorium. • peach crop will be very small in this section. Unless some of these irosts we are having kills the apples, fk? berries, we will have something to can. Hint to Vass girls: Always feel proposing. If it i-n t beating wildly he’s a liar. RALPH L. CHANDLER Who was appointed County Auditor and Tax Appraiser last Monday by County Commissioners of Moore County. FARMERS HOLD MEETING On Saturday the tobacco growers of the county held a meeting at Vass to attend a barbecue and reunion, at which by the way W. D. Smith dis tinguished himself as an artist in all that pertains to barbecues and re unions, and also to hear the state ment of the situation of the co-opera- tive association throughout the coun try. A crowd of probably 500 per sons was present, and after attending to various matters, for the dinner was not the only thing, a report was read from Southgate Jones, of Durhani, Director of the 10th district, which includes Moore county. Mr. Jones gave a highly satisfi^- tory statement of the condition pf the association, showing that while it had started new on a new calling, and along an untried road, it had succeed ed in handling the big crop of tobac co consigned to its warehouses, and with better results than had been an ticipated. One thing developed is the fact that manufacturers have taken kindly to the new method of market ing, which gives to the market a sta bility and system that in the old cus tom of selling was lacking. One of the pronounced gains is in the tar better grading that results from th^e association way, and that brings bet ter prices to the growers, for graded tobacco is always a better type oi goods for the market. Mr. Jones explains the method of paying for the crop. The first money paid the farmers was money borrowed from the banks before any sales could be made. The tobacco received was valued and banks advanced 50 per cent of the valuation put on the leaf. Forty dollars of the fifty so secured was paid the farmers and the other ten held to provide for expenses. But it was found that the tobacco was moving to the hands of the manufac turers faster than was expected so in due time a second payment was per mitted, and a third is apparently not far off. Banks and the War Finance Corporation stood ready to finance the movement, but the sales of the crop progressed so well that this was not required to much further extent than a start. It was also found that re drying and storage was not necessary to any great extent, so the money be gan to come in faster than was ex pected. It is now believed that the third payment will soon be made a'nd that the fourth and final one will fol low at not a very distant date. While some opposition has been en countered, and some members have failed to keep their agreement the most of the members have been loyal and stood by to the limit. The result has been a much greater confidence in the association, and the prospects are that next season it will have a still greater membership, and plain sail ing all the way. Mr. Jones says that the prices have been satisfactory, and better than if the old custom of auc tion sales had been depended on to take the big crop. He also says that CAMERON NEWS Mrs. J. D. McLean and little neice, Margaret, spent the week-end at Louisburg, the guest of Miss Bur dette Joyner and Mrs. Robert Smith- wick. Mrs. Smithwick will be pleas antly remembered by her friends in town and vicinity as Miss Dorothy Johnson, who was frequently a guest of Mrs. J. D. McLean. Mr. A. Cameron, of Vass, was in town Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Buchanan and daughter. Miss Sarah, of Laurinburg, were visitors last week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. McNeill. Mrs. Loula Muse and Miss Marga ret Gilchrist attended the Presbyteri- al at Sanford this week. Mr. Reginald Allred, of Cedar Falls, was the guest , Sunday, of Miss Frankie Teague. Mrs. A. W. Burt and son, Mr. Wel- lons, of Biscoe, were callers, Monday, at the home of the correspondent. Miss Vera McLean spent the week end in Columbia, S. C., the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Mack McDonald. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Parker went to Garner last week to be present at the funeral of Mr. Parker’s sister, Mrs. Charles Kenster. Mr. Johnson, of Chapel Hill, was a week-end guest of Miss Parrish, who teaches in the Cameron high school. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Present indications are that spring is very far behind. Mr. Roy Parham, of Tampa, came up last week for a visit to his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Parham, of White Hill community. Miss Cleta Jackson, of White Hill, spent Saturday night with her aunt Miss Bettie Riddell. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Harrington have moved to their former home on Jonesboro route. Mr. Hubert Phillips and Miss Al thea Moore were married Saturday afternoon at the home of the bride in Cameron. Rev. M. D. McNeill ofl5- ciating. The bride and groom left immediately for a visit to relatives at Fayetteville and Norfolk. Miss Sallie Lee Collins of the Cam eron high school faculty, who has been quite ill for several weeks, is on the road to recovery, and left Monday with her mother, Mrs. Cox, for their home at Catharine Lake. They were accompanied by little Miss June Mc- Iver Hemphill who goes for a visit to the home of Miss Collins. Mr. C. P. Rogers and family, of Sanford, were visitors, Sunday, at the home of Mrs. Laura Rogers. Ruby, the little daughter of Mr. and and Mrs. J. T. Doss has been quite ill for the past week. Pleased to re- jort her improving. Mrs. J. R. Loving left Sunday night for Virginia in response to a tele^ gram saying that her brother, Mr. (Continued on page 7) the expenses this year have been big ger than will be the case another year owing to the expense of the organiza tion of the machinery to carry on the business. He says now the associa* tion is established as a going and suc cessful concern, that financial credit is plentiful, and that the district is in better financial condition than it has been in many years, with fanners iii better buying shape, and with old debts being paid off and the prospect for the future good. Owing to his increasing business af fairs at Durham Mr. Jones said he was compelled to decline another year ^ director, which leaves a vacancy in this office. The report was re ceived with much enth:ii8iasm, al though Mr. Jones’ retirement from office was regretted, as he has had a strong following in Moore county.
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