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VOLUME THE PILOT NUHBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company, VASS. N. C. ^^rter m illion tobac co CO-OPS Treat Gains in New Members—Caro lina Growers Surpass Last Year’s Deliveries There are nearly 250,000 tobacco co-ops in the United States, according to membership gains recently reported among the organized growers of the Carolinas, Virginia, Kentucky and other states. On June 1 there were 240,000 mem bers of the five big tobacco associ- j^tions, including ohose of the Virginia Carolina growers, the dark and bur- lev growers of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana, and the smaller organizations of Wiscon sin and Connecticut. Since that date the tobacco growers of the Carolinas and Virginia have added over 1500 members to their organization. The hurley growers of Kentucky have climbed from 85,000 to 90,00 mem bers, and other associations have con tinued their steady growth. A new high record for deliveries of the 1923 crop to the Carolina-Virginia association was established last week when the South Carolina and Eastern Belts together, added seven and a half million pounds to the receipts of the co-operative floors. South Carolinians and border county growers who are members of the association are ex pected to pass the total of last yearns deliveries this week. Several of the co-operative markets in Eastern Car olina last week recorded the largest single day’s receipts in their history. Among these was Kinston, which re ceived 160,000 pounds of tobacco last Friday; Richlands, which went as high as 80,000 pounds one day last week, and Smithfield, Ayden and Fremont, which ran at times from fifty to sixty thousand pounds. A. V. Bobbitt, association manager for Eastern North Carolina, reports that first cash advances by the asso ciation are now averaging over 50 percent of the prices being paid on most of the auction floors, and states that new members are signing with the association at many points. Large crowds of tobacco farmers are expected to greet U. S. Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina, at Danville, Henderson, Rocky Mount, N. C., and Wallace, this week, when the well-known leader of the farm bloc meets old Belt and Eastern Co ops. Senator Smith is scheduled to speak in Danville on Wednesday, at Henderson Thursday, at Rocky Mount Friday and will finish his tour of Virginia and Carolina at Wallace Sat urday, September 15. Every tobacco grower who started suit against the tobacco association in the summer of 1923 is now under an injunction of the court, according to Col. W. T. Joyner, its attorney at Raleigh headquarters, who recently stated that the association has em ployed local counsel at many points and will protect all loyal members against contract breakers, by prompt legal action. S. D. FRISSELL. ABERDEEN REALTY TRANSFERS Two Big Deals in One Week—Big Acreage in Limits Bought by Oxford Tobacco Men THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1923 BARBECUE DINNER AND TOBACCO OPENING Aberdeen Preparing to Feast Tobacco Growers and Visitors 1,000 Aberdeen is making preparations o-It. ^ M Tuesday, September zjth. While the date set corresponds with the opening of the Sa*unders Auction Market at Aberdeen, it is nevertheless to be an All-Tobacco Day for the Aberdeen business men who are behind the movement are anxious to have all the tobacco possi ble find its way into the Aberdeen warehouses. The large tobacco companies are concentrating on the markets that are producing sufficient volume, or that hold out future promises of doing so. Aberdeen has received sufficient en couragement from official sources to justify the expenditure . of further sunis in improvements and extended facilities, some of which w^ill be com pleted for the.season. The Aberdeen business men, therefore, are determ ined to do their part to anchor the tobacco market at that point for this section. To bring people here to get ac quainted with the advantages the Ab erdeen Tobacco Market offers, they will give a big, free barbecue dinner to all out-of-town people that day. A good band will be on hand to fur- -l.h . ..sic before the opening of the market at 10 a. m., and during and after the barbecue. At night a big dance, or rather two big dances, are being planned for in the warehouses. We say two big dances, for the old er folks are going to have an old- fashioned square dance off to them selves. The music for this will be furnished by local talent. Capt. All- red has volunteered to pick the banjo, and J. T. Harrington will be persuad ed to bring his fiddle. Joe Pryor also is being mentioned as a banjo artist. The music for the regular dance will be provided by a dance orchestra. Everything will be done by the Ab erdeen business men to make the vis itors comfortable and happy. Prepar ations are being made to take care of a crowd of 1,000 people. ‘‘All roads lead to Aberdeen.” Just follow the signs. A hearty welcome and a pleasant day awaits you at the destination. 137 SPECIAL PEACH TRAINS OPERATED BY SOUTHERN Two real estate deals of considera ble importance were consumated in Aberdeen last week. The larger one involved the passing of title from J. F. Allred to 7 acres of land in the town’s limits to Irving Mangum, a tobacco man from Oxford for a consideration of $8,000. The acreage fronts on Poplar Street adjoining Johnson & Johnson’s holdings, and with it goes ^e house now occupied by H. W. Doub. Mr. Doub will at once vacate the house, moving into his newly com pleted lesidence in Park Place, just opposite. Mr. Mangum will bring his family here by the 15th, establishing them here for the opening of school the 17th. It is Mr. Mangum’s plan to put the acreage into tobacco next year, con tinuing doing this until the time is ’“^Pe to subdivide the same into lots, ^hich is the eventual object of his purchase. He will identify himself Jith the tobacco interests in Aber deen, affiliating himself for the pres- ent with the Saunders interests. Ab- eraeen gains an active citizen in the operation; one who will draw others a^ter him into the community. 1 .[1 the other deal the new residence uiit by the late Dr. Tyler Campbell, ut which he did not live to occupy, js transferred to E. L. Pleasants, ^ occupying and operating Southern Hotel on Sycamore The hotel building was re- fftll ^ P^^chased by the school board T)nvi-^ teacherage. Mr. Pleasants is inf y^^ting the same and moving 0 his newly acquired residence. VASS TO HAVE CAFE t:o have an eating «ouse other than the hotel. Mr. Gil- ^ open the American Cafe ad n Saturday. Watch for his next Week. FACULTY OF ABERDEEN SCHOOLS COMPLETE To put Georgia peaches on the dis tant markets of the east and west in the fast time necessary to insure their arrival in good condition, the Southern Railway System operated 173 special peach trains during the season that has just come to a close. All were run from Atlanta, 106 going to Po tomac Yards, Va., and 67 to Cinci nnati, the Southern having hauled altogether 5,700 cars of this highly perishable fruit with practically 100 percent efficiency. Of this total 5,312 cars were re iced at Inman Yards, the Southern’s Atlanta terminal, at which peaches from South Georgia are concentrated; 3,250 were moved east through Po tomac Yards, 1,792 north through Chattanooga, Cincinnati and Louis ville; 4 west through Birmingham; 26 south through Macon; and 20 to con nections and consignees at Atlanta. In addition, 133 cars were moved north from Chattanooga and 255 cars were moved east, 229 from the Corne lia section in northeast Georgia, 22 from northwest Georgia, and 4 from Augusta. Including August 18, the total movement from Georgia had been 8,- 559 cars, according to reports of the United States Department of Agricul ture. This is the second largest crop ever produced by Georgia orchards, having been exceeded only by the crop of 1921, which ran to 10,468 cars. During the entire 1923 season, the supply of refrigerator cars and ice was ample, this together with the ex cellent transportation service having contributed in largest measure to the satisfactory condition in which the fruit reached market and the good re turns received by the growers. RALEIGH WAREHOUSE WANTS SANDHILL TOBACCO The Raleigh Tobacco Warehouse has an ad in this issue of The Pilot calling attention to their facilities for handling tobacco. Johnson & Johnson, the managers of the house have had a wide experience in the tobacco busi ness and they guarantee a square deal to all who should want them to handle their crop. “RED LIGHTS” SEEN BY PACKED HOUSE Schools Open 18th With Dedicatory Exercises in New Building—List of Teachers for Coming Year Superintendent Redfern has com- selection of his faculty for the school year to begin on Septem ber 18th. Twenty-five teachers in all have been employed, and all come to Aberdeen with highly satisfactory cre dentials. On the 17th the new teachers will meet in conference with the superin tendent for the arrangement of sch^ules and the discussion of pre liminaries. On the morning of the 18th, at the regular school hour all pupils will assemble at the new school building just completed. A short ded icatory program has been arranged with addresses by the local pastors and songs by the children and audi ence. Rev. McWhorter, of the Metho dist church, will deliver the dedicatory address; Rev. Gaston, of the Presby terian church, will speak on “The Bi ble in the Public Schools,” and Rev. Blalock of the Baptist church will fol low with a short talk on the propper relation between community and school. After the conclusion of these ex ercises teachers and pupils will re tire to their assigned rooms to open school. Below is a list of the teach ers: High School Faculty: Prof. C. P. Ashley, principal, A. B., Trinity Col lege; Miss Lela Wade, A. B., N. C. College for Women; Miss Alma Wolfe, A. B., Converse College; Miss Mary Sullivan, A. B., Winthrop College; Miss Marion Clark, Normal and In dustrial College, Ga. Graded Schools: Miss Emma Pharr, Hunter, 7th grade; Miss Naomi Sau- difer, 6th grade; Miss Gussie Jones, 5th grade; Miss Freddie Stokes, 4th grade; Miss Ruby Walden, 3rd grade; Miss Lillian Mattison, 2nd grade; Miss Josephine Calhoun, primary grade; Miss Lela Pardue, Music; Prof. C. V. Kelly, director of orchestra; Miss Eleanor Herndon, piano and voice.. Pinebluff School: Miss Annie Clegg, grammar grades; Miss Elizabeth Wadsworth, primary grades. These with the teachers in the col ored schools bring the total up to 25 teachers employed for the ensuing year. MR. HARDING’S EXAMPLE Manager Picquet, of the Carolina Theatre at Pinehurst, again gave his patrons another good mystery last Tuesday ^house Mr. Pkquer always shows good and says when better pictures are shown he will show them. Pumps, Piping and Fittings at Mc- Keithan & Co. Shortly after the death of President Harding it wass announced that he had drawn a new will just before leaving on the journey to Alaska. He had prepared one some years before, but conditions in his own private af fairs changed, so he changed his will to meet them. He had sold his news paper, had been elected president and his financial affairs were all new with in a few month’s time. His death while on tour brought out forcibly the wisdom of making a new will when conditions change. His example is worth something to everyone who has any property, or whose financial or domestic affairs have changed since their will was made. The prudent man knows and does not put off making a will or keeping it up to date once he has made it. Most people look upon such an action with awe, while many are superstitious enough to believe it is a premonition of impending danger to execute such a document when they are in perfect health. But the task of drawing a will, whether one has much or lit+le, is not the task for a dying man, but for one in funll health, to be approached with clear thought and the fulul possession of all fac ulties, the man who cannot lose sie*ht of the dutv he owes those whom he will some day leave behind. The ma^ who has denendents ought to recrard the drawing of a will as one of the most important acts of his entire life. RECOGNIZING MEXICO There are few men in the Sandhills, and fe win the whole United States, for that matter, who do not welcome the bright prospects of a lasting friendship with our neighbor, Mexico. Americans have in recent years made a fine record of carrying aid and com fort into every part of the world and now that we have laid aside old ani mosities and extended a helping hand to the struggling Republic on the south it is still more to our credit. Mexico has been a seething cauldron of trouble for a good many years, but more recently has settled down and for once shows an honest, sincere desire to lift herself to the high plane of other civilized nations. She can do this, and with her growing education al institutions and natural resources she can, with the aid of the United States, become one of the greatest countries on the globe. She can be worth a lot to herself and a lot to America. And the general opinion in this country appears to be that she is entitled to Uncle Sani’s hand of friendship, which he has just extend ed by again officially recognizing her as a friendly nation. MR. GIBBON WRITES FROM VERMONT Spending His Vacation Near President Coolidge’s Old Home—Gives Some Interesting Facts Editor The Pilot, Vass, N. C. Since the recent promotion of Mr. Coolidge to the presidency, much has been written and published regarding his native state of yermont, and it will doubtless be of interest to your readers to know something of the country from which our president came and where his father now lives. The writer has spent about three weeks vacation within a few miles of the small village of Plymouth, Ver mont, where we saw the old home of “Silent Cal,” as they call him. The village is no larger than Manley, N. C., being t typical farming communi ty center as will be seen in all parts of New England. The farmers live in the villages and work the farms several miles away. The town (county) of Plymouth contains 27249 acres of land and boasts of having 449 inhabitants, a majority of whom are elderly people. The question of keeping Vermont boys and girls in their own state is a widely discussed one, largely be cause of the large number of aban doned farms which one finds in all sections of the state and particularly in the hilly sections, to say nothing of the mountains. There are not many contented farm ers in Vermont; they have almost no help outside of the family. The wo men and girls may be seen almost any day driving a hay rake during haying season, which is the principal crop, the most of which is consumed in the state. Some of the people claim that Vermont farms, as in other states, are being “run out,” and con tend that the state does not need more farms. It is pointed out that nearly all of the abandoned farms in the state have been given up because they could not be economically work ed. The farms had been developed for hand labor and it is impossible to compete with machine labor in the South or West. The summers are short and cool, so that corn never ripens, while the winters are long and severe, making traveling over country roads almost impossible. Those who chance to live in the mountain sections have no op portunities whatever for enjoying modern life even in a simple way. The boys and girls go to the larger towns for employment in the mills and shops or to be educated, as did our president, thus becoming citizens of other states. The small cultivated farms in the valleys are fertile and produce lare:e yields of hay, and potatoes, while nearlv ever farmer has a “sap or chard,” from which he could produce the famous Vermont maple syrup and sugar, but they are allowing other states to supply the demand for map^e sugar, Vermont turkeys, Ver mont cheese and butter. The abandoned farms, with large farm buildings, beautiful old colonial houses, going to ruin, is a sad site to look upon. Take the neighborhood of “Five Corners” near the village of Plymouth for example. This was at one time a very prosperous farming and lum bering section; while now one sees a tumble-down sawmill, houses with he roofs rotted and falling in, sur rounded by brush wood, briars and grass. In this section there are sev enteen abandoned farms in a row, one after another. The tillable land is productive, but some of the uphills are rough and steep, they are potentially valuable as timber lands, the smaller trees, spruce and hemlock being used by the paper mills as pulp. About five miles from Five Corners is the town of Bridgewater which, with an area of 28,659 acres and only 809 souls, also has many abandoned farms. Briggs is in what is known as the Chatangay Valley and is an other deserted location. There was once a thriving lumber business car ried on here, but now "or six miles through the valley there isn’t a soul to be found except one lonesome man who lives near what is called Bull Hill, about two thousand feet above sea level. A few miles over northwest in the Stockbridge section will be found the remains of a once thriving village call “Notown.” It is now no town at all, and a pitiful sight. Vermont has another section, call ed the town of Stratton, famed be cause of its deserted farms. About eight-three years ago Stratton was an important prosperous center in the southern part of the state. It was here that Daniel Webster made a speech to 15000 of the townspeople on the occasion of the Whig conven tion. Today there is a row of desert ed houses, a boarded up church, and a marker to commemorate the spot where the great statesman spoke. NICHOLAS L. GIBBON, Aug. 25, 1923 Reading, Vt. Get your cotton sheets and cotton scales at Vass Mercantile Co. SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 ALL ROADS WILL SOON LEAD TO VASS A. Cameron is Doing So*ne Important Road Work—New Business Going Up Vass is doing its share to keep up the stride that is about to be set by the changes that have talcen place at Lakeview. Possibly the most unique development in progress is the .new road now building out into Hoke coun ty, so far almost wholly by Mr. A. Cameron, member of the County high way comm ssion from McNeills town ship. For sometime Ma. Cameron has been impressed with the necessi ty of better road facilities for that section of the township out across the river to the south, and as his ef forts in highway commission have not availed much he has had a survey made, a road cut, and is now busy on the south side of the river cutting ditches and making a grade on a stretch of nearly a mile from the river out toward the county line. He has a force of men at work out in that section, and one of these days the county will find that a new road has been opened that will con nect Vass with the territory out at Sweetheart Lake, and the Priest set tlement near the county line. The road will open a lot of good country, and make several farms out that way accessible to Vass. It is exepected that the county will take up the new road in a short time and complete the work on it as Mr. Cameron has shown that it is a road much needed to let that part of the township have some touch with the developed villages. He has also giveji a good start to the road that runs out past Lakeview toward Knoll wood Village and the Midlands farm, and has done a lot of work on it at his own cost. This road is another that the highway com mission is exepected to reach this fall, and open so it will enable the folks in-the section out toward Knoll wood to get into Lakeview and Vass. Con siderable tobacco and cotton is made out in that neighborhood, and the farmers want a way to get their stuff to the markets, Vass especially being a desired point to reach as both cot ton and tobacco can be marketed here to the best advantage. Things continue to move in the Vil-- lage. Last week J. W. Beasley pur chased a lot almost opposite The Pilot office, on which hc; wi . at once proceed to put up a building 60 by 100. feet for a garage and Ford sta tion. He will have the Ford agency for Vass and vicinity, and will handle new cars, supplies, and do repair work and look out for Fords in a general way. He will make this a central point for his line of cars and all that goes with them. He expects to have the building up at the earli est possible minute, and begin busi ness as soon as he can assemble his material and supplies. To further help things along the Standard Oil Company has bought a site near the railroad station for a storage depot for oil, gas and similar supplies. This will be made a distrib uting station for Standard products in the territory from Overhills to Cam eron, Niagara, and the-eastern side of Moore county. The company look ed over he field for a place to put a new station that would care for this part of the counties cornering close by and decided on Vass without any hesitation. ’ Jo Parker and W. J. Allen have bought farm tracts near Vass on the road leading to Carthage, and they will each proceed to build houses and establish farms. The purchases are on the McDonald lands and were bought from A. Cameron. They have secured tracts of about twenty acres each. The Vass Mercantile Company is figuring on an addition to the store building opposite the hotel. It will run back toward the highway, reaching to the alley just across from the New Beasley garage building, and the two new structures will thus close up the open space between the present store building and the present garage build ing oposite The Pilot o’fice. All of this means a big lot of new building in Vass for the fall and winter, which will keep things as active or more so than during the summer. SAFETY IN THUNDERSTORMS Danger in a thunder storm is never as great as most people imagine, those of course is always a hazard. A person is safer from lightning in some places than in others. The towering steel buildings in the cities, for instance, are practically lightn ing proof so far as its occupants are concerned. The current follows the steel framework of the building and those within it are never aware of it. It is safer in a house during a thun derstorm than to be out in the open. In the open one should avoid high ground, and especially isolated trees and the edges of woods on the side from which the storm is approaching. Mr. W J. Harrington and brother, Roy, of Glendon, were in town for a shoit while today.
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