VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
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XHE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
WOODMEN OF WORLD
meet at banquet
Hotel Vass Gives Them Feed
of Their
Lives
The Woodmen of the World held
a banquet at the Hotel Vass Thurs
day evening of last week and every
body who was there tells the one
story, that it was a great assortment
of eating things. The meeting was
opened with a preliminary brief ad
dress by Walter Leslie, and prayer by
Rev. Dougal Monroe. During the dis
position of the vittles a lively flow of
jests led by Prof. W. D. Matthews
gave interest to the affair along with
a brief talk by Rev. Monroe. Then
Prof. Matthews presented the speaker
of the evening, E. B. Lewis, of
Kinston, who eighteen years ago had
organized the Vass cemp.
Mr. Lewis paid a bit of attention to
evolution, which does not seem to
frighten him very much, as he says
folks do not understand its signifi
cance as fully as they might. But he
says it is the change that is steadily
going on in all things, and worth look
ing into further. He then mentioned
the fact that his organization in its
beneficial work is backing the schools,
and other public institutions in Moore
county and other sections of North
Carolina, for it holds large invest
ments of its surplus in the bonds of
many counties of the state.
Of the loyalty of the organization
he offered as evidence that 44,000
members of the society were in the
army during the war, and thousands
never came back. A movement was
started to build in France a moun-
ment to the members who had fallen
there, but later a hospital in Cali
fornia was decided on as a more suit
able memorial, and several hundred
victims of tuberculosis have been re
stored to health by that hospital. It
is not generally known but it is a fact
that when President Wilson was pro
viding a plan for insuring the soldiers
who had entered the government de
fensive forces he sent for a prominent
Woodman and the plan adopted was
based on that of the society.
Mr. Lewis advised the members to
be careful in selecting new members.
He said the first thing is to consider
that the society wants to make better
men and to keep their organization on
a basis of good citizenship. He does
not believe so much in leaving every
thing to the church and school in mak
ing good men and women, but in lay
ing the foundation in the homes. Up
right, intelligent, patriotic men must
be the product of clean homes, he told
his hearers, for, he said, “men will not
fight to defend boarding houses. They
will stand by their homes to the end of
any bitter warfare, but the home must
be one that makes the right kind of
men and women, and our order must
do its duty in making that kind of
homes.”
MISS MUSE THE BRIDE
OF CHARLES M’COLLUM
In a pretty ceremony at the First
Baptist church in High Point Tuesday
evening at 7:30 o’clock, Miss Margaret
Muse, of Carthage, became the bride
of Charles McCollum, of Miami, Fla.
Glenn and Nellie Muse, brother and
sister of the bride, entered first, fol
lowed by the bride and groom. The
bride was becomingly attired in brown
with a hat of ashes of roses and
carried a bouquet of Bride roses. Miss
Iris Burrus at the piano rendered the
wedding march from Lohengrin.
The pretty ring ceremony was used
and Rev. L. T. Wilson, pastor of the
church, performed the ceremony,
which was witnessed by only the mem
bers of the immediate families of the
principals and a few friends. Im
mediately following the ceremony Mr.
and Mrs. McCollum left for Miami,
Fla., where they will make their home.
Mrs. McCollum is the youngest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Muse,
of Carthage, and was educated at
North Carolina College for Women,
Greensboro. The groom is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. McCollum, of
Greensboro, and is a prominent drug
gist of Miami, Fla.
NIGHT PAGEANT AT
THE SANDHHX FAR
Over 500 Adults of The Sand
hills Will Participate—
Thursday Night
HOW Von CANNON
BECAME A BANKER
John McQueen Pushed Him
Into a Doubtful
Job
In keeping with its determination
to introduce things entirely new, the
Sandhill Fair has arranged a night
pageant in which over five hundred
adults of the Sandhills will participate.
This will be held on Thursday night
of the Fair week.
It is to be an historical pageant
portraying the early history of the
state with spectacular effect. The
Court of Queen Elizabeth will be
represented in all the pomp and ele
gance of the age, for it was to her
that the Captains Amidas and Barlow
returned to tell of their wonderful
expedition to the new world, and their
landing upon Roanoke Island.
Another scene pictures the brave
and courageous people resisting the
crafty Tuscarora Indians who were a
menace to the early settlers.
The old fashioned wedding with the
fiddlers and dancers will be most in
teresting. Several spectacular dances
by women in Greek costume will en
hance the production.
(Continued on page five)
It is refreshing to see the secular
press taking an interest in the things
that pertain to the spiritual man and
the editorial in last weeks paper
under the above caption describing
the work of a well known business
man who is loved not only for his
own but his work’s sake and inci
dentally touching on a subject that
lies close to the heart of all true
Christians—that of sabbath ob
servance. The Editor says “the wide
and overriding of church and Sunday
school by the flippant occupations that
have been taking Sunday completely
from Sunday school and church are
serious things.”
The Christian Herald of New York,
probably the most influential and
widely known undenominational
magazine in the country, at the
^sent time, has started what is
known as a “Christian Conscience
At the Kiwanis dinner at South
ern Pines Wednesday F. W. Voncan-
non, of the Bank of Pinehurst told his
experience since he started in life in
Randolph county in 1881. He said he
was educated in a one-teacher school,
except a bit of high school work in
Asheboro later on, and then he went
into lumbering in various sections
until in 1914 the Bank of Pinehurst
was started and John McQueen sent
for him and asked him to be cashier.
McQueen encouraged him with the
opinion that the bank would never
amount to much, but thought it worth
while to start work there, and Von-
cannon concluded he would put in
about a year in banking. Instead of
a year he is now in his tenth year and
the Bank of Pinehurst has grown to
be one of the strong institutions of
Middle North Carolina. He thinks
Moore county good enough for a
longer period, and his great gratifi
cation in his experience in the country
is the number of friends made.
The Raleigh Kiwanis club sent in a
challenge to other clubs that think
they can play golf when the Kiwanis
district meeting is held at Pinehurst,
and some of the boys who swing a
nasty stick intimated that Raleigh
might come prepared to sit in the
sackcloth if they start to play golf
with such artists as Hiram Westbrook,
Judge Way, or try out that mystery
swing Claude Hayes has made famous.
Hayes got into a djStussion with
Prof. Morton about ^ruancy in the
schools, and reported'^hat an investi
gation led him to believe a strong arm
truant officer with some persuasion
and a big club could get most of the
truants in school. Prof. Morton held
to the creation of more public senti
ment in getting the missing fifty per
cent of delinquents in school, and the
subject was pressed with consider
able interest from both view points.
Edward W. Shedd, a former resi
dent of Aberdeen, who is in the com
munity looking over old scenes, talked
about Arizona, and some of the rest
of the Pacific coast country. He told
of the mountains so steep that in the
town of Jerome the houses are built on
slopes so abrupt that some of the
folks have the garage on top of the
houses, which they approach with the
car from the back way, which is on
the hill top. He also mentioned the
eccentricity of the sharp curves on
some of the mountain roads, especially
at one curve where the horse he rode
had to bend double to get around the
abrupt angle. Mr. Shedd was wel
comed by the old residents and like
wise by the younger ones.
River company. The seed proved good,
and about that time Abruzzi seed rye
from the neighborhood farms com
menced to come in, and the Litte River
began to gather up the seed that
looked to be good. The result is that
the store has had a considerable
offering of seed rye from good
farmers, and now Mr. McCrimmon is
planning to have all his rye seed
raised in this neighborhood, and also
to make a start at securing garden and
field seeds, especially string beans,
butter beans, okra, and other seeds of
general use, for he argues that the
three or four thousand dollars that his
stores pay out to seed dealers else
where might as well be paid to far
mers in the county as to be sent away.
Then it has been shown beyond doubt
that seed made where it is to be used
is better adapted for the soil and
climate where it is to grow.
Mr. McCrimmon tells The Pilot that
he wants to discuss this subject with
the farmers and to have them figure
with him on making seeds for the
coming year. Last year he handled
a lot of the Eureka corn and cotton
seed and the results are good. He
will probably have more next year,
for the farmers are paying attention
to their supply of seed, arid seeing that
it is carefully selected from good
stalks and good varieties. Abruzzi
(Continued on page 8)
PINEHURST STARTS
BUILDING SCHEME
New Warehouses, New Station
and Freight
Depot
MR. G.C.SHAW
RAISES POTATOES
Harvested Around Five Hundred
Bushels—Buyers Come
Long Distances
The Church and
Sunday School Again
Subscriber Says He is Glad to See
the Press Taking an Interest
Crusade,” the object of which is to
stir the individual conscience up on
the things that are fundamental. In
their issue of August 15, they run
an article on the “Crusade and the
Sabbath, remember the Sabbath day
to keep it holy” in which among other
things they say.
“One of the crying evils of the
present time, is the Lord’s day dese
cration. This is generally admitted.
Some go so far as to characterize it
as the outstanding sin of the present
generation, for when the one day in
seven which was set apart for physi
cal rest and and spiritual uplift is di
verted to less worthy channels the
door is opened to a long train of evils.
Neglect the spiritual man and the
whole man suffers urreparably. One
of the favorable omens of the times
is the reviving interest in this subject
(Continued on page 8)
G. C. Shaw has been showing the
folks up around High Falls what can
be done in the production of potatoes.
Last month he harvested about five
hundred bushels some weighing in the
neighborhood of a pound each. In a
lot he brought down to Harry Lewis
at Southern Pines, seventy bushels
graded number one, ten bushels
graded number two and he had culled
! out two bushels from this lot which he
left at home. The potatoes were
planted on a piece of ground on this
side of the river not far from the Rey
nolds mill. Hee had a yield of about
two hundred bushels to the acre. The
variety was Irish cobbler. Mr. Shaw
says that not much attention has been
paid to Irish potatoes up in his section
but that he is right favorably im
pressed with them. He expects to
raise next year fifteen hundred
bushels, for he is satisfied that he can
make a good crop at reasonable cost
and get a good price for them. When
it was known this year that he had
good potatoes, buyers came with
trucks from Durham, Greensboro,
Pinehurst and elsewhere and the only
(Continued on page five)
FORMAL OPENING OF
SCHOOL NEXT MONDAY
The formal opening of the Vass-
Lakeview school will be held at eleven
o’clock on next Monday morning, and
all patrons and friends of the school
are invited to the present. Several
speakers will be present to make ad
dresses.
School opened last Monday and the
work of organization is well under
way.
WANTS FARMERS TO
HELP ^ SEEDS
Little River Stores Believe in
Home-Grown
Types
The Little River Stores are making
an effort to interest the farmers of
their territory in raising seeds that
are used in this section. The project
had its beginning with the farmers of
the Eureka section who started with
a type of cotton seeds and seed com.
They were successful in establishing
in a few years a grade of seed that
brought good crops and they put their
surplus at the disposal of tiie Little
For some time Pinehurst has been
getting restless under restricted build
ing capacity for certain prominent re
quirements, and has been planning
for expansion. With the location of
the permanent highways a conclusion
was reached to move the Norfolk
Southern railroad and also to relo
cate the passenger and freight sta
tions, and with that decision the Pine
hurst Warehouses arranged for a new
site for bigger warehouses opposite
the new station, and at a convenient
point on the new railroad and on the
new highways to both the northward
and to Carthage. So plans were
drawn for a group of buildings not
far from where the new highway goes
under the new railroad tracks, and just
south of the new bridge the passenger
station wil be given a site on the east
side of the track and the warehouses
and freight station on the west side.
The Warehouse site has been staked
out and hands are at work on the pre
liminary tasks. The first of the group
of buidings will be one of the ware
houses, 100 by 90 feet on the front
and side, one story high. On the side
next the railroad the warehouse will
have its loading and freight siding,
and on the other side next the high
way it will have its loading platforms
for vehicles on the road. Ample yard
room on the railroad will be at hand,
and plenty of loading and parking
space for wagons and trucks on the
highway side. The second building
of the warehouse group will be the
same size on the ground as the first
one, but it will be two stories high,
and will not be undertaken until next
year, as the first one to be built will
give about 9,000 square feet of floor
space which is nearly twice as much
as the present warehouses afford, and
that is about as much as can be done
this year. Building during the busy
winter season is too much in the way.
On the same side of the railroad
as the Warehouses will be built the
railroad freight house, farther south
along the track. The new passenger
station will be opposite the Warehouse
buildings, so that all the railroad con
veniences in the way of freight and
express shipments will be at hand, and
the railroad will have its stations at
^he junction of the two highways in
Pinehurst, as well as convenient to all
parts of the village by the new roads
which are being hard-surfaced now.
Removing the old passenger station
is necessary to permit the highway to
be built across the tracks near the
station, and when the railroad and the
(Continued on page 8)
Taxes Collected
for Last Month
Sheriff Fry Reports Over $330,000
to September First
«
Report on the Public Taxes foor the month of August 1925
Subjects
Ad Valorem and Polls
Sheriff’s Discoveries & Unlisted..
Schedule B, Nos
TOTAL TAXES
Reliefs or Abatements
Collected (Down)
TOTAL
Balance, Receipt on Hand..
CASH Collected (as above) -
Deposited County Treasurer -
Commissions Retained
Balance, Cash on Hand
Last Report
$348,547.70
. 14,743.71
858.63
W4>150.04
1,968.34
$319,904.42
.$321,872.76
42,277.28
.$319,904.42
306,750.00
9,101.84
.$ 4,052.58
This Month
.$ 143.56
.$ 143.56
184.60
.$10,798.31
.$10,982.91
.$10,798.31
10,000.00
286.00
To Date
-$348,547.70
. 14,887.27
858.63
....$364,293.60
2,152.94
.$330,702.73
.332,855.67
31,437.93
....$330,702,73
.... 316,'1S^.o6
.... 9,387.84
...$ 4,564.89
I hereby certify that the above is a true aecount of the public taxes
charged to me and returned by me, and that the return ia a full and tru#
record of all unlisted taxes collected.
R. G. FRY, Sheriir.