Friday, xi?i.u.
Vass and Community
Rev. W. V. McRae was in town
again Sunday, after a monthhs* va
cation, and filled his regular appoint
ments at the Methodist church. He
was the dinner and supper guest of
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Keith, and in the
afternoon they visited at the home of
yir. and Mrs. John B. Cameron.
Clarence Byrd, of Lilesville, was. a
recent caller at the home of his aunt,
Mrs. G. W. Griffin.
Misses Montie Muse and Lillie
Dowd, of Carthage, George Alexander
and Mr. Barber, of Goldston, visited
Miss Annie McGill, Sunday after-
nooon.
Mrs. A, D. McLauchlin and little
daughter, Mary, spent a part of this
week with relatives near Broadway.
Mrs. John Gaddy and John, Jr., re
turned Sunday from a visit to rela
tives in Durham.
Miss Ossie Edwards left the first
of the week for a stay at Kings Moun
tain.
Mrs. Vaughan Byrd, of Hamlet, was
the guest of Mrs. H. A. Borst from
Thursday evening until Friday even
ing of last week.
Mrs. A. M. Cameron and children
returned Sunday from a visit to Buie’s
Creek. They were accompanied by
Mrs. Cameron's mother, Mrs. J. F. Mc
Kay, who remained with them Mon
day.
Mrs. Margaret Blue, of Raleigh,
and Daniel McFayden and daughter,
Christina, of Raeford, were callers at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Cameron,
Monday morning.
Miss Blanche Wagner, of High
Point, and Miss Mamie Smith, of Mt.
Olive, were week-end guests of Miss
Mildred Thomas.
Miss Lois Sanford came down from
Greensboro where she is attending
summer school to spend the week-end
with friends.
B. F. Sanford and family, of Laur-
inburg, spent Sunday in town.
J. H. and J. E. Thomas, of Raleigh,
spent Sunday at home.
J. S. Lancaster returned Tuesday
from a visit to relatives in Newton, N.
C., and Chatanooga, Tenn.
Mr. and Mrs. Jude Eads and baby
daughter, of Surry county, are visit
ing friends in Vass and community.
Miss Margaret Herring, of Clinton,
came Thursday to spend several days
with Miss Jessie Brooks.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Tyson returned
Saturday from Richmond, where Mrs.
Tyyson had been undergoing treat
ment for several days.
Several members of the local coun
cil of the Junior Order are attending
the State Council meeting being held
in Sanford this week.
Miss Faye Brewer is spending a few
days in Jackson Springs, with her un
cle, Thaddeus Fry, and Mrs. Fry.
Miss Jessie Brooks and her house
guests. Misses Inez Holloway land
Margaret Herring, spent Friday after-
j:ioon in Fayetteville.
Holloway, Miss
jbstelle and Master Billy Holloway,
spent Sunday at the home
I Mrs. George Brooks. Miss Inez
I Holloway returned to Durham with
I them Sunday evening.
' A telegram from Durham last week
brought news of the arrival of Master
D. B. Cameron, the third. He is a
I grandson of the late D. B. Cameron,
I of Durham.
Stacy Thompson, of Atlanta, is
spendmg a few days with his parents.
Mr and Mrs. E. B. Thompson.
Baby Dunk” Matthews, not quite
two years old, was the Sunday dinner
'guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Smith,
and although it was his first time to
! dine out without his mother, he be-
I haved beautifully. His hostess gave
ihim nothing but bread and milk but
he sat up and chatted gaily, entirely
too well-bred to intimate that he
would like to taste anything else that
was on the table.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cameron, of
Pmehurst, were callers at the home of
Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Rosser, Sunday af
ternoon.
Miss Millie Jane Brooks, of Rox-
boro, left Tuesday, after visiting Miss
Sallie Thompson.
Duncan McCraney, of route two,
who has been ill for several days, was
carried to Cumberland Greneral hos
pital in Fayetteville last week, and
recent reports are to the effect that
he is doing well. W. D. McCraney
and family and g^est. Miss Billie
Thompson, of Hamlet, visited Mr. Mc
Craney Sunday.
Mrs^ J. M. Lilly, Mrs. Black and
Misses Louise and Janie Black, of
Fayetteville, spent a short while at
Hotel Vass, Monday.
Miss Glennie Keith, of Raleigh,
spent last week-end at home.
Four-year-old John Harrington Ros
ser had just returned from a trip with
his docter daddy, and seeing a friend
down town he said: “Mr. Sam, we met
two old dead dogs in the road.”
T. J. Brooks, of Sanford, Miss Lois
Brooks, of Washington, D. C., and
Miss Pansy Brooks, of Joneboro, vis
ited at the Brooks home Sunday even
ing.
Mp. C. S. Thonapson and children,
Mazie, Doris, Junior and Vivian, of
Charleston, S. C.; Miss Camilla Byrd,
of Albemarle, Mrs. J. B. Howell, of
Rocky Branch, and G. W. Griffin, of
Hamlet, were recent guests of Mrs.
G. W. Griffin.
Friends of Miss Elizabeth Simpson
will regret to learn that she has been
quite ill with appendicitis. She un
derwent an operation at the Baptist
hospital in Winston-Salem on Monday
of last week and is doing nicely now.
Mrs. Simpson ^nd the girls expect
to return to Vass the latter part of
the month.
Misses Jessie Brooks and Margar
et Herring were dinner guests of T. J.
Brooks in Sanford on Tuesday evening.
Dr. Brewer, President of Meredith
College, was also a mmeber of the din
ner party.
Dr. R. G. Rosser and family spent
Tuesday in Biscoe with Miss Gladys
Monroe.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cashion and
daughter, Dorothy, of Cornelius, are
spading this week with Mr. and Mrs.
J. K. Thomas.
Dr. D. N. McLauchlin preached in
the Sanford Presbyterian church last
Sunday, and he and Mrs. McLauchlin
were dinner guests of Dr. and Mrs.
J. P. Monroe.
Miss Jewell Edwards, who has been
visiting in various places for the past
month, returned Saturday, accompan
ied by her sister, Mrs. Seth W. Lassa-
ter and little Misses Margaret and
Doris Lassater, of near Smithfield,
and John William Giles, of Angier.
The visitors left Sunday, and Miss
Nettie Cschwind went with Mrs. Las
sater for a week’s visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith and daugh
ters, Gladys and Mary, have return
ed from a visit to relatives in Albe
marle.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Byrd, of Pine-
hurst, visited Mrs. G. W. Griffin and
house guests Tuesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Norton and chil
dren, Zane Gray and Doris, of near
Raeford, spent the week-end with rel
atives on route 2.
M. C. Thomas and family, of near
Cameron, visited relatives here, Sun
day.
Miss Retha Moffit, T. R. Moffitt and
B. W. Smith, of Sanford, were in town
Friday evening. Mrs. Moffitt re
turned to Sanford with them.
Clean-Up Day At Cypress
Friday, August 20, has been named
clean-up-day at the Cypress church
and cemetery, and those interested are
requested to met there early Friday
morning.
Entertains for Visiting Girls
Miss Bessie Gunter most delightful
ly entertained a large number of the
younger set of the community on Wed
nesday evening of last week in honor
of Miss Mazie Thompson, of Charles
ton, S. C., and Miss Florence Battley,
of Carthage, who are visiting rela
tives here. Interesting out-door games
were played, after which the hostess
served delicious refreshmnts.
Birth Announcement
Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Thompson,
of near Maxton, have announced the
birth of a daughter, Mary Lewis, at
a Lumberton hospital a few days ago.
Miss McCraney Entertains
Miss Olera McCraney entertained a
group of her friends on Saturday eve
ning at a party given in honor of Miss
Millie Jane Brooks, of Roxboro... Sev
eral contests were enjoyed, then out
door games were played. After the
games, refreshments were served.
Sandhills Band Honored
The local Juniors invited the mem
bers of the Sandhills Band and other
friends to meet on the Vass-Lakeview
school grounds Monday evening to en
joy an old-fashioned watermelon feast.
The watermelons were plentiful and
delicious and the band boys were at
their best, both with the melons and
the horns, and the occasion proved a
most delightful one.
Circle Two, of the Methodist Aux
iliary, met Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. W. J. Cameron, and
the meeting was interesting and help
ful. The scripture lesson was read
by Mrs. W. C. Leslie, followed by
readings by Mrs. A. M. Cameron, Mrs.
C. L. Tyson and Mrs S. R Smith The
business of the Circle was then dis
cussed. During the social hour, three
contests were carried out. In the
first, a Bible contest, Mrs. W. C. Les
lie was the winner. Mrs. C. L. Ty-
on and Mrs. A. M. Cameron made the
highest scores in the others. Refresh
ments of orange punch, ice cream and
cake were served. The September
meeting will be at th hom of Mrs. W.
B. Graham.
The ladies of Circle Two are busy
marktieng their crop of tomatoes.
Several hundred plants were put out
in the spring, and in spite of the hot
dry weather, they have done remark
ably well. Se their ad elsewhere in
the paper.
Circle On of the Methodist Auxil
iary met Tuesday evening for the
regular monthly meeting with Mrs.
G. W. Griffin. The topic being Mis
sion Study and Service. Following the
Devotional services and business dis
cussions a social hour was given, dur
ing which time refreshments of
peaches, ice cream and cake were
served. Mrs. C. S. Thompson, of
Charleston, S. C. was a guest of the
circle.
The members were delighted to re-
i ceive from Mrs. W. G. Thompson, of
Lakeland, Fla., a former mmeber, the
! book entitled, “The Life of Belle H.
jBennet.” The September meeting will
■ be with Mrs. W. H. Keith,
j Come Again, Mr. Hammer
! Congressman W. C. Hammer de
lighted The Pilot force with a visit
I last Friday afternoon. After a confer-
; ence with Mr. Brewer, he spent some-
j time greeting other friends around
! town.
Mrs. J. McK. Harrington, who con
tributes a very interesting letter each
week covering Cameron and com
munity, was in town Wednesday night.
J. B. and E. M. Marks, H. H. and
Percy Brooks returned from their
mountain visit Friday .afternoon, Aug.
13, visited Johnson City and Tennes
see during their trip and report a won
derful time.
There will be a picnic at Mt. Pleas-
I ant Christian church Saturday, Sep
tember 4. Everybody cordially in
vited to come and bring a big basket
and hoping everyone will have a fine
time.
Albert Brooks, of Vass Route 2, vis
ited at the home of Robert Cameron’s
Sunday afternoon.
Page Fiv.
ABERDEEN
Miss Elizabeth Morris, who has
been visiting at Mrs. Frank Page’s,
left Monday for her home in Oxford.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Melvin are vis
iting friends in Kannapolis, N. C.
Edgar Bowmand has returned home
after a two weeks’ stay at Candor
during the peach season.
Mr. and Mrs. Hardin Gunter and
their family have gone to the western
part of the state on a camping trip.
Mrs. W. H. Allen, Mrs. R. A. Bob
bitt, Miss Kate Allen and Sam Al
len, of Louisburg, are visiting Mr. and
Mrs. T. B. Wilder.
Mrs. Robert Lawrence, of Lumber
ton, spent Thursday afternoon and
night in Aberdeen. She came to
see Mr. and Mrs. Talbot Johnson.
Frank Page spent the week-end at
home in Aberdeen.
Misses Beatrice, Mary and Katie
Lee McLean, with their guests. Miss
Shippen and Miss Newland, have gone
to Morehead Beach.
The Woman’s Book club met last
Thursday afternoon at the home of
the president, Mrs. C. S. McArthur.
The meeting was a purely business
one and the committee for the com
ing year were appointed. Mrs. Tal
bot Johnson, Mrs. P. P. McCain and
Mrs. Dan McKeithen are the new
chairmen of the varoius committees.
Mrs. Henry A. Page went to Lin-
ville Tuesday.
Eight of the boy scouts who have
been to Cove Echo Boy Scout camp
at Marion have returned home. Sev
eral of the boys are remaining for two
more weeks and they were joined on
Monday by Richhard Johnson and
Clifton Blue, of the Aberdeen patrol.
The calves raised, the skimmilk
available for feed and the manure for
soil building purposes, are about a^
valuable as the cream check to the
dairy farmer, states one leading dairj"
educator.
About half the cotton grown in
North Carolina last year was of the
Cleveland Big Boll variety. Mexi
can Big Boll is also steadily growing
in popularity.
FOR SALE—Tomatoes for canning at
$1.00 per bushel. Circle Two. Care
Mrs. W. D. Matthews, Vass.
One man who answered an adver
tisement offering 100 useful house
hold articles for ten cents got 100
pins for his dime. Pins are useful it’s
true but it’s always better to trade at
home where one can see the purchased
materials.
The cotton leaf hopper has done
considerable damage to certain cotton
fields in Edgecombe County and are
now present on soybeans and peanuts.
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