Friday, September 18, 1931.
PILOT, a Paper VMth Charactei*, Aberdeen, North Carolina
Page Sevea
Inspection Trip Reveals Plenty of
Good Tobacco Throughout County
CAMERON
East Side of Moore Will Send Lot
of High Grade Leaf to
Warehouses
By Bion H. Butler
The other day in nosing* around the
country looking at the tobacco pros-.
pects in the territory tributary to the i
Aberdeen market I came down from
the Carthage country, skirting the re- |
gion that Henry Matthews had oa^n- :
ed to tobacco culture in those earlier
years when Gales Johnson was estab
lishing the industry in the fie),d be
tween Raeford and Aberdeen. Much *
tobacco is grown now in the con- ^
tiguous country, some profitable to!
the growers, some not so much so as
might be. Yet when Henry Matthews
came down into the Cameron coun
try from the Winston tobacco neigh
borhood leaf tobacco was regarded as
fairly w^ell sold if it brought nine
cents. To go further into the price,
tobacco in 45 years had sold as high
as 10 cents only six times, and down
as low as six cents several times. Yet
farmers cared for themselves at that
figure, did not borrow money from
ihs land banks and lose their land on
mortgage debts because they could
not pay. But when Henry Matthews
came down into the Cameron country
one of the main things he looked af
ter was a grist mill, and he had also
a lumber mill to provide his own lum
ber, and he made other things. The
idea of living at home was still con-
;'idered then.
Wild fire has done somo damage
to the tobacco crop in the east side ^, ^ ^ ^ ,
.-p ^ ^ j 1 ^ that sort are helping to keep thmgs
of Moore, yet a lot of good leaf v. .11 . .. ^ r j
in action on the Cameron farm, and
no bulff at production of those crops.
A Gardner Gardener
Bill Harrington Takes tihe
Governor's Live-at-Home
Program Seriously
Bill Harrington, printer at the
Citizen office, Southern Pines, sets
the example for Cxovernor Gard
ner who says to live at home. Bill
lives at home, out the Bennett
street extension. His house is sur
rounded with flowers. Back of the
house is a garden that is not afraid
of what the neighbors call Hoover
hard times, for hard times will not
knock at the Harrington door. The
garden is full of sweet potatoes,
quarter of an acre or more, corn as
high as the second story, and vel
vet beans,^soja beans and cow pea
vines climbing up among the
stalks. Two stacks of millet and
grass hay behind the little bam,
and a cow on the pasture where
she is doing the most good for
herself and the Harrington house
hold. Mr. Harrington has several
town lots under cultivation. He has
garden stuff along with the rest
of his crops, and grass on the
land in front of the house. Possibly
he doesn’t know what price cot
ton and tobacco will bring this
fall, but he doesn’t have to draw
his belt a little tighter and take a
drink of water when he sits down
to the table.
f:ome out of that region when the
market opens. On down into Hoke,
where a thrifty farm community has
come out fairly well. But that sec
tion still follows the maxim laid down
by Puddinhead Wilson and Clyde
Davis of not putting all your eggs in
one basket.
All the crops are showing what they
were planted for. Frank Cameron
laises possibly 40 acres of tobacco.
But he will not sell it to buy rations.
The things his household needs will
not come from the grocery, but from
the field and the cellar and the chick-
A farm that impressed me as a to- | en yard, and the granary. He look.^
bacco farm and some other eggs, well-fed, and so do his horses, and
was that of Frank Cameron, a son his cows, and his poultry and his
reared by a sire who mad-j the farm I dogs; his fields are clean,
famous before the present farmer | Moore county has a lot of good
could step over a one-rail fence. John tobacco. It has a lot of good wheat
B. Cameron was widely known be- and corn and chickens, and sweet po-
cause he was a successful farmer on tatoes, and other things on which the
the Beaver Creek hills and also be- farmers will subsist. The Cameron
cause he was a good neighbor and a farm is not the only one. From Deep
man of community interests. He was River to the Hoke county line the
known, too, for the picturesque es- fields have been showing cause, and
tablishment he had created in the at- if tobacco is not the high price it
H
Circle No. 1 of the Woman^s Aux
iliary of the Presbyterian Church met
j last Tuesday aftejrnoon at the home
j of Mrs. M. McL. McKeithen, with the
chairman. Miss Mamie Arnold, pre
siding. This was one of the fullest
meetings of the year. After the de
votional, Mrs. J. M. Guthrie, who
was in charge of the program, ably
reviewed the September survey, giv
ing the kernel of the most interest- j S
ing articles in same. Bible study was
from St. John. The hostess was as
sisted by Mrs. L. B. McKeithen.
Mrs. J. E. Snow entertained infor
mally last Tuesday evening for the
purpose of reviving the “Merry-Mak
ers” Club. Bridge was played at two
tables.
There will be a meeting of the Wo
man’s Club on Thursday afternoon,
October 1, in the club room. Plans for
the fall and winter work will be dis
cussed, also other business, election of
officers, etc. A :?ull attendance is
especially requested.
Mrs. Ryals, county demonstrator,
met with her class in the Woman’s
Club room last Monday afternoon.
She gave a helpful demonstration of
invalid’s diet.
The Rev. J. H. Buffalo announced
at his Sunday evening service that a
meeting of several days with a visit
ing minister would begin in the Meth
odist church next Monday evening,
Sept. 21, at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. Buf
falo cordially invited the co-opera-
tion of the sister churches.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mann of Border-
lee announce the birth of a daughter
on September 12.
J. M. Guthrie has returned from
work on the tobacco market at Mt.
Tabor.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McLean and
niece, Margaret McLean, Mr. and
Mrs. L. H. Joyner and grand-daught
er, Sarah Gay Godfrey of Jonesboro,
spent Sunday in Durham with Mr.
and Mrs. Parrot Hardee. While in
Durham they visited Duke Univer
sity, and were deeply impressed with
its magnificence.
The Rev. M. D. McNeill filled his
regular appointment last Sunday
morning at the Presbyterian caurch.
He announced that the fall commun
ion service would be observed on the
first Sunday morning in October at
11:00 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Thompson, who
have been living at Niagara, have 1 ♦♦
moved to Cameron, and are now oc
cupying the Mrs. Flora Swett house
Bigger and Better Than Ever!
THE NOORE CODirTY AfiMCOlTIim
F"AIR
Carthage, N. C.
October 13,14, IS, 16,17
Exhibits of All Kinds Contests of All Kinds
Entertainment Features for All
Write Moore County Agricultural Fair Association,
Carthage for Premium List. Enter your prize crops.
Cash Prizes in 222 different classafe, Corn, Grain, Hay,
Soy Beans, Tobacco, Cotton, Peas, Pumpkins, Vetch,
Peanuts, Fruits, Flowers, Plants, Table Vegetables,
Breads, Cakes, Candies, Canned Fruit and Vegetables,
Jellies, Pickles, Preserves, Jams and Marmalades,
Meats, Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Honey, Molasses, Needle
Work, Arts and Crafts, Linens, Clothing, Dairy Cattle,
Beef Cattle, Swine, Chickens, School Exhibits, and the
Moore County Bench Show.
This Second Annual County Fair under the Auspices of
Joseph G. Henson Post No. 12, American Legion.
Noore
Co. Agricultural Fair Association
CARTHAGE
tractive valley, for Beav'er Creek, in brought immediately after the war it edge of town.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McLeod, Mrs.
Lizzie McLeod and Miss Mary Mc
Leod of Carbonton were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Thom-
as.
its rocky reaches, is one of the most is in most cases supplemented by
interesting streams of the lower sides | other crops that make it unnecessary
of Moore. The volcanic influence of; to have so much money from tobacco,
creation in building that section for the farm that is living at home,
shows among the silicon dikes, the as many of the Moore county farmers
water runs as clear over the uj/tui n- are doing, are not dependent for a
ed slates as in the mountain sands, livelihood on the tobacco crop.
Big trees hang over the water. Broad I never had more faith in the fu- . ^ i i
fields show their fertility in croos of , ture of the American farmer than af- j children wei'e in Carthage Sunday. | ^
corn, tobacco, melons, oats, barley, ‘ ter a few days running around over j ^ i- an ^ spen *
sweet potatoes w'ith vines heavy the country and seeing that the far- j ayettevi e. ♦♦
enough to cut for hay, soja beans, mer who lives at home is going to i ^
co\v peas, fruit, and those other cor- live pretty well this year, and ’hat he | Rogers of San ord went o
olaries that would delight Governor is not at the mercy of low tobacco | Honea Pa^, S. C. to see tneir sis-
Gardner’s soul when he talks about , and cotton if he has meat in the; tei', Mrs. Deland, who was seriously
living at home. Cows, with positive ! smoke house and wheat in the shed, M”- Her condition has iniproved. Mrs
indication of ancestry behind them | and cattle in the pasture, as most of I Deland was reared in Cameron anc
and positive performance a present them have this year.
Miss Hentz spent the week-end at
her home in Pamaria, S. C. j
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Guthrie and | H
function, horses that evidence that
yourg Frank Cameron maintains old
John Cameron’s eye and judgment
for a good animal—all those things
that signify that the farm is not a to see. They’re a live lot these days
dead bird if the farmer knows hovv to | in the northern end of the county,
handle it. I and are going to prove it with their
Barley, lespedeza, and things of Country Fair, they say.
j as Miss Lizzie Culberson was a gen-
I eral favorite.
And from all we hear, that fair! Mis. R. C. Thomas, Misses Mary
they’re planning up at Hemp is go- I Emma and Elizabeth and ha Thomas
ins to be worth going a few miles spent Sunday in Durham, where they
attended a reunion of the well known
Harmon family.
Mrs. D. C. Mclver of Kings Park,
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Long Island, N. Y., T. Weatherly of
Baltimore and Dewitte C. Mclver of
Annapolis were guests of Mrs. Loula
Muse Friday evening. Mr. Mclver is
a member of the Senior class at the
Naval Academy.
Mrs. C. G. Hatch, Misses Frances
Leach Lashley and Margaret and
Sam Hatch of Sanford spent Sunday
afternoon with’Mr. and Mrs. H. P.
McPherson.
Mrs. D. B. Teague and children of
Sanford were guests of the Rev. and
Mrs. M. D. McNeill Sunday.
Alex McDougald of Venus, Fla.,
and son, James of Immoklee, Fla.,
are visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. D.
Tally and Mrs. Julia McDougald.
Alex McDougald is the oldest "5on of
Mrs. Julia McDougald and spent his
boyhood and young manhood in
Cameron, and his many friends are
H giving him hearty greetings.
^ Roger Matthews and his land-lady,
^ Mrs. Owen of Wilmington, have been
H I guests of Mrs. Georgia Matthews for
H j several days. They came to see Miss
H j Frances Matthews, sister of Mr,
H i Matthews, who continues quite ill
w’ith typhoid fever at the Lee County
Hospital.
Misses Mary Ferguson, Minnie and
Jacksie Muse and W. A. Muse spent
Sunday in Rockingham, guests of
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Gibson. Mrs.
Janie Muse, after spending a week
with her daughter, Mrs. Gibson, re
turned home with them.
Mr. and Mrs. Arch McDougald of
Hamlet were guests of Mrs. Julia
McDougald last Saturday and Sun
day.
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and tailoring establishment on Pennsylvania avenue in Southern Pines. The large woo -
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The washing machines, which are operated by electric power, clean every particle oi dirt
and grease from the nap of any rug and wlien the cleaning is completed, the rug looks
like a new one with all the coloring restored to its original lustre. Montesanti has, es-
tablished a wide reputation throughout this section of the state for <the quality oi
work turned out by this rug cleaning machinery.
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