For several years Vass has had a continuing exhibit of building going on in the community. During the last two years the activity has been sufficiently progressive to satisfy any one. Following the hotel, the printing office, the new McKeithan buildings and the Beasley block and the warehouse, came the Edwards building more recently finished, and now work is under way on the new post-office building that Mr. Cameron is putting up. This extends the succession of brick buildings along the street from the hotel toward the railroad crossing, and is gradually giving the village a right metropolitan air for a small rural neighborhood. In a short time another brick building will be started by Mr. Beasley in the vacant place between his present structure and the Edwards building. This will give a solid row of half a dozen brick buildings alongside of each other on that one street. With the exception of the bank building, these are all two story and all large buildings.
In the way of home building the same progress is in evidence, both in the village and out. Some of the farm homes that are springing up in the neighborhood are notable. The big new house on Evans farm would be a credit to any village in the state. Mr. Cameron is building a good house on his farm near town, and at other places similar construction is seen. On all the roads out of Vass the farms are showing the signs of prosperity by building and improving, and in town Paul Joyner is building near the Methodist church, and Neill McLean and S.R. Smith are improving and finishing their buildings.
It is a common sight all around Vass to see improvement in buildings, in the grounds surrounding the homes, and while this is under way the highway construction is giving substantial help toward the positive future of the neighborhood. The weather is such now that the bridge across the river between Vass and Lakeview is making good headway and the bridge at Cranes creek will be pushed along now, these being the chief obstacles in opening the road in the whole Vass section.
Fall will see a big change in town and out, through the agency of the saw and the hammer, and the whole area will have a different appearance to the tourists when the fall tide of travel sets this way again. Moore county is making big changes, and here in our part of the Sandhills it is gratifying to see that our share is keeping up with the procession.
From the editorial page of The Weekly Pilot, Vass, N.C., Friday, April 27, 1923
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