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i- Photographic and Historical Glimpses of North Carolina Orphans' Homes by the Worthy Men in Charge of Them OXFORD ORPHAN ASYLUM. U. I. Brown. Superintendent.

Tf.e Oxford Orphanage is the old-st 0rphanage in North Carolina, favin? been established in 1872 by vote of the Grand Hi NAZARETH ORPHANS' HOME. By J. W. BeU, Superintendent. The object of this Home is to for orphans, friendless and destitute children without reference to their place of A THANKSGIVING MESSAGE FROM THE STATE ORPHAN ASSOCIATION The North Carolina Orphan Association again calls iipon every man.

woman and child if the State to contribute on or near Thanksgiving Day at least one day's income to the Orphanage of his or her choice. This is areasonable request, for any one can share with the orphans the earnings of one day out of three hundred and sixty-five. It is practicable, for rich and poor alike can participate in it. It enlists our people of all creeds and classes in beautiful co-operation for the support of a needed civic and Christian philanthropy. While it deposits, a handsome aggregate in the orphanage treasuries, it also deepens and enriches the life of our.people.

It is a prime investment for both church and State, first saving from degeneracy the most exposed children "in the world, and then training them for usefulness in both the Commonwealth and the Kingdom. Who of us in the joyous Thanksgiving season can refuse, to lend the helping hand We, therefore, make our appeal to The prince of business to give out of his abundance the actual or estimated income of day The landlord and money lender to give one day's rent of his houses and lands, or one day's interest on his monev: The professional man to give one day's earnings, specifying the day or taking the average day; The salaried worker to give his or her salary for a day The laborer with only pick-up jobs to devote some. special day to this cause; The good housewife with her ingenuity and devotion to set apart the work of a dav; The boys and girls with no regular income to get a job after school hours or on some Saturday and give the proceeds to the orphans In short, EVERYBODY, old and young, rich and poor, learned and illiterate, to join in this holy Movement and thus to "visit the fatherless in their affliction." And may this concerted philanthropy for the fatherless help toward making next Thanksgiving Day the gladdest and best ever observed in North Carolina. M. L.

SHIPMAN, (Signed) JAMES R. YOUNG, HIGHT C. MOORE, Raleigh, N. C. Publicity Committee.

THOMASVTLLE BAPTIST ORPHANAGE. By M. L. Kesler, General Manager. In many respects this has been a friendly year with our institution.

No rude alarms and no distressing disasters have dis turbed the even tenor of our way. Tire health record has been remarkably good. Dls-c a ements, like, the poor, are with us always, but on "the other hand we have the bright side to hearteti us for our arduous tasks. Within the Inst M. L.

Kesler. two years we have made interesting additions to our work. We have added a nursery for small children from two to five years of age, and to our course of study we have added the tenth grade and domestic science and some instrumental music. All this enlarges the life and greatly enriches the interests of the institution. Twenty-nine splendid boys and girls completed the course last year, and the twenty-two very little tots, scarcely beginning theirs, give a gen'tle touch which softens and enlarges the entire body.

Our number has held right around five hundred, with other hundreds knocking for admittance. There are perhaps fifty applications a month. Most of them are turned away for lack of room. Our daily expense bill has been averaging about $150 a day two barrels of flour a day, three or four bushels of meal, a whole beef, when used all around, ten bushels of sweet potatoes, four or five bushels of Irish potatoes, when they are used, and other things accordingly. The cost per capita was $9.09 per month, or about 30 cents a day.

We cannot hope to get through another year so lightly. With flour at $10 a barrel Little Auditorium, Baptist Orphanage, Thorn-asville, N. C. and lard at twenty cents a pound, and almost everything else soaring in like proportion, we are facing a serious situation. A year ago we had a debt of over $40,000.

The "One-Day-For-The Orphanage" campaign cut it down half. Our debt now is about $25,000. The work of the Publicity Commit tee calls for our everlasting gratitude for the splendid service rendered Every Orphanage was greatly helped It gives Thanksgiving a new mean ing and gives a simple workable plan by which our alms may go- up with our prayers. With the work Chairman Shipman and his commit tee are doing, through the kind cooperation of the daily and weekly papers of the State, we may confi dently expect the Thanksgiving offer ing to be the best ever made in North Carolina. We shall need it.

As the winter winds begin to blow the cries for help are more frequent and more insistent. No greater investment can be made than that turned into children. Thomasville, N. C. jWsBYTR IAN ORPHANS' HOME.

By VT. T. "Walker, Superintendent. It was in the year 1883 that the Synod of North Carolina took the first active steps toward founding what Is now known as The Presbyterian Orphans' Home, located at Barium Springs. With th6 aid of a few godly women in Charlotte, seconded by Messrs.

Geo. E. Wilson and R. B. Alexander, a building was secured and a beginning was made W.

T. Walker. under the matronage of Mrs. P. Penick.

The number of children seeking refuge in this home, with limited rooms and resources, the Synod of North Carolina wisely de termined to take this feeble institu tion under its own management. The removal from Charlotte to Barium Springs occurred January 11, 1891. During the 25 years of Its existence it has sheltered, educated ii inn in IT mi THE PYTHIAN HOME. By C. W.

Pender, Superintendent. As Superintendent of the Pythian Home at Clayton, N. in behalf of the forty boys and girls in my care, I wish most sincerely to thank you for all the help you have extended to the chil- '4 dren, for the good words you heve spoken for the Pythian Home, and the unfailing interest yo; have shown for the welfare of all children. Let us C. v.

Pender. give thanks for the spirit that maintains all the institutions for helpless children in our State and nation. In the name of the Giver of all blessings we, who have the care of the fatherless children, most earnestly ask all the people of North Carolina to set aside the worth of one day's work for the b'enefit of the unfortunate children of our Pythian Home, Clayton, State and each send his donation to the institution of his choice on Thanksgiving Day. Shall the fatherless children be forgotten on Thanksgiving Day while all others feast? Clayton, N. C.

THE CHRISTIAN ORPHANAGE. By C. D. Johnston, Chairman Trustees. The Christian Orphanage, authorized by the Southern Christian Convention and chartered by the laws of the State of North Carolina, is located on a beautiful eminence south of the railroad and in full view ot Elon College.

A commodious two-story brick building, equipped with electric lights, water and sewerage and a central heating system, furnishes a home for our Orphanage family of fifty. A farm of 116 acres furnishes helpful employment for the boys when not in school. The girls are taught to do all kinds of domestic work. The inotitution is supported entirely by free-will offerings ir. the following manner: Each Church is asked to make an annual Thanksgiv- Christian Orphanage, Elon Coll N.

C. ing offering on or near Thanksgiving, and all the Sunday-schools requested to contribute one offering per month to the maintenance of the institution. The doors of the Christian Orphanage were opened January 1, 1907, and the first child was admitted on the twenty-ninth of that month. Since then our insltution has been privileged to administer to more than 100 indigent children. The capacity of our buildings is limited to fifty, which has long sinc9 been reached, and we have many needy and worthy applicants on file.

Sleeping-porches have been constructed on the rear of the building which furnish sleeping quarters for twenty-five more children. This enlarges our capacity to seventy-five, provided our maintenance fund can be increased sufficient to care for this number. Elon College, N. C. X- XL in NORTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY.

By L. H. Putnam, Superintendent. The object of this Home, located at Greensboro, N. is: i (1) To receive and place orphans, half-orph ans, 1 ess and those worse than homeless, the destitute, 1 ected and unfortunate children, as has been done heretofore.

(2) Adjusting cases. For instance, when Mr. a prominent business man of H. Putnam. the city of wrote to the Society and requested it to take the two children of a man of this city (Greensboro) whose wife had died a few months before, an information blank was forwarded with the request that such data be given as was necessary to properly consider the case.

About ten days later a discouraged, disheartened and dust- covered Individual, whose appearance indicated that he had one foot in the grave and that the other was slipping, called at the office of the Society and stated that he was the man whom Mr. S. had written about. After consideration of the case it seemed that it would be best for the Society to receive his two babies, as he called his six and eight-year-old children. However, before accepting them the superintendent asked the man why it was necessary for him to give his children up to.

the Society. He replied that he was about to die of "pendix," and the conversation developed that the man was suffering from acute chronic appendicitis. He Pound; Placed: Children's Home Society, Greensboro, N. C. was told this father who loved his children better than life itself to have an operation performed.

He had no money for the operation, nor a place to care for his children during his absence. He was assured that the Society would stand back of him. both financially and as to the care of his little ones. An examination was made and he was assured that he had a chance to live. He returned to the city of B.

later carrying some good advice along in his belfry. Today he Is alive and well and strong and living living for and loving his children as he has a right to do. (3) To aid in the development of public interest in behalf of children's welfare work and the betterment of the social laws regarding children and the unfortunate in our. good State. State Senator Alfred M.

Scales, of Guilford, is president of the Board of Directors and a number of other distinguished men are among those constituting the Board of Directors. The present superintendent took charge of his work September, 1915. He has performed service of similar character in Baltimore, Georgia, Alabama and Florida in recent years. After having a hard row, meantime being held together by grim determination, the North Carolina Children's Home Society Is now on its feet having something tangible to show. It has a receiving home where little waifs can be cared for and put In proper shape to be adopted by those who want children.

But its work is not finished far from that and money is needed, dependent on contributions from those who see fit to aid such a cause. Greensboro, N. THE METHODIST ORPHANAGE. By A. S.

Barnes, Superintendent. The Methodist Orphanage was founded in 1900 by the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The motive that prompted our Church to enter this broad field of endeavor was to co-operate with similar Institutions in providing a home and Christian training for the destitute orphan children of our A. s. Barnes.

Conference. When we entered this open door there were thousands of fatherless children making their pathetic appeal to the Churches and Fraternal Orders, and not more than one-third of this large number could be admitted into the institutions then established. Hence we entered this wide open door not as a rival, but as a sympathetic friend, to co-operate with our sister Orphanages in caring for these helpless ones. Today as we lift up our eyes and look on the great orphanage field we see that they are white unto harvest with thousands out in the cold, unfriendly world without the wholesome atmosphere of home, the. tender love of mother and the protection of father.

Pathetic appeals come to the Methodist Orphanage every week from pastors, stewards and Sunday-school superintendents in behalf of these destitute orphans. Only a small per cent of those who make application are admitted into our Orphanage owing to lack of buildings and financial resources. During" the year we have had as many as two hundred and seven children in the institution, and there Main Building, Methodist Orphanage, Raleigh, N. C. are many on the waiting list.

If we had the room and the financial resources we could more than double our number within a very short time. During the coming winter we will be in a position to take about fifty more boys by reason of the building that is now being erected. This building will be one of the best of its kind in the State. During the year we have placed four hydrants on the campus, hose in the.Main Building, built a large barn one hundred and ten feet long and thirty-five feet wide, put up a brick silo thirty feet high and twelve feet in diameter. In addition to this we have cleared several acres of new ground, improved the farm, added some equipment to buildings, raised $10,000 for the Boys' Building, and received a few substantial legacies.

The one great need of our Orphanage is more money. If our large and growing constituency will give us the income or wages from a day's work we could make advancement along all lines. Raleigh, N. C. ELIADA ORPHANAGE.

By Lucius B. Compton, General Manager. Eliada Orphanage was opened in 1906 for homeless, destitute children. It is not run on institutional plans. but a home-life I is maintained as rar as possible.

We only accept children who are actually destitute. riand who have friends or rela- imtives able to pro vide for them. The children are made to us by law until they are of age. A com- LuciuB B. Compton.

mon-schoql education is given them at Eliada, where we have nine months school each year. They are also given domestic training, music, and as far as is within our power, each one Is given some trade or profession. Two years ago. our building was completely destroyed by fire. We Eliada Orphanage, Asheville, N.

C. now have in its place, a brick building containing fifty rooms. On this, there is an indebtedness of which we are very anxious to pay off. Eliada Orphanage does not have a financial board back of it. The work Is supported entirely by voluntary contributions and we do not have any solicitors.

The Home was opened by faith in God, and to carry on His work, and' all these years He has never failed to answer prayer for its support. We have been unable to accept one-half of those who have appealed to us, but to all those we can accommodate, we are doing our best to give a home with the love and care that every child-heart craves together with the spiritual training that will make them good men and women. Asheville, N. C. 1 Lodge of Masons.

It has nev confined 'itself exclusively to the care of the children of Masons. Of the 375 children now on its roll there are only about sixty who are the children of Masons. Masonry, has always shown' a r- T(. Brov -n. most unselfish and Christ-iike charity toward the 'dependent children of our State It is rrefore.

with confidence the Oxford Orphanage comes to make its in the citizens of our State. regardteps of their affiliations, for help to a greater extent this year than usual. The institution has had unusual ocmandP upon its resources. It has not received more than about one-half enough to pay the cost of maintaining the Baby Department. This department is the gem of the entire work.

The very best work can be Main liuittli'tsr. Orphan Asylum, Oxford, N. O. ants and the most needed assistance rendered children ur-der the age of Ax rears. It does seem strange that this department should lack suffici ent means to do so needed a work.

The buildings had been needing rppairs and some improvement for several years and it was decided that it waf absolutely necessary that the work be not postponed longer; so these extraordinary expenses w-re incurred which still further ran the institution into debt. They, therefore, 8 ppeal "to the good citizens of our. State to come to the relief of this great and noble institution in its time of need, which has so unselfishly paid out of its fund to support the children of non-Masons. Since its establishment this institution has helped over 3,000 chil dren who needed to be helped, and a very small per cent of the investment turned out unprofltably. Some of them are occupying today prominent places, a few high up, in the religious, social, political, business life of our State, (hford, N.

C. THOMPSON ORPHANAGE. By W. J. The Thompson Orphanage and Training Institution was opened at Charlotte on May 9, 1887, with the Rev.

Edwin A. Os borne as superintendent, and Miss E. J. Mackay as matron. Four chll- fegf aren were admit ted on the first day and since that iy Time aio nave oeen enroiiea.

The present number is aaTontv.tfiroa fr-n afcil ty-three being from the Diocese Waiter f. Smith. 0f North Carolina, fifteen from the Diocese of East Carolina, and fifteen from the Missionary Jurisdiction of Asheville. The property consists of seventy acres of land lying one mile east of the centre of the city of Charlotte with about $35,000 worth of bulldogs. The Orphanage is operated on the Cottage Plan, and the children distributed amongst three build-ft is governed by a board of fifteen managers with the Bishop of Vrth Carolina as chairman ex officio.

East Carolina and Asheville have representatives on the board, and contribute towards the support of tne institution, but have no own-ership in the property. The present endowment amounts Riomr-on Hall, Thompson Orphanage, Charlotte, ST. O. Jo about 514.000 and the cash contributions last year amounted to Orphans and needy chiller, nre received between the agea and twelve from any part State, and are kept till they sixteen or eighteen. The chil-ren are in gaod health and they -m to be happy and contented.

scho1 three bours a the mornlng, ar some n9 afternoon. and the rest of the fy dvte to the necessary ork ot the Institution, and to rec- 'cho in few attend the graded and are doing well. for Im is in g00d condition, and Ihrp the first half of the fiscal year c'Ws averaged two gallons a for' I Elding a quart of milk JrT "'m- The od is well neatly served, and the -imL tiiey nave mPlu, cat- Extensive improve-th been made in some I Wl "ngp and it; is. now pro- Tn a new harn fr the Out i l'rKeS 3S SOOn aS Possible. "UR" are mattered from brTT08 Mexico, and, as "'if-' i -i.

'At i ail tyumifiit birth or the creed of their parents and to educate and train them to lead industrious, moral and religious lives. It was chartered the Classis of North Carolina of the Reformed Church in the United States; Oc- j. w. Beit. tober 30, 1896.

and was formally opened in December, 1906, with five children. Rev. BeU and his wife are in immediate charge of the institution. Some of its most pressing needs are: (1) A good staid and settled Christian woman to direct the girls in all forms of housework and sewing and to assist them in the same, under the supervision of the matron. 2 Chairs for the dining room.

A 8 Nazareth urpnans" crescent, If. C. in all. (3) A grindstone. (4) A mowing machine and a horse hay-rake.

(5) A pair of good, heavy farm horses or mules. (6) Additional tools of various sorts. (7) An electric lighting system for the whole plant. Iast year this institution received a number of gifts which otherwise would probably not have come to it, by reason of the Thanksgiving appeal for one day's wages made throughout the State for all the co-operating orphanages by the State Association of Orphan Homes. One of the features of this Home is the support of individual orphans by Sunday-schools, congregations, societies and individuals at the rate of $50 per year for each child.

Ten children there are now so supported. One of its reasons for thankfulness this year Is the completion of a new building, for school and dormitory purposes Crescent, N. C. M. E.

CHILDREN'S HOME. By Walter Thompson, Superintendent. This Children's Home is an institution owned and operated by the Western North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is incorporated under the laws of North Carolina. The property consists of 190 acres of land lying partly within the limits of the city of Winston-Salem, upon which are all the buildings, completed, or A Children's Home Building, Winston-Salem, N. O.

in process of erection, necessary for the proper care of 135 children. rThe farm prttyldes a considerable portion of the food supply, and furnishes profitable employment for the boys, as well as the means of valuable instruction and training in agriculture. The ownership and control of the institution is vested in a board of trustees, and the administration is in the hands of the superintendent. The Home was incorporated June 12, 1908, and. open el for the reception of children September 1, 1909.

The children are grouped, according to age and sex. in seven cottages, each group constituting a family under the pare of a matron. Two of the families have their own dining-room each, the others take their meals at the central dining-room. They all attend school half the day, and work the other half, sufficient time being allowed for games and recreation of all proper kinds. The library is well supplied with books, and most of the children acquire the habit of reading.

The capacity of the Home is 135 children, and that number is constantly cared for. The applications for admission, in the month of July, 1916, were thirty-four, and that is about the monthly average. All these were Methodist children, and most of them were represented as urgently in need of help. All the orphanages in the State, religious and fraternal, are filled to the limit of their capacity, and there are yet 5,600 dependent orphan children in the State uncared for. The year 1916 will be memorable in the history of the Home for the generous gifts of the Hanes Industrial Building for the training of boys, and the Gray building for the training of girls along domestic lines.

There are those who seem to feel that the church is doing something really worth while when it takes orphan children under its care, and keeps them safe from hunger, from cold, and from harm. To this view the present superintendent of the Home has never, for a minute, subscribed, and, therefore, he halls the completion of these buildings as the forerunner of greatly increased usefulness on the part of the Hosae toward the children who shall come under its care. This Home will be thankful for the thoughtfulness of good frfends on Thanksgiving Day. Winston-Salem, N. C.

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A. G-arrett. Superintendent. The Methodist Protestant Children's Home at High Point does not confine its usefulness to children from its church alone but stands ready to help any deserving child that it can, whether its parents be-1 to any church or not. The home is supported by freewill offerings and the products of the farm.

The children are given religious and in- H. A. Garrett. dustrial training and carried through the tenth grade in school. The aim is to make self-supporting and de- M.

P. Children's Home, High Poini. N. 0. sirable citizens of the children committed to Its care.

Interest ha3 continued to grow since the beginning of this Institution. High Point, N. C. THE I. O.

O. F. HOME. By Chas. 0.

Baird, Superintendent. This Home was founded -almost twenty-three years ago by our worthy and deceased Brother Nathaniel Jacobi, of Wilmington, and our venerable W. A. J. Peacock, of Goldsboro, was the first to make a responsive donation for the location of the Home here.

Brother Peacock has lived through these years to see the Home grow from Chas. O. Baird. an mant tQ a very magnificent institution, and he has already been very responsive with liberal contributions to its needs. One year ago we attempted to make a final report of the affairs of the Today there has devel oped a pressing need for more funds with which to, do more extended work in the way of permanent im provements.

Brethren and Friends: We need your assistance, financially, morally, toward helping to purchase the thirty-acre tract of land that lies be tween the two parts that we already own, and the greatest need that is facing us now, or in the near future, will be provision for separating the homes for our boys and girls further, and thereby enlarging the capacity of the Home. At present the Home is filled and many applications are on the waiting list that Boys' Building, I. O. O. P.

Home, Golds boro, N. V. need to be admitted. A very pressing need now is the completion of the horse and dairy barns that have been begun; also we could save a lot of expense in repairs if we were provided with, a small blacksmith shop and equipment for same. 1 1 1 1 1 I Presbyterian Orphanage Grounds, Barium Springs, N.

C. and morally trained 650 boys and girls, who have spent an average of four years each In the home. The pressing needs are additional buildings to care for the large number of children already knocking at our doors. This need can more easily be met by some godly man or woman remembering the orphans in his or her will and thereby make provision for a memorial building at Barium Springs. The outlook was never brighter.

We are caring for more than 200 children, giving them the best in educational and industrial training. Barium Springs, N. C. Goldsboro, N. C.

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