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ad Barium Messenger 25 VOL. BARIUM SPRINGS. N.C, The Give-to Christmas Tree — Before and After JANUARY 1948 The nicture reproduced here is not a moving picture but it al- most is. They are three views of our “Give-to” Christmas tree which was held on the night of December 17th in our big dining room. You know in this we start out with a bare tree. When each person makes a contribution they pick up a decoration and tie it on the tree. The picture at the left shows the first decoration being pinned on. The picture at the right shows the final results, over 300 decora- tions. The picture in the middle shows the activities in full swing. Our Christmas gift this year went to a former Barium Springs student, George Faison. After lea- ving Barium he decided to study for the ministry. At that time he was married and had a family, but Honor Roll For Six Weeks Ending Jan. 12 First Grade — Judy Clendenin, Richard Blackburn. Second Grade — Charles An- drews, Bobby Ray Bailey, Na* Craig, Jerry McArthur, Jerry Thomas, Shelby McEwen, Peggy Jean Sellers, Jewel McFarland, Janet Woodall. Third Grade — Walter Plyler, Lawton Rice, Sidney Morrison, Patsy Dean, Carolyn Hucks, Jean Harrison, Barbara Johnson, Nancy Lee Kyles, Bernice Kuykendall, Marie McNeill, Addie McEwen, Johnsie Terry, Virginia Baucom. Fourth Grade — Johnny Collins, Evelyn Cox, Laura Jane Craig, Jerry Ellis, Jackie Liverman, Shir- ley Johnson, Mildred McFarland, Peggy Privette, Boyce Dean Smith, Richard Vest. Fifth Grade — Donald Dean, Betty Blacklfurn, Mary Bowles, Lois Dellinger, Phoebe Cochran, Shirley Hollifield, Margaret Hucks, Linda Inman, Beth Jackins, Shirley Plyler, Shirley Shaw, Letha Wal- ker, Anne White. Sixth! Grade — Ennis Blackburn, Aline Thomas, Jackie Kuykendall, Shirley Byrd, Louise Bradshaw. Seventh Grade — Hazel Creech, Patty Inman. Eighth Grade — Dwighi Reid, Hilda Barnes, Bonnie Odom. Ninth Grade — Shirley Inman, Peggy Neel, Elsie Vest. Tenth Grade — Kathleen Mon- roe, Helen Morgan, Jean Steppe, Betty Sue Wolfe. Eleventh Grade — Mary Dick- son Arrowood, Margaret Bullard, J. D. Everett, Jane Sigmon, Jerry Young. Twelfth Grade — Edith Marie Ferguson, Lucille Stricklin, Vir- ginia Presnell, Janie Hall, Charles Barrett, Sadie Gray Buie, Ernes- tine Baldwin. he managed to take care of the f>mily and get his college degree and then he went to the seminary. Right in the middle of his semin- ary career his health failed him and he had to move to a dry cli- mate, This was a great disappoint- ment to him as well as a great ex- pense. He says that our contribu- tion will enable him to enter Aus- tin Seminary. His letter of thanks for this gift is printed elsewhere in this paper. Crystal City, Texas December 22, 1947 My dear Friends at Barium, This morning I received a very special Christmas present. I think it was the nicest Christmas sur- prize I have ever had, because I have never gotten a Christmas gift Campus News RUMPLE HALL Hello Friends’ Here we are back again to bring you the news. We are getting our nouse painted up and clean. Our new matron arrived and we are all very glad to have her to come to live with us. She looks like she is very nice but when she has lived with us long enough we will learn to know and love her better, her name is Miss Grier. Mrs. Bryant is moving back over to the Wo- men’s Building and we will all miss her and hope to have her as our matron some other time. We sure had a good time when she was our matron. We are all doing good in school and hlope to have 27 honor rolls next month. We will see you next month when the time comes. Good Bye, — The Busy Bees ANNIE LOUISE COTTAGE Helio Friends, Here we are back again with lots to tell. School was out for Christmas holidays December the nineteenth and started back the thirty-first of December. During that time we had a lot of fun. We don’t see how our matron and big sisters put up with such excitement. Mr. John- ston iet us go Christmas shopping. Everything we saw we wanted but of course that was impossible. Christmas Eve, we went to bed but couldn’t sleep. The next morn- ing we were awake and had a won- derful Christmas. It snowed al- most all day. We didn’t play in it but still we had a good time with all our dolls, games and other nice things we got. We want to thank each and every one of our friends for mak- ing our Christmas such a success- ful one, Also we want to thank Mr. Sams in Statesville for the show from so many friends at one time. The gift I am writing about is that one which each of you made pos- sible at your “Give-to” Christmas tree. I know that to just write a let- ter to say “thank you” could never let you know how much I appreci- ate your kindness, but maybe if I tell you what your gift is going to be used for, you will have some idea of what a wonderful thing you have done. By the gift that you have sent, I am going to be able to go back to the Seminary this next fall and finish my studies in preparing for the ministry. I am sure you have all heard of: the great need there is in our church for ministers today, and then when you realize that eacty of you, by your gift at the “Give-to” Christ- Letter From One of Our Little Friends Dear Friends, If you can, please print this in the February issue. I wish I could go to see all of the people at Ba- rium Springs, but I can’t go up there. I am a member of the Tar Heel Presbyterian Church. I am eleven years old and in the sixth grade. I come to see my grand- mother and grandfather to read the paper that all the friends make for me to read in Barium Springs. Have a good time. My mother and father’s name is Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Gooden and my grandfather and grandfather’s name is Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Goode... Your pal, James David Gooden. tickets. It was nice to get away from school for a few days but it is nice to see all of our smiling teachers. Report cards have come out for the third period. Eighteen of our little girls got on the Honor Roll. We are very proud of them. We hope all of us will make it next time. It is getting cold now. Hope it snows soon. Any of you who pass by Barium will probably see a lot of snow men, women and children. Hope all of you have made some New Years Resolutions. Our’s is trying to be good. Our big sisters and matron are glad to hear that. Be with you next month same time, same paper. — Annie Louise Girls LEE’S COTTAGE We all had a big time Christ- mas and Santa was real good to everybody. We want to thank all our friends for making our Christ- mas happy. : We got up at five-thirty on (Continued On Page Two) mas tree, will have a part in help- ing fill this great need, you can really understand what g useful and generous thing you have done. I am at loss to think of a single thing that could have brought a greater joy to me on this Christ- mas Day, or that could have been more useful, than the gift you have made. Your “Give-to” Christmas tree at Barium reflects the true spirit of Christmas more radiantly than all the “Take-from” Christ- mas trees I’ve ever known! From the depths of my heart I say, “Thank you”, for sharing that which you have with! me, and thus making this Christmas one of the happiest and most glorious ones I have ever known. With! love and Best Wishes to all, George Faison. Alumni News Lucille Smith and her husband spent the week-end at Barium. Gwyn Fletcher was married December 25 at the First Presby- terian Church, Raleigh to Peggy Joyce Hamm of Raleigh. Bill Fortner of Charlotte made a short visit to Barium. Frank Purdy and Catherine and their two children have moved to Greensboro. Bob Johnston spent two weeks at Barium with Mr. and Mrs. John- ston. He is being transferred from Atlanta to Houston, Texas, George Faison, second year stu- dent at Union Seminary has been transferred to Crystal Springs, Texas on account of his health. This fall he will enter Austin Sem- inary. During the Christmas holidays (Continued From Page Two) No. 8 The Message of the Pulpit By Rev. R. S. Arrowood THE MINISTER’S MESSAGE Psalm 90:12. So teach us to num- ber our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. John Calvin calls this a problem in arithmetic. It is the same prob- lem we experience when we have a certain amount of money to spend and we go to the store to spend it. That article is too high, we do not buy that. Another is not of good quality, we pass it by. Another we would like to have but it is not necessary. Now, perhaps we may have lit- tle money, but there is something more valuable than that; it is Time. It is said that when she was dying, Queen Elizabeth offered her doctors any amount of money they asked, for one hour more of time, We have a year before us. We do not have the promise of the whole year, though God grant we shall all live the year. But we have certain days before us to spend. Our problem is to spend them wisely and well for things worth while and so may find a good investment. That was the thought of the Psalmist and he seeks help from God. The writer of these words is Moses, the man of God. Moses has been, from his youth, learned in all the learning of the Egyptians. But Moses looks and says, “So teach us.” Moses has lived in the desert of Arabia in contemplation forty years, but in humility he looks to God and says, “Teach, us.” Moses has seen God face to face but he says, “So teach us.” He makes his prayer out of his experience with God. For many years he has hiad no home but has lived a nomad a wanderer on the face of the earth. He looked to God to teach him because of the Eternity of God and the frailty of man. God knows all about time, the numbering of the days, because he is before time and above time. Before the mount- ains were brought or the earth was born, even from everlasting to everlasting, He is God. But man is mortal. His time is so limited when he begins te know something, mortality crooks a finger at him and he is gone. Bishop Edward H. Buckersleth wrote a transcriptiin of this Psalm which! brings out the thought most beautifully. “O God the Rock of Ages, who evermore hast been, What time the tempest rages, our dwelling place serene, Before the first creation, O God, the same as now, To endless generations the Everlasting Thou.” And then the second verse man’s Mortality. “Our years are like the shadows on sunny hills that lie. Or grasses in the meadows that blossom but to die. A sleep, a dream, a story by strangers quick- ly told; An unremaining glory of things that soon are old.” And Moses would suggest to us that we pray God to teach us, for God is wise and we lack wisdom. The children have a beautiful song: “Teach us Lord thy wisdom For Thou art wonderous wise Teach us Lord thy wisdom (Continued From Page Two) Barium Springs, N. C. You will find enclosed $= A MEMORIALGIFT Rev. R. S. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, in memory of NAME OF DECEASED ADDRESS DATE OF DEATH SURVIVOR TO BE WRITTEN ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP OF SURVIVOR TO DECEASED ONE GIVING MEMORIAL ADDRESS OO PaGE Two THE BaRtum MESSE er THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos. B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Mintered as second-class matter, November 15, 1128, at the posteffice at Barium @prings, N. C., under the act of August 24, rate of postage, provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 8, 1917. Meoveraber 15, 1928. 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special Autherized — BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON MRS. R. A. YOUNG ‘ MRS. COIT ROBINSON J. Archie Cannon - - - Concord Mrs. Coit Robinson - - - - Lowell Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - - Farmville A. P. Thorpe, Jr. - - Rocky Mount Rev. Samuel FE. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Rev. N. R. MeGeachy - -_ Statesville Dr. W. Z. Bradford - - - Charlotte Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Rev. Ben F. Brown - + - Wallace Mrs. E. C. Beatty - + - Mooresville : PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY Mrs. Fred E. Little- - - Wilmington Mrs. C. E. Kerchner - - - Greensboro Mrs. P. P. McCain - + Southern Pines Rev. M. S. Huske - - - - Reidsville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham R. W. Bruin- - - - + Henderoson Mrs. George Patterson - - + Gastonia Mrs. R. A. Young - + - + Charlotte J. H. Thomson - - - Kings Mountain Mrs. H. S. Kirk - - + Winston-Salem EEE eee (FORM OF BEQUEST) “I give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, In- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). ecm The 12th English Class wrote New Year’s Prayers after studing a part of Tennyson’s “In Memor- iam”. The following is Mildred Monroe’s poem: NEW YEAR’S PRAYER Heavenly Father, who has been Our only hope so true, At the end of this year of hate and sin We turn in prayer to you. Be with us while we strive to do All things pure and right, And let us remember to turn to you As day gives way to night . Let us resolve within this year To find a lasting peace, Which will rid the world of doubt and fear, And good will to others increase. Be with people in foreign lands, Who have not heard of Thee, And may this year be one that stands Out, in believers brought to Thee. Cleansed from secret faults let us be Refreshed to do Thy wiil, Blessed by Thee who always sees, The good that’s in us still. My heart is filled with thankful- ness, Knowing You’re always near; May I prove my worthiness Throughout the coming year. — Mildred Monroe. a isiic piaucdeainheonsaniiaaie aan = The Message of the (Continued From Page One) Lord of earth and skies Teach us, Teach us Lord thy wis- dom”, I do not think he was here ask- jne to know how many days he was to live. That would be a foolish prayer. And the number of the davs is not the most important thing. One day properly spent is of more value than a_ hundred years of a misspent life. There are many things more precious than leneth of davs. Patrick Henry said “Give me liberty or give me death” and that saying has leaped into meaning for us in these days. No, the meaning of number here is to proverly appraise; get an un- derstanding cf the brevity of life, end value of the days. Now the Psalmest doesn’t sug- gest that we number our years or our months, but our days. As never before my friends we must learn to pray “Give us this day our daily bread”, “Lord for tomorrow and its needs I do not pray. Keep me my God from stain of sin. Just for today.” “The man Christ called a fool was one who said “I have food laid up for many days’, but the Lord said, ‘not for you, you will pull down no barns: you will build no more; you will eat no more big dinners; you will drink no more. This night thy son] shall be re- quired of thee’. Rather should we live in the spirit of the words: “T expect to ness through this way but once. An~ ood. therefore. that 1 can do or any kindness that I ean show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not de- fer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this wev aain.” We come finallv to the purpose of the prayer; the obiect of the teaching: the solution of this prob- lem in prithmetic; the treasure to he hourht by our investment of our days, that we may harvest a heart of wisdom. Wisdom does not come to us as a free gift. We are not endowed with wisdom, we must acquire it. It is not bestowed on us because of piety or because of heredity. Moses out of the wealth of his ex- perience says we are to so use the days of the spring time of our life, in sowing; and the summer of our lives in cultivating and water- ing and fertilizing; that in the autumn we may hope to harvest a heart of wisdom. It does not take so long to col- lect gn assortment of facts. The quiz kids show us that. What a galaxy of facts; what q store of knowledge is crammed in the pig- ion holes of their young heads! But the ability to make a proper application of facts; the correct use of knowledge; the use of our knowledge and experience to give direction in the use of our facul- ties; that is wisdom. In the markets of the world how few of us spend our days for wisdom, of which Solomon - said, “The merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compar- ed unto her.” Yes if we have the earnestness of purpose to say to the sellers in Vanitv Fair, as did Christian and Honeful, “We buy truth”. Then, with God’s wisdom in our hearts, we shall be satisfied early in the morning with! his mercies. We shall be glad and rejoice all the dav. His works shall be made man- ifost ynto His servants and His elorv revealed unto their chil- dren, And the God. who is covered with light as with a garmet, will shed his wisdom upon us through His Son, who is made unto us wis- dom. So that the graciousness of God may be upon us, and the work which God has given us to do in so far « it accords with the di- vine plan and purpose and wisdom, will be forever established: and with fsith we mav pray. “Estab- lish thou the work of our hands upon us. vea, the work of our hands establish thou it.” So with courave? we may look forward to the new vear following “One who never turned his back bunt marched breast forward. Never doubted clouds would break. Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.” exciting and kept us on the edge of our seats, We got our report cards last week and ten of our boys were on the honor rol]. They were as follows: Lawton Rice, Johnny Col- lins, Jerry Ellis, Jerry Thomas, Nat Craig, Jerry McArthur. Walter Plyler, Boyce Dean Smith, Memory Thompson, and Richard Blackburn, Two little new boys have come to live with us now. Their names are Buddy Lane and Charles Ward. We hope they enjoy staying with us as much as we enjoy having them. Jimmy Campbell, o¢ of our “big” boys has moved to ‘ees Cot- tage. We miss him but are sure he will like his new cottage. So-long for this time but look for us again next month, “The Wigglers” INFIRMARY “Santa” was extra generous to us girls at the Infirmary this Christmas. Not only did he bring the presents asked for, but extra gifts. And to top all the talk about not having snow this Christmas we woke up to /ind a white Christ- mas well on the way after all. God must have realized that it just wouldn’t seem like Christmas with- out snow. With the New Year came a new nurse to the Infirmary, Mrs. Fin- ley. Not only is she a good nurse but a good cook also. We're sure Jaat you would like to meet her. Before many months we feel sure that the Infirmary will be one of the prettiest buildings on the campus. The bathrooms have been inlaid with green and black tile and before long the dining room is to have tile on it. Mr. Ervin and his workers have done quite _a lot of painting around and Mr, White, the plumber and electrician, has been seen around quite a lot. We have new draperies for the dining room and for the windows at the end of the halls. I’m sure we'll be able to tell you more about these things next month so be with us. — Margaret Bullard, Elsie Vest, Kathleen Monroe, Kathleen Ellis Alu.ani News (Continued From Page One) we had visits from the following: Eleanor Pope. Hannah Price, Toni DeLancy, students at Flora Mac- donald College. Paul Horne, Ernest Stricklin, Amos Hardy, Mott Price, students at Davidson. Dalma Jes- sup, Chas. Starling, David Burney, George Lewis, students at Carolina. Jack Caldwell, Tom McCall, Ben Lewis, students at State. Jack Mc- Call and Earl Adams, students at Catawba. Marie and Robert Mills and their children of Salisbury spent Sunday at Barium. Pleas Norman spent a few days at Barium, He has entered Mitchell College. Dwight Spencer has joined the Navy. Sidney Archbell, his wife and children from Elizabeth City stop- ped by Barium. Marley Sigmon was at Barium for the meeting of the Piedmont coaches. Marley is a coach at the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville. Walter Mott is a draftsman trainee yt General Electric at Phil- adelphia. Mott was married recent- ly. During the holiday season Mr. and Mrs. Johnston had all their children, except Ann Flayssoux, with them. Bob from Atlanta, Bill and his wife from New Albany, Ind., Joe, his wife and little girl from Concord and Leila from the Training School in Richmond. Campus News (Continued From Page One) Christmas morning and it didn’t take us but a jiffy to dress. We got our report cards the other day, Sidney Morrison, Don- ald Dean and Richard Vest made the honor roll. Mr. Johnston gave us a lot of army guns and we will have a big time plaving “bang bang.” We still have some candy we « Christmas and we get some when we come from school in the afternoon. : We are enjoying the _ basket ball games. —Lees Boys. SYNODS COTTAGE Here we are again, telling you of our doings during the first month of the new year, 1948. We went to the show last Sat- urday to see Rov Rogers in “The Bells of San Angelo”. It was very REGULAR Miscellaneous Gifts. QUILTS & SPREADS: Glendale Springs Aux., one. Mrs. Raby B. Vannoy, Wilbar, one. Salisbury ist S. S., Rumple B. c., two, Thomashboro Aux., Circle No. 2, one. Beattie Mem, Aux., one. First Vanguard S. S., Earnest Workers’ Class, one quilt, one top, one spread. Buffalo (G) Aux., two. Pineville Aux., Circle No. 1, one. Camp Greene Aux., two spreads. Paw Creek Aux., Circle No. 2, one quilt; one spread. White Hill (Sanford) Aux., one. Mrs. R. S. Seott, Charlotte, one. Mrs. J. O. Woods, Chiarlotte, one. Mount Zion (W) Aux., Circle No. . one. LINENS, SOAP & TOILET ART- ICLES: Paw Creek Aux., Circle No. 3, pil- NGER JANUARY 1948 i eee eeoooCOOVM_M low cases, scarfs. Union (KM) Aux., towels, wash cloths, Rinso, soap. Willow Springs Aux., soap, towels, wash cloths, tooth paste brushes, ete. St. Andrews (M) Aux., towels, wash cloths, tooth paste & brushles. Monroe lst Aux., towels, wash cloths. Beattie Memorial Aux., sheet, pil- low cases. Beattie Memorial Aux., Girls’ Cir- cle, wash cloths. ‘ 2727222722? dresser scarfs. Little River’ Aux., washi cloths, towels, pillow cases. Matthews, Beginners & Primary Depts., towels. North Gate Aux., wash cloths, tow- els, soap. Fairmont Aux., towels, wash cloths. Bethlehem (M) Aux., towels washl ¢loths. White Hill (Sanford) Aux., two spreads, tea towels, pot holders, dish rags, napkins. Cooks Memorial Aux., wash cloths, towels. Lee Memorial Church, wash cloths, combs, tooth brushes, etc. CLOTHING, MATERIALS: Belmont Aux., Circle No. 2, socks. Dacotah Cotton Mills, Inc., Lex- ington, 509 yards of material. Ernest Myatt Pioneer League, clothing. Mrs. Henry W. Kornegay, Seven Springs, 1 pair child’s shoes. Plaza Aux., Circle No. 6, socks. New Bern ist Aux., socks. W. S. Barney, Greensboro, men’s clothing. Miss Annie Burney, Kershaw, S. C., ladies’ clothing. J. C. McCue, Durham, clothing. J. J. Coggins, Raleigh, 1 box sweat- ers. CANNED FRUITS & VEGE- TABLES: CANDIES, NUTS: Mr. & Mrs. John E. Lee, Shelby (Alumni), about 25 lb. candy. Belmont Aux., B. W. Circles 1 and 2, candy. Mooresville Ice Cream Company, Mooresville, 15 gal. ice cream. Union |KM) Aux., canned peaches & tomatoes. Chapel Hill Aux., 18 jars jellies. Orkin Exterminating Company, Concord, one large bag walnuts. Lee Memorial Church, 8 boxes canned fruits. vegetables. Miscellaneous DECEMBER RECEIPTS Myr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet .... 1.00 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ..... 10.00 A Friend, Cumberland 6.00 A Friend. Raleigh .......... .. 5.00 Miss C. H. Stone .................... 1.00 For Messenger Mr. W. O. Singletary, Win- BONIS ala cases o-eos sctvesen ‘ Mr. S. D. Smith, Fayetteville 5.00 Miss Sallie Hunter 1.00 Annie Louise Burns For Gymnasium Ty benor of Lieut. Col. James D. Johnston, Barium Springs: Mrs. J. G. Anderson, Ill, Savan- neh, Ga. For Building Fund Berea Sunday School, Wilson Christmas Gift DECEMBER RECEIPTS Sandhills Kiwanis Club, in memory of Mrs. Chris PS Ee ercieresd seatenesnsoeth 56.00 Mrs. Cameron Morrison, APIS CED lei clcck . Uiticpeisousveis 100.00 Myers Park Aux., Circle No. 6, Charlotte ................ 5.00 Lincolnton Aux. ...........0-++ 10.00 Mrs. Elizabeth C. Thomas & Mary, Jackson Springs .. 20.00 Kings Mountain ist Aux. & Sunday School ............ ---- 122.79 Greensboro ist Aux., Circle eR eau prope aceie haan 46 Miss Josephine C. Hill, GTEONVINS cisiceccsecs soso cnensciee 5.00 Miss Mildred Wallace, States- MRIS Big. | Vicerclodpioseneioree 25.0 Mr. & Mrs W. J. Armfield, IIT, Greensboro ........2... ss-sesseeee 25.00 Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Sadler, Mt. REO) isisiies:. sero enee 00 Mr. Eugene Trivitte, North Wilkesboro ou... cesses 10.00 Trinity Avenue Aux., Dur- ham ...... iiss serene 5.00 Mr. J. C. White, Mt. Vernon OTTNES oi ier srerinsiens 12.50 Mr. & Mrs. E. R, Buchan, TEAGUE sc cscsecciuss ia neonecesrssens 25.00 Mrs. Ford S. Worthy, Washington, D. C. ............ 20.00 Mr. J. E. Lasley, Burlington 100.00 Mr. Todd Maxwell, Washing- COTS Fis We; eres can sensi ienetshvveen 20.00 Mr. George J. Henritzy, PR OURTICON ccesrccecsscies, « caevees 10.00 Mrs. James C. McKinnon, Laurinburg ........... .-..-.-.... 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. John Corbett, Elon College .............-.-0 25.00 Dr. & Mrs. W. L. Hand, WEE ciibiiices | Aeicircansscceee 100.00 Mrs. R. L. Pittman, Fayette- eto es disaesucakes 100.00: Mr. & Mrs. John A, Tate, Jr.. Charlotte, in memory of Mrs. Lemma Shepard Howerton & Marshall Shepherd ........ 100.00 Mrs. Wilcie Burleson. ea iatiiner 10.00: Mrs. J. H. Gilliland, Decatur, ee ee Burgaw S. &., for Christmas Ce ee aaa 00 Clothing Funds DECEMBER RECEIPTS Belmont First Aux., B. W. C. Ciseie Nae 6c ssncetns 10.00 Miss Virginia Shelton, Gesensoerh: en ek 30.00 Jackson Springs Aux, ........ 17.50 PAington AWK lk ee 35.00 Maston ist Aus. 225.0400.6 80.00 Lenior, Couple’s Class ........ 40.00: Fayetteville Ist 8S. S., Good- me BS Be eres 50.00 Maggie Rose B. C. ............ 22.50: First Vanguard Aux, .......... 20.00 E. C. T. C., Westminster Fellow- ship, Greenville ............. ° «4. 15.00 POURRA: URE i cccssccectensccsse . 6.00 Mt. Aivy ist Aux, .ciiccius 20.00 Shelky ist Aux. ............ 40.00 Lincolnton 1st Aux. ............ 40.00: Williams Memorial Aux. .... 20.00 Howard Memorial Aux., Mrs. Mabry Ter: accu 5.00 Mrs. Geo. Holderness ........ 8.50 Mrs. Job Cobb ........ 8.50 New Hope (W) Church, Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Henry, Winna- RS Set ce in eerie Oakland (G) Aux. ....... Prirmont -AUs. (..504..4.25.. Piags, Johnson B. C. 2... 5 Lumberton Aux. ........... Dunn ist, Carrie Baldwin eS us Ga a ens Ce 20.00 Operating Memorials DECEMBER RECEIPTS Mrs. Altie Corpening Furr, Moor- esville: Dr. & Mrs. Wallace Hoffman, Statesville Miss Rose Stephany, States- ville Herman & Henrietta Wallace, Statesville Memorials for Church DECEMBER RECEIPTS Alexander. Mrs. J. Mac, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. P. M. Edge Mrs. Mary G. Oehler Miss Lelia Alexander New York Allison, Mr. James C.: Mrs. Margaret R. Allison, San Antonio, Texas (niece), a Garner, Sr., Sumter. Mr, A. T. Dozier, Statesville, N. Barr, Mr. Frank W., Charlotte: Myers Park Church Blackburn, Mrs. Earl H., Reids- ville: Ed & Louise Lewis Bolick, Mr. J. Emmett, Pineville: Sharon (M) Aux. Bonitz, Miss Florence. Wilming- ton: Mrs. Schaeffer Parker Brawley, Mr. Ralph, Jr., Moores- ville: Mr. & Mrs. Frank Harris Caldwell. Mrs. Laura Frazier (J. Q.), Charlotte: Ss Mrs. Ralph Puckett, De- rita Mr. & Mrs. Loyd Alexander Martha Barringer, Concord es Creek S. S., Kate Neal b Os Mr. & Mrs. Loyd Alexander Clark, Mr. George, Jr., Jackson- ville, Fia.: David J. Craig, Charlotte Cline, Mr. Jesse M., Huntersville: By wife, Mrs. Amelia Cline Cloaninger, Miss Nannie, St. Pet- ersburg, Fla.: Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Norfleet, Winston-Salem Cobb, = Adele Allison (Daugh- ter): Mrs. Margaret R. Allison, San Antonio, Texas pare. Mrs. G. W., Winston-Sa- em: Winston-Salem ist Aux. Corpening, Mr. Ransom R., Lenoir: Mr. & Mrs. Orren Robbins Culbreth, Mr. T. F., Raeford: The M. C. Dew Family Darden, Mrs. Joe W., Kenly: Miss Cora L. Freeze, Mooresville Dellinger, Mr. T. C.. Matthews: Gastonia 1st, Vanguard Class Denny, Mr. A. G., West Jefferson: Mr. A. Fuller Sams, Jr., States- 10.00 0.00: 5.00 5.00 or- an, ce, te: a), an Pr. is- ad rd al PAGE 'THREE oO oooNoNoNoE————eo— ville Ferricr. Dr. J. W., Warsaw: Mrs. J. W. S. Robinson & Family, Ivanhoe ‘ Funderburg, Mr. J. Manly, Lake Charles, La.: _ T. M. Funderburg, (moth- er Furr, Mrs. Clarence, Mooresville: Wharey Mem. Aux., Mooresville First Mr. & Mrs. H. N. Johnston Mr. A. T. Dozier, Statesville Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: ‘Mr. Bob Gaither (grandson) Gentry, Master William W., Jr., Annapolis, Md.: The J. H. Fleming Family, Ral- eigh Grier, Mrs. S. A., Barium Springs: Miss Sarah MeNeill, Reidsville Grill, Mrs. Henry, Sr., Valdese: Mr. J. P. Rostan, Sr., Harrell, Mr. John E., Atkinson: Mr. & Mrs. Robert Eakins Harris. Mr. Alvis, Reidsville: Reidsville 1st, Circle No. 5 Harris, Mrs. Nettie R., Reidsville: Mrs. Roma V. Ingram Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Balsley, Jr. Miss Mary Montgomery Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Montgomery Hart, Mrs. Pattie Currin, Mt. Holly & Oxford: Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Norfleet, Winston-Salem Hassell, Mr. William Taylor, Staun- ton, Va.: Mrs. Rebekah H. Murray, Wil- son (niece) Heilig, Mrs. H. J., Winston-Salem: Winston-Salem 1st Aux. Henderson, Mr. Lucius L., Gas- tonia: Union Church (KM) Youth Fel- lowship Hendrix, Mr. John, Raeford: Mr. M. C. Dew Hendrix, Rev. James A., Birming- ham, Ala.: Myers Park Church, Charlotte Holderness, Mr. George A., Tar- boro: Mr. J. T. Sadler Mr. Herman Cone, Greensboro Holmes, 1st Lieut. J. Glenn, Rocky Mount: Mrs. J. T. Holmes (mother) Howerton, Mrs. Philip, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Norfleet, Winston-Salem Huneycutt, Mr. Walter Huston, Badin: : Deacons of First Presbyterian Church, Badin Hunter, Mrs. R. L., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Loyd Alexander Hunter, Mr. Thomas M., Jr., Fay- etteville: Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Rankin Johnson, Mr. O. L., Lillington: Men’s B. C., Lillington Kennedy, Mrs. Nellie White, (D. E.), Statesville: Miss Lulie E. Andrews, Barium Springs M. & Mrs. Sam G. Hall Ketchie, Mrs. George B., Mt. Ulla: Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Norfleet, Winston-Salem Mrs. W. W. Miller & Miss Sarah Jewett Lacy, Mrs. Ben R., Jr., Richmond, Va.: Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Norfleet, Winston-Salem Lee, Mrs. R. E.. Lincolnton: Mr. & Mrs. Dan Boyd Leeper, Mr. W. A. Belmont: Warren Gardner’s Young Men’s Shop, Gastonia Lineberger, Mr. A. C., Sr., Belmont: Myers Park Church Loch, Mr. John Ottis. Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Joe W. Thompson Manus, Mrs. Lonnie, Wadesboro: Camden §. S. Maupin, Mr. T. K.. Raleigh: Mr. & Mrs. George J. Moore McArn, Mr. Hunter, Laurinburg: Mrs. W. H. Best, Goldsboro McDuffie, Mrs. Della, Raeford: Mr. M. C. Dew McRae, Mr. D. K., ee Mrs. D. K. McRae, (wife) Clio, S. C. Montgomery, Miss Angie, Cleve- land: Mr. & Mrs. L. K, Lazenby, Statesville Morrison, Miss Adeline, Concord: Misses Lou, Lina & Addie White Concord 1st, Grier B. C. Morrison, Mr. Joe Y., Concord: Concord 1st, Grier B. C. Morrison, Mr. Julian G., States- ville: Mr. F, S. Morrison Morrison, Mrs. W. W., Asheville: Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Clements, Greensboro Mr. & Mrs. C. H. McQueen, Lex- ington Mr. & Mrs. Irwin Ham, Greens- boro Niblock, Miss Laura, Concord: Mr. & Mrs. L. K. Lazenby, Statesville Patrick, Mr. G. Reece, Gastonia: Union Chureh (KM) Youth Fellowship Pierce, Mr. H. O., Charlotte: Myers Park Church Pittman, Mrs. Lillie S., Charlotte: Mrs. R. H. Stowe, Mt. Holly Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Given Propst, Mrs. J. W., Sr., Concord: Dr. V. H. Youngblood, Atlanta, Georgia Query, Mr. E. N., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Hunter Ramsey, Mrs. M. E. (Ben), States- ville: Mr. & Mrs. A. Wesley Emery Mr. & Mrs. Karl T. Deaton Mr. & Mrs. Neely Kincaid Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Raymer Mr. & Mrs. A. Fuller Sams, Jr. Mr. George H. Emery Mr. A. W. Fanjoy Repass, Mr. J. C.. Durham: Trinity Avenue Sunday School Riddle, Miss Lalla H., Gastonia: Union Church (KM) Youth Fel- lowship Robinson, John C., Greenville, S. C: Mrs. J. P. Brown, Charlotte Ryder, Mrs. W. B., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. George D. Whiite Satterfield, Mrs. Addie Greenwood; Mt, Airy: Mr, & Mrs. Roy E. Holmes, Charlotte Sharpe. Dr. Frank, Greensboro: Bradford Clinic, Charlotte Misses Cora & Daisy Strong, Greensboro Shaw, Mr. Edward, Manchester: Flat Branch Aux., Sherrill, Miss Hazel Little, States- ville: Mr. & Mrs. W. E. Sherrill (par- ents) Skidmore, Miss Margaret English, Lexington: Mr. & Mrs. T. M. Snyder Spencer, Mr. T. E., Richmond, Va.: Mrs. Pinckney Best, Burlington Starratt, Mr. William, Charlotte: Sugaw Creek, Kate Neal B. C. Stone, Miss Mary Frances, Stone- ville: Mr. & Mrs. C. P. Robertson Stowe. Mrs. Greene Buchanan, Gastonia (Died Novy. 8th): In sending memorials to Mrs. Stowe, Friends sent us the name of “Mrs. Gary G. Stowe, Sr.” instead of Mrs. Greene Buchanan Stowe. In order to clarify this, we are listing below all memorials we have received up to this time for the latter: Miss Emma Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Gastonia First S. S., Herald B. C. Gastonia First S. S., Nellie War- ren B. C. Mr. & Mrs. Phil P. Jackson Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. D. E. Morrow Mrs. L. N. Patrick Mrs. Coit E. Rhyne Mrs. S. A. Robinson Mrs. Fred L. Smyre Miss Mary Sexton Smyre Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Thompson Thomas, Mr. W. A., Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. A. Fuller Sams, Jr. Mr. Pegram A. Bryant oe Mr. M. P.. Winston-Sa- em: Mr. & Mrs. Alex T. Sloan Trimble, Miss Maria P., Rocky Mt.: Mrs. Jane T, Parker Troutman, Mr. B. A., Mooresville: Dr. & Mrs. V. V. Voils Troutman, Mr. B. S., Mooresville: Mr. & Mrs. Frank B. Harris Vandiver, Mrs. Sara Frances, Char- lotte: Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Meacham Vyne, Mr. Leonard, North Wilkes- ro: Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Clements, Greensboro Mr. J. R. Finley Mr. & Mrs. J. B. McCoy & Family Walker, Dr. Landon D., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. P. M. Edge Walters, Mr. John Thomas, Rae- ford: Mr. M. C. Dew Weathers, Mr. Billy, Goldsboro: Mr. & Mrs. T. F. Marrow, Jr., Webb, Mrs. A. S., Kings Mountain: Mr. & Mrs. Paul Neisler Webb, Mrs. Ship, Concord: Mr. & Mrs. L. K. Lazenby, Statesville Westbrook, Mr. C. M., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Norfleet, Winston-Salem White, Mr. Allen P., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Uhlman §. Alexander Williams, Mrs. Mary Jane, States- ville: Monticello Home Demonstration Club Wilson, Little Miss Carolyn (5 years), Manchester: Flat Branch Aux. Williamson, Mr. Ben H., Mt. Airy: Mrs. B. H. Williamson (mother) Miss Mary C. Barrett R. N. Miss Marie Snell, Thomasville Yates, Mr. Alvis M., Lenoir: Mr. George C. Robbins Mr. R. C. Robbins Churches DECEMBER RECEIPTS ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY INOW BOP OE ike... on cccccsees 45.75 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Back Creek 98.33 PEAUADORO ooovccceecss cadens. .. 19.89 OG sccsccces Pees cecievies 6.50 Concord .... Bee cc ceies 8.12 DAVIGEON csc 3 41.43 Te et. cc cacccsce | BAND Harmony ..... PEt. ee PE osc cose eceace 6.93 i Gah ens aaeneeseae 23.40 Kannapolis Ist ............ Cpe 85.00 Kannapolis 2nd .... PM Little Joe’s Marion ... McKinnon Mooresville 1st Minsk bia deans secu’ Quaker Meadows RAOUPy FO oe cae. Salisbury 2nd ..... Sherrill’s Ford ... Sd) rr Statesville 1st .. Thyatira ..... ME aloiserse (Waurniiaes ” ecacusies MW OUIAY cinses: sccstess. scccecae FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Bensalem ............ ... seein aie 12.34 Bie HOCkian ...ci.u.-...., .. 8.09 APE BOIG vccicccicccs Sec ey sn. SEO BON oo sdeses sascinee tac -- 18.52 Jackson Springs 6.17 AT ois ssessiad, soazccs Lillington Lumberton . MeMillian ............ Mount Pisgah .... ces ecient GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY POMQWERIG Siccssess. cvicccn” laek 1.92 Grassy Creek .00.0..000. cecceceeee North Vanguard MPR AEE Gos lekecis scssesis “en if MEOOUE ERE cise deere ands White Memorial (Raleigh) .. 8.52 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Gastonia 1st Mr. & Mrs. J. L. BGOGATION | ccccsssissss Sdscnescd 7.50 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY PEVONUENG sliiin. cae ae, | PE hae crises: éeslicsecety eae TIRTEB. cccsssesesse’ oe Charlotte 2nd Cook’s Memorial BG eeipseineks |: sesseseianss : PEUNCRTBVIG oo..cccscss sesstexpatius TRGIGN FEY oiccsccesscs ssasocss Indian Trail Macedonia ....... ‘ Monroe 1st .........2.. see PE ahicevicses | snsserosesin FEV OPE PRE cncscess sescoese: saschecann, PRN, “Wivisetsies sisssmenss ace, NPMIOED ccicsecsnes s+s0ecusiiesy aibesacs COR osciescssssciets canoes Philadephia ................... Plaza, M. J. Dean BPMIOTEDE secsecseanss sstsrieh Seapres SRI, © cc sacatccas: sssensek eteumenian Selwyn Avenue PEN FEI abiciceccses scssente-geauninn Sugaw Creek ............ .. Tenth Avenue ..... ME ve iliss toes cosivonsvsee Westeover Hills ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance .......0.... 0 -.ssc0e sccseeee.. 26,00 SUING chiciercevcs svsssivestot “Weebunses Bethesda THE BARIUM MESSENGER — ESE pO YE RS Ee aoe ee Greensboro 1st ... fa High Point 1st .. Reidsville Riverview ... Stoneville .... White Hill WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY SE Ree a 5.00 Black River a: 38 Peek 8.63 Hopewell _.. 2.13 Mt. Olive 8.75 Pe he rete 1.11 Rocky Point ...\...... ..... 37 Wausee oo 100.00 Wilmington 1st ... 55.44 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem Ist ............ 83.50 Sunday Schools DECEMBER RECEIPTS ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Cobb Memorial ............ .......... 26.74 PRPS a ae 11.08 New Bern 1st, Men’s B, C. _ 22.62 PUNOIONE stoic eee: 4.59 Rocky Mount 1st, Men’s B. C. 64.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Centre, Primary Class Birth- die Banko CONE en ti ey PON ea TBO ee a Mooresville 1st ... Mooresville 2nd Salisbury 1st Every Man’s Uy cere ncaa’ Geacacis -eshuasiecs 35.00 Statesville 1st 51.68 Tabor TRVIOTIING oe ooeeke eee 9.73 TAU ee 32.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Antioch Bethel Bluff Centre Church-in-the-Pines, Nov. & POG or a ar eh 20.00 Community S. S., Ladies’ B. C Pot Goa eee ie ee ea 5.00 Culdee, Oct. & Nov. .. 25.00 Dunn, Men’s B.C. .............:.. 57.17 Ephesus .... 11.90 Bo i 41.00 Fayetteville 1st, Oct. & Nov. 40.00 Flat Branch A oe a i sects We eee Soaks) ci secae 3 Highland Aug. & Sept. ........ 132.23 Jackson Springs, Oct. & PEE eek sacs cease aces 25.36 Di cso cissescs Seale 10.18 Leaflet, 5th Sunday ............ 63.37 Lillington ae Nov. ... Dec. 4 Lumber Bridge ...0..00.... 0-2... 8.41 eR ica, oss Succeeds vanseuss 22.22 RO OL Sick esis. sansa Cele PR i cco. Lonsasaszene .... 10.00 BO PIE co csscscese: seciccceeves 10.00 Ber on. acts aadexlasueie hes 17.38 NS sistliics dc Sicans vanes 8.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY OR Ee iislassesac: witinnek semncsahails 5.00 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Bessemer City Oct. .............. 9.00 BEE teases. sat xaunee 6.72 MGs Aca. co PRIME ais nace “annie Cherryville Cramerton, Sept., Oct. & MRE a tcereteiind says charterer 17.88 Dyrican’s Creek ......0:.05 .....5 7.60 Gastonia 1st, Henderlite Oss ceri el rie -vbusiceinisexes 300.00 TEE ae csresse vssevees 4.00 TAVROINTON. L6G vccsseseiis~cvsescseus 26.47 TONS CLOCK coc vcciics sesiessn sxisee 12.06 ie aisacvesiued’ Guierare 89.96 Rutherfordton 0.2.00... cece Shelby Union Unity MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle 1st .......00... 2s 71.00 Amity ..... REIIss heaghcnaee. 7 exs cS Badin, Ladies’ B. C. .............. 3.00 Pee ec capsass concasindt 7.07 Caldwell Memorial, Hunting- BOR Bee Oe cscciscecsies pegteetseoss 7 Caldwell Memorial, Ridgeway B. C., Christmas i... 10.90 i ce eesisitente sbusdaes 5.00 ME case cece ass sapivslen, “veavaswiee 7.53 Commonwealth ou... cece 25.42 BEPOING TIO VO sesiccsvcses ssccseieasae 16,65 FRUMECTSVING aeicccccsess desicccesese 32.70 BPO AOE siciressceee sone. srienies . 45.79 DROUSG TSHOOG sccceccssssn: bescasiccces 9.43 FOB BAT eociiiekthecssseovesessees 1238.42 PROB GID visvccsiisen Hoscasss 25.00 PIAGET. Sacssvoseses.bupsiervescess 24.60 Pleasant Hill, Jan. & Dec ....129.98 Rockingham PEPE diseiciienss | scscsxnaceees é Special ............ Tenth Avenue West Avenue .... Westminster ..... sak.) aunbeebe BGO Woy Ov cvcsscicsseed tvecenns ORANGE PRESBYTERY RIRTIOG esse ike Monon een 31.64 Burlington Ist ... . 28.387 IE csssatsiee sce decdnigaus 8.41 Greensboro ist, Men’s B. C, 13.34 TONESDOTO, OGb. .ccccccccccs ccccccee 10.00 BRONS somiccniets slnicce commen SE GIUEE Uscticces: Gein scienuk SOO JANUARY 1948 eee er a RO Nat he eee Special ............ Bs New Flope Nov. ccccoccscccc cesccee- Pee. Speedwell WeUINNSOF 555.6 ee WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Tn eames 54.31 Clarkton ......... wie 13.36 Graves Mem., Ist, 2nd & 3rd Sarees oo ee Jacksonville, 3rd quarter .... 30.00 Lake Waccamaw, April & December .... PEO EO eo Pleasant View Pollocksville ..... ee South River ..... CNN os ssiasecaicnate APE ok ee Winter Park. ............ oe W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY George W. Lee Mem. ............204.36 Mocksville .......... sbekcGr ince ae Winston-Salem 1st, Neal Anderson B, C., ...,.... ...-: 280.81 Auxiliaries DECEMBER RECEIPTS ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY OUND ee 2.00 Goldsboro 1st 2... ceesecceeee 206.15 Howard Memorial ........ ........ 7.00 GG ena Bae 4.00 Rocky Mt. 1st, A Friend .... 20.00 Rocky Mount 2nd .occcccsc.. occ 1.00 RAS 1.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY PEON co i eee 12.00 MO VR) OBMD ooccoccciees scl cs 1.00 OPRUITA Sees ac 2.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY epee er Bethesda Carthage Ephesus ifs ee ‘ Eureka, Circles 2 & 8 ............ 8.15 eet po ee 3 el as Laurinburg ............ - 3rd Quarter .. ecaibees RAI os occsae ese etc ce PRE oh occeece caricues adic ME disvicciye! cakes Red Springs, Special Rowland Bardis: .....::.:... GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY CR iss ey 44 ee gies hes - «ee West Raleigh: .c....05.5 coccoscsscce 2.84 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY CUNY VIE! ec sesicck sassaeatvecsaess 3.8 Mary Grove Circle .... Lincolnton 1st Mount Holly ...... West Avenue .......... --....... 27.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY PPOBTUGTIO TEE ciovccciicicvess: cvcies 4.00 PRR a caocks) sceiecks cunessduace .80 Benton Heights, Circle ........ 1.00 CBArIOttG Bid occ. xossccsace Cook’s Memorial PE ORS AR ocho) ceciece tak Bete PO oi a cae ape Philadephia ............ ; cece bacs ee EE nls Aol. South Park Chapel ... Tenth Avenue ............ : 5.00 Thomasboro............. ..... 1.50 Walkersville . -20 West Avenue ..... 88 Westminster 14.50 Williams Memorial, Circle A Me eee, a can cage 21.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY PION oesccsslss cesses cass Ae Circle NO, 1 ioc. 7.87 Cle NO: Bic sauces 1.00 POU ocssc saci | adssataseesd (siaeve TE Buffalo (G) ........... Burlington 2nd COVENANT co ccisc eve eek cals rCWe ROWE otis. nS Greensboro 1st OO oe ic ings WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY BOO FOV OE eoiccsccclin Gackeessuce .20 RO ea ehsas, ocmecesni tsiats 9.00 NE 25 Ae. bes sauaniecincs 50 PU oe Srcsies) ccsercel Aindene ae PN AE side iid eisai 7.50 Pearsall Mem. ............ eves 5.00 WORE PALE onc sccccssc cisccsasceesss 6.25 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem Ist ........ 0... 15.00 Miscellaneous DECEMBER RECEIPTS Davis Hospital ...........2....... 1,000.00 Mr. S. H. Millender, Mebane 100.00 Mrs. G. H. Davis, Hobgood .. 5.00 Cone Foundation, Greens- TO en ck scence ediodics 100.00 Mount Calvary S. S., Vivian Jacumin’s Class, Valdese .. 10.00 Mr. J. B. Hall, St. Pauls .... 15.00 Mr. Charles H. Litaker, PaGE FOUR THE BARIUM MESSENGER JANUARY 1 948 qe Charlotte A Friend eee re oe 100.00 Jackson Spri : $ Springs . Statesville Theatre Corp. a 50.00 Lakeview ....... ° 7 Ore 41.66 Stoneville Statesville as ” 00 ae S18 Gin Co”... 20.00 Lowell = Mr. W. L. Totten Durhs aes aan 0 Laurinburg ee White Hill ~~ . seeeeeees 83.00 St DES ncnnensersee cenonevennenerscanen 5 c, tua, Ooame Sas CRE cs ee es wi BN nscsnsenes_ sssetnree 2, pener om ag kT a ons em boro ; . PS: Lumber Bri ‘ LMI EASES er aes . ee Mr. Dean Sullivan, Jackson- 25.00 McMillian ssiaecndlnaenenaaaaliceatie 19.31 uu | PRESBYTERY Union Mills Y. P. & sos $2.80 ee eres cone ville, N. C. . on- Mathereen ..s.< Cian eee: Beth Carr - MECKLEN Raven a a Mr. C. V. Garth, Shuford on fa... coseenanen 54.05 Bowden ...... Aue BURG PRESBYTERY Shion ae or aie nes Hickory 1,000.00 Midway ........--- anime niet | Badin pemyeite oes Mz, ts F. tha tual Montpelier ee en Calypao hae oe A? Banks ... ‘: 2000 TENN aecncnesscinnseysonnsiseanne ee oe, re ount Pisgah erga ae arolina —— . Benton Hei 35.00 shintiie pameetre Mr s Gi ae Hickory 100. 7 e sant a... 5. fe ye Elizabethtown le "139.82 Bethel ..... , — os on wae PRESBTTERY 4 yordon ee sees . oO araennoteet® ere eee eene ten’ > ener . ache. : Statesville ...... oe foots som So shiae an .... 20.00 Faison bpcersansnsenbennngenheny . 20.00 ne setenenresssene seeee .. 7,00 — Memorial 2.00 wi Pals, Gincnabers “aoe. uk. “36.00 Geo. W ‘oe 8 ruver Memorial Mr. & M ate, Greensboro 5.00 Sagar opted LTE GLE OO 13.46 H ebb Mom. 8 50.95 Cando? .....+...... .00 Kenly . boro rs. J, W. Allen, Ellen- Bee Rae cs ee 167.50 ee eeerend & S. S. 23.00 Charlatte — seseneee ‘anae Nutbush ae ae Ocean | sineceetnne 50. Spies on nnnene serene mete - ees oS eaieaepmmnaeernateininst : ae fall. . ee Mocksville ee — en vx crversenee 10.08 a Waccamaw ...-- = = Hamlet ve - 8.78 Sacer ei ibs Smee, Bewros (Abominee Union Mapel Hill... ee ~ 12.35 Saint Andrews... Mrs. L. W. Poovey, Hickory tia OP pen eae Mo Ulive ...... 146.95 ean Mem. ..........-. - ion eo : ey, Hick : unt Zion ... Monroe 1s : "6.95 White Mem. (Rale’ henge suneeeenee Miss Mittie Pickard, Chapel oe > GRANVILLE SEMABYTERY Oakdale... 94.40 Mulberry oe Se ~ 58.39 vie Mem, (Raleigh) a os 5 Slacknall M rove ....... ‘ Myers Park ......... - aseorevees. SUE NGS M Mr, & Mrs. W. Lee iinhceys Reanketon enn ceseeneeees 120.10 Pearsall Mem. a aS Newell = cainatrs eee ~ 892.58 Cherryville ome PRReaT Tees Mr. Ww. ate es _ 25 00 Center RIMES ocucs + .--- 60.00 Pleasant View & Aux. 29.60 eo peamemenagerental w. 15.65 Cramerton . 90.65 Poi fe Kiemme, High ; Durham 1st cee mmm ds 10.55 Pike .«............ Pie 18.00 Anes an sore OUe Duncan’s Creek cevsss seeaseeeeee= 50,00 ca v se oa Bee eas oe yee ag Pe : Wie ca x ites Kings Mountain fcc. 8.00 oo . Bizzell, “Seven ean Bee ec “ = ce ae Pobinson .... Saeki oe Creek me ue xs ee Muquay-Varine eaten Stantord ..... 5 i pe Rourk ay Pe 75 ee Butler, a“ aurin- ° eee Creek tar & ere: ete ; oT Paul | Lp anon i oo sone senesetteneseees 15 truver Mem. Sal a8... baron Ren mtteana: “atone 2 iy oe - bag Valdese oo Henderson. 1st : oo a We 15 ‘Tabernacle _ aoe wveone 20.00 Mr. A. i. Baecosnegy- Cary .. 5.00 os vee - etd a : oo Mea 30.00 MECKLENBURG PRESB) 20.60 Mr. H. R. Shrago, Goldsboro 5.00 ree — 18.01 Willard Me LBt on enne verre . ULMOTE «22... eee teeee nee a 98.23 Amay aieane URG PRESBYTERY Stscuits ings ate ...... ? PRERAT GE noessssseens conneeeees ‘ Pie : Da diy AMES oo. .ereeeeee ceeeeetteeee 1 Mrs. . - ewes. gre. nt al _— Winter Park . ; Bethesda PRESBYTERY on sessresesesassee ateeennnenseesengace we Wil, 8, °C. + oe Doak GD nanseenererennns es W.-SALEM PRES a sas Sete rigs ce 30.00 She xbor 5. B rentwood . enton Heigh Ove Dr. §. D, Craig, Winston- oe at havews re . 20. Bethel oon 01 Buffalo (G) . = 30. 00 Bethlehem = Sine ee 32.30 5 ee ee ad cas CORE EE a a ee 10.01 Buffalo (L) Ee SE oe eg 25.00 one Co., Richmond,” ‘ Trinity nae, eae 5 ~—- Mem. ae e 132 Burlington 1st eete Charlotte Ist anne 9.56 a White : ooleemee ..... : Burlington 2n 157.14 Charlotte 2n A Friend, ..-- 10.00 Mem. (Raleigh) Danb 52.00 d 119.3 . Mr. “adh ichonond, “Va. .... 25.00 ve Mem. (Willow ete S816 Sneanen 24.68 yea ee e - F00 HHacalet a we : Ju Lam arl Spri eS cessena : -Bethel ........ ’ ‘ amlet oe M. ea 10.00 vr waka ee eeeerenetees ates 11.78 es ai Greensboro 1st ate Indian Hill Cee: Shelby. First. Po i apliiaes 5.00 didian lec, Mean 48.15 4 ‘ou Memorial .. - 67.13 ee oe gH indies Trail ee aes et < Willie Raat 5.09 PRESRYTERY Glendale Springs. --~ ‘a Go aA 7 Mem. Mrs. . (William He geri: 5 Adams fone PRESBYTERY a aa Springs ne 2.00 North Butfalo (G) Chapel .. as Maes donis pee ork Pie 4 eee Get ae r jedmont ....-.-- i” asta Mr. & Mrs. O. T. iho 25.00 ca Mem. ......-- 8 - 15 Laurel Forks 0. Oat Be oneeee 52.76 Morven _— a7 M Carthage -- oy oan Oo Cettaa a .. 25.78 pte: ee ‘ Pleasant Grove .. ean 10.00 Ree. r. W. 0. Singletary, Winston. Dallas ....... .. 64.00 Millers ............- Pre bless Pocket. ......- eo 8.26 Norwood a eens ee i eee oe ae ~- $4.00 Mocksville... or a. nw 25.70 Paw Creek .... ieee Bo MG cs aku 26.19 oo Wilkesboro Bot AuiwS ns 981.79 Pineville ccc oon Ch ao 48.50 eak Creek . cccs codes Ge MEER gc eaace cone urches PO eee Pine H Y eseeteeenee cetteatenees + 70.00 DECEMBER REC Ree ge es . 10.00 Re ae NT nce cance 38.5 a a ALB EIPTS Hephzibah Oe ee eae tae 7 Kept paenennensse : WILMINGTON ae 8.50 ie Andrews | ih ox ge - o Oo ee Go Te ae span et _ AL RRMARLE PRESBTTERY song Creek SO eee ha ee ee eee Beas a 9.85 Sachoolall sea eietusie ees ... 50. RE csosnreee ’ onre nce ei ho ae eo - ethleh — Keres Sennen - —-—..... .. Es : oe “AW eee ete ee Boyd’s a S. P< 20.49 Soe Son agameeaaeneaehR®, 09. Sunday Schools pg ee WOME cise 3.36 West Avenue Carvary ee ee 25.28 Saluda, S. S. & Aux. 10.08 DECEMBER RECEIPTS os ig lene Williams Mem. Varmville en cn ee ADD GOR a nn . eehoeseeawtteteese § «—SOFOrS 4 Greenville a ae 54. "73 ae PRESBYTERY — Mem. eS ae mao PRESBYTERY ow } banichskehe: onan eNnen rey ‘08 Cobb Mem. . c nesenecenerneeenee Freee wssnengneoeens’” econnene® : ee Leet Memoria india 291.98 2 oe 60.00 Tmmanuel en «oe oo LaGrange .. poccseeettes tees 2442 MECKLENBUR Gia SHOTO -....-.. gee Mount Olive. dr. Boys ........ : Bethesda a 50.00 Albemarle Ist G EE ae BD cence: ee Pe GARE Laie |'s . Broadway Neuse Forest Alton. ... Pe re es Rocky ent & Aux. ......... 30-10 Murrayville oc enn : Burlington 2nd ... Rocky Mount 1st Avondale ceovsonennne seeneeennnnuananenne ‘3150 Out St n-ne 59.30 Same ath ve * oan oe gg eee ethlehem Saat . CONCOR ; Mill ... oe ee CONCORD PRESBYTE ee nn ee 46.00 Bayless _— PRESSTTERY ape Tn ...... Bete eats East Burlington 0. en Belk Memorial ~*~ Brainard can ear rareneteny * 91.60 Beattie Mem. ccc. conn 0.00 a biansinss Bo cue! Greensboro Ist ........ Bethany ........... 985 Central Stecle Creek .......... 32.00 Concord 2nd ‘son ii Six Forks ........ "48.25 Pittsboro ........... .. ince Bethpage oe ee teseeag Y Chastntte tat reek ........-- 89.10 Fairview jaspwiewsecere Groeten South River ai phases Pleasant Grove a Bridgewater .csccccsss vesreseese : Commonwealth cscs. = . Diew-Hartis cc. oo. City cesses cee oe se san seseeseetess tieeeete Centre Pe ee ‘ Cornelius & S$ S. sevewenersa ceeences . Front Street, Men’ aut seaeeresesne ceseteneeeeees Sor : AlEM oo... + a ‘69 Hamlet - 5. . Gilwood coger 49-85 White Plains cune. --r~ A5 Sanford ........ -.----- ao is panne ee Ha-risburg SRR, MET Ree See, ce } hie i ace ee mwood We ope s mnanuel aen% J ’ eedwell .... a oo aoa Hopewell .. Hamenoe! ” 99" wo PRESBYTERY Stoneville ....... Fifth Creek ....... - r Locust ce niet er" : McKinnon erevesecsoese em Bixby & Church 0.70 Stony Creek . sone Be ere A wal ‘ Sensodonis a ry ; Siliecan ks - 91, Bixby & Chath sseeees a ao White Hill OI essing ios omnd ; arshville ........- = i Hills nn a on nl ce : 00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY a. 2 ne en ate Kannapolis 1st... . — ; Oe Wapkfigks ocd) ences Winston-Salem 1st uoae rs Soe aes TE ai ik ia Kannapolis 2nd .. Mount Gilead ..... : i 9g" Auxiliari Chadbou Beach ocr none Leg Peosoe ge! Seats Mulberry ......-.- —— Hil = seeeese aoe d uxiliaries eae ficiasassiioune onde A : a a ae Norwood mm a. : DECEMBER RECEIPTS Currie os _ Beereingnngenrs: eo oe es Came ie 290 DECEMBER RECEIPTS = Geo. Webb Mem. .. 3.00 Mooresville 1 : Paw C Men’s (1 --- 40. ALBEMAR YTE Geo. Webb Mem. ... Morganton ceil Nn one ane. Dunn, or. Dept. pees. rr * Ballard’s ser wed PRESB RY eh seeteeeeeeee eeeere os ey New Salem .......... -.482. Pineville Erwin a 4.00 Mount, Zion. ~ Newton Ist .... i sere ee 09 Eureka .......... Bethichem Oske ae aeala ef 9.00 Patterson ......... ‘ in ah ; ae Cobb Memorial . ‘ Pl Plains... oo 11.25 Poplar Te . 82,11 Providence } Flat Branch .. Saeki scan A P a MREeE ot as 3°40 Prospect ........... 881 Ramah ......... - “ 93°96 Hove Mills Greenville 18t secs. ccmnne oo Jo aun 1888 Rocky Riveh os es, “ : Ridgecrest ..... —s Springs Howard Mem. .......... ; , ae eet ee denis a 20.75 Salisbury a Jecuieitioes aoe Andrews es ai Hee. Snow ao f a cele * 4:00 ‘Salis Sei 1 Ree ie Sian & Mary Hatt ......... . Pi Y wesssesseese sere 5 r oe aa os Pigg Avenue Matipelier ated gece Hart .......... woe DOG: ssjpesccetss : ts Shearer ....... Steele Creek .... Mount Pisgah ee ne eS wa Saree cae ‘Sherrill’s Ford. Sugaw Creek fare Mount Pisgah me m= 2099 CONCORD PRESBYTEI . oe Sle Sac eee: beeecauee a oe 17.50 Siloam Tenth Avenue eae eatin’ Wien PRESBYTERY ington 1B ever cone “244.00 pencer ... POV eoesne. 7 ee ie Memorial . W.- (one, Statesville ist West Avenue. veg odteunie pans Raven Rock .scccwu cz Harrisburg eee oo ta 18.00 Foster pee PRESBYTERY Taylorsville .... Wacstover Hilla ..... Rowland ee ee oT Little Joe’s, Circle No. 1 cu. 22.00 Gillespie Orial 2... eens 8.2 iuoa Creek ......... ae ities te ee a ‘ woe No, 2 .. pee ae, 16.00 Glade Valley ian yatira ...... ss illiams Mem. ..... Spring Lake a ver organton, B. W. C. ............ A G __steensasee a. ao Vaughton stem. New Salem i Waldensian i a ce ae ad ORANGE PRESBYTERY cay steeseseeseneaee 600 eu catego anand North Wilkesboro... FAYETTEVI : A I ETLSTICR eurtennsuse Sentensesteseees 10 West End ¢ mecarseente FAYETTEVIL . ae . yes PRESBYTERY olga ae sae me ota GRA & Churehl ............ 50.75 Bensalem ....... - = Peer os y, P. Societies Bensalem con mee BR.05 Broadway on wo 7210 Center NVILLE PRESBYTERY Boot eL ie oem Se iachllkens - uff "T.. _ ...- 27.62 g etnesaa ............ Co ae Bethsada 187.54 Battal (0s) oan orem to 45 Bik Rockfish ac rn 1200 en ee ee oe 5 re) : BY seresesssesesssseseessd 08 ‘<sceeamaene nlevel ......... i ea. aC Brownson Mem. penebecnas vecnneebewes 21.06 Rant Suri Chapel : ebay ist | Cameron Hill : eeenees eee +e nteneee 10.00 Hollywood a igus elas 17 1.50 a 42.00 Ephronia NGtON «2... : oot “ieee es dict i. sienna pamint 50 meen TS gh Gren 83 Reoxbors Chureh-in-the Pines) 1000 Campbellton sins nenn 203 oe . ; scare eons a a. asi 60h ’ sguickatinees ‘abeaenciesttion eS ee Li aus. chi 20.00 oa Ist “{290. 7 —_—,§€ ,.... 24.90 oaths Springs ' Circle Court OS nee neneeeee 156.21 Joyce Ch scuceeok ssenansusoeersen f oo. on COUN iii ew . ... 5,00 POTIOL necceceeecee ceceeetseeeene 2.76 a 30.00 Little — aah occas aaa Oak a 13.10 KINGS MTN. PR oe Dunn crc , Milton WE tines. sas : ‘ite Mem. (Raleigh) 8717 Dunn, Circle Noo1 sseneusenesesovece ‘<2 Armstrong Sees ESBYTERY agile ‘ . Vay og eae ee ‘lt ees eel lees , ircle c oe sone . nit Eagle Springs .. ie fee 65, KINGS MTN. PRESBYTER Ephesus ee ioe 2.50 a ae it —— ie ao : + hoandadg MAMA, cesecnencee tf 60 Flat Branch .......... : en PRESBYTER} Balen 99 Bock ne 8) ememer'clty ce ma ND Godwin fourk at Bran . s porn ~ 40. AM oss sssseeeee Gibson CH nesses seveneannnne Shick Gol PryVille anes "190. 34 ioe Springs .... } ORAN! Grove Smyrna Columbus & AUR nnennmnr 38.75 Lillington Regie coves ong 97.00 Madison NGE PRESBYTERY aaae vse : — a> sé 2 90 Lumber Bridge 18.40 Wits Bl. 4 ~ 6.00 A Duncan’s Creek ..... a Sa Montpelier ........... ~ i) WILMINGTON PRESBYT + loom Paes... ao Mount Zion rors ne fe . Teachey eucatanneny: Seaaasonarurete Highland inane iaemns sonal 654 Sprin wood eiecdintnk chcnernaainnd 50.12 Lon g Creek <abeaeiaess . coamenneneien 10.22 Mount Tabo , ; i sccleiaoniss seseeeeee 1.00 Willard ip w ho ee s Se e SA N —— oo n PI N S O N WO R AD M sS M m o c o U ne IS R S S l s s s s Se SI M r Po l s on w n o n o c o n SA S A S S S A NO S S O sy oO wo o o oS Se s o s t S on a Se An o n So S w Barium Messenger VOL. 25 The Message of the Pulpit By Rev. R. S. Arrowood (The following sermon’ was preached at Little Joe’s Presby- terian Church on the occasion of the calling of a pastor.) John 17:8. For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me. Acts 20:26,27. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the Council of God. THE MINISTER’S THEMES. As we today go into;the election of a new minister let us consider the minister’s themes: What should be thle content of his message? What should be the limits of his discussion ? What is the fundamental pur- pose of his preaching? That there is a wide difference of opinion and pratice on this sub- ject all will agree. The minister is besieged by scores of agencies to present all manner of projects in a sermon, Often an outline is fur- nished. On the other hand he is admonished by sundry to stick to the old Gospel. The content of the minister’s message may be divided into two parts. The first is doctrinal, that great body of preaching on reveal- ed truth. The second is the prac- tical application of that truth. We may illustrate this from Paul’s letter to the Romans. Paul takes his text from Habakkuk 2:4, “The just shall live by his faith.” Paul gives us the great doctrines of justification by faith; peace with God; Predestination; The persev- ering love of Christ. So having told the glorous story of God’s plan of salvation through Christ he comes at the 12th chapter with his application, “I beseech you therefore brethren, by the mercies of Christ that ye present your bod}. a living sacrifice.” And hle continue. that application through the rest of the great book of Ro- mans. In like manner Jesus gave his sermon on the Mount with its de- scription of the citizens of the Kingdom, their influence, duties and the principles by which they should live. His application included these words, “Therefore whosoever hear- eth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him to a wise man, which built his house upon a rock.” When Jesus spoke to the lawyer on the subject who then is my neighbor he applied the lesson of the parable of The Good Samaritan with the effective words, “Go and do thou likewise.” We would say then that the content of the minister’s message should be the teaching of God’s revealed truth and its application to life. So far we can probably all agree. Difference of opinion arise when we begin to apply the implications of the scripture to social] questions of the day. Take for instance, capital and labor; should a minster have any- thing to say about that? Well the Fourth Commandment has this to say, “six days shalt thou labor.” That is pertinent. James, the bro- ther and servant of Jesus Christ has this to say, “Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shiall come upon you. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, Crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.” Is (Continued On Page Two) BARIUM SPRINGS, N. C., VISITORS We have lots of visitors at Ba- rium Springs, people who casually drop in, delegations that come to see us from various churches, some- times big groups like the men of the church when we have three or four hundred for a meal, and then the alumni and their friends. Hard- ly a day goes by but we have from one to a dozen visitors just to pass the time of day and look over Ba- rium. Then we have another sort of visitor - the high school boys and girls who come to play basket- ball, and we have had some most delightful visits already this year. Early in January while we are get- ting ready for our basketball sea- son we have games with our neigh- bors, the consolidated schools, Cel- este Henkel, Scotts, Cool Springs. And then, while we have not had a game with our nearest neighbor, Troutman, they are on hand to see our other games so much) that we feel like they are really part of us. Then in our regular basketball season in the games with our fel- low conference teams, we have en- tertained Monroe, North Wilkes- boro, Albemarle, The Mills Home, and still have Mooresville, Kanna- polis, Spencer and Statesville to visit us. And then in addition to that, our big Mid-Piedmont Tour- nament has taken place, This year in this tournament there were 43 teams entered, representing 22 schools. Nine of these schools are in Mecklenburg County; the others are scattered around - Catawba, Alexander, Davie, and_ Iredell. They are from the consolidated schools, and they are fine folks. Barium enjoys playing host to them every year. They are well-behaved, courteous, and good sports. Even the losers nearly always have pleas- (Continued On Page Three) Results of Basketball Tournament at Barium Here is the results of the Seven- teenth Annual Mid-Piedmont Bas- ketball Tournament that was held at Barium February 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 1948. WEDNESDAY Girls Cool Spring 15, Derita 9. Hiddenite 10, Cornelius 16. Stony Point 12, Harmony 10. Sherrills Ford 17, Troutman 24. Sharon 10, Maiden 14. Celeste Henkel 2, Landis 0. Boys Maiden 23, Union Grove 20, Hiddenite 16, Huntersville 18. Sharon 14, Troutman 27. Celeste Henkel 21, Berryhill 29. St. Stephens 2, Landis 0. Scotts 14, Paw Creek 11. Derita 11, Sherrills Ford 18. THURSDAY Girls Cool Spring 21, Cornelius 15. Union Grove 26, Paw Creek 19. Berryhill 15, Oxford 16, Stony Point 14, Troutman 7. Scotts 32, Huntersville 3. Maiden 8, Long Creek 27. Claremont 30, Tromasboro 14, Celeste Henkel 20, Matthews 21. Boys Maiden 11, Huntersville 24, Troutman 19, Matthews 18. Cool Spring 36, Oxford 18. Berryhill 34, St. Stephens 2. Claremont 16, Cornelius 10. Long Creek 16, Harmony 19. Scotts 20, Sherrills Ford 17. Stony Point 25, Thomasboro 18. FRIDAY Girls Cool Spring 26, Union Grove 48. (Continued On Page Three) FEBRUARY 1948 New-comers at Barium Springs Our January newcomers were all boys - two from up in the mountains, one from down toward the sandhills. The mountaineers are Charles and Ricky Ward, our little sand- lapper is Rusty McNeill. We have been having chicken for Sunday dinner since the first of the year, and the smiles on the faces of these boys may be thinking about that or about the sunshiny day on which these pictures were made. They are all three nice youngsters and seem to like Barium Springs just as we like them. The Johnston Pew School News Back yonder some twenty-six years ago when thle Johnston fam- ily moved to Barium they did not quite fill one of the church pews. The old man sang in the choir most of the time, and little Mrs. Johnston sat in the pew with their six children, ranging in age from the tenth grade Ann Fayssoux, to the baby, three veo “ld Leila.’ As time went on the old man’s voice commenced to creak and he moved back to the family pew but by that time the family was beginning to move out - to colleges, to jobs, etc., but they had increased in size so much that when the family got together they filled the pew entirely. And then as time went on wives and husbands commenced to have a part in it, and now a family re- union overflows and takes a pew and a half gt least. This past week a further addi- tion was made. Bob Johnston, the oldest son, has taken unto himself a wife and a step-son, and now at a family reunion the roll-call would run something like this: In addi- tion to the two old folks there would be Ann Fayssoux, her hus- band and son; there would be Bob, his wife and step-son; Bill and his wife; Joe, his wife and daughter; and Leila, still hopeful. Time does move and while this increase in this particular family would hard- ly justify enlarging thle church, it is still an indication that room which was ample twenty-six years ago now needs adjustments. Another Evidence of Growth Some twenty-two years ago we built a school building and in that school building we arranged a combination auditorium and bask- etball court. It was such| a wonder- ful improvement on our outdoor court that we thought we had se- cured just a little piece of Heaven. We enjoyed playing on that court and a few homemade bleachers made it possible for everybody to see our games and the children too. But much time has passed since then and during this time our athletic and recreation program ‘Continued On Page Two) RRR RRR ERE ERK RRR * THANKSGIVING OFFERING * oa February 12, 1948 * * $87,582.75 * RRR ERE RR EH There is one department of the school at Barium Springs that we believe deserves a little more pub- licity then it has-thus far received. That is the music department. Last year, the school secured for the first time g full time music director: Miss Rachel Hickman of Covington, Va., and a recent gra- duate of Erskine College. Already, we wonder how we got along with- out someone to devote her full time to music in the school. Miss Hickman teaches public music in the first seven grades, and in add- ition, directs the high school glee club, the junior choir, and the church choir. The glee club, or smaller groups from the glee club, has already made a number of appearances this year; before church groups, civic clubs, and other organiza- tions. Both the glee club and junior choir frequently take part in the services at Little Joe’s Church. The glee club has several invita- tions to take part in the services of some of our neighboring church- es this spring. The next scheduled appearance is at the Second Pres- byterian Church in Mooresville, Sunday night, March 7th. If any other churches that are not too far from Barium Springs wish to se- cure the services of the glee club they may write Wm. A. Hethcox, Principal, or Miss Rachel Hick- man, Music Director, In addition to the services per- formed by Miss Hickman which have already been mentioned, she (Continued On Page Three) No. 4 THE BUDGET All contracts that are written in war time have this clause, “Sub- ject to acts of God and the public enemy.” Well, maybe that sort of a clause should be attached to the budget of an institution like ours. Every spring we spend a lot of perspiration figuring out a budget. We try to estimate every item of expenditure - how much it is go- ing to cost to feed the family, how much to clothe them, how much to look after their medical needs, how much to keep the buildings warm, how much to feed the cows, etc. The items of this budget are bewildering in number, and a per- son who can guess correctly is a magician indeed. Just one little item - Fuel. When the weather is balmy and bracing, ordinary winter weather we will say, a carload of coal lasts us from ten to fourteen days. When the thermometer takes a nose dive and it snows or sleets we burn up a car every four to five days. Well, we know that we are going to have some bitter weather, and we try to average things year by year. We cannot always tell about the price. Several years ago we were buying Nut and Slack coal at less than a dollar a ton at the mines. Now we are paying $5.25, and a lot of that was added in the last twelve months, Then the year 1948 came along with a special brand of weather, and our coal supply which we ex- pected to last us through March has disappeared before the month of Yebraary has passed away. That is doing something to our budget. We have been extremely for- tunate in not having any serious illnesses. Several years ago we had an epidemic of measles in Feb- ruary which necessitated running our heating plant 24 hours a day. This year we are glad to say that we have no such epidemie and can shut off our heat from 9 o’clock at night to six in the morning. We are fortunate in having coal at all. When we read of the short- ages elsewhere and the hardships that people have had to go through, it makes us thankful that so far we have not run out, but we shiver when we think of what it is doing to our budget and the things we will have to answer for when next the Board of Regents meets. Another thing, all the hay and erain that a cow eats does not go into milk - part of it has to heat her up, and the amount of extra food that our herd has eaten this winter has made another dent in ur budget. Maybe we should not worry too much about this: we have gotten through! the winter with very little illness in spite of the weather. Barium Springs, N. C. A MEMORIALGIFT Rev. R. 8. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, You will find enclosed $ (Continued On Page Two) in memory of NAME OF DECEASED _ ADDRESS SURVIVOR TO BE WRITTEN DATE OF DEATH ~ ADDRESS” | ONE GIVING MEMORIAL ADDRESS ——————————— PAGE Two FEBRUARY 1948 THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos. B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR SS Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the posteffice at Barium Springs, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. rate of postage, provided fer in Section Movember 15, 1923. Acceptance for mailing at special 1108, Act of October 8, 1917. Authorized oo BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON MRS. R. A. YOUNG : MRS. COIT ROBINSON J. Archie Cannon- - + ~- Concord Mrs. Coit Rebinson - - - ~~ Lowell Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - - Farmville 4. P. Thorpe, Jp. +. + Rocky Mount Rev. Samuel E. Howle, D. D. - Fayetteville Rev. N. R. MeGeachy - - Statesville Dr. W. Z. Bradford - - .- Charlotte Rev. George Mause, D. D. - Winston-Salem Rev. Ben F. Brown - - - Wallace Mrs. BE. C. Beatty - - + Mooresville ; PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY Mrs. Fred E. Little- - - Wilmington Mrs. C. E. Kerchner- - ~- Greensboro Mrs. P. P. McCain - ~- Southern Pines Rev. M. S. Huske- - - ~- Reidsville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham R. W. Bruin- - - - - Henderoson Mrs. George Patterson - - ~- Gastonia Mrs. R. A. Young- - - ~- Charlotte J. H. Thomson- - - Kings Mountain Mrs. H. S. Kirk - - + Winston-Salem —oy ye? (FORM OF REQUEST) “I give and hequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, In- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). —————————————— Campus News HOWARD COTTAGE Hi Folks, Since we last wrote you .it has snowed, but now we have been hav- ing a few pretty days. We have been enjoying watching the people who come to see our tournament. It seems like they always come by to see us. Mrs. Goodrum came to Barium from Charlotte to be a substitute matron. She helps Miss Jackson with us sometimes and we like her a lot. We had a nice time on Valen- tine’s day. A Circle from Moores- ville and Morganton sent us a Val- entine each, and we got some from our parents and other friends. — The Howard Girls SYNODS COTTAGE Dear Folks, Valentine has come and gone and Wwe were very enthused about it. We received some beautiful ones. Our dog just came back from the hospital. He some how got hold of a few chicken bones and for a while we had a very sick dog on our hands. He is completely well now and is so frisky none of us can keep up with him. We wish you all could see how he is grow- ing. We had a good time eating the oranges Dr. Nisbett sent us from Florida. They were wonderful. We are going to see “Black Gold.” the story of a horse, thanks to Dr, Nis- bett also. Rusty’s Aunt made some cookies and he gave us all some. Yum Yum! Mrs. Bowling went to town Thursday and bought kites and string for us. We’re just waiting for a good wind so we can show them off. Mrs. Harrison, Bobby Ray’s sis- ter, sent us a box of lollypops. They were in the shape of big red hearts, Lollypops are good to little boys no matter what shape they’re in. Good-by, we’ll be back in the next edition, — The Synods Family INFIRMARY Hello, Friends, Since we wrote you last our din- ning room has been completed. Thie furniture is grey and black as is the floor. The curtains are grey and black with a yellow back g ound. To go with the curtains, arid [sr Sunday use, we have a beautiful yellow table cloth. We h pe Leiore long to be writing you about our “new” kitchen. Since Mrs. Finley has come, we’ve had more company than ever, It seems that all the boys feel that they have to get sick, Is it Mrs. Congleton, the “bonne cook,” or Mrs. Finley, the nurse, they really come to see? We'll let you decide for yourself. Of course it’s not the girls. Kathleen Ellis is worried about the fact that she’s getting too boney. Is this why boys don’t come to see me?” She’s asking herself. It’s the other way around with Kathleen Monroe. By the way, Margaret Bullard has lost three pounds, Is it from lack of food or love? eh! Mangum, Mrs. Finley had to get on to Elsie the other night for keeping such late hours. Who’s the lucky guy, or is it more than one, hon? We had quite an entertaining guest at our lunch table Tuesday, none other than Miss Lulie An- drews. Miss Lulie is not only a person to have around when you need something, but she’s sweet and understanding at all times. Mr. Hethcox, our principal, who lives at our house, is “sporting” around in a new 1948 Chevrolet. We'll be with you again next month, so until then keep smiling. — Margaret Bullard Kathleen Ellis Kathleen Monroe Elsie Vest LEE’S COTTAGE Hello Folks, Here we are again bringing you the news. We are having a good time skating. Miss Ford bought each one of us g ball of string, and we are having a good time flying kites, and she bought us paste to make our kites. We are glad it is getting warm- er. After awhile we are going to have to start working on the float- groups. Miss Ford varnished our hall, playroom, and library. We will be seeing you next month, —Eugene Thomas, Billy Hardin. SEWING ROOM The sewing room has been a busy place for the past month, Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Long have piled forth dozens of new dresses for Woman’s Building and Howard girls. The fact that snow was a great hinderance against “good old school days” in many sections, did not burden us. We tucked in our warmest clothes and set forth each morning to school. Since we wrote you last we (the sewing room girls) have bought our evening gown materials. We have already started work on ‘hem and manv of us are ready for the grand finale. It hardly seems possible that in only three short months we will be leaving our beloved co-workers (the sewing machines) to find work of our own choosing. Many of us are already beginning to get home- sick for them. Ernestine has finally found a mate. What does he look like? Oh, you know him, the red headed boy from Paw Creek. Bradley has been a very effi- cient salesman during our tourna- ment (isn’t that right girls.) Pegey, better “known as Pug, is still keeping good time at the basketball games. Oh- Don’t get ~-e wrong T meant with the clock. Don’t give up hope, Pug. Who did we see walking to sup- per with Betty the other night? THE Barium MESSENGER Alumni N ews W. A. Johnson, Amos Hardy and Ernest Stricklin, students at Davidson College, spent the week- end at Barium, Gene Bonnous was discharged from the Nayy 1-11-48 and has entered Jona College at New Ro- chelle, New York. Raymond Good has moved into a new home in Charleston, S. S. He has a little girl] born May 23, 1947. Raymond is still in service. Farl Adams, student at Catawba College, spent the week-end at Ba- rium. Bennett Baldwin is working in Wilmington. We were glad to have Jack Weeks make us a visit. Jack is living in Wilmington, Announcement came to us of the birth of Stephen Mark, 8 pounds, 8 ounces on January 28 to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Cumbie of Greensboro. (He’s a little “too fat for you,” Bet). But, of course, love is blind. Mildred, the shoulder, is still the person who knows what you're go- ing to say before you say it | We've got to get back on the job, so look for our slanderous column next month, sind tone Sewing Room Girls WOMAN’S BUILDING Basketball and tournament are in the air about this time every year and most of the Woman's Building girls have been helping cut at our annual basketball tour- rament which started Febidiary 18 and ended February 23. The basketball players sponsored the teams, while the other girls work- ed in the refreshment stand, kept time, and did various other duties. Our own basketball team will en- ter a tournamen: at Salisbury in March. ‘ : We have a new matron in_our building form Charlotte, Mrs. Ellis, We are delighted to have her live with us. Several of our girls have been selected to attend a Beta Club Con- This is quite are very glad vention in Raleig an honor, and we they can go. This is about all the news for this month, so be looking for more news next month from the W. B. girls, — Bradley Jean Manus The Budget (Continued From Page One) Our children show a fine gain in growth and weight. We have had good things to eat and have stay- ed reasonably happy. Maybe that should wipe out some of the money worries. Another Evidence of (Continued From Page One) has increased, and now when we have a ball game it is g question of whether we shall let our chil- dren see it or hold them out and let visitors seo it. It erowds things entirely too much to have both. It does not seem right to exclude the children from their own con- tests and it does not seem right either to exclude friends who are willing to pay to see these contests. Incidentally, we need the money that these visitors would pay in our athletic program. In addition to our regular games we have tournaments. One of those tournaments is briefly described elsewhere in this paper. We have just finished that tournament, and on the final night we had to stop selling tickets twenty minutes be- fore the first game started. We have about 450 seats in our gym- nasium by crowding in every available space. By twenty minutes to game time we had sold in the neighborhood of 900 tickets. We stopped the sale of tickets and the estimated number who were turn- ed back ran everywhere from five hundred t) a thousand. There is no way to estimate those who did not come, knowing that the condi- tions would be erowded. It is a pity that these good friends had to be turned away. They were good-natured about it, and those who had to crowd in and stand up were good-natured about it: the teams that had to play under the handicap of people standing on part of the playing court were good-natured about it, but each year they ask us why in the world we do not build a big- ger place for them to play. These questions are asked good-natured- ly, but it appears to us that there is a little more acid in the ques- tions now than there was a few years back, because it appears to them that we are making no ef- fort to provide better accomoda- tion, Let us interject here an answer to your question as to why we stage these tournaments. Well, if we did not it is doubtful if we could have our athletic program be- cause this tournament and a smal- ler one in March pay the freight. The profit that is made on these is the money which makes our own athletic program possible. One other thing, and a more important thing. No orphanage can exist without friends, and the business of making and holding friends is one of the biggest and most important jobs that we do. Well, of all the things that are done by Barium and at Barium to our minds it appears that the tour- nament creates more goodwill, adds more good friends to Barium and to the individual boys and girls here than any other one thing that we do. We have evidence of that by the hundreds. People who come to our tournaments say that they are unique, and that they would rather lose in our tournament than win in some other tournament. We hope that they will always feel that way about it and we hope that we can soon furnish accomo- dations, or make a start toward it, so that our friends will not feel that we are taking their money without giving any thought to their comfort and convenience. We think the toprnament does our community good in another way. You know people are inclin- ed to think the younger genera- tion of this day and time are going to the dogs. The papers and maga- zines seem full of evidences of juvenile delinquency and incidents of selfishness and thoughtlessness on the part of young people. Well; if anyone is getting down from these thoughts they should come to these tournaments - they would go away feeling better. There were 43 teams entered this year. They with their cheer. leaders meant something like 600 young people. Some of them became highly ex- cited during the games. They want- ed their teams to win: they played ‘hard for their teams to win. In the playing of that many games under the pressure that exists at any tournament anything ugly in these young people would be pretty apt to come out. Well, not a single incident occurred during this re- cent tournament that was any in- dication of bad sportmanship, bad manners, or thoughtlessness on the part of these 600 young people. They were courteous, good sports, good losers, and not arrogant win- ners. You would see a game going on with teams doing their best to outdo each other - thirty minutes later you would see the members of those same teams at the refresh- ment stand enjoying a bite to- gether, teasing or complimenting each other in the best spirit in the world. Very few of them forgot to pat the referees on the back as they left and tell them they did a good job. It might interest you to know that the officials consider it a high compliment to be chosen for this tournament and say thley are will- ing to work for much less money than in another tournament be- cause the crowds and the players are such good sports. We do not attempt to jew their price down on that account, but we do appreciate their sentiment. All in all, we think the partici- pants of the Mid-Piedmont Tour- nament are a fine set of folks. We hope they will hold their good opinion of us until we can get bet- ter accomodations for them to play in. The Message of the (Continued From Page One) that a problem settled ages ago? Recently a brother minister told me of serving a church in a cotton growing section of the deep south. Officers in his church who had stores furnished the negro tenants on credit and charged exhorbitant profits. The land lords also, in some cases officers of the church, stood for the accounts and received ten per cent on the accounts when cotton was marketed in the fall. Remember the words of ‘the Lord Jesus, “Woe unto you, Scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites; for ye de- vour widow’s houses and for a pretense make long prayers.” Similarly we might illustrate from such subjects as war, poverty and riches, race relations, marriage and divorce, the liquor traffic, ete. If you will study the way that Jesus handled these matters, you will find that Jesus refused to act as a judge. He would not tell a man how to vote, he entered not into useless controversy. But when a social or political problem was pre- sented to Him He delivered great and profound principles on which the earnest seeker could build his faith and by which he could guide his life. For instance when they asked him that question so full of political dynamite “Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or no?” He answered “Render thiere- fore unto Caesar the things that be Caesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.” In all these things the minister can go ag far and no farther than the prin- ciples of truth and right as found in the Word of God. For he follows a master who said I have given them the words which thou gavest me.” He has for his example the Apostle Paul who said “I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.” The purposes of preaching are many fold. I shall mention but three fundamental purposes which meet basic needs of men. The first is that men might be saved, With- out Christ man is lost. But it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that be- lieve. Man is in need of spiritual food. So Jesus said to Peter “Feed my sheep.” Paul said to the Ephesian Elders “Take heed to feed the Church of God, which he hath pur- chased with his own blood.” There is a great deal of sorrow and sadness in the world. There are pictures on our walls, there are poignant memories in our hearts. A minister can have no finer name than to be called Bar- nabas, “The son of consolation.” There can be no more helpful mes- sage than that in Isaiah, “Comfort ye, Comfort ye my people, saith your God.” No more graceious in- vitation than that of Christ’s, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.” These three things: the salvation of immortal souls; the feeding of the flock; the bringing of comfort to heavy hearts can only be accom- plished by preaching Christ in all his full orbed deity. There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” “This is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent.” Jesus said, “I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat this bread he shall live forever.” Jesus only could say, “In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have over come the world.” May our minister, may every minister, hear the voice of inspira- tion, “O thou that telleth good tid- ings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that telleth good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; iift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God.” ia : ne a i ps ee ae ee Re ee de ee ge i. e pa aa , Sa l | ea i a Ea tT ia l a a ai e — a ae a a a a os on , Ss 2 oy = et oe I~ 0? old th. ad nts ant in ch, red len all. rd Je- ire ut ich rst th- it e- od. ny an he r= WwW re re ur no r= 7” 1S rt th n- or ill on of n- ll ne be at ly is 18 ye of L- i. h Ip p, 2S PAGE THREE School N ews (Continued From Page One) also has several voice pupils; and she has recently started a rhythm band in the primary grades. This band will be making itself heard in a short time. Miss Margaret Ritchie of States- ville is teaching piano at Barium this year. She was secured to take the place of Miss Green, who re- signed after serving most capably as piano teacher here for a number of years. Miss Ritchie has more than forty pupils, and would have more if she could possibly get them in her schedule. There will be recitals by the piano pupils this spring. i The Johnsonian, a Winthrop Col- lege publication, each year publish- es a high school edition carrying the pictures and write-ups of high school senior girls in the Carolinas who were selected by their class- mates as “Miss Hi Miss”. Bradley Jean Manus of the senior class at Barium received this honor, — Wm. A. Hethcox VISITORS (Continued From Page One) ant words to say when they leave and have some good words for the officials; which, by the way, is the last word in politeness. A number of trophies are given to the winning teams and the run- ners-up, the foul shooting contest, and one for the best-dressed girls’ team. It is more difficult each year to decide this particular win- ner. This year it goes to Trout- man, with so many teams close behind that it would not do to name them all. Troutman won it, however, by the unanimous vote of the judges. It would take a color phiotograph to do justice to that team. Elsewhere in this paper will be given the scores of the various games in the tournament. The results of the Barium games will be compiled next month and a story on the entire basketball sea- son given, also the results of the Junior Tournament which is to take place about the middle of March. This Junior Tournament, by the way, is more fun than you could imagine. The teams that compete are made up of girls from the ninth grade down - the beginners. The boys’ teams con- sist of players weighing 125 pounds or less. There will probably be 32 teams entered in this tournament, and there will be double eliminations, and every team winning as many as two games will receive a trophy. As a matter of fact, there are more trophies given for the Junior Tour- nament than there are for the big tournament. It is quite an exciting time, and brings to Barium still another group of schools. The attendance at this Junior Tournament is not anything like great as at the big tournament. kor a number of years it took some of the profits of the big tour- nament to pay for the Junior Tournament, but now it pays its own way, and it winds up the bas- ketball season with everybody happy. Those who assist in putting this on are the varsity players who have finished their season. By the way, the big tournament is handled to a large extent by the students at Barium. The score- keeping, the refreshment stand, the sponsoring of the various teams, and many of the details of the tournament are handled most efficiently by the students. Those in charge of the tourna- ment are Mr. R. G. Calhoun, Mr. Jackins, Mr. Hethcox, Mr. Archie Calhoun, Mr. Sigmon, Mr. Ike White, Mr. Lowrance, Mr. Ervin and Mr. Gibbs and the whole staff of teachers who assist in ticket sales and othler details of handling the crowd and the teams. Results of Basketball (Continued From Page One) Oxford 24, Stony Point 21. Scotts 24, Long Creek 14, Claremont 18, Matthews 24. Boys Huntersville 29, Troutman 41, Cool Spring 17, Berryhill 16. Claremont 21, Harmony 24. Scotts 25, Stony Point 18. SATURDAY Girls Union Grove 42, Oxford 26. Scotts 38, Matthews 25. Boys Troutman 31, Cool Spring 25. Harmony 26, Scotts 35. MONDAY Girls Union Grove 34, Scotts 29. Boys Troutman 25, Scotts 33. Clothing and Clothing Funds DUE March - September REGULAR Miscellaneous Gifts January Receipts Winston-Salem ist S. S., Mary E. Rogers B. C., 2 quilts. W. H. Weatherly & Co., Elizabeth City, 160 lb. candy. Mrs. 8. J. Sligh, Orlando, Fla., 1 box citrus friut. Laurinburg 1st Aux., 70 cakes. Hickory 1st Church, 73 cakes. Tas-Tee Pie Shop, Statesville, 18 dozen pies, T. A. Guyton, Lillington, 1 quilt. Fellowship (G) Aux., 1 quilt, towels, wash cloths. Mount Airy Knitting Company, 10 dozen swim suits. Westminster (M) Aux., Circle No. 1, dish cloths, patterns, dress materials. Providence (F) Aux., 2 quilt. Miscellaneous January Receipts Me PCNS oo ics eee Miss C. H. Stone, High Point 1.00 Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet ..... 1.00 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ........ 10.00 Mrs. Joy Spears, Matthiston, PME Dee td ise: Sn Se eagei 2.25 Mrs. Dallas Pickard, Dur- MRI tar ge na eee 3.00 Mr. Charles G. Rose, Sr., Fay- OO ee cig ,y esses 15.00 Clothing Funds January Receipts Myers Park Aux., Circles 1, 8, 11, 12 & Mrs. J. A. Jones ON uldus: veateceaee 100.00 Se ee heesiccene 5.00 Greensboro 1st S. S., Fellow- OP NY acess | cickdiseee 15.00 First Vanguard Aux. ............ 20.00 Riverview Aux. .....0::02.0 css 20.00 Micmory 18 BUS) sissies 25.00 Circle No. 5 20.00 Circle No. 6 20.00 Waccamaw Aux, .....2..2.. sss 5.00 Central Steele Creek Aux. — 20.00 Howard Mem., Mrs. Mabry RP as ieseicics. concasdvcsee? avsstouese 5.00 (Mrs. Job Cobb ............. -..- . 8.50 Mrs. Geo. Holderness ........ 8.50 Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Potter, REMIT) iocciavsicac. scsi leven sess 20.00 Operating Memorial Wood, Mr. Miles Costen, States- ville: Dr. & Mrs. S. W. Hoffman Bullock, Mr. A. L., Charlotte: Mrs. A. L. Bullock (Wife) Oliver, Mrs. Margaret E., St. Pauls: Mrs. A. L. Bullock, Chlarlotte For Messenger January Receipts Mrs. C. F. Merony, Mocks- IG ioceciksi hs. sessisinigeu Sistas 5.00 Mr. J. G. Walser, Lexington 2.00 Christmas Gift January Receipts Mrs. J. T. Cowan, Wilmington 1.00 Memorials for Church January Receipts Aligee® Rev. Howard, Fayette- le: Mr. & Mrs. Cliff E. Rankin Armstrong, Mrs. E. A., Wilming- ton: THE BARIUM MESSENGER FEBRUARY 1948 Mr, & Mrs. E. McLendon, Jr., Burgaw Bailey, Mr. J. T., Gastonia; Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Vickers Bebber, Mrs., Taylorsville: Mr. & Mrs. John H. Rankin & Mrs. Elizabeth Perry, Moores- ville Blackwell, Mr. Edward B., Ruffin: Mr. & Mrs. J. Watt Womack, Reidsville Brady, Miss Louise, Statesvile: Mrs. J. W. Johnston Brookes, Mrs, Lelia Alice, Gaston- ia: Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Adams Gastonia ist S. S., Herald B. Cc. Bruton, Mr. R. M., Wadeville: Miss Grace McRae, Mt. Gilead Mrs. J. C. Batten, Charlotte Brown, Mr. Will, Raleigh: Mr. John G, Allen Campbell, Mr. Milton, Raeford: Miss Agnes U. Johnson Mr. M. C. Dew Cannon, Mrs, Glenn, Honolulu: — & Mrs. C. H. Little, Char- otte: Champion, Mrs. J. A., Elberton, as? Mr. & Mrs, Cliff E. Rankin, Fayetteville Clarke, Miss Carrie Cox, Greens- boro: Miss Kate Clarke Cotton, Mr, E. Harvey, Albemarle: Mr. & Mrs. T. R. Smith Cowan, Mr. D. O, Statesville: Columbia Baking Company Creagh, Mr. H. A., Pollocksville: Mrs. E, E. Bell Culbreath, Mrs. Paul H. Ninety- Six, S. C.: Myers Park Church Curtis, Mr. W. E., Wausau, Wis.: Myers Park Church, Charlotte Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Ross, Charlotte Mr. & Mrs. J. Alexander MeMil- lian, Charlotte Davis, Mr. J. L., Waxhaw: Miss Eugenia Forbes, Gastonia Donaldson, Miss Ruth, Charlotte: Amity Sunday School-Business Girls’ Class Dysard, Mr. T. L., Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. Fuller Sams, Jr. Fairley, Miss Kate, Tarboro: Misses Emily, Mary F., & Janie Patterson & Mrs. Don Hugh Shaw, Laurinburg Fairley, Mr. Cliff, Laurinburg: Proof-reading Dept. of Presby- terian Publication, Richmond, Virginia Flowe, Mrs. J. Mec. (mother), Wadesboro: Mrs. C. H. Trexler Fosbrink, Mrs. Barbara, Winches- ter, Va.: Miss Cora L. Freeze, Mooresville Fountain, Mr. Arthur, Whitakers: William and Mary Hart Aux. Fraser, Mr. E. E., Birmingham, Ala.: Mrs. John W. Jones & Mrs. T. Earl Heffner, Charlotte Fulton, Mrs. T. P. (Effie Arthurs) Jacksonville, Fla.: Mr. & Mrs. Otho L. Smith, Mooresville Mrs. W. D. Troutman & Ruth, Troutman Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Troutman, J- Furr, Mrs. C. L., Mooresville: Mrs. J. W. Johnston, Statesville Gaither, Mr. J. A. (Grandfather), Newton: Mr. Bob Gaither Garrou, Mrs. Catherine Guigou (John), Valdese: Mrs. Juliette L. Ghigo & Miss Anita Ghigo Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Setzer Mr. & Mrs. Blair Gywn, North Wilkesboro Gilchrist, Mr. Peter S., Sr., Char- lotte: Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Glover Mr. Philip F. & Philip F, Hower ton, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. T. R. Smith, Albe- marle Mrs. Joseph Garibaldi Mr. & Mrs. George E. Wilson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Abernethy Mr. & Mrs. A. T. Allen, Chester, S. C. Dr. & Mrs. David G. Welton Mrs. Dolph Young Mr. & Mrs. J. 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Ervin, Jr., Morganton Miss Mary Teague, Winston- Salem Ramsey, Mrs. M. E. (Ben), States- ville: Mrs. Frank L. Johnson Statesville Junior Service Lea- gue Major & Mrs. William L. Alli- son Reid, Mr. R. R., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Neal, Jr. Reynolds, Master Morgan Ayers, Jr., (5 years), Charlotte: Master Geoffrey D. McLean, playmate Myers Park Church Mr. & Mrs. C. W. Gilchrist Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Glover Mr. & Mrs. J. Alexander Mc- Millian ~ & Mrs. Esley O. Anderson, Yr. Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Ross Myers Park Sunday School, Children’s Division Myers Park Sunday School, Men’s Bible Class Roper, Mr., Lenoir: Mr, & Mrs. Orrin Robbins Sanders, Mrs. Annie K., Chester, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Patrick, Gas- tonia Smith, Mr. E. E., Gastonia: Mr. R. O. Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Sudduth, Mr. S. D., Hendersonville: Mr. R. O. Crawford, Gastonia Sugg, Mrs. Hardy, Snow Hill: Snow Hill Aux. Sugg, Mr. Hardy, Snow Hill: Snow Hill Aux. Sullivan, Mr. J. S., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Tarrant, Mrs. Isabel Orr, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Uhlman §S. Alexander Tate, Mrs. George K., Gastonia: Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr Mr. & Mrs. R. O. Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Taylor, Mr. J. E., Conway: Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Pearce, Ra- leigh . Thomas, Mr. W. A., Statesville: Major & Mrs. William L. Alli- son Tinsley, Mrs. Annette Sloan, Greensboro: Mrs. Anne Sloan Hartness, Ra- leigh Tomlin, Mr. Notley D. Statesville: Major & Mrs. William L. Alli- son Mr. Z. V. Turlington, Moores- ville Miss Maie Stoner Mr. & Mrs. A. Fuller Sams, Jr. Turnbull, Mrs. Robert J., Monroe: Monroe 1st Auxiliary Upright, Mrs. E. O., China Grove: Back Creek Auxiliary Vaughn, Mr. James Alexander, Sr., Columbia, S. C.: Mr. James A. Vaughn Vyne, Mr. Leonard, North Wilkes- boro: Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Grier Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Finley, Miss- es Lucy & Gran Finley & Ar- thur C. Finley Wagner, Mrs. W. V., Lenoir: Lenoir Auxiliary Miss Irene McDade, Barium Springs Watrous, Mr. C. F., Morganton: Mr. & Mrs. E. D. Alexander Mrs. A. W. Phifer Glenwood Church Mrs. C. E. Gregory, Rockford, Ohio Mrs. W. O. Watkins, Ruther- fordton Webb, Mrs. A. S. (Meta Stimson), Concord: Aux. Cirele No. 2, First Church Kings Mountain Session of the First Church, Statesville Welles, Mrs. Dortha, Fayetteville: Mrs. J. S. Norris White. Mrs. A. M., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. J. Aubrey Chrismon White, Mrs. Allen P., Charlotte: Mrs. W. W. Woodside & Jean Wiggins, Mr. J. Plumer, Charlotte: Mrs. Ike C. Lowe, Mrs. A. A. Cory & Miss Easdale Ramsour PAGE FOUR Williams, Mr. E. Meek, York, S. C.: Mrs. E. Hope Forbes, Gastonia Wood, Mr. Miles Costin, States- ville: ‘ “Mr. W. L. Gilbert Major & Mrs. William L. Alli- son Mrs. J. W. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. J. D. Cochran Wooten, Mrs. Herman, Statesville: Mrs. J. C, Alexander, Moores- ville Work, Mr. Robert, Elizabethtown: Mrs. W. M. Corbett, Ivanhoe Mrs. R. F. Eakins, Atkinson Yates, Mr., Lenoir: Mr. & Mrs. Orrin Robbins Churches January Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Cann Meme 3. cos 17.50 Goldsboro 186 vscccuue as ao Tee Greenville 1st ............ .. 14.70 Jason . eis . 6.30 Pinetops ... 35.28 Rocky Mount Ist .... wee se 26.00 Washington let . CONCORD PRESBYTERY Back Creek 6065: ci ee ee BAVICSS oo osccscevss Greenest ee Bee 8 ee eee Bethpage «cca seca a Centre 3.5. Clinehfieia socio ee Coneora 5.6... cece ee Coneara 166 .uco Se ‘ Davidson ..o050. ee Elmwood View-Harvs cssnccin cas Franklin 23... sacs Gee Gilwood) 2 oe Glen Alpine 006 ua star FIATMONY 5k cacs | sc ne Harrisburg .... Hickory 1st Kannapolis 1st — Sha ...: DONG eo ee Little Joe's 2.0% Maron 3 eee McRinnom 2.25.5. sce ae Mooresville 1st loLumiesae ert Valiente Newton J. R. Gaither A Friend Popular Tent ... Prospeet: 2 25, Gobet Quaker Meadows ........ Rocky River 4.2.2 33 Salisbury ‘st Salisbury 2nd .... Sherrill’s Ford .... Spence? oo oacvisecce sone eee Statesville 1st ....54..s00 Sweetwater ........ Thyatira Uniy 4.4 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Berea =. ee ee ee Bethesda. ......:cics cmc 20.37 Carthage 5. occ cn. sae .... 10.49 Covenant ..4.... 1.04 Cypress 9.88 Fayetteville st Highland oo... oe Jackson a Lau ‘el Hill . sineeabe ceesune Lumberton. ............ ‘j Montpelier Pinehurst ac:cises. snare ees Raeford. 2...) «0. Glens eee 20.29 Red a seanvesesine! eoanbeeceueae Rex ‘ Saint Peal cus cea "18. 52 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Goshen ...... enisisees sea ae Henderson Ist ie 17.50 Nutbush ie wecenes ae White Mem., “(Raleigh Siesaee 39.02 KINGS MTN. ceeee ere Castanea ...8%: 80 Dallas ra Kast Belmont . Gastonia Ist. Kings Mountain Iist Lincolnton 1st ...... Lowell * eneseeee eebtcccesene bene eeee New Boe 23.05) North Side Siesdeaal vReeeaee Rutherfordtuth oss ces Shelby is Stanly Creek ccc eile MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Avondale ............ voedee a Bank scan. sabe? AAS a 9e ; 4.00 Caldwell Mem, 4.00 Cam p Greene aiinass be 1.15 yh: » 2nd 0 Commonwealth Ellerbe pik dis eee aie Erdman Love Hopewell j Indian Trail Macedonia Dia Peten icc sess Matthews ..... Monroe Ist .... Mount Carmel . Mount Gilead MGIDOTED: . inca sas oe Myers PAPE Sonn sai jae Pageland soneeved sibabeens Paw Creek . nd wicenbae Seenenbe Philadelphia __..... Plaza, M. J. Dean EVOVIGORCE: sacscess cesscsecions Selwyn Avenue ........ .... a SBT OE Ciccecitsies: Sulvcal, “Soci hae Steele Creek Sugaw Creek Tenth Avenue West Avenue Westminster ORANGE PRESBYTERY A a ee 13.00 OR 1.30 MY oor ok scceencd sseensa 13.00 Paes: a kes igecccicetnnk ‘esncese ee ae Little River . Regu csc kee 6.50 nN st nae SRY I Deere a oe 4,22 WeMCOWTIG oaks heme cee 4.16 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Riser Fiver .......... OR oe Jacksonville Mount Olive .. ee i Teachey ..... ig Wilmington Ist. W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Geo. W. Lee Mem. 24.36 Ee iciass spececeas tne Bees 82 POT TBE oogiicscsees escccinges 258.06 I io cease” ecsckcs 13.00 Mount Airy .... 82.50 Thomasville 1st ............ ........ 14.95 We ine eseseesseoe cece 16.25 Winston-Salem 1st 2000000. 100... 83.50 Sunday Schools January Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY OP ccicsise sick cts 9.70 TROUTWOOG wcccccscsete: sincered snccsese 8.50 ENE ES ORE Re TENA | ay BN ii oass havens. pacooepeas 2.71 Rocky Mount 1st ---- 40.30 Jennie K. Hill B. C. ........ 5.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY li ak ee os ccssist | etecassnass ees TR arses sche oes ak Hickory lst . Marion, Dec. “& Jan. Mooresville 1st ........ a or 1st * Everynan’s: . C. cee eect ee Sweetwatcr ” wees Mecsas cau o 1.50 Statesville 1st .....--... .<.... 14.85 Tabor ces sabpnaal cc - gumncteavcde i Thyatira FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Antioch : Bethesda cp Re ee aioe Culdee, Dec. & Jan. Cypress Elise, Nov., Dec. & Jan. ........ 45. 15 WEN poses ees eae 16.36 I es lies 12.39 PAVOCICVIe 16E oipceesices sekccecs 40.00 EUW i vacccvccks Scasceas’ stecetas BOD Lumber Bridge 9.45 EN oor sakeise: Veedead 8.42 Midway ............ et .. 20.00 Montpelier ........ eas . 15.05 ee Solis acs: seieiuais Saar 43.98 Pinehurst, Community Ladies’ CEG ape al ee eas eae 11.00 Raven Rock ._ 14.00 Red Springs .... .. 10.00 SMyIne .....-- seve OO Sunnyside, Third ‘quarter | aonn FRO II i cepiiives shliretites “acgatuersvenus 51.28 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Raleigh 1st, Vanguard B. C. Cyprus Thompson ........ .... 25.00 RROGTOKG TADIGS ...ccccccc --000- 33.64 WO IIION nc cieiy Gascerse | Seve 14.06 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Belmont, Dec. & Jan. .......... 165.02 BEE eos i lvcaees : EI acciiinsecs Secizoce suaiee Lincolnton Ist is ccsse so Sisivevecuesans ‘ Mount Holly, Woman’s B. C. 3.00 PRM i Gres cess levevsve. sccchessucun 16.00 OO TE eee cea caacd’ seas! BBS eM oii cccss siscascss gaiccces Rr esi? ccissiaclie Gacsceun Union ...... Union Mills Bot sscebes = sears MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY PPOTIEriO 2G oeicccn.. cs econ 79.00 Badin, Ladies’ B. CG. EG hs, le iceacy cesacennes Caldwell Mem., Children’s PEERS CITUG casccccticca busine 25.80 MAUREEN esis taicis’ Siovicsuieis sticker 5.00 Re LBE ol bidceas dieu 36.00 Commonwealth, 200.000. cc. os 25.87 PROB UOPE VEG isiccccocce Soc eecey BV27 Mallard Creek, First 9 RE eases sacl sctsieed ciscxtauss 144,95 RN OE eis scl ckiceask 41.25 We ccsibccisies | Sesdkacenss 13.80 ee . 10.50 Myers Park, Men’s Club ...... 25.00 North Charlotte, Special © RP os ksei ok ccasinis “Gs ens 18.57 Pe OW ioe, iilsaskc cxsiendccietvns 88.31 TR GOIIIIM © eicccecs, cccciins ccssseus 11.07 PEPIN here 7.55 METEOR gee aca eul Sis sch kes 4,70 Roclingh'am ........ Sy bi har, OEE Tenth Avenue ............ - 20.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance .......... POE Uc ccccsstcs cesesee Burlington 2nd Greensboro 1st Men’s B. C. 20. 00 ROPING ssiccisccic: sétsicei svemees 52.30 DENIES Gelicieesscs Meviessecs: ssssneve 16.72 SO ROO cssicces Sovicisecsonsecen 8.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY he Eee 12.89 THE BAaRtumM MESSENGER FEBRUARY 1948 FRC re csoeee 4.44 PAVCECOVIIO ccccecsce ccs cee B00 WROD CURIE] cncccctece acaceoe 18.27 WOO ies ns snes TNE Bice Batt Pickard, Chapel Washington Ist ............ 160.46 cata. Ue a ae Hill 30.00 ale ceo ies Sa Elizabethtown, Sept. - Dec. 89.85 MAb sorencrserne s severe OVE CONCORD PRESBYTERY Faison, Oct., Rag, & Dee. 4 Miss H, Eliz abeth King, ON en a 10.00 CEPOWO i ccsagnsts Witiiieian eo as a 100.00 Glen Alpine 10.10 Hallsville, Dee, & Jams... Mr. & Mrs. C, A. Greene, Rocky River 200.00 SOUR TD seen Greensboro 25.00 PAYE’ > a WORRIES le. ow 00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Pollocksville Mr. & Mrs. Herman Best, ea oe 9.50 oe Bia oo ... 75.00 ee Sei cap ani edad baaesey-eubaabe 85.49 cus Mr. & Mrs. Jame “es Kin . sl tl ci eacds ten) ecco easees 10.00 oo ing ees (AEE os one a W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Imington 00... vee oo Yn ae cnet 6.76 Mocksville . 5.00 Mr, A. A. Whitener, Hick- Wide ees 15.00 —— Wilkesboro, Oct. - aes. Oe J ge oo eae 15.72 Sieaaeer, trntennensst. senceerert as Mr. William C. Thompson, SHON ences eeceencnseee eeeeeeeeeeee 80.43 : i Carolina Union Mission ...... 14.00 Auxiliaries Charlotte ........ scesiiy acameaead OOOO J Receipt Mr. Harvey Bass, Dunn ...... 50.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Snuary Neceipts Mr. Karl Hudson, Raleigh .... 50.00 Buffalo Vanguard 2.0.0... 0... 65.50 ALBEM _E PRESBYTERY First Vanguard ............ eoee-D 28029 Ballard’s — Roads acs: 1.40 Churches ON 64.00 aa... 3.50 January Receipts Roanoke Rapids ........... 0 46.07 Fountain 2.34 SING ramen NEE ee —— ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY er ae ollywood + sesetesencnnan Ge ee es sacceees Ce SE INE wtsevsntene, sterntersnnrsons . Howard Memori ial . 7.00 mone el inte eRe sh 13.40 New OPC -neeeseseeee seserecsenee sees 24.93 aa: 4.00 Gemma Kies Chl ” “9'00 PINTO Capasckk. crotascieans. sia 95.7 Rocky Mount 1st, Special .. = 00 Goldsboro 1st coe. eee 155.19 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY A. Friend .....-ccco- eseessseeseee Oe ce 36.00 pothel Rocky Mount 2nd 7100 a e Re 0 eee 1.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY eens ae Waseingpon Be iva ee Oe 10.00 Sron's B.C. pecial Clinchfield Williamston, “4th “quarter . ... 8,00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Back Creek, 4th ae sshaies 3.00 DUT a ac esescsrns nacazreese 10.00 Little Joe’s see see 8.00 Virginia Hall Circle (oe - 11.00 Royal Oaks ............ Sains 100 FAYETTEVILLE PERSET TAT ee cescccysn weseenes Carthage ................ 4th _— GCOOW s,s TER acnsscccne coeee Laurel Hill . erate DOS cn ecsence senese McPherson ................- or, ocserccsree Mount Pisgah . re ass Red Springs ............ .. PRIS FE oicisecne. sce or esesentos se West End .......... GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY DAP TEE nn ecccceeseee BOO Circles, Special ais agate ee PemiOreer TS ic. esses 36.00 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Or OE eos ioscan 4.70 Mary Crove Circle ............ 2.00 Lincointon Ist, Circle No. 8 3.00 MEO FONE i ek 11.45 Shelby, 4th quarter .............. 15.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle Ist ‘ Benton Heights ... MO ics Caldwell Mem., Charlotte Ist Charlotte 2nd .... Huntersville ...... Mallard Creek .. Monroe Ist Newell ice ORE es North Charlotte ... Pee Pleasant Hil Wl oy Saint Andrews saint Paul. ose) South Park Chapel . Sugaw Creek ooo boro .... Westn inster : ae PRESBYTERY woer Bethe! ae Rethes lg Bethlehem Buffa! Covenan Eno a oe GSTCONSDOL | EMG vacancy) cacsepn 8.71 Jonesbo 3 Wes tn instew Pee ctrl seseeaine 20.00 anceyville 4.22 a) iLMINGTON PRESBYTERY ‘rove, Business Girl’s Circle 6.00 iad anuel 8.00 Myrt } 100 Pot 2.00 Roe 2.50 Te: 1.00 * SAT EM roe TTS pe Sen hens Lexington 18t soc ‘ MOUNt Alsace scales . 2,45 North - IK@SDOTO ......cc0ce soos 6.50 Winston-Salem 1st wo... + 35.00 Y. P. Societies Janu Receipts ORANGE PRESBYTERY ep int Ist, W. A. ¥. P. Ollepe ihe iissicssverees| inseacbes 15.00 THANKSGIVING Miscellaneous January Receipts Mrs. Nettie L. Christeson, Concord 1st Davidson .... Fifth Creek Hickory 1st Fe ok acecteneccee|: coassens A Mooresville 2nd 2.000000... .--.--- 853.32 Salenty 16E ccccceseccs seessess 113.60 Shiloh Tabor A AOR ss) Skea dedecce 1.09 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY CAMBIO oo. 5. ccassess eee 91.60 Ce aes 808.96 Fayetteville 1st ........ ........ 1,464.28 Te ee acute | scades lamar 105.03 TAIDBPEON ooncoc. 8 cccseas, sccinoccce 1630.00 IGT se ise 87.78 Priest Hill Church & S. S. .. 67.44 Providence ............ 24.00 Weert a a "283.10 Red Springs ... 22.00 ee ... 80.88 Sain+ Paul ..... : 115.80 ea. cates mie 50.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Pier POs «cites: aeceecteckd 202.63 Wee catia ei ebee Soanhece Goshen ...... we Ehnest Myatt. ES ee ees A ait enn aatica Roanoke Rapids ... iss Wet TACT onc iccccss cesoees ane White Mem., (Raleigr) ........ 5.00 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Adams Mem Gastonia Ist ..... Lincolnton 1st NGW PRGDG vecccccscecs soe DENTE POG cca ssca ee Shelby. ........... West Avenue MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Caldwell Memorial CATES ONIND evencks senvensd eanccene Camp Greene Charlotte 1st Charlotte 2nd d COBB RMI Sicccescessc © sensenesives 175.00 Mallard Creek POT casicicicy Givovien screens Monroe Ist ............ . se Myers Park ........... OR TI cssccsi ise: Seemeneenucs « Py i tesserae seanenenen BOCA oicicecce sicmke es South Park Chapel ME OTIBE Sivesscs socseaetenus wee BOLMRN Sec TURES ER ciel ONE piss ccs scaadswsvsas Chapel Hill ve BGATTIONG | ciiecccercec vee PTA ARD | ss isbscessis'| Koliiotncnin sens is GPOOMEDOTO LEE wcscccsicies cesceoes 200.00 Greenwood ty sea i. Me a oiicss. siuaseosines: ‘Gaveaunavons Hawfields . Pe Oe 8 e sok cssiccon’ inert 581.59 CILIATE nchtccives) Badiesee. | Soecaons 49.31 Kirkpatrick Heights .... ........ 22.29 Leaksvilile MAGIQOR -ievicerics Mebane ............ Riverview Wy OCTET OE oo cites, eectieis) seas WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY CR AGIIED scissusseas: Grasties. deercees 30.00 PMI cists aunbecsiase. “descvane 50.00 ME MUSES Gicisitence Sates ardesiee 84.58 .. 50.00 .. 89.46 22.00 Holly Grove Mount Horeb .... RPE PERIOW: Scivsscscecs \asseone ns RII idiieisek cscs iatenin estevied Wilmington 1st W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Geo. W. Lee Mem. MOUNG PITY cescvesserss sees West Jefferson oo... we Sunday Schools January Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY PEE clita. Sitinct | shasdbanians 33.65 Robinson WD it 91.28 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY TO se coc ca Black River Caswell ........ Delgado Auxiliaries January Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Mab ee esd oe 26.55 MAROCIORIIONG 2. ce A 3.00 TURIN ok ae 12.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY BURG oocsciiactl siaeeeness 20.00 Little Joe’s, Circle No. 2 .... 17.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Antioch Ashpole .... Bethel CORON icc. bial eae Comfort ... RRR ag cs pte a a Nae Lakeview RMU rhe ecssey cou S Lumber Bridge ............ ...... 4.50 Midway Naomi TEBIOU Siccisincied: batssces, sob Ps Baik cs Saint Paul Sardis PEN eck aancassiacl suse ace Spring Lake GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY First Vanguard MUU ei. Go. clo 16.00 Trinty Avenue .......0... 0 so... 38.00 White Mem., (Raleigh) ........ 14.35 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY TEGW TRODE Sccvccicice | dxccdcireces 40.00 ieee 114.50 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY PROUNMIONON occccccccs coccsccs cnoceces ‘ Charlotte 2nd Hopewell ...... Matthews ... POEOe. BE ea a ae North Charlotte ..0.00...... ...... 10.00 Pievile oo kes Saint Andrews Reet Me kn ORANGE PRESBYTERY Bethlehem Brentwood Howto ahs Hillsboro ..... Jonesboro °... Madison Sanford WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY RE ERs \varb vices saisseleins | cobeacs 10.00 RETRO PENS Uc covisvsis sceuckscasks 80.00 RAMON eisai slike dale 10.06 - 18.38 5.60 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY PEGTHOUPIEG TAG oo cscccce aoe, 50.00 - Y. P. Societies January Receipts FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY RTS PME hcivecccnse sccsesesseecniouea 1.15 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY West Raleigh) cc... cscssse 10.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY SIU IUROTE cocisinibias: seins sectors 3.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Bethel TAME coleksincorsns ° savsbebacescoubecoseubcdes Hawfields Pioneers es r om s ha _ 3m it « } om Ae e me wo e we se oe Dp M R a ee e ee ey ae a a el ee || Ll , ma o u oo c o o ss s a2 n o o o n Sc o w u o l m o os > S IRY 1.15 0.00 RY 3.00 1.00 4.00 2.30 25 Barium Messenger VOL. 25 Old Man Winter Took A Slap At Us Old Man Winter certainly played rough with us and it was not all in fun either. The weather com- menced to play tricks on us last Fall when it would set in and rain every Friday and thus make mud- hens out of our football boys until they got so they did not know how to play on a dry field. You might say Old Man Weather was playing a joke on us, and then when the winter months rolled around he served netice on us Christmas Day with that nice snowstorm, and all through January and February we had it, rain, snow and sleet. With it all it looked like just clean fun except on three occasions when Old Man Winter shook his fist at us and finally slapped us down - they were the times when it sleet- ed. If you want to know what real- ly scares us at Barium Springs it is a sleet storm, and when this last one came along on the night of March 5th it really did fix us. Along about 10:30 P. M. Saturday the lights went off which meant that something had happened to the wires in Statesville or between Statesville and Barium. Whatever it was was soon fixed, however, and the lights came back on, but at 2 o’clock a wire came down right at Barium and the live wires kick- ed up such a racket that it put the girls at the’ Woman’s Building in- to a complete panic. They had to shut off the power in Statesville. Well, from that time on a good many folks were busy, not only at Barium but in Statesville too. The (Continued On Page Three) Honor Roll For Six Weeks Ending Feb. 23 First Grade — Judy Clendenin, Richard Blackburn, Richard Mc- Arthur, Second Grade — Charles An- drews, George Cannon, Nat Craig, Rachel Bass, Shelby Jean McEwen. Third Grade — _ Bobby Frye, Walter Plyler, Lawton Rice, Syd- ney Morrison, Patsy Dean, Caro- lyn Hucks, Jean Harrison, Bar- bara Johnson, Nancy Lee Kyles, Bernice Kuykendall, Marie Mc- Neil, Addie McEwen, Johnsie Ter- ry, Virginia Baucom. Fourth Grade — Johnny Collins, Laura Jane Craig, Jerry Ellis, Mildred McFarland, Boyce Dean Smith, Richard Vest. Fifth Grade — Donald Dean, Betty Ann Blackburn, Phoebe Coch- ran, Linda Inman, Beth Jackins, Shirley Plyler, Lucy Troutman, Shirley Shaw, Letha Walker. Sixth Grade — Betty Ann An- drews, Carol Jean Andrews, Ennis Blackburn, Louise Bradshaw, Shir- ley Byrd, David Morrison, Aline Thomas. Seventh Grade — Jimmy John- son, Palmer Wilcox, Helen Barnes, Hazel Creech, Patty Inman, Shir- ley Thomas, Gloria Wiiliams. Eighth Grade — Mary Frances Price, Bessie Page, Bonnie Odom, Louise Campbell, Dwight Reid, Henry Troutman. Ninth Grade — Peggy B. Neel, Frances Stricklin, James Wheeler. Tenth Grade — Lorena Hall, Kathleen Morroe, Helen Morgan, Betty Sue Wolfe. Eleventh Grade — Margaret Bullard, J. D. Everett, Herbert Good, Jane Sigmon, Jerry Young, Billy McAllister, Twelfth Grade — Ernestine Baldwin, Sadie Buie, Betty Coffey, Peggy Coffey, Edith Marie Fer- guson, Janie Hall, Bradley Jean Manus, Betty Joe Smith, Lucille Stricklin, Virginia Presnell. BARIUM SPRINGS, N.C., Marcu 1948 ——— Barium Girls Are Champions of the South Piedmont Conference The picture that we publish this month is the same picture that will go on a handsome trophy that will occupy an honor place in our trophy cabinet. It is the champion girls team of the South Piedmont Conference in basketball for 1948. Our girls went through the season with only one defeat in conference play and with fifteen wins. They lost some warm-up games to the consolidated schools in the neigh- borhood before the season opened and they lost one game in the Sal- isbury tournament. By the way, this loss was to a team which the Barium girls had defeated twice in the regular season. There are many good teams in the South Piedmont Conference. Statesville, Albemarle, Children’s Home, Mills Home, and Thomas- ville. There are only three really weak teams. The complete record of all our teams is listed below. Our boys ended up in fourth place in conference play. They lost two games to Statesville, one game each to Albemarle, Kanna- polis, and Monroe. Our junior team played a short schedule, and as this is written are engaged in the junior tournament. The results of that will appear elsewhere in this issue. In the Salisbury tournament both of our teams went down in the semi-finals, our girls losing to Statesville and our boys to Lex- ington, but three of our players were chosen for all-tournament honors: Frances Stricklin, forward, on the girls team and Janie Hall, guard, and Jack Mangum from the boy’s team. They attended a ban- quet given by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the tour- nament, in the Yadkin Hotel Tues- day night, March 16th., and there received their trophies. This is Mr. Archie Calhoun’s first year as coach of basketball. He handles both teams. To place one team in the first division and another team as champion is quite an achievement in any year, parti- cularly so in the first year. Three of the regulars of the girls’ team are seniors and have played their last game for Barium - Lucille Stricklin and Sadie Buie, forwards, and Janie Hall, guard. Betty Jo Smith is also a senior and has seen a lot of service but was not a starter. The boys lose only one by gra- duation, Charles Barrett. They will miss Charlie because in sever- al games he was the high scorer. This is the final news on basket- ball. It has been a lot of fun and the basketball trips have been much more pleasant - we have had a bus - and it was lots of fun, particular- ly coming home from the games. Mr. Hethcox did the bus driving and he is the world’s best. The crowd usually spent a good deal of time coming home from the games singing and you could not tell from the music whether we had won or lost. Usmally there was a stop somewhere for a hamburger or hlot-dog to fill up that void due to an early supper and a long time until breakfast. It was fun winning a championship, but almost as much fun just going and playing, win or lose. We are proud of our teams and like to associate with them. Following is the scores of our basketball games: GIRLS Barium 41 Celeste Henkel 38 Barium 82 Scotts 36 Barium 23 Cool Spring 87 The Message of the Pulpit By Rev. R. S. Arrowood | Isaiah 61:10. “He hath clothed me with the garments of Salva- tion.” This subject was suggested to me by the outline of a sermon which was preached by a Jewish Rabbi in a Synagague during the first century of the Christian Era. As seven was The Sacred Number, he found in the Psalms and Pro- phets seven garments for Christ. Remember in the first place that clothes are the outer covering, but that the being underneath is the same. Yesterday a mechanic was underneath an automobile, clothed in old overalls, blackened and greasy. Today washed, shaved, in fresh linen, and e good suit he may look very different but he is the same man. So, though we see Jesus under varying conditions and clothed dif- ‘Continued On Page Two) Barium 44 Celeste Henkel 26 Barium 38 Scotts 42 Barium 54 Monroe 14 Barium 40 Mooresville 17 Barium 35 N. Wilkesboro 18 Barium 24 Statesville 21 Barium 21 Albemarle 24 Barium 28 Mills Home 12 Barium 30 Albemarle 25 Barium 42 Spencer 21 Barium 48 Monroe 16 Barium 38 Mills Home 15 Barium 33 N. Wilkesboro 16 Barium 48 Kannapolis 22 Barium 89 Statesville 28 Parium 41 Spencer 27 Barium 42 Mooresville 19 3Zarium 44 Kannapolis 30 Barium 48 Concord 21 Barium 20 Statesville 30 BOYS 2arium 34 Celeste Henkel 35 Barium 16 Scotts 24 Barium 21 Cool Spring 25 Barium 40 Celeste Henkel 17 Rarium 40 Scotts 20 Barium 53 Monroe 10 Barium 45 Mooresville 19 Barium 49 N, Wilkesboro 22 Barium 32 Statesville 41 Barium 30 Albemarle 28 Barium 48 Mills Home 19 3arium 29 Albemarle 30 Barium 36 Spencer 28 Barium 25 Monroe 26 3arium 44 Mills Home 22 Barium 58 N. Wilkesboro 32 3arium 36 Kannapolis 38 Barium 21 Statesville 39 (Continued On Page Three) No. 5 The Every-Member Canvass for Little Joe’s (By Jos. B. Johnston) This is a purely personal nar- rative and is my own experience in recent every-member canvasses. We have heard elders congratu- late themselves on their election to the Session by saying that now they would not have to bother any more in the every-member can- vass, that the deacons would look after that. Well, here at Little Joe’s Church we do not have enough deacons to do the job and the members of the session are called in to team up on the every- member cavass day’s work. I am one of the older elders and might plead an excuse for getting out of the job, but I am not in- clined to do so because it is s0 much fun. During the last three or four years I have had one of the younger deacons to team up with and we had most of the high school boys and girls on our list. This year my team-mate was the very youngest deacon - a young man who just a few years ago was one of the high schoo) boys himself. We started out on Sunday after- noon, March 14th. We visited the area known as the Quads where the high school boys live. Some of them were waked up out of a sound sleep and had a card and pencil poked at them. Some were reading, some were listening to the radio, and some (beleive it or not) were out playing marbles. The cheerfulness with which they all stopped what they were doing (Continued On Page Three) Junior Tournament Held Again At Barium We hope our readers will not get the idea that we do nothing else but play basketb .ll at Barium. It just happens that this issue of The Messenger is the one which has to have the writeup of so many basketball doings that is crowds out some other news sometimes. The final act of the basketball season is the Junior Mid-Piedmont Basketball Tournament. In it there are 32 junior teams entered. The boys play under a 125-pound weight limit and the girls must come from the ninth grade or under. Due to conflicting tournaments in Catawba County and in Win- ston, a number of schools that or- dinarily take part in this tourna- ment were not able to enter this year, so Barium entered three girls’ teams, Statesville entered two girls’ teams, Mooresville en- tered two boys’ teams, and Clare- mont entered two teams of both boys and girls. It would take too long to put all of the scores down. The tourna- (Continued On Page Three) a Barium Springs, N. C. A MEMORIALGIFT Rev. R. S. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, You will find enclosed $__............ in memory of NAME OF DECEASED ADDRESS DATE OF DEATM SURVIVOR TO BE WRITTEN ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP OF SURVIVOR TO DECEASED ONE GIVING MEMORIAL —— —~— — LAL AL AL ALA AL AL AL ALES — ON PAGE Two THE BARTUM MESSENGER THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos. B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium Springs, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at sponel rate of postage, provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 8, 1917. Authoriz November 15, 1923. BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON ‘ PRESIDENT MRS. R. A. YOUNG ° VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. COIT ROBINSON SECRETARY J. Archie Cannon- - + ~- Concord § Mrs. Fred E. Little- - - Wilmington Mrs. Coit Robinson - - - - Lowell Mrs. C. E. Kerchner- - - Greensboro Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - - Farmville Mrs. P. P. McCain - - Southern Pines A. P. Thorpe, Jr.- - - Rocky Mount Rev. M. S. Huske - - - = Reidsville Rev. Samuel E. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham Rev. N. R. McGeachy - ~- Statesville R.W.Bruin- - - - - Henderoson Dr. W. Z. Bradford - - - Charlotte Mrs. George Patterson - - - Gastonia Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Mrs. R. A. Young- - - _7 Charlotte Rev. Ben F. Brown - - - Wallace J.H.Thomson- - - Kings Mountain Mrs. E. C. Beatty - - + Mooresville Mrs. H. S. Kirk - + + Winston-Salem ————————————————— (FORM OF BEQUEST) “I give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, Jn. corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). oO Worth-while Reading (From The Connie Maxwell) Most of us will agree that a child gets his sense of values in life from the people with whom he grows up. In fact, al- though we seldom think of it, there is no other way for him to obtain a sense of values. Spend an hour with Gloomy Gus and how do you feel? Gloomy! Spend an hour with the happiest person you know and how do you feel? Hardly gloomy. Associations have a great deal to do with how we feel and act. We no longer say a child inherits his behavior from his parents. He acquires it by association with people, and devel- opes it as he learns to deal with people in one way or another— acceptably or otherwise. As a matter of fact, the cards are stacked against the child from the start. He will have little choice in what he becomes. He wants to do as he pleases, but these horrible adults are con- tinuously interfering in their efforts to make him conform. How ever you take it, growing up is a fight for the child and many harmful things can happen to him if he is misunderstood. After all, each of us who deals with a child has a deep- seated need of our own to see him grow up in our own image. Too often we forget the needs of the child and the fact that he is an individual with an inalienable right to be so. We also forget that our image may not be the only valid one in the uni- verse, If the people with whom the child grows up determine his development, are some more important than others? Of course. The parents are the key persons. The child’s ex- periences with his parents will determine more than anything else his adjustment to other people. If he has been happy with his parents, he will exhibit few problems. On the contrary, if he has had to fight his parents to get a decent break, his feelings toward other adults will be colored by his experience. He will feel that he has to fight to get his due where-ever adults are concerned. A child who has had unhappy experience with his parents— l1—may fight everybody. 2—may fight people who seem like his parents. 3—may steal. 4—may play the big-shot. 5S—may become outright delinquent. 6—may wet the bed. 7—may be sullen. 8—may withdraw and live within himself because trying to live like a human has hurt him at every turn. 9—may have nightmares. 10—may fail in school. 11—may run away. There are many other ways in which he may express his unhappiness. To grow up normally, a child must have two parents who love him, understand him and encourage him in his efforts to conform to life’s demands, or he must have the best possible substitues. This seems to be an innate need. The child must belong and must know that he belongs to someone who loves him for what he is and regardless of what he is. Consequently, good—bad—indif ferent—moral—immoral — dead—or alive, the most important people to any child are his parents; and next his relatives. And the most important de- cision any person. takes upon himself is that of cutting the ties between. a child and his parents, This can be done psycholog- ically just as effectively and just as completely as it can be done physically and with much more serious implications for the child. We are again talking about human relations. But what do these things imply for us—the people who try to substitute for the home and parents. There are many implications. The child comes to us with his behavior pattern well-developed. He has already learned a great deal about people. But so many of our children have difficulty with one or both parents and often. with other people. They may have found that they could not trust the adults in their world. After all, few aduits are consistent and children just will look for consistences. If they ‘burn their hands on a stove, they will expect to be burned if they touch it again. But if they are “burned” by an adult, they may be “loved to death” by the same person the next minute. It is all rather confusing. Why should they trust us? As a matter of fact, they won't until we prove we are different. We are not talking about punishment. child has been hurt by adults. But suppose the What if we hurt him also. There jg no reflection upon any one of us that a child ex- hibits any or all the problems mentioned when he comes to Connie Maxwell—we cannot control the past. Ther * The important thing is that one he child first must respond to a person. This flection when one of us fails. of us succeed. There is no re- is why it is so important that the janitor and the plow-hand be the kind of people who understand and love children, because the child’s need may be met by the janitor as often as by the social worker, here is a reflection upon each of us when a child leaves with the same problems he brought. We can he very sure the child’s problems are related to his feelings about his own people. Patience, and understand- ing will be required to restore his confidence in people. Some one must break the chain of events. These probiems persist from generation to generation as all of us are so often remind- ed. Whether we want the responsibility or whether we are capable of accepting it, when a child comes to us it is up to each of us acting as individuals, and all of us acting collectively, to break the chain and send the child away at peace with himself, capable of living with people and confident that he carry on. These traits can come only through a conviction on his part that he is loved for and in spite of what he is. There is no greater challenge. sibility. limited havoc, There is no greater respon- There is no task in which failure can work such un- To sum up the child has an inborn need for his parents, or substitutes, which must be met if he is to be normal and happy. His behavior is determined largely by his associations with these parents, already developed. When he comes to us, many behavior patterns have If he is to be helped to overcome his prob- lems, it is we who must break the chain of events, else the problems may pass on to future generations. greater responsihility. There is no There is sufficient knowledge to equip us to deal with these problems, but we must work on our feel- ings about this knowledge. The Message of the (Continued From Page One) ferently, as he is revealed to us in the word of God, yet he does not change. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The first garment Christ wore was the garment of honor and majesty. Even as Jacob loved Jos- eph, the beloved son of Rachel, and gave him a princely robe of rich and royal colors; so God the Father loved and honored his only begotten Son and gave into his hand the stupendous works of crea- tion. “In the beginning was the word.” He was the image of the invisible God, first born of every creature, for by him were all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth, visible and invisible, wheth- er they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him and He is before all things and in Him all things consist, that in ali things He might have the preeminence.” It was he who spake from Mt. Sinai and who passed by as the herald angels proclaimed, “The Lord, The Lord God.” Daniel saw the ancient of Days clothed in a garment as white as snow. John and James and Peter saw Jesus on the Holy Mount and amidst the pure white snows of the heights of Mt. Lebanon His garments glistened more white than the snow about. The Jewish) preacher taught that the white raiment of the ancient of days represented forgiveness, but surely he missed the mark. White is the emblem of purity and of innocence. Jesus was pure, the only perfect man. He was not only clothed with the garment of puri- ty which is in a sense a negation; His was also a positive chlaracter. He was clothed with righteous- ness. Jesus not only did not break the law in its smallest part, but he filled the law full, He fulfilled it. He carried it out in every pre- cept, every ordinance and com- mand, every implication; He obey- ed the spirit. And he went not as a galley slave driven to the bench, scourged to his task at the oars, but joyfully; “In the vol of the Book it is written of me, I hlave come to do thy will, 0 my God.” And so out of his Ivory Palaces, clothed in garments of beauty and glory, smelling of myrrh, aloes, and cassia, He came into this world of woe. Where He was clothied in puri- ty, in righteousness, obedient to the law. He was clothed too with humili- ty. He girded himself with a towel and washed his desciples feet. But for us surely the most sig- nificant of the garments of Christ is that one mentioned in Rev. 19:13 “He was clothed in a vesture dip- ped in blood: and His name is call- ed the Word of God.” Jesus conquered Satan, Jesus prevailed over sin, Jesus destroyed death, Jesus wrought out salvation not by the shedding of rivers of blood from his enemies. His was a conquest by consecration; a rule by righteous; a salvation by sacri- fice. We were bought by the blood. He conquered with the conquest of the cross and on that triumphal day when on his snow white steed he leads forth the hosts of heaven he will still be our Savior, clothed in a vesture dipped in blood. But as I meditate upon this sub- ject I could not but remember fhat when they came to a place of a skull the soldiers took His gar- ments and divided them and they lifted Him upon a cross stripped of His raiment. Yes, He was stripped of honor and majesty. Despised and reject- ed. Even holiness, purity, and right- teousness were taken from Him and the filthy rags of our sin were laid upon Him that you and I might be clothed upon with the robe of righteousness; that when the pro- digal son shall come to himself, he can go home, and the father will say “bring forth the best robe and put it on him, and a ring for his hand and shoes on his feet.” That we may be clothed upon with the righteousness of Christ that we may, being clothed with the wed- ding garment, enter into thle mar- riage supper of the Lamb. Shall we return to our Jewish Rabbi? He went his round of cere- monies, he read the scrolls of Moses, he uttered the usual pray- ers, and he even preached on the garments of salvation of his Mes- siah. And a young teacher passed him on the street, teaching as never man taught in tones of love and deep sincerity, performing mir- acles of healing even dying ‘ike a God. But the Rabbi saw him not and knew him not. But a certain woman said to her- self “If I could only touch the hem of His garment I might be healed.” “She only touched the hem of His garment MARCH 1948 Campus News SEWING ROOM With one glance around the Sewing Room it looks as if it were already spring. All the bright yel- lows, pinks, greens, reds and blues give this appearance to our busy work-room. How we wish you could all be with us at the Easter Par- ade! Then we would not have to tell you how busy we have been. The seniors, not to be out done by the rest, have been busy making evening gowns. How striking we will look in our reds, pinks, blues, lavender, blacks, greens, and whites. Three of our girls, Mildred Mon- roe, Betty Coffey and Betty Jo Smith, are going to the Beta Club Convention in Raleigh Easter week-end. Have a good time, girls! Well, basketball season is fin- ally over, and we are now con- vinced that our girls can do some- thing besides sew. It will seem good to have all the girls back at work again, at least for awhile. The Glee Club has an invitation to go to Covington, Virginia the first week-end in April. They are doing a lot of performing this year. Look for us next month. Sew Long —The Sewing Room Girls SYNOD’S COTTAGE Hello Folks, This is the Synod’s Cottage Boys again with our monthly news broad- cast. Its “marble shooting” time again and the knees in our overalls are wearing out so fast, Mrs. Bowling is having a hard time keeping them fixed. We had a visit from Mrs. Nis- bet, Mrs. Murell, and their friend Mr. Taylor last Saturday. They brought us some candy which we enjoyed very much. We certainly have been busy getting all the clothes out of the clothes rooms so we can have them painted. So, thanks to you, Mr. Ervin, our work will be much light- er. ‘ Mrs. Goodrum, the _ substitute matron in our division, is with us for a while to learn us and our ways. We like her very much and hope she likes us. Synod’s Cottage signing off. Au-revior (as Pearl says) — The Wigglers HOWARD COTTAGE Hi Folks, We want to thank our Moores- ville friends for the delicous box of cookies they sent us not so long ago. This month we had eleven girls on the honor roll. Last month we had three new girls on the honor roll and our matron, Miss Jackson took them to a show. Shirley Shaw is taking piano now and she is so thrilled. Mr. Johnston comes to see us on Sunday nights and teils us stories and last Sunday night we invited him over to see us and we sur- prised him with a birthday cake. We are so happy thlat we get to see movies about the Bible on Wed- nesday nights at the church. The last one we saw was, “The Calling of Matthew”, This month we had two girls to go to the birthday dinner. They were Shirley Hall and Edna Bau- (Continued On Page Three) As to His side she stole Amidst the crowd that gathered around Him And _straightway she was while.” Have you touched Him? Fathers, have you touched Him, Mothers have you touched Him, Children, young men, and maidens, have you touched Him?” “Oh touch the hem of His garment And thou too shall be free His saving power this very hour will give New life to thee.” 2) he d sil th te Q we Ye ee od 8, rs yu nt ur PAGE THREE Campus News ‘Continued From Page Two) com. Mrs, Smith and the girls at the sewing room made eight of us the prettiest Easter dresses you have ever seen, Little David Lee Spencer has been spending the afternoon with us lately. Elizabeth Ann Huddles- ton and Louise Bradshaw are the official nurses right now. See you next month. — The Howard Girls ANNIE LOUISE COTTAGE This is the Annie Louise Girls with the latest news from our cot- tage. The weather is very changable up here. It is cold one day and hot the next. We surely hope it is warm Easter because we don’t want to go to church wearing coats. We have had report cards and 13 of our little girls got on the honor roll. Hope all of us can get on it next time. Our junior basketball games start the 16th of March and last until the 22nd. We hope we can see most of them. We have about two more months of school. Can’t wait until school is out. But I’m sure we'll miss our teachers but we won’t talk so much about that until about May. We hone all our friends can come up once in awhile to see us. Until next time. — The Annie Louise Girls. BABY COTTAGE So many things have happened since you last heard from us. We had so much fun playing in the snow and helping our big sis- ters make a snowman. One of our big sisters has just come back from the hospital after having her tonsils out. We are glad to hlave her back. All you can see around our house right now is bang, bang, and more bangs. We have all had our hair cut and we think our bangs look cute. Jacky Taylor had a birthday this month. She really did enjoy all the good things she hiad to eat at the birthday table. Mr. Lyon came from Statesville the other day to take our pictures. We all put on our Sunday best, and tried to look just as pretty as could be. We have a new victrola at our house. At night after supper our big sisters play it for us. We use it in Kindergarden too. We will all be so glad when old man winter packs his suitcase and goes back to the North Pole. When the sun shines we have such a nice time playing outdoors. It will soon be Easter Bunny time. We just can’t wait. Bye Bye. — The Baby Cottage Family QUAD Well, here are the three muske- teers again bringing you some of the news hot off the wires of the Barium Press. At the present time we are tied up with the sponsoring of the junior tcurnament and all the boys are having fun beating out of school and work. Your Ace report- ers have been down looking the situation over, and although there are boring moments, on the whole everything seems to be moving along smoothly. Recently, tears have been seen in some of the quad boys eyes be- cause your Ace reporters are finally going to leave with a dip- loma or a certificate. Don’t get us wrong, some tears have also been in quite a few of the girls eyes, but we can’t say the same about any of the matrons or teachers. We are not positive but the senior girls have informed us that we have only 4,838,400 seconds before w. are left standing alone in this cruel world. Leaving the quads a few min- utes we venture to the senior table, there we find the Queens of the conference, Stricklin and Hall try- ing to put on weight so that they can try out for the wresling team. Since this is our last article, all fan mail must be post-marked be- fore May 15, 1948. Please address all your mail to the three muske- teers, cfo Barium Springs, N. C. We leave you with this question, “Do you know anything about Mrs. Slush or the sitting man’? — Your “Ace” reporters, Whiting Hudgins Myatt LEES COTTAGE Here we are again folks, bring- ing you the news. A Friend gave us some marbles and we are having fun playing with them. Miss Ford’s birthday was not long ago. We gave her « pot of flowers and Miss Carpenter gave us a party. Some of the boys are going to join the church Easter Sunday. They are having junior tourna- ments. Our school teacher is sick. Miss Ford is putting more flowers in her flower bed and they are going to be pretty. — By Eugene Thomas and David Thomas Junior Tournament (Continued From Page One) ment is arranged on a double eli- mination basis and started out on Tuesday, March 16th, winding up Monday night, March 22nd. Four games were played every afternoon and four games at night until the finals when just two games were played. The Barium girls (The Rockets) were the champions in thle girls’ division. The names of the other two Barium girls’ teams were The Vixens and The Kittens. The Mooresville boys were the champ- ions in the boys’ division for the second year in succession. Mount Holly was the runner-up in the boys’ division and the Statesville No. 1 team was the runner-up in the girls’ division, The record of the Barium teams is as follows: The Barium Kittens were de- feated by Mount Ulla 34-20. In their second game the Kittens de- feated Troutman 22-9, and were finally eliminated by Hiddenite 21- 18. The Barium Vixens defeated Hiddenite 17-16 and were defeated by Cool Spring 22-13 and finally were defeated by Mount Ulla 28-20. The Barium Rockets who came through as final champions played four games. They first defeated Celeste Henkel 45-18, Scotts 29-24, Claremont No. 1 29-21, and finally Statesville No. 1 29-19. The Barium boys reached the semi-finals. In their first game they defeated Claremont No. 2 69- 6: in their second game they de- feated Stony Point 26-11: in their third game they were defeated by Mount Holly 21-19. The attendance for these games was not up to that of former years because of other tournaments in progress at the same time, but those spectators who did come seemed to enjoy the enthusiasm of these juniors. Certainly what they lacked in skill they made up in enthusiasm and oe every- body left in a good humor. Sixteen trophies altogether are given in this Junior tournament. The four major trophies are given to those who play in the finals - the champions and the runners-ups. The other teams winning trophies in the girls’ division were Hidden- ite, Stony Point, Cool Spring, Claremont No. 1, Mount Ulla, and Scotts. In the boys’ division tro- phies were won by _ Salisbury, Scotts, Troutman, Barium Mount Ulla, and Stony Point. Three former Barium Boys brought teams to this tournament: Carson Wood who coaches at Scotts, Joe Savage who coaches at China Grove, and Dewey Barnhill who coaches at the Junior High School in Salisbury. By the way, during the regular basketball season, our varsity played two games with the Mills Home and the Mills Home teams are coached by a former Barium boy, Marley Sigmon. It was a mighty nice season, and now we will stow away our basket- ball doings and in just a week we will stow away some rations by THE BARIUM MrssencGEeER oo aaiiiiais way of celebration at the basket- ball banquet, and then we gen outdoors. Tennis and softball, flow- ers and gardening, bees and fruit trees, and a little later haymaking and corn planting will be the order of the day. aoe imeeeiomnee The Every-Member (Continued From Page One) to prepare their pledge cards was interesting. Some had a pretty good idea of how much money would pass through their hand during the next twelve months. They put down a definite amount. The others could do no better than to put down 10 percent of whatever they received. I happen to know these boys pretty well and I know the efforts they make to live up to their pledges. They contribute, in addition to their church pledge, through the Boy’s Bible Class and that class does a pretty big job. The budget which they have voted on themselves amounts to more than $5.00 a Sunday and they have never yet fallen under their bud- get. After finishing up at the Quads, we went to the Lottie Walker Building and there our business was transacted all too quickly. The girls were up ready and waiting for us, most of them with a pencil already in their hands, They knew exactly what they wanted to do. Those cards were prepared and signed up so quickly and back in our hands that before we knew it it was a case of “Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?” We almost wished that we might have had to argue some of them into signing, but it just worked out entirely too smoothly, Before we knew it our assignment for the day was over and we reluctantly journeyed back to my home where we prepared our cards to turn over to the chair- man of thie canvass. One hour is what it took. We had some ninety cards carefully, and we know prayfully, prepared. A person could not have spent a more pleasant hour doing anything to have the company of an eager and enthusiastic young deacon and the ready cooperation of all the young church members among the students. It just made a person feel that our Church is a live, go- ing concern and that we old-timers can get a lot of satisfaction. But we must not just coast along, we have a job to do too. The vigor and enthusiam and the drive to go onward and upward is in such abundance in the hearts and lives of the young members. It is good to have an every-member canvass. We find out lots of things about our neighbors and ourselves too. Barium Girls Are (Continued From Page One) Barium 45 Spencer 30 Barium 39 Mooresville 21 Barium 34 Kannapolis 29 Barium 34 Spencer 17 Barium 35 Thomasville 18 Barium 36 Lexington 38 JUNIORS GIRLS Barium 33 Newton 12 Barium 24 Newton 10 Barium 380 Scotts 15 Barium 40 Scotts 22 Barium 37 Oxford 18 BOYS Barium 36 Newton 13 Barium 34 Newton 16 Barium 30 Scotts 8 Barium 36 Scotts 14 Barium 36 Oxford 8 Old Man Winter Took (Continued From Page One) damage at Barium turned out to be rather mild compared with the situation in Statesville, We went into Statesville to see how they were getting along about four o’clock in the morning and things looked pretty grim. About the only electric lights we saw burning were at the transformer station. Back to Barium We came. Ike White, our young master mechanic, was already on the job and doing everything possible. He had gotten up one of the firemen to come and start our little boiler as the big boiler with the stoker could not be used. The dairyman was notified that there would be no current for milking. The kitchen was alerted not to depend on steam or electri- city for breakfast. We did not noti- fy anybody that there would not be any hot water in the bathrooms. We decided to let them find that out after they got in the showers! What did worry us though was the idea of trying to wash! dishes with no dishwater and no hot water. Well, as good luck would have it, they managed to get us a little current between six and _ seven o’clock - enough to get the cows milked, so that job was done, but we had no heat until nearly nine o’clock and that cold water dish- washing job was just as we thought it would be, Being Sunday morning the peo- ple in the Quads did not feel the need of heat quite so early and got along fairly well, so summing it all up we really came out of the crisis without too many bad effects, except the wear and tear on our worrying machine, We try to have lots of faith at Barium, but we remember back in the days when we have had sleet storms that cut us down without current for two or three days on a stretch, and we do not want that to ever happen again but we know in the course of time it will happen again. It gives you an all-gone feeling when you look at a stoker and have no electricity to run it. It reminds you somehlow of a dead horse in a stable - a horse that is a beautiful thing when it is alive but a big, bulky, useless thing when it is dead. Well, that is the way these stokers are. They not only are big and useless but they won’t let you get to the boiler to do anything by hand. The power company hiad plenty of power at the power sta- tion, but there was not any power at Barium. There was lots of hot water in the boiler but we could not get it to the bathrooms be- cause it goes by electric pumps. We had a lot of coal in the coal bin but we could not get it in the fire- box without electricity to operate the stoker. We hope this is the last slap from Old Man Winter, and that from now on he won’t even shake his fist at us. We can stand his snows, his rain, and his cold, but his sleet storms are just too much for us, We just admit it. We hope someday to have something work- ed out to take the fear out of sleet storms anyway. Electricity is a wonderful ser- vant, so wonderful in fact that we have it helping us do almost every job on the place. It even has some- thing to do with this article which is dictated on an Ediphone operat- ed by electricity, it is set up on a linotype machine operated by ele- tricity and printed on a press oper- ated by electricity and even folded in a machine operated by electri- city. All of these things make us very dependent on this wonderful ser- vant, and that makes it all the more terrible when this servant goes on a sitdown strike, and that is when sleet or a storm of some kind interferes with its coming to us. Clothing and Clothing Funds DUE March - September REGULAR Clothing Outfits February Receipts Waccamaw Aux. : ; Durham ist Aux., Business Girl’s Circle MARCH 1948 Miscellaneous Gifts February Receipts Rocky River Aux., 4 quilts. Mrs. Wilson & Mrs. Cowan, Bur- lington, clothing, Paw Creek Aux., Circle No. 1, 1 quilt. Mrs. W. G. Olson, Jr., Raleigh, clothing. Newton ist Aux., Circle No. 3, 4 quilts. Plaza Aux., Circle No. 7, child- ren’s books. Kay Lewis Little, Stanfield, comic books. Jason Aux., comic books, pencils, crayolas, soap, tooth paste, brushes and powder, anticeptic, taleum, hair oil, nail polish. A Tryon Friend, clothing. Meadowbrook Aux., 2 juilts. Clothing Funds February Receipts Sugaw Creek Aux. ................ 70.00 Reidsville 1st Aux, ...... .... 35.00 Roanoke Rapids Aux. ............ 40.00 Red Springs Aux. ..............--- 60.00 Howard Mem. Aux., Mrs. Mabry PROS oe, ee das 5.00 Mrs. George Holderness 8.50 Mrs, Job Cobb ..................-.. 8.50 Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Seaford, ROG ois vs cakes icasices satan 18.00 PRGTORG AUR, sisieece Sexccscasrcce 20.00 Concord 1st Aux., Circle No. 2 40.00 CPCI Oe Bic cene lessens Circle No, 11 PPP UB AG ccc. ecteciae caresses arsensies . WARNE W (AUK e bcc. icc. ccnccsincese 20.00 Marion ist Aux. ................ 60.00 AGP UM | ck vcisence - scsosevee 5.00 Pauntain. AUK. ....cccs006 sess. 5.00 Pipes AUX, ..ceeccs Sconces BOUO Henderson 1st Aux., The Friend- OR oo aie’ ssvieane Mrecoens 20.00 Hamiet Aux. ............ .- 40.00 Ma Re csi. kchcoareoe ....- 25.00 Becnel (Mi) Aux. ........-......-. 20.00 Gastonia 1st S. S., Cc Operating Memorials February Receipts Eaten, Mr. George R., Statesville: Dr. & Mrs. S. Wallace Hoffman Powell, Mr. J. Davis, Columbia, Ss. ° . Mrs. Donald Follmer, Charlotte For Messenger February Receipts Mrs. W. H. Bowling, Rocky Me a ae 1.00 Miscellaneous February Receipts Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. J. A. Verreult, Sr., IN es cess) bis 10.00 Miss C, H. Stone, High Point 1.00 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ........ 10.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet .... 1.00 A Friend, Cumberland. ........ 2.00 Mrs. Louise H. Couch, Char- ei ieee 25.00 Mr. R. T. Sinclair, Wilming- MO oie sauyioy coennene oe 15.00 Memorials for Church February Receipts Beam, Mrs. C. C., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Neal, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Lafferty Idle Comments Club, Mooresville Blackley, Mr. O. R., Durham: Trinity Avenue Sunday Schlool Briggs, Mr. Herman, Jr., Raleigh: Mrs. E. A. Johnston, North Wilkesboro West Raleigh Auxiliary Brown. Mrs. John, North Wilkes- boro: Miss Pauline Troutman Brown, Mr. Will, Raleigh: Mrs. Paul Hairis Butler, Mr. James A., Pomroy, Washington: Mr. & Mrs. Harvey B. Hunter, Charlotte Calloway, Mr. W. M., Lexington: Mr. Howard M. Sprock, Char- lotte Cantrell, Mrs. Virginia Snyder, Spartanburg, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Julian, Gas- tonia Carpenter, Mr. C. J., Williamsburg, Va.: Misses Katharine Day, Evelyn Harrison, Marianna Long, Durham Chandler, Rev. W. B. S., Monroe: Monroe ist Auxiliary Clark, Mr. W. H., Durham: Misses Nan & Hortense Rogers, Bennettsville, S. C. Coates, Mrs., Clayton: (Continued On Page Four) PAGE FOUR (Continued From Page Three) Mr. M. C. Dew, Raeford Coltrane, Mr. L. D., Sr., Concord: Mr. & Mrs. A. Jones Yorke Cousart, Mr. Earl Kirkpatrick, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Uhlman S. Alexander Cowherd, Mrs. Gertrude, (C. P.), Roanoke Rapids: Mrs. R. H. Higgins and Miss Gladys Morris Mr. & Mrs. H. S. Loy Croom Miss Majorie, Moores- ville: Mrs. R. C. McPherson, (Aunt) Miss Cora L. Freeze Culbreth, Mrs. Tom, Raeford: Mrs. Agnes N. Johnson Mr. M. C. Dew Currie, Rev. W. P. M., Wallace: Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Jones Mr. & Mrs. R. C. Dixon, Belmont Mr. & Mrs. H. M. Morrison Dalton, Mrs. Cora Winston-Salem: Mr. & Mrs. J. Alexander MeMil- lian Dysard, Mr. T. L., Statesville: Mr. W. H. Allen Eaton, Mr. George R., Statesville: Mr. W. R. Brady Mr. & Mrs. June F. Scarborough Mr. & Mrs. C. P. Brawley Major & Mrs. William L. Allison Ebener, Mr. Emil W., Greenville, 8. C.: Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Ross, Charlotte Dr. Otho B. Ross, Chiarlotte Fleagle, Prof. F. K., Davidson: Dr. & Mrs. C. U. Voiles, Moores- ville : Mr. & Mrs. Earle H. Spence Mr. & Mrs. J. A. McGeachy, Jr. Miss Florence Barnes Miss Maude Vinson Mr. A. G. Griffin Faison, Miss Isabel, Rocky Mt.: Mrs. W. H. Bowling Fisher, Mrs. G. T., St. Pauls: St. Pauls Rotary Club Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Mr. Bob Gaither (grandson) Garrou, Mrs. Catherine, Valdese: Mr. & Mrs. R. W. Gwyn North Wilkesboro Glenn, Mrs. Lucius N., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. R. H. Philhower Mrs. L. N. Patrick Mr. & Mrs. M. B. Wales Dr. & Mrs. P. R. Falls Mr. & Mrs. Dean A. French Dr. & Mrs. D. E. McConnell Mrs. J. M. Sloan, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Caldwell Winecoff Gastonia 1st S. S., Herald B. C. Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Timberlake Mr. & Mrs. R. Grady Rankin Mrs. Joe Hudson & Mrs. Paul Murphy Mrs. W. F. Kincaid Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. E. M. Rudisill Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Leavitt Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Dixon, Belmont Mr. & Mrs. E. Hope Forbes Miss Ethel B. Stowe, Belmont Mrs. J. L. Craig Mr. & Mrs. W. H. Patrick Misses Bigger, Forbes, Haselden & Jackson Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. Lyday & Mr. Bill Lyday Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Dickson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph S. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Bert Thomas Giesey, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Mr. William D. Anderson Glenn, Mr. W. H., Sr., Gastonia: Mrs. Rebecca & Mr. Jimmie Glenn Mr. & Mrs. E. Hope Forbes Miss Lavene Dulin, Clover, Ss. C Dr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Womble, Wagram Gilchrist, Mr. Peter S., Sr., Char- lotte: fe Westminster (M) Auxiliary McCanless, Grant, Clayton (Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Grant), Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. C. P. Brawley Hanes, Mr. Henry L., Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. Frank Hovis, Char- lotte Henderson, Miss Fannie, Charlotte: Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Lafferty Idle Comments Club, Mooresville Hinkle, Mr. T. C., Sr., Lexington: Mr. C. W. Hayes, Gastonia Houston, Little Miss Patty, Ana- heim, Calif. (1 year): Mr. & arn, Beet Burdin, Wil- Mr. & Mrs. John T. Hale & Fam- ily, Wilmington, Del. Hughey, Mrs. J. P., Salisbury: Mrs. J. C. Ferguson ee wa ist S. S., Campbell Hunter, Mr. Thomas M., Jr., Fay- THE BARIUM MESSENGER etteville: Dr, & Mrs. W. T. Rainey Kimbrell, Mr. Horace W., Durham: Mr. & Mrs. C. M. Wallace, Gas- Kirksey, Mr. William L., Charlotte: tonia Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Puckett, Derita Lockwood, Mrs. William J., Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Major & Mrs. William L. Alli- son, Statesville Love, Dr. W. M., Monroe: Dr. & Mrs. J. W. Ormond Lowe, Mrs. R. L., Banner Elk: The Wakefields Dr. Fred E. Motley, Charlotte MacBrayer, Dr. Reuben, Southern Pines: oS Mrs. C. D. Thomas, Black t. McDuffie, Mrs. Murdoch, Raeford: Raeford Auxiliary McKethan, Mrs. D. G., Fayetteville: Dr. & Mrs. W. T. Rainey McNeary, Mrs. W. Wilson (Anna C. L.), Lumberville, Pa.: Myers Park Church McPhaul, Mrs. Springs: Mrs. E. L. Coxe ana Mr. Leon H., Fort Mill, ip Cat Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Neal, Jr, Charlotte Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Summerell, Burlington Louanna, Red Morris, Mr. Stephen, Concord: Mr. & Mrs. A. Jones Yorke Morrison, Mrs. John R., Statesville: ‘Monticello Home Demonstrttion ‘Club Mr. & Mrs. Oscar M. Fox Myers, Mrs. Walter, Charlottt: Sugaw Creek Aux., Circle No. 4 Neal, Mrs. W. A. (Emma Jane), Charlotte: Mulberry Home Circle Neighbors, Mr. E. F., Red Springs: Your Bridge Club Owen, Mrs. Fanny, Fayetteville: Miss Mary McCaskill Patrick, Mr. Ralph C., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. M. B. Wales Peele, Mrs. E. L., Raeford: Raeford Auxiliary Pierce, Mr. H. L., Raleigh: Mrs. Paul Harris Plyler, Mr. D. Worth, Salisbury: Mr. & Mrs. S. A. McConkey, Tarboro Mrs. C. A. Johnson, Tarboro Mrs. W. E. Henneessee Ramsey, Mrs. M. E. (Ben), States- ville: Mr. W. H. Allen Mr. John Gilbert Mr. Paul Gilbert Rankin, Mrs. Coma McC., Fayette- ville: Fayetteville 1st Aux., Circle No. 4 Rankin, Mrs. Thomas W., Fayette- ville: Dr. & Mrs. W. T. Rainey Reynolds, Master Morgan Ayers, Jr.. Charlotte (5 years): Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Lambeth ba & Mrs. George E, Wilson, ¥. Seay, Mr. John, Roanoke Rapids: Misses Gladys Morris & Nellie Higgins Sharpe, Mr. Thomas M., Aberdeen: Mr. H. M. Folley Sherman, Miss Doris Gene, Fay- etteville: Mr. S. E. Sherman (Father) Sherrill, Mr. J. Carl, Mt. Ulla: Idle Comments Club, Mooresville Sherrill, Mr. Robert A., Lenoir: Mr. & Mrs. George C. Robbins Smith, Dr. H. Maxey, Asheville: Mr. & Mrs. G. H. Kuykendall, Charlotte Smith, Mr. Robert C., Gastonia: Miss Virginia Forbes Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Smith, Mr. T. Branch, Mooresville: Mr. H. N. Johnston, Sr. Sossoman, Mr. Richard, Charlotte: Mallard Creek Aux., Circle No. 2 Spratt, Miss Laura, Charlotte: Mrs. Tom Wilson Stewart. Mr. Orville T., Charlotte: Mrs, Louise & Jane Harmon ae 4 Mr. Clarence, Sr., States- ville: Mrs. Lonnie Shaver Mrs. H. O. Steele a Mr. & Mrs. Louis Bowles Mr, & Mrs. Joseph E. Gant, Bur- lington Major & Mrs, William L. Alli- son Mr. & Mrs, Fuller Sams, Jt. Todd, Mr. T. Brooks, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs, F, §, Neal, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Hawley Hunter, Derita The B. H. Hefner Family Watrous. Mr. C, F., Morganton: Mrs. W. E. White White, Mrs. James G. (Margaret Alexander), Mooresville: Friendship Club Mooresville ist Aux., Wharey Mem. Aux., Circle No. 7 Mooresville ist Aux., Wharey Mem. Aux., Circle No. 2 (Miss Cora L, Freeze Mrs. Howard Caldwell & Mrs. R. M. McKemie, Concord Wrike, Mrs. S. M.. Mr. & Mrs. J. A. Churches February Receipts CONCORD PRESBYTERY Randleman: Okey, Graham Arrowood ........ . 5.86 CONCOLA ereeccesncc, cescesereees coteeet 8.12 Davidson ............ Cae Fifth Creek 200.000... s.r 13.00 GilwO0d ...n.cceccc5 eseeseseeeee eoeereet 4.16 Harrisburg .......... ee 3.74 Hickory 1st «0.0.02... -----0" 20.67 Kannapolis Ist .....----- ---" 89.03 Kirkwood ...........0 eee ct 8.77 Lenoir ............ saesee 40012 Little Joe’s ... .. 12.61 MATION ........n0c. ceneesncneee sreeerere 6.34 Mooresville 1st .......----- ---" 15.74 Mooresville 2nd ....-------- --"7" 27.82 Morganton ............ a _.. 13.48 Newton, J. R. Gaither -.- A Friend Prospect Salisbury 1st ...........- -- Salisbury 2nd ..... Shiloh oe es Statesville 1st ~......--- +707 Thyatira .......... cnn secret WIR acc sam ennseeans seseesrecare Waldensian ........ .--- 0" GRANVILLE vane Tr Center Ridge ......---- sc J Durham 18st. ....---.- ert 92.06 Ernest Myatt 4.43 Fellowship ...-.-.-- --0 " 10.00 Fuller Memorial .....------- +--+ 1.75 Oakland. ........0--- es) oo . 1.33 Raleigh 1st, Dec. & Jan 32.00 WS ees eas 48.70 Roanoke Rapids .....--.-.-- +--+ 50.00 White Mem., Raleigh ........-- 8.52 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY | Brittain ........... 0 Duncan’s Creek .......2-2 sss 5.60 East Belmont 2.75 Long Creek 14.90 Lowell ......... sees 33.07 New Hope .unw-ssee ceseeceeseeseetee* 4.20 Union ......0 een ee 18.70 Vasity .......... caeens er 2.98 West Avenue 17.80 MECKLENBURG PRRSCTTER, AmaAy James ....ccccece serecesreree Avondale .......c00 cecceeee eveteneers 1.50 Wadi ......... —a =o 1.66 Benton Heights .......2+ sossesee 1.00 Caldwell Mem, .. ....-.0- --++---° _ 89.50 Camp Greene 2.30 Candor so Z Cook’s Mem. ... MUePve .. Erdman Love Hamlet Indian Hill. Indian Trail 5 Te Park .......coeee ees A McGee “ Macedonia .......... wot Mallard Creek cesses = 9.88 Monroe Ist ..cccccose erceores 7.90 Myers Park .......sccce ssececcccceeese* 52.80 Paw Creck .... 4.00 Philadelphia ........ ..-..--- : Pineville ..cccck aecleeeweses sever Plasa ........... Soe oe “ M. J. Dean d Robinson ............ é Saint Paul 2... s--cceseooeseeee : Selwyn Avenue -...s-ccccc0 seseeee 2.44 Seigle Avenue cesescsecens seeesoesee .80 Sharon sie 3.49 Sugaw Creek occ 16.50 Sunset Hills ....sccsceee +++ 1.60 Tenth Avenue ..ccccc-ceeceees seeeeeee 18.38 Thomasboro osc. cceeeees oeeeeeet 2.35 Westminster 2.1... cece ceeeteet 16.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance ......c...00 ccccenee svcosoreee 26.00 ASheboro __.. cee cesceese ceeeseeees 82.50 Bessemer ou... se. ceseeees seeeeeeett 8.25 Bethany 2... cecceessees cesses 31.66 Bethel on cesseseesees ereeeeeett 7.23 Bethesda ....... csssssss sseeeeeeee 6.50 Buffalo (G) csecscce ceserseeeneres 26.00 Burlington 1st... esses" 180.00 Rvrlington Qnd cecececeees eeeeeee* 7.22 CrOSS Roads cceseecseee sseceeecereese 19.25 Fact Burlington Fl-Bethel 7 aoe sasvosutgil reensboro ist an a auee seeeeeee sville 1st Mebane = Sanford .._. Sprimewood eevee evens oe Undesignated aa eeeeeoeeeees WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY TR ioc ns, Sanacneaainns sineanes 8.75 COLIOED Secissense caren Chinquapin Mount Olive Mount Zion Oak Plains Pleasant View Rockfish ...........- Saint Andrews-Covenant ....219.80 WT AOI -ccccn’ accross: scaxeanmncs 6.24 Whiteville 1st ........... ---.-s0- Wilmington 1st W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem Ist. .............--« J Sunday Schools February Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Goldsboro 1st, Jan. & Feb. .. 44.26 Rocky Mount Ist, Jennie K. Wee Ee ete beeen 5.00 Men’s B. C., Dec. & Jan. .... 48.40 Wilson, Mrs. Lea’s Class .... 3.42 Tames B. Cu cncceesccooe ascrcrvoce 33.48 CONCORD PRESBYTERY CONnCOrd .....c-.2c0 cesceseereee cevesoee 7.90 Harmony. ....c--1000. cceesees ceeeseeeee 10.31 Marion ...2...0.... cocceoce cosnrseseenees 10.01 Mooresville 1st .....---.... --++- 30.00 palisbury 1st, Everyman’s 1S gc uecones aaneoened 35.00 Statesville 1st . TADOT .2...cce ccceccceeeee ereceeeseeee Thyatira FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Antioch ............ ee ae ieee 6.77 Bethesda ............ + .. 18.38 Bluff, Jan. & Feb. ..... 7.16 CamMePron ...---.020. soereeee . 24.00 COTETO cccceervenns cenconsreres conseesree 20.00 Fairmont .........-.0 c-e eeett 8.59 Montpelier .....--- ss-s-+ seers 9.05 Raven Rock ........--.0 ---:---0* 7.42 Red Springs ....-------- ----see--* 10.00 ST oo wsconac: vcccaveesnen. peotsnerteree 28.46 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Durhiam 1st, Big Brother’s Ph gist te aheemer geet 0.00 North Vanguard ........... +--+ 11.40 Warrenton .........00. ---ceece eeeneee 9.74 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Brittain 2.2.2.2... cs-c-eecee cceeees 2.01 Lincolnton 1st .......-... 31.81 Long Creek .........--- ; 6.65 Mount Holly ............. - 189.87 Men’s B. C. .......---- - Sees 15.00 Women’s B. C. ....----.--- 8.00 New Hope ......----+. ------ 37.87 Olney, Jan. & Feb. ..... 80.42 UNION oaneeeneeeee ceensesceeee cceseeeeee 21.57 Union Mills ..........-. ----eeeeeeee 4.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle 1st .....--...-. ---+++-° 63.00 Badin, Ladies’ B. C. -.-...------ 3.00 Bethel ...-..0.. c-ccecceecse cceneeeee 4.86 Camden .uu.ecceuece ceeseeeesere seeerees 5.00 CRAG. ccccitcee: cco, apmecortenen, ee 10.60 Charlotte 2nd, Phillips Fidelis a nn cacceee ns ree 50. Huntersville 36.25 Monroe ist 50.00 Mulberry .....-2.2-- se 007" 9.50 Myers Park, Men’s Club .... 25.00 Pineville .......:--- ccccesee cocecseees 50 Robinson .....--..--- ccccenee seceeeseee 2.25 Rockingham .........2:. 0 ---s-- + 47.95 Tenth Avenue .....-----2. --::0--" 32.08 Westminster, Men’s B. C. .. 15.15 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance .........0:. ----cc+ coseesse* 5.15 Greensboro ist, Men’s B. C. 24.45 WENN 2s sce. ca ken deren Seseee-tt 7.60 Westminster ........ .---cc0. seeeres 18.46 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Ar ioe esse tees 11.93 Black River 2.2... ---::ecseeeeeeee* 6.13 Clarkton ........ sue 1582 GEOGE oo cckic. | eensew ence sacs LBvee Harmony, Dec. & Jan. .....--. 20.00 Immanuel, Beginners & Cradle MAY Ee: saecvescenss eoeaperets 12.50 Jacksonville, fourth quarter 30.00 Mount Olive .......-2... _---------- 27.05 Pollocksville, Jan. & Feb. .... 14.19 Saint Andrews-Covenant ..-192.42 South River ............ eee Winter Park Auxiliaries February Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Fountain, Feb. & March Howard Mem. Special Pinetops ...-.c-- ceeeesee ceeeeeee Rocky Mount ist A Friend ............. ------ Rocky Mount 2nd Wayside CONCORD PRESBYTERY Concord ist, for 6 months .... 72.00 Special Ladies’ Benevolent IOS socicissssis Sevencce rees 5.00 Royal Oaks ........22. 0 ---ssseseeeee 1.00 Statesville Ist 0.0000... 52.00 Mhyatira oo. cece ceceeeeeee 4.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Centre 12.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Henderson 1st 0.0.00... ------++ 3.50 North Vanguard ............ -...- 2.53 RE ccceicienees. ersenvnstin. snort _ 8.560 Roanoke Rapids ............. -.--.-.. 3.50 Warrenton 22... cece. seceeoeee 70 WERE TRADCIGT covcsnsscc, ccecereeeree 41.68 MARCH 1948 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Cherryville 0.0... esses: sss 5.15 Mary Grove Circle .......... 3.00 Columbus .......-.2. -+++++ 1.45 TG is sascaan 4.00 Gastonia lst ............ . 43.75 Kings Mountain Ist .............. 15.00 Lincolnton 1st, Circle No. 1 6.00 Mount Holly ............ s+: 12.95 Oley ...n..n.-n-- coveseenteee cestenseenee 6.40 TYYON ceececscscee cessncerenss cossseneneee 6.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle Ist ..........2. ces: 4.00 Avondale ............ ‘ 40 Benton Heights ........ ... 1.00 Central Steele Creek ... 3.60 Charlotte 2nd J Hamlet MeGee) ....e0n. coveensece concosoeee Matthews ...0........ ---se2+ core Myers Park Nevin Pineville ........... ...-- Saint Andrews ...... Sharon ..0...-.---- cececcesesee ceeeeeee South Park Chapel Walkersville Wadesboro ........ West Avenue .. Westminster Wilmore ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance ....---:--- 0 ccceeeeeeee 20 6.50 Bessemer .........--. ----- .... 10.00 Buffalo (G) 6.50 Buffalo |L) 1.62 Covenant ..........-. --see- cceeeeeee 6.50 Glenwood .....--.--- ---e02 -seeeee 8.25 Greensboro Ist ......-----. +--+ 176.71 Joneshoro .......-- ceeecees ceseeeee 3.00 Special .........0.-0 ceeee. street 3.00 Sanford .......-- cosevee corcsesenses 32.50 Smring wood .....-0. cescccee ceeeeere 2.00 Westminster ........ .-.---. s+ 20.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY i ionics assesses: soereere 5.00 Burgaw ..ececc2- ceeseccetere ceeeeeee 5.00 Carolina Beach .........-. +--+ 1.63 Chinquapin 20.2... ---2--- eeeeee* 49 Elizabethtown ........ 0 -----2: 0 + 24.00 Grove, Business Girls’ Circle 6.00 Jacksonville ........ 0 ------:. 0 -----*+ 8.75 Mount Zion .. - Pleasant View i Pink Hill .......... Winter Park W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem 1st 15.00 Y. P. Societies February Receipts ORANGE PRESBYTERY Bessemer 14.00 THANKSGIVING Churches February Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Hollywood ........20-- cseseeee oseseee+ 8.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Bethesda 22.0... 0. cececeseseseee 61.25 TEA GIBGOE, secre nos crserees ores 20.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Mount Bethel ........ -.... 27.00 Raleih 16t ......... 1453.60 PATEL ose | iccceseee sebiene 57.50 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTER OHBONG BEF. pis een 700.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTER Chay iotte 166 3. cic serene Indian Trail PU OVC C, cecsscccencs sccoussonsnsnene SSUTISCG PETS © casccsccicas | ctasatcocone GRANGE PRESBYTERY COON ei. csvsicas: seracanncces sageares 175.58 CPERTAI ioc ces see Greensboro ist .... Griers WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY IONE | osc ire ete 26.00 Saint Andrews-Covenant ....316.75 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Collinstown Jefferson Sunday Schools February Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY WERT TGS siccictsvens ciecsmeinis Soke d MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Selwyn Avenue 82.43 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Wilmington ist Auxiliaries February Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY TEU vivninistses errmcaiess sennels 5. New Bern ist WUERBOTE 1G occccenses sceccssecccsinte GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY RTOPE crecceveeses, ssoreseroiee entsnecinn ld Warrenton oo... cecccce eeeeeeee 14.91 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Charlotte 1st 15.00 Charlotte 2nd 50.00 Barium Mess VOL. 25 B ARIUM SPRINGS, N.C., Apri 1948 SE ee een eres, oe No. 6 | TWELVE GIRLS AND SEVEN BOYS TO GRADUATE AT BARIUM SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL NEXT MONTH | eet ere ite eee ERNESTINE BALDWIN SADIE GREY BUIE JACK CLARK Bladen County, ’35 Lemon Springs, ’37 Lenoir, ’38 és BETTY COFFEY PEGGY COFFEY Greensboro, ’33 Greensboro, ’33 eS e o o o O o r t T I o n o e EDITH MARIE FERGUSON ihe ss oe JANIE HALL Troutman, (citizen) : Bele es Yanceyville, ’36 CHARLES BARRETT, Class President CELIA DONALDSON JAMES HOWARD COLE yetteville, °32 Barium Springs Statesville * TOMMY HUDGINS . . 7 Bia! aa ‘ena? HAROLD MYATT Charlotte, ’43 : ‘ : , rs ; High Point, ’39 BRADLEY JEAN MANUS MILDRED MONROE PEARL MORGAN Charlotte, °42 Fayetteville, ’35 Concord, °39 ee Here they are, Friends, the graduating class of 1948, the product of 191 years of training at the Presbyterian Orphans’ Home. Seventeen of them were raised at Barium and two are from our neighboring city of Troutman. The mascots are, in a way, products of Barium. ‘The little girl, Celia Donald- son, is the daughter of Lafayette Donaldson who graduated at Barium and lives near us. The little boy is James Howard Cole, a kind of double grandchild of Barium as both his father and mother were raised here - Ed Cole and Sallie Farmer. Charles Barrett is the senior member of the class in point of years at Barium. He entered in ’32. We would like to write a brief article about each one of these children of ours who ’ JAMES REID are now young men and women, but on account of lack of space (continued on page two) Harmony, ’38 VIRGINIA PRESNELL : Lenoir, °34 PAGE Two THE BArRtum MESSENGER THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos. B. JOHNSTON. EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1925, at the postoffice at Barium Springs, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage, provided fur in Section 1108, Act of October 8, 1917. Authorized November 15, 1923. ———————_ BOAKD OF KEGENTS J ARCHIE CANNON PRESIDENT MRS R A YOUNG VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. COIT ROBINSON SECRETARY i. Archie Cannon - - : - Concord Mrs. Fred E. Little - Wilmington Mrs. Coit Robinson -~ - - + Lowell Mos. C. E. Kerehner - Greensboro Mrs. J. VM. Hobgood - - : Farm, ille Mrs. P. P. MeCain Southern Pines A. P. Thorpe, Jr. - : Rocky Moun: ev. M. S. Huske - Reidsville Rex Samuel E. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Mrs. W. C, Alexander - - - Durham Rev. N. R. McGeachy Statesville k. W. Bruin- - - Henderoson Dr. W. Z. Bradford - : : Ch: rlotie Mrs. George Patterson - - + Gastonia Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Men R. A. Young - - Charlotte Rev. Ken F. Brown - - Wallace 1. H. Thomson -— - Kings Mountain Vrs FE. C. Reatty Mooresville Mrs. H. S. Kirk - - + Winston-Salem hts M ir PRES ED "Poagire ond bequeeth to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, In- corporated under the laws of (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST) the state of North Carolina, ‘Continued From Page One) we will have to confine ourselves to the dates on which they en- tered Barium and the places from which they came. We would like to tell you about their achievements in music, in athletics, and in just plain citizenship. We would like to tell you some- thing about their hopes and plans for the future. One of the boys and four of the girls are headed for college. If you find one of these young men or women as your neighbor, vou will find them good neighbors. mend them to your affection. BETTY JO SMITH Winston-Salem, ’33 JOHN WHITING Statesville, °43 We highly com- LUCILE STRICKLIN Maxton, ’35 KENNETH BAKER Troutman (citizen) News From Some of the Cottages at Barium ANNIE LOUISE We are back with the cottage news from our cottage. Spring is finally here, and we are very happy to see all the leaves and flowers again after a long winter of cold and snow. It is al- most time for planting gardens again. We will have some pretty flowers for our house before long. The little Synod boys took the girls that made the honor roll last time to the show at night. It was an experience we shall never for- get. The thing we had been looking forward to a long time has finally come and gone. Easter was cold up here but still we had a good time. All of us little girls got to wear a new dress. Our friends in Mooresville sent us a big basket full of eggs and candy. We decorated the kinder- garten and had a cute party. We hunted eggs after the girls hid them. Thanks for giving us such a nice Easter. Saturday our matron and big sisters took us to the spring for supper. Playing games surely gave us an appetite. We ate supper, played some more then came home. When we got home there was ice- cream waiting for us. It surely tasted good after walking from the spring. We have gotten report cards and 14 of our little girls made the hon- or roll, That was good but we could do better. We get report cards one more time then school will be out. We just can’t wait to go in swim- ming. That is all for now but we will be back next month same time, same place. Until then. — The Annie Louise Girls RUMPLE HALL Only a few weeks ago our rooms and hall had a new coat of paint. We are very proud of them. The rooms are blue and pink. We mean they alternate in blue, the next pink. Some women from Wilming- ton Presbytery sent us our cur- tains, they are pretty. One day some women from this Presbytery visited us and they thought our house real pretty. They really liked our playroom. We had two basketball tourna- ments here. The Barium Varsity girls won the conference. We are really proud of our trophies. April 6th we had our ensemble piano recital. Three of our girls played in it. They were real good and we were proud of them. Presbytery meets here next Tuesday. We are looking forward to that day when they eat with us in the dining room. As we are the dining room girls we will serve ms their tables. All for now, good-bye folks. — The Bass Sisters Retha and Hazel HOWARD COTTAGE This month we had 14 girls on the honor roll. Elizabeth Ann Hud- dleston came up on it and made the 14th one. We went to see a real good mo- vie named “The Three Daring Daughters.” We think it is one of the best movie we have ever seen. At school the grades have been giving chapel programs. They all are very good. We have started our spring clean- ing and all of our windows are nice and clean now. David Lee Spencer has_ been snending a week or two with us because he has a new baby brother at his house. We enjoy playing with him. Miss Brandon, the fifth grade school teacher took her class and her Sunday School class down to Barium Camp. They had supper ; down there and went on a walk. They all had a good time. Shirley Byrd got the nicest gift from some of her friends in New Rern for Easter. You should see her prissing around in her bedroom slippers. Shirley Plyler got a nice gift from a circle in Huntersville for Easter. Some of our girls have got the nicest clothing boxes this year that they have ever received before. — Louise Bradshaw SYNOD’S COTTAGE Again we come with the Synod’s Boys news. Please listen at the same place on your dial. Our boys who were diligent enough to make the honor roll en- tertained the honor roll girls from Annie Louise Cottage with a theat- er narty and we had a lovely time riding to town in the bus. _ We had three children to parti- cipate in Miss Ritchie’s pupils pi- ano recital. Louise Campbell and Shirley Inman, our big sisters, and Lawton Rice, one of us, and we were very proud of them. Mr. Ervin is about the best loved man on the campus at Synod’s at this broadcast. Why? Our clothes room is all white and it is a plea- sure to go in there. Our coat room 18 Ivory and our play room ivory with mahogany trim. We are very careful to keep all the little fingers off and all are co-operating in keep- ing it pretty. We varnished thie floors and have new curtains at the windows so we shout: Thank you, Mr. Ervin, Our new azalea plants are in bloom. Of course, you will have to Jook close to find them but they, like the Wigglers, will grow. Our pansy bed is a sight to behold it is so very pretty. We planted the seed and have raised our own plants. We have some new varieties of larkspur planted and will trans- plant them. Memory Thompson and Charles Ward are young farmers and they wield a wicked grubbing hoe. We think our Madonna lilies will soon be in bloom. We are going to build a trellis to cover the base of our fire escape slide and have planted clematis for our vine. The wisteria over our porch was so verv pretty. While Mrs. Bowling and the garden crew: Boyce Dean Smith, Johnny Collins, Jerry Ellis, Tomes Woodall, Bobbie Rae Bailey, George Cannon and Jerry Thomas were working in our beds the smal- ler boys headed by Nat Craig clean- ed the gutters. Cecil Burleson is making some hads in the back yard and he haul- ed some rock to edge it with. Bobby Synod (our dog) became hot running and playing base ball so started scratching in the flower bed with our rare larkspur, Poor Bobby. We had to spank him. Well folks, this is enough of the green thumbs of our family. Let us hear of the sports. Marbles are still being played, but baseball is our favorite. Mrs. Bowling was “batter up” and broke our bat, and not even a home run out of it. Now we don’t let her play, because we have a new bat and ball. Louise and Shirley are our team captains and of course Mrs. Bowl- ing is the umpire. Siening off and we are all look- ing forward to a visit to Charlotte to the home of our beloved friends, Dr. and Mrs. Nisbit. So goodnights and Hapnv Days. — The Wigglers BABY COTTAGE We have had so much fun fixing our garden. Mrs. Nelson and our bie sisters have fixed a big flower garden and I bet it will be pretty. We have 12 girls now and only 7 bovs. When school is out 6 boys and 5 girls will leave us and go to another cottage. They start school in the fall. We are all losing our teeth and we don’t mind it too much when the fairy comes. — The Babies LEES COTTAGE Baseball season has finally come around and we certainly do enjoy watching the larger boys play, be- sides playing it ourselves. Since the last time that we wrote to vou we have gone down to our spring and cleaned up down there. We surely do wish you, could come and see it. We are really proud of ourselves. Well, it won’t be long until school is out now and we will be looking forward to our vacations and our week down at our camp on the river. Look for us next month when we will be back with more news. — Billy Burke WOMANS BUILDING Greetings Friends, We are just bubbling over with news this time. The Beta Club Con- vention at Raleigh, the trip to Covington, Virginia, the Beta Car- niva]l. the Ensemble Piano Recital, the Basketball Banquet, the trip made by the Seniors to Charlotte, the Senior Dance and other things have kept us scurring hither and thither. We'll dwell on one at a time taken in order. First the Beta Club Convention at Raleigh was attended by thiree of our lucky girls: Mildred Monroe, Betty Joe Smith and Betty Coffey. Not only did they attend the Beta meetings and dance, but they even shook hands with! his honor, Greg Cherry. Lucky Guy. Now prepare yourself to jour- ney with us, the Glee Club, to Cov- ington, Virginia. We made this sight-seeing tour to Miss Hick- man’s home town to sing at her church. The kitchen girls packed a lunch for us and we stopped and enjoyed a very delectible picnic. April 3 & 4, 1948 was a beautiful week-end and the mountains were just about at their best. We rode with our mouths open as wide as our eves. We “sensed” that we were rapidly approaching our destination as we reached Clifton Forge. Since words are many and space is short we'll have to conclude this para- graph by thanking our charming hosts and hostesses for the nice meals, pretty homes and Virginia country which we’ll never forget. The Beta Carnival itself would take up a nice column, It was held at our high school April 1st. We had a spook house, a horrow hlouse, and several games, but everyone seem to enjoy the stage show and square dance immensely. This was presented to raise funds for our Beta Club so they could contribute to the various Beta projects. Next, the Ensemble Piano Recit- al. This is another thing you would have to see and hear rather than read to really enjoy. Miss Margaret Richie has done a wonderful work with her piano pupils, and you'll APRIL 1948 Alumni News Mr. and Mrs. Frank Carson (Louise Martin) and their chil- dren of Winston-Salem spent Sun- day at Barium. Rufus Long is now with the Wa- chovia Bank in Asheville. He is staying at the Y. M. C. A. He spent the week-end at Barium recently. Bobbie Bosworth is stationed at Ft. Bragg. His family lives in Washington. He spent the week- end at Barium. Hannah Price and Dewie Buie, students at Flora uacdonald Col- lege spent the week-end at Barium. Joe and Agnes Savage were at Barium for the tournaments also Wilma Jessup and Dewey Barn- hill and Marley Sigmon. Joe is coaching at China Grove, Dewey at Jumor High in Salisbury and Marley at the Baptist Orphanage at Thomasville. Ernest White of Belmont made a short visit to Barium. Eva Sluder spent the week-end in Burlington with her sister. Irene McDade spent the week- end in Lenoir and Neely Ford spent the week-end in Canton. Mrs. James R. Southern (Miriam Huddleston) of Charlotte madée®a visit to Barium recently. Paul Reid who works on the paper in Geneva, Ala., spent the week-end in Barium. He flew up in a small plane. Charles Starling, student at Uni- versity of N. C. was a visitor on the campus during the spring holi- days. Mary Alice Stevens, student at Wovraans College, spent the Easter week-end at Barium. Abbie Roper (Mrs. Flay Propst) and her two children from Shelby and Mrs. Essie Roper Clark and two children from Hamilton, Can- ada spent a short time at Barium. Robert Blue and his family spent Easter Sunday at Barium. Leland Rogers made a hurried trip by Barium. He is a student in the Extension dept. of V. P. I. in Richmond. Leona Hall was married Feb- ruary 14th at Roxboro to Wayne Buchanan. They came by Barium on their honeymoon. Robert Z. Johnston was married to Mrs. Marjorie Howell Sharpton of Alanta, Ga. on February 18th in Houston, Texas. Elizabeth Johnson was recently married to Roland Lee Warren of Rural Hall. Nina Berryhill has been elected President of the Young Woman’s Christian Association of Flora Macdonald College for the com- ing year. ‘Born to Mr. and Mrs, Hervey Stricklin of Jacksonville, Fla. a son, Hervey Jr. on February 12th. On Fegruary 14th, Gary Lloyd was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Hensley (Marian Coffey) of Win- chester, Va. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Coats of Balitmore, Maryland, in April, a daughter, Patricia Ann. Horace Denton was married to a girl from Winston-Salem on January 26th. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Ken- drick (Jessie Roper) of Morganton on March 13th a daughter, Cath- erine Roper. Born to Bobbie and Ralph Spen- (Continued On Page Three) just have to take our word for it, that it was certainly nice. If you come to Barium and see some of our girls “sporting” a- round in lovely white basketball sweaters, you’ll be wise to the fact that they are the one’s who worked so hard to win the South Piedmont Conference. They’re just the thing for the versatile spring weather we are having now, eh girls? Mrs. Bryant, our very ambitious house mother, took the Senior class to see our great industrial Char- lotte. The members of the class eri- joyed it throughly. More “oh’s” and “ah’s, you hlave not heard in a long time. Come to see us. The campus is beautiful at this time of the year. — Betty and Peggy Coffey P H W a w ~ in > we Lir ing st} as r s g go d s vt ta u PAGE THREE Honor Roll For Six Weeks Ending April 5 First Grade — Judy Clendenin, Richard Blackburn, Second Grade — Charles An- drews, Bobby Ray Bailey, Nat Craig, Jerry McArthur, Jerry Thomas, Shelby Jean McEwen, Jewel McFarland, Peggy Jean Sel- lers, Janet Woodell. Third Grade — Patsy Dean, Car- olyn Hucks, Jean Harrison, Bar- bara Johnson, Nancy Lee Kyles, Bernice Kuvkendoll, Marie McNeil Addie MeEwen, Johnsie Terry, Virginia Baucom, James Woodall. Fourth Grade — Johnny Collins, Laura Craig, Jerry Ellis, Mildred McFarland. Fifth Grade — Donald Dean, Betty Blackburn, Phoebe Coch'ran, Mary Bowles, Lois Dellinger, Shir- ley Hollifield, Margaret Hucks, Linda Inman, Beth Jackins, Shir- ley Shaw, Shirley Plyler, Lucy Troutman, Letha Walker, Anne White. Sixth Grade — Ennis Blackburn, Betty Ann Andrews, Louise Brad- sew, Elizabeth Huddleston, Edna Ellis, Jackie Kuykendall, Carol An- drews, Shirley Byrd, David Mor- rison, Aline Thomas. Seventh Grade — Helen Barnes, Hazel Creech, Louise Harwell, Pat- ty Inman, Dorothy Surles, Gloria Williams, Jimmy Johnson, Palmer Wilcox. Eighth Grade — Bonnie Odom, Louise Campbell, Henry Troutman. Ninth Grade — Shirley Inman, Lucille Stinson, Elsie Vest. Tenth Grade — Lorene Hall, Kathleen Monroe, Betty Sue Wolfe. Eleventh Grade — Mary Dick- son Arrowood, Margaret Bullard, Jane Sigmon. Twelfth Grade — Charles Bar- rett, Ernestine Baldwin, Sadie Buie, Betty Coffey, Peggy Coffey, Edith Marie Ferguson, Bradley Jean Manus, Mildred Monroe, Bet- ty Jo Smith, Lucille Stricklin. Basketball Banquet Enjoyed at Barium Our basketball banquet was held here on the night of April 2nd. Mr. Hethcox was the toastmaster and he was in rare form. We believe that the thing that inspired Mr. Hethcox to do such a grand job as toastmaster was the fact that he was leaving early the next morn- ing for a trip to Virginia and any hangovers or explanations that might have been needed for his re- marks could be put off until he returned on Monday, so this gave him a little more leeway and he made full use of it. It altogether made the banquet a very enjoy- able affair. The meal was served by the re- gular Rumple Hall organization. The regular kitchen crew prepared it and the dining room crew served it, and it was just plain good eat- ing served in a most attractive style. We did not have as many guests as we usually have. We find that so many people are busy at this time of the year that we did not issue as many invitations as we have formerly done. Of course, there were a number of Barium alumni present with their wives or hus- bands, as the case might be, and in addition Mr. Jack Loftin and Mr. Jack Massey from Troutman. They were honored in having done such an excellent job with the Trout- man teams, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Morrow were invited and were present. They were rated the most faithful attendants at the tourna- ments held at Barium. All of the officials who worked in our tour- nament or during the season were invited but none of these were able to come. Maybe they felt that they would be embarrassed if they had to take their whistles out of their mouths and they would certainly have had to lay them aside on Fri- day night. One of the senior basketball players was asked to give out the letters to the Junior girls, Lucille Stricklin getting this honor. Char- les Barrett, the one senior on the boys’ squad, gave the letters to the Junior Boys. Mr. Archie Calhoun gave the letters to the Varsity girls and J. B. Johnston gave them to the Varsity boys. Trophies won during the season were presented. One of the minor trophies of the Junior Tournament was given to the boys, the championship trophy was given to the Junior girls, and the big South Piedmont champion- ship trophy was given to the Var- sity girls, Announcement was made of the gift of a trophy cabinet by the graduating class of 1947 and an alumnus of a former year. As the final event of the even- ing, and one coming as a surprise to the varsity girls, was the pre- sentation of white sweaters as a special gift for their having won the Piedmont championship. The girl elected captain for the season was Janie Hall, a senior; Lucille Stricklin was voted the most valuable player on the girls’ team. The boy elected captain for the season was Charles Barrett, and Jack Mangum was voted the most valuable player. About 175 people were present at the banquet. Alumni News (Continued From Page Two) cer, April 8th a son, Robert An- drew. Earl Adams of Catawba College was a recent visitor on the campus. Jack McCall is taking an active part in the Organization of World Federalist at Catawba College. Frances Lowrance Parcell has accepted the position as Assist- ant Home Demonstration Agent in Iredell County. W. A. Johnson and Amos Hardy of Davidson College and Bennie Gregory, student of University of North Carolina, spent the week-end at Barium. Arthur Roach, elder in the Sec- ond Presbyterian Church, Moores- ville was a delegate to Concord Presbytery which met in Little Joe’s Presbyterian church April 13. Clothing Outfits March Receipts Wilmington ist S. S., W. B. C. Albemarle 1st Aux., B. W. C. No. 2 Myrtle Grove Aux. Salisbury 1st S. S., Rumple B, C. Cameron Aux., Circle No. 2 Piedmont S, S., Blue Circle Class Waccamaw Aux. Saint Pauls (F) Aux. Princess Place S. S., Ladies’ B. C. Miscellaneous Gifts March Receipts Waldensian Hosiery Mills, Valdese, hose. Currie Aux., wash cloths. Elizabethtown Aux. B. W. C., wash cloths. Plaza Aux., Circle No. 2, 1 baby quilt. Caswell Aux., 1 blanket. Oakdale Aux., towels, wash cloths, soap, coveralls, etc. Meadowbrook Aux., hair tonic, shampoo, listerine, tooth paste & brushes, combs, candy, pen- cils, hankies, socks, shorts, shirts, undershirts, loose leaf paper, etc, Mount Horeb Aux., wash cloths. Beth Carr Aux., wash! cloths. Tar Heel Aux., wash cloths. Elizabethtown Aux., wash cloths. Lumber Bridge Aux., soap, towels & wash cloths. Alamance Aux., Circle No. 4, wash cloths, towels, socks, soap, tooth paste. Mrs. C. P. Stewart, Rockingham, pecans. Church-in-the-Pines Aux., towels. Cross Roads Aux., wash cloths, towels, pillow cases, dish towels, pot holder, soap. Pleasant View Aux., 1 quilt. Jester’s, Thomastille, large box boy’s sweaters. Harmony (W) Aux., soap, wash cloths, towels. Easter Gifts March Receipts Miss Gladys Kelly, High OOS sciisiteums ‘ssctminee cease, 5.00 Miss Elisabeth Houston, Greensboro ...ccee rnceeee> seens., 5.00 Clothing Fund; March Receipts Lincolnton Ist Aux. ........ 40.00 Lumberton Aux, ........... 100.00 Le Se ae 40.00 Miss Virginia Shelton, Greens. Oe ice ei on... BODE Monroe 1st S. S., Young ames B.C. . 20.00 Kannapolis 1st Aux. ......... 59.90 Hickory 1st Aux, ..........., 25.00 Circle No. 5. ............ 20.00 Circle No. 6 |... 20.00 Morganton 1st Aux. .... 40.00 Edenton Aux. ............ .. ba Taylorsville Aux. ........ . 8.00 Concord 1st Aux., Circle No, j 40.00 Westminster (O) Aux., Joanna CTI ee . 20.00 Durham 1st Aux., Business Woman’s Cirele ......... »» §00 Princess Place S. S. ...... ” 5.00 Whiteville 1st Aux. 25.00 Potts Mem. Aux. 2.000000 20.00 McKinnon Aux., Business Womens’ Cirele ............ ... 25.00 Salisbury 1st Aux., Circle PO AO 20.00 Miss Carrie Roddey, Winston- BRIRN joe 20.00 Matthews S. S., Senior Class 20.00 Tenth Avenue S. S., Flora Grady B.C. oe... 20.00 New Bern 1st Aux. ...... 48.00 Farmville (A) Aux. ....... 20.00 Tenth Avenue Aux. ...._ 20.00 Hopewell (M) Aux... _ 20.00 Mehiy Aus. j.28 4. 20.00 Fayetteville 1st S. S., Maggie Boee B.C. cs... Goodwill B. C. ou 45.00 Alamance Aux., Ruth Millard Cee ae 20.00 Laurinburg Aux. ....... 90.00 Unity (KM) Aux. 20.00 Carthage Aux. 22.50 Bethesda (O) Aux... 20.00 Cramerton Aux... 15.00 Ellenboro Aux... 20.00 Gastonia 1st Aux. 200.00 Howard Memorial Aux., Mrs. Mabrv Hart 5.00 Mrs. Job Cobb .......... 8.50 Mrs. Geo. Holderness .... 8.50 Belmont 1st S. S., Minnie Hall 8. C. ..... .............. 95.00 Albemarle 1st Aux., B. W. Cieié Not. 20.00 Winston-Salem 1st Aux., Cal- vin H. Wiley Circle Bethlehem Aux... 5.50 Pearsall Memorial Aux. .... 20.00 Wentaaton Ist S. S., Women’s ee ak Pele tattle ccccncs 5.00 Mulberry Aux., Business Women’s ‘Circle 20.00 Burlington 1st Aux., Business Women’s Circle ....... _... 22.50 Fayetteville Ist Aux., Circle Oe Bool. a ee 24.50 Kings Mountain ist Aux. 40.00 West Raleigh S. S., Alice Broome B. CG. ou. 22.50 Newton Ist Aux. oo. 17.50 George W. Lee Mem. §. S.,, Class No. 15 ....0.. ....... 20.00 Raleigh 1st S. S., Betty ropck B.C, ..... . 20.00 Saint Pauls (M) S. S., White Fidelis Class o.oo... Pinetops Aux. ............ ... Highland Aux. ............ ( BADOW BOK occ Bayless Mem. Aux. ....... 20.00 Charlotte 1st S. S., Pattie Cole B.C. ow... nite ebacecs 20.00 Front Street Aux. 5 Rockingham Aux. 0.00 |. 20.00 Centre (C) Aux. ... 20.00 Myrtle Grove Aux. ............. 5.00 Plaza S. S., Johnston B. C. 20.00 Sugaw Creek Aux., B. W. C. 20.00 Kannapolis 2nd Aux. ... ....... 20.00 Selma Aux. 0... Washington 1st Aux. Bethpage Aux. ............ .. Trinity Avenue Aux. : Rockfish Aux. ............ ......... 21.00 Piedmont S. S., Blue Circle RMN sic hccocs, “cscs a, 5.00 Rocky Point Aux... 18.00 Women’s Fellowship Class 20.00 Thyatira Aux. ............ .0....... 27.90 WANE WO vse. ign ates 20.00 Albemarle ist Aux., B. W. Oy Gs Bic. cercrasacce B00 Gilwood Aux. ............ ... 20.00 Back Creek Aux. .......00.00..... 20.00 Saint Pauls (F) Aux. ..00.. 25.00 Rocky Point Aux. ........... ... 6.00 Smithfield Aux. 2.0... 20000... 20.00 Gastonia Ist S. S., Vanguard MUI scclesantus | oss .scsrunpeetenateas 20.00 Yanceyville Aux... 1... 40.09 Wiliiams Mem. Aux. ............ 20.00 Laurel Hill Aux. .....000.. 0. 2. 20.00 Hickory ist S. S., Ola War- BRP Te Oe cgicsssnas “seinen 20.00 McPhlrson Aux. ......002. 0.0... 20.00 Snow ay A is 7 Goshen UX. srssivcnessaes j Dunn ist S. S., Carrie Bald- MUTE Fs Ga, ssn ccesesses, berets 20.00 Pinehurst Community Aux. 20.00 Wilmington ist S. S., Sprent B Raeford Aux., Circle No. 8 5.00 Philadelphus Aux. --...... 0000... 35.00 Godwin Aux. .....-.-- ss... 20.00 Jackson Springs Aux. 17.50 Smyrna (F) Aux. ...... .- 40.00 West End Aux. .. wee 17.50 Rowland Aux. «0... w.. 0... 40.00 THE BARIUM MESSENGER ee Maxton Ist Aux... 80.00 Miscellaneous March Receipts Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Miss Mittle E. Pickard, Chapel i Mr. G. A, Manner, Milon, Pe 10.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High OMG oie alc 1.00 A Friend, Cumberland ........ 3.00 Mr. J. J. Adams, Hinesville, OA ee mes 20.00 Mr, D. F, Cade, Hamlet ...... 10.00 Mr, J. F. Hurley, Salisbury ..150.00 Mr, A. McEachern, Red Bovinge ee secs ae 300.00 Belk Store, Statesville __ 1000.00 Mr. W. A. Murray, Hancock, PU, ce ee 10.60 Mrs. J. C. Hill, Tampa, Fla. 5.00 For Messenger March Receipts Miss Sarah White, States- MIO eee he ela 2.00 Mr. S. E. Tucker, Thomas- TA ee a ears 5.00 Mrs. J. M. Baker, Tarboro .. 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. B, Frank Harris, Henderson ........ ........ ........ 1.00 Memorials for Church March Receipts Anderson, Mr. John G., III, Savan- nah, Ga.: On his birthday, Mrs. John G. Anderson, III Anderson, Mrs. William Scales (Florence Stokes), Charlotte: Mr, & Mrs. C. B. Ross Mr, & Mrs. J. Alexander Mc- Millian Mr. & Mrs. J. Gordon Todd Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Vickers Myers Park Youth Fellowship Myers Park Church Andrews, Mrs. Esther Ruth (J. A.), Durham: Misses Evelyn Harrison, Lena Covington, Katharine Day & Marianna Long Bass, Mrs. Norwood, Hickory: Carl Wolfe & Bill McDonald Mr. & Mrs. John L. Henderson, Salisbury Beam, Mrs. Lucy (C. C.), Albe- marle: Mr, & Mrs. J. F. Niven & Virginia Miss Mabel Harper, Charlotte Bloodworth, Mrs. M. A., Rocky Point: Mr. & Mrs. L. P. Hunter, Jr., Derita Blythe, Mr. R. S., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. R. Grady Rankin, Gastonia Booker, Dr. J. M., Chapel Hill: ‘Mr. & Mrs. E. D. Alexander, Morganton Brown, Mr. Leon, Raeford: Raeford Aux., Circle No. 4 Burge, Mr. Joseph, Ft. Benning, Ga.: Mrs. H. C. Gibson & Mrs. Fred Bockoven Burkholder, Mr. C. I., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. R. Grady Rankin, Gastonia Myers Park Church Mr. Albert Milmow Carter, Mrs. Sylvia Sue, Pink Hill: Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Faulkner, Kinston Clark, Mr. J. F., Charlotte: Mr. J. Aubrey Chrisman Cline, Mrs. Lee, Granite Falls: Misses Kathryn & Ruth Trout- man, Troutmans Coble, Mrs. Paul, Greensboro: Alamance Aux., Ruth Millard Circle Cooper, Mrs. G. M., Raleigh: Mr. & Mrs. Homer N. Culbreth Cowherd, Mrs. Gertrude, Roanoke Rapids: , Mr. & Mrs. B. Frank Harris, Henderson Craig, Mr. John Henry, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Kendrick Dr. & Mrs. A. N. Johnson, Gar- land Mr. & Mrs. A. L. Sudduth Culbreth, Mrs. T. F., Raeford: ‘este Lodge No. 306 Raeford Currie, Rev. W. P. M., Wallace: Mrs. Mattie Brice Derieux, Dr. J. B., Raleigh: Mrs. George J. Moore Dew, Mr. Marcus W., Raeford: Dr. & Mrs. Marcus R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. W. L. Poole Mr. & Mrs. Fred Culbreth Mrs. ee a iss Nancy Peele Mr & Mrs. Neill A. McDonald APRIL 1948 ee Dotson, Mr. George, Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Holmes The John Kimmons Family Eccles, Mrs. Anne F., Greensboro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Ellwanger, Mr. S. B,, Fort Mill:, S. C.: Mr. J. Aubrey Chrisman Fayssoux, Mr. Neil, Gastonia: Mr. S. A. Robinson & Mr. Alex Robinson Fetzer, Dr. Paul W., Reidsville: Mrs. A. N, Turner Mr. & Mrs. J. Watt Womack Miss Mary E, Montgomery Fleagle, Prof. F. K., Davidson: Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Behrmon (Mrs. J. C. Black Mrs. Frazer Hood Dr. & Mrs. T. S. Logan Mr. Everett Bierman, Mr. Her- bert Hitch & Charlotte En- graving Company Fleming, Mrs. Daisy B., Clinton: Mr. & Mrs. R. H. Hubbard Foard, Mr. J. D., Charlotte: Myers Park S. S., Nursery Dept. Frosst, Mr. Charles Edward, West- mont, Quebec, Canada: Myers Park Church, Charlotte “ Philip F, Howerton, Char- otte Gaither, Mr. J. A. (grandfather), Newton: Mr. Bob Gaither Glenn, Mrs. L. N., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Walter G. Rhyne, San Antonio, Texas Goodman, Mrs. J. Ira, Concord: Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Goodman Grier, Mr. Henry, Stanford: Mr. & Mrs. Uhlman S. Alexan- der, Charlotte Hand, Mr. J. K., Charlotte: Mr, & Mrs. Walter G. Rhyne, San Antonio, Texas Hart, Mr. George W., Sr., Snow Hill: Rev, & Mrs. W. H. Allison, Wil- mington Hart, Mr. Stephen A., Mooresville: Mrs. Stephen A. Hart, (given on her husband’s birthday) Heith, Mrs. Harry (Effie Brown), Concord: Mrs. Ebb White & Mrs. Frank L. Ridenhour, (nieces) Hightower, Mrs. J. D., St. Peters- brug, Fla.: Mr. W. S. Houston, Greensboro Holmes, Mrs. Mac Speck, Morris- town, Tenn.: The Family of Mr. J. F. Roberts, Shelby Hood, Mrs. R. N., Mint Hill: Mr. Fred Quay & Sisters, Har- risburg Mr. & Mrs. H. C. Quay, Harris- burg Houston, Miss Addie , Salisbury: Hopewell (M) Auxiliary Jarrell, Mr. Charlie, Concord: Mr, & Mrs. John K. Hillman Jones, Mrs. E. J., Charlotte: Mrs. H. L. Hoover Kestler, Mrs. Charles A., Salisbury: The ‘Misses Knox McAlister, Mr. Colvin C., Fayette- ville: Mrs. N. A. Currie Mr, & Mrs. R. Grady Rankin, Gastonia Mrs. E. A. Johnston, Mrs. James C. & Miss Katharine McDiar- mid, North Wilkesboro Dr. D. G. MacKethan & Mr. & Mrs. H. P. Underwood, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. H. N. Robins, Ashe- boro MeArthur, Mrs. David M., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Mrs. A. M. Bruce, Pembroke Miss Josephine Whitehead, Rocky Mount McArthur, Mr. P. H., Wakulla: Mr. Fred P. Quay & Sisters, Harrisburg Harrisburg Aux., Business Wo- men’s Circle McArthur, Mrs. Robert M., Wins- ton-Salem: : Mrs, C. E. Stevenson, Salisbury McClellan, Mrs. George B. (Bessie Simpson), Monroe: Miss Minnie Simpson Monroe Ist Aux. Dr. & Mrs. J. W. Ormand Mrs. Ashe Lane Partridge & ‘Mrs. Mabel Lane Thompson, Greenville, S. C. Mr, & Mrs. Albert S. Orr McClure, Mrs. A. D., Clearwater, la.: Mrs. J. R. Adams, Wilmington McCormick, Mr. William Albert, McDonald: Mr. & Mrs. W. N, Miller, Lum- PAGE FOUR THE Barium MESSENGER Walters, Mrs. Bruce, Monroe: WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Monroe 1st Aux. , Mrs. Murdock, Raeford: S., J. B. Stroud’s Class . John Thomas, Rae- Elis zs ‘abethtown Mak elthen, Mrs. D. S., Raeford: Agnes N. Johnson Marcus Smith Raeford Aux., Circle No. 4 Jacksonvi , Mr. Arch, Charlotte: The Wakefields, White, Mrs. Margaret, Concord: Mrs. Tom Alexander ‘Mr. & Mrs. John Sossomon Misses Ida & Mattie MeLauch- i W.-SALEM PRESBTTSRY MeWhirter, Mrs. Amey Nicholson, 3.0 Wiggins, Mr. J. Plumer, Charlotte: — James E. Yarbrough, Shel- REGULAR Churches March Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Kinston 1st ‘ New Bern lst Rocky Mount 1st John Austin Tate, ‘ North ARS Miller, Mr. S. H., Carthage: Misses May & Bess Stuart Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Mayhew & Margaret, Mooresville Sunday Schools March Receipts , Mrs. Vernie Cook (Lonnie), ALBEMARLE PRESET TREY i ki s. Fitzhugh L. Watson, er ee eae cane part 1st Howard Mem. . Hardy Perry, New New Bern Ist, Men’s B. C. CONCORD PRESBYTERY Mr. & Mrs. W, A. Faulkner, Rocky Mount. |<t Jennie K, Hill B. C. ........- CONCORD PRESBYTERY Beattie Mem. 16.2 Murphy, Mr. Paul P., Lowell: r, & Mrs. Walter G. Rhyne, San Antonio, Texas Concord 1st Pearce, Mr. Oscar S., Greensboro: Mr. W. S. Houston Mooresville 1st Poplar Tent, Oct. - April .... Salisbury 1st, Everyman’s B Front DNMMME scctak: sks Peeler, Mrs. C. N., Charlotte: Miss Mabel Harper Prince, Mr. Sydney R., Chevy Taylorsville ........ ........ Thyatira .......... FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Ss Ist . is Kannapolis 1st Kannapolis 2nd Miss Mary E. Montgomery, Pryor, Mr. W. C., Stanley: Castanea Auxiliary Ashpole; Sept. - March Query, Miss Agnes, Concord: Mr, Fred Quay & Si Newton tst J. R. Gaither WES O Shades cc cee ceeeee te eeeeenne Big Rockfish Le ck Mrs. William Glass, Kannapolis Misses Julia & Irene McConnell Poplar Tent Salisbury 1st Salisbury 2nd Sherrill’s Ford Reynolds, Master Morgan A., Jr., (5 years), Charlotte: Mr. Philip F. Howerton Rimmer, Mr. Troy D., Statesville: s. W. D. Troutman & Ruth, Church-in-the-Pines wr Ladies’ B. C. .... Statesville 1st .. Cypress ........... ; Men’s Class Mr. John A. Scott Rose, Hon. Charles G., Sr., Fay- Third Creek .. FAYETTEVILLE eee ta Flat Branch Galatia ............ ‘ Misses Augusta McKethan & Katharine Purdie . H. M. M. McKethan . Thomas W. Rankin . & Mrs. T. M. Hunter . & Mrs, E. J. Chappell . & Mrs. Cliff E, Rankin Fayetteville 1st S. S., Calvin Church of the Covenant .... Circle Court ery ee a eae Jackson Springs . Dr. & Mrs. Frank Evans Mrs. T. M. Rose, Sr. & Mr. & Mrs. T. M. Roes, Jr. Ross, Mrs. M. E., Matthews: Providence (M) Aux., Delia Yandell Circle Schenck, Mr. RB. dt Lumber B ridge Mount veask athe nicer heb Vaughn Mom... ..-.. 277 Montpelier GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Nor th Vanguard , Feb. - March .... Red Springs David, Plainfield, * John Austin Tate, Char- Raleigh 1st . White Mem. (Raleigh) KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Bessemer City . Mrs. James A. Hartness, Raleigh an, Feb., March’ ... . Philip F. Howerton, Char- GRANVILLE " PRESBYTERY i Te iiss lithess: Neweselnsisnics East Belmont Gastonia 1st Lincolnton 1st Sherard, Mrs. Laura Johnston (R. C.), Mooresville: Mooresville 1st Church, Wharey Memorial Auxiliary Miss Cora L. Freeze N. Johnston, Sr. Karl, Mt. Ulla: Mr. & Mrs. H. T. Kelly, Taylors- KINGS MTN. re Besseme ar City Rutherfordton Sherrill, Mr. West Avenue ee daeantalie > Dunean’ 3 ( Cheek untain 1st, April - 56 Sherrill, Mr. Robert A., », & Mrs. Orrin Robbins y. Maxcy, Charlotte: Mr. Philip F. Howerton Smith, Miss Rose Mae, Greensboro: Miss Elizabeth Houston , Mr. John H., New York, Myers Park Church Sprausey, Mr. J. W., Durham: Trinity Avenue Sunday School . G., Charlotte: Miss Lelia Alexander, New York . Men’s Class .. Cc. Camp Greene ...... ieattis Central Steele Creek . Commonwealth East Side Chapel Hopewell, Miss Mattie Mc- Indian Trail Ruther. ator 1 Myers Park Phiadésiphia Plaza M. J. Dean .... MECKLENBURG paar raat Albemarle 1st: vapsiecdeies. secrsovease asesersceece, = AWE, gubaeonenech ue 12. 58 Badin, Ladies? B. C. i hel . Stanford, Mr. H. Stimpson, Mr. Clarence, States- — Mem., ‘Huntington 7 ville Selwyn Avenue ... Ridgeway ‘B. C. te en ey Sugaw Creek Sunset Hills Tenth Avenue Thomasboro Walkersville ORANGE PRESBYTERY Mr. & Mrs. Herman Brown, Charlotte 2nd, James t ‘Por- Etnek ope SED Todd, Mr. John W., Charlotte: Daughter, Mrs. Henry A. Moore Tedd, Mr. T. Brooks, Charlotte: Sugaw Creek Aux., Business Women’s Circle Misses Alice, Edith and Eliza- beth McConnell, Rutherford- Commonwealth. Erdman Love Hopewell, Oct. - Feb. Mallard Cress see” amine . 55. 05 ncceeereeees eaceeeeeeesesers High ee re eee cecuninicbrseceybiineses oa hes Trimble, Mrs. Mariah P., Rocky Senior Dept. Mrs. Jane T. Parker ssesen-ssees cescecccsess cesvsseers SOOUUY WEOTE S ULUD ccrcccccdece concccce coos Philadelphia Pineville .. UN eo ee ncaa TOU eo Tenth Avenue West Avenue Westminster, Men’s Class .. 10. 42 ORANGE PRESBYTERY MURR sccsenee 240089 Buffalo (G) ... -- 81,14 Burlington 2nd 13.45 IR a a ee 15.00 BIA PU II once se ccsceice ues 15.00 Greensboro 1st, Men’s B. C. 21.00 DOONOEID verecessesce | wiseccee’ axercass 24.75 Little River, Jan., Feb., Mar. 11.30 Ct ee) alee 18.35 PE AO i oo ok 7.00 INOW FLODO ccccvcccsass | ccsscetssscccers 5.00 Pocket, Feb. - March ............ 14.10 St. Andrews ooo... fcseoee 10.66 OCA WOE -oscccccscc seeseass sacaieas 2.00 Stony Creede ccccsaccscc. cconacoomsosse 8.41 Westminster ol lee 42.79 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY RO eo le ace oas 48.15 Elizabethtown ou... we. oe 85.84 i ea ac 9.45 PURER So ida: Baage 10.00 TURN senses. deveteniencx ech 10.00 TARTU, Soi ssised esiecak eesosensede 15.98 Lake Waccamaw ........ ........ 12.60 New Hope ............ ....cccsccecseeses 6.00 OM PIBINE -isciccecccs: ccccesoeeeene 1.00 Pearsall Mem. ............ ... 40.00 Pik Ft ok... ..... 5.56 Pleasant View ............ eceecceeee 4,50 SOUTH FRIVEL cacccsscssse ccceccecsesere 1.00 NOES Seivirsiosc: aiebssicse, aaa 7.07 Ws i a 2.50 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY George W. Lee Mem. ............ 70.83 Lexington Ist oo... lle 13.00 PGC OVO sa aivesescis’ aclasks. ccusiens 10.00 North Wilkesboro, Jan., Feb., March Winston-Salem Ist, S. S. & Neal Anderson B. C., ........ 314.56 Auxiliaries March Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Goldsboro Ist ..0..0.2... 0 Jeeeeeseee 89.85 Howard Mem. ........0... 0 .....-..- 11.80 BINSIOR TRE aon eekccccs eeecwe rnc 60.00 New .Bern Ist ............ .........- 22.75 Rocky Mount 1st, A Friend 20.00 Rocky Mount 2nd ................ 1.00 Washington Ist ............ serenade 23.00 WYO ohio ieSs: lateiiiias,. senatias 1.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Kannapolis 1st, Dec. - Mar. 28.00 Kirkwood ........---. ..ccccoo ccceneceee 12.00 Ee ok mics } grstocmess: seme 10.00 McKinnon, Circle No, 1 ..... 8.00 BOCK Gy TIVOT .0....cecee cescccesoseee f Royal Oaks ............ Hie a Thyatira, regular BE ilavseven| sxdiosinnise esasene FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY TNE irc taceis) Lieidaensans Rov 66.73 PI aris eccades. wedisevieses sescous 3.09 I coicncscke eeaseewe | wteerennns 1.23 Abi se ks. Licideeiuce: senaeensy 2.47 TNE os vics: casiceaviann Soeee ... 18.52 Bethesda .......... 9.26 Two Circles 2000000... ... ... 72.00 Beit ROCKIIB cosccekcecs. sectiacinee 1.53 Brownson Mem, ............. ....---. 59.81 BEINGS Soosiscisiss teckiscs ien 1.85 DIN euaicies | Livcchiscice Meadows 4.63 Church-in-the-Pines _ .......... 12.95 CHRCRE GOGEG cociccsserew cccccsrservee 1.53 COGUEROTS ciccicsctdcs ecevevecne Lesestes .80 yo ESERIES batters eepeen -F74 92 BN iiacticas asus nbdie | wel mounts 3.39 Circle No. 2 B. W. Circle MINE (ic hvieses' “sbedicee: “wuaauecioces BIER a ovccence apercesteeed | aaneeecvaes x Fairmont, Circle No. 2 ........ 6.00 Circle BOE 8) Giscce cscs Fayetteville ist . Flat Branch .. Galatia ...... Gibson ............ ..-. BEING gecesececee sive sxteinsh OG bse ces ee iscecushane | devvee Jackson Springs ae BEE FATE ecearckecec scccesesusivcete EMETIISOED sccccciseees’ eswcnes: winvccis I eciiacssnst “deveeeceees’ wennnies Lillington ............ ; Lumber Bridge ........... ...... Lumberton FE iaimckennie- woitsdoointin” wastoein Montpelier .......0.... cc. eee Mount Pisgah o.u0..... 2... BE RANI Vibescvesees. caedicboosemsensih EW OTN cissccsesecs. svetsecreues - iepnotowens NRIILY oBicvcscece. ssstieiieoie: | whrieuns Philadelphus ...... Raeford ....... Raven Rock . ‘ Red Springs ............ ... Rex GRANVILLE penaetathceses: | Blacknall Mem. 0.000000... 0 ....-- 3.50 Fuller Mem, 2.0.0.0... 2... 6.87 RIUMMNUEN \ivicssckig, etstclaveves. sulavete 4,20 BPO Lisisvcrsies Setsices Wcevaow 44 POO CHGS si cseeesece.cnccesactheenecs 1.05 North Vanguard ........ 0 ........ 2.54 Re TOR Bei Seine! Sccitnsains sowie Smithfield 2000... ..... Trinity Avenue 63 White Mem. (Raleigh) ........ 30.00 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Armstrong Mem. Belmont. 1st Seaeshanune tikatd 35.00 Mary Grove Circle ....... Kings Mountain 1st. ............ ; Lincolnton 1st, Circle No. 3 2.00 en ee : Mount Holly Uaioe Two Circles ........... MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle 1st X Benton Heights Charlotte 2nd Commonwealth Covenant (Westminster) —. » Se e (8 8 Myers P ark Area? Sees Nee aONR ey Circle No. 2 Rockingham Selwyn Avenue South Park Chapel Tenth Avenue West Avenue Westminster Williams Mem. i: en t od te ee . oe ee e a ee ee ERE SCE 16.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance, Circle No, 2 Circle No. 4 Circle No. 6 ia i k , il m e n i t e . le n da l a Buffalo (G) ............ ‘ Burlington 1st .... Covenant ............ ‘ Greensboro 1st ant LMINGTON ae i I a ee al e Elizabethtown Mount Horeb Pearsall Mem. a ik ek ae Westminster W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY LS SpA Noro rage ralo ss 7.3 Lexington lst Mount Airy 1st North Wilkesboro Winston-Salem 1st Y. P. Societies March Receipts MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY THANKSGIVING Churches March Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Goldsboro 1st 18.4 CONCORD PRESBYTERY T caukaet “maeedae 11.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY KINGS MTN. rane Kings Mountain Ist . .-294, MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Myers Park E ORANGE PRESBYTERY 10.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem 1st Sunday Schools March Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY sregreeeseat, ‘Sepennnpie 33.82 ORANGE PRESBYTERY W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Rock \d Howard Mem. CONCORD PRESBYTERY FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Eureka MECKLENBURG o_o re, 1 Charlotte 1st Charlotte 2nd WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY 3. win Messenger VOL. 26 BARIUM SPRINGS, N. ©., APRIL 1949 NO. 6 Graduating Class of Barium Springs School ‘ \ 3 Ne i Ng CURTIS BALDWIN MARY DICKSON ARROWOOD BILLY MCALLISTER MARGARET BULLARD HERBERT GOOD Entered March 6, 1944 Entered June 14, 1938 Entered July 1, 1935 5 a Entered June 11, 1935 Statesville, N. C. Whiteville, N. C. Sevier, N.C. Barium Springs, N. C. Clarkton, N. C. ANNE WICKER Entered September 25, 1939 Carthage, N, C. VIRGINIA HENDRIX Entered December 23, 1943 Laurinburg, N. C. i} DAVID LEE SPENCER, Mascot JERRY YOUNG, President Son of Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Spencer Entered September 14, 1939 Barium Springs, N. C. Concord, N. C, We are herewith presenting the pictures of our 1949 Graduating Class, There are thirteen Ba- rium Springs young people presented here and two ‘rom the neighborhood: At the Mills Home they call these “scrub orphans”, but we want to think up a nicer name for them because all that we hav> in our school are mighty nice people. The two presented here are Dickie Arrowood and Ricky Lippard. Here are the statistics on the other thirteen: Herbert Good has _been in the orphanage longer than any other member of the class. He entered July Ist, 1935. All in all the thirteen members of this class have been living 245 years. 144 of these years have been at Barium Springs. We are going to miss this class for a long time. "very one of the boys played on our football team; seven of them were starters. Seven boys piayed vasketball, four in the starting lineup. Four are in the Glee Club. Among the girls three are baske val] players; two are members of the Glee Club, and all of them have done their assignments in school 4nd in work most acceptably. They are going to make good citizens wherever they go. They can d) a surprising‘number of things well. Three of the be . fe et girls are headed to W. C. U. N.C. Four of ‘he boys are headed to Appalachian. If you run across one BILLY LYBRAND RICKY LIPPARD of these young people as your neighbor we ‘ink you will find that he or she is a good neighbor. We losnd Aue 71937 Barium Springs, N. C. wish them Godspeed. ; Kings Mountain, N. C. 2 ea t ce Ee; ti im K MANGUM | JOHNNIE MERONEY ANNIE STARR LANGLEY J. D. EVERETT HELEN VINSON JACI tered March 19, 1940 "| September 9, 1935 Entered February 5, 1936 Entered September 28, 1935 Entered Marc Entered May 22, 1937 Entere Wilson Mills, N. C en oe Mocksville, N. C. Wilson, N. C. Marion (Spruce Pine), N, C. PAGE TWO THE BARIUM MI SSENGER APRIU 1949 THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the poscoffice at Barium Springs, N. C., under the act of August / 1912 Acceptance for mailing at special cate of postage, provided for in Section 1105 Act of October 1917. Authorized November 15 ¥ BOAKD OF REGENTS J ARCHIE CANNON MRS R A YOUNG PRESIDENT VICE-PRES!DENT MRS CO!IT ROBINSON SECRETARY 3. Archie Cannon - - + - Concord Mrs. Percy R. Smith - + Wilmington Ms. Coit Robinson - + - + Lowell ive. GC. ke Kherenuer «= «2s Senses . Mrs. P. P. McCain ~- + Southern Pines N. H. Edgerton - - = Roeky Mount ae Me oaks Reet Vag te idaville Eev. Samuci KE. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - >) Durham Rev. N. R. McGeachy - - BStatesville R. W. Bruin . - - Henderson W. E. Price - - - ° - Charlotte Mrs. Fred L. Smyre - - Gastonia Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Mrs. R. A. Young - - “8 Charlotte Rev. Ben F. Lrown - - Wallace J}. H. Thomsen - - - Kings Mountain Mrs. BE. C. Beatty . ° . Mooresville Mrs. H. S. Kirk - ae Winston-Salem 7 . YT Or (FORM OF BEQUEST) “T give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, In- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). The Johnstons On The Prowl Again By Jos. B, Johnston A few years ago there was a very popular song, “Stars fell on Alabama”. Well, during the last twelve months the Johnstons could have a song something like this, “Girl Babies Fell on the Johnston Family.” Three grandchildren of the female variety arrived within the twelve months. On June 10, 1948, Elizabeth Dickey Johnston was born to Joe and Peggy. On October 13th, little Jane Ann was born to Bill and Nell Johnston. On January 15th, little Nancy Horne was born to Bob and Marjorie Johnston, and all of this entails a lot of responsibility to the grand- parents. It takes just a day to visit the Joe Johnstons in Concord and to check up on their two little girls. It takes a week-end to visit the Bob Johnstons in Charleston to see little Nancy and step-son, Joel. Then it takes a whole week to visit the Bill Johnstons and little Jane Ann because they live in New AIl- bany, Indiana, and it takes quite a bit of arranging for a whole week. As a matter of fact, that does not happen once a year even, but on April 6th we started out for that visit. We left Barium at nine o’clock in the morning on a beautiful but windy April day. The previous day’s rain had swept all the dust and smoke out of the nearby Blue Ridge and the trip up to Asheville was one of delight. The fact that we had made that trip many a time before did not lessen the pleasure of seeing it all again, A mid-day lunch in Ashe- ville and then out through the Great Smokies. A new road had been built since our last trip that way, missing Waynesville by a few miles and taking us through Soco Gap. This was some added scenery which we had not expected and it was worth traveling over a second time, but we were on our way to New Found Gap and Cling- man’s Dome before the evening wore away. On Clingman’s Dome we found plenty of snow and ice and we found that we could see part of Fontana Lake from that spot. It looked mighty far down. Before it was too late we drove down off the mountain and spent the night in Gatlinburg. Tennes- see. It was quite warm there and that helped to make us realize that Gatlinburg is just a mile lower than Clineman’s Dome where we were earlier in the afternoon. We had supper at a little cafe which was over the Little Pigeon River. The food was fair - the price was strictly for the tourist trade, but that of course goes with the trip. We spent the night at a Motor Court, run by a woman whose hob- by is African Violets, and I had a lot of trouble on my hands the next morning getting Mrs. John- ston to leave without getting the personal bisterv of evorv indivi- dual plant. However, we did manage to get away rather early. We stop- ped by Knoxville to get breakfast, and then on to Oak Ridge, that wonderful secret city which has just been opened to the public. We spent several hours driving through the residential part of this place and another hour in the museum, but we never did see any of the plants where the miracles are being performed, We found out a lot of things abont this citv of about 35,000 people, something less than half its size at the peak of the war activities. There are seven little cities within this big city - trading centers with! drug stores, grocery stores, dry goods stores, picture shows, etc. The houses are of a very temporary na- ture but are now being converted to more permanent — structures. Their schools, athletic fields, places for games, park and everything but graveyards. After driving threugh that place and finally leaving this was the thing that struck me most forcibly - not an old person and not a graveyard in a city of 35,000 people. Would it not be wonderful if it could be like that all the time - if people did not get old and have to have special provision made for them and if no eround had to be set aside for graveyards. We do not want to spend too much time talking about Oak Ridge - just enough to whet your appetite so that you will take in this wonderful place the next time you are out near it. After leaving Oak Ridge, we journeyed north and stopped for a few minutes at the Norris Dam, the first of the big storage dams of the Tennessee Valley Authority. Of course, the water was very low at this time, purposely so in order to hold back the Spring floods which have so often proved disas- trous. The Tennessee is now under control and you can plant your garden right down to the edge of it without fear that it will be over- run - that is the river below the storage dam. Just to show that we know what we are talking about, these storage dams are, in addition to the Norris, the Cherokee on the Holston River, the Douglas on the French Broad, and Fontana on the Little Tennessee, We had budgeted our time very carefully in order to arrive at New Albany at six P. M, We understood that something was cooking in preparation for our arrival. We also realized that we had picked up an extra hour going from Eastern to Central Standard Time, so we were drifting along without being in too much of a hurry, and then some- thing happened. We had a flat. It was the left rear tire, and it hap- pened where the road is very nar- row, but very heavily traveled. We could just barely get off the highway to change that tire, and it seemed that right then all the trucks and busses in Kentucky started coming our way. I had to get down on my knees to take that tire off. That meant that my heels were pretty far out on the high- way, and for the first time in my life I wished that I was a very short man, because it seemed to me that every car that passed was at least going to knock the heels off my shoes. Mrs. Johnston had gotten her- self all fixed up for our trip and that included a manicure and her nails were polished up so prettily that it would have been a crime to have marred their shining surface with anything like Tennessee dust, and our car and wheel were pret- tilv heavily coated. She wanted to help change that tire, but I would not let her do anything but hold the bolts when I took them out. It did not take us but fifteen minutes to make the change, but it took us more than thirty minutes to re- cover our composure afterwards, and all of that caused us to be a little late in reaching our destina- tion, We were thirty minutes late for that supper, which meant that we had just that much extra ap- petite to satisfy, but Nellie had anticipated something like that and had an extra supply of food to take care of the occasion, Bill had to wake up little Jane Ann who had gone to bed by the time we arrived, —=—=————_— just to show us that a!) O° shines he had said about t!!5 tle iat were not exaggerations Nor Bab: xaggera t truth. tery, but just the moucs’ Little Jane Ann J oked ® little be- wildered but was w’ to accept us as belonging to the nily, al- though she did not quite ‘now how. On Friday Bill k » two of us on a tour dow: ) Shelby- ville, Frankfort, Ve": s, Law- renceburg, and Tyr0! and |we saw something for t! rst time that we did not even k existed, the Grand Canyon -entucky River. Now, don’t vo © - to com- pare the Grand C: he Ken- tucky with the ( nyon of the Colorado. The (ol)rs\') has been at the job for a » billion years we underst: ting out by cutting its Canyon ugh the Kaibab limestone ;)( ' on down for another mile. W he Ken- tucky River has cut do.” through limestone strata ard ‘ ed quite a gorge. The city of | kfort 1s in that gorge ani Tyronne Power Company yp the viver from Frankfort is in «hat rge. Bill took us there. It is a team elec- tric plant operated by t Kentucky Utilities Company, an !nimense af- fair, generating steam at 900 pounds pressure and that steam turning turbines jo generate elec- tricity to send al! over the state. Well, we were prepared to, enjoy seeing this miracle of turning 15 carloads of coal into electricity (its daily quota), and while we were in there something happened. It seems that one of the men turn- ed a valve to pack the stem of the valve in order to stop a leak, That valve happened to have something to do with the feed water supply to one of the boilers, and in just no time at all the alarm whistles on that boiler commenced to play a tune and by the time they found out what the trouble was some- thing else turned loose, and we thought an explosion was starting, In just a few minutes everything was under control again and going as before, but we were told that the effects of that few minutes’ shut-down of one boiler was felt all over northern Kentucky in lowered voltage. lon’t ask me to explain: I am just telling you what they told me. The Southern Railroad crosses the Kentucky River at Tyronne on a bridge that was built sixty years ago. It is a beautiful thing: from a distance it l6*%s like a spider’s web, but it is mt rugged enough to carry the heaw tonnage of today’s big trains, but it is still used on this branch live under strict limita- tions. It is a pity that such a beautiful structure could not be preserved as an antique for future generations to see and admire. The general manager of the Tyronne Power Company is named Bunch _ - a name that sounded very much like Iredell County. His energy and re- sourcefulness would indicate that he must be kin to the Bunches who have had so much to do with the developement of Iredell County. The return trip was through Louisville where we were shown the results of the 1937 Ohio flood. The effects of that flood are still visible in places. It is unbelievable to think that a city could stand a catastrophe like that and survive. The pictures still on display as to the height the water are un- believeable. Today, not only Louis- ville but the cities across the way, are building flood walls to prevent anything | this happening to them again. Maybe they will never have to use that flood wall, It is to be hoped that before such a catas- trophe strikes again the Ohio River will be under somewhat the same control that the Tennessee is today. Saturday was spent visiting places of interest in Louisville in connection with Bill’s work. I found that he did have to show up at his office onee in awhile to let the railroad know that he was still working for it. Bill took me to the railway yards. I had to climb over a train and climb up into the tower in_ the freight yards, but I saw what hap- pened to the freight trains when they came in and were broken up and made into new trains to leave. A lot of figures were fed to me - the only one I seem to remember is that something like 5,000 cars are processed through that yard every day, and one man seemed to have his finger on the while transac- tion - the man in the tower. He had equipment before him enabling him to talk to any place on the yard. One moment an incoming conduc- tor would ask him a question and he would locate the man at the other end of the yard to answer it. One train was getting ready to leave and they could not find the conductor. This man in thle tower began calling for the conductor, up through the yard went the loud speakers as he would tune in one after another, Finally thle conduc- tor was located and in less than five minutes was on his train which was moving out. As a train would come into the yard (sometimes at a pretty fair rate of speed) every car number would be recorded and in just a few minutes, not only the car numbers but the destination of each car would be in the hands of the man in the tower. I could have spent many days watching this performance without losing interest. Sunday morning the important event of the whole visit took place, Little Jane Ann was baptized and the pastor of the Church insisted that the grandparents have a hand in jit, so there was quite a proces- sion that went down the aisle for the baptism of this one little mite. Bill sang in the choir, so he came down to meet the party in front of the pulpit. I carried the baby. Nell and Mrs, Johnston came along. The minister asked me to hold the Bap- tismal Font, and then he baptized the baby. I do not know whether he did it purposely or not, but when he caught sight of my height he stop- ped on the last step of the pulpit steps rather than coming down to the floor. That made him just my height. Little Jane Ann behaved beautifully and the ceremony to us was a wonderful one. Sunday afternoon was the time for visiting friends and getting ready for an early start home on Monday morning. Well, we pulled out at twenty minutes before eight, and coming east as we were, we lost an hour so that made it twenty minutes to nine, Barium Springs time. We journeyed down through Shel- byville, Frankfort, Georgetown, Paris, and on through the part of Kentucky and Virginia where the principal industry is coal mining. We will not try to describe that. You would not believe it. One time we passed a string of empty coal cars that must have been five miles long. They were new cars, and we found out that they were simply parked there for the next days business, Later on we passed through a valley and met three trains leaving that valley with loaded coal cars. We counted the cars in the first train and there were up in ninety. The other two were just as long. These were just on one railroad from one mining enterprise or val- ley. It makes you wonder what be- comes of all of that coal, but when you visit a power plant like that one at Tyronne you wonder where all the coal comes from. It began to rain on us late Mon- day afternoon so we did not try to make it on home, but stopped for the night at a little place on the top of the mountain near Richlands, Virginia. This is where highway 460 meets highway 19. It is right on top of a mountain and it is a place where the trucks make their stops. It is called Farmer’s Inn. An all-night restaurant is run and it has a juke-box maybe two juke boxes, and our room for the night was squarely over this. Well, you would think that it would have Cisturbed us. Somehow it did not. I do not believe anybody could drive the trip that we did and fail to sleep at night, regardless of what sort of noises might be about. We got up for an early start and what appeared to be a beautiful dav, Down through the valley to Lebanon, Virginia, across the moun- tains to Abingdon, and across some more mountains to Damascus, and then we slipped into North Caro- lina through Boone and on down through North Wilkesboro and home, arriving home at eleven o’clock on Tuesday morning. It was foggy when we came through the gap into Boone, so foggy in fact that we had to keep our lights on and we could not see any of the magnificent scenery around Low Gap and the other places in the mountains coming down to North Wilkesboro, but the fog hlad dissi- pated by the time we came through Statesville, and Barium Springs was there before us. We had only been away six days, but we both can truthfully say that that was the most wonderful scenery of all. It seemed to us that the flowers had grown, the grass was greener and everything was more beauti- ful than when we left, and the greetings from our big family at Barium made it all perfect. The nicest thing about going away is coming back. CAMPUS NEWS ANNIE LOUISE COTTAGE Hi Friends, Just think, six more weeks of school and then summer vacations. We have gotten our report cards for the past six weeks but some of us didn’t do so well. The girls that got bad conduct cuts saw rulers floating around in the air coming home from school. Sylvia and Shelia Wilson, who left us this summer came 7 to see us the other Sunday. They have grown so much we hardly knew them. Three new girls have been added to our family but we lost two of our older girls who moved to How- ard. We received from Baby Cot- tage, Jackie Taylor, Virginia Kiser and a new child, Nancy Mobley, We are happy to have these girls add- ed to our family, We have been to see “Eggs from Texas” with Roy Rogers playing. We have been to see a few good plays with some of our girls tak- ing part in ‘them. The fifth and second gave “Jack and the Magic Beanstalk”. We also got to go to Cool Springs to see Cinderella. This was given by the Cool Springs high school, Some one told us the other day that worms work a garden. Weil all we can say is that we are the worms that work our garden, We are planing a big Easter egg hunt Easter if the weather is good. We wish all our many friends could be with us but we will be thinking of you. One of our little girls can’t tell the difference between pigions and geese, The other day she saw some pigeons out side and said, “I didn’t know we had any geese around Barium. We soon got her straight on that subject. We are going to have to lay off saying anything about our teachers because we couldn’t find enough hiding places to hide in last time, Addie McEwen saw one of our big girls yawning real big one day and with out thinking said, “Don’t you know when you “Yap” you are supposed to put your hand over your mouth?” She didn’t relize what she had said until every one laughed. We sincerely hope all of you will have a wonderful Easter. Until next month. — The Annie Louise Girls HOWARD COTTAGE Hi Folks, Here we are back again bring- ing the cottage news, We have had two more girls to move in our cottage. They are Virginia Baucom and Bernice Kuy- kendall. They both take piano whicn makes us eleven piano students. Now we have a cotiage of twenty- six girls. Mr, Grier has come back from Florida. When he came he brought a real lot of sea shells. We are having a Tot of fun playing with them. We are proud to say that Laura Jane Craig, Lois Dellinger and Linda Inman have recited the Shorter Catechism. Miss Taylor and Miss Jackson took them to Charlotte. When they came back they told us what a good time they had. Now everybody is studying the Catechism so they will get to go to Charlotte. When we got our report cards we were happy to find out that twelve girls had made the honor roll. We are hoping to keep the good work up. Some people from Fuller Mem- orial Presbyterian Church sent each of us a corsage, a pair of socks, and hair ribbons. The socks and hair ribbons are sorted colors. We will have another piano re- cital the twenty-sixth of this month. We will each play a solo. Shirley Hall, Shirley Johnson, and Linda Inman got their clothing box this month, They were thrilled with them, They had some very pretty dresses. Miss Brandon took her Sunday school class and her school class to camp Saturday. Sixteen of us went. We had a weiner roast and we went on a walk to Long Island and bought us some candy there. Everyone enjoyed the trip very much’, — The Howard Girls Written by Shirley Shaw ALUMNI NEWS Lorena Clark (Mrs. B. W. Piner) and little son, Pat, spent a few days at Barium. ‘Ernest Clark has moved to Dil- lon, S. C. where he is enployed. Thelma Deaton (Mrs. Kendall J. Beam) lives in Shelby and teaches the third grade at Grover. Earl Allen and Fred Cole have entered the Southern Television Production School at Louisville, Kentucky. Mildred Monroe and Ernestine Baldwin, students at Flora Mac- donald College, spent their spring holidays at Barium, Charles Barrett, Pleas Norman and Janie Hall spent Easter Sun- day at Barium. Charles Barrett is in the David- son Male Chorus and they will give a program at Davidson Col- (Continued On Page Three) * -_ > lege Sen Bar av Ruc girl ory My ecr Bai Su of poi wo Ch Str 17t wil Pi i ¥ | ea e ~~ Oh h il e ll l ee at lc el l e —_ " ‘f e Oa Oe , Oe , Se e d ws es he sd OW N S AO R CO me ~ AO ve on le, ne \c- ng an in- id- rill ol- APRIL 1949 THE BARIUM MESSENGER PAGE THREE Alumni News (Continued From Page Two) lege, May 3rd, Seott Poole, student at the Union Seminary, was on the first string basketball team this year. Leila Johnston, graduate student at Assembly Training School Rich- mond, Va. spent the week-end at Barium with her parents, Sam Bernardo of Charlotte was a visitor on the campus. Mareveritte Gaskill, (Mrs. G. W. Rudisell) her husband and two girls, Marie and Barbara of Hick- ory were visitors on the campus. Lucile Smith (Mrs. Charles Myers) 2nd her husband of Con- eerd RFD spent Easter Sunday at Barium. Rufus Long of Asheville spent Sunday at Barium. Joyce Weeks (Mrs. Jack Smiley) of Washington, N, C. has been ap- pointed Secretary of Orphanage work, of the First Presbyterian Church, The engagement of Ernest Stricklin and Mary Ellen Burnett of York, S. C. was announced April 17th by her parents. The wedding will take place in July. Born to Mary Bell (Reid) and Roscoe Twombly of Southern Pines on March 11th a daughter, Joyce Ann. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Allesandrini of Cleveland, Ohio on March 22nd a son, William. Honor Roll For Six Weeks Ending April 4, 1949 First Grade — Buddy Cochran, Douglas Byrd, Joe Spencer, Lil- lian Baucom, Celia Donaldson, Don- nie Lewis, Linda Walker. Second — Richard Blackburn, Kenneth Joyner, Richard McAr- thur, Biyuer Shaver, Judy Clenden- in, Carol Harwell, Shelby Jean Peak. Third — None. Fourth — Virginia Baucom, Nancy Lee Kyles, Addie McEwen. Fifth — Charles Creech, Jimmy Harwell, Clayton Miller, Richard Vest, Evelyn Cox, Laura Jane Craig, Florrie Garris, Catherine Kuykendall, Mildred McFarland, Shirley Thomas, Alma Mae Wright. Sixth —- Edna Baucom, Betty Blackburn, Phoebe Cochran, Linda Inman, Shirley Shaw. Seventh — Carol Jean Andrews, Betty Ann Andrews, Ennis Black- burn, Louise Bradshaw, David Mor- rison, Eighth — _ Hilda Donaldson, Helen Barnes, Hazel Creech. Ninth — Louise Campbell, El- mina Johnson, Bonnie Odom, Henry ry Troutman, Carolyn Wicker. Tenth — Elsie Vest, Joyce Katen, Shirley Inman, Peggy Neel. Eleventh — Jean Steppe, Ber- nice Troutman. Twelfth — Curtis Baldwin, J. D, Everett, Billy McAllister, Johnny Meroney. Miscellaneous Gifts March Receipts Waldrop Bros. Supply Co,, Green- ville, S. C., 2 pair barber shears. Mrs. A. T. Lassiter, Clayton, clothing. Eno Aux,, magazines. Mebane Aux., Circle No. 1, 28 tea towels. Milton Aux., clothing. Honey & Holbrook, Kannapolis, large quantity socks. Lexington 2nd Aux,, Circle No. 3, 9 dresser scarfs. Bensalem Women, 60 wash cloths. Mrs. A. T. Ahern, Wilmington, puzzles. Mrs. Herman Weil, Goldsboro, clothing. Miss Sylvia Lee Workman, Tar- boro, clothing. Hawfields Aux., Circle No. 1, small quilt. _ Neuse Forest Aux., 1 quilt. Miscellaneous March Receipts Mr. A. C, Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ........ 10.00 Mr. & Mrs. J. B, Driver, Fay- Ctteville 0.0... sccecesrcoce csoseore 10.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High Point 1.00 _, Beatie Lackey, States- WENO cnsssisceses <ovccsvonuns save coersers Mr. C, G. Pepper, Hamlet .... 1.00 A Friend, Burlington ............ 5.00 A Friend, Cumberland .......... 5.00 An Alumnus, Winston-Salem 1.00 Mrs. Josephine McB, Worth, Linden Miss Ila F. Miller, High eo a uahon 10.00 Mr. J. F. Hurley, Salisbury ..150,00 Rev. J. A. Verrault, Sr., a ee oe 5,00 Mr. & Mrs. Rowland McClom- roch, Chapel Hill ........ .... 50.00 Prof. Ernest Beaty, Davidson 1.00 Cc. I. Clark, Jr,, Laurinburg 2.00 Mrs. Alton F. Salms, Jr. Ravawnan. GAs cic seen 75.00 Clothing Outfits March Receipts Goshen (KM) Aux. Cameron Aux,, Circle No. 2. Lansing Aux. Albemarle 1st Aux., B. W. C. No. 2. Clothing Special March Receipts Mrs. N. S. Cochran and Miss Nancy A. Reid, Matthews. ........1,000.00 (Given to the clothing fund in memory of their parents, Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Neely Reid.) Clothing Funds March Receipts Winston-Salem Ist Aux., C. H Wye CUCIG iiccscces | wrevseee 20.00 Reidsville 1st Aux. ................ 70.00 Edenton Women of the CHMPON: os ee eee 0,00 Tenth Ave. S. S., Women’s MN ee a ea Ga destaean 5.00 Olney Women... cence 40.00 Monroe 1st S. S., Young Women’s B, C.. ......::ssseese2 20.00 Galatia G. By occ: ; Potts Mem. Aux. .............:2::++ r Mulberry Aux,, Circle No. 4 5.00 Waxhaw Aux. ........:. cesses 20.00 Mt. Airy ist Aux, .........::...5+ 20.00 Tae BOR ol icces ke sactestecssens 20.00 Mr. & Mrs, Ralph Seaford, GON legs ocak, siccinniene 18.00 Goldsboro 1st Aux. . .-140.00 GOODE, AUK cecsencsiccs serrepsresee 25.00 Gastonia 1st S. S., Herald B, C. Bethel (M) Aux. ............ Kannapolis 2nd Aux. ...........- 20.00 VATE AUK, ccntcertcone: « seeneeteee 27.00 Rockingham 1st Aux. .......... 20.00 eee NG) gicccicce cae 25.09 PARIEW AVG) Gosjocck ares SOO Trinity Ave. Aux., Business Givle Cirele ooccseecced) cccesacseee 25.00 Ghelby 1st AUK, | p.-cecsecnsccene 5,00 Flora Grady B, C. <csun BOW Toenoiv let Auk. ..cccca cscs 50,00 Cherryville Women of the CHten ie > id eas 25.00 Kannapolis 1st Aux. ... Sprunt B. C.. ....... iaiceas since Raeford Aux., Circle 10 5: Raeford Aux., Circle 8 .........- 25.00 Albemarle 1st S, S., Ollie Green Ee esc uence 25.00 Laurinburg Aux, 90.00 Cramerton Aux. ........--- ....--- 15.00 Bethlehem (A) Women ........ 5.00 Whiteville 1st Women ............ 25.00 Geo. W. Lee Mem. S. &., CERNE Oe ED ice cseeee 25.00 Southern Pines Youth Fellow- Oe oes yeasts tay Hceee 25, Pearsall Mem, Aux. ............ 40.00 Centre (C) AUX: .............. 25,00 Raven Rock Aux. .........--...---++- 25.00 Bayless Mem. Aux. ........-.-- 25.00 Salisbury 1st Aux., Circle 5 20.00 Fayetteville 1st S. S., Good- se eevee arate 50,00 Leaksville Women of the ee cs peace 50.00 Sugaw Creek Aux., Business Women’s Circle ........ ....--- 20.00 Westminster (O) Aux,, Joanna Ce ln) sea Muelle 20.00 Hopewell (M) Aux. ....... .... 50.00 Montpelier Aux. ........0 .---.---+ 45.00 Plaza S. S., Johnston B. C. .. 20.00 Bethpage Aux, .....-.::.0 se: 25.00 Gastonia ist S. S., Vanguard Sori ak che “sete ta 25.00 Farmville (A) Women .... 20.00 Wise AGE. kisi en 25.00 Albemarle 1st Aux., Business Women’s Circle 1. ...........- 25.00 McKinnon Aux., Business Women’s Circle ......... ..-...-+ 35.00 Miss Ila F. Miller, High BE icc cilsa “ssussvcecase’ ‘sinecsesen 30.00 Smithfield Aux. .........2.0 ..--+-- 20.00 Cleveland Youth Fellowship 25.00 Monroe ist Aux., Ellen Fitz- gerald Circle 2.0.0... -e. 25,00 New Bern ist Aux. ... .... 25.00 Hope Mills Aux. ......... .... 25.00 Rockfish Aux. . . 20,31 Highland Aux. ........... 125.00 Manly Aux, ©2000... ce. .... 25.00 Ellenboro Aux. .......:0:.0 sees 20.00 Favetteville 1st Aux., Business Women’s Circle ............ +--+ 60. Rocky Point Women ............ 18.00 Wilmington 1st Women ........ 25.00 Howard Mem, Aux., Mrs. Mabry FG. oc riisesiess auavtsnhl. evectee 5.00 Mrs. Geo, Holderness ........ 8.50 Kings Mountain 1st Aux. .... 50.00 Vass Women 20000....... ceeeeeseeee 25.00 Pinehurst Community (F) BSS iirc eovnctienk epee 20.00 Pinetops Aux. 20.00.00. cesses 20.00 Burlington 1st Aux., Business Women’s Circle ............ -- New Bern 1st Aux., GEPCIO D ccseiscsecese, sossscorsesescessese 5.00 Newton 1st Aux, .................. 20,00 Paw Creek Senior Boys and ITI vicistcsess eatenetienty wonvereeed $1.00 Rocky Point Women .............. 4.50 Fayetteville 1st S, S., Maggie DO TB. GC, cccecces sncmsesersenconeee 27.50 Salisbury 1st S. S., Rumple <= BRL Cy ccceacccnese, sseeees. 5.00 Wilmington Ist S. 5» Young Women’s Fellowship Class 25,00 Godwin Aux, --- * 25.00 Jackson Springs AUX. 25.00 Maxton 1st Aux. 110,00 Rowland Aux. .------7"" 25,00 Lowell Women .----- 25,00 Sunnyside Women ----- 25,00 Philadelphus Au*: ---- 50.00 St. Pauls Aux. ----------" 50.00 Albemarle 1st Aux» B Women’s Circle 2 - 5.00 Goshen (KM) Aux. - 00 Operating Memo ials March Receipts Grier, Mrs. R. D., State Dr. & Mrs. 8, W. H The L. Gordon Iron and iGo; Deitz, Mr. J. E., Statesville: The L. Gordon Iron ana 1 Co. Lackey, Mrs, John G., Statesville: Mr. Herman Wallace For Messenger March Receipts Mrs. R. W. MeGowan, Tar- ARO coc ee. 5,00 Mrs. E. L. Coxe, Red Springs 1.00 Memorials for Church March Receipts Agsten, Mrs. H, B., Charleston, W. Va.: < Vee West Raleigh Aux., Circle 5 West Raleigh Aux. West Raleigh S. S., Alice Broome B. C. Anderson, Mr. Edward L., Wins- ton-Salem: J. M. Rogers B. C., Winston- Salem Ist S. 8, Anderson, Mr. William, New York City: Mr, & Mrs. James H. Thompson, Statesville Armfield, Mr. Charles G., Sr., Elkin: Mr. & Mrs. Karl T. Deaton, Statesville Barnes, Mr. J. T., Wilson: Dr. L. J, Herring Barwick, Mr. Felix, Cordele, Ga.: Mr. & Mrs, Cecil F. Adamson, N. Wilkesboro Bell, Miss Elizabeth, Wilmington: Women’s B. C., Wilmington 1st Misses Sue, Jessie & Jane Hall Benfield, Mrs. J. G., Mooresville: Wharey Mem, Aux., Mooresville 1st Church Brandis, Mrs. Henry P., Sr., Salis- bury: The Misses Knox Mrs. Robert Graham Kizer, Con- cord Campbell 3, 5. 5S. Brooks, Miss Edna, Goldsboro: Mr, & Mrs. C. E. Wilkins Brown, Miss Maude, Concord: Mr. & Mrs. J. Archie Cannon Calder, Mr, Duncan G., Charlotte: Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. Lyday, Gastonia C., Salisbury 1st Carr, Miss Harriett, Wilson: Mrs, Rebekah Murray Carr, The Hon, J. 0., Wilmington: The George Currie Family, Clarkton Carr, Mr. Thomas J., Willard: Mrs. Janie Ward, Teachey Cathey, Rev. S. L.. Loray: Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B, Johnston, Barium Springs Mr. & Mrs. H. L. Carpenter, Rutherfordton Mr. & Mrs. Howard Thompson, Statesville ; Misses Emma & Edith Holland, Mt, Holly Mr. & Mrs. William Pressly, Stony Point Mrs. T. R. Osborne & Mrs. Phil J, Thomas, Hillsboro Mrs. W. 0. Watkins, Rutherford- ton Morrison’: Chapel, Statesville Cleveland, ir. Houston, Miami, Fla.: Mrs. Louise & Jane Steele Han- non, Charlotte Collins, Mr. Edwin, Spartenburg, 8. C,: The Mays, Wa'rens, Bernards, Howards, Hunters, Bealls, Efirds, Shoafs, Blairs and Parks, Lenoir Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Teague, Lenoir Craig, Mr. Allen M., Winston- T oor B thers, Ine rothers, : Married ‘Couples? Group, Wins- ton-Salem 1st Church | . M. Rogers B. C., Winston- Salem ist 8. 5:., Mrs. Haddon §. Kirk Crews, Mrs. W. H. North Wilkes- boro: Miss Pauline Troutman Mrs. W. D. Troutman & Miss 2Zuth Troutman, Troutmans Mary Ann & Linda Troutman, Troutmans Corbett, Mrs J. A., Wilson: Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Herring Crowell, Mrs. A. J., Charlotte: Myers Park Church Cunningham, Mrs, Charles E., Mocksville: Mrs. F, L. Keesler, Charlotte Miss Sarah Gaither Mrs. J. P, Mattox, Salisbury Davis, Mr. Ralph, J., Charlotte: Nevin Women of the Church Deitz, Mr. J. E., Statesville: Mr, & Mrs. James Brady Mr. J. I. Tomlin Douglas, Mrs , A. B., Rocky Mt.: Miss Lelia McLeod Mr. & Mrs. A. P. Thorpe, Jr. English, Lt. Bert L., Belmont: Misses Margaret & Georgie Cathey Freeze, Mrs. R. W., Mooresville: (honoring her birthday) Daughter, Miss Cora L. Freeze Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Grandson, Mr. Bob Gaither Gore, Miss Carolyn, Raleigh: Mrs. Paul Harris Grier, Mrs, Robert D., Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Johnston, Barium Springs Mr. & Mrs. C. E, Ritchie and Family Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Stafford Mr. & Mrs. David Andrews Mrs. T. A. McDougald & Iris Mr, & Mrs. Gordon P. Scott Major & Mrs. William L, Allison Mr. & Mrs. Karl T. Deaton Mrs. George L. Frazier Mr. & Mrs. Louis G. Bowles Myers Park Presbyterian Church, Charlotte Mrs. J. L. McBride Mr, & Mrs, T. R. Redlack mont Concord 1st S. S., Grier B. C. Mr. Albert S. Orr, Monroe Mrs. Thomas D. & Miss Nancy Gilliam Mr. & Mrs. C. R. Sloan Mrs. Nancy M, Shackelford Dr, W. C. Current Mr. A. W. Emery, Mr. E. G. Twiss and Mr. G. H. Emery The Family of Mr. F. A. Sherrill Mr, & Mrs. James H. Thompson Mr. & Mrs, James Brady Mr. J. I. Tomlin Mr. & Mrs. June Scarborough Misses Rosamond & Hope Clark Mr. & Mrs. J. Neely Kincaid Mr. W. M. Pressly, Stony Point Misses Bess & Laura Grier and Mrs. W. H. Neely Mr, & Mrs, Fuller Sams, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Johnston Mr. W. C. Grier, North Wilkes- boro Mr, & Mrs. J. B. McCoy, North Wilkesboro Hamrick, Mr. W. B., Davidson: Mrs. Charles L, Powell, Greens- boro Hart, Mr, Stephen A., Mooresville: (on his birthday) Wife, Mrs. Stephen A. Hart Hartley, Mrs. Ransom C. (Frances Whistnant), Charlotte: Mrs. Louise & Jane Steele Han- non Mr. & Mrs. Clyde Propst, Sr., Concord Hatch, Mrs. Daisy, Raleigh: Mrs. George J. Moore Hitchcock, Master Jackie (6 years), Greensboro: Dr. & Mrs. S. W. Shaffer Hobgood, Mrs. J. M, (Lucile Has- sell), Farmville: Mrs. Plato Monk, Wilson Mrs. W. D. Hampton, Charlotte Mrs. Ralph M. Deal Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Hemmingway and Miss Marguerite McIntrye, Graham Mrs, C. L. Potts, Charlotte Young Married Couples’ B. C., Myers Park §. S. Dr. & Mrs. F. B. Haar, Green- ville Falkland Aux. Miss Margaret Fulton, Greens- boro ; Middle Class, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. Hoke, Mrs. T. J. (Sarah), States- ville: Mr. F. C. Culbreth R, A, Stilwell, Columbia Baking Company Holland, Pfc. Lawrence W., Jr., Dallas: Aunts, Misses Nellis & Kathleen Pasour Horne, Mrs. Mabeb Copernong, Wadesboro: Camden S§. S. Houston, Mrs. Ella, Monroe: Miss Minnie Simpson Monroe Ist Women of the Chureh Dr. & Mrs, J. W. Ormond Howe, Mr. J. D., Gastonia: Mrs, Wayne Dilling Mr. & Mrs. H. S. Cobb Mr. & Mrs. W. Y. Gardner Herald B. C., Gastonia 1st S. S. Jenkins, Mrs. Della, Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. J. Watt Womack, Reidsville Johnston, Mrs, Tiny, Mooresville: Wharey Mem. Aux., Mooresville Ist Church Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Emerson, Concord Johnston, Mr. William, Jr., Wil- mington: Mr. & Mrs. J. Archie Cannon, Concord Jones, Lt. Marion “Max” W., Greensboro: Gastonia Pilot Club Kerlin, Mr. G. L,, Charlotte: Mr, & Mrs. Esley O. Anderson, Jr. Lackey, Mrs. John G., Statesville: Mr. John C, Fowler Lentz, Mr. James M., Winston- Salem: J. M. Rogers B. C., Winston- Salem 1st S, S. Lewis, Mr. James Elmer, Parkton: Mr. & Mrs. C, E. Grantham, Fairmont Little, Mrs. Paul, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Vickers Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Lowe, Mr. W. O., Fountain City, Tenn,: Dr. & Mrs. R, H. Lafferty, Charlotte Lowry, Mrs. J. A., Lowell: Mr. Ralph A. Dickson, Gastonia Mrs. Lois Y. Elliott & Mrs. John H. Briggs, Charlotte McAllister, Mrs. Hugh M., Lum- berton: Rev. & Mrs, Walter M. Walsh, Morven McConnell, Mrs, Laura, Boger City: Mrs. Carl Detter & Misses Emma & Edith Holland, Mt. Holly McCorkle, Jr., Mr. Clyde H., Wax- haw: Students of Carolina Business School, Charlotte McDonald, Mr. Carl, Manchester: Flat Branch Aux. McDonald, Miss Kate Martin, Car- thage: Jackson Springs Aux. McGuirt, Mrs. W. T., Monroe: Sara Walkup Circle, Monroe 1st Aux. Dr. & Mrs. J, W. Ormond McLellan, Mr, Donald Lemuel, Statesville: Mr. A. T. Dozier, Morrison Fur- niture and Fixture Co. McLelland, Mr. Graham Nelson, Statesville: Mr. A. T. Dozier, Morrison Fur- niture and Fixture Co. McPhaul, Mrs. Annie, Shannon: Philadelphus Women of the Church Antioch S. S., Woman’s B. C, McPhaul, Mrs. M. H., Red Springs: Mrs. D. A. McCormick and Mrs. W, Z. Pate, McDonald McQuage, Mr. Ollie C., Mocksville: Mr. & Mrs. Gaither Sanford Mr, R. B. Sanford Mann, Mr. Coy M., Burlington: Burlington Ist S. S., Pioneer Dept. Rev. & Mrs. J. W. Mann & Wal- ter, Red Springs Marshburn, Mr. J. F., Raeford: Mrs. J. W. MeLauchlin Maslin, Mr. W, H., Winston- Salem: Mr. R. B. Sanford, Mocksville Mason, Mr. James D., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Priestley Congers, III, Hichmond, Va. Mickle, Miss Margaret, Winston- Salem: Miss Annabell Jones, Selma Moore, Mrs. A. C., Marshville: Circle 5, Sugaw Creek Aux. — Neal B. C., Sugaw Creek os Morris, Mr. J. B., Albemarle: Mr. & Mrs. G. T. Rabe Morrison, Mrs. D. L., Harrisburg: Mr. Fred P. Quay and Sisters Miss Kate Quay, Charlotte Nifong, Mr. F. F., Lenoir: Mr, & Mrs, George C. Robbins Peyton, Mr. Philip B., Davidson: Mrs. James Rutledge Withers Centennial Book Club of David- (Continued On Page Four) - son Mr. & Mr THE BA ; rchi i eel . Sa J. Archie Cannon Mie Kate Cc, ies, Mocseaeie My SENGER : 6 » Moores- ers P, eee | whens, Rey. James Thompso Mus, inetle W. Withers, M y porwrood = om Charlott A A 4 OV ~ nm, ie ® = ’ o tee eeeneet mn Mrs. a C.: Mrs. C awson Withers, My. & Pine phia os Charlo WO aa is PRIL 19 4 elso lifford r & ille tte 2 Me son Jones, Charlotte Ege iiecthere . Bair . Plase aseneees “ Class nd, James T. Por ae Olney # arr, Mr. rs. Hadd » inc. rovidence oa a re ; ie, Se, 2 Mee. Sones Worms Se Mee Mee RV, Ridgecrest ~” Commonwealth wrens 25.00 SPIMAALE werrnns women 9.60 Mr. & ae - ee a ” a & Mrs. C Flood hn aan a cane Huntersvifle. & Bryson rior oo Union pea aa ner ee 6.00 $ ° . . cowee ve cone AB Mallard Crock BE MOM cnr seenrneee ener ag H. — Willi pecnevene lcholr, ieee ae aes ama : PE heeds tt Gm @irkiawnces penser 24.00 : calls ey s. J. Archie Cannon _ Me. Lomest R., Concord cuaron Ave, . ious sount Gilead aeons enee Albemarle 1st oumenrreiey ; , Mrs. D. § * ra. J, os $ uth Paw” ts a Tghtaianee ¥ u sere aa ee Mrs. J. W. oa Wilson, Mr. Low Archie Conton Sugaw lee cosmic a Myers Pati, en's Gi on 29°57 Charlotte — satiies = Pressly Dr Mrs. R i ry R., Low ee Senior D s fhe ce ¥ arlotte 18t ns ne ; . Dr. J. M., B . Ross Cox, Miss Luci ell: (oss hah lt aeaaaal Philad ae 25.00 Cook’ nd ‘ ye ang Ww. pe se ae, Mrs. J. ae lao — Westover ili niche. Giada Pineville eo re nts Mallard Crock, B'¥ 2 i ‘ Mr. » Gas- illiam Py oe pee * . atth ’ 7 " Query, Mrs, R. Z Hr, & re. Sane & Eee Ne, a oe 15500 Rockingham eh Myers Park” ; Mr. & Mrs. W. Charlotte: T sie Campbell an ORAN g . Tenth A . 15.00 Cirel “4 . =. Mis WOR Harris: 7 snerene H. Wilson Rog Alamance GE PRESBYTERY ll se .. 56.24 Nevin a ie ..... : esville c , JD, ilson, Gastoni , Miss Mami ethan Willi a nh ead E N ga ee oo R. H. Query, Hun ead Wilcon, Belmont Miss Bethesda seveeceecems smneemeanee sennanen 12.80 illiams Mem. ........ 118, P ee Shion ‘ ; ‘ r . J. L, Thompson ethlehem 10.00 iAdsns eimiirreny 48 Pinevill cs ans a Ring, Mrs. S. G., Kernesvil mes. Thee a Ll eenpel Hill. 2°50 Stamnes rere PRESBYTERY Plaza 8 mean ee Ue ESSE ous Map Be ompson, Mi. & Mes, Geen = 1600 BN Ney ao Sait Aidt = te » Gas- _& M ' ; : 60 Selwyn Ave, nn Cteels 5, Gastonia Wilkeshn, J. B. McCoy, N paves a : 2.50 = Bethel ........ "79. Sugaw Creek percesrastt crates : = ee. wou * oe Adult and J » North Sanford” ” vehiee opi? Fairfield ; , Waxhaw OI nneseesece - sasteein - Gardner cee vene Chew, & centord verses sernenne 2450 eensboro isi, Men's B. ¢ : BXPBW evnrnee cern seen é , owell myrna a ee 50. riers me st, Men’s B. nig West : Be ae Ripley, Mr. Charles_T Withers, M a. 0.00 Little — ° eo RIE, inns, in songs Major & a — tte: rs. Dora Barron, Char ——— UU 2.50 re my Al ORANGE PRESBYTER. r & Mrs. Wil ; - 4 r.& : x - i ccecaa' ceneenibad salbhaana Se en fen . aman BYT R ae Se WEEE Se A, Tle yp George D, Patferson Beh INGTON nae Stony Creek... we ao. ey oberts, Mr A ood, Mr. F Black OU, sees ONY CECI rrnre women . BODE ann ne seer rts, Mr. Albe (on his birth’ red M.,, oo 5 roe enone B19 BOER guns wee eee Mrs, P. S. Fane “ae Daughter so ) or Harper-Southeriand ae : WILMINGTON PRESBYT a7 Buffalo (D) Rummage, hice Almeite illy Reading, ag Fred Harding ieeeet "ea — nd .... sms River PRESBYTERY covenant a aron (M) Aux etta, Charlotte: : * Mount Zion” eee ‘ faaeen reensboro ist. 7 , : : “ ae 1 Guil st .... Savers, Mrs. Ell ; REGULAR Sawe ei . " Reciae as Clarkton Reon a .. 81.70 Bethel Aux. Davidson: Ch Wallace ee ais roe a ee j Jonesboro seeeveseeene same 1709 Sawyer, Mrs, F Ma. urches Wildwood’ yea . a Man ae + er ns ee reed ay . Fred A., Sr., Char- pre rch Receipts i a a eee . Hallsvilie a 527.68 Sentoed oe eer sear 15.00 ss Ora Berryhi MARL ; AMISVIIC anne eee nnn : oi Meee aes 3.25 Seenes rryhill New Bern RLE PRESBYTERY Cone SALEM PRES aoe a a. ~~ Se opgins, Mr. Robert E., C ae a 196.50 a namen ee BYTERY Mount Oli > Pnecnans -- 10. coals 27.00 ao Mrs. John M. M harlotte: sie silinds 112.50 ane a ee 1.75 ake Plas . Sel iciees iia 56.50 r. & Mrs, A . McEwen & CORD P eorge W, Le pucks esate ee Oak Plai maw ~ Bue Acme .. N PRES thews . H. Hood, Mat- Arrowood Pe RESBYTERY fine Hal’ Mon, 23a 12 2 Weacaat vi es ; . 62, Se ~~ BYTERY Scott, Mrs, Joh — ee 97 ee eta 135 Rockfish VAOW wnnne nnn 00 Calypso .... ca ae Mrs, H. Lan uM Charlotte: Ba O58 ene wens ene 8.80 unday Sch ey — ” 91. Chin a ee Le mH Lan, ioore & Mie. W. B. Bethage ° i ia Salem Chapel i. 48 Chinquapin 35 on Bethpage _... . x eceipts Will River seiebomg + ae Elizabet] SAE Pa NBs “4B a Pa ee Gloveiend 90 |, ALBEMARLE PR WMA cee serene se ‘00 Harp ethtown ; Shehs Mrs. Dean A. French Eaviaeos c Goldsbors -aaliemmcgpdoigy De I cisssncses pecosstnns a. oa. ehan,’ Mr. J H wood ...... wea ae, 9.46 é site Mere id Pink Hill 5 er ee Soe A., Lewisto AYMONY o.oo ” 42'08 Pin Bern ist, Men’s B. C. 36.04 Mocksvill M PRESBYTER Rockfish ve SE rae wn, Harrisburg, we Ry and en’s B, C. 75.36 2s Wilkesboro seus alae 10.00 Westminster Smith, Mr. Kan BE nn shecmen! - ayside st . ston-Salem 1st, Neal 101.35 iteville 1 , Mr. Jasper W ai. 17.790 Wil j Anderso st, Neal en st ville: alton, Fayet Kannapolis 2nd “ ilson ..... mn B. C. w.-S Mr. & Mrs yette. RAMRSPONS BN ann nore an aoa a ua i : .D : a Gnieeiiin vanaaeenn . ee > DY ...... SBY Highsmith Seobtiat an ae RR eee einen a Concord eon PRESBYTERY Auxiliaries a i wie vivre! Smith _— innon ........ i meant Ge. arch Recei a Wok ota aas Gea Mooresville 18t si nnn Giiwood Mic eC a rt Mount ai ist - ? |} Aux., Ci : a & : 62. HWOOK aennenns nents nnn 3 A 3 n Sesewe, ts, tee Circle 6 pA Hriend atromgoed Harmony: vane tonnes one 110.00 guns a— ~~ Saeer tee Winston-Salem i aie wanna mo Mrs. Sw ee in i Pine A Mooresville 1st « ahas eo en siililstinn silidials 11.00 Y.P So : onia - Timberlake, Salisbury ee : P resville 2nd . 47.00 few Bern ist ae - P. Societi Spri Shi y 2nd H opular T ose | stint : Pinet 00 jeti eines, Mr, Ht & Charlotte: Sherrie” Ford es 86. ey ist , ner ee 65.84 Rocky Mount ist, Ai sien 12.00 ‘ieee — fsa ga . Cc, M : merrill FOR eee se : Be scccossnees 8 y ’ rie : A Stephenson, Mr. R z Iberry S. 8, Statesvilie ist 85 steeeane i ue Go andanegemmagee ee Billards ” PRESBYTERY "i Sieh’ foe pants : Statesville 1st) eons snr ‘a Wataluae ineeTiaipiieony 2.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBY sae ) Aux. ; Providanes Walken” a oie I liek: siren cece — Rex ......... E PRESBYTERY t ss a wi co SGA | CONCORD PRESBYTER eS “—-." Nannie, New Y: FAYETT : FAYETTEVILLE ' Kannapolis. ist PRESBYTERY Se LENBURG andi _ Dr. & M ork Ben EVILLE PR Antioch . PRESBYTER Lenoir st eele Creek PRESBYTE G rs. W. C. Gol C salem ..... ESBYTERY ia Y States sesssessses seseeoee i a RY eneral & Mrs. I oley, Graham cae pe meme Ben i ae 12.1 Th eee ce THA Ficttaians 20.00 Graham . Don E, Scott, Church-in-the-Pi PT a ee on a yatira ........... NKSGIVING Stevens “<< geld ne = OS Ge Rock ; aenss senna a Mr. Mark De W, New Leaflet Springs ..... - i =, — — ILLE PRESBYTERY eee : , ERY awn eseenee ane i ent Tttttee eeeee po » liso. Rayan Bee M. Bryan ee gel as seencnsee sannennene in Community, tdi uk Tecan nas Barbecue = * ALBEMARLE he SESCESE (UNCED NSUEENE ‘GenEben v9 ] ’ sigue . en ; Teague, Mrs. G A ae Parkton ee Snbaiee acest ay ears seca —™ * --- 5.00 Bethel Sea . ESBYTERY Miss Maie 5 Se ee pe he ee - 6.84 toon ae ; Big fiktas A — euneneres -_ Todd, Mr. He , Statesville a i eo Mem. ; oe SBYTERY are ey Sines RE FP irmont ww. Bunnlevel ene wns non gi33 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBY’ 25.22 enue Cronk oy Pines, Fayetteville a oa “14 Centre TEVILLE PRESBYT Misses Alice ours Circle 5 ge Bi Comfort . ooh Salata a os McConnell izabeth & Edith . KINGS MTN ae eee Covenant . meen PRESBYTER : d i a. unn .. em. Y Mr. & i. S. W. Robinson Adams Mem PRESBYTERY M nberton — * ’ ee Cine Cherssviie eat 13. Manly : Ephesus . ax 00 Spindle veces Tre CHOPEYVINE cerns seniors mene 3.50 fh. oe Rureka .... ee nt, Mrs. George Milton, Relds at bilmask ; Olivia ae Flat Branch Gee ee PRESBY’ 62.79 , , ,. Bast Belmont eccttseese queues w ee ‘ Mr. & Mrs, J. Watt W forest tity Red Spring ce Highton goons Comelius ” SBYTERY Troxler, \ omack G i ecelais. 3 Smyr: ML asicncsged Highland ence wee conn : aa. ee » Mr, Joh : ee a ree nyrna ......... - TOM nie cere nnn 1S ween tek ~~ 20, _ Mr. & Mrs. J. Ed i Reidsville: Mr. & F . 87.00 Union ; ‘ foun aetna - Sunew Park : ewis Kin I LK : Vass sine We a ee es 2 Creek | Walker, Mr. S. H aarah Mountain 1st endrick _ see . Leaflet Be lige ee ei Unionville | Mr. & Mis. Warren Y. Ga New Hore 00 ope ANVILLE PRESBYTE 61.80 MreMille —_ nen Westover Hills .. | Walter: . Gardner North Si : ak Hill hile TERY eMillan ........... a oO | i ao b R$ a canny ol " Ave, a ae pea. ons PY nso Sea iene 25 Glenwood PRESBYTERY ib auchlin BOM scoscssaves . Sica wee alee : Mou ie 1.23 — Wheeler, Miss Betsy, Charlott Unity oo A 30 Belmont. NIN, PRESBYTERY Mt. Rt Pisgah nnn cme 5.70 Hawfiel diene 96 | Mrs. Ch. son Jones otte: ve 1 C Mervilis ae ae 73,48 arkton Be resins ie 5 ields ............ 31.2 Wade Mie. te . Lambeth eons P Cramerton tes wor a ea Se saga pee 912 Cc W.SALEM PRESBYTEE 188.0 White, : a RESBYTERY Sole an ae Raeford ens wenn ven 158 | enant RESBYTERY a. James, Charlotte: oo sanmiian vo: 5.00 Kings Mou stn! ee aoe Pe Red aa (ee Gian 2.28 woe ae SI a asa whit . C., Charlotte ist & g Biscoe widdeknieies 5 1.12 Ente ad ist ee cecccvenes 223.50 te a ngs 3.80 oo ee ee ite, Yo ee Cann Gresne 1.25 ng Cree 39 aoe See ere) eens x a om Sones Son of Mr. eal tie anne 1.80 Mount Sale ea , Saint eal Ps - ‘nee a aa a nee ia . aoa 0 Ye te '° e . y sls e “ ir. Philip F. en Charlotte ist 78 New Hope. 7... ts Shiloh a uxiliaries hitley, Mr, W. I Chente te 2nd 75.00 Giese eee 97.87 Smyrna _ arch Receipts Myers Park ae Sasmaaewen —_” 60.00 z wtherfordton “2 sis om 53.86 Sunnyside J ALBEMARLE Williams, Mr. J, M ealth ves er ras ee oe ASON ......... PRESBYTERY , . SSS ae VOR it pape in: © ©, 9 Kings Mo -65 Uni ee es 7.00 GR FAYBITEVILLE porary: 2.20 M un- 9.00 ion ss 86.9 ANVIL EVIL i r. & Mrs. J. A. Hopew Union Milig” 7” ~ 47 . Fuller haga PRESBYTER Comfort LE PRESBYTE Harvey, Oat and Indian _ MEC BS scceonseesee sore / .. 4.50 an rere: ae 8.00 Raeford ... RY Williams, M Indian Tra ARCKLENBURG PR ial ount Bethel, Circl seieiicaseay a re . i E shies sl, Gintles 1 6 8 9.00 GRAN oe lem Mz. 6. Clay, Winsten- aan Albemarle 1st nue Re a ne... » Circles 1 & 2 12.00 Oak Hil /“™ PRESB Mrs. © inten Donte Matthews: Bethel Ladies’ . 187.00 estminster ..... .... 18.00 she a Lina | r. W. L. Math onroe ist ae ¢ Caldwell tic “aianil igs amas ere. Panenres 10.00 EeuRG Pemeny .00 eson, Mooresville a Field = B. o Mem., Huntington 7.46 Armstrong Mem PRESBYTERY aga ist ~ PRESBYTERY Try a 41 Rideewas an 7 aie ol See sti PRESBYTERY SUE wevemme wer morn \ Chikies’ B. a. y+} Cherryviiia wt sens ee 25.00 ae ea a ings... irthday Offer- Kine Mt ‘00 Battele (G) PRESBYTERY mney - 1888 Mount Holly -....- 0 Greensboro st 22 ane “prea ga peeecorins 1500 | W-SALEM PRESBY ws 10.00 : inston-Selem ist en on sseeeeee 20,00 9.50 0.00 5.00 [RY 5.60 0.50 6.50 ERY 0.00 5.55 RY Barium Messenger VOL. 25 Diplomas Received By 1948 Graduating Class Commencement began withi the Baccalaureate Service at 11:00 A. M. on Sunday. The nineteen seniors and the choir marched in to the processional, “For all the Saints” by Barnby. The _ Baccalaureate sermon was preached by Dr. Sid- ney A. Gates, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Salisbury, North Carolina. The subject of his highly inspirational sermon was “The Rich Young Ruler.” At the evening hour, Rev. M. Millard Miller spoke on the subject “Making a Heaven on Earth.” He took as his text Psalm 86, “Who passing throug the valley of Baca, make it springs of water.” A special feature of both ser- vices was the music by the choir of Little Joe’s Church and_ the High School Glee Club. In the morning service the choir sang, “The Lord is My Light” by Speaks. In the evening, “Alleluia” was sung by Virginia Presnell and the High School Glee Club “The Lord’s Prayer” by Malotte. Class day exercises were enjoy- ey very much at 10:30 on Monday morning, at which time the class history and class prophesy were delivered and appropriate gifts were exchanged. This was conclud- ed by the singing of the class song, “Auld Lang Syne.” Diplomas were presented to nineteen members of the gradua- ting class of Barium Springs High School in the commencement fin- als Monday evening at 8 o’clock. Rev. John H. McKinnon, Jr., pas- tor of the First Presbyterian church of Concord delivered the com- mencement address. Invocation (Continued On Page Two) Honor Roll For Last Six Weeks First Grade — Richard Black- burn, Judy Clendenin, Shelby Jean Peak. Second — Nat Craig, Jerry Mc- Arthur, Shelby Jean McEwen, Jewel McFarland, Peggy Jean Sellers, Jerry Thomas, Charles Ward, Janet Woodall. Third — Sydney Morrison, Nan- cy Lee Kyles, Virginia Baucom. Fourth — Johnny Collins, Eve- lyn Cox, Laura Jane Craig, Char- les Creech, Jerry Ellis, Shirley Johnson, Katherine Kuykendall, Peggy Privette, Nellie Sellers, Boyce Dean Smith, Richard Vest. Fifth — Donald Dean, Betty Anne Blackburn, Phoebe Cochran, Lois Dellinger, Martha Nell Hall, Shirley Hollifield, Margaret Hucks, Linda Inman, Beth Jackins, Shir- ley Shaw, Lucy Troutman, Letha Walker, Anne White. Sixth — Ennis Blackburn, Da- vid Thomas, David Morrison, Bet- ty Ann Andrews, Carol Jean An- drews, Louise Bradshaw, Shirley Byrd, Edna Ellis, Margaret Hop- kins, Kathleen Keesler, Jackie Kuykendall, Aline Thomas. Seventh — Hazel Creech, Doro- thy Surles, Shirley Thomas, Glo- ria Williams. Eighth — Dwight Reid, Henry Troutman, Louise Campbell, Bon- nie Odom, Mary Frances Price. Ninth — Shirley Inman, Joyce Katen, Peggy Neel, Lucille Stin- son. Tenth — Lorene Hall, Kathleen Monroe, Helen Morgan, Jeanne Steppe, Betty Sue Wolfe. Eleventh — Margaret Bullard, J. D. Everett, Jane Sigmon. Twelfth — Charles Barrett, Er- nestine Baldwin, Sadie Buie, Peg- gy Coffey, Edith Marie Ferguson, Bradley Jean Manus, Mildred Mon- roe, Virginia Presnell, Betty Jo Smith, Lucille Stricklin. BARIUM SPRINGS, N.C., May 1948 The Rising Senior Class at Barium Springs High School Every year the feature of our April issue of The Messenger is t he individual pictures of this year’s graduating class. It seems fitting that the feature of the May issue shluld be a picture of the rising senior class. This class is a small one. We still have not recovered from the war. It will be two years yet before we begin to have classes the size of those pre-war lasses. It will be the class of ’51 that will really indi- cate that Barium is back to normal. Take a good look at_ these juniors. There are only thirteen of them who are members of the or- phanage family; three are village children. Jane Sigmon is’ the daughter of one of our high school teachers; Dickie Arrowood is the daughter of our treasurer; Ricky Lippard is the son of a neighbor. The number of years that this class has been at Barium is much less than the total number of years of the class just graduating. None of them were quite as young when they entered as four members of the recent graduating class. Strange Doings In Poultry Department Ordinarily, three hundred and sixty-four days in the year the poultry department at Barium is a calm, easy-going community. The eggs are gathered, the chick- ens are fed, the brooders are ad- justed, etc. The eggs being from the same family of hens are usual- ly of one color and one size, but on Wednesday, March 24th, strange things happened. We don’t know just why - we know the chickens are getting pretty smart and they may be psychic from being raised under an electric brooder and lay- (Continued On Page Two) CAMPUS NEWS LEES COTTAGE Here we are again bringing you the news from our cottage. April the 24th was a happy day for us and the Howard girls. Mr. Johnston took us to the mountains, We had a picnic lunch, you should have seen the “hot dogs” we ate. We had a grand time. We are playing baseball and hav- ing lots of fun. School is out and we are looking forward to a happy summer, just now we are anxious to go switn- ming. ‘We are going to have three (Continued On Page Two) HENDRIX, ANNIE STAR LANGLEY, They are an up and coming bunch of kids though. Every boy in the class is a member of the var- sity football squad, All but one are first-class basketball players. They have notions in their heads by the way - the girls put it there. Now, this is not the ordinary kind of notion that girls puc in the boys’ heads but it has to do with trophies. Our girls won the South Piedmont Conference title this year, and with it a handsome tro- phy; the boys have notions to put the 1949 basketba!l trophy in our trophy case with their names and The Message of the Pulpit By Rey. R. S. Arrowood Ecc. 10:8. “Whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent will bite him. Four or five years ago there was a popular song about the great open spaces which rather plaintive- ly implored, “Don’t fence me in!” Every one is impatient of restraint. The world is becoming increasing- ly so, especially here in America. But dislike hedges, walls, res- traints as much as we may, the fact remains that the walls are there and that they serye a useful purpose. Also that retribution fol- lows swiftly when the restraint is thrown off. “Whoso breaketh an hedge a serpent will bite him.” Even the good and righteous Job complained of his limitations “Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass. Turn from him that he may rest.” It is no happen so that the basic code of laws, The Ten Command- ments are couched in the negative, “Thou shalt not” - “Thou shalt not”, I heard of a little boy who when asked by a caller what his name was, replied “Johnny don’t do that.” When the caller express- ed surprise at the strange appela- tion the boy said “well that’s whiat they always call me.” There are many walls or res- traints laid upon us. Many bounds that we may not pass. One hedge is the limit to our physical strength. God has given us bodies of remarkable physical abilities with wonderful reserve powers. With proper care the old machine can perform long hours through many years and do a pro- digious amount of work but there is a limit. The automobile has to regularly have the oil changed, greased, water in the radiator and battery, air in the tires and a gen- (Continued On Page Three Dicki—E ARROWOOD, CURTIS BALDWIN, KRISTINE BULLARD, DAVID EVERETT, HERBERT GOOD, VIRGINIA RICKY LIPPARD, BILL LYBRAND, JACK MANGUM, BILL MCALLISTER, JOHNNY MERONEY, JANE SIGMON, ANNE WICKER, JERRY YOUNG, ELIZABETH VINSON. picture on it. Most of the boys are musical. Three of them at least rate the front line in Glee Club activity. The girls are all musical, lik- able, and lookable. The girls on each end of the line of this picture are basketball standbys. They were in the first six of our recent championship team. Three others play and keep the first-stringers on their toes. A versatile bunch of young people whom we are proud to present to you as the top class of the coming year. A Message From Pres. Alumni Assn. On last Home-coming Day, D. Reid Brown was elected president of the Alumni Association. He is writing a card to all of the alumni about next Home-coming Day and about another matter. Here is what he says: Hey Folks: Here’s that man again. Last year at our Home-coming you ask- ed me to write each of you a re- minder of our Memorial Fund drive during the year You also remember thiat we de- cided to furnish the Pulpit of the new Church in honor of our foster brothers who gave everything for us and our country. If you will please forward to me your most liberal contribution we will have a sizable amount to re- port at our Home-coming Meeting which will be held October 15, and the football game will be Barium vs. North Wilkesboro. Let’s each of us plan to attend Home-com- ing this year, to see all of our old Friends, and to make this the larg- est Home-coming yet. See you at 3arium, Oct. 15, 1948. Your Foster Brother, D. REID BROWN. Reid’s address it Route 6, Bur- lington, N. C. He would like to hear from you. ALUMNI NEWS Gloria and Gilda Whitfield gra- duated from the James W. Walker Memorial Hospital in Wilmington May 11th. Jimmy and Lilly Bell Dorton are living in San Diego, Calif., 4532 Stratton Ave. Bert Atwood spent the week-end at Barium. Carl Ferguson was married March 20th to Anne White of Ab- erdeen. Carl is working for a plum- bing and heating company in Ab- erdeen. Mary Ann Ryder and James Higgenbotham were married in (Continued On Page Two) No. 7 Beta Club Had Many Activities This Year we have many activities at Ba- rium Springs. One of the finest groups that we have is the Beta Club. They are doing good things all year long, and for one week- end the chosen members of this club attend a convention. The Beta Club mimeographs a monthly newspaper writing up their activities. Below we are giv- ing you the account of the Beta Convention which this year was held in Raleigh, The account was written by one of the juniors, an active and enthusiastic Beta. Another interesting item in the Beta News was the account of the trip taken by thle Glee Club to Cov- ington, Virginia. This is written up by a senior who is a Beta and also a member of the Glee Club. Our director of public school mus- ic has developed the Glee Club and Covington, Virginia, is her old home town. She took a sample of her work to show to the home- folks - quite a sample if you be- lieve me. Beta Convention On Friday, March 26, after much planning, packing and primping, the delegates (Mildred Monroe, Betty Coffey, Betty Jo Smith, Dickie Arrowood, and J. D. Ever- ett) to the annual Beta Club Con- vention piled into Mr. Hethicox’s car, in high spirits. Not only were we “beating out” of school, but we had the prospect of a wonderful week-end before us. The sun was shining brighitly, the red bud was in bloom and the miles flew by. We reached Raleigh a weary group, weak from hunger. Our abode for the week-end was a pretty little tourist home situa- ted right across from State College. The girls were delighted with this arrangement, but found no time (Continued On Page Two) Honor Roll For Entire Year First Grade — Richard Black- burn, Judy Clendenin. Second Grade — Nat Craig, Jer- ry McArthur, Shelb Jean McEwen, Jewel McFarland, Peggy Jean Sellers, Janet Woodall. Third — Walter Plyler, Lawton Rice, Sydney Morrison, Patsy Dean, Carolyn Hucks, Jean Harri- son, Barbara Johnson, Nancy Lee Kyles, Marie McNeil, Addie Me- Ewen, Johnsie Terry, Virginia 3aucom,. Fourth — Johnny Collins, Eve- lyn Cox, Laura Jane Craig, Jerry Ellis, Shirley Johnson, Mildred McFarland, Boyce Dean Smith, Richard Vest. Fifth —- Donald Dean, Betty Anne Blackburn, Mary Bowles, Phoebe Cochran, Lois Dellinger, Shirley Hollifield, Margaret Hucks, Linda Inman, Beth Jackins, Lucy Troutman, Letha Walker, Anne White. Sixth — Ennis Blackburn, David Morrison, Betty Ann Andrews, Carol Jean Andrews, Louise Brad- shaw, Shirley Byrd, Jackie Kuy- kendall, Aline Thomas. Seventh — Hazel Creech, Patty Inman. Eighth — Dwight Reid, Henry Troutman, Louise Campbell, Bon- nie Odom. Ninth — Shirley Inman, Joyce Katen, Peggy Neel, Lucille Stin- son, Frances Stricklin, Elsie Vest. Tenth — Betty Sue Wolfe. Eleventh — Dickie Arrowood, Margaret Bullard, J. D. Everett, Jane Sigmon. Twelfth — Charles Barrett, Er- nestine Baldwin, Sadie Buie, Bet- ty Coffey, Peggy Coffey, Edith Marie Ferguson, Bradley Jean Manus, Mildred Monroe, Virginia Presnell, Betty Jo Smith, Lucille Stricklin. PAGE Two THE BARIuM MESSENGER THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos. B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Se Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium Springs, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. 1108, Act of October 8, 1917. rate of postage, provided for in Section November 15, 1923. Acceptance for mailing at special Authorized — SSS BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON MRS. R. A. YOUNG MRS. COIT ROBINSON }. Archie Cannon - - - - Concord Mrs. Coit Robinson -— - - - Lowell Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - - Farmville A. P. Thorpe, Jr. - ee Rocky Mount Rev. § uel E. Howie, D. D. - i Rev. N. R. MeGeachy - - St Dr. W. Z. Bradford - - . Charlotte Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Rev. Ben F. Grown - - - Wallace . Beatty - - - Mooresville Mrs. E. PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY Mrs. Fred E. Little- - - Wilmington Mrs. C. E. Kerechner - - - Greensboro Mrs. P. P. McCain - - Southern Pines Rev. M. S. Huske -— - - - Reidsville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham R. W. Bruin- - + + + Henderoson Mrs. George Patterson - + + Gastonia Mrs. R. A. Young - - - - Charlotte J. H. Thomson- - - Kings Mountain Mrs. H. S. Kirk - - + Winston-Salem —__ (FORM OF BEQUEST) “7 give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE OkPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, Ji- orporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). ray © ad ner ~ 5 es i > ' So: Beta Clib Had Many (Continued From Page One) g age of it. ty thin nao That after gistration, v \ bout two hours of vay Y ] ray le home in a » fall exhaustedly f h Y oe vy Jo g ck Ww oined the men yping to get their it was time for ( st a very edifying ‘ j State Mu- at n to the inumerable ing passed closed 1 ked into legislative heard that Governor ( ‘ry was receiving Betas. The m and ad- Psat cee ) 1 Y We ) é cham- ( « for- Y We utd our ov *O) \ ie prings l { svill Cy eat retreat D to ret on business ses- fficers were elected iness attended to. \ g adjourned w went nie » take our Saturday bat dre for the banquet. s divided between d the Sir Walter vy € Vv er lotted ere Dr. Cook from There was a wonder- f nd much fun 1- ] moar + Pa j ow they ‘ nee th. ( 2 officially over. ning we crawled Is 1t of bed, put on our Easter bonnets, and were on our w \ he First Presbyterian nD n we heard beau- l ic and a wonderful mes- sage. dinner at the Colonial { ria in Chapel Hill, we hon- ored both Chapel Hill and Duke ! pecting their grounds. With great difficulty we drag- ged ourselves away and _ started } e. Barium Springs was a pleas- ing sitht when we arrived about nine o’clock. Trip to Covington, Va. The Glee Club made a delight- ful trip to Covington, Virginia, on April 13. At least it was delight- fvl for seventy-five miles or more, 1 un‘il we began to get tired and ed wandering up and down the the bus. We arose bright and early Sat- @ and ate breakfast. rk was made that it look- l though the girls were leav- a vacation; but we took suitcase apiece - after to be gone two ked at Life and Movie fo. miles (when \ n't Peggy Neel’s uts or Ann Wicker’s iit). Everyone still looked re- 1 at 10 o’clock. By eleven little more drab, and - well, you can draw hat is nicer than stopping at ountain resort where chickens Yr 1 your feet? We had out one o’clock at a -too-fashionable place (but who hye ehe , } ed } DY 1iemmed in ind = starving?) We kes to go with our salad, sat sandwiches. I am * Peggy Coffey’s sake that for she has a great dislike for that, tefreshed and rested, we started srry way. Oh, yes, I for- » tell you - we didn’t sing at mn the trip. Our trips usually singing, but for one ime elt we must save our ve xe Clifton Forge, f s if we were already in veton. I shail not relate the re but one who has been : Covington will know. The yer mill is Covington’s chief in- try. We arrived in Covington about 0 P. M. and went to our direct- where we freshened up a who were not too i ‘rated to downtown Cov- > to en 1 coke or what- \ ild find. “Howdys” were the pleasant little ) Unfortunately, two ir fair singers, Dickie and dith, lost themselve in what y thought was a drug store. inat evening we had a delicious supper served by members of the church, and then we lifted our voices to the melodie sounds of the organ. Sunday morning we sang again, and this time it was better. The s filled to its capa- city. Several pieces were in the papers about us and an announce- ment was mede over the radio. After church we had dinner with friends in whose homes we were staying, and you have never tast- ed better food in your life. Conver- tions were filled with “ham”, “oravy” “potatoes”, “chicken, ice’ and “home-made rolls”. Everyone talked about the dinner nt’ it was time for supper. The trip back home was much I'S the trip there. We took pictur- es and exclaimed how lovely every- tiny enurch w thing was. The trip was really an innovation and one that we will remember for a long time. —Bradley Jean Manus. ee Diplomas Received By (Continued From Page One) was by Rey. R, Ss. Arrowood, Mr. Walter W. Fraley, Alumnus, of Charlotte, presented Bibles to the members of the graduating class. Medals and prizes were awarded by Mr. Joseph B, Johnston, Superin- tendent of the orphanage, and di- plomas were presented by Mr. Will- iam A. Hethcox. Betty Jo Smith was salutatorian of the class and Ernestine Bald- win was the yaledictorian. Scholarship prizes were awarded to the following members of the grammar school d of the high school from the fourth grade through the 12th: ra Jane Craig, Phoebe Cochran, zel Creech, Louise Campbell, Shirley Inman, Betty Sue Wolf, e Sigmon and 3etty Jo Smit Improvement prizes in the sai ‘ades went to Memory Thomp Martha Nell Tall, Rachel Bull , Carolyn Wick- er, Paul Barnes, ene Hall, Jack Mangum and Mildred Monroe ed The Music Improvement Medal was awarded to lie Buie; the Pible Medal to ieille Stricklin; the Valedictorian’s Medal to Er- tine Baldwin: the Salutatorian’s Medal to Betty 70 Smith; the at- lance Medal to Peggy Coffey, 10 1d an o ni record, ily three days absence in 12 Two prizes given by Miss Ruth Troutman, the English tea- cher and librarian. were awarded as follows: For work in the library, Jeanne Steppe; excellency in English, E sti Baldwin; the Student Ace Medal went to Char- les Barrett; and Alumni Ace Waiter W. Fraley, T MT Medal to Mr. of Charlotte. rh e members the graduating Cyril Baker, Ernestine Charles Martel Barrett, Jack William Clark, i i Coffev, Margaret y, Edith Marie Olivia Hall, Thom- Bradley Jean anhina Manus, 1 Monroe, Pearl Flizahet) n, Tarold Myatt, Virginia P 1, James Lefayette “id, Bet Smith, Lucille ieklit Brockington Whit- Class ts were Celia Jonald James Howard on was chief mar- commencement Mary Dickson Ar- owood, et Bullard, J. D. rett Herbert Good. ne ang r A‘ omni News (Ce rom Page One) Miami, F] \pril 2, 1948. Myrtle ig is working for Trust Company in Walter - received the Ace Medal at ,encement that is rive? alumnus that has been doing the most useful and outstandi work since leaving Barium. An int nas bean received from Mary Alice Stevens to her Woman’s College, Greensboro, N. C, Betty Traywick sent an invita- tion to her graduation exercise at the High )] in Beimont this week. Eva Sluder spent the week end in Thomasville, We were happy to have the fol- lowing alumni for commencement: Ed and Sallie Cole, Pleas Nor- man, Paul Horne, Myrtle Mills Kiker, Marie and Robert Mills, Esau Davis, Mary Frances Isen- hour, Margaret Katen, Billy Ever- ett, Ed Blake, Mary Bell Twom- bly, Paul Reid, W. A. Johnson, Bennie Gregory, Earl Allen, Mar- garet Presnel] Mayhew, Charles Sears, Ernest Stricklin, Walter Fraley, Arthur Sigmon, Donnie Bolton, Lucille Smith Myers, Myr- tle Rushing. graduatic ° Strange Doings In (Continued From Page One) ing eggs by electric light. They may have been listening to the ra- dio - they may have heard a lot of talk about rabbits laying eggs a- round Easter time, and decided to do something about it, or they may have been listening to John L. Lewis and his miners and decided to emulate them and to go on a kind of sit-down strike. Anyhow, on this particular Wednesday one hen laid an egg that was so little it looked like a marble: another one laid one so big that very few turkeys could compete. In fact, the ege was so big that the hen could not quite get into the nest to lay it - she laid it just outside and it was slightly broken in the process. Well, we wanted to see what was inside of that big egy and we found that it was a normal egg with a shell on it and then another egg outside of it. We think this hen had been listening to the miner’s propaganda and decided to quit laying eggs for awhile, but her failure to notify her egg- producing organs played a trick on her - they kinder doubled up and she had to get rid of a week’s sup- ply in one laying. Anyhow, just to prove that what we say is not just a fairy tale we are showing the pictures. One of the pictures is the little erg: don’t get excited about that. This hen was just peeved a- bout something. Maybe she got to the feed box too late to get a full ration and took it out on the poul- only delivering a pint- e. The other eg¢ is a nor- egg: the only thing about it is that it came nside of the big egg. Now, look it that big egg, please. It measures 8 1-3 inches its smallest circum- ference; 9 1-2 inches its long cir- In order to get the this ege@ out of the ell we had to k it open on the back side, so don’t think that we just manufactured this whole tale out of the pure cloth - it hap- like we tell it and we made of the whole thine to prove that what we say correct. If you don’t believe it d we will how you the nest that the egg was almost laid in. We can’t iden- tify the hen; in fact, we think she little modest about the whole cumfers come up sometime an ‘ All of this just goes to show that you never can tell what is going to happen around Barium Springs. Campus News (Continued From Page One) weeks vacation this summer and one week at camp. What boy can wish for more? Richard Vest, Edward Cannon, Ronnie Hudgins and Charles Creech got certificates in writing. Mr. Lowrance got us some pretty sport shirts. Our flowers are looking pretty, some are blooming. Mr. Ervin made us two bench- es for our front porch, we will en- joy them this summer. —Lees Boys. ANNIE LOUISE School is finally out. “Boy” we are glad we are out of school for about three months. Clara, our big sister won’t be going around saying poetry all the time and we can get some rest, We took some pictures at school the other day, all of us have g pic- ture of ourselves, they are really good. We like to look at ourselves so instead of looking in a mirrow we look at our picture and see what big “monkeys” we are. The swimming pool has had about four coats of blue paint on it and we will soon be going in. Can hardly wait until we can get on our bathing suits and feel that cool water trickle down our faces and on our backs on a hot day. May 1948 Vacations start the 26th of May and we get three weeks to spend at home. Most of us will get a vaca- tion, we hope, We have had lots of plays and three of our little girls and one big sister played in a piano re- cital. We surély are proud of them. We soon will be stringing beans and next month this time we will tell you how many beans we have strung. Be sure to read our news next month, until then, so long. —The Annie Louise Girls. HOWARD COTTAGE Everyone is very happy that school was out May 14th. We were so excited because it will soon be time to go swimming and go bare- footed. Our vacations start May 26th, and we can hardly wait un- til then. Lois Dellinger was the only girl who got to go to the birthday table this month. We shelled our first peas May 12th, and afterwards we had a little party. We have new drink- ing cups ond we used them at our They are a pretty greenish \li of us have’ quit skating and are pleying baseball and _play- house. Carolyn Lane has gotten two fts from a circle in Wilmington. t a box of stationary, a red book, and gq pretty white chief, d three piano reci- nine girls to play in ‘y handke them. Good-bye until next month. —The Howard Girls SYNOD’S COTTAGE We are real happy today, May 14th. School is out, and vacations are here and we will put on our horts and polo shirts, shirts for summer wear. Tuesday we will go barefooted and our swimming pool is open. We all have bathing suits and happy days are here again. Scenes on the playground: Larry Terry feeding Bobby Synod fish. bby on his haunches and Larry picking out the | t bones feeding bite bite. Sunday, April 18th we isitors from Charlotte, Mr. | Mrs. Goodrum and two daugh- ters. April 20th, Louise and Shir- ley (our big sisters) entertained twenty of their friends playing games and contests supervised by Miss Rachel Hickman and Mr. Lee Spencer Mrs. Bowling, assis- ted by Miss Carpenter, served a lovely candle salad and California cocktail, Those present were Misses Pearl Morgan, Hilda Barnes, Peggy Neel, Bonnie Odom, Anne Wilcox, Elsie Vest, Jeane Turlington, Messers C) Terrell Hall, harles Stevens, Earl Huddlestv.i, Johnny Hudgins, Herbert Good, Tommy Hudgins, Paul Barnes, Nor- vin Hillard. Mr. and Mrs. John- ston and Mr. R. G. Calhoun came and enjoyed the refreshment hour with us. Friday, April 23rd, David Reid came home bringing a turtle which we named “Pokey”. He was lots of fun until he crossed the high- way and was a casualty. May Ist, we all went to Charlotte in our new bus to the home of Dr and Mrs. D. Heath Nisbet, on Brandon Road, where we were royally en- tertained. We sure had fun playing in the servants quarters over the garage and in the playhouse in Mr. John C. Myers yard. It was the bestest party Synod’s boys have ever had. Weiners, cold slaw, rolls, onions and just everything to eat and drinks and ice cream. We shall always remember our friends, So here we send our love and thanks to Dr. and Mrs Nisbet, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Myers, Mrs. D, L. Marrell and Mr. Miles Tay- lor. Charles Barrett, On Mother’s Day our big sister, Pearl Morgan and our big brother, Charles Barrett gave our “Mom” Bowling a gardenia corsage and (Continued On Page Thiree) oo t ° "a "w w = S& S Se S O _ rT ! a ~~ “N n co t t a me e Ct = TE ~— _ ~ we ed NS ‘i a n ei c t k a i s ea t i n ie t a t e ie tt gi l e s et l (m e ll ae ea ii as MN I a ae a ak -_ ot \e a 1s ll t Ly ns ur or 20 ol ry ia rl el, aay id ve rs. er, er, nd PAGE THREE Campus News (Continued From Page Two) she wes the most proud “Mom” on the campus, We have some porch boxes on our north porch and have flowers planted. Our Madonna lillies are about ready to bloom and pansies are so pretty. Miss Blakney gave us three African violets, a white, pink and blue. They are Mrs. Bow- ling’s hobby. We are hoping to get to go to Statesville tomorrow to see “Fun and Fancy Free”. —Synod’s Wigglers. FAITH AND COURAGE The world outlook as 1948 gets under way, all must admit, is in many ways far from bright. What eon we do about it? I was reading Charlotte Bronte, the famous au- thor of the book, Jane Eyre. At a time when her sister had died, her sister Anna fatally ill, gnd her brother Branwell dying from drink, she wrote to a friend: “I avoid looking forward, or backward, and try to keep looking upward. This is no time to regret, dread or weep. God is all over.” It seems to me there are four thing you and I may do in a con- fused world. 1. Each of us can, by God's grace, keep himself going straight. That will help. By believing in the Providence that watches over us in spite of our errors and bad judg- ments, we can attain a level of ac- tion that will be helpful to those nearest us, and help the contagion of Goodness to spread. 2. Let us keep looking upward. Sailing the Atlantic some time ago, I had several conversations with the captain. Learning that I was a minister, he took me to s7e the compass of the siip. He told me that sailing a ship was like living on land. Unseen forces play about us. No on re can see the power that keeps the time clock of the heavens, vet the sailor banks on the North Star being in its place, even though it be impossible to glimpse it through the storm clouds, 3. Let’s keep our faith in the fu- ture. The nations of men do indeed have much to learn about living to- "apa in peace and harmony on this whirling ball we call the Earth. Once nations lived entirely by the law of “ Wake Makes Right.” Now there is a dream of justice and fair play called the United Nations. Surely it will come if—if we keep looking up, and going straight ahead. --The Uplift. The Message of the (Continued From Page One) eral overhauling from time to time. he human body is the same way. It must have proper care, proper ‘ood, proper rest. If that hedge is broken the serpent of serious ill- ness strikes. I read sometime ago about a man in his early forties. He had a fine position at the head of a big advertizing firm. He made a fine salary, enjoyed his work and went at it with zest for long hours. He also loved to play golf and played it with great enthusiasm. Te was a great sportsman going afield with dog and gun or fishing in mountain streams. One day he picked up a couple of heavy suit- cases and ran up a hill and up a flicht of stairs with them. When he set them down the world went black. It was nature’s warning. But he got better and ignored it. The next attack put him on his back for months. From now on he will not take a quick step or lift a chair. He went beyond his limit THE BARIUM MESSENGER and the serpent of ill health struck him down. Of course there are other ways to break the hedge of bodily health and strength besides over work, worry, or strain. There is the mis- use of the body as the prodigal son when he wasted his substance in riotous living. In my youth I met a man of attractive personality who came from one of the proud- est families in the state. When he went to work, he told me, “I did not drink, or curse, or smoke.” “But”, he said, “It wasn’t long till I could go with the boys anywhere.” He was a man of fine judgement, a great sportsman and attractive personality. He wasted his sub- stance. He wrecked his body in de- bauchery and drunkenness and died as a result of his excesses in early middle life. There is also the hedge of con- vention. It is that hedge which a mother or a matron speaks of when she says “nice girls do not do so and so”. These rules of convention are made up of the general opinion in a community of what is right, or proper, or safe or most praise- worthy to do or not to do. It is de- termined, on the one hand, by those of noble thought and aspiration which would raise a high standard of conduct. On the other hand, the tongue of scandal, and the foul moutnings of the evil minded; the vulgar imaginations of those who, while they may not be outwardly vile, in. their minds they run to do evil, and are always ready and de- lighted to believe the worst. Con- ventions are not so strict nor are the standards so high as they once were but the hedge is still there. Many a girl and many a boy has been heedless of that and the ser- nent has struck surely and swift- ly, Honored names have been sul- lied, reputations have been wreck- ed in a few hours of heedless con- duct. There is the hedge of the law of the land. The hedge of the law is supposed run alone: where my rights end d the rights of the other man be- { have a right to drive my car LO the highway so long as I do not violate the rights of another. nust observe his right of way. I not speed or otherwise oper- i h a manner as the lives of others. how much that hedge the law is being broken in this tate and throughout the nation } swiftly the serpent strikes cking property, maiming bod- s, taking human life. There is the hedge of Home Re- straint. This comes before the law of the land and is the basis of law. [t is of prime importance. It is made up of the counsel, advice and direction of the Father and Mother. It is founded on parental care, love and responsibility, Paul said, ‘Children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right.” I re- member years ago preaching one night in a little school house on The Prodigal Son.” That night y host told me of his own hand- some son who had flouted his fath- ers advice and prayers and after a career of sin the boy disappear- a Barium Springs, N. C. You will find enclosed $ A MEMORIAL GIFT Rev. R. S. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, ~~ 7a | ._in memory of NAME OF DECEASED ADDRESS DATE OF DEATH _ SURVIVOR TO BE WRITTEN ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP OF SURVIVOR TO BECEASED ONE GIVING MEME@RIAL eee eel rrr ADDRESS ed. He told me how he had found his son’s bloated body in the same little school house, a suicide. I had been thinking about a prodigal as some one long 4go in some other country but reality got up and looked at me that night. There is the hedge of the law of God. It was not different from the hedge of the home restraint or the law of the land. It is only dif- ferent in extent or quality. The law of the Lord is. perfect. Human laws are fallible, home restraints may lack in either being too strict or too indulgent; but God’s law is true and just and good. And the certainty of punishment for break- that hedge is sure. ee said “the soul that sinneth it shall die.” Parents are soft and : foretitie and many a crime of the state goes unspanked of justice, but not the law of God. “Be sure your sins will find you out.” “Whoso break- eth this hedge a serpent will bite him.” Is there then no hone for the sinner? Yes, it is in Jesus Christ. When the children of Israel were bitten by the fiery serpent, Moses was told to make a brazen serpent and those who locked at it in faith lived. As Moses lifted up the serpent so was the Son of man lifted up that whosoever believeth in him might not perish! but have everlast- ing life. Christ is the creat physi- cian of our souls, Christ cleanses from every sin, { have heard a story of g rich yan who had an only son. The boy was lonely and one day the father caine home and there sat his son in a big chair looking at a book and “a him 1 about the dirtiest, most > he had ever seen. As he came 7 his boy put his arm around a dirty, vad shoulder d said, “Father my friend’. The rich man said, “well if he is friend take him up stairs give bath and some clothes”. So r went off t her and pres- ently came back two clean, fine ng boys. But isn’t that what us dces for us? He says, “Fath- t my friend’, He cleanses us lothes us and takes us as his rother, healed and free to Him and be y: ® 1 a ote Clothing O Outfits reford Aux., Cirele No. 8. Goshen (KM) Aux, Princess Place S. S. (Additional) ? °C; ellaneous Gifts Springs Aux., 1 quilt. comics, clothing, dolls, ete. Covenant (Westminster) Aux., Cir- cle No. 2, clothing. Coneord 2nd Aux., Circle No. 4, Te g, dresser searfs for Ba- 1es. St. Andrews (F) Aux., Harnet Hill Circle, pillow cases, dish towels. Mrs. Jessie ler, Falls Church, Va., clothing. '. M. Morris, Greensboro, cloth- ing, ‘ameron Hill Aux., pillow cases. Mebane At UX. =— No. 7, wash ¢ tot] is, tow Thomasville ie " Aux., clothing. in cnaork Tex ! riets. Mis s Annie and Ida Mae Burney, Javtona Beach, Fla., clothing, ete White Hill Youth Fellowship (San- ford) small spread. Miss Georgiana Cooper, Shelby, quilt top, spread, toys. Mrs. W. C. Alsen, Raleigh, cloth- ing. Mr. & Mrs. M. lotte, 10 doz low cases. ‘ Mrs. W. C. Archie, Durhlam, cloth- ing. Galatia Aux., Circle No. 8, 1 quilt. Flat Branch Aux., tooth paste & brushes, so2D, towels, wash cloths, 1 quilt, socks, ete. Churches CONCORD PRESBYTERY Newton, A Friend ................ 25.00 FAVETTEVITLE PRESBYTERY Ashpole ......- Bensalem .... Benson ....... Bethesda .........------- Cameron Hi ll Carthage les Ine., Asheboro, L. Cannon, Char- . Sheets, 5 doz. pil- ws (M1) Aux., Circle No. Aux., Circle No. 1, toys, Church-in-the-Pines _ .............- 37.05 Covenant = Culdee ............. Cypress Dundarrach FEROE coi voccascen atcscateacuepencune —- 1st (Thanksgiv- caanin (Thanksgiving) _.... 32.82 SEONG oi, kccecaes .- 92.62 TOD rc eecascs : . 8.26 Laurel Hill . <n Se Lillin@ton ......cerecoves cose 10.44 Lumberton ....cccocccoccces cece 55.58 McPherson 43.22 Midway ........ cui Montpelier a les . 9.88 POPKCON © 2.5 cones saeco 8.02 PHUBGOIORUS fooccs cciccack” scsnieee 57.80 PROVIGBICO .ccccccrcosccosoncs tancooee 7.09 MACON | oo a 49.20 Rex .......... reste ld 12.35 OCEAN ok i oe 57.07 Beret Paul oo 10.44 Sherwood ....... Shiloh Vass KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Gastonia ist... co 1,350.00 Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Kendrick 7.50 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Pollcekevilie 200 54.00 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Vinston-Salem Ist. ................ 50.00 Sunday Schools ALBEMARLE Taner Tene Farmville ............ Goldsboro 1st Pine stops ata Rocky Mount Ist Wilson, James B. C. Mrs. Lea’s Class. ........::- 8.32 CONCORD PRESBYTERY PAPO eo 6.84 Marion : .-» 20.92 M voresville * . 44.00 BON cael ences ashes cin ee Thy: rati re : 35.10 ETTEV ILLE “PRESBYTERY tioe Pers a oe Re Re hel ... 16.90 ... 28.50 ... 10.08 . 23.00 57.75 a tee iscenee a bee .. 10.47 .- 40.00 .... 6.00 : 11.56 Bethesda .... Plntf Cer tre Dunn Vang ville 1st Ma int x Ma ”n “1s aed ey Rooke i Lidsedy ol asa Olivia Phil NG CN. PRESRYTE RY MO ASO 2 a eerie 54.60 ittain go Gea theeikea | eae ton t, Henderlite a ee Cz ando he Sy punyensbanue ae Commonwealth cecccccsocesne cee 2 Hur ta rsville Monroe 1st Fey Park, Men’s Clul Pine Ne a ae lee ei Pobinson Tenth Avenue ... ORANGE PRES ATRIAONCO ” ici Buffalo (G) ...... soa F1-Bethel WEA AIG GOT oo cidbusesonens Mebane .. New Hope POCKEE Se anil WITLMINGTON PRESB YTERY Clarkton Siebccaueile “ < stone 20.96 Grove ae Mount Olive ........... Pollocksville sue So uth River V.-SALEM SRESBYTERY Moc ckeville sisted Wealsvatoueens 5.00 Auxiliaries ALREMARLE PRESBYTERY Howard Memorial uso BOO Rocky Mount 1st . 86.00 Rocky Mount 2nd .. ~ Bee Wayside . 100 CONCORD ‘PRESBYTERY TRGRUES | icc veseiniesig) Silesian 3.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY CATtnaRe isiccnnis ince ee Maxton 180 oo. wenoe 21.60 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Bere FBG os ihiiewnns. cee 48.00 KINGS MTN. ‘PRESBYTERY Cherrvville 9.35 Gastonia Ist .. nk we Se BEG TROT. 0. icnssecvcmrenie cee 11.15 urcw’ EXNRURG Gamage Alhemorle Ist Renton Heights WEREIINECEE .occcceevireses secesssess May 1948 ORANGE vhmotapulnienes T I ioe ices snstnneneied WILMINGTON pitesivrenY 2 A a W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Mocksville, Circle No. 8 ........ 10.00 ‘Winston-Salem Ist .............-..-- 15.00 OLD YEAR Memorials for Church Alabaster, Mrs. F., Lincoln, Neb.: Mr. & Mrs. F. L. English, Carney Point, N. J. Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Carlson, Carney Point, N. J. Mr. & Mrs. H. a are, Carney Point, N. Mr. & Mrs. L., F. ee Carney Point, N. J. Anderson, Mrs. (Florence Stokes) William Scales, Charlotte: Mrs. J. C. McNeely Mr. David J. Craig Miss Lavynia M. Crosland Mr. & Mrs. L. P. Dashiell Mr. & Mrs. M. L. Church Mrs. P. H. Harrelson & Mr. & Mrs. Fred B. Helms Mr. & Mrs, W. J. Stribling Mrs. W. J. Horney & Family Greensboro Bernhardt, Mrs. J. M., Lenoir (on the anniversary of her death) Mr. Louis E. David, Jr., Phila- delphia, Penn.: Blythe, Mr. Richard S., Charlotte: Rev. & Mrs. J. W. Grier & Miss Mary M. Alexander, Hunters- ville: Mrs. D. G. Calder & Mrs. J. F. lowers : Mrs. R. H. Lafferty we Br ook 3 Mr: s., Gastonia: Mea @. C. Crocker, Myrtle Beach, Burkholder, Mr. Charles J., Char- lotte: Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Pease Caldwell, Mr. Burette Mr. W. A. S. Shaw Carr, Mrs. S. M., Burgaw: Mrs. Janie W ard, Teachy i., Gastonia: Carr, Mr. Victor, Burgaw: Mrs. Janie Ward, Teachy Carrigan, Mrs. W. P. (Jennie S.) Mooresville: Mr. & Mrs. L. B. Mayhew Mr, & Mrs. D. E. Turner, Jr. Mrs. J. B. & Mr. John Alexander Mr. & Mrs. L. B. Mayhew Carroll, Mrs. W. R.. ee k. S. C€.3 Mrs. E. Hope F s, Gastonia ra Mr. J. Henry, Gastonia: fr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Crawford, Mr. James, Goldsboro; Mrs. Raymond Pollock, New ern Mr. & My { I Wilkins mnit Rena Harris, ' . iston Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Wells, Smith- Dellinger, Mrs. J. F., Gastonia: Mrs. Ralph Dickson Dew, Mr. Marcus W., Raeford: Mrs. I’. B. Sexton Dotson, Mr. George, Statesville: tatesville Junior Service Lea- , Statesville: Mr. George H. Emery Eat Mr. George, Statesville: H. Emery Favssoux, Mr. J. O., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner soux, Mr. Neil, Gastonia: & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Ferguson, Mrs. Walter, Clinton, S&C: % Mr. David J. Craig, Charlotte Ford, Miss Minnie, Charlotte: Misses Ora & Mae Berryhill Fuller, Mr. Walter, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Mr. Bob Gaither, Grandson Glenn, Mrs. L. N., Gastonia: Gastonia Chapter of United Daughters of Confederacy Hall, Mr. D. K., Charlotte: Misses Mary Nell & Abbie Hall, Belmont Hartsell, field: Mr. & Mrs. Coil Barbee 3aby Charles D., Stan- Haselden, Mrs, A. J., Greenwood, = ©: Misses Jackson, Bigger &Forbes, Gastonia Hatcher, Mrs. A. S., Jr., Macon, Ga.: Mr. R. A. Dickson, Gastonia Hawkins, Mrs. Margaret Adams, Gastonia: PAGE FOUR ooo lllllleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee=S=SSSSOOOOOESaSSaSSS Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Garner Hogue, Mr. W. L., Clover, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Vickers, Gas- tonia Horne, Mr. W. W., Fayetteville: Mr. Thomas W. Rankin Mr. & Mrs. T. M. Hunter Hunter, Rev. R. J., Gastonia: Mrs, E. C. Crocker, Myrtle Beach, S. C.: Hunter, Mr. Thomas M., Jr., Fay- etteville: Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Dixon Kemp. Mr. Va. Mr. Philip F. Howerton, Char- lotte Kimbrell, Mr. H. W., Durham: Trinity Avenue Sunday Schiool Kincaid, Mrs. Forrest, Gastonia: Mr. R. O. Crawford Kincaid, Mrs. W. F., Gastonia: Gastonia 1st Aux., Circle 2 Mrs. L. N. Patrick & Family Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Knox, Mrs. R. B., Newton: Newton 1st S. S., Jennie Worth Crowell Class Newton Ist S. S., Mrs. Knox’s Class George S., Richmond, Kornegay, Mrs. W. H., Sr., Mt. Olive: Mr. & Mrs. I. F. Witherington Johnston, Mr. Earl, Troutman: Mrs. W. D. Troutman & Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Troutman, Jr. Lowe, Mr. J. G., Concord: Mr. & Mrs. A. Yorke & Miss Martha Best Yorke Mr. & Mrs. J. S. McKnight, Shelby Misses Lou, Lina & Addie White Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour, Jr. Lyerly, Mr. Walter, Woodleaf: Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Bailey & Mr. & Mrs. Ira Bailey Mr. J. A. Little, Albemarle McAlister, Mr. Colvin C., Fayette- ville: Mr. Thomas W. Rankin Miss Frances Lacy, Raleigh Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ross, Lill- ington Dr. & Mrs. Frank Evans Mr. & Mrs. T. M. Hunter Mr. & Mrs. George E. Matthews, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. George E. Matthews, J? Mc ae, Mr. Patrick H., Wakul- la Mrs. Zilpha P. Lyons, Goldsboro Mr. KE. Hervey Evans, Laurin- burg McCarver, Mr. Walter L., Lumber- ton: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Garden, Gastonia McKeithan, Mrs. D. C., Raeford: Mr. & Mrs. F. B. Sexton McPhail, Miss Salem: Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Dixon Winston-Salem 1st Auxiliary Miss Mary Teague Winston-Salem 1st Sunday School Dr. & Mrs. Carl A. Barkley McPherson, Mr. T. Hunter, Fay- etteville: Mr. & Mrs. Howard Isaacs Mr. & Mrs. C. H. MeJueen, Bur- lington Mrs. W. Q. Davis & Miss Jan- nette McJueen, Morven Sarah, Winston- Mebane, Mr. G. Allen, Greensboro: The Graham Underwriters \gency, Graham Mercer, Mr. J. B. |father), Hamlet: Mr. Louis Mercer Morgan, Mrs. Ernest®M., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. William Jones Ostwalt, Mr. U. A., Statesville: Mr. James A. Brady Padgette, Mr. Ed. R., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Prince, Mr. S. R., Elon College: a S. Montgomerfy, Reids- ville Ramsey, Mrs. M. E., Statesville: Mr. George H. Emery Rankin, Mrs. T. W., Fayetteville: Mr. & Mrs. Howard Alligood Ray x Mr. Howard D., Largo, Mr. David J. Craig, Charlotte Rose, ane Charles G., Sr., Fayette- ville: Mr. & Mrs. J. Bayard Clark Fayetteville 1st S., Maggie Rose Bible Class Rose, Mr. John R., Haddonfield, N. J.s Mr. & Mrs. Joe R. Hudson & Mrs. Paul Murphy, Lewell THE BARIuM MESSENGER Mr. & Mrs. Coit M. Robinson, Lowell Mr. & Mrs. C. W. Gilchrist, Char- lotte Westbrook Insurance Inc., Charlotte Mrs. Kate R. Wilkinson, Char- lotte Sampson, Mrs. F. D., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Neal, Jr. Schmucker, Mr. Walter, New York: Mr. David J. Craig, Charlotte Wife, Mrs. Walter R. Schmucker Scofield, Mrs. Stella, Calif.: Gastonia Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy Scott, Mr. Richard, Antioch, Tenn.: Mr. Carl Wolfe. Hickory Mr. Bill McDonald, Hickory Shenk, Mrs. E. Ashley, Kings Mountain: Mr. & Mrs. Hunter R, Neisler Mrs. S. A. Robinson, Gastonia Choir, Kings Mountain 1st Church Shepherd, Mr. R. M., Wrightsville Sound: Mrs. R. C. MeCarl & Miss Mar- garet Weathers Sherrill, Mr. J. C., Mt. Ulla: Back Creek S. S., Men’s Class Sinclair, Mrs. Lillie, Maxton: Mr. & Mrs. Dan McArthur, Wakulla Sinclair, Miss Maggie, Maxton: Mr. & Mrs. Dan McArthur, Wakulla Snell, Mr. Alvin Wilson, Syracuse, sys Myers Park Church Stewart, Mrs. W. Stanley, Char- lotte: Sharon Auxiliary Tate, Mrs. George K., Gastonia: Gastonia Chapter of United Daughters of the Confederacy Agency, Thigpen, Mrs. A. O., Burgaw: (on the anniversary of her death) Mt. Williams Church Todd, Mr. Brooks, Charlotte: Kate Neal B. C., Sugaw Creek Ss. S. Tomlin, Mr. Notley D., Statesville: Mr. George H. Emery Underwood, Mrs. James W., Albe- marle: Mr. & Mrs. T. R. Smith Ward, Mr. Charlie, Nashville, N. C.: Mr. L. J. Herring, Wilson White, Mrs. William McC. (Susi), Raleigh: Miss Catherine W. Rogers Mr. John G. Allen Mr. & Mrs. George U. Baucom, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Homer M. Culbreth & Miss Betty Jean Culbreth Rev. & Mrs. James Appleby, Richmond, Va. Wilson, Mrs. J. H., Charlotte: Mrs. Mary G. Oehler Witherington, Mrs. Mary, Golds- boro: Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Wilkins Zimmerman, Miss Mamie M., Char- lotte: Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Ross Honoring Newell, Mrs. J. A., honoring her 88th birthday: Newell Auxiliary For New Church Miss Lillian Williams, Mooresville Clothing Funds Albemarle ist S. S., Ollie GOON By ccciscrcgumn = 7 Winston-Salem ist S. S., Mary E. Roger B. C. .......... 20.00 Tenth Avenue S. S., Woman’s BOs Aine: mmnunnnas 20.00 Sunnyside Aux. ............::c.000 25.00 East Burlington S. S., Womans’ Ie Gh tikitoenudens simi 22.50 Mt. Holly S. S., Young Adult MMM cscticnunes. stecsnsiites corsuien 20.00 Hope Mills Aux. ............00...... 20.00 Providence (F) S. §. .............. 20.00 Armstrong Mem. §. S. .......... 20.00 Wadesboro Aux, ........00. cece 25.00 Salisbury 1st S. S., Rumple By AGS: susiiinkcievcieten | aiesson sentey 5.00 Mebane S. S., Woman’s B. C. 30.00 Providence (M) PSs ccmnessis 30.00 Elizabethtown Aux., Circle DOW kiscdctiaveiesis: secneechboeesbine .00 WOTERW AUK. oo ccsescssvicess wvcoees 25.00 Myers Park S. S., Lockhart Bi Nae vicceldewcitbiocsies \sosnanapneciies 20.00 Cc. Washington 1st S. S., Van- BEE TREE sviincccicmrs, ose 2 Montpelier Aux. . Nutbush Aux. ......... Jonesboro Aux, Caldwell Memorial S. S., Stronghold B. Cy o....csesceen 50.00 Tenth Ave. S. S., Men’s B. C. 20.00 George W. Lee Mem. 8. S., A TOS RW co ccivincieens serene Saint Andrews-Covenant (WwW), Friendship B. C. Hickory 1st §, §,, Ola War- ner B.C. ae Lowell Aux., Cj cle ‘No. 1 Manone S. 8., rele No. George Holderness ......-- 8.50 Mrs. Mabry Hart 4 Gastonia 1st %. s., Vanguard RR ensesntmneceen Winston-Salem jst Aux. ...... Mt. Airy Ist AUX. ..-ccsssssssees 20.00 Mt. Olive Aux,, Circle No. 1 .. 15.00 Grove (W) Aux., Business Women’s Circle... 50.00 Wilmington ist §. S., Young Woman’s Fellowship ON. csvasieoncoar 5.00 Paw Creek §, §., Class No. 8 45.00 Elizabethtown Aus. I Business Circle ....... cstsoceneeceacesce GRU Sprunt B. C. cgiaassess cau Rutherfordton Aux. .......... -- 25.00 Shiloh (F) Aux. ..ccscsseceeee 22.50 Miscellaneous Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory ee A Friend 200.0 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ........ ae Pa OBI Soro, cassccorseccense 4 The Roper Sisters .......------- 20.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet ...._ 1.00 Miss Mittie E, Pickard, Chapel Hill ooo... cnesoeee 3.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High PRG occ glscsuove 1.00 Mr. & Mrs. G. C. Robbins, Ree eacsanse atauesse 200.00 Lincolnton 1st Aux., Circle No. 2, Cheer Fund for ON sacascs. saskepses 1.00 Mr, J. C. White, Mt. Vernon Cans acctonee 110.00 A Friend, Valdese ............ .... 10.00 A Friend, Cumberland ........ 4.00 For Messenger Mrs. F. E. Cass, Olin ............ 1.00 Mrs. J. L. Wike, Statesville .. 2.00 Churches ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Cann DRGMi, conn. ccccccsciccccss 12.50 Edenton ......... Falkland ........... Greenville 1st . Johnson Memorial Macclesfield PE cock niacoscratvrterptoicx Pinetops ...... 0.0 Rocky Mount 2nd Snow Hill ww. 2. Washington Ist ............ William & Mary CONCORD PRESBYTERY | Newton, J. R. Gaither .......... 25.00 Undesignated ....... ....0. se--0-- 814.56 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Brittain ......... 4 25.5 Castenea ... ae Dallas ............. Duncan’s Creek .. PORBEG OUEY Lh ncsececceee cinsorerse Kings Mountain 1st .............. 165.90 Lincolnton 1st ........... 63.00 Long Creek ... 4.00 New Hope ... 16.73 North Side .... 4.37 RN oc coesscessssicane™ caren 100.40 Be Giscsencisresoceuaad ceaaenneeeesies 189.30 BA piscina abiinnageieies 8.00 SE oo cssiscsronse ge enue 21.00 Tryon ..... : ... 10.50 Union iilacriseteuines 15.75 Unity ... 2.10 MECK LENBURG “PRESBYTERY Albemarle 1st ls POV OIGOIO oo cieisnctclans sees aR ee Banks . \ Benton Heights ee os 1.00 Bethel .......... 3 3.60 Caldwell Memorial . ssbes: 66.20 COD oon inss ce ence) ee Cameronian ... ... 7.00 Camp Greene ...... ie ae RE sos sociccccnccie Seen 2.00 Central Steele Greek ... 4,00 Crariotte let 2 ees . 48.00 Charlotte 2nd ...... "160.00 Commonwealth .........-.0.. ... 38.60 RSOPATNNIEY sasincccccens eacstibesies 2.00 Cook's Mem. oo. cisca se OU WUC 8 cw ees Erdman Love ........... ae ee Hamlet . ‘sae .... 12.41 Hawley _ pecremmrn sO Hopewell cesses . 21.57 aetaaen ‘Trall ,....csse ievvesciees 1.00 BO PII ccsssssiccsuanl ees . 1.40 TORTI vo vcicsccocosbe aosiess “Oe meee... eee, 2.00 Macedonia .... 50 Matthews ... 4.00 Mallard Creek _..... ie 12.68 PEAEBUON .....ccuiee caaueanne . Monroe 1st _...... wee Morgan Mem, Mount Carmel Mount Gilead Mulberry North Charlotte ... 8.00 DOP WOOE ...cscieepa - meewonete 3.00 RIBIOEG a. sissss... 2 oie eanieens 1.20 COOTER a. cscisli sani 4.00 raw COO ia, wane 20.96 Philadelphia 1. sssseeee 4.00 BeOVEO ns. aa wees 4.16 Plaza, M. J. Dea 10.00 Roberdell . 1.00 Robinson . 4.00 ROCKING aM oo sscsss sescoeecene 30.00 Saint pane schebloleninn sume 6.00 Saint Paul . weeveeeee 10.00 Seigle Ave. Selwyn Ave ... SHATON _ .........ccccccveeee ua NN South Park e Steele Creek oo... ee 90.00 SEEOOTORMOT cecccesncesecnsonsie: cacateee 1.44 Sugaw Creek ..............-- --scccsse 16.50 Sunset Hill ................ ....0 80 Tenth Avenue . 12.00 Undesignated ........ ass I Soi cia tana sae cane 2.00 Walkersville 20... ce. ceeeeee 3.85 WEGOMOLD co ccccccsnccscs ceccrcasenne 80.18 West Avenue .........cccccce ccocoeee 16.00 WORCIRELOE i occecscidcs: cccsscassicee 55.40 Westover Hills ............. 22. 2.00 PIGYAANEO hikes ces 32.50 OOO foo cssescccscee, ceccssonnios 23.48 BO a icasds habsteneocennad 9.94 Bethel .... 10.25 Bethesda .. 6.50 Bethlehem ....ccccrsccscce socevencoove 5.19 BPO 0G) ab cccikse ercesosne 65.00 Burlington 2nd ..0.....--..00. ee 1.84 CATE] FEE seccscesasesse ssccrssiassene 14.62 CLOSE “FRORGE ncscceseccaccs 5-5 ... 19.25 East sedate See eg 5.78 Be A eis agen POT RE LC cores ccs casssess ccccracecivnes Glenwood Greensboro 1st Greenwood ...........0:5 0 + CP ORS io Siibes « tccisaseoe High Point 1st ee Ps Srciicassassasei | sechavasetonse Leaksville ...... Lo Little River Mount Vernon mpegs New Hope .. Red House Riverview St. Andrews Smyrna ........ Speedwell Springwood ........ .....-.. Stony Creek .............. .-.- Westminster .... Undesignated WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Black River 50 Bladenboro ..... Burgaw .......... TEPUDO WIC, co ccccccncsess scaseesteneesese Carolina Beach OE caiikiceditie esctivrencaenee Chadbourn Chinquapin ... CIBPECON cccevssercncecs ssoses SPORT assisces ccnans beens Graves Memorial nis PRATNON oo sccascscscsens mnissntsnesess . Harper-Southerland ......... .... 1.25 Hopewell Immanuel Mount Olive ..........---..cececee cee 7.50 Mount Williams ............ setae 1.50 Mount Zion woos ceeeeeeeeee 7.50 Oak Plains ................ -. 1.26 Pearsall Memorial . i BED sceisietasistinsce ‘ Pleasant View ......... Pott Mem. Rocky Point \ Saint Andrews-Covenant ....... 287.04 EE gciiiciceu. ° Gcdcumpcosnins ‘ NCO eoicsccacticese sae 7 Warsaw Wildwood RN i ls ok vausencesenetsnat a Wilmington 1st 0.00. J. 116.89 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY BUNS ion iiive eaciniescce George W. Lee Memorial Lexington Ist ........0..... = Reynoldg ........ ibhiy: tasbemacedts WARUOGNCOWN « civecciussseiss. cesseeees Sunday Schools ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY WRPINVIG | eirrcvcicaes siossenss 6.56 GYGONVINIG TBC iccscscsssesees cccesses 52.81 Rocky Mount 1st 000... .. 21.60 Rocky Mount ist, Men’s B. C., MEN Fitcbcisets. Sbemiiistll Galincovsise 23.65 PERRO sesecsucessovses 30.32 CONCORD PRESBYTERY BROCE ss ccchavidoocsie eeunt ocgeeseas qs Hickory 1st McKinnon B. C. es Cameron TONG Lisascciisee Fairmont Lakeview ............ Lumber Bridge .......... EET vaveiciivinevciecin. 14s Sunnyside .................... KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY FHGPRSIDON .nccccssesccsces scvccescenes-o 4.00 Mount Holly, Woman’s B. C. 3.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Caldwell Mem., Birthday SERA Sesssebsnsceuens * sevsviasincuusesiie Charlotte 1st Lee Park, Students’ B. C. ...... 5.00 BEE END cscstrcsincnviins excssreris TET btinivitsccrs seecsecenccion Pleasant Hill MOIR civssscasionsivtion Robinson ........ . Rockingham es i IRIEL, eierernsiiciersibteieis. svmvenmeins Westminster, Men’s Class .... 10.05 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Fairfield ........... May 1948 ee eeeeooOOeeOoeoeoeoeoeoeoaeap€®eqauaQqao EE WILMINGTON hnncmndialaias Baker ........ erase PRA UME oc cscccencoces: scceaserse Elizabethtown BOD mrcsseceteccecne— Graves Mem. Mount Olive .......eecee coeeeeee ” 17.98 TROT IO concconcccsc. ssasscoscasraneseeae 26.70 BROCK Y POINt .....cccccor corssscsscersore 23.12 Wildwood . ..-- 61.00 Willard ..... . 123 Winter PAPE n.ccocecccsorsenee. sere 5.00 W.-SALEM "eaees Sane. Lexington 1st 3.00 Auxiliaries ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY PRONG, oon. aces sesdssstnssnons 6.00 Ballards Cross Roads .......... 1.00 PAPIVIO cccecsncssccesee | ccatenncensons OR Goldsboro 1st Greenville 1st TOBON crerecsoremsres sevsereemorssensesees Meadowbrook TRO ooo scosckesoiie. acocssderttone Rocky Mount ist, A Friend 20. ‘00 Westminster ........-.... cece -ceeee 5.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY North Vanguard, B. W. C..... 2.00 KINGS MTN, PRESBYTERY PROIOROING oo ccccs: scasenasesteosisecd !_ 42.00 ON iis aecesinnasecs . 1.00 East Belmont ........2.0.... 2... 3.85 NN as, sacceeseiieeas 3.50 Mount Bolly .nccccconce scccsssseces 31.30 TE TAG aaceccisckcesesease. sccanenans 30.35 Tryon P Union .... Unity MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY PORNO ooo iossicis - assnssescntecee 80 Benton Heights BIRCOR aocccisecss ass prtslisiioadbacs Charlotte Ist ........... CODE, BLOT, - i ccscisesesccncscce snes CEE Siccisisctasere scoreseceeccae Hopewell . McGee ...... : Myers Park Nevin a os ccess: > os lteatinens Philadelphia ................. .... ices TTT oc ciccceiee. <sckaossiastcasenens a ES een nee Saint Andrews ERO ooo iccci se tene Ws ion cess PG AUR vac coiceeces | cerdiraccns Sugaw Creek ... West Avenue .88 ORANGE PRESBYTERY TO iaisiietethics: nets sieciens 7.85 Bethesda ..........0..0..0 + cee 1.54 Rethlehem ..... ¥ ... 2,08 Broadway ..... . ‘2.67 Buffalo (G) . ... 8.12 Buffalo (L) ... a - 182 Chapel FH oonciccccccccseccocs cacoes 11.37 I aia sa i plscinies ssshinglacay, 6.50 Greensboro Ist .0...........00. seo 17.42 Greenwood Hawfields Pittsboro .... Pocket ....... Sanford Smyrna Springwood ...... Stony Creek WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Acme ‘ Baker d ETN crisis initaaaut Black River .. Burgaw ........ CATFORD | cc cccsceens-to Cape Fear TE ciseicimest . sucedeleteieney Chinquapin COUP ciccncnn. namie RENOIR, 5 i civksincscins: Rioevoerneoaieon Graves Mem. 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The land on which Fellowship stands was leased to Barium Springs by the Paola Cotton Mills owned by the Mills family, the Bloomfield Mills at that time owned by the Cannon Company, Statesville Cot- ton Mills and Statesville Flour Mill, Mr, Clint Wagner. Buildings at Camp Fellowship were provided for by the Men’s Fellowship -Club of the Setond Presbyterian Church in Charlotte. They gave the bulk of the money for this. Other contributions were made by Mr. Bob Grier of States- ville, Mr. Bill Preyer of Greens- boro and numerous smaller contri- butors. The initial investment was in the neighborhood of $3,000. Lat- er on the water supply had to be increased and wells were dug so that the total investment over all as of today is about $4,000. Camp Fellowship was used during the first three of four years almost exclusive for the Orphanages of North Carolina. The Childrens Home of Winston-Salem, Mills Home at Thomasville, the High Point Orphanage, and the Junior Order at Lexington and one year the Alexander Home at Charlotte. Later on the Orphanages began to drop out of the picture and the Presbytery and churches of other denominations began to use the camp. Concord Presbytery now uses it for two weeks, the Metho- dist Churches use it for four weeks, the Baptist Churches for one week and during the last two years the Four H-Clubs have man- aged to get in a little time there also, this in addition to our own use of the camp. It has become more a place for religious gatherings rather than just of entertainment and fun. The lease under which we se- cured the land was for ten years and now that ten years is up. And many of the men whi were interest- ed in securing that lease for us are dead. Mr. N. B. Mills was most enthusiatic about the project. Mr. Clint Wagner, and Mr. Avery Sherrill. In fact, Mr. Sherrill and Mr. Wagner went to Charlotte with us to interview The Duke Power Company officials and were most helpful in getting electricity into the camp. We started over a year ago to take steps toward the renewal of the lease. We found that the States- ville Cotton Mills were perfectly (Continued On Page Three) “There Is a Lad Here” It was Andrew, one of the Dis- ciples who made this statement, wondering whether he had found a way of solving a serious problem. Great crowds of people had been listening to the Galilean Preacher for hours, but now it was past meal time and they were far from home in a desert place, where no food was available. Still the Preacher said the people should be fed and the Disciples wondered what to do. They had a little money, but that didn’t hlelp when there was no store or bakery, Then Andrew mentioned the lad and said, “He has a little food— five barley loaves and two small fishes—but what is that among so many?” Jesus took the loaves and fishes and blessed them and - (Continued On Page Three) Camp ~~ ————. a So Fellowshi No. 8 The Junior Choir of Barium Springs The group that we wish to hbn- or this month by displaying its pic- ture in the Mes- senger is the Jun- ior Glee Club. It hasg_ furnished music and other entertain- ment many times during the year. Several times tak- ing over the church servire music and doing it acceptably. We are proud of the Junior Glee Club, not only for what they have done and are doing, but for the promise of additional music in the years to come. They won’t be our Junior Glee Club very long. They will soon be the Senior Glee Club. Four Elders Going to the Assembly The church papers have already written splendid accounts of the recent meeting of the General As- sembly of our church. This parti- cular article will have something to say about it but not in a very serious vein. It is the account of the trip of the four Concord Pres- bytery elders on their way there. By way of introduction, they are: treasurer, F. L, Jackson of David- son College, Dean C. K. Brown of Davidson College, Mr. R. L. Spar- row of Mount Mourne and Mr. J. B. Johnston of Barium Springs. For the balance of this narrative these four men will be known by their last names, Jackson, Brown, Sparrow and me. These four left Mooresville around ten o’clock on the morning of May 27 and head- ed toward Atlanta. The Presbyter- ian Orphans’ Home furnished the car and the driver and a great deal of the conversation for the first and last part of the trip. The As- sembly paid for the gas and the eats. And when the driver would let them, conversation went pretty freely around the whole car. As a matter of fact we reached Atlanta without finding out how we stood individually on the important mat- ters coming up before the Assem- bly. We didn’t know who was for Federal Councel or who was again- st it. As it happened we went through Lincolnton, Shelby, and on down through Spartanburg and Gaffney. I monopolized the conversation so much during this part of the trip because I had once lived in Lin- colnton and had a lot of business trans-actions in Cherryville, Shel- by, and even down as far as Gaf- ney. After leaving Gaffney some of the others had a chance to talk a little. We found lots of things to talk about. About Bob Jones’ University in Greensville, We pass- ed right through! the grounds. For many miles before we reached Greensville we also talked about something for lunch, Jackson men- tioned an eating house in Greens- ville and described it so vividly that we were all practically drool- ing by the time we reached Greens- ville. We parked the car and. went (Continued On Page Thiree) Albert S. Barnes One of the great men in orphan- age work, Rev, Albert S. Barnes, superintendent of the Methodist Orphanage, Raleigh, has announc- ed his resignation. We see by the papers what we never would have dreamed, that he was seventy-five years old. Mr. Barnes has been superintendent of the institution for thirty-four years and has kept not only abreast of the times in Orphanage work but has been a leader in its development. His own institution ranks along with the best of the south and that means the best in the world. The best orphanages in the world are found within the bounds of the South- eastern Conference. Men like Kes- ler ‘and Jamison developed thle standard of orphanage work. Then men like Barnes and Joseph B. Johnston, I. G. Greer and QO. V. Woosley carried the work forward. For many years the child welfare people of the North and East have attempted to down the very idea of the institutional life for children. These leaders in the South have gone on the even tenor of their way rearing children in their orphanages and sending them out into life as highly useful citizens, The people of the North as a rule have never learned how to rear children in an institution and there- fore think that because they can- not do it, it cannot be done, These southern orphanage not only know how to do it but do do it, If the proof of the pudding is in the eat- ing, the proof of the orphanage work is in the product, that it turns out. Mr. Barnes for thirty-four years has been turning out a prod- uct that is inescapable proof that children can be reared succesfully in an institution. Mr. Barnes was superintendent of the Methodist Orphanage and never hesitated to admit that his institution was a Methodist institution. He felt that the Methodists were responsible for some dependent children of the (Continued On Page Four) NOTICE Due to vacations of Writers - Printers and Readers - there will be no July Messenger. Paper shortage also has a bearing on this. The Message of the Pulpit By Rev. R. S. Arrowood THE BIBLE AND CIVILIZATION There is one book that has been the best seller ever since it was first printed, hundreds of years ago, That book is the Bible. It is one hook it had one author, the Holy Spirit of God. It is many books. We think of it as having 66 books in it written by a number of men over a period of more than a thousand years. All that is good and great in our civilization we owe to the Bible. One of the pillars of civilization is business. Back in the early days of the race each man’s home was prac- tically self sufficient. The members of the household killed the game; tilled the fields; cooked the food which they themselves had provid- ed; wove their cloth; made their shoes; built their own houses; had their own work shops. Now we buy food largely pre- pared and much of it cooked; we buy clothes ready made; we pur- chase fruits and vegetables from distant states. If we have any money, a bank takes care of it for us. This vast institution of business is built on credits and on the integ- rity and honesty of people, No great and lasting civilization can be erected in any nation or people who are not fundamentally honest. If, for one day the people of America stopped trusting one another and cancelled all credit, our business structure would collapse. This hon- esty and integrity comes from the ideals of that book which is called the word of truth and which teach- es us “wherefore putting away all lying speak every man truth with his neighbor for we are members one of another.” Business also depends on indus- try. One reason the American work- man gets high wages and has such a high standard of living is that he is worth it. He has been schooled in the word which says “whatso- ever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.” The man who knows and obeys his Bible will make a true success (Continued On Page Two) Alumni News Bertha Lee (Broome) Kirkpa- trick and her little boy from Char- lotte made a short visit to Barium. Roscoe Twombly of Southern Pines was a visitor on the campus. Paul Reid has moved from Gen- eva, Ala. to Greenville, Ala. He is working in a printing office. David and Doris Flowers of Charlotte came by to see us. They had been on their vacation to the eastern part of the State and to Florida. Dewie Buie is attending summer school at A. S, T. C. in Boone. Paul Horne and Amos Hardy are attending summer school at Davidson. They spent last week- end with us, Dixie Lee Buie of Ocean View, Va. spent a few days at Barium. Earl Adams, student at Catawba College, Salisbury and Ernest Stricklin, Student at Davidson are working at Barium this summer. Pearl Parker is working in the mail service and wrote outside on a bulletin address to Mr. Johnston asking if he remembered her, and said that she was Mrs. Stukell of Hyattsville, Md. and was working in Washington | D.C. Frances Lowrance Parcell is As- sistant Home Demonstration agent for Iredell County, Lugene White Spencer and Jean spent a few days at Barium. David is a Councellor at Camp this sum- mer, Ernestine Baldwin and Mildred Monroe are working at Barium this summer, They will enter Flora Macdonald College this fall. James Reid, Tommy Hucgirs, Jack Clark, John Whiting, Bradley Jean Manus and Virginia Presnell are working in Statesville. Pearl Morgan, Betty Joe Smith and Lucille Stricklin have entered the Cabarrus Hospital as nurses aids and will enter training this fall, Harold Myatt is working in a printing office in Asheville, Betty Traywick graduated from the Belmont High School this spring. Bobby Lee Jackins, son of Sam and Teenie Jackins graduated from (Continued On Page Three) Babe Ruth’s Tribute The following testimony to the useful life of an old minister was given by “Babe” Ruth, the famous baseball player: “Most of the people who have really counted in my life were not famous. Nobody ever heard of them, except those who knew and loved them, I knew an id minister once. His hair was white; his face shone. I have writ- ten my name on thousands of base- balls in my life. The old minister wrote his name on just a few sim- ple hearts. How I envy him! Be- cause he was not trying to please his own immortal soul, fame never came to him. I am listed as a fa- mous homerunner, yet beside that obscure minister, who was so good and so wise, I never got to first base.” ; — Sunday School Times. PAGE Two THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium Gprings, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. rate of postage, provided for in Section 1108, Act of October 8, 1917. November 15, 1923. Acceptance for mailing at special Authorized BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON MRS. R. A. YOUNG MRS. COIT ROBINSON J. Archie Cannon - . - Concord Mrs. Coit Rebinson - - - ~- Lowell Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - - Farmville A. P. Therpe, Jr.- - Rocky Mount Rev. Samuel E. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Rev. N. R. McGeachy - - Statesville Dr. W. Z. Bradford - - Charlotte Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Rev. Ben F. Brown - - - Wallace Mrs. E. C. Beatty - + + Mooresville PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY Mrs. Fred E. Little- - - Wilmington Mrs. C., E. Kerchner - - ~- Greensboro Mrs. P. P. McCain - - Southern Pines Rev. M. S. Huske - - - = - Reidsville Mrs. W. C, Alexander - - - Durham R. W. Bruin- - - - + Henderoso Mrs. George Patterson - - ~- Gastoni: Mrs. R. A. Young - - - = Charlotte J.H. Thomson- - = - Kings Mountain Mrs. H. 8, Kirk - «+ - Winston-Salem SS (FORM OF BEQUEST) “I give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, /n- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). a News From Some of the Cottages ANNIE LOUISE Hello Friends, Summer has really begun which proves that going swimming, bare footed and wearing shorts can be lots of fun on hot days. Three of our little girls have gone home to stay. We are glad they got to go home, but we surely do miss them. Five more of our girls will be going home the 16 of June. We'll miss all of them, but we know they will have fun. One of our big sisters went to Durham to see her mother. We know she had fun, but we are glad she is back. Saturday night our matron and big sister took us to the spring to eat supper. After we had a marsh- mellow roast which was a surprise to all of us. We had a time getting the fire started and then we looked like particles of soot. “What do you say about that Bonnie?” One night not long our matron and big sister took us to Mrs. Lack- ey’s to get some plants for our flower garden. We are sure our flowers will be the prettiest on the campus. We want to thank her very sincerely for the plants. Miss Blakney sent us some candy. Boy does that candy taste good when you are real hungry on a hot day! Thanks a lot for the candy, Miss Blakney. Read our news next month. So long. — The Annie Louise Girls JENNIE GILMER Hello Everybody Since we last wrote you we have been kept busy blackberry pick- ing, going swimming, playing soft- ball, and getting ready to go on our vacatious. Several boys have already gone on their vacations and one has al- ready returned. We miss them, but we know that they are having a wonderful . me. Oh yes, we have a new clothes room now, and do we appreciate it! Now we don’t have to walk down- stairs every time we need clean clothes. That may sound as if we were lazy, but having the clothes on the first floor instead of in the basement really is a convenience. Since nothing much has_ been brewing around here will say so long until next month. — David Morrison, Jack Harwell HOWARD COTTAGE Hi Folks, We are back again with the cot- tage news. Library has started and Miss Troutman has been reading ws some very interesting books and poems. We have painted our basement and are now using it for a play- house, Seven girls from Annie Louise have moved over here and we are having fun playing with thiem. Their names are Evelyn Cox, Flor- rie Garris, Carolyn Hucks, Shirley Johnson, Mildred McFarland, Peg- gy Privette, and Johnsie Terry. We have been studying the Cat- echism. We soon will be getting Bibles and Testements. We have gotten our bathing suits and are going in swimming. Most of us know how to jump off the boards and swim. We will be with you next month until then. — The Bean Stringers SYNOD’S COTTAGE Hello Folks, We have a different “Mama” here for two weeks. Mrs. Bowling went on her vacation last Friday to Florida, We hope she has a good time but we miss her. Mrs. Good- rum is here in her place. We like her a lot. Miss Grier is going to be our Bible School teacher. Every Mon- day and Wednesday she is coming to our house. Today we learned a cute song about Little Tommy Tucker and we’ve been singing it all day. Yesterday we got four new mem- bers. They are Tommy Taylor, Larry Carleton, Bobby and Joe Ramsey. We are happy that they could come to live with us. Last Tuesday we went to see Tarzan’s New York Adventure, It was just the kind of movie that we enjoy. We’ve all been practicing the Tarzan yell and we’ve nearly driven our matron crazy. Louise Campbell, who was our sister last year, moved to the In- firmary after graduation. Shirley Byrd from Howard came over to take her place. Since we already have one Shirley we call her Jeanne. Four of our number have gone on their vacations. Memory Thomp- son stayed only two weeks and is already back. Lawton Rice, David McLaugnlin and Richard Blackburn are the others thiat have gone. George Truelove went home to live with his folks. We miss him but we’re glad he could go. Dr. Nisbet from Charlotte did a wonderful thing for us. He brought us a Philco radio and phonograph combination. We have records about Uncle Remus and also some marches. We’re learning to be real soldiers marching in time to music. It would be impossible to tell Dr. Nisbet how much we enjoy and appreciate the gift. Our big sister, Pearl Morgan, came back to see us yesterday. It was grand to see her. Be seeing you next month. — The Synod’s Boys WOMAN’S BUILDING Hello Folks, Since you heard from us last month things have happened and many new faces have appeared on our campus and at Woman’s Build- ing. School is out, the swimming THE Barium MESSENGER — pool has Opened, and vacations have begun, Another week has been added to our yacation making us have three weeks, What a time! Three girls from this year’s grad- uating class haye come back to work during the summer namely: Sadie Buie, who will work at How- ard for a month, Mildred Monroe, and Ernestine Ba}dwin. All Three of these girls wil] enroll at Flora Macdonald College in the fall. We’re glad to have you back with us girls! The new crew in the sewing room, that includes only five se- nior girls are putting out an abundant amount of clothes. So we think. Our new boss, Mrs. Smith, is tops, We had two girls to go to con- ference from our cottage. Anne Wicker whi is a senior and repre- sented our senior league as Faith Commissioner attended the con- ference. at Red Springs. Dot Surles reported a good time while attend- ing the conference at Camp Fel- lowship. Until next month think of us taking a dip in the pool whenever the sun gets too hot or catching a bus to go on that long awaited for vacation. — Womans Building Girls BABY COTTAGE Dear Friends You have not heard from us since school was out. But we are still here having a big time. We have three new Big Sisters as our others moved out and we also have lost seven little sisters as four have gone home. Three moved to Annie Louise. We miss them so much. And we big boys will soon move out to be ready to start to school and we are so happy. Mrs. Nelson carried all of us Babies down to her home to spend a day and gave Buddy Cochran a birthday party. We sure had a fine time. We went to the show Wednesday to see Silver Valley, it was grand. We got ice cream too, Then Thursday Mr. Johnston carried all boys down to camp for a ride in the boat and enjoy the cool sand and swimming. All the girls went io camp on Tuesday evening and had a big time. We have three new brothers to come in and three new sisters which makes sixteen children in our home now. Lots of the children are going on vacations, but we will not go this year but hope to next year. Well we will stop for now. Love from all. — Baby Cottage FARM NEWS It has been a long time since you have heard from the farmers of the campus. Mr, J. F. Stinson, the man who knows everything about farming, is still the “Big Wheel” of the group. We have plen- ty of news to bring you this month hot off the wires of the Barium press. To begin with we have about twelve boys working on the farm. Bill Lybrand who has helped us on the farm for about six years, holds the record for being the boy to work here the longest, and he is consid- ered the best plough boy of all times. Charles Stevens, one of our young- er boys, is always looking for a chance to drive our pick-up whien the boss man isn’t around. Nor- vin Hillard, who is one of the best drivers I have ever seen, will soon begin driving our International truck for his regular work (about four years from now.) I am sure he will be a very happy boy when this happens. Most of the boys are happy with their work, but a few of them are hoping that school will soon start so they won’t have to work so much, The vacation days are here again, and some of our boys have al- ready gone home. Terrell Hall and Fairley Morgan are both away at the time, and a few more of our boys will leave for home next week. The next thing we want to talk about is the work we’re doing now. We are working on our biggest jobs of the summer, at the present: cultivating corn, combining grain, and hauling hay. Charles Stevens and Jay Terry are the combining duet, along with Horace Welman, one of our faithful farm hlands. Bill Lybrand and Curtis Baldwin, along with a few other farm hands are ploughing corn at the present, while the rest of the farm crew are participating in many odd jobs. Our work is hard and unplea- sant at times, but we all enjoy it just the same. We shall now say good-by until next month whlen we shall have more news to tell you. — “The Busy-birds” PRINTING OFFICE The summer is ahead, as the members of the Printing depart- ment chiallenges any obstacle that is ahead, mostly the printing of the Barium Messenger. We have completed the task “The Spotlight or “Annual” of our school activities, our largest job of the year. Although we haven’t had the material in the past two years we tried to combine the most val- uable pictures into the “48” Spot- light. As the summer goes forward full force, we have the crew to meet the demand of summer work, Our crew starts seven strong, losing only one man at graduation, Mr. James Reid, our right-hand man but don’t worry, it isn’t vacant. Wallace, Assistant Boss Twom- bly, is running everything single handed, since Mr. Kyles is enjoying his two weeks vacations. Dwight Reid finally got off the mailing list, being promoted. Jim Williams “who quit the shoe business” is now helping upstairs more. Rufus Shoot- er Clark after a week on here is now on the mailing list and run- ing the linotype. Edsel Chiarlie Printer Devil McArthur is. still putting red devil lye on the cuts and getting his face blacker every day as he washes the presses. You don’t expect me to say anything about myself do you? — D. Donald Mitchell CARPENTER GROUP We now bring you the latest news hot off the wires of the rip saws and drill presses. We, the carpenter boys have been very busy lately laying concrete sidewalks and making other re- pairs. Although there has been some change in the line-up of our staff, we still manage to get along. Charles Barrett and Jack Clark have graduated, Paul Barnes has been transfered to Mr. Lowrance’s staff. Jack Mangum is working at our camp this summer. Mr. J. W. Ervin, the boss of our group has been very busy lately getting the camp ready for our visitors this summer and making other repairs on the campus. Ken Manus is cutting grass with our new lawn mower. Kenneth Wal- ker is assisting him with the other lawn mower, that is if Ken Manus doesn’t put linseed oil in the lawn mower in the place of oil again. Mr. Sheets and Earl Adams are the painters on our group at this time. Earl Adams is a graduate of 1946 although) he did not gradu- ate from Barium Springs. Mr. Sheets and Earl Adams appear to be very fine workers. Jerry Young is now assisting Miss Ford as matron of Lees Cottage while Miss Ford is on a little vacation. John- ny Meroney, Billy McAllister and Ami Lybrand are still lying around in the shade and taking it easy as they always do. James Wheeler is wondering what will happen June 30 when he goes on his vacation. Since he is the most valuable boy on the car- penter group he is afraid all the work will stop when he leaves. Well folks until next time we will have to say so long. Your favorite reporter. — James Wheeler JUNE 1948 The Message of the (Continued From Page One) in life. “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water and whatso- ever he doeth he shall cause to prosper.” Another massive pillar that holds up this structure we call civiliza- tion is law. The more civilization develops and becomes complex, the greater the body of law necessary, A Crusoe on his island alone could be a law unto himself, but when men live in close contact and in constant dealings, laws are requir- ed to say where one’s liberty ends, and the rights of the other man begins. All law is comprehended in, and founded upon the character of God and the will and purpose of God as revealed in his word. The most perfect code of laws ever devised is the law as given to Moses and no more majestic moment has been recorded than when amidst thie thunderingss of: Mt. Sinae,’ God wrote the decalogue upon the tab- lets of stone. Now having law there must be a body to interpret and apply the law; and there must be an agency to enforce the law. Among men not controlled by the Bible, might has made right, and the law has often been cruelly and tyrannically ap- plied and executed. But in the Bible we find the Hebrew Commonwealth established by Moses with these words. “Take you wise men and understanding and known among the tribes.”” And Moses charged those rulers “hear the causes be- tween your brethren and judge and his brother and the stranger that is with them; ye shall not respect person in judgement.” The Hebrew Commonwealth was the first government to put res- trictions on absolute monarchy; to have popular legislative assembly; the first to ask the judgement of the people in general elections; the first to organize government into three departments of legislative, judicial, and executive; the first to prohibit class distinctions; the first to make any provision for popular instruction. The civilizations in the old world are largely tottering to their ruin. And America will only stand and her civilization be permanent so long as we are true to the word of God. The third pillar of civilization which we will mention is the Home. When the home fails and falls civ- lization will fall with it. Our homes are happy and bless- ed because the rights of woman- hood are recognized. In the so call- ed heathen nations she is a servant and a chattel. The glory of childhood is found where the Bible is known. Not un- till our master said “suffer the children and forbid them not to come unto me” were thle rights of children recognized. Until he lived on earth many men wished children to be saints but none ever proposed thiat saints must become children. The training of children, bringing them up in the nuture and admonition of the Lord comes from the Book, The ideals of chastity and purity as the basis of home life, and the strong duty of marital faithfulness has ever been a bulwark which! if broken down, the marriage is des- troyed. The seventh command- ment and scores of other teachings inculcate thiat. The covenant which God enters into with parents in presenting their children unto him is a strong bond and a precious promise which no parent should ever forget, and which| has come down from the Covenant made to Abraham and is renewed in the Covenant of grace. The homes of America are in danger today. They are breaking up in appalling numbers for the family altar with its Bible reading and prayer is all too rare. Our courts are grindiing out divorces. More children are knocking at the (Continued On Page Three) nir sel ov sol Bil fre ) HR o R S Fu o a PAGE THREE —— EEE The Message of the (Continued From Page Two) doors of orphanages today because of homes broken by divorce than because of the death of a parent. Let me plead with you to relight your family altar. Robert Burns in his poem “The Cotters Saturday Night” describes a humble family having scripture reading, hymns and family prayer. He concludes the poem with these words we may well ponder: “From scenes like these Old Scotia’s erandeur Springs, That makes her loved at home, rever’d abroad; Princes and Lords are but the breath of Kings, An honest man’s the noblest work of God.” Four Elders Going (Continued From Page One) in and found out that probably the only good meal the restaurant had ever served was when Mr. Jack- son was there a year ago. The next place of interest after leaving Greenville was Clemson College. And then on into Georgia. At Tocoa, Georgia we all took a bird’s-eye view of the big LaTour- neau plant. This is the place where a famous man manufactors his earth moving machinery. On into Atlanta around 6 o’clock. Before reaching Atlanta I again proceeded to take charge of the conversation and was doing fine. I told the other passengers that I had lived in Atlanta about six years and described Atlanta as it was when I lived there. I found that they had commenced to figure on the back of envelopes while I talked and didn’t catch! on until later, I found that they had figur- ed up all the years that I had been talking about and had me a little over a hundred years old and were wondering if I was too old to drive a ear. Well in spite of my age, I got my passengers to the Hotel and finally to church. The first night of the Assembly is always the most exciting time. The sermon by the retiring moderator is one of the highlights of the meeting and the election of the new moderator brings much excitement. Dr. Cun- ningham preached a _ wonderful sermon and then Dr. Fulton took over as the new moderator. Jack- son and Brown quartered at the Biltmore Hotel just about a mile from the church. Sparrow was lodged at Columbia Seminary about ten miles away from the church. I was quartered with a friend of mine who lived about seven miles across the busy part of Atlanta. I had to drive out and back, of course, every morning and it was quite a job in the heavy traffic. Well as luck would have it I was appointed on the committee that had the most arguments, that of Interchurch Relations. And I had trouble with one eye. A sty was giving trouble, believe it or not, but it didn’t act like a sty does on a very young person. It made my whole eye black and it made a pouch under it that I had to almost lift up to talk. Well people didn’t A MEMORIAL GIFT Rev. R. S. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, Barium Springs, N. C. You will find enclosed $ cies alaodomauis _. in memory of notice this eye until about the second session of our committee meeting and then they began to wonder if our argument had got- ten to where we were trading punches and I had a hard time con- vincing the friends who knew me best that such was not the case. We all managed to get through the meeting of the Assembly but not without accidents. Of course, my eye put me in the casualty class for the first three days and then Jackson fell down thie steps of the church, skined his knee and had to be taken to the hotel. Brown had to stay with him and eventual- ly took him home on the train. So that cut our party down to two for the trip home. And then some- thing happened to me. I hate to tell about it but since this is a truthful narrative I will have to come through with it. You know as I told you before I used to live in Atlanta. I was rather proud of my ability to find my way around. I was also proud of my ability to handle a car in the heavy traffic. I wanted to show off a bit and one day I picked up an old friend of mine, Reverend W. W. Arrowood. He was in college with me way back yonder in the beginning of the century. I persuaded him to go across town with me to visit this friend of mine with whom I was staying. He reluctantly agreed. I purposely picked out the street where the traffic was the heaviest just to show him what a good driver I was. I would drive with one hand and point out the win- dow with the other hand, I don’t think my passenger looked where I was pointing, he looked where I was driving. Things went along beautifully. I came to a place where they were working on one side of the street and all the traffic had to be handled on the two lanes on the left hand of the street. And right there my car stopped. I had run out of gas and was my face red. In fact my face was so red that when I came home my folks thought that I had acquired a tan but it was just that deep flush still on, my face, I think every automo- bile horn in central Georgia began to toot for me to get out of the way and I had to use my battery to pull out of the way so that they could get by. I had to ask my pas- senger to go a block or two to a filling station to get some gas. All in all I was very much embar- rassed. On the way home we hiad a pas- senger, Reverend J. S. Cook, who took the place of our two David- son elders. Our trip home was un- eventful. Leaving Atlanta right after our lunch hour but before we had any lunch. We stopped at Gainsville, Georgia to fill up on milkshakes and there our passen- ger lost his hat. It was so hot and the milkshake was so delicous that our preacher friend just had to take off his hat to inhale it pro- perly and then he forgot to pick it up when we left. The only other disturbance was a flat tire but that happened in Charlotte right at a service station so it didn’t bother at all. We all landed at home in good ——— NAME OF DECEASED DATE OF DEATNM THE BARIUM MESSENGER shape and with only our friend Jackson bearing any scars from the trip. We easily recovered the lost hat. In Memoriam (Continued From Page One) willing to give us not only the land on which the camp is but the balance of the 80 odd acreas in the entire tract. The Statesville Flour Mill and Mr. Wagner’s trustee and the Paola Mills were willing to go along with this and give the pro- perty to the Orphanage fee simple. But the Cannon Company was not willing to go that far but was ‘willing for a long time lease, Statesville Cotton Mills was willing for a short time lease but not a long time lease. So there the matter stood for awhile and then The Statesville Cotton Mills was sold to the Burlington Mills and negotations had to be started all over again. This time purely with the idea of a lease. We wanted a longer lease than for the ten years that we worked on before to justify more adequate buildings at the camp. It took some time to get the Burlington Mills to agree to this arrangment but they finally did. All parties seemed to agree on it and the matter was turned over to the Cannon Company lawyer to draw up the lease well in advance of the date of the expiration of the old lease. It was in January of this year when final arrangement were agreed upon. This was more than two months ahead of the date for the expiration of the old lease. We thought everything was ar- ranged for so went ahad and make arrangement for holding camp this summer and booked the camp up straight from the seventh of June through August. Then as the time approached for the expiration of the lease we again contacted the Cannon Company lawyer and was told that there was nothing in the way of preparing the lease and that it would be fin- ished in a few days, March passed along. Our lease expired and no- thing was done and then April, May and now June and still no lease. As a matter of practic: we com- mence booking up the camp for the next year during the present ser- ies of camps. This means that Con- cord Presbytery wants to book up the camp now for corresponding dates next year, We have to tell Concord Presby- tery that the camp is no longer in our hands and that we cannot book it ahead. We really have no right to use it this year. We feel it our duty to acquaint the many people whlo helped us build Camp Fellowship as to its status at the present time. Liter- aly thousands of ydung people have enjoyed Camp Fellowship. It has been a delightful spot. As near perfect for our purpose as could be found anywhere. It is with re- gret that we have to give it up but apparently something is in the way of a renewal of the lease and we aren’t even able to find out what it is that is holding it up. When a person says “no,” that gives you a chance to argue with him but when he says “yes” but acts “no ” then you can’t do anything about it. The buildings at Camp Fellow- ship received no fresh coat of paint this spring. Even the sign board looks old and bedraggled. We could hardly ask the Board of Regents to authorize any expenditures on a camp that no longer belongs to us. “There Is a Lad Here” (Continued From Page One) then by a miracle of His divine power kept on handing out loaves and fishes to the Disciples and they passed them on to the people until all were fed. What a day to remember! The lad may have set out to go fishing or on a hike and took a little lunch with him, then he saw the crowd and joined it, then he heard the wonderful words, and when the food question came up he eagerly offered his lunch, only to see it blessed and multiplied until it fed thousands. What a day and what an experience! Do things like that still happen? Yes, they do—at least spirtually, A little lad consecrated to the Lord may become a great missionary, a mighty preacher, a brave leader among men through whom multi- tudes may be blessed. Possibly somebody reading these lines and the heading, “There is a Lad will say, “that means me”— I will be inspired to step out to do great things for God and human- ity. — Cadet Alumni News (Continued From Page One) High School in Shreveport, La., this year. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Formica (Gladys Cayton) June 1st at Phoenix Ariz. a son Dennis Forrest. Their address is 2832 E. Jefferson St. Charles Barrett is working with an engineer at Rhodiss, N. C. He will enter Davidson this fall. Born to Dr. and Mrs. Joe B. Johnston, Jr. of Concord, N. C. June 10th, a daughter. Rebekah Williams of Lexington was married June 12th, Dalma Jessup was married June 12th to Sue Ellen Schell of Con- over. The wedding took place in the Trinity Evangelical and Re- form Church of Conover at five in the afternoon. Dalma will work at the Vance Hotel in Statesville this summer. Donald Bolton and Arthur Sigmon were in the wed- ding. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Johnston have announced the engagement of Leila Johnston to Mr. Vernon Smith of Charleston, S. C. The wedding to take place July 24thi, Leslie Smith, his wife and Sadie Mills were visitors on the campus. Betty Joe Smith was a visitor on the campus. Helen Thomas who is teaching in High’ Point is home for the sum- mer. She is on a trip to New York at the present. Marley Sigmon, who teaches at the Baptist Orphanage Thomas- ville is attending summer schiol at Boone. Joe Savage, who teaches at China Grove is attending summer school at Boone. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ruff (Mildred Thomas) of Bed- ford, Va., on March 17, a daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Farm Activities The big crop at Barium Springs is alfalfa. The welfare of the farm, the dairy and incidentally the din- ing room depends largely on our success with the alfalfa crop. Of course, we plant corn by the scores of acres, small grain: wheat, oats and barley. And of course, we have vegetables and fruit. Alfalfa feeds our dairy herd it feeds the mules and then some- times we have some for sale. We try to keep a hundred acres of alfalfa and usually a good stand lasts about six years before it needs to be cultivated for a few years and then put back into alfalfa. Last year we didn’t put up enough alfalfa and had tv buy hiay for the last six weeks of the winter and that does things to a bank account in a most frightful way. All of this made us all the more eager to save every bit of alfalfa that we raised this year. Of course, JUNE 1948 =e we can’t order the rain when we need it or can we stop it when we don’t need it. We have to have pret- ty soaking rains immediately after cutting the alfalfa to get the new crop started, But rain during the hay making time is bad. Naturally we have to take our chances. Well we cut our alfalfa first in May. We were about 60 per cent success- ful in getting the crop in. Not too bad for a first cutting. The heavy rains that fell while we were cur- ing it made the second cutting all the more abundant. Then as luck would have it the rain came back on us just when we were cutting the second crop. One field of twenty acres was lost completely, one of ten acres was lost. One field of twenty acres was damaged. The balance of the crop was gotten up in good shape. This was rather disappointing as we had hoped to make a complete success of harvesting the second crop. We have two more cuttings to look forward to and if we get these put up we will be all set for the coming year. We are some- what like a baseball player at the bat with two strikes on him. We can’t afford to miss another one. Of course we have many acres in lespedeza and we fall back on that when the alfalfa crop fails for any reason. One of the hitches, however, is that the lespedeza hay making must be done during school days and it has to be baled. All of this calling for a lot of labor at a time when labor is scarce and as far as our home boys’ are concern- ed practically non existent. We hope to have the use of a Pick up bailer during the fall months as this will enable us to put a lot of lespedeza hay with a miminium of labor. Visitors to Ba- rium Springs do not often get to see anything of our farm activities. Our farm is a very interesting de- partment. It has a lot to do with our living. Our milk, beef, pork, mutton, chickens, eggs, corn bread, bread and many other by products, are the things we get from our farm and diary. The truck farm and orchards are a different department and we de- pend on that department from day to day. This year we will just read about peaches however, but are counting strong on having a lot of personal contact with our apple crop. The apple crop gives promise of being a wonderful one. The young husband wrote home from his new job, saying; “Made foreman—feather in my cap.” A few weeks later he wrote again saying; “Made manager—another feath- er in my cap.” After some weeks he wrote again, saying: “Fired—send money for train fare.” His wife unfeelingly telegraphed back: “Use feathers and fly home.” Mother: “Where do bad little girls go?” Daughter: “Most everywhere.” Jack: I got up at dawn to see the sun rise. John: Well, you couldn’t have picked a better time. Most women would be more spic if they had less span. Father: “Well son, what did you learn in school today?” Son (proudly): “I learned to say ‘Yes, sir,’ and ‘No, sir,’ and ‘Yes, ma’am,’ and ‘No, ma’am’.” Father: “You did, eh?” Son: “Yeah.” Angry Father: “What do you mean by bringing my daughter home at 4 o’clock in the morning?” He: “Well, you see sir, I have to be at work by seven.” PAGE FOUR Names Left Out of the May Messenger The following names were un- intentionally omitted from the lists of school honors and awards in last month’s Messenger: Yearly Honor Roll: Lorene Hall, Kathleen Monroe, Helen Morgan, Jeanne Steppe. Scholarship prize: Ennis Black- burn, Improvement prize: David Thom- as. Albert S. Barnes (Continued From Page One) state and was not responsible for others. He did all that he could to see that the Methodists took care of the dependent children of eastern North Carolina that were of Meth- odists’ responsibility. Hail and fare- well friend and comrade of the years! Charity & Children Miscellaneous Gifts Waldensian S. S., Junior’s, wash cloths. Mrs. Britt Millis Armfield, Greens- boro, sports shorts, tennis balls. Mrs. Maude Bennett, Greensboro, coat and T-shirt. Hawfields Aux., Circle No. 1, towels, Miscellaneous May Receipts Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ........ 10.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet .... 1.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High PRG coca aes: ame 1.00 Ae. EO oe a en 5.00 Mr. Frank Griffin, Manatoba, Canada ... 10.00 A Friend, North Wilkesboro 5.00 Peace Student Christian PRBOCIIION occne sess’ cerns 8.00 Miss Mary Schwarberg, SATICOUOONE i cicencetie: sicoseeu see 5.00 For Messenger May Receipts Mrs. John A. Freeman, Chimney Rovk 2.00.00... co... Mrs. Lassie Campbell Clothing Funds May Receipts Leaflet Sunday School ........ 50.00 Hope Mills Aux, .0..........cccssee 5.00 Cleveland Aux., Evening MEE fecciiiiean nicnsines 20.00 McPherson Aux. ........0.. ... 25.00 Old Laurel Hill Aux, ....00........ 5.00 Yanceyville Aux. ............. * 10.00 Myers Park Aux., Circle TO OR Semin wanes 25.00 Belmont 1st Aux., B. W. MO NG, BE ocicsscrecsctnsssiccs 25.00 Tenth Ave., S. S., Men’s B. ase Cc, Ernest Myatt &,.8., %. 2. SBE Gyles cia oleae 17.50 Mooresville 1st, Wharey Mem- OPI (ROR cic ca cee 90.00 Burlington ist Aux. .............. 50.00 Rocky Mount ist Aux. ........ 70.00 Reynolda Church, Ola Emly BPG cccsscese, yesies “beanes 70.00 Howard Memorial Aux., Mrs. BEWOTY TAGTE coc icccc. scrssver 5.00 Mrs. George Holderness .... 8.50 Concord 2nd Aux. 20. EWE Ae csissiissies: senscrnisoues 5.00 Washington ist S. S., Van- guard Class Fountain Aux. Lansing Aux. PEE RN aivicticccthdas: vamcsanas 25. 00 Covenant (O) S. S., College Girl’s Class 25.00 Faison Aux. ..... ash aleubiees Falkland Aux. .......... Memorials for Church May Receipts Anderson, Mrs. Williams Scales, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. David J, Craig, Jr. Beck, Dr. C. E., Portland, Pa.: Mrs. R. E. Johnston & Family, Lewistown, Pa. Biggers, Mr. Joe W., Hickory Grove: Mrs. J. W. Hood & Mrs. Willie Hood White, Matthews nao Robinson, Hopedale, ass.: Myers Park Church Caldwell, Mrs. Ross, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Campbell, Mr. James A., Smith- field: Mr. & Mrs. F. H. Brooks Carpenter, Mr. J. C., Sr., Lowell: Miss Rebecca Falls Mrs. R. J. Ford & Miss Dorothy Ford Lowell S. S., Woman’s B. C. Carroll, Mr. J. D., Salisbury: Miss Bertha Knox _ Salisbury 1st Auxiliary Case, Mrs. Catherine Louise, Char- lotte: Mr. & Mrs. Uhlman S. Alexander Cole, Mr. W. V., Davidson: Prof. E. A. Beaty Davie, Dobson Glenn, Charlotte: Myers Park Churchl Ellis, Mr., (uncle of Miss Lois Ellis) Montreat: Montreat College Faculty Fleagle, Prof. F. K., Davidson: Prof, E. A. Beaty Funderburg, Mr. J. Manly, Lake Charles, La.: (given on his birthday) Mother, Mrs. V. M. Funderburg Gaither, Mr. J. A. (grandfather), Newton: Mr. Bob Gaither Gilmour, Rev. A. D. P., D .D. Leesburg, Va.: Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Crosland & Bobby, Charlotte Myers Park Church Session of Myers Park Church Mr. & Mrs. J. Alex. McMillian, Charlotte Mr. Philip F. Howerton, Char- lotte Mr. S. Russell Mickle, Charlotte Wilmington 1st S. S., Young Women’s Fellowship Class Griffith, Mrs. Elizabeth, Saluda, S. C.: Mr. Philip F. Howerton, Char- lotte Guy, Miss Lillie, Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. Walter E, Sherrill Hand, Mr. J. K., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. J. K. Barnett, Martha & Betty Haynes, Mr., High Point: (Miss Helen H. Thompson, Wades- boro Hefner, Mr. James J., Hickory: Hickory 1st S. S., Ramsay B. C. Hicks, Mrs. Ernest, Concord: Mr. & Mrs. A. Jones Yorke Hoover, Mrs. Edith, Bessemer City: (Miss Virginia Forbes, Gastonia Hullender, Pfc. Robert A., Jr., Con- cord: Mrs. Lula Frye Johnson, Mrs. Clarence, Rocky Mt.: Miss Vivian Broswell & Mrs. Thomas J. Pearsall Kincaid, Mrs. W. F., Gastonia: Gastonia 1st S. S., Nellie War- ren B. C. Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr. Kinlaw, Mr. J. A., Elizabethtown: Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr. Link, Dr. K. A., Lenoir: Mr. & Mrs. G. C. Robbins Little, Mr. J. M., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Ross McCormick, Mrs. Dan (Woodberry Chambers), St. Pauls: St. Pauls S. S., Murray B. C. St. Pauls Church Mrs. L. A. & Misses Sarah & Elizabeth McGeachy Mrs. Sallie McG. Hartman Miss Della P. McGoogan St. Pauls Rotary Club Miss Alma Pierce Miss Edna Lewis Miss Katherine McKay Miss Jessie Duncan Miss English Wade Miss Alexa Watson Miss Mary Ellen Chason Miss Carolyn Townsend Miss Mattie Rogers Miss Katherine Underwood McDonald, Mrs. N. B., Lillington: Flat Branch Auxiliary McLain, Mrs. W. P., (Julia Wal- ker) Statesville: Mrs. O. W. Elam & Miss Sarah White Mr. & Mrs. J. Neely Kincaid Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Fanjoy MeNair, Mr. A. B., Wilmington: Myers Park Church, Charlotte McPhail, Miss Sarah, Winston- —— Mrs. H. S. Kirk Mason, Mr. James D., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Hassell Mecham, Mrs. H. L., North Wilkes- THE Barium MESSENGER ———_——— boro: Mr, & Mrs, J, B. McCoy Millikan, Mr, James Milton, Greensboro: Graham Underwriters Agency, Graham Moseley, Mr. A. M., Greenville: Mrs. Evelyn Glenn & Miss Eva Hodges Paddison, Miss Maude, Burgaw: (given on the 2nd anniversary of her th Sister, gs : Fields, Moores- ville Richardson, Miss Alie, Rocky Mt.: ~ T. A. Cooper, Jr., Orlando, a. Richardson, Mrs. Christian Gillis, Rocky Mt.: Mrs. T. A, Cooper, Jr., Orlando, Fla., daughter Rimmer, Mr, Troy, Statesville: Mr, & Mrs. Walter E. Sherrill Roane, Lt. Henry, Winston-Salem: Winston-Salem ist S. S., Neal Anderson B. C. Rogers, Mrs. Hal, Charlotte: Westbrook Instirande Agenicy Rowan, Dr. Jessie C. Concord: Concord ist S. S., Grier B. C. Sampson, Mrs, F. D., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Lewis H. Fallis Shaeffer, Richard John, Charlotte: Myers Jark Church Sharpe, Mr. Francis R., P.H.D., Ocean City, N. J.: Myers Park Church Shaw, Miss Margaret, Rex: Mrs. J. B, McCormick, Parkton Mr. J. D. Little & Sisters, St. Paul Sherrill, Miss Hazel Little, States- ville: Parents, Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Sherrill Smith, Miss Kate, Darlington, S. C.: Mrs. Howard Caldwell & Mrs. R. M. McKemie, Concord Sonneborn, Mrs. Emma _ Louise, Hickory: Hickory ist S. S., Ramsay B. C. Soyar, Seaman 2-c Crichton P., Winston-Salem: Winston-Salem ist S. S., Neal Anderson B. C. Miss Jean Anderson Thomas, Mr. Numa L., Jackson Springs: Daughter, Miss Mary Frances Thomas Walker, Miss Alice, Reidsville: Mr. Clif S. Turner Warren, Miss Charlotte Hoey (Lottie), Gastonia: Mrs. S. A. Robinson Mr. & Mrs George Ragan (Mr. & Mrs. Harry Rutter Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Barnett, Martha & Betty Mr. & Mrs. Walter G. Rhyne Mr. & Mrs. John Mason, Jr. Mrs. J. L. Thompson, Lowell Mr. & Mrs. Ben Guion Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. John W. Parks Mr. & Mrs. Howard Whisnant Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Timberlake Mrs. W. Y. Worren’s Class, Gas- tonia 1st S. S. Miss Lelia Wilson, Belmont Mr. & Mrs Minor R. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Mrs. L. N. Patrick & Family Webb, Mr. Louis K., Mockingbird Valley, Louisville, Ky.: Col. & Mrs. Howard A. Stewart, Ft. Benning, Ga. White, Mrs. John, Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Myers Wilkerson, Mr. H. B., Rutherford- ton: Mr. & Mrs. H. L. Carpenter Miss Alice McConnell. Charlotte Williams, Mrs, T. J., Mooresville: Miss Cora L. Freeze Mrs. R. C. McPherson Mr. H. N. Johnston, Sr. Mrs. R. R. Clark & Family, Statesville Friends, Mooresville Friends Mr. & Mrs. H, D. Mills Williamson, Mr. William Holt, Jr. Charlotte: Myers Park Church Mr. & Mrs, Robert M. Crosland & Bobby Wood, Mr., Indianapolis, Ind. Little Joe’s Aux. Churches May Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Wanoca Chapel rc. secon 1,00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Back Creek ... nes fs | MN i i es as Bethany Concord Davidson : POWaHALTIG: coccccccese cccssece ccse 4.08 EES poe ae ee 5.46 Glen Alpine 0. ete 1.63 PERO 4.88 FERRERO S osccas is sinsankiecss anscce 2.26 ERMCKORY LE co. sccocs . coccannccsscce 52.42 Kannapolis 1st... Jee 104,27 Kannapolis 2nd oo... se 1,94 TOE oo cecnicses sonssnse ... 89.13 Little Joe’s .. 8.12 Marion ............ 24.08 Mooresville 2nd . 8.70 Newton, J. R. Gaith 25.00 Newton, A Friend 25.00 Prospect ........ 22.26 Salisbury 1st . 132.48 Salisbury 2nd . 33.25 Spencer .........2. sccccccscsce y ae 32.07 Misses Barbara Boland and Alice Gordon Geekie .... 7.50 Statesville Ist ow... llleesee 26.00 peo ee ea 17.26 De aha i 6.32 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Dray L6G coceccsccics sccocsesoscoeese 53.96 Ernest Myatt 2.0.0. oes 4,29 Fuller Memorial ........... «0... 1.75 CONOR ee 5.41 Goshen Chlapel .....00.. 1... 14 Grassy Creek Henderson 1st Nutbush Oakland Oak Hill PHORTORBIVE sececncs cencssccoccs eases FRBOLID EEE acescocsscs scosesiscsensoes St. Andrews ....000... ... sn Smithfield ........... i Trinty Avenue White Mem., of Raleigh .... 8.53 Undesignated .000.00. Jw. eee 72.00 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Gastonia 1st, Mr. & Mrs. J. L. 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B, Johnston Last year the Johnston family took a long vacation. They drove all the way to San Francisco and back and had fun every minute of the time. Then they had fun writ- ing and talking about it - so much so that they had planned to repeat that performance this year, but many things have occurred to pre- vent such an extended vacation. We had hoped for a week, but finally settled for three days. Here is the story. On the morning of July 29th, Mrs. Johnston, her sisters, Mrs. Wilkinson and Mrs. Marion, and her nephew, Dr. Chalmers David- son of Davidson College, and your humble servant set out to improve our minds and to enjoy a vacation. We drove to Richmond, taking the back roads wherever we could, but for the greater part of the distance riding on number one high- way with a most energetic company of buses, trucks and cars to keep us company. We landed in Rich- mond at 5:30 p. m. and were there joined by our daughter, Leila John- ston, who had arranged for our en- tertainment that night. A supper at the home of Reverend J. H. Marion, D. D. and a night in a tourist home was our main enter- tainment in Richmond. The supper was fine. The tourist home would have been fine but for the fact that it was on the main number one highway, Chamberlain Avenue, that passes through Richmond. Big trucks were passingi about every fifteen seconfs and they should not have disturbed anybody and would not have the second night, but the first night we imag- ined the Indians were coming, or the Russians or the Germans, or somebody because those trucks do sound ominous in the wee :mall hours of the night. However, Fri- day morning dawned clear and in- vigorating and we started out for Williamsburg, landing there in the early afternoon. We won’t attempt to describe Williamsburg except to say that thle whole business is un- believable. That any man or group of people would attempt the vir- tual destruction of a modern town to restore it to its colonial appear- ance is something that it takes you some time to take in. A whole na- tion will continue to be grateful that this thing was done. We took in the ancient capital of the state, the goalhouse, the Governor’s palace, and many other buildings of interest, That night we took in “The Common Glory,” a pageant written by Paul Green and staged in a setting somewhat similar to the one at Manteo, and it was a most entertaining and in- structive performance with Thomas Jefferson being the central hero and most prominent character. If any criticism could be voiced it might be that the pageant should have allowed a little more credit to the rest of the United States for the success of the Revolution; however, that criticism is not vital enough to start a quarrel or even an argument. The pageant was thordughly enjoyed as was the night spent in a tourist home at quiet Willamsburg, with an em- phasis on the quiet. An early morning start Saturday took us through Newport News and across the big bridge over the James River and on down through Portsmouth and along the Dismal Swamp Canal to Elizabeth City, N. C. Then down the rest of the Dismal Swamp and the Outer Banks to Manteo. On the way we stopped to investigate tourist homes and motor courts. Some of BARIUM Accepts Call To Little Joe’s Church Rey. Charles H. Sides, Jr. The above is the picture of the Pastor-Elect of Little Joe’s Pres- byterian Church. The church has been without a pastor since Rev. F, B. Benton left in June 1947, Rev. Mr. Sides grew up in our neighbor community, Loray, and was a member of Concord Presby- terian Church, the church which gave Concord Presbytery its name. Mr. Sides is a graduate of David- son College and Union Theological Seminary. During his summer va- cations at the Seminary he supplied the Duncan’s Creek Church in Kings Mountain Presbytery and was assistant in the First Presby- terian Church of Kannapolis, N. C. For two years he has been pas- tor of the Benton Heights Presby- terian Church of Monroe and under his leadership the church made ex- cellent progress. Mr. Sides will come to Barium Springs on Sept. 1st and will be received into Concord Presbytery during the meeting of Synod the following week. His coming is eagerly awaited by the children and whole community at Barium Springs. the sights we saw in connection with that rivaled in interest Kill Devil Hill and the Wright brothers monument which we also took in. You know, the popular costume for houses along the beach are swimming togs. A pair of shorts for a man and and a two piece suit along the same lines for the girls. A rather attractive get-up when youth and symmetry are com’sined with this costume, but a little bit startling and sometimes alarming when worn by the more aged and less shapely members of both sexes, A mattress of hair down the front does not add to the glamour of an aging male, nor do the curves of an aging female when they get in the wrong places cause very much pleasurable excitement when dis- played in these beach costumes. At one of the places where we stopped the hostess of the motor court wore a most daring costume which did not fit too well with her surely sixty years and possible 150 pound weight. The women in our party were a little bit alarmed as she was very active and seemed to put more dependence on one large safety pin than prudence would dictate. They were just afraid that in her hurry and zeal to show us the delights of her cabin that a major tragedy might occur, and they all heaved a sigh of relief when we decided to go further in our search for quarters for the night. On down to Manteo where we arrived about four in the afternoon. We were fortunate enough to get (Continued On Page Two) ‘ Lottie Walker Building Gets A Dressing Up Good things are always happen- ing to Barium Springs. This time Lottie Walker Building has been the recipient of such lovely gifts to make our rooms more attrac- tive and our girls very happy, Some months ago, Mrs. Green and Mrs. Robinson of Fayetteville, redecorated the Pearl Green room. Such lovely bed-spreads, scatter- rugs, lamp, curtains and dresser- scarfs, The girls who occupy this room are so proud of their room, they want to sleep on the floor, rather than to “muss” their lovely beds. Now the Lincolnton Auxiliary has really made us happy, with a gift of beautiful rugs, lamp, cur- tains, bed-spreads, scarfs and ma- terial for a dressing-table. Also, a subscription to girls magazine and a generous chick to be used at our discretion, And last, but not least, North Wilkesboro Auxiliary has given to the senior girls, something we have longed for, but was in doubt if we would ever possess - a beautiful lace tea cloth. Also, a crystal bowl and matching candle sticks. Thie seniors are so excited about this, they can scarcely wait for their first party which will be on the 27th of Aug. This is a reception for the teachers. Want to see something pretty? Then come take a look. We believe that you will go home inspired to fix up a room so that all of our girls will have a room with that “new look.” We are so grateful to all of these kind friends, and wish to say “thank you.” lt The Message of the Pulpit By Rev. R. S. Arrowood Isaiah 37:3. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, 0 Lord God, thou knowest, THE MIRACLE OF PREACHING Again today we are considering the calling of a pastor for Little Joe’s Presbyterian Church, On a similar occasion we spoke on the Minister’s Message, dealing some- what with the content of the Mes- sage of the Minister. Today we would speak more in particular as to effect which, under God, may be confidently expected from the faith- ful preaching of the word of God. We find our message in the vis- ion of Ezekiel of the valley of Dry Bones. Note this is a vision. It is not related in the Bible as an his- torical event, but it was given to Ezekiel to see this vision with its spiritual meaning. Perhaps Ezekiel had seen some time such a valley where two armies had met and fought and the whitening bones of the slain still were there glisten- ing in the sun. The prophet was to prophecy, which means to speak for God, unto these bones. And when he does, the miraculous be- gins to happen; a noise and a shaking, and the bones came to- gether bone to hiis bone. The frame work of bodies became evident; sinews muscles form; skin covers them; and there they were, bodies but no life, Again the prophet was directed to speak to the wind, and the breath of God came upon them, and they stood up, an exceeding great army, Now today as we briefly con- sider this vision we think about a (Continued From Page Two) SPRINGS, N.C., Aucusr 1948 Barium Child Victim of Polio Herbert Gerald McArthur On the morning of July 16th death visited our family and took little Jerry McArthur. The doctors pronounced his illness to be polio- myelitis, the first case that we have experienced in the fifty-seven years of our history. Apparently, institutions like ours are practically immune to this dread disease, but not completely so, and Jerry’s passing was indeed tragic, He hiad been in the hospital about a day and a half. His early symp- toms seemed to point more to men- ingitis than to polio, and he was responding to treatment and show- ed mark improvement, but early on the morning of the 16th he de- veloped symptoms that pointed to polio and in a very short time a complete paralysis of his heart and lungs set in and the little fel- low quietly passed away. Jerry, who was eight years old when he died, had been a member of the Barium family for a little more than three years. He came from Carthage, N. C., and has an older and a younger brother at Ba- rium. He was a universal favorite. Shortiy after coming to Barium he had to have a rather serious operation on his eyes, It was pain- ful and necessitated his eyes being bandaged for four days - a rather trying ordeal for a young man his age. He was such a good soldier and cooperated so thoroughly with the doctors and nurses that his operation was a complete success, and Jerry’s smile for everybody increased just in proportion as that operation was successful. He thought everybody was good and especially good to him, and he was eager to do favors for anyone when he could, Jerry’s body was taken to Car- thage and he was buried there late (Continued On Page Two) Barium Springs, N. C. A MEMORIAL GIFT Rev. R. S. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, You will find enclosed $_..._._. in memory of No. 9-10 Barium School Opens August 26 As this is written, the schoo) buildings are being readied, sched- ules made, and other preparations are under way, for the opening of school Thursday morning, August 26th. It is hoped that the new pas- tor, Rev. C. H. Sides can be present on that day to take part in the first assembly program of the schoo] year. Strange as it may seem, most of the children seem to be anxious for school to open. Let us hope that this enthusiasm lasts throughout the year. The faculty, which has had very few changes from last year is as follows: Miss Theoria Straughn, first grade; Mrs. R. E. Jackins, second grade; Miss Edmonia Blake- ney, third grade; Miss Cora West- brook, fourth grade; Miss Sadie Brandon, fifth grade; Miss Er- nestine Cullom, sixth grade; Miss Faye Stevenson, seventh grade; Mrs. Lee Spencer, public school music; Miss Margaret Ritchie, piano; Miss Ruth Troutman, French and English; Miss Reba Thompson, English and history; Miss Irene McDade mathematics; Miss Cloyce Moose, home ecomies and science; Mr, A, M. Calhoun, Bible and Phy- sical education; and Mr. Wm. A. Hetheox, principal, Two badly needed items of re- pairs and improvement that have been made this summer are a new roof on the elementary building, and rubber tile floor covering in the high school library. Look.... Yes that is just what we mean. Come and take a look at our two new rooms, One a reading room and the other a music room. Where did we get the new things for these two rooms? You will look twice and still won’t believe us when we tell you that those beautiful dark red and green striped covered chairs and couch were about to see their last days when Mrs. Bry- ant saw them and they were rushed to a furniture hospital to be re- paired and covered. Those green flowered drapes look new don’t they? Well don’t faint when we tell you, but they are about two years old and Mrs. Smith did a beautiful job making them over for us. The only new things you will find in this room are those three green throw rugs. How do you like our reading room? Those green chairs we paint- ed look pretty with those brown card tables don’t they, but if you want to get more comfortable just sit down on that nice couch over by the wall and read your book. If you look at the windows you'll see a pair of made over curtains like those in the musie room. There is nothing new in this room, just old furniture fixed over and paint- ed, but you wouldn’t know it if vou weren’t told. NAME OF DECEASED ADDRESS DATE OF DEATH SURVIVOR TO BE WRITTEN ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP OF SURVIVOR TO DECEASED ONE GIVING MEMORIAL ! I I I ' | 1 | i J | \ 1 ! J I I ADDRESS ! PAGE Two — THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, Novernber 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium Springs, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. rate of postage, provided for in Section 1105 Act of October 8, 1917. November 15, 1923. Acceptance for mailing at special Authorized — ——_—[—_—_—_[—[_—[—[_—[—[—[—[—¥—¥—>—————>=>= BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON MRS. R. A. YOUNG ; MRS. COIT ROBINSON J. Archie Cannon - - Concord Mrs. Coit Robinson - - - ~- Lowell Mrs. J. M. Hobgood -— - Farmville A. P. Thorpe, Jr. - - + Roeky Mount Rev. Samuel E. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Rev. N. R. McGeachy - ~-_ Statesville Dr. W. Z. Bradford - aa Charlotte Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Rev. Ben F. Brown - - - Wallace Mrs. E. C. Beatty - - - Mooresville PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY Mrs. Fred E, Little- - - Wilmington Mrs. C. E. Kerechner - - + Greensbero Mrs. P. P. McCain~ - Southern Pines Kev. M. S. Huske - - - ~- Reidsville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham R. W. Bruin- - - + + Henderoson Mrs. George Patterson - + + Gastonia Mrs. R. A. Young - - - - Charlotte J. H. Thomson - xe Kings Mountain Mrs. H. S. Kirk - - + Winston-Salem eS (FORM OF BEQUEST) “I give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, Jn- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). SS eee News From Some of the Cottages INFIRMARY We have been falling down on our job of writing news each month, Therefore we shoulid have lots to talk about. Whether we do all depends on the working of brains. It’s time for school to open. We’re all happy over the fact but just wait until a month or so. Louise Campbell and Kathleen Monroe seem to have something up their sleeves, They play cards three fourths of the time and they are always anxious to learn new games. Could all this be prepar- ing for their “Old Maid” stage? What about that Kathleen and Louise? We also think Kathleen is going to be a “Professional Cheater.” What do you think Mrs. Finley? Elmina seems to be a little hap- pier than usual. Is a flee biting you or is it that a Lentz boy has hit the campus? It has been a little lonesome here for awhile. Glad to have Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Hethcox back to keep us company. We all had nice vacation. I wish Elmina and Kathleen would stop g@ about Washington, D. C. They saw a lot, heard a lot and learned a lot. Elsie went to Kan- napoli and Asheville. Louise spent her vacation at Salisbury. We all had a wonderful time. We certainly did miss going to camp this year, but of course we understand the circumstances. We are proud to say we have hiad few patients this month. Ve are very sorry to lose two of our “little sisters,” Betty Ann and Shirley. We hope they will get along fine and be happy at Rum- ple Hall. Our upstairs floors have been sanded and do they look good! I should say so. We thank all you good people who were responsible. —— Bye, Bye, Elsie Vest PRINTING OFFICE The printing office is back on the job after a vacation of about two weeks. We have two new boys on our crew. They are Dean Cottontop Up- ton and Frankie Ladies’ man Lentz. Both of these plus Charlie Printers Devil McArthur are doing a good job of keeping the printing office clean, Rufus Shooter Clark left us for ds uoknown efter breaking his ankle while on vacation. Jimmy Henry Lee Van Ty Wil- liams is helping downstairs in the shoe shop and upstairs with the printing too. Mr. D. D. Mitchell is the third bossman on this big printing crew, he is also holding the honor for the printing shop on the football field. Dwight Setting Pretty Reid is helping Mr. Twombly run the mail- er so we all know everyone will get a Messenger. Well good people we didn’t have much to say this time but maybe we’ll have more next time. Thanks for reading. — Your Reporters Jimmy and Dwight SEWING ROOM Guess we’ll cut off our machines just long enough to get you in on all the gossip. We have been kept quite busy lately making school clothes, along with the excitment of football prac- tice and the grand opening of school next Thursday. Gee, we can hardly wait. During the month of July many nice things have happened to us. While Mrs. Smith had a short va- cation, our floors were sanded and finished. How we do love them! You even have to wipe your shoes off before you enter, then you re- move them after you are inside the door. Mrs. Smith had us down in the ity for a real nice dinner. We lave eaten as much! After- wards, we went skating and bowl- ing. Also our evening was com- pleted with! a watermelon cutting. it was more fun. The gossip? Here it comes! What’s the song we hear every morning, Orine? Could it be “King Size Papa” or “Maybe you'll be here.’ Maybe Ernie will be. Who knows. Its good we’re on second floor, now Margaret can see him any- where on the campus. I wonder why she insists on going to foot- ball practice twice a day. The rest of us, well, let’s save it for next month. There will be plenty then, with schlool and foot- ball in full swing. So Long. — Helen Vinson hice pit big’ eit never Hi Folks, We are bringing you the latest news off the hot wires of the associated press at Barium Springs, N. C. by your “ace” reporters of Quad three. Well, camp is over and it seems that everybody had a wonderful time and also vacations. Schoo] will be open the 26th of this month or you might say next week. Most everybody are anxious for it to start but just wait a month or so and it will be the opposite, Football has finally rolled a- round the corner and the bigger boys have already started prac- ticing and are getting in shape for the season. Their first game is with) Albemarle and let’s wish them luck all through the season. Ernest “King” Strickland has been with us all summer and has done a nice job at camp and in command of the floating group, also for grinding the necks of those who go out for the line this year THE Barium MESSENGER on the varsity, B team, and the 125 lb. team. He will be leaving us before long for this summer. — Your Ace Reporters J, Edsel McArthur Franklin Lentz The Rite ce of the (Continued From Page One) Valley of Dry Bones, Mankind without the renewing power of the Holy Spirit, without the life that comes from this divine presence, is dead in trespasses and in sins. Take the world of society at large; how evil it is; indifferent to God, to his word ; work his day; spending more tobacco than for the sprea ff his King- dom; more on liquor that damns an destroys, than on_ the gospel that gives unto man eternal life. And in many a church where he is preached, and where there is a form of faith, old creeds, old practices, old formulas like inarti- culate, dry, scattered bones clutter up the landscape, but life seems to be extinct. I was invited some years ago to a town to preach. I went to this old, historic church. There was a musty smell over all; the light could barely filter thrqugh the stain glass windows. Here and there through out the large audi- torium was the stiffly upright fi- gures, looking somewhat disinter- estedly at the pigmy in the pulpit that was me. Into the consciousness of my sickening loneliness a voice said, “Son of man can these bones live?” And in my bewilderment I could only say “O Lord thou knowest.” The Living Prophet A prophet is a preacher. He is a man who speaks for God, This pro- phet’s name was Ezekiel which means God strengthens, Ezekiel was prepared for his miracle work as a prophet by having a vision of God, and in that vision of God he was made to eat the seroll on which the word of God was written. Yes Gods word must become a very part of the propaet himself, bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, if it is to prevail in his life. Notice too the faith of Ezekiel. He had faith to believe in God and his power, a faith that was trans- lated into works. He believed God so much that he obeyed his voice. So when God said, ‘preach to dead souls,’ he did it. God still does the same thing. He led the Apostle Peter to speak to the throng on Pentecost and to address the group in the home of Cornelius. He said to Philip go talk to the Eunuch; and to Jonah, go to Ninevah and preach; and to Isaiah, “who will go for us and whom shall we send ” He preached the message God gave him. I suppose no two pro- phets have exactly the same mes- sage but every one of them has a lesson for us. This prophet’s mes- sage to the dry bones was a mes- sage of life and of knowledge. “Ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.” Yes the miracle . of preaching has to do with life from the dead. With man it is im- possible but not with God. It has to do with the finite, to a degree, comprehending the infinite; the creature coming to know the crea- tor; man seeing God. Whi is suf- ficient for these things? No mor- tal man. Hence I speak of the mir- acle of preaching that from the heart of a human personality there should come a voice that moved upon dry bones to bring them back to symmetry and order and beauty. But there was still no life in those inert bodies. The final mir- acle must be wrought by the Holy Spirit. The message is one of life but in the preaching itself there is no life giving power. So the Apos- tles were told to tarry for the pow- er of God. Ye shall receive power after thiat'the Holy Ghost is come upon you. So there was no life in these bodies till he prophisied to the wind; that is prayed for the power of the Holy Spirit, Refor- mation is wonderful. The social upheavels that have come from the proclamation of the Christian ideals holds promise of freedom and de- mocracy for the world. But those things are not life giving, The church as never before needs to tarry and pray that the Holy Spir- it in all his regenerative power may come that in America and Europe, India and China and Ja- pan and Africa the teeming mil- lions of the spiritually dead may stand on their feet an exceeding great army. I am sure we think too much of the voice and the gesture and the sermon content and neglect to pray for the power of the Holy Spirit. Perhaps it was ever so. In prepar- ing for this sermon I consulted Dr. J. H. Jowett who delivered the Yale lectures on preaching in 1912. He spoke on the perils of the preacher; the minister in his study; his pul- pit. But not a word about the Holy Spirit. I turn to the Sacred Rhe- toric or lectures on preaching by Dr. Dabney at Union Theological Seminary in 1870. He lectures on the parts of sermon; rules of argu- ment, arts of persuasion; but not a word about the Spirit. The great book on Homiletics by Dr. Wm. G. T. Shedd, which was first published in 1867 and went through ten editions, takes up style; the text; plan of sermon; but not a word about the Holy Spirit. I turn to the great James Stalker of Glas- gow, Scotland, in his lectures on preaching he speaks of the minis- ter as a man of God; a man of the word; a patriot; a man; a christian; a thinker; but the Holy Spirit’s power is not referred to. Even old Richard Baxter in his Reformed Pastor, talks of oversight of the flock; oversight of ourselves; per- sonal instruction; but the neces- sity of the power of the Spirit; our total failure without him, is never allauded to. Turn to the 11th of Acts. There was a great revival in Antioch under the preaching of Bar- nabas much people were added un- to the church, No, unto the Lord, why Because it could be said of ernabas; “For he was a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of faith.” “Come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove, With all thy quickning powers; Kindle a flame of Sacred love In these cold hearts of ours.” There is nothing in this miracle of preaching to give pride to the preacher, rather humility, the prenching of cross is to them that ‘rish foolishness. Yes, when Gods word is preached in its faithfulness, accompanied by the power of the Holy Spirit, Pen- tecost will come again and miracles of salvation will be wrought. Barium Child (Continued From Page One) in the afternoon of July 17th. We will long miss him - this fine young man. The Johnstons (Continued From Page One) very nice rooms in a tourist home with one drawback. There were six in our party; there were five in another party and there were three members of the household that we know of - there was one bathroom. No difficulties arose in the afternoon. We got our tickets to the performance at Fort Raleigh and rested awhile and then took in the pageant. It was even better than it was two years ago the first time THROUGH JULY 31. Albemarle AUGUST 1948 I saw it. We came back to the tourist. home and managed to get bedded down very nicely and arranged our schedule for the bathroom the next morning so that we could get away about eight o’clock. That would allow, by starting our getting up at seven o’clock, ten minutes per person and have everybody up by eight, but we had not counted on other members of the family, I thought I would be smart and start things off at six o’clock, so I slipped out and tiptoed to the bathroom and bumped into a mem- ber of another party that had the same idea. We played Gaston and Alphonse in reverse for awhile with my linally giving up my priority because his party wanted to get away early. Three times after that I darted out to the bath- room and each time bumped into another member of this party - all female and all embarrassed and certainly not dressed for the street. I finally retired to the bedroom and read a story in a magazine - almost took a nap - and started our schedule at seven o’clock and managed to get everybody dressed and in their right mind and ready to travel by eight. Sunday morning, and on our way home. Back up the Banks, speed- ing up just a little bit when we passed the motor court which we had investigated the day before, on across the Dismal Swamp, through Elizabeth City and on to Edenton for church. The trouble with the Edenton churches is that they are antiques, most of them, and several seemed to be closed ior the summer. We worshipped with the Methodist congregation, heard a splendid sermon, joined in their communion, and left in time to have mid-day lunch at Williams- ton, On through the afternoon with supper at Asheboro and home by ten o’clock. Four hundred and eigh- teen miles on that last day and some of it through rain, but a de- lightful trip altogether. The lights of Barium Springs al- ways look good, but when you have been away for a few days they seem to carry an extra greeting and welcome, and the way we slept in our own beds with! our own bath- room arrangements is a joy to think about. Maybe the very nicest thing about any sort of vacation is get- ting back home, Receipts First Four Months Net So Good For several years now we have not burdened the columns of the Messenger with financial matters. The support was coming in satis- factorily, so we published the re- sults and gave thanks. We felt if we cried “wolf” when there was no wolf we might not be heeded when we needed help. That time has come, as the following table will indicate, The combination of the polio epidemic which has depleted our Sunday Schools, and the decreased percentage to the orphanage cause alloted by most of the Presby- teries, has considerable decreased our benevolence income at a time when living costs have reached an all time high. We give great honor and praise to Kings Mountain and Winston- Salem Presbyteries which still show a plus sign. May their tribe increase! The receipts from _ benevolent gifts of Churches, Sunday Schools and Auxiliaries for April through July 1948 are as follows: ‘a7 THROUGH JULY 31, '48 928.08 $ 738.84 — $189.24 Concord 3,884.97 2,887.16 — 997.81 Fayetteville 3,622.37 3,166.25 — 456.12 Granville 727.95 658.14 — 69.81 Kings Mountain 2,301.73 8,537.76 + 1,236.03 Mecklenburg 8,411.84 3,029.90 — 881.44 Orange 1,416.47 1,831.51 — 84.96 Wilmington 1,335.56 958.11 — 877.45 Winston-Salem 681.57 870.74 + 189.17 Total $18,310.04 $17,178.41 —$1,131.63 Mr Mis Mr Ad Al 24 81 12 81 03 96 45 17 PAGE THREE THE BARIUM MESSENGER iy sci naa Miscellaneous Gifts June Receipts Bumbarger’s, Hickory, pencil and pens sets. Mrs, Birtt M. Armfield, Greensboro, new hose, clothing. Cooleemee Bible School, table nap- kins. Cherryville D. V. B. S., table nap- kins. Miscellaneous June Receipts Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ........ 10.00 Mr. H. W. Wilkerson, Ruther- fordton Miss C. H. Stone, High Point 1:00 Mr. Richard C. Renegar, Mocksyille .......... ...... 23.00 Pe ee BR OD Miss Bessie McAskill, Ellerbe 10.00 Meco Wilks. 8.00 R. S. Dickson & Esley O. Anderson, Charlotte _..... 10.00 Mr. Charles A, Pritchard, West Jefferson ...... ........ 50.00 ET 200.00 For Messenger June Receipts Mrs. A. B. Kelly, Wilmington 2.00 Miss Annie Hyman, Tarboro .... 5.00 Mr. E. J. Rhyne, Bessemer 5) as UVES 8 ei aang 2.00 Gymnasium June Receipts Mrs. Olive Gaskill Hudson, Washington, D. C. 100.00 Clothing Funds June Receipts Myers Park Auxiliary ........ 325.00 Pink Hill Aux. 2.0... ... 25.00 Prospect Auxiliary -- 50.00 River View Aux. 2.00. ceo. 20.00 Howard Memorial Aux., Mrs. George Holderness ........ 8.50 Mrs. Mabry Hart ................ 5.00 ORR Pidins Awe. oc.n.cccscascs 6.00 Memorials for Church June Receipts Adams, Mr. R. N., Tulia, Texas: Mr. & Mrs. Minor R. Adams, Gastonia Allison, Mr. Thomas T., Charlotte: Mr. W. L. Gilbert, Statesville Myers Park Church Mr. & Mrs. James T. Porter Mrs. W. E. Colton Dr. & Mrs. R. H. Lafferty Mr. & Mrs. J. Alexander Mc- Millian Beard, Mr. J. Oliver, Mooresville: Mr. & Mrs. Leroy Kennette Beatty, Mrs. S. W., Charlotte: Mrs. Emmett Crook Blair, Dr. Andrew, Charlotte: Dr. & Mrs. R, H. Lafferty Miss Kate Quay & Family Myers Park Church Mr. C. C. Beam Mrs. John H. Eddleman, Lowell Mr. & Mrs. George E. Wilson, Jr. Blythe, Mr. R. S., Charlotte: Mrs. Emmett Crook Brawley, Mr. R. M., Sr., Moores- ville; Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Lowrance, Ba- rium Springs Mrs. James A. Brown & Mrs. A. R. Graham Dr. Robert & Mrs. H. F. Long, Statesville Carrigan, Mr. J. C., Mt. Ulla: Mrs. Ray K. McNeely, Moores- ville Carter, Mrs. N. H., Wallace: Mr. & Mrs. S. Gordon Jones Chambers, Mrs. O. A., Salisbury: Salisbury 1st Aux. Clement, Dr. E. B., Salisbury: Mr. R. B. Sanford, Mocksville Mrs. C. E. Stevenson Coffey, Mrs. Rose Freeze (Finley H.), Lenior: Mrs. John White Moore, Moores- ville y Lenoir 1st Aux., Circle No. 3 Lenoir 1st Aux. Mr, A. G. Jonas, Jr. Mr. & Mrs, ie Dimmette Mr. R. C. Robbins Mrs. Jake A. Burgin, Lincoln- ton Mr. & Mrs. George C. Robbins Mr. & Mrs, Rufus L. Gwyn Mr. & Mrs. Orrin Robbins Neice, Miss Cora L. Freeze, Mooresville Cochran, Mr. J. D., Sr., Statesville: Mr, & Mrs, Joseph B. Johnston, Barium Springs Mr. & Mrs. Karl T. Deaton Mr. W. L. Gilbert, Sr. Cockfield, Mr, J. C., Wilson: Mr. W. C. Herring Crawford, Mrs. James, Sr., North Wilkesboro: Mrs. E. G. Finley Dillehay, Mrs. J. T., Southern ‘ines: Mr. & Mrs. J. Alex. McMillian, Charlotte Myers Park Church Dilling, Mr. Thomas Wayne, Gas- Tonia: Mrs. Coit Rhyne Boys of Warren Y. Gardner’s Young Men’s Shop Mr, A V. Patsch Gastonia 1st S. S., Herald B. C. Durhan, Dr. A. J., Ackworth Ga.: i Calhoun Ramsey, States- ville Mr. Louis Bowles, Statesville Ellmore, Rey. G. H., Roxboro: Mrs. Emmett Crook, Charlotte Farthing, Mr. Claude C., Concord: The F. S. Goodman Family Fesperman, Mr. Lacy L., Charlotte: Sugaw Creek Aux. Business Women’s Class Fisher, Mr. G. T., St. Pauls: St. Pauls S. S., Murray B. C. Foy, Mrs. W. H., Reidsville: Reidsville 1st Aux., Circle 5 Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Grandson, Mr. Bob Gaither Gilmour, Dr. A. D. P., Charlotte: Dr. & Mrs. J. E. Burns, Concord Mr. C. C. Beam Mr. & Mrs, Preston Allen & Carolyn Mr. C. N. Peeler, M. D. Gordon, Rev. G. G., Detroit, Mich- igan: Miss Elizabeth Ritchie, States- ville Junior Service League Gray, Mrs. Edward S., Charlotte: Miss Lelia M. Alexander Hall, Mrs, Beatrice Monroe (P.P.), Rocky Mt.: Rex Presbyterian Church Mr. R. F. Little & Family, St. Pauls Hand, Miss Maude Eunice, Gas- tonia: Miss Jett Plank Harwell Mr. & Mrs. Hercules Lee., Jr., Charlotte: Sugaw Creek Aux. Business Wo- men’s Class Herndon, Mr. P. D., Kings Moun- tain: Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Page ane Mountain 1st Aux., Circle Kings Mountain ist §. S., Senior Girls Class Hope, Mrs. Mary B., Chester, S. C.: Mr. Thomas W. Rankin, Fay- etteville Horne, Mr, S. Ruffin, Fayetteville: Mr. & Mrs. T. M. Hunter Hunt, Mr. Rufus G., Salisbury: Mrs. C. E. Stevenson Johnson, Mrs. Clarence A., Tar- oro: Mr. B. B. Plyer, Wilson Jones, Miss Evelyn, Greenwood, Mr. & Mrs. James T. Porter, Charlotte Kinlaw, Mrs, J. A., Elizabethtown: Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr., Gastonia Labberton, Mrs. India Meador, Madison: Mrs. Pinckney Meador Best, Bur- lington Lazenby, Mr. L. K., Statesville: Mr. & Mrs, J. T. Montgomery Lewis, Mrs. F. A., Hamlet: Hamlet Auxiliary Link, Mr. K. A., Lenoir: Mr, & Mrs. Orrin Robbins Little, Mr. A. McG., Rex: Mr. R. F. Little & Family, St. Pauls Mr. J. D. Little & Sisters, St. Pauls Mantooth, Mr. Frank, Concord: Locust Sunday School Martin, Mrs. Mary Reece, Mont- gomery, Ala.: Gastonia ist S. §., Young Adult Class Mason, Mr. amin Frank ocminaten’ Ind.: _ ‘Miss Jean Woodside, New York Mayes, Mrs. Glen R., Huntersville: Mr. & Mrs. Uhiman S. Alexander, Charlotte Miss Lelia M. Alexander Mickle, Miss Margaret, Winston Salem: Winston-Salem Ist Aux, Miller, Mr. R. H., Gastonia: Mr. Warren Y. Gardner, Sy, & Mr, Warren Y. Gardner, Jr, Monk, Mr. A. C., Farmville: The L. J. Herring Implement Company, Wilson Moore. Mr, Paul Seott, Harmony: Columbia Baking Cc., Statesyifle McEwen, Mrs, James Walter, Mat- tews: Mrs. J. W. Scott, Belton, §, G, McFadyen, Mr. D. B., Sr., Raeford: Dr. & Mrs, Marcus R. Smith Mr, Cecil Dew McKay, Miss Nannie, Red Springs: Mr. & Mrs. Clifton Adams McLauchlin, Mr. John (Fathers Day gift) Newell: Mr. & Mrs. W. S. Crowell McLeod, Dr. A. H., Aberdeen: Mr, & Mrs. W. H. Folley Nowlan, Mr, Albert E., Raleigh: Mr. William Seales Anderson, Charlotte Overstreet, Mrs. Katie P., Burgaw: Burgaw Aux. Pace, Mr. John P., Burlington: Mr. & Mrs, Grover C. Ward Parker, Mrs. John H., Polkton: Miss Minnie Simpson, Monroe Phillips, Mr. L. C., Asheboro: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner, Gastonia Pons, Mrs, Jeanne (Albert), Val- dese: Mr. Fred Meytre Mr. J. D. Brinkley Reading, Mr. Joseph, Cockeysville, Md.: Mr, & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner, Gastonia Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Dickson, Gastonia Roberts, Mr. W. W., Raeford: Mr. & Mrs. D, L. Grandy, Col- umbia, S. C. Mr. Cecil Dew Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Gulledge Dr. & Mrs. Marcus R. Smith Raeford Men of the Church Scott, Lt. Edgar, Statesville: Mrs. Calhoun Ramsey Junior Service League, Mr. & Mrs, D. L. Raymer Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Raymer Mr. & Mrs. C. E. Wilkins, Golds- boro Sharpe, Mr. T. M. Aberdeen: ee & Mrs. Sam Ryburn, Char- otte Shaw, Miss Margaret, Rex: Rex Auxiliary, Circle 2 Silverstein, Mr. Benjamin, Char- lotte: Mr. H. J. H. Begg Sloan, Mrs. John P., Charlotte: Mrs. J. M. Sloan & Miss Chris- tine Sloan, Gastonia The J. Q. Hall family, Belmont “The McDonald Family” Miss Martha Cathey & Sisters, Belmont Mrs. Emmett Crook Stone, Mr. John M., Bunnlevel: Flat Branch Auxiliary Strickland, Mr. Murray, Bunnlevel: Flat Branch Auxiliary Thomason, Mrs. Ida (Whiteford S.), Morganton: Mrs. E, W. Phifer, Sr. & Mr. Robert P. Phifer Mr & Mrs. E. D. Alexander The W. H. Avery Family & Miss Elizabeth Avery Villas, Mr. James, Charlotte: Mr. Charles B. Trexler Warren, Miss Lottie, Gastonia: Mrs. D. R. LaFar_ Sr. Mrs. J. M. Sloan, Jr. Mr & Mrs. C. K. Torrence Miss Lola Hipp Watts, Mr. E. B. Statesville: Mrs, Emmett Crook, Charlotte Wilkerson, Mr. William Henry, Rutherfordton: ‘Miss Catherine Dickerson & Miss Louise Goodbread Williams, Mrs. T. J., Charlotte: Mrs. J. H. Ham Churches June Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY New Bern Ist ...........000000. 50.50 CONCORD PRESBYTERY TOC CROOK, 4s...s.cscs: sisvianeneeitins 109.68 BITE cutaseecices sootretbing' dacenies 2.50 UENO cncccwicens cccastinnes <ctinn 27.11 Davidson 20... csecce secceseeeeee 82,55 NUE cisiss corns Miia aa Harrisburg 2.0.0. cme cu. 4.16 ekotr S66 Kannapolis 1st Kannapolis 2nd enoir ATAAUROOR OOS Ceeeeeenecee secseserenee MONO 8.60 Newton, A Friend ....... .. 25.00 Proamest Salisbury 1st Salisbury 2nd Statesville 1st ecco cessoses.. 26.00 TERR es a aye 19.44 CT i a 7.10 Bensalem COMNOPE eee Jackson Springs Laurinburg Maxton lst Raeteed Red Springs ROWAN 5 ead tn Mardis. 3c, = Spring Lake KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY BERMONE oes oo oe 175.00 BOS cleo i POOR se a is 3.20 Fast Belmont 2.0.0... ccccccccece — 4.45 Gastonia 1st, Mr. & Mrs. J. L. BRUCK oe A TPONTON ose ce a Mount Holly Stanley Creek MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY AvOngsie oe a ee ‘ Bale i Candor ............ Charlotte 2nd . Commonwealth s ; Sethe sae el on BPA, PPRIE ccolesecs’ secsekecsicces Marston ......c0s.00- DEVGTG: Fate ooiccc es cesese Macedonia oo... ae PRUAGCIBIEA .ccsicccee cocescceceee Plaza, M. J. Dean .......... ace PIOARANT FRU cccciscass sceseseacses PPOVIORNEE cviicsinc crcisstcerinne Robinson 2.0. we Sugaw Creek ............ : eS LONG AVENUE .o.ocsc.cese ccccissoose Westover Hills 22.00.01. cesses ORANGE PRESBYTERY SP Ore ee eee 1,36 CieWete en sae High Point Ist Santord oo ccscs White Bub icaccs. ws W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem Ist o.0000000.... 50.00 Sunday Schools June Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY PRI sick et sedate 11, POPRAVHIC: .. csccssa GOnenaee 180 op DISCCIOSTEOHE occccccsecs sivecesevons lt as Rocky Mount Ist .. Jennie K. Hill B. ig Men's Te Gy nn sinecohianee CONCORD PRESBYTERY CONG Te cos scans: “Acieiebuaels Hickory 1st ... MATION P8e so e Mooresville 1st BVA TRIEIS uot cenitctce “ccisess Salisbury 1st, Everyman’s Be ee ae ap dactcaase 3 35.00 Statesville Ist "EAVIGTAVING cies ccisees i TM ocr weiss canvass eeconew FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY PI We aitcbilserinecc sk ecustees 19.98 BCneMem 3h inn. sank ere 10.34 ROCCE oscccs, cocsscsbasceres 29.51 BOE ee iaciesenss Uaisesens .. 8.49 Cape Fear 5.00 CORI lag Sevcsicahsen: ssaslameses 21.00 Covenant 20.00 Ephesus 16.86 Fairmont 11.62 SEMI Iee Wis puceruh Sudeooionss:: sinbecuies CRW cascstisises: ’ sasabannss Hope Mills Jackson Springs, April ........ 29.73 MBS Ss ouliuobid | tiiecevende 12.81 Laurinburg . 34.96 Lillington ......... secscccevee 18.64 Lumber Bridge 2.0.0.0... Jess 7.30 MeMillian DERI eiccccnacsine:. sites Maxton Ist EVI Sinaiee id BOG BOTAEE winsenss csmainncs 10.00 Union é Vass Westminster GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY ORE FETE AWS: i ciccetneacs tenes 5.40 Trinty AVOTUG sesccscecscs ccccsoce 84.56 WV RETOMCOI, ccctessicvsises ’ chinaecreten 9.42 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY SIONS. sccicsihusasien sonseshcuibstiaains 53.66 Bessemer Cit .. 20.10 BPTCCREE cccicsicsessssee 1.79 CORCRIIN: iicccnssiss sacstins dee .. 8.61 Cherryville ccc. cccccsuce --. 44,62 Duncan’s Creek oo... 45.29 Lincolnton Ist cle 25.79 LOMG Creek ......cceccces cccscessesee 10.00 Mount ee Women’s B, C. 3.00 BEE Be Ge. cvcinscsoccarsions 21.00 QTC cecemssionrs ‘ 35.07 Rutherfordton 42.62 Shelby ....... 38.00 OTE | oi ciindliinsss sesmilienivlasinien 17.53 AUGUST 1948 EI Union MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albermarle 1st ..eccccccoce scoceose 78.00 Be oe 24.75 Badin, Ladies’ B. C. ............ 5.00 POU ee ea 6.60 Caldwell Memorial Huntington, Hy ARES OR cue aes 75.00 a es 6.61 Commonwealth oo... sees 30.78 Huntersville ............ 32.33 DEONOG TRC svsacse --.- 46,00 Mount Gilead ............ : ‘ Dees a WEES FRU ilies akees Men’s Club ee Philadelphia Tenth Avenue ...,. West Avenue ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance ............ 3 . 80.40 Fairfield ..... Aa aesohepiebeh 2.99 Greensboro Ist, Men’s 27.85 ag ok al 38.75 Little River Madison Mebane New Hope Pocket Speedwell WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY ATR esse, sesanccessasncee 26.00 Delgado .... ..- 10.00 Grove ......... oc PEM aes ciks snscenserseanserses TE ois sponte: cocasashesechens Mount Olive Pearsall Mem Pleasant View ............ : PURE, FEIT, vesssccesse -kasscoone South River ............ ee Teachey ............ Winter Park W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY George W. Lee Memorial .... 75.70 BROOMS VG vescccossciineas, ancecessscssioes 10.00 Auxiliaries June Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Howard Memorial ........ ........ 11.00 Rocky Mount 1st, A Friend .... 20.90 Rocky Mount 2nd .......... s.. 1.00 WEIS TRG iiss, osnitscanes 1.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY PRN eis eaeiiisivatined 3.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY ATION sosiscics. . Laurinburg. ............. at SOR Siccksesinss scwszivaneneatess Red Springs NORE TAM soso iaenoesuse® esdseanaseeioes GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Fuller Mem., Ist quarter ... 6.00 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY COE ee ec 6.50 TAU TAGES occchscesseasas asssesss 9.15 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albermarle 1st é PR ok Charlotte 2nd ............ Hopewell ' .........2.. Mallard Creek, Business Women’s Circle EDP IB oa sadesletusces DEPOT AEN ovcsictisies ue DEO Nici casis. cavsesnevisciniinion North Charlotte ............ eeieitok PAW CIRO cas tenes BO ee iicine. tdi Saint Andrews ............ South Park Chapel . West AVONUE | «......cccccciss soe Westminster ooo. cecccsssees 14.09 CRANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance, Circle No. 6 BS adsl cia | eisciieseene Buffalo |G) ist quarter : COVES | ciciccevecsars acne Greensboro Ist ............ WOTTON Wiscessentenicis covsecisareannve PAOD bi cdocssscasiins: . <eeretmnncnn WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Clarkton 12.00 MERON Peeairckiees | setsesccincy ucienialenis 6.00 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem ow... esses 15.06 Miscellaneous July Receipts A, E. Scharrer, Hickory ...... 5.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High Point 1.00 R. T. Sinclair, Wilmington 2.00 Cc. G. Pepper, Hamlet D. F, Cade, Hamlet .... MR RAGIN cosssitcucia: Wucibovess Clothing Funds July Receipts EMOEIOE By cvccccssices. tecticivecs 50.00 Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Potter, ce ET ET 40.00 Cherryville 1st Aux, .......... 25.00 Miss Virginia Shelton, Greens- OPS wvviecsscane sistent suite eho 30.00 Howard Memorial Auxiliary, Mrs. George Holderness 8.50 Mrs. Mabry Hart ............... St. Andrews-Covenant (W) WOE seventies, locus. ences: 112.50 PaGE FOUR Cleveland Aux. Fountain Aux. Miscellaneous Gifts July Receipts Mrs. Thomas Hayes, Charlotte, clothing. H. S. Wright, Durham, clothing. Mr. D. C. Ewen, Candor, 100 bushels peaches. Hoke Oil & Fertilizer Company, Raeford, shortening, Ahoskie Aux., bath towels. For Messenger July Receipts Mrs. O. I. Bradley, Moores- ville 1.00 Memorials for Church July Receipts Adams, Mr. J. Leon, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Harry Rutter Dr. & Mrs. P. R. Falls Adams, Mrs. Mag Sue, Clover, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. E. Hope Forbes & Eugenia, Gastonia Miss Virgina Forbes, Gastonia Allison, Mr. Louis Graham, Jr., Concord: Mrs. Lula Frye Andrews, Mr. S. J., Rutherfordton: Mr. & Mrs. H. L. Carpenter Armfield, Mrs. Frank, Sr., Con- cord: Mr. & Mrs. Tom Alexander & Miss Ainslie Alexander Miss Ainslee Alexander, Lincolnton Baker, Mr. Robert, Charlotte: Mrs, P. 8S. Pegram & Billy Mr. & Mrs. Clarence W. Roberts Mr. & Mrs. F. S. Neal Billings, Colonel Robinson, Hope- dale, Mass.: Mr. J. A. Baker, Charlotte Blythe, Richard S., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Harold R. Hunnicutt, Kings Mt. Bright, Mrs. George R., Elizabeth City: Miss Helen Emrich, Baltimore, Md. Campbell, Dr. James L., Atlanta, Ga.: Mrs, McAlister Carson, Char- lotte Carter, Mrs. N. H., Wallace: Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Lewis, States- ville Mr. H. B. Summerell, Burlington Cox, Mr. Carson C., Thomasville: Mr. F. E. Hashagen, Charlotte Mrs. W. G., Graham: 1st S. S., Brotherhood Crawford, Graham Class Crosby, Mrs. G. D., Charlotte: Sugaw Creek S. S., Kate Neal BC. Daniels, Sgt. James Derald, Kan- napolis: First Presbyterian Church, Kan- napolis Dilling, Mr. Wayne, Gastonia: Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Kendrick Mr. & Mrs. R. O. Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Fred S. Rhyne Dr. & Mrs. P. R. Falls Efird, Mr. A. L., Kannapolis: Kannapolis 1st Church Eidson, Mr. T. I., Winston-Salem: Mr. & Mrs. L. G. Sanford, Mocksville Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Grandson Bob Gaither Gilchrist, Miss Mary Jane, Laurin- burg: Mr. & Mrs. Watson D. Cross, Elizabethtown Glenn, Mrs. Henry F., Sr., Gas- tonia: Misses Elizabeth & Jennie Meek Huffstetler Mr. & Mrs. M. B, Wales Mrs. L. N. Patrick & Family Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Craig Wat- son Mr. & Mrs. Walter G. Rhyne, Hendersonville Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Kendrick Mrs. Fred H. Robinson & Misses Helen, Lela, Modena, Durham Mr. & Mrs. Harry Rutter Mrs. J. H. Henderlite Gastonia 1st S, S., Herald B. C. ‘Mrs. H. Lan. Moore, Tryon Hall, Mrs. P. P., Rocky Mount: Rev. & Mrs. W. F. Little & Children, Littleton Harder, Mr. Andrew, Louisville, K . y: Cramerton Sunday School Hayden, Mr. Claude G., Charlotte: Myers Park Church Haywood, Mrs. Mary McAulay, Mt. Gilead: Dr. & Mrs. J. W. Stork & Mr. & Mrs. Milas Lee Lefler Heitman, Mrs. Julia, Mocksville: Mrs. Henry F. Long, Statesville Henderlite, Little Joan Elizabeth, Charlotte: Mrs. Caswell Taylor, Henry, Mrs. L, G., Burgaw: Burgaw Auxiliary Herndon, P. D., Kings Mountain: Mr. & Mrs. Harold R. Hunnicutt Hockman, Mrs. W. B., Spotswood, Virginia: Jackson Springs Aux. Horn, Mrs. Mattie Blue, Elizabeth- town Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Edge & Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Cross Houston, Mrs. Nancy, Charlotte: Miss Mary Black, Davidson Howey, Mr. J. S., Waxhaw: Wife, Mrs. J. s. Howey Johnson, Mr. Tresco W., Florence, Gastonia ee Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Mayhew & Margaret, Mooresville Mrs. Clarence P. McNeely, Mooresville Mr. & Mrs. P. B. McNeely, Sr., Mooresville Mr. & Mrs. P. B. McNeely, Jr., Mooresville The D. K. McNeely Family, Mooresville Mr. & Mrs. Robert Neal, Char- lotte Johnstone, Mrs. J. B., Knox), Mocksville: Mrs. W. R. Wilkins Mrs. E. P. Bradley Mr. & Mrs. H. T. Kelly, Taylors- ville Mr. & Mrs. L. G. Sanford Mrs. H. F. Long & Dr, Robert Long, Statesville “The Luckey Family,” Cleveland Mr. & Mrs. E. P. Foster Mr. R. B. Sanford Dr. & Mrs. Vance Kendrick & Mr. Frank Clement Directors & Employees of the Bank of Davie Mr. & Mrs. G. H. Kuykendall & Mr. & Mrs. P. B. Blackwelder Mr. J. C. Sanford Joyner, Mrs. E. D., Burlington: Mrs. C. E. Stevenson, Salisbury Law, Mrs. T. B., Bebane: Primary Dept., Mebane S, S. McArthur, Master Herbert Gerald (Jerry), Barium Springs: Brothers, Edsel & Richard Mc- Arthur Concord ist Aux., Circle No. 3 Carthage Auxiliary McCaslon, Mr. Clark, Raleigh: Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr., Gastonia McClintock, Master Benjamin Gales, Jr., Charlotte: Miss Adaline L. Calder Miss Elizabeth Williams Mr. & Mrs. John C. MacNeill Mr. & Mrs. McAlister Carson Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Ross Mr. & Mrs. J. Alex. MeMillian Mr. Philip F. Howerton Mr. & Mrs. Guy A. Burns Mr. & Mrs. H. Flynn Wolfe Mrs. J. F. Flowers & Mrs. D. G. Calder Mr. & Mrs. David H. Rankin, Gastonia Mr. & Mrs. R. Grady Rankin, Gastonia Myers Park Church McDonald, Mr. Claude, Concord: (Gussie Mrs. J. R. Chrisman, Charlotte McGeachy, Little Mr. Alexander, Rex: Rev. & Mrs. W. F. Little & Children, Littleton MeNair, Mr. Rory, Maxton: Niece, Miss Janie Stewart McNeely. Mr. C. P., New York: (on his birthday) sapenter, Mrs. W. J. Wheeler, Tr. Matheson, Mrs. W. L., Mooresville: Mooresville ist Church, Wharey Memorial Auxiliary Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Zimmerman, Charlotte Mooresville 1st Wharey Mem. Aux., Circle No. 2 Mr. & Mrs. Mac Sample Mr. & Mrs. L. B. Mayhew Mrs. O. I. Bradley THE BariuM MESSENGER Mr. & Mrs, H, N. Johnston, Sr. Mr. & Mrs, E. C. Beatty Maysilles, Mr. Fred, Oregon, III: Carnation Company Employees, Statesville Mellon, Mrs. E, W., Charlotte: Myers Park presbyterian Church Mr. Philip F, Howerton Moore, St.-Sgt. Ellis S., Saxe, Va.: Rev. & Mrs. W. F. Little & Children, Littleton Mengen, Mr. J. G., Wylliesburg, a.: Rev. & Mrs, W. F. Little & Children, Littleton Morrow, Mrs. George, Mooresville: Wharey Mem. Aux., Circle No. 9 Mueller, Mr. Ed., Milwaukee, Wis.: Mrs. E. M, Hannon, Charlotte Myers, Dr. Charles F., Greensboro: & Mrs. Henry Myers Mrs. H. B. Barton Mr, & Mrs. C. LeRoy Carlton & Sons Mr. Benjamin Cone Mr. & Mrs. Earle H. Spence, Davidson Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Jernigan Board of Deacons of Myers Park Presbyterian Church Owen, Mrs., a ereeee, Va.: Mr. & Mrs, R. S. Abernathy, Jr., Charlotte Pence, Mrs. R. J., Wagram: Montpelier S. S., Friendly B. C. Rankin, Mrs. Ettie Duncan, Roa- noke, Virginia: Winston-Salem ist S. S., Neal Anderson B. C. Richardson, Mrs. Orie D., Char- lotte: Miss Vivia King Robinson, Mr. H. B., Charlotte: Miss Jean Woodside, New York City Rowan, Dr. Jesse, Concord: Grier B. C., Concord 1st S. 8. Searight, Mr. David, Washington: Mrs. Carl Shelton Washington 1st Church, Youth Fellowship Sloan, Mrs. J. P., Belmont: Minnie Hall B. C., Belmont S. S. Mrs. John E., Statesville: . J. C. Fowler Mr. & Mrs. A. B. Raymer Mrs. L. K, Lazenby Mr. & Mrs. Paul L. Gilbert Mr. & Mrs. Frank Culbreth Smith, Mr. Z. M. |Matt), Mt. Airy: Mrs. W. E. Merritt Mrs. W. E. Merritt, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Smith Stafford, Mr. Zeb, Harrisbury: Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Walthall Stokes, Mrs. H. O., Whitakers: William & Mary Hart Aux. Thomason, Mrs. W. S., Morganton: Mrs. Eugene H. Wood, Jr. Thompson, Mrs. Frances, Morven: Mr. & Mrs. W. E, Steagall Mrs. W. T. Davis & Miss Janette McQueen Vick, Mrs. Mary E., Godwin: Godwin Aux. White, W. 0., Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Myers Mr. Harold W. Smith Mr. Benjamin Cone Sloop, Williams, Mrs. Laura K., Godwin: Godwin Aux. Witherspoon, Mrs. E. E., Lexing- ton: Cramerton Sunday Schiool For Church Fund >. Tucker, Thomasville Churches July Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY 5 Boyd Memorial 2.22.22... csccoscee 1.4 GPCON Ville: Lat iiss secscsieres 45.08 Macclesfield . tidis 3.45 Rocky Mount 18t -.scssss-cose-e-++ 112.50 Washington Ist wu... ... 19.66 West New Bern ...........-. 3.98 William & Mary Hart .......... 4.60 CONCORD eee eee. Back Creek SFO noses, Geo ae Cleveland .... Clinchfield MTA cssss cues Concord | Davidson Harrisburg EROROFY Wet oo ks nies Kannapolis ist Kannapolis 2nd... Lenoir Marion A Friend Poplar Tent Prospect Rocky River Salisbury 1st Salisbury 2nd Sherrill’s Ford ee Statesville 1st Thyatira Unity PROT oo Goseveteazac spannannrnee 11.40 Church of the Covenant ........ -76 i edb ons 45.60 ane Bee =a 3.42 TiDUPIOOE cshcsceccacs | sass ccsenese 7.20 TAHPBPEOT ncccenec. cesses. sosessecce 19.45 Meh ee 1.14 BeORrOn (IRE acc es 16.63 Montpelier ...:..0. 0 cccesce cecooees _ 741 MEO coos cacses! cecccsas. soccveseoees 27.36 Red Springs .... 26.03 TO ee eee es 8.74 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Ernest Myatt 6.33 MECK LENBURG vaeeerres Avondale Badin Biscoe Camp Greene Candor Charlotte 1st Charlotte 2nd Commonwealth Cook’s Mem. Ellerbe Indian Trail ... Macedonia ............. .....--- oe Mallard Creek ............. ..-.---- . Matthews Monroe 1st Myers Pork ce Philadelphia ........ 000.2... ; Plaza M. J. Dean Saint Paul Seigle Ave. Selwyn Avenue Sharon Steele Creek Sugaw Creek Tenth Avenue .... Thomasboro West Avenue Westover Hills Williams Mem. ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance 20 Bessemer Little River New Hope Peidmont Riverview Sanford Yanceyville WILMINGTON iewmnnstcieian, +. Black River Clarkton Mount Olive ... Mount Zion Pike .. Wallace ........ Willard Wilmington Ist W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY COUMUMIED 3k cs eatens 24.20 COVONONE foo oa 10.50 George W. Lee Mem. .......... 18.75 Tier ton 1GE noon ccc ahs 45.00 MOCO V ee oe os ae 10.00 PO Ee ie iie Wedestasstine 25.00 TRUMBCVHIO TEE cece. cnsersse 12.30 Wee ed ee 12.35 Winston-Salem Ist ........ 134.18 Sunday Schools July Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY RON posi aes eirineasenes 10.73 Greenville 1st, Special ........ 27.40 Piette So ee ee 5.10 Rocky Mount 1st, Jennie K. BEL By MGs ceccsbsreasenesics 5.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Concord 2.2.0.0... .--- 10.97 Har mony | . 8.44 Marion ........ 13.36 PRCRETINOT sicicess actuiens) ssweviccis CUES Mooresville 1st 36.00 Mooresville 2nd wo. fee 71.30 Salisbury 1st, Everyman’s CIV snide: selina oun 35.00 POE Sis ck vives eras 2.22 WRT CIER . jcissncens: picinie rccennis 37.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Antioch ‘ Ashpole Bethesda ... BORED cicccens Cameron RMR GEe Ritwcny! duciacin ~ becaseut Dunn, Vanguard Class Elise disease ced PRE REM Gi iseedoie” isceotsccl Mose asnies Fairmont RU oo vckcssss” svctscccsies kecosents Jackson Springs SN OE bo sciseuy a: siblsen-- Uekoaredinas Laurel Hill Laurinburg Lillington Lumberton McMillan Manly ........ .. Montpelier SPRUE LauisAasoees” dcsgeiesecc® seadsousbies se Community Ladies’ MIE icles setkes | teiseriersceioblbveclas 10.00 Red a: SE eC Cleci " Sidccn | sidsiwdes Sunnyside AUGUST 1948 eee Ven o.. is . 20.00 GRANVILLE vincesngielaieg | TYINET AVORTIO nncccscccccs sececess 6.15 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY NE a eas 42.71 PUTER oon ieccsncnc ccnees 2.08 Cre 87.59 Gastonia 1st, Henderlite eS ee 102.66 Hephzibah A Tronton ....... Kings Mountain ‘Ist | Lincolnton 1st BM CRON ac ciocecss, cosacensscesae Mount Holly. Men’s B. C. .... Women’s B. C. New Hope Saluda Ce es Shiloh .... Union MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Badin, Ladies’ B. C, 5. OE es ak ss caw Charlotte 1st Commonwealth ........ ........ ---- Erdman Love oo... c2.ece0s Huntersville 0.0... 0... Li. Mallard Creek ........ ....... Monroe 1st Mulberry .... Myers Park, Men’s Club .. " 25.00 Paw Creek _ 82.81 PUMOVEIE ooo... cccecsee. ccocssececes SOOO rr hence 7.45 Rockingham 30.56 Sharon ............ 42.39 Tenth Avenue 25.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY PIBTIGOO colciciccics. ceccesss, sovoeace 21.50 Buffalo (G) 47.09 Greenshoro 1st. Men’s B. C. 27.13 3.00 Tittle River, Bible School .... Madison Mebane New Hope Pocket Black River Clarkton Faison Grove Jacksonville Mount Olive Pollocksville South River Willerd x Winter Park W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Mocksville 5.00 Auxiliaries July Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY ee ee 2.77 Greenville 1st 0.000000. 12.2.2 7.18 Howard Memorial ........ ........ 11.00 Rocky Mount 1st, A Friend 20.00 Rocky Mount 2nd ................ 1.00 Washington 166 ....02:<0... ssc 12.00 PAP oe? ES cea 1.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Kannapolis 1st, April a July 32.00 Kirkwood . Thyatira FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY a LG | eens 3.00 MAMI eocceok hacssreesercees) sxensace 43 Erwin Gibson Godwin Highland Laurel Hill Laurinburg WR rae i Ge, eae Red Springs eer as, i Spencer. Sunnyside ualitens ‘wadiphcn” Gapisestibed 38 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Cherryville ........ 5.382 Mount Holly .... . 12.85 RE cc seicsiny | cdsosanciene’ Medias 5.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle 1st . TONOGIIE. censsnsns sccsenssecee: Lebvee Benton Heights, June & July 2. 00 Charlotte 1st 18.00 Charlotte 2nd Mallard Creek Monroe 1st Myers Park Nevin UNO GEE: sececcivacts dsccedoreciy- bs Pow Creek BN dishes: puree se Saint Andrews ............ South Park Chapel . Sugaw Creek ... ee West Avenue Westminster ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance Asheboro PERRI TLY ccierssuines Sevvessineis: sseksices Covenant ... Glenwood ... Jonesboro WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY BUPROW vescceccscs secceece Immanuel W.-SALEM ore ee Lexington 1st Mount Airy Pine Hall Barium Messenger Don’t Forget Home-coming Day, Friday, October 15. i eee The Game Is North Wilkesboro vs. Barium — 3:30 P. M. BARIUM SPRINGS, N. ©, SEPTEMBER 1948 ee Barium Springs has been accus- ed many times of starting foot- ball practice in the Baby Cottage. The picture on this page would seem to bear out this idea, It is true that whatever the big boys do the little ones try to do, and from the expressions on the faces of these Baby Cottage lads they are destined to become foot- ball heroes at Barium sometime in the future. Look out for them, As a matter of fact, at least three of the present Barium varsity started their lives at Barium at about the age of these young hopefuls. As thiis article is written Barium has played two games, First with Albemarle on the night of the 13th. This happened to be two days be- fore the Albemarle schools opened, FRIENDSHIP v JAMES W. DAVIS, M. D. Statesville, N. C. Editor’s Note:- The following article on friendship is from the pen of a man who has _ certainly practiced the principals expressed in this article through many years. Barium Springs health program and the health of its children has been immeasurably helped by the good deeds of this man and his in- stitution. Surely Barium Springs has no better friend than this man. What is a Friend? We often speak the word lightly, not realiz- ing how much it means. Few words in our language are so misunder- stood, so wrongly defined, and so inappropriately used as the word “friendship.” A friend is one who needs us and one whom we need. Around us may be many whose companion- ship we enjoy, but were they to suddenly drop out of their places there would be no soreness, no sense of deprivation, no lack of comfort, We do not need them, neither do they need us. A friend is one to whom we cling, though many leagues of space se- parate us. Though days pass with no sight of his face or word from his pen, we know our friend loves us and that when we meet again we will be on the same old terms: we shall begin where we left off, A friend is one in whom we can confide. The secret chambers of our soul open to hiis touch on the latch, Thousands imagine their friends are numbered by scores, but if subjected to these tests every one of them would fall into the great sea of common humanity. What makes good friends? The answer is found in these words: A, but the team had been practicing for about a month and the two teams were well matched. They showed excellent training. Our recollection is that there were only two fumbles in the entire game and both of them were recovered by the team that did the fumbling. The ball handling was good, and both teams played with’ the dash and speed that you would expect from later season games. There were times when it appeared that Barium could not stop either Al- bemarle’s running attack or its passing attack, but at no time did this drive continue too far, that is except in one instance and that time Albemarle completed a pass so easily for a touchdown that the wonder was that they did not do “The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and he loved him as his own soul.” The tie that binds hearts together in such fashion cannot be described to others; but it is a real force, never- theless. It can come from only one motive, Love. A friend is one who is for you al- ways, under all circumstances. He never investigates you. When charges are made against you, he does not ask proof—he asks the accuser to clear out. He likes you just as you are; he does not want to change you. If all the world is against you he is still your friend. Whatever kind of coat you are wearing suits him. Whether you have on a dress suit or a hickory shirt with no collar, he thinks it’s fine, He likes your moods, and en- joys your pessimism as much as your optimism. He likes your suc- cess; and your failures endear you to him the more. He wants nothing from you except that you be your- self. Although you may sometimes seem to neglect him and forget him, he ignores thle slight. Nothing can cause his faith in you to waiv- er. He keeps alive your faith in hu- man nature, It is he who makes you believe it is a good universe. When you are vigorous and spirit- ed, you like to take your pleasures with him; when you are in trouble, you want to tell him about it; when you are ill, you want him near. You give to him without reluctance, and borrow from him without em- barrassment. He is the elixir of hope, the antidote for despair, the tonic for depression the potion be- side which the doctor’s drugs are futile. He is your friend. To have a good friend is one of the highest delighits of life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest (Continued On Page Two) Baitain's Single Wing No. 11 more just like thiat. All of our boys performed well. Little Pinky Hil- liard in his first varsity game did exceptionally well - he scored both touchdowns. Paul Barnes was re- sponsible for thle safety that added two points to our score. Altogether, it was a good starter and the Al- bemarle folks stated that it was the biggest crowd they had had for a ball game up to that time. The Albemarle people treated our team and our spectators so cor- dially that it was just like a home- coming event. They welcomed us back on their schedule so cordially that you. might think they let us win that game just to show their Pleasure at playing us again. The boys, however, have a different idea. In Action On Friday night we went to Monroe. Monroe had previously beaten a strong Wadesboro team and they were considered the fav. orites in that game, but our boys after a rather slow start commenc- ed to click and they ran up six touchdowns before they stopped. Practically everybody who went along in uniform played. There were a few minor accidents that looked bad but turned out to be not too bad. Mason Traywick came out of the game once with a finger so crooked that it pointed every way but the right way; it snapped back into position, however, and Mason got back into the game. Paul Barnes in trying to kick goal kicked the cleats out of a Monroe boy’s foot instead and made a very painful bruise on the top of his foot. The Monroe field is new and rather rough. It required a good deal of mecurochrome to clear up some of the abrasions, but the team came back home delighted with the treatment that they re- ceived at the hands of the Monroe school which included a splendid meal afterwards, and were of course delighted with the score 36-0. By the way, the Albemarle school provided a splendid supper for our team after the game there. On both of these occasions our boys made the trip home on a full stom- ach and a satisfied mind - a very pleasant experience, Before you read these lines we will have played Mooresville and China Grove. We will tell you about those games next month. aS XX The Message of the Month By Rev. Charles H. Sides, Jr. THE BIBLE AND TODAY’S NEED There is no question but that one of the most urgent needs today is the individual’s need for some cer- tainty, some anchor for living in days such as these. For it is surely true that much of the fear and an- xiety abroad in the world is a basic uncertainty as to what tomorrow may hold. The Bible, God’s Word, is one of the undeniable certain- ties of life. It is eternal, it has stood and will stand throughout all ages. Regardless of all attempts to discredit it in modern days, the Word of God stands unmoved, bear- ing inward witness to its truth, and showing forth its fruits in the changed lives of men and women down through the centuries who have given heed to that truth. And those who would doubt or question the Bible fall into the oblivion which is their due, but the Bible’s “thus saith! the Lord” remains a vital message for this as for every age. The world of the Roman Empire was in many ways a replica of our world today, The Apostle Paul in writing to the young man Timothy hiad some very pertinent advice con- cerning the way in which the Bible is able to meet men’s need. And that advice was not that Timothy make concessions to the mood of the time, but that he cling to that truth of God which was his heri- tage. “Continue thou in the things which; thou hast learned,” he said, Meaning by that for him to hold fast to God’s Word as it had been taught to him. For Paul knew, and he would say to us today, that the Bible is a certainty of life to which men may ever, cling. Why was this his advice? He goes on to tell us, because the Holy Scriptures “are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” And there is the purpose of the Bible, of all God’s revelation, that men may come to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. That is the message to which men are to cling in times such as these, says Paul. But he doesn’t stop there, he goes on to point out a further reason for clinging to the Bible. That reason . is its authorship, and its author is none other than God Himself, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God.” Thus in message and author- ship the Bible reveals itself to be one of life’s basic certainties for such uncertain times as these. We have no reason to doubt the truth of this, but the tragedy of it is that about the world today there is a widespread neglect of the Bible. In the homes it is becoming a dust-catcher and young people are growing up in ignorance of its truth. Time and time again it has been demonstrated that there is an almost universal and alarming ig- norance of the Bible. Some time ago a professor in Northwestern University gave a simple test of nine questions about the Bible to one hundred students. He asked such questions as these: What is the Pentateuch? Is the book of Jude in the Old or New Testament? Name one of the Judges. Out of ninety six papers returned he had eight who had answered all cor- rectly. One half could not locate the book of Jude. Matthew, Luke, and John were given as prophets, One student says that the Penta- teuch was the same as the Gospel. (Continued On Page Three) Alumni News Pleas Norman is attending Caro- lina Business School in Charlotte. W. A. Johnson has accepted a job with Yandle Funeral Home in Charlotte. Trene McDade is back at Barium after having taken a trip West this summer, Jack McCall was selected in a contest at Catawba College this spring as one of the most effec- tive speakers. His subject was “Weather.” Jack has transferred to the University this fall. Dwight Spencer is attending the Naval Training School at Memphis, Tenn, Bill Price is living in Colorado Springs, Colo, He is still in the Army. Lee Vinson went to the Young Adults Conference at Queens Col- lege in June as a representive from the First Presbyterian Church in Durham. Edith Powell Morrow was a visi- tor on the campus, Mary Ann McCormick was mar- ried in June in Brevard Presbyter- ian Church to B. A. Cox, Jr. of Ellerbe. Lacy was in the wedding. Mary Ann graduated from Brevard College in August. Jack McCall represented the United World Federalist Organiza- tion at Washington, D. C. this sum- mer. There were nine from Cataw- ba. Jack interviewed Hoey and Umstead, Marian McCall Kleckley has moved into her new home in Sedge- field, a new development in Char- lotte, Jack Finch of Southern Pines has invented a traffic line marker that is being used by many cities in North Carolina. Dennis Boyette of Wilmington (Continued On Page Four) THE E_ Barium MESS SSENGER PaGE Two THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium Oprings, N. C., under the act of August 24. 1912. rate of postage, provided for in Section 110%. Act of October 8, 1917. Nevember 15, 1923. Acceptance for mailing at special Authorized _—_————————— BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON MRS. R. A. YOUNG MRS. COIT ROBINSON J. Archie Cannon- - - - Concord Mrs. Coit Robinson - - - ~- Lowell Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - Farmville N. H. Edgerton - - Rocky Mount dev. cameet E. Howie, “p. D. - Fayetteville = N. MeGeachy - - Statesville E. es - - - Charlotte + George Maute, D. Dz - Winston-Salem Rev. Ben F. Brown - - - Wallace Mrs. E. C. Beatty - - - Mooresville ' PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY Mrs. Perey R. Smith - - Mrs. C. E. Kerchner - Wilmington - Greensboro Mrs. P. P. McCain - - Southern Pines Rev. M. S. Huske- - - - Reidsville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham R. W. Bruin - - - - Henderson Mrs. Fred L. Smyre - - Gastonia Mrs. R. A. Young - - - - Chariotte J.H. Thomson- - - Kings Mountain Mrs. H. S. Kirk - - + Winston-Salem — lle (FORM OF BEQUEST) “I give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, Jn- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). ——————— = Friendship (Continued From Page One) and most difficult undertakings. Friendship depends not upon fancy, imagination or sentiment, but upon character. There is no man so poor that he is not rich if he have a friend; there is no man so rich that he is not poor without a friend. But friendship is a word made to cover many kindly, impermanent relationships. Real friendship is abiding. Like charity, it suffereth long and is kind, Like love, it vaun- teth not itself, but pursues the even tenor of its way, unaffrigh- tened by ill-report, loyal in adver- sity, the solvent of infelicity, the shining jewel of happy days. Friendship has not the iridescent joys of love, though it is closer than is often known to the highest, truest love. Its heights are ever serene, its valleys know few clouds. To aspire to friendship one must cultivate a capacity for faithful affection, a beautiful disinterested- ness, a clear discernment, Friend- ship is a gift, but it is also an ac- juirement. It is like the rope with which climbers in the high moun- tains bind themselves fo rsafety, and only a coward cuts the rope when a comrade is in danger. From Cicero to Emerson, and long before Cicero, and forever after Emerson the praises of friendship have been set forth. Even fragments of friend- ship are precious and to be trea- sured. But to have a whole, real friend is the greatest of earth gifts save one. To be a whole, real friend is worthy high endeavor, for faith, truth, courage and loyalty bring one close to the Kingdom of Hea- ven. Whien a navigator plans to make a certain port, he must first place a “point of departure” on his chart, This is most important. For this is where he makes hi; start. If his reckoning is wrong here, his ship may not reach the haven where he would be. Every day, it is true, does not show us a desired or destined port ahead. We often aimlessly touch at many ports of call. And often we must take but one step at a time. “Give us this day our daily bread,” Jesus said. One thing, one day, at a time. If we are not to get off our course, however—if we are not to be carried away by sudden winds of moods and habits and chances— we need to start our day from a fixed point of departure. If nobody smiled and nobody cheer- ed, And nobody helped us along, If each, every minute, looked after himself, And the good things all went to the strong; If nobody cared just a little for you, And nobody thought about me; And we stood all alone in the battle of life; What a dreary old world it would be, Life is sweet just because of the friends we have made, And the things which in common we share, We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the people who care; It’s giving and doing for somebody else— On that all life’s splendor de- pends; And the joy of the world, when it’s all added up, Is found in the making of friends. Well, here is one way: Take two minutes off. Remember some per- son whom you reverence and ad- mire. Think of someone near you, someone you care for, someone who cares for you, Think how that person feels toward you and what he would have you be. See if such a start does not help you see the day’s duties in a truer perspective and aid you in meeting problems patiently, people with more under- standing, interruptions graciously, and new tasks with enthusiasm. For it is relationships that make us over, and such is the power which a friend can give us. The Spanish say of friendship: To keep with the good is to be one of them; to go with the bad is to soon be one of them. The Germans have a saying, more beautiful in their own lan- guage than in ours: “Mit dem hut in der hand geht man durch! das ganze land,” which with us is, “With politeness, or with his hat in his hand, man succeeds in any country.” The English have a cry- stallized saying by Carlisle, that success in life in anything depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to. All these are only the fringes of friendship; a very reasonable friendship may exist between per- sons in many things the opposite of each other. A man may love his dog; a horse may follow his mas- ter; a white child may be greatly attached to an old colored nurse, and all these have in them many elements of friendship. Shakespeare has given us an in- structive instance in the case of Timon of Athens, who was a rich lord, had plenty of friends while his money lasted, who made lavish! and costly banquets, with splendid dinners, and gave away plenty of money to men in turn, played upon his credulity. If one chanced to give him a cane, he would pay back the gift with a carriage. If one sent him a dog, he would re- pay it with a horse. If one dedicat- ed a book to his memory he would buy up the whole edition. But his means soon came to an end, and when his money ran out his head servant was sent out to borrow a little of his former friends. This was a sharp test of their (Continued On Page Three) for Presbyterian Orphans’ Home Barium Springs, N. Cc. ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY YEAR BEST IN. OF CHURCH 1946 1947 7 YRS. BEST Ahoskie 45.00 $ 50.00 $ 50.00 1947 Antioch ‘ 10.00 9.85 12.50 1945 Ballards None 4.00 4.00 1947 Bear Grass 8.40 13.00 29.00 1944 Berea 5.00 None 5.00 1946 Bethany 10.14 18.60 18.60 1947 Bethlehem 23.12 27.59 48.50 1945 Calvary 40.40 40.00 42.00 1945 Cann Memorial 54.60 None 85.91 1944 Cobb Memoria] 75.45 16.51 75.45 1946 Edenton 30.00 83.65 100.00 1944 Falkland 20.76 None 20.76 1946 Farmville 40.40 25.00 58.26 1945 Fountain 52.05 56.70 68.72 1945 Goldsboro 1st 194.28 212.61 828.35 1945 Greenville 580.66 231.32 580.66 1946 Hollywood None 25.50 25.50 1947 Howard Memoria] 394.90 861.80 500.00 1944 Jason 11.73 None 11.73 1946 Johnson Memorial 30.00 29.42 80.00 1946 Kinston 1st 55.11 31.55 142.88 1945 LaGrange 34.00 50.00 50.00 1947 Macclesfield 15.10 8.00 18.00 1944 Meadowbrook Chapel 25.00 80.10 80.10 1947 Morton 15.09 None 15.09 1946 Nahalah 35.00 48.00 48.00 1947 Neuse Forest 15.00 40.00 40.00 1947 New Bern 1st 300.00 301.65 850.25 1945 Pinetops 40.00 None 12.89 1945 Rivermont 14.00 18.00 18.00 1947 Roberson Chapel 22.75 23.00 23.00 1947 Rocky Mt. 1st 529.04 760.82 760.82 1947 Rocky Mt. 2nd 40.23 None 12.84 1945 Snow Hill 17.70 8.00 84.34 1945 Twin Oaks Chapel 5.00 None 5.00 1946 Washington 1st 180.95 118.73 150.17 1944 Williamston 32.50 10.50 82.50 1946 William & Mary Hart 47.75 12.00 68.85 1945 Wilson 1st 417.84 269.68 417.84 1946 George Kirby 5.00 2.00 5.00 1946 Chicod None 13.40 18.40 1947 Boyd Memorial None 25.28 25.28 1947 Total 2,931.26 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Back Creek $ 92.50 $ None $ 92.50 1946 Bayless Memorial 57.00 70.00 70.00 1947 Beattie Memorial 50.75 48.00 50.75 1946 Belk Memorial 10.20 28.25 28.25 1947 Bethany 29.95 88.30 88.30 1947 Bethesda 82.00 61.25 61.25 1947 Bethpage 110.00 100.00 117.50 1945 Bridgewater 18.00 30.00 41.66 1945 Centre 159.87 108.69 159.87 1946 Cleveland 23.90 80.00 86.25 1944 Clio 38.20 82.00 88.20 1946 Clinchfield 10.91 21.00 21.00 1947 Concord 1st 8,065.12 2,897.12 3,187.64 1945 Coneord (Loray) 197.15 200.00 200.00 1947 Concord 2nd 84.30 106.66 106.66 1947 Connley Memorial 11.00 13.25 13.25 1947 Davidson College 748.80 561.35 748.80 1946 Drusilla 3.76 None 8.00 1945 Elmwood 7.85 16.81 20.00 1945 Fairview 29.00 60.00 60.00 1947 Fifth Creek 85.15 69.59 85.15 1946 Flowe Harris 27.15 49.85 100.00 1945 Franklin 102.28 135.45 185.45 1947 Front Street 192.20 110.00 192.20 1946 Gilwood 105.76 115.45 115.45 1947 Glen Alpine 26.73 10.10 84.67 1945 Harmony 140.05 141.52 141.52 1947 Harrisburg 91.29 96.28 96.28 1947 Hickory 2,0062.00 2,116.72 2,116.72 1947 Immanuel 26.83 $2.32 82.82 1947 Kannapolis 1st 664.40 1,050.81 1,050.81 1947 Kannapolis 2nd 34.71 47.45 100.00 1944 Kirkwood 40.69 27.41 46.00 1945 Landis 10.00 None 10.00 1946 Lenoir 555.60 555.50 854.08 1944 Little Joe’s 414.53 299.71 419.73 1943 McDowell 5.25 None 5.25 1946 McKinnon 160.00 156.84 160.00 1946 Marion 603.17 858.82 858.82 1947 Mooresville 1st 945.46 870.21 1,000.00 1945 Mooresville 2nd 351.18 358.32 353.382 1947 Morganton 320.35 492.39 492.39 1947 New Salem 25.00 17.00 50.50 1945 Newton 525.00 500.00 525.00 1946 Old Fort 7.10 4.00 7.10 1946 Patterson 168.25 159.11 174.00 1945 Poplar Tent 54.69 88.31 88.31 1947 Prospect 172.27 207.51 207.51 1947 Quaker Meadows 30.18 None 80.18 1946 Rocky River 109.64 347.61 347.61 1947 Royal Oaks 14.67 24.68 24.68 1947 Salisbury 1st 2,474.00 2,779.94 2,779.94 1947 Salisbury 2nd 229.53 165.00 229.53 1946 Setzer’s Gap 12.50 18.43 18.43 1947 Shearer 16.20 10.00 16.20 1946 Sherril’s Ford 25.00 18.65 25.00 1946 Shiloh 27.10 23.00 27.10 1946 Siloam 17.28 17.00 17.28 1946 Spencer 37.87 43.36 54.69 1944 Statesville 2,718.14 3,600.65 3,600.65 1947 Story Memorial 10.80 11.00 11.00 1947 Tabor 81.75 30.00 81.75 1946 Sweetwater 14.00 29.24 29.24 1947 Taylorsville 71.55 75.74 109.06 1944 Third Creek 69.85 97.22 97.22 1947 Thyatira 167.83 160.99 178.83 1943 Unity 83.83 109.36 114.80 1943 Waldensian 254.44 300.00 300.00 1947 Total 20,850.22 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Antioch $ 129.18 $ 76.73 $ 129.18 1946 Ashpole 180.00 142.82 142.82 1947 Barbecue 20.00 40.05 54.42 1945 Bensalem 96.75 71.35 96.75 1946 Benson 26.50 50.00 60.00 1947 Berea 15.00 None 15.00 1946 SEPTEMBER 1948 SS. OO *"°:=:333V3=$N—unu66002—2>2—2—200000000000________—E————— THANKSGIVING OFFERING CHURCH 1946 Bethel 70.50 Bethesda 276.46 Big Rock Fish 24.00 Bluff 77.32 Brownson Memorial 30.00 Bunn Level 62.00 Calvary None Cameron 217.48 Cameron Hill 18.75 Campbellton 45.00 Cape Fear None Carthage 380.52 Cedar Rock 18.00 Centre 65.00 Church-in-the-Pines 117.01 Circle Court 45.00 Comfort 104.25 Covenant 55.75 Culdee 41.00 Cypress 9.00 Dunn 800.00 Eagle Springs None Ebenezer 25.00 Elise 44.37 Ephesus 50.96 Erwin 182.00 Eureka 104.19 Fairmont 30.55 Fayetteville 1st 1,339.59 Flat Branch 124.58 Four Oaks 21.85 Galatia 122.00 Gibson 64.60 Godwin 68.84 Grove 32.67 Highland 453.78 Hope Mills 9.56 Horseshoe 10.00 Iona 160.25 Jackson Springs 84.22 Lakeview 89.45 Laurel Hill 305.00 Laurinburg 630.93 Leaflet 90.38 Lillington 121.50 Lumber Bridge 46.00 Lumberton 813.85 MacEachern (Farm) 22.68 MeMillian 54.26 McNair Memorial 10.00 McPherson 102.27 Manly 60.00 Maxton 369.41 Midway 72.00 Montpelier 166.81 Mt. Pisgah 57.25 Mt. Tabor 32.11 Naomi None Olivia 119.00 Palestine 20.00 Parkton 107.00 Pembroke 72.50 Philadelphus 56.10 Phillippi 10.00 Pinehurst 61.59 Plain View 3.00 Priest Hill 56.00 Providence 22.50 Raeford 274.91 Raven Rock 49.29 Red Springs 316.08 Rex 84.00 Rowland 170.00 St. Pauls 301.21 Sardis 15.00 Sherwood 29.10 Shiloh 85.47 Smyrna 51.06 Spies 10.00 Spring Lake 65.00 Sunneyside 72.82 Union 42.00 Vass 82.75 Vaughn Memorial 44,31 West End 63.83 Westminster 15.00 Unity 6.60 Undesignated Total 1947 137.99 294.17 82.15 38.70 72.00 10.00 None 185.08 20.65 50.00 10.00 308.96 20.00 100.00 168.21 30.00 110.00 13.16 33.49 5.00 438.38 13.06 15.00 31.50 40.95 214.50 36.12 63.70 1,464.28 92.46 10.00 None 46.00 47.79 25.00 654.75 20.00 13.00 115.03 73.66 38.15 296.56 456.09 11.00 52.40 29.81 1,692.59 None 66.04 None 54.05 9.57 171.88 75.00 128.00 62.22 25.00 5.00 72.01 20.00 82.75 58.00 10.50 5.00 92.78 13.46 67.44 24.00 435.50 30.00 189.60 82.00 20.00 189.20 7.00 8.09 70.78 50.00 10.00 79.00 43.25 78.50 121.00 50.00 50.75 None 8.00 3.00 10,576.36 BEST IN 7 YRS. 187.99 294.17 32.15 17.32 72.00 62.00 26.27 217.48 20.65 50.00 10.11 380.52 20.00 260.00 168.21 45.00 110.00 55.75 58.00 23.50 438.38 15.02 25.00 49.30 50.96 214.50 104.19 80.60 1,464.28 124.58 21.85 172.33 86.05 68.84 40.00 654.75 22.65 13.00 160.25 84,22 39.45 305.00 630.93 90.38 121.50 46.00 1,692.59 22.68 66.04 10.00 102.27 60.00 369.41 75.00 195.00 62.22 32.11 5.00 119.00 20.00 107.00 72.50 55.10 18.00 92.78 13.46 67.44 24.00 435.50 49.29 316.08 84.00 186.81 301.21 15.00 29.10 85.47 51.06 10.00 79.00 72.82 78.50 121.00 50.00 63.83 21.00 8.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Blacknall Mem. §$ 112.00 $ 120.10 $ 120.10 Brookston 20.00 60.00 60.00 Buffalo Vanguard 51.86 65.50 84.27 Centre Ridge 15.00 15.00 15.00 Bellview 6.08 None 6.08 Durham 1st 1,513.54 1,590.12 1,590.12 Fairview 16.80 21.92 21.92 Fellowship 60.00 60.00 60.00 First Vanguard 580.55 562.29 580.55 Fuller Memorial 195.65 208.63 208.63 Geneva 100.00 100.00 100.00 Goshen 10.00 10.00 11.00 Grassy Creek 97.46 100.00 100.00 Gruver Memorial 25.36 17.77 26.85 Hebron 10.00 7.25 11.25 Henderson 1st 674.69 742.62 742.62 Kenly 31.76 10.00 31.76 Littleton 147.67 112.50 147.67 Mizpah 10.95 None 10.95 Mt. Bethel 21.50 27.00 34.48 Mt, Pleasant 13.14 23.01 26.38 Ernest Myatt 214.54 343.63 586.50 Northgate 29.00 20.00 29.00 North Vanguard 166.21 5.00 166.21 Nutbush 47,38 64.55 64.55 Oak Grove 80.00 None 30.00 Oak Hill 9.50 27.00 27.00 Oakland 19.63 22.85 82.00 Oxford 1st 240.00 204.77 240.00 Progressive 30.00 25.00 30.00 Raleigh 1st 1,676.04 1,453.60 1,899.24 Roanoke Rapids 242.00 195.07 242.00 Roxboro 58.03 100.59 100.59 St. Andrews 66.15 61.25 66.15 Selma 14,44 12.13 38.25 Smithfield 56.90 57.50 66.79 Spring Hill 12.08 6.21 21.00 Trinity Avenue 473.45 384.15 473.45 Varina 46.65 43.89 46.65 Warrenton 328.38 39.91 328.38 West Raleigh 326.36 368.26 368.26 White Oak 54.00 42.00 87.15 YEAR OF BEST 1947 1947 1947 1946 1947 1946 1943 1946 1947 1947 1945 1946 1947 1945 1947 1946 1947 1946 1942 1944 1947 1945 1946 1945 1946 1947 1946 1943 1947 1946 1946 1945 1945 1946 1945 1947 1945 1947 1946 1946 1946 1946 1946 1946 1946 1946 1947 1946 1947 1946 1946 1946 1946 1947 1944 1947 1946 1947 1946 1947 1946 1946 1946 1943 1947 1947 1947 1947 1947 1946 1946 1946 1944 1946 1946 1946 1946 1946 1947 1947 1946 1947 1947 1947 1946 1944 1947 1947 1947 1945 1947 1946 1947 1947 1947 1946 1947 1947 1945 1947 1945 1945 1947 1946 1946 1946 1943 1945 1945 1946 1946 1947 1946 1947 1946 1946 1945 1946 1947 1946 1945 1945 1944 1946 1946 1947 1944 sa s s 2 BA O C C G A R R R N R N R W O V I V SS R re r e Te e n s s e o o s D — — QS UV O M P AA A ee s Ss S s S s SS S S S S SS S St e t tI OO QQ Q O Q Q O O O O D OR r> > > r > b b oy | — - Se oN re ve e NO N OS E Od Gd G8 G8 Se em 8 8 ee Nn e M eM Oe ee re we ve we NE e e NO NN NS ON ON WI 8 SN Ob Ge I G8 SS T OO G8 UT OO SY GO Ws GS OG NS PAGE THREE THE BARIUM MESSENGER THANKSGIVING OFFERING Best in YEAR $s CHURCH 1946 1947 7 YR easy YEAR Best IN or Philadelphia 113.72 116.71 116.71 CHURCH 1946 1947 7 YRS. BEST Dinevine 182.00 ser 153.00 i947 White Mem., Raleigh 65.30 482.38 482.3 Plaza 269.11 279. 279.11 1947 Willow Springs 22:55 18.00 38°60 1945 Pleasant Hill 43.75 88.68 = 45.80 1945 Young Memorial 43.74 43.16 43.74 1946 Providence 116.29 83.26 = 116.29 1946 White Mem., W. Spgs. 13.50 11.78 20.00 1944 Ramah 80.00 72.00 81.00 1945 Total 7,886.38 Rehoboth 6.80 None 6.80 1946 ’ Ridge Crest 9.20 5.30 9.20 1946 Senerden og “a a0 1942 obinson 5.20 32. 5.20 194 KINGS MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERY Rockingham 13427 75.50 134.27 1946 Adams Memorial $ 75.00 $ 100.15 $ 100.15 1947 ou" a5.45 = geo let Aamtrone Mem. © 23400 » 29°60 ° 20210 i945 St Andrews 65.52 4251 65.52 1946 St. Paul 72.99 82.00 91.87 1945 Belmont 702.07 700.00 800.00 1948 - a Bessemer City 60.00 60.00 60.00 1947 22°™ one a 0.00 1945 Bostic hee 10.00 10:00 1947. Selwyn Avenue 136.23 100.00 136.23 1946 Brittain 25.00 25.78 25.78 1947 Seigle Avenue 19.50 83.01 33.01 1947 Castanes 35.00 66.00 66.00 1947 Sharon 156.50 188.08 166.50 1946 Cherryville 196.25 280.99 280.99 1947 Siler 30.00 - 45.00 1947 Columbus 30.00 88.75 3875 1947 Six Mile Creek 80.00 one = -80.00 1946 Cramerton 76.66 86.90 86.90 1947 South Park 48.00 38.33 48.00 1946 Dallas 28.95 42.55 4255 1947 Steele Creek 635.00 701.00 701.00 1947 Dixon 45.46 80.74 48.63 1945 Stevenson a ee oe ee Duncan’s Creek 77.00 31.64. ~—«77.00 1946 Susaw Creek oF Se "=. ie East Belmont 136 4n Ue ie — oo oe oe Ellenboro 25.00 10.00 35.00 1945 Tabernacle —— oe — te Forest City 91.55 56.80 9165 1946 Tenth Avenue 196.63 172.14 200.00 1944 Gastonia 1st 8,787.29 4,618.18 4,618.18 1947 Thomasboro — 2 Te = Goshen 128.47 180.24 180.24 1947 Toy ce. 7 «(fea ee Hephzibah 68.00 41.00 118.50 1942 Turner 0 Oo Kings Mountain 291.76 295.21 295.21 1947 Unionsville — i ae Lincolnton 1,347.48 629.91 1,847.48 1946 Walkerville 49.23 one 00 1945 Long Creek 76.60 78.25 | 7825 1947 Wadesboro — 2 & te Lowell 270.76 314.56 314.56 1947 Waxhaw - fo ae ye Macpelah 19.10 13.00 19.10 1946 West Avenue 172.26 165. 29.74 19 Mt, Holly 197.44 7.25 231.21 1945 Westminister 222.48 251.65 255.48 1942 New Hope 174.17 145.49 17417 1946 Williams Mem, 158.32 212.09 212.09 1947 Northside 22.00 14.31 23.75 1945 Wilmore | 112.48 98.23 171.08 1945 Olney 300.00 224.06 300.00 1946 Indian Hills None 2.00 2.00 1947 Rutherfordton 144.89 710.00 710.00 1947 Westover Hills None 25.60 25.60 1947 Saluda 21.00 54.00 54.00 1947 Total 17,520.97 Shelby 297.32 322.64 34050 1942 Shiloh 157.70 216.24 21624 1947 Spindale 85.80 95.70 95.70 1947 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Stanly Creek 31.00 36.11 36.11 1947 Tryon 45.00 64.73 54.73 1947 Alamance $ 211.95 $ 196.15 $ 211.95 1946 Union 88.50 71.48 88.50 1946 Ashboro 41.00 51.40 148.00 1945 Union Mills 36.00 4484 44.84 1947 Bessemer 15.00 None 28.41 1945 Unity 46.20 5120 61.20 1947 Bethany 180.80 140.50 180.80 1946 West Avenue 218.18 278.16 322.05 1945 Bethel 105.12 112.97 112.97 1947 Ironton 7.70 11.50 11.55 1943 Bethlehem 69.38 7810 78.10 1947 Total 10,336.46 Bethesda 30.70 3240 40.45 1945 Brentwood 58.00 a poet es Broadwa 42.63 6 2. MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Buffalo XG) 121.76 77.77 121.76 1946 P 5 Albemarle Ist $ 96.57 $ 154.80 $ 154.30 1947 Buffalo (L) more 1,085.17 1,085.17 1947 Albemarle 2nd None " 11783 ° 11788 1947 purnston tet (> ae Te iion a) aES ELD inert Sind 102.50 159.38 159.38 1947 aes oats ante S150 194, Chapel Hill 193.96 92.62 193.96 1946 Amay James 700 (keCROD ge COmmeny ae ee Oe OES Avondale 34.75 26.60 34.75 1946 Covenant 284.81 O02 77 5 Badin 132.00 123.00 135.33 1945 Cross Roads None None 41.50 1943 Banks 30.00 65.00 68.48 1944 Cummock Se = ee ae Benton Heights 50.00 60.00 60.00 1947 Hast Burlington 62.00 68.00 63.00) Bat Bethel 103.30 95.56 103.30 1946 efland SS Se ee ee Bethlchem 46.86 79.00 79.00 1947 El-Bethel — ee ee Be Beulah 22.30 21.60 28.05 1945 Eno ; 30.00 23.48 180.90 1945 Biscoe 81.00 90.00 90.00 1947 Euphronia 26.35 10.85 26.35 1946 Brainard 3200 3700 3700 1947 Fairfield 27.00 15.12 27.00 1946 Caldwell Memorial 259.44 266.60 301.88 1942 Farmville None 5.00 7.00 1945 Camden 30.00 8.00 36.00 1944 Gilead 9.00 12.85 15.00 1945 Cameronian 25.00 29.00 29.00 1947 Glenwood 72.04 60.00 72.04 1946 Camp Greene 45.00 71.29 71.29 1947 Goldston None 10.00 10.00 1947 Candor 28.48 66.06 66.06 1947 Graham 569.77 383.32 569.77 1946 Central Steele Creek 135.62 89.10 185.62 1946 Greensboro Ist 2,486.10 2,463.01 2,794.36 1945 Charlotte 1st 2,476.08 2,458.17 2,966.52 1948 Greenwood 114.00 95.50 114.00 1946 Charlotte 2nd 4,040.06 4,981.09 4,981.09 1947 Griers 55.50 27.80 55.50 1946 Commonwealth Ave. 50.00 74,82 74,82 1947 Gulf 17.00 25.00 25.00 1947 Cook’s Memorial 100.12 175.00 175.00 1947 Hawfields 305.00 270.35 805.00 1946 Cornelius 22.65 20.00 28.00 1944 Haywood 5.00 5.00 10.00 1945 Ellerbe None 11.50 38.837 1945 High Point Ist 620.40 581.59 1.240.16 1945 East Side Chapel 10.54 8.738 10.54 1946 Hillsboro 48.80 61.31 61.31 1947 Hamlet 182.26 223.84 223.84 1947 Jonesboro 56.38 16.10 61.00 1945 Hawley Memorial 12.00 12.00 30.00 1945 Joyce Chapel 4.15 9.00 9.00 1947 Hopewell 134.47 88.94 134.47 1946 Kirkpatrick Heights 3.25 22.29 22.29 1947 Huntersville 89.52 65.81 102.45 1945 Leaksville 52.68 85.94 85.94 1947 Indian Trail 62.00 125.25 125.25 1947 Little River 125.00 113.50 125.00 1946 Lee Park 55.25 72.00 72.00 1247 Madison None 110.30 110.30 1947 Lilesville 12.00 None 12.00 1946 Mebane 804.16 280.13 804.16 1946 Locust _ 25.00 58.52 58.52 1947 Milton 15.00 2265 22.65 1947 Macedonia 35.32 44.75 _ 52.84 1942 Mt. Vernon Springs 41.00 28.00 41.00 1946 McGee ' 73.30 75.00 75.00 1947 New Hope 10.00 7.00 88.50 1945 McLean Memorial 12.00 13.50 13.50 1947 N. Buffalo (Chapel) 27.27 10.00 27.27 1946 Mallard Creek 111.85 88.42 111.85 1947 Piedmont 4455 62.76 77.00 1944 Marks Creek 21.45 40.00 40.00 1947 Pittsboro 23.00 22.00 27.65 1942 Marshville 26.00 28.05 28.30 1943 Pleasant Grove 38.05 86.46 88.05 1946 Matthews 2140 64.50 106.65 1945 Sek Mowe 500 me oa35 iad Monroe Ist 261.81 475.49 475.49 1947 Reidsville 438.31 462.39 462.39 1947 ce. iF ee Sei eee, Se RS BR Be Mt. Gilead 101.66 10839 108.89 1947 Scien te | 0 a abet Mulberry 110.13 150.58 150.58 1945 Sanford 638.07 597.02 1,060.40 1945 on 2,002.20 1,981.88 2,002.20 1946 Shiloh 40.71 52.00 60.68 1944 : t 11 1944 Smyrna 6.06 6.20 6.75 1943 Newell 82.00 15.66 82.00 1946 Speedwell 20.00 81.66 = 48.75 1945 North Charlotte 108.25 100.27 103.25 1946 ee 18.75 42.13 45.78 1946 ees 44.50 80.47 44.50 1946 Stony Creek 68.00 66.00 107.32 1945 oe, ot 15.00 15.00 1947 Westminster 112.53 106.83 175.45 1943 Paw Creek 253.86 21872 253.86 1946 tame ai sats 0.00 ive ios e r 7 ance e e ov. e Pee Dee 10.00 10.00 10.00 1947 Total 9,257.65 Due to lack of space, Wilmington and Winston-Salem Presbyteries will be published next month. Friendship (Continued From Page Two) friendship, His friend “A” said, “I am very sorry, but my present wants are enough to use up quite all the money I can raise.” His friend “B” said, “Well, I thought as much. Timon has been living too fast.” His friend “C’ said, “It has come at last; just as I expected; he was too prodigal of his money.” When Timon heard of it he felt greatly hurt; he called his servants together and made a great feast, and invited everybody, including his friends. As they came in one by one they spoke something like this: “We are glad to dine with our genial friend again; we knew it was a joke; we knew our old friend Timon was well-to-do.” Timon remained silent, At a given signal the covers were raised, and only hot water was seen in every dish. “Now,” said Timon, “Begone, begone, you false friends; flee out of my sight in- stantly,” and he drove them away. He took to the woods, and lived like a hermit with his dogs. War came on, and Timon, whi had been valiant in battle, Was needed in Athens, but he would not go back. One day he found a vast deposit of gold and silver, and became very rich again, but even then he would not return, though! he could have returned in great splendor and been a ruler and prince in Athens; but he refused saying, “I will not return, for what is money without friendship?’ Let us linger a moment on the theme that comes so close to our homes and our lives; let us hurry not away from it, but go from it thoughtfully. The Chinese have a saying when parting from their friends: “Go away slowly when you must go—go away slowly.” The Japanese say, when they separate, “If it must be so.” The Germans. “auf wiedersehen,” till we meet again; and Confucius, the great Chinese teacher, said, “The archer who misses the target, turns to himself and not to another for the cause of his failure.” So with our friends, and our friendly relations —thle only possible failure, if fail- ure it be, to win their respect must fall upon ourselves. Perhaps the most _ beautiful story of friendship of all was the story of Damon and Pythias. You remember it is in poem form but to shorten it and get the meaning of it, the tyrant first says to Damon, “What means this diguise, and the dagger that gleams in thy breast?” To which Damon answers,“Twas to free this dear land from its chains “Free the land, wretched fool; thou shalt die for thy pains.” ***T am ready to die—I ask not to live Yet three days of respite, perhaps, thou wouldst give, For tomorrow my sister will wed; And ’twould damp all her joy were her brother not there. Then let me, I pray thee, to her nuptials repair, While a friend remains here in my stead. Then to Pythias he went and told him his case; Thiat true friend answered not, but with instant embrace Hurried forth to be bound in his stead. You remember on his return three days later, how he met the floods and robbers, and battled his way back, and at last arriving in sight of the scaffold, the poem con- cludes: “When, hark! what a sound is mut- tered around, Saying, hold! it is I, it is Damon, for whom he was bound.” How the King for once felt him- self as he ought and commanded that both to his side might be brought. How the King forgave them both on condition that they would make him one of their friends. You remember another instance of friendship. It is old, it is rare, it is beautiful; it is the little story in the Bible of Ruth, the gleaner, whi, when asked by her mother to remain at home while she went out into another country to get grain, the dutiful girl said, “Entreat me not to leave thee, or return from following after thee, for whither thou goest I will go, where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, thy God shall be my God. Where thou livist, I will live. Where thou diest I will die, and there will I be buried.” And so in friendship we must stand together, like Damon and Pythias, to the end of life, and not to the end of fortune. As a man advances in years he is more likely to appreciate his friends. “Is there anything in the world that can take the place of friendship?” asks somebody. “Just knowing that people like you and enjoy your company and want to do things for you, gives you a satis- faction which success or wealth alone can never bring. There is no substitute for friendship. You can- not buy it. It is not for sale. A man may achieve high! position, his earn- ings may be large, but if he has no friends, he has missed one of the finest theings in life. In his heart, he is a poor and lonely man.” All about you are interesting people, either in your own profession or business, or in entirely different lines. Study them, Most likely you will soon find a number with quali- SEPTEMBER 1948 el ———— ties that you like. Cultivate such people. It pays. Your life will be richer in many ways. Dr. Johnston often said: “Keep your friendship in constant repair.” Many of our old friends are pass- ing on; unless we make new friends to take their places we will even- tually find ourselves friendless. “Here’s to the hand of friendship, Sincere, twice-tried and true, That smiles in the hour of triumph And laughs at its joy with you, Yet stands in the night of sorrow Close by when the shadows fall, And never turns the picture Of an old friend to the wall.” The Message of the (Continued From Page One) Admitting then that literal know- ledge does not always show a deep understanding of the Bible, there is still an apalling lack of familiar- ity with the Bible today. Yet with the evidence of this ignorance, the truth still stands that only the Word of God is able to arm men with a faith by which they can live in days such as these. As the Psalmist said so long ago, it is he “whlose delight is the Law of the Lord who shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his friut in season, his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” Our Confession of Faith in speak- ing of the Holy Scriptures, says, “All of these are given by inspira- tion of God, to be the rule of faith and life.” The Bible then gives us the only sure faith in an age that is beset by the various ideologies and “isms” that only confuse, but do not point the way. To a con- fused world, to a disillusioned world which is groping around in its chaos and hopelessness, the Bible’s message of faith in God is the one sure anchor for our souls. Too long has man trusted in the material things that do not satisfy, in the things that are temporal and all too soon will pass away. Too long has he tried to live with- in himself in the false assurance of his own self sufficiency. The Bible reproves and corrects that error in revealing the timeless truth that faith in God is the way of salvation, the way of abundant life here and eternal life hereafter. God’s Word too has a message to deliver on godly living in the realm of daily life. Faith must show itself in deeds of righteous- ness or it reveals itself to be no faith at all. The man who takes that Word as his anchor is com- mitted to a life that seeks ever to follow the teachings of thle Master. The Master who said so searching- ly, ‘Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.” There is no halfway point to following Christ, either we walk with Him all the way or we walk with Him not at all. Faith and life are one. God’s Word alone can be the rule of both. The Bible is our great heritage, given to us by God Himself who is its althor. However uncertain life may seem, whatever changes the future may bring, the Bible has stood and will stand in its ability to meet the need of the world in every age. HOWARD COTTAGE School has started and every- body seems to like it. The six grade has a new teacher. Her name is Miss Jean Murphy. We all like her very much. We have had only one new girl this year and she came in after school started. Her name is Almo Wright and that makes 21 girls in our cottage. The sewing room matron and some of the high! school girls made us some beautiful school dresses Miss Andrews brought us a new record player last week and we like it so much we play it nearly every night, Linda Inman’s daddy came Sun- day and brought her a new wateh (Continued On Page Four) PAGE FOUR ——— Clothing Funds August Receipts Back Creek Aue, 25.00 Banford Aux... ....... 40:00 Howard Mem. Aux., Mrs. George Holderness ............ 8.50 Mrs. Mabry Hart ........... 5.00 Ida F, Miller, High Point. 30.00 Mr. H. P. Warlick, Charlotte 5.00 Wilson Ist Aux. ............... 100.00 North Wilkesboro Aux. ..... 75.00 Gilwood Aur. 2 Aen VRUR AUR 20.00 Miscellaneous Gifts August Receipts Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High Point. .....:.. Gas Settee pce SR Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ..... 10.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet ... 1.00 A Friend, Cumberland ........ 5.00 Duke Endowment sesrnsassnnsonend SOOO Miss Laurie M. Eachern, Ras ee 50.00 Miscellaneous August Receipts Mrs. Williamson’s Circle No. 4, Antioch Aux., dresser covers. Collier’s Jewelers, jewelery. Cooleemee Presbyterian Church Bible School, dresser covers. Operating Memorials August Receipts Williamson, Mr. Ben H., Jr., Mt. Airy: Smith, Mr. T. M., Mt. Airy: Mrs. Ben H, Williamson Memorials for Church August Receipts Adams, Mr. Hope, Davidson: Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Barnett, Gas- tonia Adams, Mr. J. Leon, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Angle, Judge William L., Shelby: Mr. & Mrs. Harry Speck, Sr. Ayers, Mr. T. J., Statesville: Statesville Insulation Company Bagby, Rev. Richard, Ashland, Va.: Mr. & Mrs, Dan Cratch, Wash- ington, N. C. Belk, Mrs. Martha D., Weddington: Mr. Fred P. Quay and Sisters, Harrisburg Campbell, Dr. James L., Charlotte: Mr. Philip F. Howerton Clark, Mrs. R. R., Statesville: Mrs. Nell Suther, Salisbury Mrs, Zeb V. Long Clinton, Mrs. F. E., Rock Hill, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. E. Hope Forbes and Family, Gastonia Coffey, Mrs. Finley H., Lenoir: Mr. Henry Wilson, Morganton Davis, Dr. Hoagland Cook, Balti- more, Md.: Dr. & Mrs. W. C. Goley, Graham Davis, Mr. John B., Badin: Mr. Joe Kirk, Jr. Davis, Miss Mayme, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Dilling, Mr. Wayne, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Barnett Efird, Mr. A. L., Kannapolis: Kannapolis 1st Sunday School Efird, Mrs. J. W., Albemarle: Mrs. W. L. Mann Mr. J. A. Little Eggers, Mr. Charles E., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Fonville, Master R. M. (Petie), Jr., Burlington: Dr. & Mrs. R. E. Brooks Great Uncle, Mr. John Lee Fon- ville Mr. Ralvh M. Holt Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Grandson, Mr. Bob Gaither Gibson, Little Miss Marion, (six years), Sumter, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. Hope Ratchford, Gas- ; tonia Gunter, Mr. J. T., Sanford: Renneker Bible Class, Rocky Mt. ist Church Hart, Mr. George, Sr., Monroe: Dr. & Mrs. J. W. Ormand Haywood, Mrs. Mary McAuley, Mt. Gilead: Miss Ruth McRae Heitman, Mrs. Julia, Mocksville: Mrs. Hansford Sams, Decatur, Ga. Henderlite, Baby Joan Elizabeth, Charlotte: Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr., Gastonia Mr. & Mrs. Chadwick Callaghan Miss Lelia Johnston, Barium Springs Hicks, Mr. Lawrence, Troutman: Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Troutman, Jr. Holler, Master Lee McArthur, Ra- leigh: (3 years) Mr, & Mrs. Carl E. VanDeman, North Wilkesboro Mr. Nathaniel & Misses Louise & Reva McGoogan, Shannon Mr. & Mrs. W. D, Broadwell, St. Pauls Holstead, Mr. H. A., Mooresville: Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Kennette Horne, Mrs. Mattie P., Elizabeth- town: Mr. & Mrs, J. F. Niven, Albe- marle Hunter, Colonel Baxter R., Char- lotte: Mr. Francis 0. Clarkson a Mr. Tresco, Florence, W.N.J ohnston & Sons Company, Mooresville Mr. & Mrs. H. C. Cobb, Jr., Mooresville Johnstone, Mrs. Gussie Knox, Mocksville: Miss Marianna Long, Durham Mrs. Hansford Sams, Decatur, Ga. King, Private Albert M., States- ville: Mr. & Mrs. Moward Beatty Long, Dr. H. F., Statesville: (given on the anniversary of his death) Daughter, Miss Marianna Long, Durham Lowe, Mr. & Mrs. R. L., Banner Elk: Mrs. Dorothy H. Avery, South- ern Pines Miss Margaret Bishop, Southern Pines Lyerly, Mr. Joseph G., Salisbury: Grandchildren of Joseph G. Lyerl- McGlamery, Mrs. A. M., Greens- boro: Mr. Philip F. Howerton, Char- lotte McKay, Mr. G. A., Red Springs: Mr. & Mrs, Clifton Adams Philadelphus Auxiliary Matheson, Mrs. W. L., Mooresville: Dr. & Mrs. C, L. Bittinger Taylorsville Presbyterian Church Auxiliary Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy Campbell, Hickory Mr. & Mrs. Pascal S. Boyd Mrs. Clarence McNeely Mrs. W. S. Meekins & Mrs. Vic- tor Meekins, Manteo Moore, Dr. W. Houston, Wilming- ton: Mrs. R. C. MeCarl & Family & Miss Margaret Weathers, Wrightsville Sound Mull, Mr. J. C., Hickory: Aunt Sally’s Bakery, R. A. Still- well, Manager, Statesville Munn, Mr. John E. B., Wadesboro: Wife, Mrs. John Munn, West Palm Beach, Fla. Myers, Dr. Charles F., Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. Parke C. Stratford, Burlington Mr. Philip F. Howerton, Char- lotte Painter, Mother of Dr. W. W. Painter, Mooresville: W.N. Johnston & Sons Company Pickard, Mrs. Betty Lee, Graham: Mr. & Mrs. Durward T. Stokes Rawiney, Mr. Fred, Spottswood, ..: Jackson Springs Auxiliary Ray, Mr. Harshall G., Rockfish: Wife, Mrs. M. G. Ray Rea, Mr. H. G. L., Matthews: Mr. & Mrs. N. S. Cochran Miss Nancy A. Reed ™~ Francis 0. Clarkson, Char- tt: otte Ridenhour, Mr. Robert E., Sr., Con- cord: Mr, & Mrs. C. B. Ross, Charlotte Mr. & Mrs. George E. Wilson, Jr., Charlotte Dr. & Mrs, J. E. Burns, Concord Mr. & Mrs. George Corl Mrs, Edward Purdie, Jr., Dunn Mr. & Mrs, A. Jones Yorke Mr. & Mrs. John D, Baker, Jr., New York Ross, Mrs. (Laura) T. L., Concord: Grier Bible Class, Concord First Presbyterian Church Mr. & Mrs. C, A. Ridenhour Misses Rose & Clara Harris & Mrs. Mary Lewis Redd Mr. & Mrs. Pat Ritchie Dr. & Mrs. J. E. Burns, Philadel- phia Smith, Mr. Matt, Mt. Airy: Mr. & Mrs, Hugh Merritt Snapp, Mr. Thomas W., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Frank Gulledge Thompson, Mrs. Frances, Morven: Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Wall Thomason, Mrs. Ida M., Morganton: Dr. & Mrs. E. Oscar Randlophi & Mr. John L, Randolph Wall, Mr. Benjamin Rutledge, Lilesville: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Lide, Shelby Mrs. A. J. Tilton & Mr. A, J. Tilton, Jr., Georgetown, S. C. Mr. Vernon L, Wall & Family, orven Ward, Father of Dr. Ernest Ward, Statesville: Dr. Ernest Ward White, Mrs. Hugh Edward, Gas- tonia: Nellie Warren Bible Class, Gas- tonia 1st Church Employees of National Bank of Commerce, Gastonia Mr. & Mrs. William Summer- ville, Jr., Charlotte Mrs. J. H. Henderlite Mrs. Ray Spratt & Family and Miss Bess Rankin, Mt, Holly Mr. & Mrs. Minor R. Adams Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Sr, Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y, Gardner Williamson, Mr. Ben H., Jr., Mt. Airy: Miss Mary Barrett, R. N. Wilson, Mr. Lowry Reid, Jr., Lowell: Mr. & Mrs, J. Coit Cox, Mrs. E. Ross Cox & Miss Lucille Cox, Gastonia Mr. Thomas H. Wilson & Sisters, Gastonia Mr. G. C. Stewart & Children, Belmont Wood, Prof. W. W., Davidson: Mr. & Mrs. Earle H, Spence THE Barium MESSENGER HOWARD COTTAGE (Continued From Page Three) for her birthday. She is thrilled about getting jt, She looks at it almost all the time. Betty Ann Blackburn recited the Childs Catechism, and we are so happy to have another one start on the Shorter Catechism. All of our six grade girls were tried out for the Junior Choir and guess what, thley all got to be in it, Their names are: Betty Blackburn, Peggy Byrd, Phoebe Cochran, Mary Bowles, Lois Dellinger, Betty Lou Johnson, Linda Inman and Shirley Shaw. — The Bean Stringers Alumni News (Continued From Page One) was a visitor on the campus. He is President of the men of the Church of the First Presbyterian Church. Born to Mr. and Mrs, Albert Cumbie of Greensboro in May a son Steven Mark. They live at 1415 Whilden Place, Born on July 17 to Mr. and Mrs. John Donaldson a daughter, Ann Louise. Mary Ann Ryder and her hus- band came by Barium on their way to Niagara Falls, N. Y. where they are making their home. Julius Kinard’s address is Capt. Julius Kinard Proy. Sqdn, 562, APO Mrs. J. C. Black Dr. & Mrs. T. S. Logan Mr. T. E, Lothery Mr. D, P. Brown Mr. C, E. Fidler Mr. R. C. Penland Mr, & Mrs, J. A. McGeachy, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. A. G. Griffin Dr. & Mrs, T. J. Bell Mr. & Mrs. W. M. Mebane, Jr. Woodell, Mr, E. A., Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Myers & Mike Churches August Receipts CONCORD PRESBYTERY See teeeeeees sees, eeeeceeeenes Harmony ... Harrisburg Hickory 1st Kannapolis 2nd PIS oreinscs aguinthstne avec Little Joe’s NEI ceavvsnsnw ince Sinceus anasiorcaced BECPIOWEL ones. sasesens ccecee 65 Mooresville 1st 00. .eeceeeseees 130.00 Mooresville 2nd ou. ceosceoe 11.69 Newton, J. R. Gaither .......... 25.00 Pe ONG ois prcwsencduweas 25.00 MATOS sc. nnascy dervereiniee sesiseas 12.18 PIMEMDDEY USt cccclcses sccsssercese 57.34 mmrmrey Ord gi. escuaie 28.94 Shlerrill’s Ford cocccce | cossesee 1.85 RHEE Cleseseesn chi Gigie’ sccenecsincs 3.97 Statesville 1st ek. ceecccssescsee 26.00 OPIN ee 19.50 Third Creek . 5.36 Thyatira . .. 15.04 MT enn. «ns cp eau ds is 5.20 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY MEOORSUON of ence) nist 1.32 Fuller Memorial c.cc.c. 0 cesses 8.22 BIONMETSON Ast Locccsscs sevesceae 48.30 Oak Grove . OO GIANG os i ‘ Pree 16b 80.30 Thanksgiving oo... cescsses cee 50.00 Gritey “Avenue ls?) ., scumiciss 7.10 West Raleigh 2205.. csssdus 8.04 White Memorial ........ «0.0... 20.87 Young Memorial ........ ss. 4.60 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Brittain _ wivesuddi niet erases aT RPBMEOS VUNG oo vsesssiaais 25.00 BBE bes csiss... sce eee cia East Belmont ............ x endevieds 5.00 Gastonia 1st, Mr. & Mrs, J. L. Kendrick... ... Lincolnton 1st Long Creek Mount Holly NOW Hone cs sacs 15.00 RMORCE HOG ce, 8.12 Rutherfordton 2... csosesse sooo 25.72 BEE ...csnreuese; ahaa secniees Union .... ee . Unity West ia voveessveses MECKLENBURG PRESB Avondale sevesenssgii (Se OP ini, Ue leaned 1.25 Caldwell Memorial ......... .... 84.79 WOM Greene 20. vaccucsen 89 fl OT Commonwealth ...... sss. one 1.65 WOOkS Mem, en cock 6.00 Eillerbe 30 Erdman Love 30 Indian Traj) 75 eee 3.00 Macedonia weonesealine tein’ ents VE Monroe 1st siewsins 11.76 Mulberry _ ~~ Myers Park ~~ 264, cfo San Francisco, Calif, Born to James and Lilly Bell (Smith) Dorton of San Diego, Calif. on July 10th a little girl, Danna Eunice, Born to Joe and Nellie (Johnson) Summers of Statesville on August 12th a daughter, Margaret Ann. Tom Clark and his wife have moved to Raleigh from Burlington and are living at 211 East Aycock St. Tom is working for the Bynum Printing Co. Hazel Walker was married Feb- ruary 28th to Jack Calhoun of Newport News, Va. They are liv- ing in Densimore, Fla. Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Blue September 5th, a son Paul Eugene, Helen Thomas has returned to High Point to teach Home Econo- mics in the High School. Charles Barrett, Amos Hardy, Paul Horne, Ernest Stricklin and Mott Price are students at David- son this fall. Hannah Price, Dewie and Sadie Buie, Ernestine Baldwin, Nina Berryhill, Mildred Monroe and Bradley Manus have entered Flora Macdonald College. Nina is a Sen- ior this year and is president of the Christian Association. Charles Starling, Jack McCall, George Lewis, David Burney are students at the University. Eleanor Pope has entered Rex Hospital in Raleigh to take a course North Charlotte 20.00... ...00..... OIE RII occcsccusees’ gstanses sascinced Philadelphia .... PUMER icicsiies vs Pleasant Hill .. Providence FIGROCLORE ncccesciccs esctcase sccseces Rockingham ooo. o.. cee Selwyn Avenue Seigle Avenue WE oeictss ssc iusec cscs Sugaw Creek Tenth Avenue Thomasboro Troy Westover Hills 2... cece ‘ ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance Burlington 2nd ... Covenant ......... p Cross Roads 8.76 El-Bethlel] ........... 10.00 Greenwood ........ 2.50 High Point 1 48.90 Pocket . 1.18 Sanford 40.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Caswell A Jacksonville Mount Olive Be ike severe Potts Mem. ... a PEOCIII soccccsuhess” scaciens -esssitunes Saint Andrews-Covenant ..... 181.06 Wallace eestitha, lnvesetasiene 31.28 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem 1st ...... ........ 50.00 Sunday Schools August Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Farmville POTEET Tc scsveieues. yablienaies Wesscs New Bern 1st, Men’s B. C. ..79.88 Pinetops 3. POO BOO) icicissscsscsbscotasisess 47.42 Wilson, Mrs. Lea’s Class 2.82 PROS Be Os iiss ises, sissies 31.73 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Concord Mooresville 1st MW Sis cctools ashen. 29.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY BOUMNON Gila ae 10.60 Mis, biainuhe cool 9.21 NSO PORE ocvcsciscse caccsocesesac, 10.00 RIMIRE Wiiiiesicis. cxtistecice ecesic 16.00 Church-in-the-Pines ...... 30.00 RORENEN tle cle. wolslcuces 6.00 Lumber Bridge ......... ..... 10.29 PING iilinaiees sivninlic iechadion 3.70 Pa criasieoy cipiussicas douches 16.56 Raven Rock o.ccc. ccccccsesesesee, 14,00 Red Springs 220000000. oo... 10.00 OE Gir stassinin: seuestinesis,.esemisasiiie 25.70 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Durham Ist, Big Brothers MEE he vcslinsen suman ice 110.00 Trinty Avenue ......... 27.52 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY BROREOUNEND esx sctpiosee: ci pols: trteslnicehc 2.92 WMOEMON ceca. 18.00 Lincolnton 1st 0.0... «0... 11.36 BNE RMON ba ccecse Weccicsiics ue 11.22 TOO LODO coccscccess csesie 98.63 i te al 8.50 ME isis aceacd ie 5, 0 6.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle ist, July & Aug. 106.00 SEPTEMBER 1948 in X Ray. Billy McCall has completed his course at Carolina Business Schlol in Charlotte and is working in Charlotte. Herbert Willard of Yadkinville made a short visit to Barium in August. Rufus Long was a visitor at Barium. He is working in the Wachovia Bank in Asheville. Louise Martin Carson, her hus- band and children made a visit to Barium. Announcement was made in the Charlotte Observer of the engage- ment of Mary Allen Howe to Charles Craven Helms of Charlotte, The wedding will take place this fall, Lucy Johnson was married July 2nd and is living at 6215 Jackson St. West N. Y., New Jersey. Dorathy Weeks Ward was mar- ried September 4th in Wilmington. Born to John and Mable (Vinson) Lee on July 28rd in Shelby a son, John Andrew. Mable and the baby came for a shlort visit. Herman Smith of Pink Hill Spent a few days at Barium. Nellie Isenhour was married September 6th to Emil Yueman at Chesterfield, S. C, They will live at Danbury, Conn. Adelia Knight was married in August to Ed R. Jones of Greens- boro. Badin, Ladies B. C, .............. 5.00 BOONE caret occa ae ... 5.76 Camden ........ .. 5.00 Commonwealth 17.06 Monroe 1st .-. 85.00 MAUOGTEY on cesisises aiseencssreenices OD Myers Park, Men’s Club .... 25.00 Philadelphia 20000. oo. coe. 10.86 Tenth Avenue 200. cece 25.00 PUBTABNCE cccesce cscsasce covsassesers 26.75 Buffalo (G) oo. ceescecene 28.12 Burlington 2nd oo. cece 4.72 Mn egeces ls seca 5.78 Graham, Woman’s Adult EE 25.00 Greensboro 1st, Men’s B. C. 21.00 MN ss ssceel ecg: Ga 11.00 Mebane ............ .. 7.00 Pocket ............ ... 10.16 Stony Creek . .. 13.18 Westminster ........ ieee 20.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY MPMI ccssusisss scisisseccss scsssess 17.87 ME a cssuces seuss 10.25 Mount Olive wo oc 9.00 TOW OD cccscctscis: sccecicccc, ca. 10.00 Oak Plains 1.00 Pollocksville 8.65 South River 1.00 Winter Park ............ cc... .00 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Mocksville Auxiliaries August Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Howard Mem, ........... 1.00... 11.00 Rocky Mount Ist .... . Rocky Mount 2nq Wayside Glen Alpine ... < BO ees, oc. tila, “eeu, 15.00 Statesville ist Thyatira OOTUNB RG oo a ask 15.00 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Blacknall Mem. 84.00 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Cherryville secsstbsesey Seghbll peugie 4.69 Mount Holly 9.15 Olney 4.80 Shelby ... 5.00 Tryon 6.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY 4.00 Albemarle 1st ....... ... Iton Avondale _......... 4 Caldwell Mem. le Hopewell ........ A CT Sicsit siciniisacin ach. 18 North Charlotte ........ 45 I io cc, 1.27 BP Fiiislistes: sestonsece, tanaeaaa.s -50 Rockingham ....... 1.88 Saint Andrews 36 Thomasboro .... BUOY cssesiciece ore West Avenue Westminster ..... ORANGE PRESBYTERY SOMONE | ceiiniutsscdeestien gid ed 90 Bethesda ou... ous MPO iscsissccs soonace 5.00 Greensboro Ist ............ --- 18.40 FJONESHOTO oonnice, cccceas.... 3.00 Sanford ............ 10.00 Springwood ........ .. . 1.59 Westminster ..... 20.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Elizabethtown . J Mount Zion J Te os 2 eveneues wesces 15.00 Barium at the Crossroads by Jos. B. Johnston See Page Two VOL. 25 EXTRA! Burglar § Cracks Safe at Barium See Page 3 No. BARIUM SPRINGS, N. C., OCTOBER 1948 12 THEY ARE LOOKING TO YOU FOR A GENEROUS THANKSGIVING OFFERING ee pe a PAGE TWO THE BARIUM MESSENGER THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, Nivemoer 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium @erings, N. C., under the act of August 4 1912 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in Section liv» Act of October 8, 1917. Authorized Nevember 15, 1923. BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON PRESIDENT MRS. R. A. YOUNG VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. COIT ROBINSON SECRETARY J. Archie Cannon - - - - Coneord Mrs. Percy R. Smith - + Wilmington Mrs. Coit Robinson - - - ~- Lowell Mrs. C. b. Kerehner - - Greensboro Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - Farmville Mrs. P. P. McCain - Southern Pines N. H. Edgerton - Rocky Mount Rev. M. S. Huske - - + Reidsville tev. Samuel E. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Mrs. W. ©. Alexander - - - Durham Rev. N. R. McGeachy - ~-_ Statesville R. W. Bruin” - - + + Henderson W. E. Price - es - - Charlotte Mrs. Fred L. Smyre - - Gastonia Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Mrs. K. A. Young - = =) = Charlotte Rev. Ben F. Brown - - - Wallace J. H. Thomson -— - Kings Mountain Mrs. E. C. Beatty - - ~- Mooresville Mrs. H. S. Kirk - - + Winston-Salem SSeS (FORM OF BEQUEST) “I give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ HOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, /n- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST) ————————— Barium Springs at the Crossroads— A Little Financial History They say that history repeats itself. Those of us who have made a study of the finances at Barium Springs are ready to ad- mit the truth of that statement. ‘20s Barium Springs was fairly Let’s illustrate: back in the prosperous. The Orphanage had taken on a lot of new obligations, new buildings had been erected, the population had increased, and it took much more money to operate, but the Church responded nobly, and during the early ‘20s we were able to go to Synod every year with a statement that all bills were paid and income was sufficient to take care of all of our expenses. We rather gloried in that condi- tion aud maybe bragged on it too much, At the same time that we made our reports to Synod some of the other causes were making their reports and they were not so en- couraging. One department of the Synod’s work was woefully behind in its finances. Someone came up with the idea thliat, since Synod owned the Orphanage and these other causes too, they could vote money out of the Orphanage trea- sury to support the other causes, and by a simple vote this was done. It was so easy that this was re- peated the next year and the next and then another enterprise in which the Synod was interested, one of the Church papers, was in financial difficulties so a sum was voted out of the Orphanage trea- sury to help that. This continued until the depression was on us and we found ourselves with no sur- plus and with a fast diminishing income. We went through the de- pression trying to limp through and do the job that we were called upon to do in those distressing times, In spite of all of our efforts to curtail, we found ourselves tre- mendously in debt - so much so that the entire Synod was much disturbed about it. Finally it was decided that the only way to remedy that condition was to raise the money to put Ba- rium Springs back in the black. Albemarle Presbytery was the first one to start out with a plan. It worked so well that the plan was adopted all over the Synod, and as a result additional money was raised, Barium’s debt was paid, and she has been kept in the black in spite of the tremendously in- creased cost of living during the last few years. Barium’s costs have increased - just doubled what it was nine years ago. It is hardly necessary to ex- plain why this is true. Anyone who has maintained a family, who has bought clothes, who has bought food, or who has had to hire any- body to do anything knows that wages and prices have doubled in this period of time. In addition to that we have had most stringent regulations to work under and have to do things in a different and sometimes more ex- pensive way than we used to. Up to now, however, Synod has con- tributed enough money to keep us going with a small surplus at the end of the year. During the last year the difference between in- come and outgo was dangerously small - a very slight change and we would have ended up with a deficit. We are looking forward to the coming Thanksgiving to help things. We enter this Thanksgiv- ing season already behind, During the summer most of the Sunday Schools in the State were closed on account of the polio epidemic and the ban placed on public gath- erings of children. This has meant a decided decrease in income dur- ing the summer. Sunday Schlol collections have always been a real part of our living. Now, as we prepare for the Thanksgiving Offfering what do we find? Well, we find in nearly every Presbytery a feeling that we are getting too much money, that we are getting more than we need, that we are impoverishing the other causes by taking more than our share, that we are waste- ful and are spoiling the children who are here to be cared for. Some of the Presbyteries are taking act- ive steps to curtail the giving of tne people. In one Presbytery it has been ordered that all special gifts shall be credited against our percentage, with the exception of the Thanks. giving Offering. Now, it is recog- nized that the budget set up in the various benevolence arrangements in the Church does not pay half of our expenses. We have to live on the special gifts that come to us and the Thanksgiving Offering. When these special gifts are cre- dited against the budget it means a very definite decrease in our in- come. In two other Presbyteries we find our percentage cut down more than half. Where just a year or two ago it was 7% percent in these two Presbyteries it is now 8 percent in one and 3% percent in another. In addition to that, money is taken out of this 3% percent to nay for some other expenses in the Presbytery. We find in other places plans to use the Thanksgiv- ing Offering for other causes than Barium. This Thanksgiving Offer- ing is as old as the Orphlanage. It is really our main source of sup- port. If that is eliminated the work at Barium will certainly suffer, and when that does it will not be long until our Church will not be proud of Barium Springs - they will be ashamed of it. This idea of using Thanksgiving to raise the budget for the other causes or to ee divide it with any other cause Is a step toward the ‘eventual death of this wonderfy] jnstitution. The intent and purpose of Ba- rium Springs js to serve needy children, to do it in the most eco- nomical way, to utilize boarding homes, their own homes, or pay institutions wherever it is possible to work out a plan to use them, to restore to thei homes children who can be go restored without hurt to them, to see to it that the Church is not imposed on by car- ing a useless load, but with all that, the calls on us for help for needy children hag jncreased from all sides. We believe our people want Ba- rium to continue on the same high standard that it has been main- tained for the years past. We be- lieve our people do not want the work lessened, We believe, if they are allowed to, they will contribute the money necessary to do this. We plead with the individual Churches and with the Presbyter- ies to build no fence around us to keep these gifts from coming to us. Twenty years ago money was voted out of our treasury for the benefit of other Church causes and it brought about a disastrous sit- uation. Now, fences are being built around to keep money from coming to us so that it may be distributed to other Chiurch causes. The method is different but the end result is the same. We will not have money enough to carry on. We wish it were possible for every individual person who gives to Barium Springs to answer a questionnaire. The questions would be this. Does your giving to Barium hurt any other cause? Does ‘it cause you to give less to the other Church causes? A good many years ago we had a meeting with the heads of the Assembly causes. We agreed then that we would plead our cause only on certain occasions, never in conflict with the Assembly causes. We have religiously lived up to that and have ¢onfined our appeals to just a small part of the year. We have never tried to shove our cause ahead of other Church causes, and the record of the liberality of our own little community here to- ward the other causes certainly bears out our friendly feeling to them all. We readily admit that the Or- phanage cause is the more easily understood and possibly the first cause responded to by Church members - those who may not be familiar with the other work of the Church. Maybe those new Church members learn the thrill of giving by first giving to Barium, and then begin to give to other causes. We believe that the Orphanage cause is something that is a good thing to start out with. It is evidenced by the libera- lity of newly organized: mission Churches and Sunday Schools, About the most hurtful thing that people say in regard to or- phanages is this - “That we do not need to do anything for the orphan- ages, they will be taken care of anyhow.” Well, if you care to travel just visit some of the adjoining states and see how untrue that statement is. You can see some of the desperate measures thiat some of our neighbor orphanages have to take to just keep alive. We do not want Barium to ever get in that condition. We cannot pay bills or salaries with a statement that somebody will take care of the Or- phanage. Of late years we have had very few articles like this in our paper. We have tried to tell you about the children, their activities, their hopes and fears, We do not want our paper to have so much about appeals that it will again have the nickname that it had in years past - “The Squealer.” We felt that we must write this article. It is writ- ten in desperation, but in the de- vout hope that you will read it o~d not let Barium Springs suffer. We believe that this year is the critical year in Barium’s history. If someone can show us how to do i. The Message of the , Month | By Rev. Charles H. Sides, Jr. | GOD’S STANDARD OF TRUTH The true Christian realizes that there are certain Christian vir- tues that are a part of the life that would follow after Jesus Christ. Those virtues include, of course, love, a sense of fairness to others, honesty in all things, rejoicing at other’s good fortune rather than harboring a covetous spirit, and many others. We would like to think just now though about an- other, God’s standard of truth. The whole fabric of society and civilization rests on truthfulness. In Washington at the Bureau of Standards there are certain stan- dard measurements which the en- tire country follows. There is a standard foot, a standard pound, and a standard time. We go by them and accept them as being cor- rect, God has just such| a standard of truth for us as Christians. It means the absolute truth, not just what may suit the time or the occasion, but representing things exactly as they are. We think perhaps that this has no meaning for us, but aren’t there times when most of us strain the truth to the breaking point simply for our own conven- ience? Let us look briefly at the ways in which men and nations are evading the truth today. The truth has been sadly used by nations. We wonder sometime what is the matter with the world, yet the answer, or at least a par- tial one, is not long in coming. There is today no such thing as honesty and truthifulness between the nations of the world. The past thirty or forty years has been a re- cord of promises continually bro- ken. In 1914 Germany was under promise to respect the neutrality of Belgium. She broke that promise as if it had been only a scrap of paper. Later the League of Nations was founded on the promise of the nations that they would not begin aggressive warfare. Japan broke them in Manchuria, Italy in Abys- sinia, and the League was dead. It had rested upon truth and the keeping of promises, and see what happened! Another world war has since been fought over the ruins of broken promises. Today there is no ade- quate peace because there is no trust. Pledge after pledge between nations is broken as if it did not exist. Confidence is gone and civ- ilization stands still with bated breath looking for the catastrophle to come. Why? Surely one reason is that God’s standard of truth has not been observed between nations. Among individuals, too, the same unfortunate condition prevails. Business methiods seem to rest on a sort of basis that all is fair that works. Trust becomes non-existent between labor and management and all too often a suspicious be- ligerent mood is created. And the results is lessened efficiency and lessened production and we all suf- fer for it. Advertising in our country today has become a gigantic contest to see who can make the most extra- vagent claims. Listen to your radio, read your newspaper. How much of the advertising can you really believe? Can it be that advertis- ing has become a game to see just how much we are foolish enough to accept? We are now in the midst of an election year. The political cam- paigns are upon us. Party plat- forms have been set up with all their high-sounding phrases. The our work more cheaply with less money, we will welcome those sug- gestions, If someone can show us how we can do less and still serve our Church we will welcome that suggestion gladly. We may have to ask that person to help us put those plans into effect. We are in your hands and we trust you. Honor Roll For First Six Weeks Second Grade — Richard Black- burn, Boyuer Shaver, Judy Clen- denin, Fourth Grade — Virginia Bau- com, Nancy Lee Kyles. Fifth Grade — Jimmy Campbell, Mildred McFarland, Shirley John- son, Sixth Grade — Edna Baucom, Betty Blackburn, Phoebe Cochran, Lois Dellinger, Linda Inman, Beth Jackins, Shirley Shaw, Charles Smith, Lucy Troutman. Seventh Grade — Ennis Black- burn, David Morrison, Betty Ann Andrews. Eighth Grade — Helen Barnes, Hilda Donaldson, Hazel Creech. Ninth Grade — Louise Campbell, Bonnie Odom. Tenth Grade — Terrell Hall, Shirley Inman, Joyce Katen, Peggy Neel, Lucille Stinson, Elsie Vest. Eleventh Grade — Lorene Hall, Kathleen Monroe, Helen Morgan, Jean Steppe, Bernice Troutman. Twelfth Grade — Mary Dickson Arrowood, Margaret Bullard, Her- bert Good, J. D. Everett. OCTOBER 1948 candidates are each one assuring us that if we vote for them all will be well, but if we vote for their rivals we are likely to be plunged into war or depression. Promises are being made that no superman could ever hope to car- ry out. And where is truth! as God set’s the standard of truth? Individuals with their gossip and slander add their bit and the stories are repeated and added to as they go their rounds. None of us are completely immune to it, and yet where is the truth and our adher- ence to its standard? Rumors, usually with no founda- tion in fact, sweep over the coun- try. Some are harmless; some do a great deal of harm. Always we do ourselves and others an injustice by repeating them. Sometimes they are absolutely foolish. As for example the wonderful rumor that anyone sending a 1948 copper pen- ny to the Ford Motor Company would receive immediately a new Ford. What a marvelous opportun- ity! And probably the company would have done just that. It would have been perfectly safe in making that promise. For in 1943 only pen- nies with a steel base were coined. Rumors, some foolish, some harm- ful, but all lacking in verification add to our fund of untruthfulness. But with all these examples of failures to meet God’s standard of absolute truth, perhaps the sad- dest is the way in whiich we deceive ourselves. Perhaps we think that we do not ordinarily do that, but how common it is. And the danger- ous possibility is that we complete- ly lose the ability to see ourselves as we really are. We live in a sort of moral fog assuring ourselves that we are better than we actually sre. And that condition, so typi- fied in Jesus’ day among the Phari- sees, makes it impossible for a man to see his sin and repent of it. There is the man who tells him- self that he drinks alcoholic bever- ages to quiet his nerves or for the sake of his health when usually the real reason is his craving for drink. There is the person who prides himself upon his generosity when he is most concerned with his own selfishness. There is the one who makes religion a front for a heart that is neither right with God nor his fellow men. Such are simply deceiving themselves. The prodigal son who had wasted his substance in riotous living in a far country could only find for- giveness when he came to himself and saw himself in the true light. At last he had to say, “Father, I have sinned.” Then he was deceiv- ing himself no more, he was ready for forgiveness. Among all the deceptions of this present day, among nations, among individuals, in our private lives, God still has a standard of truth. It is for the Christian a sacred duty to follow that standard. = on a ae a ok a e e e a ks ee oe a ee ec ee es ee = rT Ss lo t lO U6 au r a s = oO o re t o a O o s ae o n s st -_ - eh wa ee u H a d a p r e r e r e e a e a e t s a ll, Ht r- ‘is 1g 8, ed OCTOBER 1948 Burglar Cracks Safe In Barium Office Barium has had a burglary and we are all quite excited about it. The postmaster in delivering the mail to the office early on the morning of October 20th found the doors to the superintendent’s of- fice and to the treasurer’s office jimmyed open. They found the safe in the treasurer’s office broken open and the contents, so far as money was concerned, gone. It happened that the only money in this particular safe was thiat in connection with the Barium Sav- ings Department and just a nomin- al sum is carried in cash, enough to carry on the business of cashing checks and such day by day, It was not a big haul, but still we would not like to lose that much money every day. The amout taken was $154.00. The robbery evidently followed a pattern. The Kannapolis High School office was broken into fol- BULLETIN! Good News and Bad This is being written twenty- four hours after the aricle tell- ing about our burglary. At the time the first article was writ- ten we had not made a complete checkup. Later on we found that the burglars had entered the vault and had made away with $700.00 in pay-roll money, and that is something that really hurts. We called in the authori- ties and everything possible is being done to trace and appre- hend the burglars. But if and when they are caught there is not very likely that there will be very much of that money still in their possession. That is the bad news. Here is the good: Already two checks have been received mak- ing up the $154.00 loss. The first was from Mr. J. Archie Cannon, Jr., of Greensboro. He saw the account of the burglar in the Greensboro afternoon paper and the check was in our hands the next morning. The other check is from Mr. June Scarborough of Statesville, a good neighbor and friend, who called us up as soon as he read the account of the burglary and said that his check for the ex- act amount of that loss was on the way. So that takes care of the Savings department - the chil- dren’s money. The other check is applied on the other loss, and a sizable check from another source reduces our loss in that department considerably, but it does not keep our feelings from being badly hurt over having robbers take this money from us. We are hoping something will happen to bring them to justice lowing a football game and the robbers made a pretty good haul. Two other high schools in the State were broken into following foot- ball games. Barium had Homecom- ing last Friday and a pretty good crowd attended. The robbers evi- dently did not know our habits. We do not hold cash at Barium at all - it goes right straight to the bank, and the receipts of that foot- ball game were resting in a States- ville bank before it had cooled. The receipts of money that keep the Orphanage going are, for the most part, in checks and money- orders - not very attractive to a burglar. Fortunately, this burglar did not disturb the checks and money-orders - they were in an- other safe. The burglar did not discover the candy money, the pic- ture show money, and other small items which might have netted him possibly $25.00 more if he had found them. The burglar entered the office building by breaking out a window in the basement, coming through the Assembly room upstairs and breaking down doors just as fast as he came to them until he found a safe, and then he broke in the safe. Evidently, he was a person who did not know much about Ba- rium but knew a lot about safes, because he wrecked the one iron safe in the treasurer’s office com- pletely. We are just as excited about it THE ‘BARIUM MESSENGER as though Jesse James had paid us a personal visit and so keyed up that I am afraid if a burglar at- tempted to repeat the job he would find so many people looking over his shoulder as he did it that he would be very embarrassed in his work, The money that was lost was from the Barium Savings Depart- ment - that is where the children keep their savings accounts. We will see to it that these individuals do not suffer and will make up this amount in some way so that their Savings Bank will be solvent. Truly, this burglar, if he had only known it, was stealing money from a baby - a lot of babies, in fact. HOME-COMING DAY We have had a wonderful Home- coming Day. Friday, the 15th. was the day. The weather was perfect, the campus was its prettiest, the crowds of returning alumni were the best looking ever, the football game played in the afternoon was just what the doctor ordered - a good game with Barium being the victor. Many of the alumni stayed for supper and the visiting team was there also and the day ended up with everybody tired, happy and pretty full of Barium rations. The last two years it has rained, this year it made up for both of those other years. Lack of space keeps us from giving a more de- taiied account of the iome-coming. Campus News ANNIE LOUISE COTTAGE Hope you don’t think we have forgotten you since school has started but studying and stringing beans has really kept us busy. Now with a little time on our hands we are once again giving you some news. The leaves are beautiful now since they have begun changing colors. We decided that we would like to have our house looking pretty so with the help of our ma- tron we had leaf chains hanging our walls. The Baby Cottage child- ren thought they were just as pret- ty as we did. All of us were looking forward to Homecoming because that is the time when all you see is babies. It really is very interesting and quite amusing to watch them. Some of us in one way or other have a pet which we love very much, The other day one of the little girls came running up to Mrs. Gentry all out of breath, “Mrs. Gentry,” she said breath- ing hard, “Virginia has a bug in her box.” “Virginia why have you got a bug in your box?” inquired Mrs. Gentry. “Why, Mrs. Gentry thats my pet,” smiled Virginia. We all got a good laugh’ out of that. Thanks to Mr. Calhoun we enjoy going to the play woods to eat our supper. This summer quite a few of our little girls went home to stay. Among the ones who went we miss Sue Anne most because Sue had a radio and when she left she took it with her. One reason we miss it so muchi is that we learned to eat a lot of cereals which we didn’t like otherwise by hearing the adver- tisments over the radio. Clara and Bonnie haven’t started going around saying poetry yet. But one of these days that will be all one can hear. Look for us next month. Same Cottage, same place. — The Annie Louise Girls LOTTIE WALKER BUILDING School is well under way now and we have had our first reports. We didn’t have too many on the honor roll but most of us were kept off only by one S-, which wasn’t bad for the first time. All of our “new geniuses” have been jnitiated into the Beta Club. For one whole week they were subject to horrid punishment from the elder, or shotld I say, feller members of the club. But all in all I think the while school enjoyed it. Some of our girls went on a walk Saturday, to the “famous” Kieslers Bridge. Mr. Sides, our new pastor, went along with us, The great day has come and gone, our Homecoming is over for this year, But what a wonderful time we had from the first fond hello, to the last good-bye. Our football team was at its best, with many former Barium students there to help pull for them. The boys came through with a 27-6 victory over North Wilkesboro. The beauty of our campus js at its height, with the leaves of each tree sporting many different aut- umn shades. This is the time of year when we wish each of you could visit with! us. Until next time. — Anne Wicker HOWARD COTTAGE Here we are back with the cot- tage news. We got our report cards and seven girls made the honor roll. They are Betty Anna Blackburn, Phoebe Cochran, Lois Dellinger, Linda Inman, Shirley Shaw, Shirley Johnson and Mildred McFarland. Thursday the 14th we walked to Troutman to see a picture show. The name of it was “That Lady in Ermine.” Homecoming was a happy day for us. We were glad to see our old friends. The Rhythm Band and Junior Choir gave a program that morning and in the afternoon we enough for each of us to have two pairs, Miss Carpenter, the leader of our Young People’s group took us to town to buy Christmas gifts for the children overseas. We are busy keeping our campus clean by raking leaves and making play houses with them and at the end of the day we put them in bags. — The Bean Stringers Clothing Outfits September Receipts Durham 1st S. S., Business Girls’ Cirele. Goshen (KM) Aux. Salisbury 1st S, S., Rumple B. C. Piedmont S. S., Blue Circle Class Lancing Aux. Clothing Funds September Receipts Westminster (O) Aux. ........ 20.00 Bethpage Aux. oo... cece 25.00 Providence (F) Aux. ............ 30.00 Lee Mem. S. S., Class 15 .... 25.00 Raven Rock AUX. woo... 25.00 Red Springs Aux, ............... 75.00 Alamance Aux., Ruth aes CCleaner e Winston-Salem ist S. S., — E. Roger’s B. ©, .......c.csscsee 25.00 Mrs. R. E. Bobbitt, Sanford 125.00 Mare | 1st S. S., Young Ladies’ . 20.00 Trinity Ave. “Aux., Business Girls’ Circles «2.0.2.0... cee 25.00 7" Ave. S. S., Woman’s C. Laurinburg Aux. oc 90. Mebane S. S., Women’s B. C. 30.00 Belmont 1st s. S., Minnie lOO PAGE THREE CI IO, G nscicansescscesccsonss 25.00 Albemarle ist Aux. ............ 25.00 Fairmont 1st Aux. ................ 20.00 Mooresville 1st Wharey Mem. RRR are iad ih aa ta eer 90.00 Washington Ist S. S., Vengueds er ee aicearas 5.00 ee 35.00 TeaIOe FE hac etic 50.00 Tenth Ave. S. S., Men’s B. C. 25.00 Howard Mem. Aux., Mrs. Mabry Hart ............ .......- 5.00 Mrs. George Holderness 8.50 Albemarle 1st S. S., Allie Crane Heo. ccccrccensscecescnsss 25.00 Greensboro 1st S. S., Fellowship ee ea 80. TRORVER BUR) ascccosstec sore Lavidson Aux, McPherson Aux. ..........2.. ---++-- Ernest Myatt S. S., Young People’s Claat ..n.scccccce -nocesn 17.50 Rocky Mount 1st Aux. ........ 70.00 Gastonia 1st Aux. ................ 200.00 POURRA AUK: ciccscsssces: ccvsnsseaces 10.00 Highland Aux, .......0... 0. 100.00 Roanoke Rapids Aux. ............ 50.00 Wilmington 1st S. S., Sprunt Me ee, 25.00 Jonesboro AUX. ceeccccsssce ceeeeee: 25.00 Mt. Olive Aux., Circle No. 1 15.00 WER RRs cericeespesecscseee: cesrens 25.00 Hope Mills Aux. ........... .... 25.00 Kannapolis 2nd Aux. ............ 20.00 McKinnon Aux, 2.0.0... sees 30.00 Providence (M) Aux. ...........- 30.00 Tenth Ave. Aux. ............ -.--- 20.00 Pink Hill Aux. ............ ccscosess- 25.00 Pinetops Aux. ............ ...- .... 20.00 Rocky Point Aux. ................-- 25.00 Concord 1st Churchl Circles DANG: sens cseicocsoeerssenee 125.00 Wadesboro AUX. ccc. cooseom 155.00 Fayetteville 1st S. S., Maggie MER Fe esis sscasd casssoteneres 27.5 Lenoir Ist Aux. ............:....-+ Jackson Springs Aux. had a football game with North Hall B. C, tieeie sevveee 20,00 eee om am Wilkesboro. North Wilkesboro had * ye olay fea” Business 20 teks Wace A 5.00 a band and we enjoyed it as much quithitiold Aux. 20.00 Lincolnton 1st Aux. ............ 100.00 as the game. M Aux. Ellen F co Plaza S. S., Fellowship B. C. 50.00 onroe ist Aux., Ellen Fitz Linda Inman and Shirley Hall Berald Circle on... cosccoee 25.00 Centre (C) Aux. ............ 1+ 20.00 have gotten their clothing boxes. —— Mem Aux. ..........:00+0 20.00 —. o sereseeeenae setesees wore They were beautiful clothes. They — * S., Bettie 25.00 Wilmington 1st S. S., Woman’s are anxiously looking forward to 9,11); rane ga rt ' We ke, aes 25. a s ; urlington 1st Aux, ............ 50.00 visiting Shirley Hall’s clothing Sunnyside AUX. cece. sesseone 25.00 Potts Mem. Aux. ............ ee 20.00 people at Belmont the last of this Tenth Ave. S. S., Flora Princess Place S. S., Ladies’ month. oredy B. C. elidel ack 20.00 ein oe : : a exington 1st a cape We received a nice Thanksgiving Ye A{0EtOn JS AUK: wromnone 10.00 Grove (W) Aux., Business gift from The Mary Carson Circle, Women’ Circle ae meas dai 25.00 Bi Kings Mountain ist Aux. .... 40.00 omens : Fuller Memorial Church, Durham, Hickory 1st AUX. ....ce.cssssssssee 25.00 Cameron Aux., Circle No. 2 5.00 N. C. It contained white socks Cirele NOs 8: csse.cscsccccoseseessese 25.00 (Continued On Page Four) Smith .00 44.00 44.00 1947 THANKSGIVING OFFERING Soviet 35.00 45.00 1945 Stanford oeo2 1382522 1946 Stanford > s = WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Tabor City 9.64 11.86 11.86 1947 ese Se Teh ist nth Stat Iau opsal . . e —e ee oS ee Coe 364.88 47811 478.11 1947 Acme $ 52.00 $ 50.00 $ 52.00 1946 Warsaw 80.00 65.00 80.00 1946 Antioch 52.00 50.02 69.83 1945 Westminster 49.11 37.37 68.18 1945 Ashewood 27.50 19.21 36.00 1945 Whiteplain 26.00 25.00 26.00 1946 Baker 25.00 10.00 25.00 1946 Whiteville 1st 73.46 92.40 118.65 1945 Beth Carr 50.00 71.88 25.00 1946 Wildwood 42.91 34.50 54.80 1945 Bethel 31.00 None 31.00 1946 Willard 68.65 48.00 68.65 1946 Bethany 42.49 None 42.49 1946 Wilmington Ist 707.73 765.18 765.18 1947 Beulahville 25.00 27.00 85.00 1944 Winter Park Church 61.00 83.64 181.88 1945 Black River 15.70 14.95 $2.10 1944 Woodburn 14.00 None 57.00 1943 Bladenboro 20.60 26.00 26.00 1947 Total 5,088.05 Bowden ite 14.70 30.00 ieee urgaw ‘ 106.538 =. 151.17 " Calypso None 92.60 92.60 1947 WINSTON SALEM PRESBYTERY oor bag . Pe None os pat a arolina Beac ; 29.39 29.39 1 Caswell 19.37 35.00 35.00 1947 CHURCH 1946 1947 7 YRS. BEST Chadbourn 34.50 54.38 54.88 1947 Asbury $ 10.80 $ 30.70 $ 30.70 1947 Chinquapin 40.09 37.00 40.09 1946 Bethel 5.00 10.01 10.05 1945 Clarkton 194.18 206.90 206.90 1947 Beulah 10.00 10.00 10.00 1947 Croatan 20.00 26.00 26.00 1947 Bixby 40.00 32.00 40.00 1946 Currie 24.00 10.00 24.00 1946 Carson Memorial 15.50 None 15.50 1946 Delgado 256.43 450.60 450.60 1947 (Collinstown 9.05 3.00 9.05 1946 Elizabethtown 88.21 189.82 152.00 1944 Coolleemee 40.00 52.00 52.00 1947 Elkton 21.70 20.00 21.00 1946 Covenant 40.00 36.68 75.00 1945 Faison 55.15 52.77 55.15 1946 Danbury None 24.68 24.68 1947 George Webb Mem. 77.82 - 78.95 90.04 1945 Dan River 19.00 None 29.70 1945 Graves Memorial 100.00 30.00 319.45 1943 Ebenezer 3.35 7.47 9.73 1945 Grove 100.00 87.28 100.00 1946 Elkin 21.00 None 46.33 1945 Hallsville 87.00 44.58 50.00 1945 Flat Rock 23.00 40.00 40.00 1947 Harmony 72.26 12.50 72.26 1946 Foster Memorial 7.00 12.15 12.15 1947 Harper-Southerland 23.00 28.00 28.00 1947 Geo. W. Lee Mem. 113.02 67.13 178.74 1945 Hebron 6.50 None 6.50 1946 Gillespie 2.00 6.00 6.00 1947 Holly Grove 50.00 68.38 68.38 1947 Glade Valley 48.50 33.00 48.50 1946 Hopewell 25.50 21.52 35.77 1942 Glendale Springs 20.00 15.20 20.82 1945 Immanuel 191.26 186.53 191.26 1946 Hills 9.00 5.26 13.90 1943 Jacksonville 91.20 None 91.20 1946 Je ferson 28.60 30.90 30.90 1947 Lake Waccamaw 84.00 41.00 55.00 1944 Lansing 9.00 23.54 23.54 1947 McClure Memorial 36.00 None 36.00 1946 Jaurel Forks 5.57 13.41 13.41 1947 Maple Hill None 6.00 7.00 1942 [Lexington 1st 44,21 50.00 121.93 1942 Murrayville 10.00 5.00 10.00 1946 [Lexington 2nd 85.56 98.67 98.67 1947 Mt. Horeb 40.00 39.46 47.00 1944 Low Gap 6.53 None 6.53 1946 Mt. Olive 198.22 156.95 198.22 1946 Meadow View None None 20.85 1945 Mt. Williams 21.55 None 21.55 1946 Millers 3.18 7.04 8.09 1945 Mt. Zion 167.91 119.40 167.91 1946 Mocksville 1st 293.00 191.28 293.00 1946 Myrtle Grove 21.50 5.60 25.00 1945 Mt. Airy Ist 200.00 283.25 283.25 1947 New Hope 15.00 19.00 28.00 1945 North Wilkesboro 584.11 559.91 675.00 1945 Oakdale 16.00 11.00 16.00 1946 bids 8.10 None 8.10 1946 Oak Grove Chapel 15.23 16.78 16.78 1947 Peak Creek 13.30 14.68 14.68 1947 Oak Plains 31.50 33.25 33.25 1947 Pine Hall 18.65 16.50 18.65 1946 Pearsall Memorial 45.00 56.00 56.00 1947 Pine Ridge None 5.00 12.00 1945 Pages Mill 2.00 4.05 4.05 1947 Reynolda 640.34 363.13 642.10 1945 Pike 36.50 38.00 38.00 1947 Rocky Ridge 11.00 12.00 12.00 1947 Pink Hill 15.06 30.00 45.00 1944 Sandy Ridge 11.00 None 11.00 1946 Pleasant View 21.76 26.00 80.00 1944 Thomasville ist 124.50 305.00 305.00 1947 Pollocksville 100.50 None 108.00 1945 Waughtown 46.82 61.78 61.78 1947 Potts Memorial 31.10 67.12 67.12 1947 West Jefferson 8.35 33.71 33.71 1947 Rockfish 50.00 67.00 67.00 1947 W.-Salem Ist 2,150.78 2,198.55 2,222.92 1946. Rocky Ponit 8.00 9.80 10.00 1945 Yadkinville — 21.25 20.12 36.00 1945 St. Andrews 562.72 326.75 662.72 1946 Clark Memorial None 1.32 1.82 1947 Salem Chapel 2.00 None 2.00 1946 Fairmont None 6.00 6.00 1947 Six Forks 10.00 35.00 35.00 1947 Total 4,681.07 PAGE FOUR THE BARIUM MESSENGER Smyrna (F) Aux. Bee Aue. iinccn Operating Memorials September Receipts McElwee, Dr. Ross S., Statesville: Dr & Mrs. Wallace Hoffman & Miss Rose Stephany Miss Carrie Hoffman, Danville, Va. For Messenger September Receipts Mrs. J. W. Womble, Burling- ton se eee 50.00 cmon ae Miscellaneous September Receipts Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet 10.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High Point 1.00 Mrs. Cora Spivey, Roberdell 10.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet . 1.00 A Friend, Rocky Mt. ............ 5.00 Mr. Harold W. Smith, Greens- ON cia cieessdews 10.00 Mr. J. A. Verrault, Sr., WAIGREO: le Bes 5.00 Be BRON os desidcacre, vee Miscellaneous Gifts September Receipts Greensboro 1st Aux., Circle No. 21, cards. Webb Mem. Aux., toilet articles. Antioch (F) Aux., dresser scarfs. Mrs. William Huske, Route 8, Fay- etteville, 1 dress. Maude M. Bennett, Asheville, clothing, games, Mrs. Frank Jarvis, Concord, towels, wash cloths, sheets, pillow cases, dish towels, soap, shoe polish, tooth paste, combs, ete. Walkersville Aux., wash cloths, towels. Fairmont Aux., coats, dresses. Johnsie Coit, Sampson College, Sampson, N. Y., game. Mamie Bullock, Wilson, clothing, cloth, buttons, ete. Mount Horeb Aux., dresser scarfs. Wilmore Aux., patterns. ‘Miss Mary Tesh, Winston-Salem, 2 quilts for babies. Spring Lake Aux., 2 quilts. W. A DePrater, Fayetteville, modess. Maude M. Bennett, Asheville, mag- azines and clothing. Mrs. W. C. Alsen, Jr., Raleigh, clothing. Alamance Aux., Circle No. 6, 2 quilts, Cobb Memorial Aux., case child- ren’s hose. Miss Flora Robinson, Lincolnton, 1 pair shoes. Wilson 1st Aux., towels, wash cloths, soap, etc. McKinnon Aux., 2 quilts. Mr. & Mrs. E. Ross Cathey, Char- lotte, tooth powder. Memorials for Church September Receipts Adams, Mr. J. Leon, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. M. B. Wales a Mr. W. M., Hot Springs, Ark.: Mr. & Mrs. Esley O. Anderson, Jr., Charlotte Barber, Mr. George C., Kings Mountain: Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Page Bernhardt, Mrs. E. F., Salisbury: Salisbury 1st Aux. Cleveland, Mrs. W. J., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Clinton, Mrs. Mattie, Clover, S. C.: Miss Lelia Wilson, Belmont Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Gastonia Mr. & Mrs. George E. Wilson, Jr., Charlotte Coggin, Mrs. Julia, Albemarle: Albemarle 1st Aux., Circle No. 8 Cox, Mr. J. Frank, Wilmington: Wilmington ist S. S., Women’s B Oe Cox, Mrs. Price, Belmont: Misses Mary, Abbie, & Nell Hall Cozart, Mr. U. H., Wilson: Dr. & Mrs. L, J. Herring and Family Cummings, Mr. T. H., Angier: Raven Rock S. S. Davidson, Mr. D. Craighead, Char- lotte: Daughter, Miss Hary Louise Davidson Dunn, Mrs. Charles M. (Mary Wortman), Gastonia: Session of the Commonwealth Church Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Dysart, Mrs. W. W., Lenoir: Mr. & Mrs. Orrin Robbins Mr. & Mrs. R. F. Reins & Family Edmundson, Mr. Haywood, Wilson: Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Herring Efird, Mr. Paul H., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Z. — Dillingham Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Julian, Gas- tonia Elliott, Mr. John L., Charlotte: Mr. "Morgan A. Reynolds Ferris, Mr. John Pe Charlotte: Sugaw Creek S. S., Kate Neal B. C. Flanigan, Mr. J. P., Statesville: Mr. Fred W. Sherrill Fowler, Mr. James W., Statesville: Mrs, E. P. Bradley, Mocksville Frost, Mr. Louis Rudolph, Wilming- ton: Lewis, Kitty and Kay Harrison Furr, Mrs. Mary Laura, Concord: Mrs. Lula Frye Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Grandson, Mr. Bob Gaither Glenn, Mrs. Mattie, Gastonia: Mr, & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Grannis, Mr. Edwin W., Fayette- ville: Mr. Thomas W. Rankin Fayetteville 1st Aux. Mr. & Mrs. Clif E. Rankin Hall, Dr. James K., Richmond, Va.: Mr. & Mrs. Minor R. Adams, Gastonia Mrs. Craighead Davidson and Misses Alice and Mary Louise Davidson, Charlotte Ham, Mr. E. D., Pikesville: Gastonia 1st Aux., Circle No. 5 Hedden, Mr. George C., Badin: Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Erb Hix, Mrs. Margaret F., Charlotte: Mrs. Mary R. Snellings and Miss Esther Pharr Houston, Mr. John O., Henderson- ville: John, Paul and W. L. Gilbert, Statesville Mrs. J. B. Sloop, Mr. George Knox, & Mrs. A. R. Morrow, Mt, Ulla Howell, Mr. A. D., Badin: Mr. & Mrs. K. H. Erb Husstickler, Mrs. Sudie Amanda, Easley, S. C.: Mr. F, A. Watson and Family, Lexington Hutchinson, Mr. Edwin L., Winter Haven, Fla.: Laura H. Hill, M. D. & Miss Ber- tha C. Perry Johnstone, Mrs, Mocksville: Major & Mrs. William L. Allison Jones, Miss Mary Fields, Fayette- ville: Mr. & Mrs. Clif E, Rankin Lambeth, Mr. Charles E., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. I. A. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. J. Alex. MeMillian Myers Park Presbyterian Church Mr. & Mrs. R. J. Stokes Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Abernethy Mr. & Mrs. George E. Wilson, Jr. Mr. Morgan A. Reynolds Westbrook Insurance Agency, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Beall Mr. & Mrs. T. C. Cofer, Wil- mington Libby, Dr. A. S., Mooresville: Mr. W. L. Matheson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Harris and Mrs. I. D. Harris Miss Maude Vinson, Davidson Long, Mrs. T. W., Newton: Mr. A. M. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. J. R. Ratchford, Gas- tonia Lowrance, Mr. W. W., Mooresville: Mrs. W. E. Wilson and Mrs. S. A. Hart Lowry, Little Miss Martha Jean, Charlotte: Session of the Commonwealth Presbyterian Church McArthur, Master Herbert Gerald > Barium Springs: Mrs. S. H. Miller, Carthage McClintock, Master Benjamin Gales, Jr., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Walter W. Fraley Mr. & Mrs. Manly McWilliams Capt. J. R. Jamison Mr. & Mrs. William A. Allen Mrs. Polly Robinson Odell Dr. & Mrs. L. D. Abernethy, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Cathcart Mr. & Mrs. Charles Wagner Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Zimmerman McElwee, Dr. Ross S., Statesville: Dr. & Mrs. L. O. Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Karl T. Deaton Mr. & Mrs. F. C. Culbreth Major & Mrs. William L. Allison Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Johnston, Gussie Knox, Mooresville Mr. & Mrs. M. R. Adams, Gas- tonia Mrs. George W. P. Whip, Balti- more, Md. Mr. & Mrs. L. F. Abernethy and Mr. & Mrs. C. V. Jenkins, Rock Hill, S. C. Mr. & Mrs. J. F. Scarborough Mr, & Mrs. C. P. Brawley, Statesville Lt. Martha Mills, Phoenixville, Pa. McKay, Mr. J. G., Red Springs: Philadelphus Aux. Mr. & Mrs. Clifton Adams McLeod, Mrs. J. K., Lemon Springs: Mrs. A. M. Breece, Pembroke McNeely, Capt. J. C., Ir., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. J. T. Porter Marton, Mrs. Dan R., Maxton: Mr. & Mrs. L. B, Martin, Sr. Mason, Mrs. W. E. (Minnie Sea- groves), Gastonia: —s ist S. S., Nellie Warren Mrs. J. H. Henderlite Mr. & Mrs. T. L. Wilson Mitchell, Mrs. (Frances Moseley) George, Jr., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Don Davidson, Jr. Mrs. R, S. Hutchison & Betty Mr. & Mrs. J. Alex. MeMillian Morris, Mr. T. Clyde, Statesville: =— oo Mr, & Mrs, F. C. Culbreth Morrow, 7. Virginia O'Neal (Durward), Gastonia: Mrs, A, [, Sudduth, Sr. Miss Mary Hester Wilson Muse, S- Set Curtis M., Jr., Wash- ington, D. C.: Mrs. §. H. Diller, Charthage Nelson, Mrs, “Tina”, Kingstree, S. C.: Mr. F, A. Watson & Family Niven, Capt. Jesse Franklin, Jr., Albemarle: me. & Mrs. W. E. Milton . N. Auten & Family and T. R. Wolfe and Family Nordon, Mr. J. L., Lillington: Mrs. Mildred L. McKay, Sanford Raven Rock S. § Oppenheim, Mr. H., Charlotte: Mrs, C, L, Torrence Mrs. FE. R. Rector Mr. Ed. L, Beam Page, Mr. James A., Monks Cor- ner, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. George V. Patter- son, Gastonia Plyler, Mrs. D. W., Salisbury: ‘Mrs. C, E, Stevenson Salisbury 1st Aux. Poston, Mr, Paul Banks, Shepherds: Mr. & Mrs. C. P. Brawley, States- ville Pressly, Rey, & Mrs. H. M., Char- lotte: Daughter, Miss Mary Pressly Ray, Dr. John Wyeth, Houston, Texas: Mrs. S, R. Fry, Salisbury Raymer, Mrs. J. A., Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. John "Douglas Mr. & Mrs. E. L. Goodson, Con- over Reese, Mr. Riley Brown, Durham: Mrs. R. L. Oldham, Vass Ridenhour, Mr. Robert E., Sr., Con- cord: Mrs. Ralph Boyd Ross, Mrs. Thomas L., Concord: Misses Adelaide & Eugenia Lore Mrs. R. E, Ridenhour, Jr. Circle No. 10, Concord 1st Aux. Mr. & Mrs. George L. Patterson, Jr, Savage, Mrs, R. T., Salisbury: Mrs. Lee Kirkland, Mrs. L. D. Kirkland, & Mrs. George F. Kirkland, Durham Schenck, Mrs. John, Chelsea, Mich.: Myers Park Presbyterian Church Scroggs, Mrs. J. F., Statesville: Mr, R. M. Rickert Mr. Harry B. Moore & Family Senn, Mrs. Helen Pearl Murphy, Laurens, S. C.: Castanea Aux. Scott, Mr. J. M., Albemarle: Mr. W. E. Milton Squillario, Mr. Emil, Valdese: Mr. & Mrs. L. Phillip Bounous Smith, Corp. Kenneth, Belmont: Mr. & Mrs. John D. McLean and Family Misses Abbie, Nell & Mary Hall Wall, Mr. Ben R., Lilesville: Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Teague, Ham- let Mrs. W. W. Crowder and Mr. William Crowder, Wadesboro Waters, Miss Doris Eloise, Rocky Mount: Parents, Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Waters Watson, Master Hampton, Jr., Spruce Pine: Miss Cora L. Freeze, Mooresville Watson, Mrs. Hattie, Salisbury: Salisbury 1st Aux. Ward, Mr. Sam, Graham: Dr. & Mrs. W. C. Goley Warren, Mrs. Susan, Greenville: Mr. & Mrs, L. D. Tucker, Bur- lington Williams, Mrs S. H., Greenville: Mrs. Carl Shelton, Washington White, Mrs. Hugh E., Gastonia: Mr. William D. Anderson Wood, Prof. W. W., Davidson: Mr. & Mrs, F. D. Hobart Woodruff, Mr. Charlie G., Mocks- ville: His Daughter’s Class of the Tay- lorsville Presbyterian S. S. Mrs, J. J. Larew and Sons Mrs. H. A, Sanford and Miss Margaret Bell Mrs. E. P. Bradley Churches September Receipts CONCORD errors, ck Croke | rains: sssvivsievns 8.88 Bethpage Cleveland .. Concord eamateiias 1st noir F. H. Br \d Sits Sete 2 comtcetes 6.50 MATION osc im men OOD Mooresville “Ist | siieabenins “sbinnie 57.89 Newton, J. R, Gaither .......... 25.00 A friend cua sererseeseeee 25,00 PRRCEPION acca anes aweeee 8.90 Salisbury 1g. ...cocsos. ssnespereese 10.00 Prospect... cecsse seceeseennee sevens 12,79 RRR BOE incccccscseses: soicsorn 26.58 BTET POPE socsessesece caseossare 1.85 Statesville Ast 0.0.0... ccc. 26.00 a ce 16.29 Ta ae 6.37 ON 57.82 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Carthage 4 Eureka Fayetteville 1st .... Jackson Springs EOE onccc. Socecess. ccosessace BE es) cccceniccs esoinens Mount Pisgah pS epee nememnen BOA BEIAE .<cccssccin. anassenndcasnnn KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Gastonia 1st, Mr. & Mrs. J. L. TRGUOPION oscicecsnses cosnssss soernes 50 MECKLENBURG PRESHYTERY PE nies kesessbsnis’ socinskiatds 74 PVONGAIC icccceccec. cooncvesesse 1.12 BORN oe She as 2.50 Benton Heights ........ .... 1.99 PN a sisnsnansacs save 3.00 Camp Greene ....00...... .... 89 Central Steele Creek .... 3.00 Charlotte 2nd ............. .. 150.00 Commonwealth 1.65 Ellerbe ............ 80 REID EK: Seccaceseees: ch 7.56 EIB TYOL cccsessincse sscscccoeasees 75 TO PAPC cccisvccae seoosesce 1.94 DE ROGA ORI © vccccsesiass. exsccens anrenese 38 IP PBCON x.ccccccshss- <cossess : -79 DESEO LEG. cccrcnisccis ‘cosnsensesescass 8.69 OUT oe S css. cersiassaver 2.31 DEVOTEE RTE isccceinsic scccvnerorece 95.00 PRUBCOIOIIA. oscsincs scocsnee sccsoooe 8.75 BG as soiscsis sskosseseni scanensi 1.85 PIBSR Ee hy GBD ovccccssccocece 10.00 POM 55 fos: ackcicos) aasnane 3.00 SCTE | AVG. sssccessaiss: ‘etnereissenio’ 60 GIO AVE sc.cicasnney xaseonecive BOER MT ee a Sc ci os) ayankens 5.49 Suga wCreek .........2. cc.escssee 14.85 RE BGs isccescssccas> secsiessccrnnas BRU TT DOTA BOOLO 5 <cics. sassasiee scenes 8.50 ORANGE PRESBYTERY PIBPIANES ecssescsiccs. icssenss .. 20.00 Buffalo (G) 25.00 Buffalo (L), Mr. & Mrs. Frank Sinclair 0.0... ........ 100.00 East Burlington 2000... ......-s-+ 1.00 Greensboro Ist ooo. fesse 250.00 Re enakica Susenaee 8.00 BD eicmivcicses: icasesss sensei 6.50 eee 1 cess pheeheunese 5.00 SPringwoO0d ........ ...ccccccce cseeee 5.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY BACK FRIVGLT oeisccccivss seccocicesseve 43 PEE haetecsknckc | wescssimtew eatin 14.06 Wilmington 1st 0.0... -e 55.42 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem 1st 50.00 Sunday Schools September Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY POON I secicccscs aeciccctiees Seemsnss 15.00 BEIT ID cactissniass. wtspinsincns sone 6.36 Goldsboro 1st ......:.20. ccesscsesees 5.71 Howard Mem. ............. ......... 46.52 Macclesfield .20...:. cccscco ssoseese 8.40 New Bern 1st. .0...02.....ceccesseee 25.00 Rocky Mount 1st ..... 20.00 Jennie K. Hill B. C 10.00 WP i “ae wis 27.38 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Beattie Mem. ............ cesses 35.00 Concord Mooresville 1st Salisbury 1st Everyman’s B. C. .............. 70.00 IE ec Siectivcices) monies 4.56 EV IORIVING cocsecs sissies tekatecs 12.15 IN bili: | scscsigeensd. vis 26.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY MIMBO cecsicsccses Soesices cscsessens 12.57 ee eee 19.65 CMA. Scishiiss served Sun 16.65 Se oats anc winiec 16.40 RIP EUED Gesiesivies Sermotens sess 6.00 Young Peoples Class ... 5.00 Ephesus ............ 12.52 Erwin ....... 49.00 BOMAEMIINE siicccéinkcs -ascacccoes ) vokist 5.50 Fayetteville Ist... J... 120.00 MT os isacicad | catesliceten wticcnss . 20.13 BE EID vcssicisien’: seninesisaseans 10.00 Jackson Springs ..........0 2... 12.48 Lakeview ............ scccsce ccccceeere 15,50 Laurinburg 0... cesses ccsceeeeee 14.27 EERIE. cscdivsiers sevninns | vorsenes 28.18 Lumber Bridge 0.0000... .... 10.48 BNI iit ensniics sevtaccoie 81.91 McPherson ....0.00... cessccee oeee-- 20.00 Montpeleir 22... Leese ccceeeee 12.00 Pinehurst, Community Ladies’ Bin Say sixnnebiien:: tenmiitinmuniianns 10.00 Red Springs .......00. scceccecsess . 10.00 Union ........ rots ween ne TINE wrcieiexiead _ vicenoenpae nucdvinnins 83.27 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Durham ist, Big Brothers BPM ccorucacesianvesseniies Oak Hill . Trinty Ave. 28.5 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Belmont 90. Brittain Cherryville Duncan’s Creek Hephzibah Kings Mountain ist Lincolnton Ist ........ Long Creek Mount Holly ....ccece ccsscesseeee Mr. & Mrs. Brown Smith 8.00 Mr. J. K. a d Women’s B. ds Shelby .. sane aeeeeeeneeee cenceeenenne seeeeees eeeceececens secceeee = iaeaan ae OCTOBER 1945 NN ie tee 17.50 TPO PATE cis. acccnseiae 4.70 Th 7.03 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle 1st 52.00 Amit Badin, Ladies’ B. C. 5.00 NE dos ck as 4.68 Caldwell Mem., Huntington ee eas 5.00 eit 5.00 os 9.45 Commonwealth 2.0.0... we. - 29.12 PEON, cosivccsec’ “saccade sastases 27.46 FEUMCOPO VINE c.nwicccesss sccccoce coccce 67.09 POO BO as. saneadanbsnanens 80.00 Mount Gilead 00.0.0... cee 5.00 Me ios iscociccs wets 7.75 BEGRPE FAI vecsccccsese: cacesonsessoancs 77.56 SEO CO ess Swi 25.00 PRTRGOIDIIG wccccccccscs. ccecoces sees 16.17 es i Bs aia 3.00 FROCHIN GRAM cccscccscccs scscoocs sese 22.00 TO aa 18.84 Westminster, Men’s B. C. .... 6.86 ORANGE PRESBYTERY PMR OO ssid... Giese, seas 26.00 BRR AIO CG) seccacscescesasicaisvicnss 28.97 NOE iis ace adc: 6.81 Greensboro 1st, Men’s B. C. 33.00 MON ORO esissosesse: Seccecds Saccesiens Little River PER oc a es MOONE 5s fase ic cscne as: eaceasiaabns St. Andrews WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY OR oe ee baa 27.56 BBC IVC? cn.ccsccssce coccascseosses 19.87 CAUOOR ols, Koccicsas Baus 25.57 TOR isos, series sec 10.00 PEA ooccc5c Basse desacsenns 15.00 Immanuel, Cradle Roll & TEORIATGIE coccccce ssceesse. coacssvene Pleasant View Be Ma siccs, wcsceesscensusessaci Pollocksville 2000... 22... South River W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY George W. Lee Mem. ............ 50.00 PAID siccssccicée secconse aentecio 5.00 Auxiliaries September Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY OUT cosicsisesks cesssbes sonuicne 2.00 Howard Mem. ............0 1.00.2... 11.00 Pe ccs A occiss- apts 6.00 Rocky Mount ist, A Friend 20.00 Rocky Mount 2nd alesealues 1.00 Washington Ist wu. = WERT is cee a ks 1.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Concord 1st 6.0 Little Joe’s, Virginia Hall om Thanksgiving Offering .... 50.00 Three Circles for year .... 86.00 DE voshkcisse. ies “ss, 8.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Antioch Ashpole Brownson Mem. Centre Laurel Hill Laurinburg POD. issitcse tices. deeeee Lumber Bridge Lumberton Midway Raeford .... Sardis GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY DOUEIIE. TBE noc csceswvasssvevescance Alma Marie McNeill Mount Bethel POTECEEIONE cnc cccvive: sussueos ocdsenie 18. KINGS MTN. oe ee, COOGEE ENO sciiscseis iccicts stented 7.00 Gastonia Ist oc. c.tescccecsceee Kings Mountain 1st ............ 30.00 Lincolnton 1st, Circle No. 2 2.00 Mount Holly ee . 65 RII MMAN ssc laciise. weisiasicis. cqbbiese: 00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY AIDOMOAPIO UBC occsicccccs ccccocecsess 4.00 ERO cole sceecss casscces’ ‘cessensaut 1.50 Mallard Creek, Business Women’s Circle 0.0... ........ 6.00 PER COHOWE, sicnveiivs “scbes: sscmeais 1.05 BW SIPOOK cesssccsies: iccccecscosierss 1.50 PV ERIE secssssclicy Geasaes: ancdenene .60 OI ecllassiy: “sicccailodéee - auiceniuend 50 Saint Andrews .0...0.0... cscs 86 SOUCY PAPE cocsccccsscs ccsesesessseves 18 West Ave. . iaeciouinies ve Westminster ...... .... 14.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Alamance, Circle No. 4 ........ 6.00 Circle NO. 6 cccssesinss ccnieee . 8.00 Ruth ee miseineile meee 12.00 Bethany .. eis deinen ae Buffalo (G)_ otcseeuesies s ... 29.00 Covenant ............ 5.00 Greensboro ist .. 6.70 Jonesboro ...... nas Westminster 2.0.0.0 ccc. cece 0.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY BONNET Listib onsin: -védiescbint Sossuseaies 80 BOUL SIMEE. cccsccsmeis Sentdeinsscuuions 5.00 MPT IOUS sciinncee Vebisiceheun seeskinn 1.25 Chinquapin 0... cece. cccececees 60 Clarkton, second quarter ........ 12.00 FE veiistcines veuetoniinn mxnteuincs 3.25 GHEOVG, Be Ws Ge cccccccscnseeeens ._ 6.00 Immanuel srecestinie seen anaiin ae Myrtle Grove wu... cesccescsees 1.00 Pearsall Mem, ......0.... ss. 5.00 SUEDE eieseisdsas: secenew sendedine 2.50 Webb Mem. ne Winter Park mm we 7.00 8.60 ERY 27.56 19.87 25.57 10.00 15.00 15.00 4.50 5.00 12.06 1.00 50.00 5.00 Ss 8 Co e d ee ee e ee ee ” CS RS e “ s s a s s s s s s Barium Messenger »OL. 26 BARIUM SPRINGS, N. ©, NOVEMBER 1948 The Meeting of the Men of the Church Barium Springs seems to be al- ways the meeting place for the Men of the Church of Concord Pres- bytery. Mr. Fred Long was the president this past year - he is from Lenoir, Mr. Hethcox of Ba- rium Springs was the secretary, Mr. Cary Lowrance was the Vice- president. The number attending these meetings has grown so large that very few people can entertain them, so the job came back to Barium Springs. This is a task that is pret- ty large but the folks at Barium seem to welcome it and thrive on it. This year we were afraid that there would not be room to seat every- body in the big dining room to serve a regular meal, so we put on a barbecue and served it cafeteria style and the entire group of people were served in twenty minutes and they ate for the rest of that hour. We found out something about the Men of Concord Presbytery this year that we did not know be- fore. We always knew they were generous, and they proved it again this year. There were about. 475 present - by actual count 470. There was a voluntary offering after the supper and that added up to $471.00, so that proves that the crowd was extremely generous. Part of this money went to pay the expense of the meal, part of it as a gift to the children whl had to give away their supper period, eating a picnic lunch instead, and who had to do a good deal of extra work to put the meal on - part of thle mon- ey contributed goes to their plea- sure - picture shows, picnics, and such, Now, as stated above, we already knew that the men were generous. We did not know that they had ap- petites like they have. That is a discovery that we will have to take note of in future suppers. We did not know beforehand how (Continued On Page Two) Cottage News RUMPLE HALL Hello Folks, We are bringing you the news of Rumple Hall. First we would like to tell you about our trip to Davidson homecoming, We saw a little of the game but couldn’t see the rest because it rained and we were soaked to the bone. The little we saw was very interesting. On Tuesday night we went to Mooresville skating rink. We had a wonderful time and skated a long time. Some of the girls who did not know how to skate when they went down there knew when they got back. The following Tuesday Shirley Hollifield, Elizabeth Huddleston, Delores Ramsey, Mary Elizabeth MeNeil, Shelby Andrews, Shirley Byrd and Carol Jean Andrews went to Mooresville and gave a short program after which we had tea and the circle gave us vases, scarfs and a huge box of candy, cakes and nuts. We enjoyed it very much and greatly appreciate it. — Carol Jean Andrews Shirley Byrd PRINTING OFFICE Hello Folks, Here we are bringing you the latest news from the Printing Office. Printers Devil Dean Upton his had a little tough luck recently. He accidently fell and broke his arm, but he is alright and is back work- ing with us again. Rufus “Shooter” Clark came to Barium to see our homecoming (Continued On Page Two) | | 2” sei In a few months we will be printing the individual pictures of the senior class - those who are finishing the high school. ners in the High School - the Ninth Grade. years from now when their pictures appear as seniors. As a matter of fact, already four are no longer with the Ninth Grade. They missing then. In this issue we are printing the pictures of the begin- They will look quite different from this three A good many of these faces will be will look a heap more grown up when you see their pictures as seniors, but from now until then they are very important members of the Barium School and community. Mr. James Sloan of Redlands, California On Saturday morning, October 30th, we received a message telling us of the death of Mr. James Sloan, one of the best friends that Barium Springs ever had. We do not remember that Mr. Sloan ever made a visit to Barium, but his kindness to this institution began away back in the early twenties and his helpfulness hias been of the kind that has done Ba- rium the. most good. Never was there a time when Mr. Sloan seemed to want to do something just to please a whim of his. It was always to meet a real need at Barium. The first thing was our printing office, and later additions to the printing office, and today our up-to date print shop is, as far as the equipment is concern- ed, entirely the gift of Mr. Sloan. Sloan Field, our athletic center is possibly the most popular place on the whole Barium campus. It was made possible by a gift from Mr. Sloan. Now, here is an interesting thing. Mr. Sloan was not interested in athletics. When a suggestion was made that he help us to get started on a field, his reply was that he was not interested in athletics, but that if we thought that was the thing we needed most right then he would help us to get it. That is the kind of a friend he has been all along. His contributions and encouragement have come right at the time and in the way that did us the most good. Mr. Sloan has helped us over many a hiurdle - the enlargement of the office, helping us to get out of debt, a generous check every year toward the running expenses of the Orphanage - all of these were things that he did. Barium truly has lost a friend. The name Sloan has meant so much to every child who has grown up at Barium during the last twenty-five years that wherever they go they will feel kindly toward a person bear- ing that name. Sloan Field has (Continued On Page Two) \ The Message of the Month By Rev. Charles H. Sides, Jr. THE GREATEST BLESSING As we approach the season of Thanksgiving we seldom fail to come with grateful hearts. For all of us are thankful for something and can rejoice that our early for- bears were moved to set apart this day in late autumn for joyful thanksgiving unto God. Surely it is fitting that we should observe such a day, and just as surely it is true that every day ought to be a day of thanksgiving. We come on Thanksgiving being grateful for many things, and yet so often they are the material things of life, money, comfort, possessions, health. We must be thankful for these things, but for the Christian is there not a much greater blessing to which none of these other things are able to measure up? For our greatest blessing, and that for which we should be most tuankful, is our relationship to Jesus Christ. In this season of thanksgiving it would be wel! for us to pause and consider just what this relation- ship means to us) What have we gained, after all, in giving ourselves unto Christ? It is human nature to count re- sults. When we make any outlay of energy or time Or money we want to see what the results are, what we have gained by that act- ion. Suppose you buy a piece of property. You improve it; you build a house on it. And you want to see results, you want to sea it increase in value. Perhaps you farm. Then you expect that the cost of the seed and the fertilizer and the value of harvest. If you work for an employer, you surely expect that the energy expended shall be met with a reasonable com- pensation, Now that is human and natural, that tendency to count results. In a somewhat different sense (Continued On Page Two) Deceased Mrs. Mary McNatt On November Ist 1948 Mrs. Mary MecNatt died in Fayetteville, N. C. at the age of seventy years. Mrs. McNatt was the beloved matron of our infirmary for the years 1937 - 1947. Mrs. McNatt was born in Thomas- ville, Ga. the daughter of John Hancock the inventor of Hancock plows. She was married to Mr. J. B. McNatt and came to North Curo- lina and lived in Parkton, N. C. She came to Barium in July 1937 at first as a substitute matron, and later as the trained nurse in charge of the infirmary. Several years ago the Superin- tendent, Mr. Johnston, wrote of Mrs. McNatt as follows: “She has carried on most accept- ably during the years. A daily pro- cession goes to the infirmary. Real pains and imaginary pains; symptoms that seem commonplace and are dangerous; symptoms that seem dangerous and are not; all come under her attention. She has a most amazing faculty of being able to distinguish the serious from the trival, and to take the (Continued On Page Two) NO. 1 Football Doings Around Barium We have not told you about our football doings since our Monroe game. On September 25th we play- ed Mooresville at Mooresville. The week before we had beaten Monroe so easily that maybe we took Mooresville too cheaply, and as a result the first half ended 6-6. We got busy in the second half, how- ever, and scored two more touch- downs, winning 19-6, and were mighty glad to come away from Mooresville with that game salted away. The next week was our first home game. We played China Grove - a non-conference team - and a team not quite up to the other teams that we had been playing. The final score was 61-0, and all of the substitutes got a chance to play. Joe Savage, an old Barium boy, is coaching at China Grove and he is doing the best he can under pretty hard conditions, China Grove has suffered two tragedies in former years and the town does not take too enthusiastically to the game. On October 8th we journeyed to Spencer, playing an afternoon game on the Spencer field. We did not play as good a game as we usually do, and Spencer was at their top form. The final results was Barium 6 - Spencer 6. Barium had to come from behind to tie that one. The Spencer folks enter- tained us royally, giving us supper after the game so we came home feeling not too badly about being held to a tie. On the 15th, Homecoming Day we had North Wilkesboro here. The weather was beautiful and the game was all that could be desired. Barium won 27-6 and avenged an almost similar defeat at the hands of North Wilkesboro a year ago. There was brilliant playing on both teams. Barium hiad several good backfield men to rely on and North Wilkesboro had to put most of their (Continued On Page Three) Alumni News We wish all of you could have been here for Homecoming. It was a glorious day and we noted the following as being here: Walter Beattie, Reid Brown, Helen Brown Coble, Cathleen Moore Ratcliffe, Margaret Moore Wil- liams, Tom Clark, Rev. John A. Carriker, Faye Marlowe Sigman, Dolores Ayers Robbins, Virginia Presnell, Dorathy Gibbs Honeycutt, Margaret Presnell Mayhew, Arthur W. Roach, Joe Ben Gibbs, Lee Spen- cer, Standish McKenzie, Johnson Shaffer, Sylvia Brown, C. L. Don- aldson, Wallace Twombly, Bennie Gregory, Sarah Donaldson Comp- ton, Pleas Norman, Bobbie Mar- lowe Spencer, Joe White, Charlie Sears, Edna Jackins Huntley, Ed Burney, Ed and Sadie (Eudy) Flowers, Frances Lowrance Parcell, T. G. McConnell, Annie Bell (Wil- liams) Dawson, Neely Ford, Ruth Freeman Jordan, Cheek Freeman, Sidney Parrish, Woot Davis, Earl Allen, Toni DeLancey, Myrtle Rushing, W. A. Johnson, Joy Stone Summers, Bernice Stone Thomp- son, Laura McKee Herrin, Annie Lou McKee Faulkner, Eva Sluder, Louise Martin Carson, Ester Arch- er, Avis Archer McLaughlin, Mil- dred Warner Burt, Irene McDade, Roy Wade, Marshall Norris, Gilda and Gloria Whitfield, A. G. Norris, Paul Horne, Carmet Sigmon, Ar- thur Sigmon, Claybourne Jessup, Dalma Jessup, Mary Frances Isen- hour, Larry Marlowe, Amos Hardy, Charles Barrett, Marian McCall Kleckley, John Ford, Nelson Far- (Continued On Page Two) PAGE TWO THE BARIUM MESSENGER NOVEMBER 1948 eee See THE BARIUM MESSiNGER PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR Entered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium Qerings, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special sate of postage, provided for in Section 110s Act of October 8, 1917. Authorized WWevember 15, 1923. BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON PRESIDENT MRS. R. A. YOUNG ; VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. COIT ROBINSON SECRETARY J. Archie Cannon - - - - Concord § Mrs. Perey R. Smith - - Wilmington Mrs. Coit Robinson - - - - Lowell Mis. U. b. Kerenner - Greensboro Mrs. J. M. Hobgood - - - Farmville Mrs. P. P. McCain Southern Pines N. H. Edgerton - += »* Rocky Mount Rev. M. S. Huske - - - = Reidsville kev. Samuel E. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham Rev. N. R. McGeachy - - Statesville R. W. Bruin - - - ~- Henderson W. E. Price - - + + - Charlotte Mrs. Fred L. Smyre - - Gastonia Rev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Mrs. k. A. Young - - - - Charlotte Rev. Ben F. Brown - - ~- Wallace J.H. Thomson- - - Kings Mountain Mrs. E. C. Beatty - - ~- Mooresville Mrs. H.S. Kirk - - - Winston-Salem ———————————————————————————_EEEEEESE (FORM OF BEQUEST) “I give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ MOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, Jn- corporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HERE NAME THE BEQUEST). Large Thanksgiving Offering Needed When this copy of the Messenger reaches you, you will be making your contributions to Presbyterian Orphan’s Home for the Thanksgiving Offering. Soon also the Presbyteries and churches will be preparing budgets for the year 1949-50. There are some things we hope will be borne in mind. ; In the year nineteen and forty we published a few figures in the Messenger showing the cost of certain items per day at the Home. In that yeay it cost $101.62 a day for food; this past year it cost $151.51. That year clothing cost $29.04 per day; now it costs $45.50. i In the year 1939-’40 we spent for fuel and lights $7,884.00. This past year because of the great increase in price of coal and freight rates we spent for fuel and lights $20,398.87. Because of the increase value of buildings, which has more than doubled in these eight years, our insurance bill has ad- vanced from $1900.00 per year to $5,000.00 per year. These are but outstanding examples of an advance in costs which has been in evidence throughout the budget. In the face of this advance we have experienced a de- crease in income in several sources. In 1941 Synod recom- mended to the Presbyteries that Presbyterian Orphan’s Home be put in the budget for 9 per cent. that percentage to 5 per cent. even farther. 4 per cent. are thankful. This year Synod reduces Some Presbyteries have gone One gives 3% per cent, one 3 per cent and one One Presbytery gives 6% per cent for which we During the war we had some children of soldiers who made an alottment to us. We no longer have that income. : Though there has been some increase in our endowment finds, income from investments have been reduced more ravidly. The mistaken idea has gone abroad that the Home has been receiving more money than it needs. The fact is that only a very generous Thanksgiving Offering and a liberal response from the churches during the rest of the church year can avert a deficit. Mrs. Mary McNatt (Continued From Page One) necessary steps. It is nice to have a person in charge of an important department that you can feel about as we do about the infirmary and Mrs. Mc- Natt. We do not need to wake up in the middle of the night and won- der if that job is being taken care of. We know it is. We delight to do honor to this fine member of our staff.” Mrs. McNatt is survived by her children, four girls and four boys who are as follows: Mrs. Nanette Buckley, New York City; Mrs. Anita Smith, Fayetteville, N. C.; Mrs. Rachel McDougald, Fort Bliss, Texas; Mrs. Virginia March, Fayetteville, N. C.; James Taylor McNatt, New Jersey; Neill MeNatt, Florida and Charles MeNatt, Wins- ton-Salem, and Rev. J. P. H. Me- Natt of High Point, and 15 grand children who along with a host of friends mourn her loss. Mr. James Sloan (Continued From Page One) been the center of our activities which we have not only enjoyed ourselves, but has been the meeting place of friends and friendly ri- vals from all over the State of North Carolina. The Barium Springs community mourns the passing of this good friend and everywhere there is a Barium boy of girl today there is grief that the man who made possible Sloan Field has passed on. Cottage News (Continued From Page One) game, which we won 27-6, Rufus is going to school at Columbia, S. C. now. We miss him and his “Tall Tales” about whales a lot. He used to be one of our boys. We haven’t been seeing much of “Shooter Bum” Dwight Reid, another one of our tall tale tellers, much anymore at night. Wonder where he is. I bet he is down at the Infirmary shooting Elminia some of his tall tales. Donald Mitchell who is on our crew is personally upset about the Carolina - William & Mary game. Football season is coming to a close which we have done very well in our games. We still have to face two strong teams, Salisbury and Statesville. We sure do hope to beat them both. Well folks, we hope to bring yo" more news next month, so until that time, so long. — Your key reporters J. Edsel McArthur Franklin Lentz LOTTIE WALKER BUILDING Hi Folks, A month’ seems a long time when it is only once in a month that I have the oppertunity of telling you what is happening on our campus. Our football team has been doing very well this month, only Isat week we had a win over Thomas- ville, 12-6. This week they play Salisbury on our own field and next week they go to Statesville for the game we girls have been looking forward to all season. We will be there pulling for you boys! Margaret Bullard, one of the girls from our cottage, has entered the county beauty contest for “Miss Merry Christmas.” Good luck Mar- garet! Speaking of beauty we hear our pastor, Mr. Sides, ho* hecome for- mally engaged to Mis Virginia Smith of Monroe, Congratulations. “Ito each life some rain must fall.” Yes, even at Barium there comes moments of great sadness. We have just learned that Mrs. Mary MeNatt, who was our nurse for many years and had just been gone from our home 2 year, has died. She was dear to us and will be missed by everyone. It isn’t long until Thanksgiving and Barium has much to be thank- ful for, mainly you, our friends. Goodbye for now, and be with us again next month. — Anne Wicker LEES COTTAGE Hello Folks, We have been out of the news for a month or so, but we are a lively bunch around the cottage. We have enjoyed the football games here and at Davidson. We want to thank our friends at David- son for being so good to us. We went to town the dther day to get our winter shoes and we are proud of them. It hasn’t been so very cold so we are still bare foot- ed. Some frosty morning we will put on our shocs, We are tough guys. We have been planting some bulbs around our house, hope to nave some pretty flowers in the spring. Two of our boys went to the birthday dinner this month, Bobby Ray Bailey and Le Nair Burns. We have been helping on the truck farm after school picking up potatoes and apples. It won’t be long until Christmas, we have been writing to Santa Claus to tell him what we want. We have worn gut Sears catalog looking through it to see. what to ask for. We are going to have 1 football game here Thanksgiving afternoon. Miss Carpenter took the Juniors to town Halloween night and we got in the parade. We had a good time, At this Thanksgiving season, we want to thank all our friends for being so good to us. — The Lees Boys A WISH IS NOT A WILL Many people in Oklahoma have spent all their time and energy in accumulating wealth of one kind or another, land, royalties, cattle, real estate, stocks and bonds. These same people have given little thought as to how they will perpe- tuate their energies for the good of mankind. In their hearts they want to help and not hinder. It is harder to invest an estate wisely than to make it. Great character is not re- vealed in the making of money but in the use of it, This requires no small amount of time, thought and considertaion. Hundreds of friends have al- ready settled the decision in their own minds as to what they will do, and have good intentions but through procrastination never do it. A man may wish a hundred times concerning his estate, but a wish is not a will. A wish denotes a feel- ing of need, yet this is not suffi- cient. Unless you wish and actually do something your wishes are in vain. A wish should lead to a will. If you want worthwhile religious institutions to benefit from your lifetime of labor, make your will immediately. Most people who have died without a will had expressed to intimate friends that they wish- ed to remember a certain institu- tion, organization but were so busy they kept postponing the making of their will. Make a will regard- less of the size of your estate. Project your life through your will—make it now! — Baptist Messenger On a dark and stormy night the trainman was signaling to the en- gineer when he dropped his lantern to the ground, Another man passing by tossed it back to him on top of a boxcar. In a few minutes the en- gineer came rushing up. “Let’s see you do that again!” “Do what?” “Jump from the ground to the top of that boxcar!” The three ages of man are school tablet, aspirin tablet, and stone tab- let. The Meeting of the (Continued From Page One) many were coming. There were guesses of everything from 400 to 600. To be on the safe side we pre- pared enough barbecue for 600 people, after consulting exper- ienced barbecue dispensers, so we felt that if all of this was not eat- en up we would have something to go on in next day’s regular meals. ‘We did not give the men a very big helping when they first lined up and told them that they could come back for second helpings. Did they respond to that invita- tion? Well, ‘before the evening was over every scrap of the barbe- cue was gone, so those 470 men ate up what was a normal allot- ment for 600. All glory to the men of Concord Presbytery. Anybody who can eat lixe that can do a lot of work, and we believe that the effort to make the Program of Progress real will be carried out by these men. Reverend Ben Rose made the principal address, and the neat way he acknowledged his introduc- tion captured the interest of the men listening to him and helped to make his speech well received and inspiring. Dr. McLean of Lenoir introduced Mr. Rose as the son of a famous lawyer, the grandson of a State treasurer, the nephew of the president of the Union Semin- ary, and the son-in-law of a dis- tinguished professor, Dr. Thomp- son. Mr Rose, in acknowledging this intioduction, stated that he took no credit for being the son of his father or the grandson of his grandfather or the nephew of his uncle, but he claimed all of the credit for being the son-in-law of Dr. W. ‘TC. Thompson, which, evi- dently meant that his wife did not give him a bit of encouragement in that line at all. Mr. Rose’s address was one that inspired us, and we believe Concord Presbytery is going to do better things because of it. The new officers elected were Mr. J. A. Sloan, of Salisbury, Presi- dent; Jtudge Wilson Warlick of Newton, Vice-President, and Mr. Archie Calhoun of Barium, Secre- tary. It is very likely that the meeting next year will again be held at Ba- rium. If, however, it should be held somewhere else, please take note of the item about the barbecue. The men of Concord Presbytery are real men. Alumni News (Continued From Page One) mer, Lucille Smith) Myers, Bobby Allen, Alexander Edwards, Fred Johnson, Nellie Johnson Summers, Carson Wood, Lacy Beshears, Bax- ter Mckenzie, Donald Bolton, Ralph Spencer, Joe and Agnes Savage, Dewey Barnhill. Henry Allesandrini and his wife from Cleveland, Ohio spent the week-end at Barium. Mildred Monroe, student at Flora Macdonald spent the week-end at Barium. Mary Ann McCormick Cox gra- duated from Brevard College Aug- ust 22nd. She is living in Goldsboro, 802 S. Center St. Lacy McCormick is a student at Brevard. Dwight Spencer is in the Navy and is stationed at Memphis, Tenn. Irene McDade spent the week- end at her home in Lenoir. Wilbur Coats wrote us he had a little baby born five months ago. Wilbur is a beautician in Baltimore, Md. John Ammons was a recent visi- tor at Barium. He hlas been dis- charged from the Marines and js living with his mother in Salisbury. Betty Mae Traywick was mar- ried October 5th to Jack Groves of Pageland, S. C. William Billings was married on September 18th! in Wilmington, N. C. to Carol Heatwole of Gettys- burg, Penn. Dorothy Weeks Ward was mar- ried to Robert Waters on Friday, September 3, at the Cape Fear Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, N.C. Mary Frances Isenhour and Esau Davis were married at the First Presbyterian Church, Winston- Salem, Friday night October 29th. Invitations have been received to the wedding of Myrtle Rushing and W. A. Johnson which! will take place at Little Joe’s Church, Noy- ember 20th. Gloria and Gilda Whitfield are nursing at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. Eleanor Pope is taking trainine as a labratory technician at Rex Hospital, Raleigh. Howard and Grace Beshears and their little boy were visitors on the campus. James Reid is at the U. S. Naval] Training Center at San Diego, California. Born to Marshall and Mrs. Nor- ris of Raleigh on October Ist, a daughter, Marsha Ann. Marshall works for the Greyhound Bus Co. Born to David and Doris Flowers of Charlotte September 2nd a son, James David, Jr. David and Doris brought their baby to see us. Born to James and Lois Mott Hannon October 30, a son James William. They are living at Pulas- kie, Va. Horace Horne is a member of the Fire Dept. in Charlotte. Ernest Stricklin is a member of the Court of Control at Davidson, representing the Junior Class. Irvin Squire is head of the Com- munity Chest Drive in Greensboro this year. We were sorry to hear of the death of Gordon Jones on October 3rd. He had been a patient for several years in a hospital in N. Y. Nancy Stafford Pate of Winston- Salem came to Barium for Sunday service with a group of women from her church. In the list of superalatives of the senior class at Flora Macdonald College Nina Berryhill was select- ed the friendliest. Neely Ford spent the week-end at Canton. Herman Smith spent the week- end at Barium. James Shepherd of Laurinburg attended a football game at Ba- rium recently, The Message of the (Continued From Page One) we might carry that over to our spiritual lives. What have we gain- ed? Certainly we ought to say that not by any efforts of ours do we receive the myriad blessings of Christ. But we do have something that we must do before these blessings can be ours. We give our- selves to Him. We offer ourselves in full surrender. We say, if we come sincerely, “Here is my life; take it, Lord, and let it be conse- crated unto Thee. I hold back no- thing, all my talents, all my time, my heart and soul are given unto Thee. Take and use me as thou wilt.” If then we have made that full (Continued On Page Titres) 4 || 2 sur) us? the clea mal are He fied the! tain ace fait thr The wit sub wrt sho pea tior ave are are the Go as the pes hav are the the do! lie Jes sin pe: to ere ir Pe O ct i NOVEMBER 1948 SSS The Message of the (Continued From Page Two) surrender, whlat does it mean to us? What have we gained? well. the Apostle Paul mentions very clearly in the fifth chapter of Ro- mans some of those blessings that are assuredly ours in Jesus Christ. He says, “Therefore being justi- fied by faith, we have ...” And then he goes on to point out ecer- tain things that very definitely accompany being justified. First of all, being justified hy faith, we hlave peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. That is to say, we are reconciled with God. We are no longer the subjects of God’s displeasure, Tis wrath against sin will not be shown toward us. The world cries out today for peace, peace between men and na- tions. But here is a peace that is available for all and yet how many are refusing it! How many today are living miserable lives because they have not come to peace with God. And yet here it is for all, just as free as the sunlight or the air we breathe - peace that comes as the greatest blessing to the soul, peace with God. With that peace we no longer have to dread God’s wrath, for we are no longer enemies, we are sons. We are brought as sons to the Fa- ther by Him who is our elder Bro- ther, the Lord Jesus Christ. And why? Because of nothing we have done? Never! But because we be- lieve God’s Word that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sin. Peace is the result, God is at peace with us and we have nothing to fear. “Through Christ on the cross peace was made, my debt by his death was all paid. No other foundation is laid for peace the gift of God’s love.” The second blessing is that we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. The lot of the saved person is joy. Actually it is more than joy that Paul had in mind. He liked to use this word that we translate “rejoice in hope.” It was a central part of his creed. It is glorying, it is exultation for the blessings which Christ has bought for us. It is rejoicing in the hope and the blessed assurance that we shall be saved to fellowship with! God in heaven. How is it that if we ask some if they are saved, they will reply, “I don’t know. I hope that I am saved. I believe I am saved but I am not sure.” Why these weak words? There is no place here for uncertainty. Do we believe God’s promises? Hasn’t he said that those who come unto Him he will in no wise cast out? We have God’s Word for it, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” It is that assurance that gives us joy. It is that assurance that should put the glow of rejoicing on the face of every Christian. And that joy that we gain is only the beginning, the sample of the joy that shall be ours at last in the place that Christ has gone to pre- pare for us. And then, finally, Paul would tell us here of a third blessing that might be described as patience in tribulation. And how we do require this blessing! For nowhere perhaps is there more wonder and question- ing in the mind of the Christian than because of tribulation, Paul makes no attempt to say why good people suffer, and yet he says something far more impor- tant, And that is that tribulation may also be made a blessing for the one who truly trusts in Christ. Because the Christian knows that suffering is “often the stuff of life that makes them strong.” Steel has to be passed through the fire before it is strong. Tribulation is a character builder. Does that seem hard? It is God’s word and it is a word of comfort. “For tribulation worketh patience, and patience ex- perience, and experience hope.” And that hope is found in absolute dedication to Christ and to His will for our lives. In this season of thanksgiving let us be most thankful for the THE BARIUM ‘MESSENGER marvelous blessings of Jesus Christ; peace with God, hope of. the glory of God, patience in tri- bulation. All of us are seeking peace, joy, contentment, We may be thankful that they are found in Him. Football Doings (Continued From Page One) dependence on one. On October 22nd, Barium suffered their first defeat, losing to Lexington 21-13. It was a drizzly night, spoiling to some extent the homecoming fes- tivities of the Lexington schol. The Lenoir High School band was there to put on a performance but did not get to put it on until after the game had finished because the whole first half was played in a drizzle. You would think that since the game was played in the rain no one would have tried any forward passes. Well there were the most forward passes in that game of any we have seen this year. On the third play from scrimmage Barium scored by a long pass, Mangum to Young. About five plays later Lex- ington scored by a pass. Then later on there was another score by a pass. Two touchdowns were made on running plays. Barium’s second touchdown culminated in a drive down the field with Hillard finally going over for the score. Eanes, the passer for Lexington, showed plenty of class on that particular night. On October 29th Barium went to Davidson and entertained the Davidson Freshmen. The final score was Davidson 20 - Barium 6. Barium’s touchdown was on a beau- tiful pass, Barnes to Mangum. Two of Davidson’s scores were made by the same man - another one of those Wade boys from Charlotte. This one is named Ham, and they say he got that name from the size cf his hands. Anyhow early in the game he took a forward pass going for a touchdown and then in the second half he intercepted a pass with one hand, just as though it were a baseball, and then went for the second touchdown. On November 5th Barium played Thomasville at Barium - a big, tough team. The final score was Barium 13 - Thomasville 6. As this is written two games are still on the schedule - Salisbury and Statesville - two of the hard- est and most interesting games on the entire program. Statesville hias so far gone undefeated, If she can manage Spencer and Barium she will be the conference champion. Salisbury is a non-conference school but her games with Barium have always been interesting. While the big boys were doing all of this, the Juniors have played several games. The first was the B-team playing Statesville and winning 7-0. Then the 110-pound team defeated Statesville 26-0: the 85-pound team lost to Davidson 12-6, the B team winning from Davidson 55-0. Then the 85-pound team tied Concord 0-0: the 110- pound team lost to Concord 20-12, and the B team defeated Concord 12-0. The 110-pound team defeated Newton 26-6 and the B team de- feated Newton 13-0. The 110-pound team defeated China Grove 41-6. Miscellaneous Gifts October Receipts Plaza Aux., dresser scarfs. Mallard Creek Aux., B. W. C., dish towels, North Vanguard Aux., Home Circle, wash cloths. West End Aux., 8 quarts fruits & vegetables. Johnson Mem. Aux., clothing for one boy and one girl. Lansing Aux., 1 quilt. Albemarle ist Aux., towels, wash cloths, scarfs, soap. Fairfield Aux., 2 quilts. Mount Zion (W) Aux., toys for Infirmary. Bethel (F) Aux., Circles 1 and 8, soap, tooth paste, clothing, towels, wash cloths, 1 quilt. Hephzibah Aux., 2 quilts. Clothing Outfits October Receipts Albemarle 1st Aux., B. W. C. No. 2 Princess Place S. S., Ladies’ B. C. Myrtle Grove Aux. Lake Waccamaw Aux, Clothing Funds October Receipts Matthews S. S., Senior Y. P. RAs oc. oe sess 25.00 East Burlington S. S., Woman’s . 6 eee . 22.50 Cleveland Aux., Evening GOT i eccsccecsis sacsstaeese 80+ . 25.00 Carthage Aux. ......-.-- + woe 22.50 Fairmont Aux, ..-.--- ..-. 50.00 St. Pauls (F) Aux. ..--..-...... 50.00 Wilmington ist S. S., Young Women’s Fellowship Class 25.00 West Raleigh S. S., Alice egos 6. OS 2c ---....... 22.50 Rutherfordton Aux. -.---....... 25.00 Montpelier Aux. .......---- ..... 45.00 Salisbury 1st Aux., Circle No, Baa serag ae eee 20.00 Armstrong Mem. S&S. S. ....... 25.00 Gastonia Ist S. S., Herald Me ee secsveee 90,00 Fairmont Aux. .......-.--. -...... 5.00 Cameron §. §, ........--- -......... 38,57 Kannapolis Ist Aux. ............ 30.00 Kannapolis 1st Aux., Circles EO A oe esas . 80.00 Mt. Holly S. S., Young Adult CWRRS hake eee Sus. 20.00 The Women of the Church of PRION 5 eee ...,,... 25.00 Winston-Salem 1st Aux., C. H, Wiley Circle ........... .......... 45.00 Belmont 1st Aux., B. W. Circle: Bo, 2 4k sss... 25.00 Paw Creek S. S., Class 8 .... 44.00 Mulberry Aux., Circle No. 2 5.60 Durham 1st Aux., Business OWN Oe ees sisieccsne 5.00 Goshen (KM) Aux. ......... .. 5.00 Miss Carrie Roddey ............ 20.00 Dunn Ist S. S., Carrie Baldwin ecu ae 20.00 Farmville (A) Aux. ........... 20.00 Mebane S. S., Covenanter’s Be eee... .. 80,00 Front Street Aux. 12.50 Piedmont S. S., Blue Circle NBER oo oe co ae. Shee 5.00 Myers Park S. S., Lockhard B. C Ale ee ee, 20.00 Miss Artelee Puett, Winston- Re eas eer csc 25.00 Bethel (M) Aux. .... i Sieenaee BOAO Trinity Ave. Aux. 00.0.0... .... 25.00 Pinehurst Community Aux. 20.00 Washington 1st S. S., Vanguard ROM oe A 10.00 Myers Park Aux. 2000... sss. 20.00 Howard Mem, Aux., Mrs. George Holderness .. 8.50 Mrs. B. M. Hart ............... 5.00 tear 6. 5; ........... 50.00 Lowell Aux., Circle No. 1 .... 25.00 Burlington 1st Aux. Business Women’s Cirele ........ .......... 22.50 Lansing Aux, ...cccccen cecessisne 5.00 St. Andrews-Covenant S. S., Fellowship B. C. ............ .... 20.00 Williams Mem. Aux. ............ 50.00 Gastonia Ist S. S., Vanguard RR en cc veeeess BOO Snow Hill Aux. oo 25.00 Oak Plains Aox. .........2.....- 10.50 Old Laurel Hill Aux. ............ 25.00 POE cco ccsees ciscerteees ESE 25.00 George W. Lee Mem. Aux. .. 40.00 Bethesda (O) Aux. .......0....-- 25.00 ...- 25.00 - 25.00 -- 25.00 Shiloh (F) Aux. ......... West End Aux. ............ Rowland Aux. ........ ....- Ss Rockfish Aux, ....... ....---.-.-.- 18.60 Mrs. George D. Morton........ 25.00 Miscellaneous October Receipts Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. D. F. Cade, Hamlet ...... 10.00 Miss C. H. Stone, High Point 1.00 Miss Mabel A. Townsend, Laurin- Me ieee, sss ees 4,00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, Hamlet .... 1.00 Mr. A. C. Chaffee, Morgan- ME cechcssescs. opastce eernaiers 50.00 A Friend, Cumberland. ........ 5.00 Mrs. W. J. Bason, North Wilkes- BO ac aiccsei bioko decree cane tsesaes 15.00 Mr. T. C. Evans, Jr., Richmond, I ce bianco eee eee A. M. Smyre Manufactoring Co., Gastonia 22.0.0... eee eee 5,000.00 For Messenger October Receipts Dr. John J, Smerzmak, Con- TE saikisissiste soeesens Levcseenanea --- 1.00 Mr. R. A. Wade, High Point 1.00 Mr. A. L. Smith, Concord 5 5.00 rating Memorials October Receipts Butt, Mrs. Elizabeth Grier, Char- lotte: Mr. & Mrs. Julius Aronson, Mr. Herman & Miss Henrietta Wallace, Statesville Memorials for Church October Recepts . W. T., Concord: ne Sa R. E. Ridenhour, Jr. Concord 1st S. S., Grier B. C, Mr. & Mrs. Archi: Cannon Mrs. R. G. Kiser Alexander, Mrs. J. K. A., Charlotte: Mrs. Harry H. Lee Al Mr, A. C., Wadesboro: yt ri Don Davidson, Charlotte Bailey, Mr. A. B., Savannah, Ga.: Mr. & Mrs, Orrin Robbins, Lenoir Beard, Mrs. Helen Foil, Charlotte: Mrs. N. S, Cochran, Matthews Bierman, Mrs, Frank H., Atlanta, Ga.: Myers Park Presbyterian Church, Charlotte Mr. & Mrs. C. B. Ross, Char- lotte Mr. Morgan A. Reynolds Bishop, Mrs. (Annie Stevenson) E. K., New Bern: Mrs, Raymond Pollock Mrs. Norfleet M. Gibbs New Bern 1st Aux. Mr. & Mrs. George Clarke Moulton Bohannon, Mrs. Sadie Sloan, Davidson: Mrs. George Currie, Clarkton Boykin, Mrs. William Whitaker, Charlotte: May Lebby & Gayle Mr. & Mrs. James A, Malcolm Butt, Mrs. Elizabeth Grier (C. N. G.), Charlotte: Miss Lulie E. Andrews, States- Ville Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Johnston, Barium Springs Mrs. R. G. Kiser, Concord Clarke, Rev. Eugene Houston, Warsaw: Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Garner, Reidsville Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Morton, Rich- mond, Va. Clements, Mr. James B., Greensboro Mr. & Mrs. Henry Myers Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Grier The Archie Ogilvies, Oakwood Mrs. James C. McDiarmid, Miss Ellen & Mr. Edmund P. Robin- son, North Wilkesboro Mr. & Mrs. P. M. Williams, North Wilkesboro Colmore, Miss Eva, Sewanee, Tenn.: Mr. & Mrs. Karl T. Deaton, Statesville Colvard, Mr. J. H., Mooresville: Mr. & Mrs. A. R. Gresham Cook, Mr. J. T., Godwin: Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Hemingway & Miss Marguerite McIntyre Cooper, Lieut.-Com. D. F., Wil- mington: Mr. & Mrs. George J. Moore, Raleigh Cooper, Mr. Oscar Flett, Wilming- ton: Dr. & Mrs. F. B. Haar, Green- ville Craig, Mr. David J., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Abernethy Mr. & Mrs. J. Alex. MeMillian Miss Lavynia M. Crosland Mr. William H. H. Cowles, Brooklyn, N. Y. Major & Mrs. William L. Allison, Statesville Mr. & Mrs. Minor R. Adams, Gas- tonia Myers Park Presbyterian Church Myers Park Presbyterian S. S., Nursery Dept. Mr. William Scales Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Courtney R. Mauzy Dr. W. C. Current, Statesville Mr. & Mrs. John D, Sloop, States- ville Mr. Fred W. Ramsey, Statesville Mr. D. L. Raymer & Mr, A. B. Raymer, Statesville Mrs. S. A. Robinson & Mr. & Mrs. James Sloan, Gastonia Mr. Jack Sronce, Arlington, Va. Raylass Department Stores, New York Mr. & Mrs, George D. Patterson Mr. & Mrs. Junius M. Smith Creagh, Mr. H. A., Pollocksville: Mrs. E. E. Bell Barium Springs, N. C. A MEMORIAL GIFT Rev. R. S. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, You will find enclosed $..___.____. in memory of PAGE THREE EE EEE Cullers, Mr. Clark, Front Royal, Va.: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Anner, Green- ville, S. C. Dixon, Mr. Robert Earl, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Lewis Doggett, Mr. G. O., Charlotte: Myers Park Presbyterian Church Dysart, Mrs. W. W., Lenoir: Mr. & Mrs. George C. Robbins Falls, Dr. P. R., Gastonia: Mrs, R. H. Philhower Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Kennedy Mrs. Raymond Robinson & Family Mr. & Mrs. Minor R. Adams Mrs. Ralph S. Robinson Mr. & Mrs, Ralph Dickson Mr. & Mrs. Ben Guion Mr. George W. Ragan Mr. & Mrs. George V. Patterson & Mrs. Leonora Taylor Gastonia 1st S. S., Nellie War- ren B, C. Misses Lin Martin, Sophia Ken- drick, Mary Olive Walker & Mrs. Nancy Briggs Mrs. W. S. Dilling & Mr. & Mrs. B. W. Gillespie, Kings Mtn. Mrs. Fred L. Smyre & Family Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Smith Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Summerell, Cramerton Mr. & Mrs. John C, Mason Mr. Ralph Ray & Family, Green- wood, S. C. Mr. & Mrs, W. W. Glenn, Lin- colnton Mr. & Mrs. R. Grady Rankin Mrs. J. H. Henderlite Mr. & Mrs. Joe L. Barnett Mr. & Mrs, Walter G. Rhyne Mrs, Will Warren & W. Y. War- ren, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Dr. J. Lee Robinson Mrs. S. A. Robinson & Mr. & Mrs. James Sloan Mr. & Mrs. Coit M. Robinson, Lowell Mrs. Frost Torrence Mrs. L. M. Lattimore Mrs. George A. Gray Miss Jett Plank Mr. & Mrs. M. B. Wales Mr. & Mrs. H. Price Lineberger Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Jackson & Miss Mildred Lineberger Mrs. Norman Morrow Mr. & Mrs. Caldwell Ragan Mr. J. F. Jackson Mrs. M. H. Curry & Mr. James L, Curry Fleming, Rev. N. N., Mebane: Mr. & Mrs. Ira Bailey, Woodleaf Mr, & Mrs. John J. Gilbert, Washington Mr. & Mrs. H, G. Hunt, Raleigh Clara, Edith & Harold Gilbert, Raleigh Dr. & Mrs. George L. Carrington, Burlington Mrs. J. W. Thompson & Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Bruner, Cleveland Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Stratford, Graham Mr. & Mrs, W. D. Morton, Rich- mond, Va. Alice Broome B. C., Raleigh 1st Ss. S, Mr. & Mrs. George J. Moore, Raleigh Ford, Mr. Thad, Shelby: Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Moore, Fox, Mr. H. C., Mooresville: Mrs. James A. Brown Mrs. A. R. Gresham Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Grandson, Mr. Bob Gaither Grannis, Mr, E. W., Fayetteville: Dr. W. T. Rainey Grier, Mrs. Bess Gordan (W. C.), North Wilkesboro: Mr. & Mrs, C. F. Adamson (Continued On Page Four) NAME OF DECEASED ADDRESS DATE OF DEATH SURVIVOR TO BE WRITTEN ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP OF SURVIVOR TO DECEASED ONE GIVING MEMORIAL ~_-——s_ ae een ue as oe ee ee eo ADDRESS PAGE FOUR Mr. & Mrs, L. M. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Johnston, Barium Springs Mr. & Mrs. S. H. Price, Moores- ville Rev. & Mrs. Statesville Mrs. J. B. Clements, Greensboro Mrs. Carl Coffey Dr. & Mrs. Harold B. Smith Mr. & Mrs. C. D. Coffey Mr. & Mrs. C. Don Coffey, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Bason & Bill Ear] Thompson, Grier, Mrs. (Gertrude Hall) J. M., Lenoir: Mrs. J. C. Seagle Lenoir 1st Aux. Concord 1st S. S., Grier B. C. Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Houston, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. C. S. Warren Mr. & Mrs. George C. Robbins Rev. & Mrs. B. B. Shankel Mrs. E. F. Reid & Mr. & Mrs. Rufus L. Gwyn Mr. & Mrs. Orrin Robbins Hamm, Mr. E. D., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner High, Baby Anderson Alexander, II, Statesville: Junior Service League Hord, Mr. Eugene T., Raleigh: Mr. & Mrs. George J. Moore Hubbard, Mrs. Mollie, Dunn: Mrs. Fred H. Mabry, Lauginburg Mrs. Robert Cowan, Rock Hill Inglis, Mrs. Minnie Louise Rod- man, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs, John McGee Mr. & Mrs. Edgar M. McGee Jackson, Mr. J. A., Graniteville, Ss. Mr. & Mrs. H. Price Lineberger Gastonia Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner, Gastonia Jarrett, Mr. E. D., Thomasville: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner, Gastonia Johnston, Mrs. D. P., Kannapolis: First Presbyterian Church, Kan- napolis Johnston, Lieut. Col. James David- son, Barium Springs: Aunt, Mrs. R. S. Abernethy, Winter Haven, Fla. oi Mrs. John B., Mocks- ville: Mrs. L. T. McKinnon, Brunswick, Ga. LaFar, Mrs. D. R., Sr., Gastonia: Mrs. R. H. Philhower Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. Minor R, Adams Mrs. Ralph S. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Dickson Mrs. George V. Patterson & Mrs. L. Patterson Taylor Mr. & Mrs. George Ragan Mr. & Mrs, Charles C. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Hunter Neisler, Kings Mountain Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Summerell, Cramerton Mr. & Mrs. John C, Mason Mr. Ralph Ray & Family, Green- wood, S. C. Mr. & Mrs. H. T. Allen Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Gibson Mr. & Mrs. J. Ed Brison Nellie Warren B. C., Gastonia ist S. 8. Mr. R. E, Caldwell Office Employees of Harden Mfg. Co Mr. & Mrs. R. Grady Rankin Mrs. R. W. Simmers, Cambridge, Mass. Mrs. L. N. Patrick United Daughters of the Con- federacy, Gastonia Mrs. J. H. Henderlite Women of Kings Mountain Pres- bytery Mrs. Will Warren & W. Y. War- ren, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Mrs. S. A. Robinson & Mr. & Mrs. James Sloan Mrs. J. M. & Miss Christine Sloan Mr. & Mrs. Dean A. French Mr. & Mrs. Coit M. Robinson, Lowell Mr. & Mrs. M. B. Wales Mr. & Mrs. H. Price Lineberger Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Jackson & Miss Mildred Lineberger Mr. B. W. Wilson Mr. J. G. Reading Mrs. W. R. Armstrong Mrs. H. W. Robinson, Mrs. Earl Barron, Mrs. Joe Barron, Mrs. Ben Pursley & Mrs. Frank Shait, Rock Hill, S. C. Mrs. M. H. & Mr. James L. Curry Miss Aggidel Moore, McConnels- ville, S. C. Miss Mary Olive Walker Leach, Mr. F. G., Raeford: Mrs. M. W. & Mr. Cecil Dew Miss Nancy Peele Raeford Men-of-the-Church Pioneers of the Raeford Presby- terian Church THE BARIUM MESSENGER McClintock, Mrs. Howard, Wins- ton-Salem: Winston-Salem 1st Aux. McLean, Mr. Robert S., Lincolnton: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner, Gastonia McMurray, Mrs. Annie Lee Pat- terson, Charlotte: Misses Vivia & Letha King Miss Ora Berryhill Miss Sue Woodside MeNair, Mr. Rory, Maxton: Iona Presbyterian Church Marsh, Mrs. W. R., Charlotte: Misses Louise & Jane Steele Hannon Montgomery, Mrs. J. T., States- ville: Mrs. D, A. Pressley Miss Lulie E. Andrews Mr. & Mrs. F. F. Steele, Sr., Winston-Salem Mrs. L. K. Lazenby Mr. & Mrs, E. R. Rankin Miss Mary E. Bowles Mrs. F. G. Harrill & Mrs. Fannie C. Ives Major & Mrs. William L. Allison Montgomery, Mr. Junius, Bishop- ville, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. George J. Moore, Raleigh Moore, Mrs. Jane T., Lenoir: Mr. & Mrs. Orrin Robbins Mr. & Mrs. George C. Robbins Morris, Mr. Zeb, Concord: Patterson Presbyterian Church Morris, Mr. Z. A., Concord: Mr. & Mrs. G. L. Patterson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour, Jr. Morrow, Mrs. Durwood, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Newsom, Mrs. Amos C., Hunters- ville: Mrs. B. C. Davidson & Misses Mary Louise & Alice C. David- son, Charlotte Niven, Mr. Jesse F., Jr., Albemarle: — 1st S. S., Jim Harris : Cc. O’Farrell, Mr. O. C., Kings Moun- tain: Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Page Circle No. 2, Kings Mountain 1st Aux. Mr. & Mrs. C. D. Blanton Mr. & Mrs. B. W. Gillespie & Mrs. W. S. Dilling Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Thomson Mr. & Mrs. ©. W. Myers Mr. & Mrs. H. R. Warmieets Oliver, Mrs. Margaret Evans, St. Pauls: Iona Presbyterian Church Parrish, Mrs. Elizabeth McCarter (mother), Kings Mountain: Mr..& Mrs. W. W. Parrish Patterson, Mrs. T. W., Burlington: Mrs. Pinckney Best Raper, Mr. Paul A., Lexington: Mr. F. A. Watson & Family Reavis, Mrs., Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. A. W. Fanjoy Reid, Mr. Roderick V., Charlotte: Myers Park Presbyterian Church Myers Park Presbyterian Sun- day School, Primary Dept. Rice, Miss Lucy, Mt. Airy: Mrs, W. E. Merritt Roberts, Mr. Frank, Kings Moun- tain: Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Page Mr. & Mrs. W. B. Thomson Savage, Mrs. R. T. Mattie E., Salisbury: Mrs. C. E. Stevenson Mrs. W. S. Hall Scott, Mr. A. L., Badin: Mr, & Mrs. W. P. Costner, Char- lotte Mr. & Mrs. K. H, Erb Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Lowrance, Barium Springs Smathers, Mrs. Turner, Canton: Mr. & Mrs, Orrin Robbins Sidbury, Mrs. J. B., Wilminzton: Mrs. P. P. McCain, Southern Pines Smith, Mr. D. J., Durham: Session of Trinity Avenue Pres- byterian Church Smith, Mr. L. G., Hilliard, Fla.: Jackson Springs Aux. Smith, Mrs. Minnie, Huntersville: Gilwood Aux. Mr. & Mrs. Albert L. Smith, Concord Stone, Mr. Reed, Bassett, Va.: Mr. & Mrs. Uhliman S. Alexander Smith, Mr. Robert L., Reidsville: (Mrs. Roma V. Ingram Smith, of Sam Smith: og Union Theological Seminary, Ric ‘hmond, Va. Smith, Mr. §. Fuller, Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs, Henry Myers Mr. & Mrs. W. D. Morton, Rich- mond, Va. Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Clements Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Query, Char- lotte St. Clair, Mr. Junie L., Belmont: Castanea Aux. Tucker, Mr. Will E., Charlotte: Mr. Morgan A . Reynolds Urquhart, Mr. M. D., Raleigh: Mr. & Mrs. Neale Patrick Van Dalsem, Mr. Ven, Moultrie, a.: Mrs. Ernest Murray’s Bridge Club, Greensboro Walls, Mr, B. R., Lilesville: Laurens Kiwanis Club, Laurens, S. C. Waters, Mrs. M. G., Washington: Mr. & Mrs. Rk. Lee Stewart, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. S. H. Perdue Washington -st Aux., Circle 3 Board of Deacons, Washington 1st Church ‘Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Summerell, Burlington a Washington Ist Aux. Mr. & Mrs. Colon McLean Mrs. Car] Shelton Mr. & Mrs. Dan Cratch Mrs, Ford S. Worthy Watson, Mr. E. B., Sanford: Circle 9, Mooresville 1st Aux. Weill, Mr. Will, Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner, Gastonia Whittenton, Mr. J. W., Benson: Dr. W. T. Rainey, Fayetteville Winecoff, Mr. Henry M., Concord: Mr. & Mrs. Pat Ritchie Misses Lou, Lina, & Addie White Mrs. Ada R. Gorman Concord 1st S. S., Grier B. C. Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour, Jr. Mrs. Howard Caldwell Mrs. R. G. Kiser Womack, Mr. Rufus, Ruffin: Mr. & Mrs. Paul Thompson & Jane, Chapel Hill Wood, Prof. W. W., Davidson: Dr. & Mrs, Edward Erwin Woodson, Mr. Lewis Shelton, Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. J. B. Clements Honoring the eightieth birthday of Mrs. C. W. Ritch, Charlotte: Newell Aux. Churches October Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Boyd Mem. _..........-- 2.16 Greenville 1st ............ .. .. 22.54 FOARBION noe ne ws 3.45 New Bern Ist ............ : .- 4,10 Rocky Mount Ist ................-- 112.50 William & Mary Hart Chapel 6.90 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Back Creek Beattie Mem. OG a ee teeeal havens CHOON Looe caren ees Concord Concord 1st Concord 2nd oon ae Davidson ....... pres, canes 19.96 Flow-Harris PYAAKUN - eae es ces Gitwood .. 2... Peacrighury Geen wen sans MRICKOTY 18b (ices ederestsiicn Immanuel Kannapolis 1st Kannapolis 2nd PHOT ©... emi Little Joe’s .......0- MTIOD acc; olddaus” eaten ; Mooresville nd -ceccsecsoc. soscvess 10.11 Newton, J. R. Gaither ........ ; A Priend g.saet seawncn Poplar Tent 2a. Prospect . “ia Rocky River... SATIS OLY 16B ccisssecs | ssciseescinnee Salisbury 2nd . Sherrill’s Ford .. Shiloh dealer Spencer _ siecle Statesville Ist . Third Creek "NAGRATA... A acd “oeotsowien bevels TI an.,..ae nimlnemanoneane Waldensian sskenhaetile. .. sotmamsnwes 16. 25 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Bensalem | cc) ew ann 6.08 Berea .......... 2.28 Bethesda 11.40 Cameron Hill ... 95 Carthage csr coreeeseere 741 Church of oer 95 Highland . ie. hee 48.45 Laurel Hill . 2.28 Laurinburg 5.70 Maxton ist . 17.48 Montpelier 6.46 Mount Pisgah ......0:0+ s+ 2.47 Parkton J Raeford Red Springs ee le et NN a es a GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Wrest MV Btt ..n.-ccecces acccssesaree 5.75 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Gastonia 1st, Mr. & Mrs. J. L. I oe ees ccs 7.50 Kings Mountain Ist .............. 45.00 MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY ed ee tT Avondale ............ te 1.12 ee . Se Caldwell Mem, . 5. Camp Greene ; Candor Charlotte 1st Charlotte 2nd Commonwealth ...0.... oo. Cook’s Mem. Huntersville 200... 00... Indian Hill ............ ...... OT en eee ena eee DEBCOR OTD insescoscic. secsensn:cssdencess DEVOPE PARE cccceeiiisc sconsosenecs North Charlotte 0000000. lu... Philadelphia ........0 2000. lo. Plaza, M. J. Dean Saint Paul ............ <... Sharon ............ ... Steele Creek .... Sugaw Creek .... Tenth Ave. ............ .... monsted sbie eosin pscchuedes MIO, sii ekssiniecsic. dessice 12. 00 Westminster 22... ee oe 30.00 MOROVAE os cvesssesss, sicecssl. sesinsnaes 2.25 Williams Mem. ....0..00... 20.2... 15.00 ORANGE PRESBYTERY East Burlington 2000000000. 00... 1.00 Fairfield ............ Co os 2.59 Guilford Park ....00002. 0 Jee 5.00 TMETIE sacsctscscscs edsecce sesevses 4.50 DACTIO FIVER onc cccccie, sacccenscevnsses 7.50 PONE coceccccsece seccccde. scccsnes 11.25 cn con chcclece anioneses 1.00 Riverview 20.0.0... ceceee ceeeeees . 5.00 PR saccecesonce socssese Secs r ee ca ecanesee Stony Creek Westminster WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY BE TRIE acvnsccsses cosesceespcccs 1.15 MO sec ciccces scecccsas 3 Caswell ..... Clarkton Immanuel Mount Olive Mount Zion .... Oak Plains «0.00000... i ae Potts Mem. Webb Mem. . Whiteville 1s Wilmington 1st 45.06 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY George W. Lee Mem. ............ 18.75 Lexington Ist oo... cesses 45.00 MN osiiics aie cones 102.00 Thomasville Ist ..0.0.0000. 0 ... 12.80 Waughtown 200... ie. cence . 12.85 Winston-Salem 1st ........ ...... 50.00 Sunday Schools October Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Goldsboro 1st ooo... cee Greenville 1st ... J PORTBIOD covccieesecs Sos 2 Rocky Mount 1st i Jennie K,. Hill B. C. diseiciers 5.00 MN eo orissscyck ests. beoenicseiee 6.50 CONCORD PRESBYTERY NE ccinccks Ranaicce series 12.25 BEE TRG ossicles Scsvavessesses 61.53 MO ore iiccss sicsstvccsees, sncesosens 15.95 MR claidsicoies escciss Seseveve 50.00 Mooresville Ist 000.00. Jo... 43.00 Mooresville 2nd ......0000..0 22...... 64.45 ET FONG cicieescceec cccsssscecse 70.28 MME kk sischeesbes.” secevavsiuce 4,27 RN So oclisds © ccsssids vies eaeeins 33.50 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY MANION concsscicad Savécecd Seesiveiessk PIII coc cdisigy sileesie’ dnote Big ROCRTIGN .....cccce, ccnsensosess We ee Vk AO isis siiece Gaktaivnsees Chiurch-in-he-Pines DME Siete scadins Vanguard Class oe Gass sekcacbaccsincne MPMI: deci sctceaeds ‘ditties = sactcsies 23.57 EAS cisscatncdhe scidestae <disdososcs 10.53 BURG BRAC ceccccccscs. ccscssessecoss 53.14 Me sisciccdinne scstsces: Sepessusus 100.00 Jackson Springs ........0...0 .2...... 12.00 MINE BETA socrieiecés | succsnseranicd 17.27 RMT ccccssen dcsssose serevace . 26.62 BIG eis cicess ‘nessvosiesix Westlevteies 16.20 PR MMOORE sscccccecise saciusce’ gesctses 14.92 Lumber Bridge ......0..... 1.2... 8.40 MUNIN ok slicce cecelene | cccteons . 15.86 MINE ka siichessins cccndscless, ackcctis 12.32 MNOTE DGG ivccccisas cckstsiccoussts 7.57 IE Gecscissiies scorsulasss | (each 20.00 Montpelier ....0.000.0. cc. cee 10.00 TE i siiailes Scwvcabin cdeceey 20.65 BOG SPPINGS ncccccscccs ccccscsssess 10.00 ME. insivsiicass- cévicecebien see 32.00 MIE si iditisesss wiscsce, vesenckadacs 17.25 MEM eet e ascbecrrchin’. 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Adams, Concord 50.00 3.00 15.00 16.71 56.03 32.33 58.00 18.25 ‘ERY 76.00 5.00 9.13 10.00 13.50 27.12 90.02 14.30 25.00 64.13 39.36 10.00 12.65 25.80 23.16 60.00 35.75 23.12 10.00 5.90 26.06 7.00 15.00 12.00 9.19 tRY 10.35 36.27 26.61 15.72 20.88 30.00 25.00 20.60 58.14 9.10 1.00 10.90 5.00 5.00 58.40 0.00 i VOL. 26 Barium Messenger BARIUM SPRINGS, N. C., DECEMBER 1948 NO. 2 Miss Virginia Smith Wed To Rev. Mr. Sides From The Charlotte Observer Monroe, Dec. 7—Miss Virginia Hill Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Alexander Smith of Unionville, became the bride of Rev. Charles Hobart Sides, Jr., of Barium Springs, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sides of Statesville in a beautiful ceremony solemnized Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock in the First Baptist church. Rev. Jack T. Akin. pastor, officiated. Wedding music was rendered by Mrs. H. H. Wilson, organist, and Mrs. Ted O. Morgan, soloist. The bride was given in marriage by her father. She wore a wedding gown of white slipper satin fash- ioned with fitted bodice, leg-o- mutton sleeves, Queen Anne col- lar, and full skirt which ended in a train. She wore a chapel-length veil of imported bridal illusion fas- tened to the head with a sweet- heart halo of seed pearls, and car- ried a white satin prayerbook top- ped with a white, purple-throat- ed orchid. Her only ornament was a fleur-de-lis pin that belonged to her paternal grandmother. Mrs. Kenneth S. Welch of Union- ville, sister of the bride, was ma- tron of honor, and Miss Anne Smith, cousin of the bride, was junior bridesmaid. They wore dres- ses of cherry red moire taffeta (Continued On Page Two) Alumni News Paul McKenzie was married November 28, 4:30 at Mt. Pleasant Presbyterian Church, Creenville, N. C. to Rachel Lee Spain. They are making their home in Raleigh. Bert Atwood spent a few days at Barium. He is in the Army. Gwyn Fletcher, Charlie Sears and Arthur Roach presented letters to the football teams at the ban- quet. Ernest Stricklin was a visitor on the campus. Sadie and Dewie Buie spent the week-end at Barium. John Ammons was a visitor on the campus. We have received an announce- ment of the marriage of Charles Gallyon to Hilda Frances Sells on Friday, December 3 in Durham, N.C. Those playing in the Barium (Continued On Page Two) Mr. Fred W. Sherrill Mr. Fred Sherrill died very sud- denly on Friday afternoon, Decem- ber 3rd. He was buried on Sunday, the 5th. He appeared to be in good health up until the time of hiis death. He died in his car while wait- ing on a traffic light. Mr. Sherrill was a bachelor. The many kind things that he did were done quietly and very few people knew about them. For a number of years he has been the inspiration of the boys and girls at the High School at Barium. It has been his custom to give cash prizes to the ones showing the most improve- ment during the year. He had start- ed this out with ten dollars, and built it up to forty dollars, and that had become the main inspira- tion for the students in the High School during the year. They want- ed to be'in on Mr. Sherrill’s prizes, not for just the amount of money involved ‘but because of the honor and prestige: of reaching that goal. ’In'‘many other ways’ Mr. Sherrill ‘was kind to us at Barium. | And They Lived Happily Ever After ————— a y, : The above picture shows our pastor and his bride strolling down the aisle - or up the aisle maybe - would be better . . on a recent afternoon, and irom the decorations you know what has just happened. The stroll is the beginning of a lifetime walk which we hope will last many, many years, They are going a roundabout way but will eventually land in the manse at Barium Springs where Mr. Sides has already become a most popular member of our community. You cannot look at this picture without falling in love with this young couple. Barium Springs wel- comes them with open arms. Elsewhere in this paper you will find the detailed account of the wed- ding. r The Message of the Month By Rev. Charles H. Sides, Jr. WHAT DOES CHRISTMAS MEAN TO YOU? In answering that question do not pause for reflection just now as to what it ought to mean. In- stead answer it quite truthfully with the first thing that comes to mind. Does it mean a vacation from work? Does it mean perhaps a time of exchanging gifts, with all the worries that are entailed in making sure that the exchange comes out even and no one is slight- ed? Is it the holiday spirit and par- ties and gaiety that appeals most? Might it be the singing of carols, the old and ever new portrayal in our churches of the first Christ- mas? Perhaps our answer as to what Christmas means to us would include many of these. And yet most of our answers would sadly reflect the obvious truth that in our modern age Christmas has become a huge fes- tival, a time of unrestrained spend- ing that has grown to such propor- tions that we can no longer con- trol it. Christmas - an almost frenzied effort to make merry in the time alloted the season. And the day itself is now indeed a holi- day and no longer for many a holy day. All of which is but to say that we are taking Christ out of Christ- mas. Even in much of our correspon- dence the word becomes Xmas, and Christ, whose birthday we celebrate, is reduced to the alge- braic quantity of X. Were it a cross it might well represent the Lord who died that we might live, but it is not a cross. And Christ is the forgotten element of many a Christmas day as celebrated by the average American. This not said to lessen our joy. It is said in the hope that ours may be a greater joy and a saner joy this Christmas season. If it is cen- tered in Christ, it will be a joy (Continued On Page Two) Barium Football Team to Lose Nine Men By Graduation Johnny Mevroney, 52; Ricky Lippard, 56; Curtis Baldwin, 47; J. D. Everett, 54; Herbert Good, 51; Billy McAllister, 87; Billy Ly- brand, 43; Jack Mangum, 50; Jerry Young, 55. Usually in the December issue bers of the team, which includes of The Messenger we publish a picture of the ‘football team. We are varying it just a’little bit this year and are printing ‘in*this ‘issue the picture: of the nine senior mem- all the boys in the senior class. Take a good look at these boys. They have carried the colors of Barium for four years, One.of them for five, as he played when the eighth grade was eligible. In this group is our regular center, three ends, three tackles, and two backs, almost a team in itself. In our last issue we told you about all of our (Continued On Page Two) ary The Liniment Bowl Game A Beautiful Game On A Beautiful Day By An Interested Bystander The big Iredell county game an- nually staged on Thanksgiving Day is now history. The Mitchell college “Fighting Wildcats” were down- ed by the Barium Alumni in one of the most interesting and spectacu- lar games ever stage! in this neigh- hood. The ordinary football fan would imagine that a game between two teams, one a college team with! no previous experience and the other a team of boys who had most of them never played together and without any preliminary practice, would not be a very creditable ex- hibition. Well, it just goes to show that the experts don’t know their stuff. The game was thrilling, it was an exhibition of good football, most excellent defensive work on the part of Mitchell, and some of the most intricate forward and la- teral passing by Barium that you will see on any football team. The statistics of the game are interesting. Barium made three touchdowns and 10 first downs. Mitchell made no touchdowns and two first downs, and yet all through the game Mitchell was threaten- ing. Their forward passing attack seemed to be the strongest weapon (Continued On Page Two) Honor Roll For Six Weeks Ending Nov. 17 First Grade — Lillian Baucom, Celia Donaldson, Joe Spencer, Lin- da Walker, Frances White. Second Grade — Richard Black- burn, Richard McArthur, Boyuer Shaver, Judy Clendenin. Third Grade — Nat Craig, Shel- by McEwen, Jewel McFarland, Janet Woodall. Fourth Grade — Nancy Lee Kyles, James Ramsey. Fifth Grade — Jimmie Campbell, Johnny Collins, Richard Vest, Eve- lyn Cox, Laura Jane Craig, Shirley Johnson, Mildred McFarland, Nel- lie Sellers. Sixth Grade — Beth Jackins, Linda Inman, Phoebe Cochran, Shirley Hollifield, Shirley Shaw, Edna Baucom, Lucy Troutman, Betty Anna Blackburn, Charles Smith. Seventh Grade — Ennis Black- burn, David Morrison, Bobby Thompson, Carol Jean Andrews, Betty Ann Andrews, Louise Brad- (Continued On Page Two) Mrs. Bessie D. Elliott Death has again touched our family at Barium and this time taken one of the most beloved mem- bers of our community. Mrs. Exam Elliott, the wife of our postmaster and the sister of Mrs. J. B. John- ston, has been in declining health for more than a year, She passed away quietly on the night of Nov- ember 16th. After a brief service at a funeral home in Statesville the body was taken to Birming- ham to be buried in the family plot with her three children. Mr. and Mrs. Elliott have lived at Barium Springs for about four years. Dur- ing that time Mrs. Elliott was never strong enough to take a very act- ive part in our community life, and yet her kindness and thoughtful- ness touched evey life at Barium. Everyone here knew her and loved her. There is hardly a cottage or a building on the campus that has not felt the touch of her hand. Flowers somehow, grew more lux- uriantly under,her touch, Potted (Continued.On Page Two) PAGE TWO —————— ooo. THE BARIUM “MESSENGER THE BARIUM MESSENGER PUBLISHED) MONTHLY BY PRESBYTERIAN ORPHANS’ HOME Jos B. JOHNSTON, EDITOR —— Emtered as second-class matter, November 15, 1928, at the postoffice at Barium Sprimgs, N. C., under the act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special sate of postage, provided for in Section 110» Act of October 8, 1917. Authorised Mevember 15, 1923. BOARD OF REGENTS J. ARCHIE CANNON ; PRESIDENT MRS. R. A. YOUNG ; VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. COIT ROBINSON SECRETARY 4. Archie Cannon - - - - Concord § Mrs. Percy R. Smith - + Wilmington Ms. Coit Robinson - - - ~- Lowell Mes. C. E. Kerechner - - - Greensboro “irs. J. M. Hobgeod -— - Farmville Mrs. P. P. McCain - ~- Southern Pines N. H. Edgerton - - - Rocky Mount’ Rev. M. S. Huske- - - ~- Reidsville dev. Samuel E. Howie, D. D. - Fayetteville Mrs. W. C. Alexander - - - Durham Rev. N. R. McGeachy - - Statesville R. W. Bruin - - - - Henderson W. E. Price - + + + - Charlotte Mrs. Fred L. Smyre - - Gastonia ev. George Mauze, D. D. - Winston-Salem Mrs. R. A. Young - - - = Charlotte Rev. Ken F. Brown - + - Wallace J. H. Thomson - - - Kings Mountain “Mra. E. C. Beatty - - Mooresville Mrs. H. S. Kirk - + + Winston-Salem (FORM OF BEQUEST) “IT give and bequeath to the REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS’ WOME OF THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA, /n- cerporated under the laws of the state of North Carolina, (HBRE NAME THE BEQUEST). Cottage News ANNIE LOUISE Hello Friends, Don’t be unhappy ’cause we did- n’t get our news in last time but we will try to make you happy by having it in now. We have been to lots of movies thanks to our wonderful friends at the Playhouse and at the State in Statesville. Some of the movies we have seen are: “A Southern Yankee” and “My Pal Trigger”. We also visited the State to see another Roy Rogers movie. There are some friends in Mor- ganton and Raleigh who we would like to thank for the candy, games and the radio. On rainy days it is nice to play with our games and listen to the radio. We are hoping to hear a lot of Christmas music as the season draws nearer. Speaking of Christmas, Santa Claus is all you can hear from us. We know our matron and big sis- ters could throw us out sometimes. Our Santa Claus letters have gone off and we surely hope we don’t get a bag of switches as the old saying goes, “you better watch out ’cause Christmas is right a- round the corner.” All of us are trying to be little “angels” but we find it hard to do so. Nearly all of our little first grade girls are losing their teeth. What in the world will they do when Christmas comes and they won’t be able to eat any candy or nuts? One of the little girls asked our matron if Santa could come and spend a week-end with us before Christmas. She must want to make sure she isn’t left out of things. We don’t blame her at all. Having had some good laughs on some of our smallest girls we want to pass some on to you. One night we were playing “Knock at the Door” with one of our big sisters when Mary McEwen came to the chair and knocked. The person in the chair said, “who is there.” Mary stood there a little while and then said, “your Fuller Brush Man.” Well, all we can say is that we hope the roof is still on. We also delight in imitating the various people on the campus. If they knew this we don’t think they would show their faces on the place. Some of the girls can imitate just like the real characters. They really do look funny. We'll be back again next month with all the Christmas news, and telling what we received for Christ- mas. You will hear from us next month, — Annie Louise Girls BABY COTTAGE Hi, I bet you have forgotten that there is a Baby Cottage at Bari: = Springs you haven’t heard from us in so long. We are still here with two new little sisters and three little brothers. We now hiave a family of ten little girls and ten little boys. We have been having so many nice things to happen to us that we don’t know how to begin. We are all ready for the winter with our new shoes, overshoes, raincoats and coats. Now we can’t hardly wait for the snow to fall. The folks who sent us the apple turkeys and mix- ed candies for Thanksgiving will never know how much we enjoyed them. The Saturday before Thanks- giving we went to the Playhouse Theater and saw “Alice In Wonder- land” and the hostess, Mrs. John- son treated us with wonderful lollipops. Awhile before that we had gone to the Playhouse Theater and saw “Red Stallion” and that time the hostess Mrs. Johnson treated us with a celephane bag of popcorn. We thank her very much for all the nice things she has done for us and everyone else. So-long until next month. — Baby Cottage Miss Virginia Smith (Continued From Page One) fashioned with basque waist but- toned in front, low rounded neck- line, cap sleeves, and bouffant skirt. They wore matching mitts, and carried nosegays of gold chry- santhemums and red snapdragons. The bridegroom was attended by his father as best man. Ushers were the Rev. William H. Kryder of Athens, Ga., and the Rev. H. Edwin Pickard of Richmond, Va. The couple left for a wedding trip to Florida, after which they will be at home in the manse at Barium Springs. The bride graduated from Fair- view High school. At the time of her marriage she was employed in the office of the Union County Board of Education. The bridegroom graduated cum laude from Davidson College in 1943 with the B. A. degree, finished Union Theological Seminary, Rich- mond, Va., in 1946, receiving the B.D. degree. He served as assistant pastor of First Presbyterian church, Kannapolis, was pastor of Benton Heights Presbyterian church in Monroe for two years before going to his present pastorate at the Presbyterian church at Barium Springs. Among the out-of-town guests present for the ceremony were Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Galbraith, the lat- ter the sister of the bridegroom, Statesville. Those who attended the wedding from Barium Springs were: Mr. and Mrs, J. H. Lowrance, Rev. and Mrs. R. S. Arrowood, Bobby Arro- wood, Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Don- aldson, Hilda Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Bolton, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Twombly, Ralph Spencer, W. A. Hethcox, Roscoe Smith, Helen Vinson, Mrs. E. K. Kyles, Miss Flora Overcash, Clyde Reid, Jerry Williams, Paul Dellinger, and Donald Mitchell. The Liniment Bowl (Continued From Page One) they had, but too often a Barium red shirt was jn the way and inter- cepted the sses. The vellenee carried the ball for a total of 70 yards. Barlum was penalized 60 yards; Mitchell 10. Twenty-two men were dressed out for Barium and they all play- ed. Here is aq list of them: There were two players from last year's Barium varsity, Jack Clark and Buddy Lippard. There were two from Barium’s ‘!6 team, Gregory and Allen, one from the team of 45, Smith, the center: one from the team of ’44, Ammons; one from the ’41 team, Pleas Norman. Two played their firs: varsity for Ba- rium in 1940+! McCall twins, Jack and Tom. Two started on thie varsity at Barium in 789, Gibbs and Bolton. Two of the team of 788, Cole and Roach; one from 787, Lee Spencer; two /: 36, Joe Savage and John Donaldson: Two from ’33, Ralph Spencer and Ed Oliver; one from ’31, Chiarlie Sears, there were three members of our national midget champion teams of the ear- ly thirties, Newton Brown, Ed Oliver, Charlie Sears; one whose football career covered from ’?6 to 20, Lafavette Donaldson. and one prize package whose foothall care- er at Barium was from 723 to ’27, Buck Jackins. : : By the way, Buck filled his foot- ball uniform so completely that some of the spectators were under the susnicion that he wos carryin® somebody else under his jersey— he seemed just too big for one man. All of these ?” men saw action, about evenly divided. Gibbs furnish- ed most of the backfield fireworks, ably abetted by Sears, Cole, Roach and Oliver. Those oldtimers in the line, like Donaldson, Savage, Smith and company, also strutted their stuff, The Barium first touchdown was a pass from Gibbs to Roach to Bolton; the second touchdown was on a run by Gibbs; the third on a run by Jack Clark. “ One play that appeared interest- ing on the surface but turned out to be a complete dud was when Lafavette Donaldson picked un a Mitchell fumble and ran for what he thought was a touchdown—no- body cheered and the referee calm- ly brought it back and put it where he picked up the ball. Back when Donaldson played ball you could run with fumbles or anything else. A Good crowd of spectators were out to see the game. The Barium senior class ran the comeession stand and the weatherman furnish- ed ideal weather. It’s a fine way to wind up the football season. Ap- parently these two teams will make this an annual event, and Sloan Field is already reserved for the 1949 game. Mrs. Bessie D. Elliott (Continued From Page One) plants and other flowers that might hlave withered away under the care of other hands seemed to flourish when she tended them. Her delight was to send flowers and plants to her friends over the campus. Mrs. Elliott was a sufferer. The doctors who attended her were amazed that she did not show more evidence of suffering than she did. No one will ever know just how much she did suffer, because she did it in silence and cheerfulness. For some time she had known that she did not have long to live, and those last months instead of being filled with evidence of suffering were filled with additional deeds of kindness to her loved ones. Barium Springs is a better place for hav- ing had Mrs. Elliott as one of its citizens. We will long miss her. Alumni News (Continued From Page One) Alumni versus Mitchell College Thanksgiving game were as fol- lows: Tom McCall, Jack McCall, Ed Oliver, C. L. Donaldson, Don- ald Bolton, Lee Spencer, Ralph Spencer, R. E. Jackins, John Am- mons, Pleas Norman, Joe Ben Gibbs, Joe Savage, John Donald- son, Arthur Roach, Ed Cole, New- ton Brown, Earl Allen, Buddy Lip- pard, Benny Gregory, Charlie Sears, Jack Clark and Roscoe Smith. Others seen at the Thanks- giving game were Wilma Jessup, Agnas (Coppedge) Savage, Charles Gallyon, Arthur Sigmon, Charles Barrett, Sallie Cole, Betty and Peg- gy Coffee, Ed and Sadie Flowers, Dorothy (Gibbs) Honeycutt, John Whiting, Fred Johnson, A. D. Pot- ter, Frances Parcell, J. P. Stinson, Bryson Stinson. Honor Roll For Six (Continued From Page One) shaw. Eighth Grade — Palmer Wilcox, Helen Baucom, Helen’ Barnes, Hazel Creech, Pattie Inman, Hilda Donaldson. Ninth Grade — Carolyn Wicker. Tenth Grade — Shirley Inman, Joyce Katen, Peggy Neel. Eleventh Grade — Lorene Hall, Kathleen Monroe, Helen Morgan, Lavona Morrison, Jean Steppe, Bernice Troutman. Twelfth Grade — Mary Dickson Arrowood, Margaret Bullard, J. D. Everett, Herbert Good, Virginia Hendrix, Billy McAllister. The Message of the (Continued From Page One) that knows no bounds. There is little that is small or humble about the way we normally celebrate the birthday of our Lord. And yet let us for a moment hark- en back to that day almost two thousand years ago when the little Christ child made his entrance into human life. God worked that day, as he so often does, in a myster- ious way. For it is often his way to begin small. We might have supposed that when He sought to save the world He would rend the heavens open with a single stroke, that He would so astound mankind with His majesty and power that even now 1900 years later we could not begin to forget. That would have doubtless been man’s way, but it was not God’s way. Instead there was a lowly stable, an abode which none could envy Him. The cattles’ lowing provided the only music there. True, the angel voices were united in singing His praise, but as for men he came almost unheralded. The outside world did not pause to note his coming. An ordinary thing, an hum- ble thing, the birth of a little babe. And yet how it changes the course of history. In the year 1809 Napo- leon was in his period of power and success. But in that year there came to bless the world tiny babes who later would far overshadow the name of Napoleon. For there were born that year Darwin, Glad- stone, Lincoln, Tennyson, Poe, Holmes. The Christ child too came unheralded but our season of Christmas is, or should be, ample evidence that He lives in our hearts. For Christmas, if we see it aright, is first of all a time of humble thanksgiving for thle com- ing of Jesus Christ. Thanksgiving with joy that God has provided for us a Saviour to redeem us from our sins. Does Christmas mean that to you? It should! May God help us to see the true meaning of Christ- mas, a time of universal joy. For Christmas represents good tidings of great joy to all people. It came first of all to the shepherds, lowly men, men of no repute, held by the kings and princes in contempt, and yet the message came first to thlem. It was a message that said, “fear not,” and that blessed mes- sage runs all through God’s Word. That men need not fear, not for anything, not since a Saviour comes from God. It was a message of good tidings and it was to all, men, for all men need Christ. It ‘was good news about God. It said, and it could never be contradicted, that God is merciful, that God is love, that He cares enough to send His own Son. It was good news about man. For it pointed out that God believed that man was worth saving, and that God wants us, you and me, all of us to belong to Him. And it was good news about life. Eternal life? Yes, and also a richer and more abundant life to be lived here and now in Christ Jesus. Christmas means all of that be- cause it makes evident that God has spoken to man. If He had re- mained silent, we might have rea- son to despair, but He has spoken. He spoke in times past unto the prophets and fathers, but in these DECEMBER 1948 a latter days through Jesus Christ. The Christmas season is evidence of that, That God chose to speak to the heart of man through the birth of the babe of Bethlehem. Let us not lose sight of Jesus in this gay festival season. We look upon it asa season of giving, and well we may. For the divinest gifts of all can only be God’s gift of Jesus Christ to a world that needs Him so. And when we give this Christmas sea- son, may our chief gift be this - that we give our own selves unto the Lord. Barium Football Team (Continued From Page One) doings up to the two final games. Well, Barium lost both of those games but we don’t feel too badly about it. Salisbury, much stronger than usual, defeated us 25-7, our lone touchdown coming from a run on a forward pass by Hillard. Salisbury is one of the best-looking teams we have played in quite some time. The final and all-important game with Statesville was in the mud. It was due to have been nlav- ed on the 19th but it rained; it was put off until the 22nd, and again it rained and the Statesville football field in some places was thick mud and in other places was thin mud - you either slipped or splashed on pretty near every play. Statesville defeated us by 14-0 on a touchdown pass and on an intercepted pass. Barium threatened twice, taking the ball to the 15-yard line when the first half ended and carrying it to the one-yard line in the second half. This particular game gave Statesville the championship of the South Piedmont and they wore their honors appropriately by de- feating Lenoir at Hickory the same week by 14-6. While all of this was going on our Junior teams played several games, the 110-pound team defeat- ing Davidson High Midgets 47-14. And then a little bit later in two games with Newton-Conover our 110-pound team defeated Newton- Conover 19-12 and the B team de- feated them 12-0. This wound up the action on the field. The foot- ball banquet was held on the night of December 8rd, and the following boys received letters: Varsity: J. D. Everett, Mason Traywick, Terrell Hall, Hlerbert Good, Curtis Baldwin, Jerry Young, Johnny Meroney, Jack Mangum, Paul Barnes, Billy Lybrand, Nor- vin Hillard, Ricky Lippard, Rufus Bullard, Charles Stevens. Junior Varsity: Bobby McMan- nen, Joe Barclay, Cromer Curtis, Paul Dellinger, Melvin Morrison, Jay Terry, Alfred Williams, Jerry Williams, Fred Feimster, Johnny Hudgins, Buddy Maples, Clyde Reid, Charles Stevens, Henry Troutman, Cecil Burleson, Charles Faircloth, James Wheeler, Bobby Whiting, Ray Clark, Donald Mit- chell, Billy McAlister, Rufus Bul- lard, Mack Berryhill, Jimmy Wil- liams. 100-Pound Team: Donnie Camp- bell, Calvin Burleson, Archie Mc- Mannen, Woodie Smith, Everett Vest, Charles Hall, Jerry Hudgins, Dean Upton, Palmer Wilcox, John Plyler, Mack Wicker, Glenn Comp- ton. 85-Pound Team: Ennis _ Black- burn, Calvin Burleson, Jimmy Har- rison, Neil Shaw, David Thomas, Everett Vest, David Morrison, Bil- ly Hardin, Leroy Norman, Frankie Smith, Donald Moore, Robert Lee Hall, Edsel McArthur, Dwight Reid, Franklin Lentz. The feature of our banquet this year was a visit from Gwyn Filet- cher and Harold Saunders of State College. Gwyn is an old Barium boy and belonged to thiat unbeat- able team of 1941. There were four other members of his team present: Ernest Stricklin, Joe Ben Gibbs, Arthur Roach and Donny Bolton. Gwyn presented the B team letters and after the regular supper show- ed the film on the Duke-State game which was thoroughly enjoyed by all the guests. Charlie Sears, the star of our midget and varsity (Continued On Page Three) n . Pp u t] d q a f ge wa z AR wt B2 Q O da w n d n d = St F Be s t SB A Se DN OM SO MS s TM O M m M s S s TA MA Mm @ @ an y ve m sm we a r = re 2S oS . 1 et ew wR oO 18 is Sy DECEMBER 1948 Barium Football Team (Continued From Page Two) teams back in the early thirties, delivered the letters to the 85-pound team. Arthur Roach delivered the letters to the 100-pound team. Jack Mangum was voted captain for the 1948 season and also was voted the most valuable player. Jerry Young was awarded the best blocking trophy; J. D. Everett, the trophy for the best tackler. Mr. Jackins presided most ef- ficiently as toastmaster. The eating season is not over yet as this is written. The team is in- vited to a banquet at the Vance Ifotel in Statesville given by the Touchdown Club of that city. Also, they have an invitation from the Lions Club of Troutman, and if they can get this worked in between basketball games they will certain- ly consume a lot of food in celebra- tion of the football season. It has been a nice year. We have not won all the games we have played but we have won the res- pect of every team that we went up against and won our share of the games. A lot of praise and cre- dit is due the boys in this picture. The others coming along will have an extra load to carry next year filling the gaps left by these nine good seniors. REGULAR Clothing Outfits November Receipts Lake Waccamaw Aux., (2) Cameron Aux., Circle No. 2 Mutberry Aux., Circle No. 4 Mulberry Aux., Circle No. 5 Miscellaneous Gifts November Receipts QUILTS & BLANKETS Stanfield Aux, Circle No. 2, (2). Pleasant View Aux., (1). Paw Creek Aux., Home Circle (1); Circle No. 3, (1). Salem (O) Aux. (1). Mount Horeb (W) Aux. (2). Nevin S. S., Martha Roberts Class (1). Nevin Aux. (1). Culdee Aux. (1). West (M) S. S., Jameson Sugaw Creek Aux. (2) and 8 blan- kets. Steele Creek Aux. (1). Steele Creek Aux., Miss Maggie Whitesides (2). Carthage Aux., Circle No. 2 (1). Pike Aux. (1). Mount Tabor Aux. 1 blanket. Hopewell (M) Aux. (4). Olney Aux. (5). Harper-Southerland Aux. (1). Walkersville Aux., Circle No. 1 (1). Huntersville Home Circle (2). Central Steele Creek Aux. (2). Buffalo (G) Aux., Circle No. 5 (1). Beulah Aux. (1). Yanceyville Aux. (3). Salisbury 2nd Aux. (1). Galatia Aux., Circle No. 1 (1). Dan River Aux. (1). Smyrna (F) Aux. (1). Eno Aux. (2). CLOTHING & MATERIALS: Mr. Malloy Davis, Belmont, 10 pair white Nylons, Winston-Salem 1st Aux., dress materials. Westminster (M) Chiurch, clothing. Minneola Mfg. Co., Gibsonville, 1 bundle outings. Miss Elizabeth Hendrix, Ruther- fordton, 1 blouse. Miss Laura Falls, Rutherfordton, coat, skirt. Westover Hills Aux., socks. Castanie Aux., clothing. W.S. Barney ? ? ? , clothing. Thomasville Aux., clothing. W. A. DePrater, Fayetteville, 131 boxes Modess. Galatia Aux., B. W. C., socks. Mrs. W. G. Olsen, Sr., Raleigh, clothing. Roberson Chapel, Circle No. 1, panties, socks, Candor Aux., socks, gloves. Cone Mills Corp., Greensboro, 1 bale assorted cloth. Mount Pisgah Aux., Circle No. 1, shirts, aprons, socks, hankies. BOOKS & OTHER ARTICLES: Mrs. C. F. Harry, Jr., Grover, [books. Carolina Absorbent Cotten Com- pany, Charlotte, surgical dress- ings, cotton batts. LINENS, SOAPS, TOILET ARTICLES: H ell (M) Aux., dish towels, dresser scarfs. Paw Creew Aux., Circle No. 3, dish towels, dish rags, wash cloths. Covenant (M) Aux., Circle No. 5, tooth paste and brushes. Beattie Mem. Aux., Circle No. 1, linens. 'N Women of the Church, wash cloths, towels, pillow cases, dish THE ‘BARIUM MESSENGER cloths, dresser scarfs, etc. Westover Hills Aux., scarfs, wash cloths and dish towels. Mebane Aux., Circle No. 6, dish towels. White Oak (G) Aux., dish towels, wash cloths. Setzer’s Gap Women’s Circle, tooth paste & brushes. Piedmont Women, 72 cakes Camay soap. Thomasboro Women, towels, scarfs, pillow cases, wash cloths, tooth paste & brushes. Central Steele Creek Aux., scarfs, dish towels, Beulah Aux., dish towels. Galatia Aux., B. W. C., towels, wash cloths, soap, tooth brushes. Galatia Aux., Circle No. 2, soap, towels & wash cloths. Lexington 2nd Aux., towels, wash cloths, soap. Nahalah Aux., towels, wash cloths. Lakeview Aux., towels, wash clothis. Roberson Chapel Aux., Circle No. 1, table napkins, wash cloths, towels, soap, pencils. Candor Aux., pillow caese, towels, dresser scarfs, dish towels. St. Andrews (M) Aux., Circle No. 8, dresser scarfs. Mount Pisgah Aux., Circle No. 1, tooth paste, brushes, bobby pins, pencils, etc. Smyrna (F) Aux., dish rags, pil- low cases, etc. Cypress Women, wash) cloths, pil- low cases. Harnett Hill Circle, wash cloths, towels, pillow cases, tooth paste, and brushes. CANNED FRUITS & VEGE- TABLES, CANDIES & GUMS, ETC: Hopewell (M) Aux., 203 quarts. West Jefferson Aux., 66 quarts. Vass Aux., jellies. Waldensian Bakeries, 33 cakes. Covenant (WS) Church, fruits & vegetables. Nevin Women of the Church, 1 crate oranges. Olney Aux., 35 jars jellies. Belmont Aux., B. W. C. No. 1, candies, fruits, toys. Belmont Aux., B. W. C., No. 2, candies, ete. Columbia Baking Company, States- ville, about 800 doughnuts & birthday cakes. Blacknall Mem. Aux., 65 cakes. Steele Creek Church, 72 chickens, 1 case cranberry jelly. Center Ridge, Kenly, Mizpah, Oak Grove and Spring Hill Churches, 173 quarts canned fruits & vege- tables, Irish and sweet potatoes, pecans, meat, onions, cabbage, 34 chickens, macaroni, tea, crac- kers, etc. Mooresville Ice Cream Co., Moores- ville, 20 gallons ice cream. Bethel (W) Aux., 4 quarts vege- tables, pecans, 10 pounds sugar, pinto beans, milk, jelly. Covenant (M) Women, Circle No. 5, candy, gum, or Messenger November Receipts Mrs. Ray L. Forbes, Gas- I reiceceleresss exctseretecees 5.00 Christmas Gifts November Receipts Joseph F. Cannon Christmas PETTERS snstsccsexsctoos cncpinnesevenevessace 254.20 Operating Memorials November Receipts Cornelius, Baby John William, Statesville: Mrs. D. S. Conway Miller, Mrs. S. B., Statesville: Dr. & Mrs. S. W. Hoffmann Clothing Funds November Receipts Ola Warner Bible Class, Hick- Ge TBC By Be os iccccestiscuins 25.00 Caldwell Memorial S. S., Strong- MF cacererriticsss eopiasaceone 50.00 Central Steele Creek Aux. .... 25.00 Raeford Aux., Circle No. 8.... 25.00 Myrtle Grove Circle ........ .... 5.00 BRO BAERS vcscceciacivsscwesiaceniees 17.50 Business Women’s Circle No. 2, Albemarle 1st Aux, ............ 5.00 Myers Park Aux, 2.0.0.........0000 125. ONG y AUK, ....ecccccseccccoces cosssess 40.00 Charlotte ist S. S., Pattie MORE ERG Oy cscsscsisgsivies ‘ccagiscceons 20.00 Mulberry Aux., Circle No. 5 5.00 Graves Mem. Aux. ................ 35.00 Highland Aux, ...... = Goldsboro 1st Aux. ceed Plaza Women-of-the- Westminster (W) Aux. ........ 20.00 Falkland Aux. .0......00.. c.c.eee 20.00 Kings Mountain 1st Aux. .... 10.00 m Andrews-Covenant (W) ux, Mabry Hart Mrs. George Holderness .... 8.50 Sanford ist Aux. ................ 40.00 PRAIRIE AUR. crccscccescccs. « ... 25.00 Ellenboro Aux. ......... ... 20.00 Burgaw Auxiliary .... .. 25.00 PEEVE, PER s vascscesvecsesve sxesssorsere 25.00 Miss Mary B. Parker, IEEE. civiveetinscisin: eposeciectveeis 25.00 Maxton 1st Aux. ......0.........-. 90.00 Wilmington 1st Women of the SIU nscaviities siicis.<nsomacsoncaienes 25.00 Miscellaneous November Receipts Mrs. Alexander, Goshen PUNE ccscncevinessss . eiturpecbonsines 1.00 Mr. A. E. Scharrer, Hickory 5.00 Mr. D, F. Cade, Hamlet... 10.00 Mr. Thomas W. Rankin, Fayetteville ......-.------ -. 25.00 Reynolda Aux, ....-..--0) . 5.00 Winston-Salem 1st Aux. ...... 15.00 Mr. C. G. Pepper, amlet 1.00 Mr. Julius H, Allison, Charlotte ......... es . 1.00 East Arcadia Friends .... 5.00 Mr. C. I. Clark, Jr., Laurin- DUT Gy cccooseocnccocer conssnentersssinnee . 1,00 Mr. J. L. Skinner, Littleton 25.00 Miss Eloise Price, Portland, Oregon .......-eec08 cette 10.00 Mr. C. I. Clark, Jr., Laurin- DUT Gl ....-.-cerercvee seereererttsrees . 5,00 Fraley’s, Statesville -............. 10.00 A Friend, Cumberland ..... 5,00 Albemarle 1st Aux. .-...... 1.00 Bethel Aux. (F), Circle No.2 3.00 Mr. Stanley Wall, Enfield ... 20.00 Mr. W. O. Morrison, Loray .. 25.00 Mrs. E. W. Smith, Dunn... 5.00 Mrs. J. C. Armstead, Ahoskie 5.00 Sugaw Creek Aux., Circle 3 5.00 Memorials for Church November Receipts Balthis, Mrs. William_L., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. R. A. Dickson Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Mrs. Harold Mercer Mrs. S. A. Robinson Bell, Dr. A. E., Mooresville : Mr. W. L. Matheson Mrs. John McNeely & Family Mr. & Mrs. Cyrus R. Johnston & Don, & Mrs, J. L. Donald Dr. & Mrs. Marcus R. Smith, Raeford Miss Cora L. Freeze The Bruce McNeely Family Dr. & Mrs. J. Henry Cutchin, Whitakers Mr. & Mrs. E. C. Beatty Benbow, Lt. John W., Greensboro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Berry, Mrs. J. B., Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. Henry Myers Berryhill, Mr. W. Irwin, Raleigh: Misses Ida & Louise Clanton, Charlotte Bevans, Mrs. Lawrence, Greens- boro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Bierman, Mrs. Frank H., Atlanta, a3 Mr. & Mrs. J. Alex. MeMillian, Charlotte Blake, Mrs. Edna S., High Point: Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Riddle, Char- lotte Bortz, Mrs. Walter F., Concord: Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour, Jr. Mrs. Ralph Boyd Bowers, Mr. Z. P., Charlotte: Mrs. W. I. Pickens Boyer, Dr. Hugh K., Charlotte: Sugaw Creek Aux., Business Women’s Circle No. 5 Mr. & Mrs. William White Mrs. W. I. Pickens Mr. & Mrs. S. W. Robinson Boykin, Mrs. William, Jr., Char- lotte: Mr. & Mrs. Joe W. Thompson Brown, Mr. Sample, Greensboro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Bruce, Miss Frances, Rutherford- ton: Mrs. Garland E. Miller Carter, Mr. J. T., Kannapolis: Kannapolis 1st S. S. Chipman, Mrs. Donald J., (Ella Josephine), Winston-Salem: Class 3, Winston-Salem 1st S. S. Winston-Salem ist Auxiliary Christian, Mrs. Julia B., Winston- Salem: Winston-Salem ist Auxiliary Clarke, Rev. Eugene Houston, Greensboro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Clements, Mr. J. B., Greensboro: Mr. & Mrs. J. B. McCoy, North Wilkesboro ’ Teachers of the Junior Dept. of the Greensboro ist S. S. Cole, Mrs. Betsy. A., Raeford: The Culbreth Family Cornelius, Baby John William, Statesville: Mr. & Mrs. Reuben R. Cowles Mr, Fred W. Ramsey Miss Cora L. Freeze, Moores- ville Miss Ruth Troutman, Troutmans Mr. & Mrs. Harding Rogers, Mooresville Z Crawford, Max Davis, Albemarle: Mother, Mrs. L. L. Crawford Dewson, Mrs. S. S., Chicago, Til: Miss Martha W. Davis, Wilson Efird, Mr. Paul, Gastonia: Mrs. S. A. Robinson, Elliott, Mrs. Bessie Davidson (E. A.), Barium Springs: Rev. & Mrs. R. S. Arrowood Miss Lulie E. Andrews Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Lowrance Miss Ruth Troutman, Troutmans Miss Rebekah Carpenter Virginia Hall Circle, Little Joe’s Aux. Mr. “& Mrs. Robert E. Abell, Chester, S. C. f irs. James L. Davidson, Ches- ter, S. C. Miss Gray Gren Wilkesboro Miss Neely Ford Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Abernethy & Sally Mrs. K. G. & Miss Mary B. Davidson, Chester. S. C. Officers of Little Joe’s Church Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Spencer & Sons Falls, Dr. P. R., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. R. A. Gordon Mr, J. W. Holland Mr. & Mrs. Ed. C. Adams Moron Club Ferguson, Mr. J. W., Kingsport, Tenn.: Cirele No. 5, Sugaw Creek Aux. aa Neal B. C., Sugaw Creek . 6 Fischer, Mr. Karl, El Paso, Texas: Miss Ruth! McRae, Mt. Gilead Fleming, Rev. N. N., Mebane: Rev. & Mrs. J. K. Fleming, Hillsboro, West Virginia Ford, Corp. Robert Q., Lowell: Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Eddleman, Mr. & Mrs. J. McL. Murphy, & Mrs. Paul Murphy Mrs. E. Ross & Miss Lucille Cox, Gastonia Freeman, Mr. George W., Wash- ington: Mr. & Mrs. R. Lee Stewart, Sr. Freeman, Mr. W. E., Aberdeen: The Culbreth Family, Raeford Fulton, Mr. James S., Jr., Greens- boro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Gaffney, Mr. “Bill” (William Franklin), Davidson: Mr. & Mrs. E. H. Spence Mrs. Margaret Vance, Concord Gaither, Mr. J. A., Newton: Grandson, Mr. Bob Gaither Garrison, Mrs. D. A., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Ridenhour, Jr., Concord Mr. & Mrs. A. C. Vickers Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Archiie Cannon, Con- cord Mr. & Mrs, A. Jones Yorke Garrison, Mr. Staley F., Burling- ton: Mr. & Mrs. H. B. Summerell Mr. Ralph M. Holt Gettys, Mrs. Hannah, Ellenboro: Mrs. W. T. Price Glenn, Mrs. Mattie S. (Henry), Gastonia: Mrs. R. S. Abernethy, Winter Haven, Fla. Gregory, Mr. Haynes, Greensboro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Grier, Mrs. W. C. (Gordan Finley), North Wilkesboro: Miss Laura Grier, Barium Springs Mr. & Mrs. J. B. McCoy Mr. & Mrs. John Leyshon Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Spainhour Mr. & Mrs. R. W. Gwyn Mr. H. J. & Mr. R. S. Ogilvie Mrs. A. Currie, Davidson Miss Elizabeth Finley Mr. J. E. Spainhour, Hickory Miss Bess Grier, Charlotte Dr. & Mrs. J. S. Deans Mr. & Mrs. M. A. Vickery Mr. & Mrs. Will Blair Mrs. R. M. Brame, Jr. Haney, Mrs. Martha A., Wilming- ton: Lewis, Kitty, & Kay Harrison Harbin, Mrs. Ethel, Statesville: Statesville Junior Service League Hardy, Dr. Ira May, Kinston: Mrs. Hortense M. Faulkner Harrison, Mr. O. O., Mt. Ulla: Mr. & Mrs. Jake McNeely, Mooresville Houston, Mr. William P., Charlotte: Philadelphia Aux., Circle No. 2 Jackson, Mr. John Frank, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Timberlake Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Dickson Mr. & Mrs. Rufus M. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Harry Rutter The R. J. Wheeler Family Mr. & Mrs. C. C. Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Friends, Gastonia Miss Mildred Lineberger Circle No. 5, Gastonia 1st Aux. Mr. & Mrs. M. R. Adams Mrs. J. H. Henderlite Mr. & Mrs. D. R. LaFar, Jr. Mr. J. W. Holland James, Mr. Hinton, Laurinburg: oc ape W. Rankin, Fayette- ville Johnstone, Mrs. Gussie Knox (J. B.), Mocksville: Mrs. R. S. Abernethy, Winter Haven, Fla. King, Mrs. John L., Greensboro: Mrs. Dorothy Gaither Morris, Mocksville Miss Elisabeth Houston LaFar, Mrs. D. R., Sr., Gastonia: Barium Springs, N. C. A MEMORIAL GIFT Rev. R. S. Arrowood, Treasurer, Presbyterian Orphans’ Home, You will find enclosed $-............... PAGE THREE eee oom Mr. & Mrs, Ed. C. Adams Mr. & Mrs. R. A. Gordon Mr, & Mrs. C. K. Torrence Mr, J. W. Holland Latta, Mrs. E. D., Charlotte: Mrs. William H. Porcher Leach, Mr. F. G., Raeford: The Culbreth Family Little, Lieut. Com. George Ander- son, Charlotte: Parents, Rev. & Mrs. C. H. Little Long, Mr. Melvin, Albemarle: Mrs. L. L. Crawford McAdoo, Mr. J. A., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. R. K. Walker McDonald, Mrs. Jim, Decatur, Ga.: Mrs. Dorothy Gaither Morris, Mocksville McGee, Dr. Robert L., Raleigh: Mr. & Mrs. George J. Moore McKenzie, Miss Allene, Chapel Hill: Mrs. Jean E. Rose Durham 1st Aux., Senior Busi- ness Women’s Circle McNatt, Mrs. Mary, Fayetteville: Mr. S. A. Grier, Barium Springs Mr. & Mrs. Joseph B. Johnston, Barium Springs Miss Lulie E, Andrews, Barium Springs Neal Anderson B. C., Winston- Salem Ist S. S. Miss Kate Taylor, Barium Springs Camden Presbyterian Church Mr. N. T. Wrenn, Sr., High Point Mr. William A. Hetheox, Barium Springs Mrs. M. G. Ray & Children, Rockfish) Mrs. L. A. & Misses Sarah & Elizabeth McGeachy, St. Pauls Mrs. T. M., Charles L., & Janet Watson & Miss Janet Living- ston, Wagram Mr. & Mrs. V. L. Wall, Morven Miss Neely Ford, Barium Springs Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Spencer & Sons, Barium Springs Martin, Mr. W. H., Charlotte: Mrs. Dolph Young Mebane, Mr. Walter A., Burling- ton: Mr. Ralph M. Holt Miller, Mrs. Mary Angie, Salisbury: Mrs. J. C. Ferguson & Miss Mary Julian Lentz . Miller, Mrs. S. B., Statesville: Mrs. W. A. Bristol Mrs. Margaret Sloan Muse Mr. & Mrs. John D. Sloop Mr. Fred W. Ramsey Morris, Mr. Z. A., Sr., Concord: Mr. & Mrs. C. A. Ridenhour Ormand, Mr. P. B., Bessemer City: Mr. E. J. Rhyne Poe, Mrs. Cora H., Pittsboro: The Culbreth Family, Raeford Poole, Mrs. D. S., Raeford: Dr. & Mrs. Marcus R, Smith Mrs. J. S. & Miss Agnes Mae Johnson Mr. Cecil & Mrs. M. W. Dew Mr. & Mrs. F. B. Sexton Mrs. Josephine C. Parker & Miss Madge Coble, Liberty ° Rankin, Mrs. W. R., Belmont: ; Mr. & Mrs. Price Lineberger, © Gastonia Rockett, Mr. F. P., Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Ed. C. Adams Sasser, Mrs. H. D., Kannapolis: ' Kannapolis 1st Aux. "i Sawyer, Mr. Joseph, Greensboro: Mrs. Harry Barton Scott, Mr. Holmes, Chester, S. C.: Mr. & Mrs. Archie Cannon, Con- cord Shine, Mr. H. B., Faison: J. B. Stroud’s Sunday School Class Sloan, Mr. James, Redlands, Calif.: Mrs. Perry A. Sloan, Sr. & Mr. & Mrs. Perry A. Sloan, Jr., Dur- ham Mrs. A. T. Sloan & Sons, Wins- ton-Salem Mrs. G. W. Brittain & Mrs. R. G. Sloan, Reidsville Mrs. James A. Hartness, Raleigh Mrs. J. M. & Miss Mary Hillings- worth, Mt. Airy Smith, Mr. S. Fuller, Greensboro: Miss Elisabeth Houston Smith, Mrs. W. A. L., Huntersville: Huntersville 1st S. S., Bess (Continued On Page Four) NAME OF DECEASED ADORESS ~~ DATE OF DEATH SURVIVOR TO BE WRITTEN ADDRESS RELATIONSHIP OF SURVIVOR TO DECEASED ONE GIVING MEMORIAL PAGE FOUR (Continued From Page Three) Brier Class Smithwick, Mrs. Mary W., States- ville: Mr. & Mrs, A. W. Fanjoy Spurrier, Mr. Ernest, Charlotte: Mrs. Wayne Dilling & Mr, & Mrs. Carl Welch, Gastonia Stowe, Mr. J. Logan, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. Harris Boyd Mr. & Mrs. Harry S. Cobb Herald B. C., Gastonia 1st S. S. seme, Mr. Albert T., Charlotte: Mr. & Mrs. A. J. Beall. Mr. & Mrs. W. J. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Claud C, Sloan, Winston-Salem Thompson, Mrs. P. A., Winston- Salem: Winston-Salem 1st Aux. Tucker, Mrs. John, New Bern: Mr. & Mrs. Colon McLean, Wash- ington Tyre, Mr. W. B., Smithfield: Mr. W. Y. Warren, Jr., Gastonia Upchurch, Miss Aileen Juanita, Gastonia: Mr. & Mrs. R. O. Crawford Mr. & Mrs. Warren Y. Gardner Washington, Mrs. T. M., Wilson: Mr. & Mrs. W. C. Herring Dr. & Mrs. L. J. Herring Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Williams Weaver, Mr. Vance C., Shelby: Mr. & Mrs. R. T. LeGrand, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Speck, Sr. Whitsett, Mr. Horace A., Reidsville: Mrs. Pinckney Best, Burlington Wilkinson, Mrs. H. B., Concord: Mr. & Mrs. R. E. Ridenhorr, Jr. Williams, Mrs. Allie Brown, Red Springs: Misses Blue Belle & Willie Mae McCallum Williamson, Dr. B. W., Hamlet: Mr. & Mrs. W. W. Fetner Mr. & Mrs. Ross H. Fetner Mr. F. A. Lewis & Kathleen Hamlet Aux., Circle No. 1 Mr. & Mrs. C. H. Teague Winecoff, Mrs. George D., Char- lotte: Mrs. Harvey B. Hunter Churches November Receipts CONCORD PRESBYTERY Back Creek TORIOES siSicsscs cen ce ee ee Bethany Bethpage Cleveland COOHCBIE iicccices Gens aoe Davidson TREE sieivees ceisceees atures Harrisburg BEWCROTY TE cvccciecrccs secesesscenccoss ; Kannapolis 1st F DCEO POW B secccccsiin scesscescuncenes 6.50 PE setiics cerita Hemme 7.48 Mooresville 1st 0.00.00... oe... 45.50 Morganton ow... eee 113.36 PORN icdia Senciees sitnue 77.00 J. R. —: peices 25.00 Prospect ............ 17.95 Salisbury 1st .. 142.62 Salisbury 2nd .. 59.93 Sherrill’s Ford .... 1.85 I cries. ksvermreanea ares 4.88 Statesville 1st 0.0000. J. bp Thyatira MPI iiadk dncciveiln. aeceeens FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY WINE avcsitcs “sexiteed wastes 13.30 IIE siveedlicces, sciessne eesessinvies 8.55 Jackson Springs ............ ........ 1.90 TAMIL oe ciiscccens.\ sussoass’ sccscees 17.27 Lumber Bridge ............. ......-- 66 McPherson A Maxton 1st BEPIRD ciccecwiny Vrenniis aueies NIE ies ise ae Raeford .......... Red Springs GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Durham 1st 85 Fuller Mem. y COOIOE Sas cliask eesssutasnes sincabense ‘ Grassy Creek .......00.. cece: 1.70 Henderson 1st .........0000..0 200+ 26.25 North Vanguard, ............ 00.2... 15.75 TRB ee sees coosmesievece 3.50 MRR Seieiscwses sessieriens ance JO PR TE Socsssseinee’ vassdsstoess ees 6.48 ARI Ws vcacsocs secchitlesin: easvenene 8.20 TRMIBTE TBE ocvseicseind: scverestesenss 199.00 Roanoke Rapids ......0..... 1.00... 42.00 TEINCS AVONUD ©... ccsscieus, ocesssi 81.15 West Raleigh 0.000.000. Jc... 60.06 White Mem. of Raleigh ........ 56.77 KINGS MTN. veyere tens BPN cst. cats toca 6.75 COPT IVINS scscssssses cacesven: seenesen 87.50 PARAM), sésensstrsen.. pemssbecune 3.20 East Belmont 2000.00... cece 10.00 Gastonia 1st, Mr. & Mrs. J. L. BOR sseeeiitisscseis. 00d tes 7.50 FRODRETIOON cocseccs, cssccsvssee. vovvecee 2.50 TI i ichski,, sectintinne vsecceen 12.12 Mount Holly... 15.00 New Hope ‘ North Side re Rutherfordton Stanley Creek Union Unity West Avenue MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle ist TAIT sissiitctits. scvisias aeeescions re MUNI ris ietscie -sseeebesiacs: toeerreeinin 2.84 Benton Heights 1.99 Candor 75 Charlotte 2nd 60.00. Commonwealth, .....2... 2... 1.65 COON HNIEY vevesseewes veewneetunns 3.00 TS sis cceens Eee _ 60 Indian Trail 75 “Little River THE BARIUM MESSENGER McGee Macedonia Monroe ist Mulberry Paw Creek . Philadelphia cea Pineville ....... Plaza, M. J. Dean Providence Ridgecrest Saint Andrews Seigle Avenue Selwyn Avenue Pe ne cnilan meamensen Sugaw Greek . "PRG YARENOLO .o.corecsns sencsend senaens Westminster ORANGE PRESSTT ORS Alamance Bessemer Bethel Bethesda Buffalo (L) Burlington 1st Burlington 2nd Cross Roads East Burlington Efland Greensboro Ist Greenwood ......... High Point 1st .....-..0. serorcere Leaksville ..... p New Hope .... 1,50 TN aah vontenacess 50 To aecce esccceasecae “ocsoaaene 1.00 Springwood o0...... 0 ceee1. ceeeeeeee 5.00 PROBST sossscse xenseies. cseeserese 1.00 Westminster ........ s..scc0- cesses 5.50 WILMINGTON Foe Tae Black River Jacksonville Mount Olive Pike RROCKLICN ...cccososee scocseee a Wallace Wildwood Wilmington 1st WOORDUPN cr, dies ees 10.0 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Winston-Salem 1st 50.00 Sunday Schools November Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY Ahoskie x Ballards 3 Farmville a Goldsboro 18t .0...... ceeseeeeeeee 16.74 Macclesfield o.oo 5.00 Pinetops ............ 4.71 Rocky Mount lst .. 31.30 Jennie K. Hill B. C. 5.00 Ro sited w donnie incamanie 5.82 CORE OTE ccccccarscas <crctiets. eaeenesisee 1.55 FRAPINORY ccccccccccic, setscese saacivsnin i468 ME sicaiciaiss, wens Mc 21.27 Mooresville 1st ........0.. ..s000 46.00 Salisbury 1st, Everyman’s ey iascsvensred: cescGs aeieiaeiee 70.00 —— dhe shah ahead 17.81 PO sss ciasssies _0sssseasones, secsiars 32.00 PAyETTEVI LLE PRESBYTERY Antioch 12.10 TERUG secscccsicis: ketenes csi Cape Fear NE sc iccassees: sexctessesos. sanedinieire INN ccsscceciecs scsiiiiinsd asehaves ‘ TRUE cc cacicsses cosawses sesvicerseee 23.31 Fayetteville 1st 0.000. Ju. 120.00 RR hee Shedetteses anesatodes 28.65 ERO cccibitecs cassacinbee cavers 15.00 Jackson Springs ............ 0.0... 12.99 BRE Gickiciiccniits suscssnecee dass 13.50 Lumber Bridge 5.87 Lumberton . 49.71 McPherson .... 50.00 Mount Pisgah oe 5.00 Bo ice: carsatuaiens © seaess 15.00 Pinehurst, Community Ladies aa. Red Springs Uda covavoyei. vereueivncees 10.00 BE AUN orscssiicces. vatecacissee. cites 57.17 ae pabeiicgd: --apgisaeen! aueeeueveeeu 75 veGRANVILLE PRESBYTERY PIPING UBC. cicescses seenessccns. vice 107.97 Roanoke Rapids .................... 35.27 Trinty Avenue ......000...0 2220.2... 8.18 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY POTD xcicccieeee wicessss seemctaed 137.78 SEPP CLE! sdecdivedsus) ieecases-> Wivesidece 2.59 GROOT HVS sisisiie ievtecs secteivnns 59.24 CEPOL OO ssssscsieses. snicsves, acivesns 46.32 BAG Fis Aly... sissisesesionrscconawadic 200.00 Lincolnton 18t 2... cesses 29.29 TOU CLOG sccccccccses scccvessensesece 23.00 Mount Holly, Women’s B. C. 3.00 TT 6 Bre Ws cavervestacssiatiecins 13.50 APIS Uo iillse: doleeneh see .. 63.86 Saluda .. 17.37 Shelby .. 46.94 Union .....0...... 10.25 Union Mills .....000.. 2... aan elias erccicauks, inscssvestons riciauanes MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY POMC srivaisectek. cantorsnns “easvoererss 28.38 Badin, Ladies’ B. C. .............. 5.00 WOME iccCrsiadd etlenseieccseaee ‘eacieses ie B. C. Steadfast B. C. Candor Charlotte 2nd, Phillips Fidelis Class Commonwealthi Erdman Love Huntersville. . Monroe ist Mulberry Myers \ Park Men’s Club Rockin ‘ham i ‘ANGE PRESBYTERY sume Buffalo (G) Burli «2nd El-Bethel .................. Greensboro ist, Men’s B. C. 25.30 ara 17.93 New Hope eecseorsqesasesare 5.00 BR Ra casccsonsine, saserosectens 15.20 Dee 6.00 Westminster ......-- ss. s-re--+ 15.87 WILMINGTON ' PRESBYTERY Calypso 24. Delgado Hallsville . : Mount Olive ......----- : Oak Plains Pink Hill . Pollocksville . St. Andrews-Cov enant. ........ 193.27 Winter Park 5.00 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY George W, Lee Mem. 50.00 Auxiliaries November Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY GOLGEDOTO Ist secccosercsne vcorseases 84.00 EOWBY MOM, seccessesersesse savasoes 11.00 Rocky Mount 1st PONS Geen Rocky Mount 2nd Washington 1st... cseseees Wavtine 2c oe ae CONCORD PRESBYTERY TOVIORS seek <oueien 36.00 Hickory ist, Circle No. 4 .... 15.00 eoameeclis 2 Leb) ncacinis dee 2.00 Lenoir _.._.., 1029 BROCK FRvOY ...ccccso-esonse | cosesssese FAYETTEVILLE pieisvrERY Bethesda Circle Court . OD UAB . 2.85 Circle No, 1 .... -- 12.00 Clitia No. Bis) teak 12.00 Busniess Women’s Circles 12.00 BO heeds ce ele etna .00 Eureka, Circle No, 2 ...........- 6.00 Oicle: No; 2 coc 4.50 CIRO coc. | aaneiae alleles 38 Lumber Bridge ........... cess 5.90 TAPIIBYEON. ....ssccccs esecscie noesesee 2.00 DR... -scessreiiens Gacuesicess .66 PROUMOOOY cece senias. aces 8.80 MEME oo cg phvonig. ec aasie 2.28 BGG SOMITE cocccccecsce chessiecesss 3.23 ANG POW i. occa, caicee es. 80 3. GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Blacknall Mem, .........0. ses. 7.00 Dishes it oe 43:00 Alma Marie MeNeil ... 30.00 Fuller Mem. ............. ..... 1.75 Pee erNOH 8b ccccesiess sees 8.50 Ernest Myatt .... 1.26 North Vanguard 2.76 Roanoke Rapids ............ 3.50 Trinty Avenue .......20... 0 s.--.+-- 2.63 KINGS MTN. vineanpoaiciaingis BUONO is icsey sascicdts. beens OTM a cscesssgcce shee eevsias CYOTMOTION oscciss Scsecin acerence BI eal, seleaucsiec: Abas Mount Holly Olney ao ia Tryo 50 MECKLENBURG pRisbvreny Albemarle 1st Avondale Beulah Biscoe Caldwell Mem., B. W. C. Charlotte 2nd Huntersville Monroe 1st Myers Park Newell Philadelphia Rockingham Saint Andrew: South Park ... Sugaw Creek . Troy West Avenue Westminster 14 ORANGE PRESBYTERY PEN CG Gas escece | eases Gee 0.00 Asheboro .... : Bessemer 5 wl. eg er tia Ue eee é MUON Gi cadet “sgtucce hh Soeetbene F PROCRIONGI eccsscse) sivameen dsirteeise 2.50 Burlington 2nd oo... eee 3.45 OV EMIIG ssccitacotad: gusivicscnd aancsere 5.00 SIGH WOOE oiscias ssvcsses: ceeeaeestenis 2.50 GBI oo cicsisses, sayassiwnns. Seatewss 120.00 Greensboro 1st .....eecc0. 0 ceeeeeee 6.50 TOT POUG 160 icctessiecs senvesee 65.00 GOTORDOLO icicccccses seaveee sessvecs 10.50 FEO FAOURG. iiscsccceis covsescecposevasee 5.00 PORTER Foc cceccy’ - useundotana’< ebasbueie 4.50 Springwood oocee. cceseee coeeee sas Westminster ........ 0 --sc2. coceeees 5.00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Calypso 50 Cape Fear .... Caswell ........... Immanuel] ........ 0 ....--.--- Mount Zion ........0. «+ Pearsall Mem. PT TAAL i iscsises:s: sceceoesense . averse : Pollocksville 0.0... ces... cssesees ‘ PPOTGE MAGI, cccccscscscesees cesceseone 1.25 TONNE ecg ciccss ciatens _eahennsis 2.50 Rocky Point .......s:-cs0: cesses 1.01 Saint Andrews-Covenant .... 25.00 Westminster 0. cess. cee 4.00 Whiteville 1st ec. cece 7 Winter. Parke ........102 .<.0.00.20 6.45 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY North Wilkesboro ........0 s+ 88.00 Winston-Salem 1st --...... «++. 15.00 Y. P. Societies November Receipts FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY West Eend 5.00 THANKSGIVING Miscellaneous November Receipts Mrs. W. E. Bizzell, Seven Springs C. Ray Sloop, Salisbury.. 25.00 Mn Eugene Trivette, North Wilkesboro Mrs. Dorothy Avery, Southern ON ean ae Mrs. Hortense S. Miller, Cha rlotte Mrs. Hayes Hedrick, Char- lotte W. Gray, Rocky ~~ PERM So ph es ENO 10.00 A Friend, Charlotte ............ 2.00 aes Pearl Gallant, Gaston- Bai oes en em b ne: 10.00 Mr. C. P. Kirkman, High NG iene SAU a ic: 5.00 Mrs. E, R. Rankin, Chapel ee | re eet 5.00 Miss Jo Wardlaw, Moores- ic, 1 Nee eNO el ee eD RMR ts Sas ba 50.00 Mrs. A, E. Brown, Moores- WN eo ee 2.00 Thelma and Gene Shannon, ies Poms on cai: 5.00 Mrs. Fred Patterson, Sr., MORBG) FEGDE ooiececosespsceoeee 10.00 * ewan Brown, Burling- ville Bae econ. Seen 10.00 H. Susman Company, Rich- A 10.00 Miss Mary B. Parker, ae setbituonseke ska 100.00 Mrs, T. D. Hatcher, Fayette- WIE heen ee 10.00 Mr. T. T. wee, Charlotte .... 10.00 Mr. & Mrs. J. N. Graham, | POR sissincciesnscisins.. saesecer 30.00 Miss Blandina Biggers, Winston-Salem ........ ........ 50.00 Mrs. Kathrine W. Wallace, BVOIBOM sikcsicteicuis Levees 5.00 Mrs. R. H. Cowan, Rock Hill, a ee cane a. .00 Mrs. Joseph F, Cannon, Blowing Rock. .................. 100.00 Miss Esther King, Raleigh .. 10.00 Mrs. Catherine D. Meekins, PROTO oo) ee 3.00 Mrs. John A. Freeman, Chimney Rock ............ ......-. 5.00 Miss Lula Craig Dixon, Gas- OG oe ae 25.00 Mr. C. Jobe, Julian .............. 3.00 Miss Lulu Peeler Hill, A oo cccstencccicn -cmosveeenes 25.00 Mr. & Mrs. W. L. McIntyre, Lumberton 30.00 Miss Elisabeth Houston, Greensboro ........00. ceeseeeeeeeeee 10.00 A Friend, Boone ..............-...-.++ 10.00 (Mrs. David Blair, Washing- We Te, cc dcsstsesssrrscseane 1,000.00 Mr. R. C. Robbins, Lenoir ....100.00 Miss Gladys Kelly, High PN ava aatbaniieie 5.00 Miss Josephine C. Hill, PRIABE, EU, scevcssssasivetsvctaoses 5.00 Mrs. F. W. Clontz, Wake POU gic ae edeaenstnnscne 25.00 Mr. F. L. Blythe, Davidson ..100.00 Mr. A. Fuller Sams, States- ville Statesville Theatre Corp. Sherrill Machine Shop, Trout- man 233. Mr. & Mrs. George Ri, TUOBTI ooo vceccossacspssccevert Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Hamilton, WI ook coistye’ Sescaeieiensce 5.00 Lazenby-Montgomery Hard- ware Co., Statesville ........ 25.00 Mrs. W. E. Temple, Sanford 10.00 Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Allen, BNO DOPO neecicccnacs coccscrersoennes 50.00 Mrs. W. E. Merritt, Mt. Airy 20.00 Ann & James Shroyer, NE oe ck 5.00 Hilda & Sam Bernardo and Angelina Bernardo Mc- Ewan, Charlotte ................ 15.00 Mrs. J. N. 7. eo 10.00 Mr. & Mrs, J. Baucom, WOE sissiosicegaal saceesbsnnils 10.00 Mr. W. Harvey Morrison, DRORTOW Ss icisccteissise srsiviecusteueed 0.00 Mrs. Ida D. Murvine, Seven TIGA iceisiisideuess segssscetesvoors 5.00 Mrs. J. R. Howard, Winston- TRUDE Keieccince se Asewicctenes 2.00 Churches November Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY OORT Sccsccticcés cacscectectsssts 28.80 CHOU ideriicets. deatsridone’ sevrsennls 10.10 CPOE PROT, sisiccnsssve, saceesssaseriens 59.00 Washington Ist... eee 110.00 CONCORD PRESBYTERY BACK CLOCK sscccortcsescciees eves 10. BITE irciseserase ssteesseniny, e0s355 111.35 BIE i deeccesicies. | sessenvestk. , veseniven 400.00 RACES BOWE sesccsisises scrserevreesores 107.08 (Mooresville 1st oo... fe... 20.00 PENG vectcesscnis sevecers weevess 40.00 SRTEOULY LEE coccccsccess eoccsssvises 2358.08 Setzer’s Gap ......... ........... 15.00 PEUINIAE: coccstoisesk, pensbolinnes Socieees 82.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY Elise 34.00 Hope Mills Lillington GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Grassy Creek 100.00 St. Andrews White Oak MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Albemarle 2nd Bethlehem & S. S. Macedonia dee Myers Park -......0.02. cesses iva. 95.00 DECEMBER 1948 Mrs. John A. Tate ........... 150.00 OE SE a ene) 17.30 SS Gee 64.00 MU i paacecea 10.00 BOING) AVERYS oosilcics Ssscccs 30.00 WHRIBPAVES noises vcsecace sesieees 27.05 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Cumnock East Burlington Ephronia Gilead ne ne Goldston Haywood Milton . Re ee WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Ashwood & S. &., .................:.. 25. 00 MeCN Lake Waccamaw Mount Williams ........ _........ Saint Andrews-Covenant .... Weep Mem, 2.020 36.67 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY Colleemeg 43.91 Sunday Schools November Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY TN nc os canseses’ ecandace 5.42 AOE DOP cs, coscsoscccecoses 34.02 COlGBDOTO 166 nnceecieccc ceccccccc cs 45.86 Meadowbrook .00000. oo. an Washington lst 00... |... 2.74 CONCORD PRESBYTERY Conley Mem. o.oo. 17.60 eae 16.00 Little Poe’s, Boy’s B. C. ...... 125.03 Salisbury 1st, Campbell B. C. 12.00 FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY u Cypress .. 4 EORCGUS occ. asec ‘ Galatia ; Horse Shoe 20.0.0... cccceeeees 15.00 Mount Pisgah ...000000.. 0 c. aver CT a a ae 51 GRANVILLE PitiisBYiRY TRI ie a cs MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY Badin, Pioneers i Biscoe pbc eeilcns seen eesic cd New Salem Gemero . C. 10.00 “ORANGE PRESBYTERY Cumnock . 5.00 28.00 Greensboro 1st, Men’s B. C, 271.15 Mount Vernon Springs & NR isesee vecagsiccs White Hill ... WILMINGTON Cape Fear ... Caswell és as we Murraysville Webb Mem, IG Geecescsccce e8seeestecce secceces Auxiliaries November Receipts ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY RO BIN asc. ccocacecseas coossacs 7.05 BTID eccsinscs besslex ssnconiance, ye Roberson Chapel ............ ........ 2.00 p CONCORD PRESBYTERY Belk Mem. 10, Glen Alpine Little Joe’s McKinnon 5.00 FAYETTEVI LLE PRESBYTERY PARP CCUO cn. acces checcceccs 21.35 Brownson Mem. ........ .0........ 25.00 ERNE ioe. satessekeced wdseviae 4.00 Midway ............ ... . 10.00 Mt. Tabor .......... .. 10.00 Spring Lake “ an tS eG sites): apednctee 25 GRANVILLE PRESBYTERY Roby ANIGPOWE oc occic. shscosscvsases 11.05 MOEN IAL oasinsscois cscteceusicdace aa Trinty Avenue oo... cee... 50 KINGS MTN. PRESBYTERY Armstrong Mem. .00.00000. 0... ee Ironton .... MECKLENBURG ‘PRESBYTERY OM Sikes eeeishu beans 12.75 RIE ese stig! aiecalanas sss ecg 7.11 Huntersville 0000000 oo. 42.25 BEBCGCOMIG osiisscs scsesece: cnssceesee 9.35 Matthews, Circle No. 5 ........ 10.00 Philadelphia 220000. loo. cesses 52.50 BRBHODGER foscsecc. sesisves | sscsesesasac 5.61 Walkersville 200000. occ eee 28.00 WOO asics kcceccssises savienss 20.75 West Avenue oe 3.70 5 ORANGE PRESBYTERY Bethesda =— MIMI bisssesiiysi) scspeies: \ckeesosies 00 WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY Beth Carr .. 0.0 Burgaw .... WEE io icsilin, ndcedeicis.’ teens NET ecstcsints’ sisciaieives' xtuvaancnde Pink Hill Potts Mem. s Saint Andrews-Covenant ...... 20.00 MI Ms eiAilisiss: <desbbcissd:s-svssaves bee MME vies scayes: ssnncs dona 2.00 W.-SALEM PRESBYTERY HEIOB DI vescciesssss. sjesitiiaiad oenes 3.00 Y. P. Societies November : Receipts MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY BORGEIE” cescicsti) aptstviers ‘ctenwbivevne 2.00 Walkersville srieiuia piles olen 8.00 ORANGE re White. eG eesti cece idly aesadeceeved 8.25