Margaret Bayley Relates Success of Crossnore, Jan. 31, 1921

Newton, Jan. 31—Miss Margaret Bayley, representing the school at Crossnore, Avery county, was in Newton Friday and gave three interesting lectures, one to the Woman’s club, another at Catawba college, and at the Presbyterian church last night. It was an inspiration to hear her tell of the marvelous progress at Crossnore. The school, which is non-denominational, began with a small log cabin and one window and now is a splendid modern building, with a large number of class rooms and 10 teachers. This school building is equipped with electric lights and steam heat and an interesting fact is that all of this growth and intellectual progress has been accomplished through the sale of old clothes. This work is of such great missionary character, enabling the poorest children form the most isolated mountain cove to obtain an education.

These three meetings were quite enthusiastic, a round table discussion conducted at each one, thus enabling Miss Bayley to give her listeners every detail of the work in that mountain section, and she is confident of receiving generous support from our people from the “old clothes sale” at Crossnore, which is conducted whenever the boxes are received.

While in the city Miss Bayley was the guest of Mrs. Albert Gaither on Main street. Miss Bayley came to Newton from Hickory, where she spoke to the Lenoir College students at chapel Thursday morning.

(From the editorial page of the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, January 31, 1921)

The Crossnore School was founded in 1913 by Drs. Eustace and Mary Martin Sloop. It first served as a boarding school for disadvantaged mountain children to live and learn. Today, Crossnore continues today to serve children in need from North Carolina. Children live, learn, and prosper in a loving home environment.

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