County Building Home for Delinquent Women, Feb. 20, 1921

Organization of the body that will build and have direction of the home for delinquent women in this county was effected Saturday afternoon at a meeting held in the county commissioners’ room. After the meeting it was announced that work on the building would start within 60 days. It will be on the county home plantation, by provision of the law.

The officers of the governing body will be J.B. McLaughlin, chairman of the board of county commissioners, permanent chairman of the board; Mayor John M. Wilson of the city, vice-chairman; Alfred W. Brown, secretary; and W.S. Alexander, treasurer. The other directors, besides the officers, will be Heriot Clarkson, one of the originators of the idea of the home, and A.H. Washburn.

The building committee consists of J.B. McLaughlin, W.S. Alexander and A.H. Washburn, and Mayor John M. Wilson.

The governing board chosen at the meeting is to be augmented by the addition of 12 prominent women of the city and county. This will be done at an early date.

The act authorizing the bill provides that it shall cost not less than $20,000, and that $5,000 annually shall be provided to maintain it. The city and county are to share equally in both original cost and maintenance. Not more than 50 acres as a location for the home was to be set aside, according to the terms of the bill, but this clause is not essential since the law requires it to be located on the land already owned by the county as a site for the County Home.

From the Charlotte News and Evening Chronicle, Sunday evening, Feb. 20 1921