Rev. J.A. Baldwin of the Southern Industrial Institute, Charlotte, filled the pulpit of the Methodist church last Sunday morning, and spent Monday and Tuesday here in the interest of the school. This school is devoted to giving an education to boys and girls unable to procure it otherwise and who are willing to work. Half the day of the pupils is devoted to studying, and the other half to working. Pupils are prepared for college, and at the same time are given a thorough manual training course. They are paid for the work they do in the shops, and some of them earn sufficient in tis way to pay their school expenses. Others are not so proficient. A small furniture factory was installed in connection with the school some time ago, and Mr. Baldwin is now raising money to pay for this and other improvements. The institution is doing a very valuable work, one that no other school, at least in this section, does, and deserves encouragement and assistance.
From the front page of The Messenger and Intelligencer, Wadesboro, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 14, 1922; Published by the estate of J.G. Boylin.
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