Shelby, Reidsville, Mebane and Hickory have been promised return visits by the inspection committee of the Junior Order orphanage. Reports go out from the other towns saying all of them stand at the top of the list in the matter of choice. We feel that Shelby has the same chance, but we are not following up our chance like we should. Hickory has forwarded a formal proposition to the committee, after securing the pledges for the amount necessary to purchase the Col. Calvin Plank farm. We have an idea if Hickory gets the orphanage, Shelby will get Colonel Plank, who likes Shelby and has expressed a desire to live here.
We demonstrated our anxiety for the orphanage when the committee was here, but we have an idea that the matter of selection will be left up to other higher officials who never made the visitations, therefore, anything we can do to back up what we have offered and placed before the committee the advantages here, should be in written form as to keep the matter constantly in their minds.
--Cleveland Star
From the front page of The Reidsville Review, Nov. 21, 1923
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