Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Collecting for Families of Coal Glen Mine Disaster, June 5, 1925

Red Cross Appeal for Stricken Families

We are urged by the Governor of North Carolina and the American Red Cross to solicit funds to be used for the relief of the stricken families of the miners who were killed in Coal Glen Mine. The persons whose named appear below are authorized to solicit funds in their towns and forward same at once to Mrs. A. McN. Blair, Southern Pines, Treasurer of Moore County Relief Funds. These funds will be used at once for the relief of those so recently deprived of their loved ones and supports:

Mrs. F.C. Page, Aberdeen; Mrs. A. McN. Blair, Southern Pines; Mrs. W.B. Graham, Vass; Mrs. Loula McI. Muse, Cameron; Miss Lucil Eifort, West End; Mrs. A.A. McDonald, Jackson Springs; Miss Ellen Maurice, Eagle Springs; Miss Callie Battley, Pinehurst; Mrs. Frank Blue, Carthage; Mrs. K.M. Shields, Hemp.

Thanking all who respond to this appeal for relief to these stricken families, Mrs. J.B. Page, Chairman, Moore County Chapter of A.R.C.

From the front page of The Pilot, Friday, June 5, 1925

newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073968/1925-06-05/ed-1/seq-1/#words=JUNE+5%2C+1925

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