Thursday, August 6th, is Anniversary Day for Nazaeth Orphans’ Home at Crescent. Thousands of people of Rowan and Cabarrus Counties, and all adjacent counties, go to Crescent on Anniversary Day, last year’s attendance being estimated at 7,500. Preparation is being made for a larger attendance this year.
Nazareth Orphans’ Home is located near Crescent, 8 miles south of Salisbury, in Rowan county. It is now accessible by good roads from Faith, Granite Quarry and Rockwell. This was made possible by the commissioners of Rowan county building a hard-surfaced road by the home.
Nazareth Home is owned and controlled by the Reformed Church in North Carolina. Its doors are open to children, orphan children, outside of the fellowship of the Reformed Church. While the home gives a place to such children of the Reformed Church whose parents are no longer living, those in needy circumstances who cannot find a home elsewhere are received. The larger share of the funds for maintenance comes from the Reformed Church north and from many friends of the home outside of the Reformed Church. The Kiwanis Club of Salisbury and other organizations have been very generous to the children of the home.
The Home is just completing a girls’ dormitory. This building has been needed for many years, as the old residence of Dr. C. Banks McNairy has been the girls’ dormitory for years. It is inadequate, dilapidated. The new building was contracted more than a year ago, and the cornerstone was laid last year on Anniversary Day, but there have been many delays, and it is still unfinished. This building is constructed of rough texture face brick and tile, and has a capacity for 50 girls, with a dining room and kitchen capacity for 100. The building has large quarters for matron, parlor rooms, infirmary, etc.
Just recently a large cypress tank of $6,000 gallons capacity was erected. This will give ample water supply for the home and will also take care of the large gatherings on Anniversary Day.
The large auditorium and school room in which the exercises are held each year will be seated this year for the first time. The folding chairs from Catawba College, Newton, N.C., have been placed in the chapel.
Chief features of the Anniversary Day this year are: First, the annual address by Rev. Paul S. Leinbach, DD. L.L.D., editor of the Reformed Church Messenger, Philadelphia, Pa. Dr. Leinbach is one of the most gifted sons of the Reformed Church, and officials of the home are pleased to announce him as the speaker. Second, the concert class of the home will give a program at 2 p.m. This class is being drilled daily for this program. There is no charge to the chapel for either. An offering is received at the time of the Anniversary address.
The semi-annual meeting of the board will be held August 5th at the home. One of the important items of business is to elect a superintendent for the home to succeed Rev. W.H. McNairy, whose time expires August 30. Supt. McNairy resigned at the annual meeting at Lower Stone Church May 4th. The officers of the Board are: J.W. Peeler, Rockwell, N.C. President; I.M. Peeler, Faith, N.C., Vice-president; W.C. Lyerly, Concord, Secretary; and George H. Moose, Gold Hill, N.C., Treasurer.
The Rockwell and Faith charges of the Reformed Church will have lunch stands on the grounds. Bear Creek and Mt. Pleasant Churches will have tables. All proceeds from these tables and stands go to the Treasurer of the home for the current expense funds. Commission agents are not allowed.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Aug. 1, 1925
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