Gypsies do not like robed members of the Ku Klux Klan. This fact was definitely established during the last Cabarrus County Fair, although details have just become public.
Visitors to the fair remember that several gypsie fortune-tellers were quartered on the midway, while others were camped in the woods near the entrance to the fair grounds. Everything went well with them until Friday afternoon when robed Klansmen began to mingle with other visitors to the grounds.
Then the gypsies got busy. Persons passing the tents of the fortune tellers wondered what was happening to cause such chattering and wile gestures. The gypsies seemed as wild persons. There was terror in their eyes, and they passed up the chance to get any dollars by reading the fortunes of passers-by.
They were getting away and away they got. Just about dusk Friday night they drove from the fair grounds, leaving in their wake a stream of language that meant nothing intelligible to their hearers but which indicated terror.
At the entrance gates they were joined by several other bands that had been camping in the woods. There was no lost motion in the forming of the line of march. The drivers of the cars seemed to know just what to do, and they were not long doing it. With a farewell blare of auto horns and a joyous shout of victory, the gypsies headed south.
And the funny thing about it all is that the Klansmen said nothing to them, it is reported. The gypsies are just naturally afraid of robed figures, and they wouldn’t stay at the same fair grounds with them.
From page 2 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, Nov. 7, 1925
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