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l In response to a telegram in the spring of 1907, "Come 
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lvisit Dr.' Norris and his family, and became much interested 
in his great work at the Hospital there, and this was a means 
. of awakening in me a very particular desire to work amongst 
Jthe mountain people of Western North Carolina. This cfesire 
l increased when I visited the different Missions of the Morgan\ 
ton Group, which had been started by that noble Missionary, 
i Churchill Satterlee, who labored successfully and well. Ilwent about on that first visit with the then Rector of Grace 
!Church, Morganton, Rev. McNeeley DuBose. I was most 
\ deeply impressed with the needs of this field, and was strongly 
j'urged by my guide to take up work in and about Rutherfordton, 
fand start mission schools similar to those in and near the 

· t South Mountains, on through the valleys into the foothills 
l and coves of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This region proved 
~to be a most beautiful and striking section of the Appalachian 
j Range which I found, the more I went over the trails, to conj 
tain a people eager, ready, and anxious for the teaching and 
I training of our missionaries. ' 

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' When the Rev. John C. Seagle, in charge of St. Francis 
· Church, Rutherfordton for six years, was appointed by Bishop 
Homer to take up work at Valle Crucis, and St. Francis Church 
was just organized into a parish, I was called as Rector in 
June, 1908. My predecessor, long familiar with all this region, 
· : recommended I should start Mission Schools on the Chimney 
Rock Road, ten miles from town, and also near White Oak 

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St. Francis' Church, Rutherfordton. N. C. 

A beautiful stone chUI~·lV'* ~fei~~_~ere by Col. Frank 
Coxe in 1895, in memory qf ~lJ>:~~~: jm~ a school has been 
conducted in the old church buildi:rig: ··For the last eight 
years settlement ~ti:: fi;;j.s· ~n~-tjed.,o\l :i!i.. F:utherfordton, 

N. C. , with special "referMte :to tl't0. '1nilf·.~~:on Factory 
Hill. 

Recently a house close by St. Francis' School was secured 
and fitted up for the teachers, known as St. Francis' 
House, where the nurse and teachers live. 


THE OLD ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, !':OW ST. FRANCIS' SCHOOL HOUSE. 

There are at present over ninety scholars in the three 
departments of the school, a day school, night school and 
kindergarten. Each member of the school attends Sunday 
School, and the children take part earnestly in the services 
there each Sunday. The head worker, Miss Foster, is in 
charge of all boxes received for our associate missions, and 
underneath the school building a suitable room for guilds and 
parish meetings has been fitted up. Lockers have also been put 


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in, and the contents of the boxes are arranged in an orderly 
way. The night school recently started has been found to 
meet an urgent need, as many of the older children in the 
factory are unable even to write their names and all seem 
anxious to go to school, if possible. The Kindergarten of some 
25 little ones meets at St. Francis' House, and is most popular, 
as the mothers are anxious to have their children under the 
good influence of the school. A mother's meeting is held each 
Wednesday from two to four. Here the teachers meet the 
mothers of many of their pupils. The work done goes to 
missionary objects. St. Agnes' Guild of girls meets each Friday. 
It also works for others outside of the parish. 

A trained nurse has recently been stationed at Ruthertordton. 
The resident doctors of the town are already making 
use of her services and, though resident here, we are. able to 
send her when needed from time to time to the different mission 
stations. 

St. Luke's, Rutherfordton, N. C. 1910. 

A chapel in connection with the work on the hill overlooking 
the town of Rutherfordton, not far from the Rutherford 
Hospital, was completed in the year 1910. Close by this 
vine covered chapel is the Mission House, the home of the 
Clergy Associate Mission, prettily situated at one end of a 
circular garden. A number of residents in the vicinity of 
St. Luke's attend the chapel services, which are held each 
day, and service is held each Sunday when possible. Often ' 
patients and nurses from the Hospital with others attend. 
Indeed, the services here seem to interest many, and much 
of the spiritual help received by otir Church members down in 
the village has come from attendance here. 

Rutherford Hospital. 

The Rutherford Hospital established some ten years ago 
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ful blessing to all the people far and wide in this section. At 
first very few patients were received, owing to the prejudice 
against a hospital, but the number of patients treated has 
steadily increased, so that now upward of six hundred operations 
are performed .each year, as this hospital is mostly 
surgical. One · cannot estimate the wide-spread good these 
doctors have done for this whole community. The good results 
of treatment are, in a measure, not only owing to the skill of 
the surgeons, but to the climate and strong constitutions of 
the mountain people as well. Starting five years ago with a 
small building once used as a school, a fine $40,000 building 
has been erected with accommodation for sixty patients. 
Though this is not a Church hospital the rector of St. Francis 
is chaplain, and many patients during the year are received 
from far and near, from cove and mountain, for treat.ment, 
even though many of them are not able to pay much, if anything, 
for treatment. An endowed . bed for· the use of charity 
patients is most urgently needed that this great work may 
be kept up without such enormous expense to the management 
of the hospital which has done so much for these people. 

The Transfiguration, Bat Cave. N. C. 

Twenty years ago, the Sisters of the Transfiguration from 
Glendale, Ohio, established a summer house in a gorge of the 
mountains, not far from Bat Cave, twenty-three miles from 
Rutherfordton, N. C. For some time a school was carried on, 
but as their work increased elsewhere, the Sisters were obliged 

·to give.up this school, and the mission work of this locality 
was given over to the Rutherford Associate Missions. The 
Sisters have given their school building to be used as a chapel, , 
and this has recently been moved down, and erected by ou_r 
men, in the Main Road though Hickorynut Gap at the junc


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nurse. These workers have visited the mountain people of 

the neighborhood, and services have been held regularly 

in the store which is on the property recently purchased for 

the chapel. · 

A nucleus of earnest Church people has already been 

gathered together and Sunday school kept up. The district 

school teacher has for the last two years been enabled to keep 

her scho.ol open three months beyond the regular session 

through the generosity of a good friend of our work. This 

has helped to allay the prevailing prejudice against our Church. 

we believe that much good will be. done now that the 

chapel is completed, .especially in the summer months, when 

large numbers ofpeople visit this locality. We are glad to be 

able to say that, after six years' work at this distant mountain 

station, a number of the people living on ·the mountain tops 

and in the coves, are not only becoming interested, but are 

very anxious to be taught about the Church. · Last Christmas, 

just under Sugar Loaf Mountain, "a Chr:stmas Tree" festival 

was held for the first time, in one of the cabins. One can 

never forget the joy of these people as they hung it from the 

rafters, and suspended the bags of candy on the tree to keep 

it steady. All· gathered around, and, after a brief service, 

which explained the real meaning of Christmas and the joy 

it brings to us, these wondering people received their remen


brances from the free, gifts sent from the Junior Auxiliary of 

a large parish in New York. 

People. such as these, throngs of them, are waiting ready 

and anxious to hear the message of the Gospel. They do the 
. best they can. The children will recite a whole chapter of 
the Gospel from memory. A wee tot read to me recently 
from the Fourth Reader, as this was the only book they had in 
the house. One of our workers went to the top of a mountain 
each Thursday and gathered together the children who had 
never been to school before. In three months they learned 
to read. These .people now hope to have a regular teacher 
who will follow up the work already done by our helper. . . 



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St. Mark's. Rutherfordton, N. C. 1909. 

Work was begun on a substantial building in a spot well 
watered by six bold springs, which trickled throughrododendron, 
laurel, and mountain ivy into a branch along the roadside. 
This seemed to offer a particularly good locality for a school. 
Within a quarter of a mile lives one of the leading families of 
the county, who immediately took great interest in the project, 


ST. MARK'S MISSION SCHOOL, TEN MU.ES FROM RunIE.RFORDTON. 

and from whom was purchased sixty-nine acres of land, and 
three additional acres were given outright for the school. 
After the second year, a house was purchased from a settler 
on adjoining property, and after needed improvements it 
made a comfortable home for the teachers, and a side room 
was added for the missionary. The country about St. Mark's 
is not as thickly settled as in Polk County, yet the school 
has been much appreciated by those living in the neighbor· 
hood, of whom many are followers of the lumber camps. All 
new settlers have been visited and some twenty candidates have 


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been presented to the Bishop for Confirmation, while over 
forty have been baptized. On one occasion seven were con~ 
firmed in one cabin, as the family were desirous of being con~ 
firmed with their old blind, invalid father. Indeed, it was 
through the latter's influence that all this family and relations 
became earnest members of the Church. Their first communion 
will long be remembered for their impressive ways and deep 
earnestness. After the service, which was especially for the 
old father, his Christmas Communion, as he was too feeble to 
come to the Mission, all were invited to go to the serVice 
later in the day; they eagerly replied, "We' uns are fixen' to go." 
Itwas an impressive sight to see them filing round the mountain,. 
wending their way and gathering others as they went 
to this Christmas Service. The Mission Chapel, brightly 
decorated with greens and wreaths gathered by the school 
children (they had given three days to this work) was well 
filled with worshipers, who for the most part had never kept 
before the dear Saviour's Birthday in His own appointed way. 
On this occasion the Prayer Book and especially the Communion 
Service was explained, and at the solemn part o ·the service 
the schoo' beU was rung, and many for the first time knelt to 
adore, as did the shepherds and wise men of old; their Saviour 
King. This service was the beginning of a real Church life 
in this settlement, and it has been found from experience to 
be the only real and abiding way to make an impression upon 
these earnest people. At the close of this Christmas service 
over a dozen present expres5ed their desire to be instructed, 
that they might receive (as rud a few that day) the Holy 
Communion. We have been much blessed in having devout 
and earnest helpers in the teachers who have faithfully worked 
in this more or less scattered community. Many are obliged 
to come farther and farther to school as they move back to the 
well-timbered sections, but a number of others are more or 
less permanent, living as they do in cabins on the small patches 
over in the valleys and. coves which abound in this section. 
For the most part, being very poor, they are glad to be helped 


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by the Missionary Box, and eagerly look to the aid which 
the hard-working parent is so glad to receive from this scource. 
It seems best, and they appreciate it more when they bring, 
as they are glad to do, a small sum, or it may be some produce of 
the farm, to pay for what they need to clothe their children, 
who, however, are glad to come to school in all weathers; 
in winter, many with their feet, tied up in rags, and clothed 
with only very thin garments. They are strong and healthy 
and do not, as might be imagined, mind the cold as do~ the 
city child. 


GR UP <:F CHILDREN IN THE SUGAR C..\NE NEAR ST. TH::>MAS'S. 

St. Thomas's. 1910. Rutherfordton. 

Two years after St. Mark's was started, in the spring of 
1910, another thriving settlement was discovered, containing 
within a radius of three miles, three hundred and twenty-five 
children. Flere, twenty-five years before, a devoted minister, 
the Rev. Milner Jones, had preached in a log chapel now 
tmnbled down. Within sight of the early efforts of this 
earnest pioneer the settlers were gathered together in mass 
meeting at which great enthusiasm was aroused. The 



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needs of the locality were found to be most real and 

a house was rented. The rent of this Mission House was 

provided by a branch of the Girl ' Friendly Society of 

New York. The attendance at the preaching service was so 

large that we were encouraged to secure land and build a Mis


sion House, and not far from it a small school house. A num


ber of communicants of the Church were found on visiting 

through this section, confirmed long ago by Bishop Lyman, 

and they with their numerous children formed a nucleus 

which has speedily made this one of the most thriving mis


sions of the Rutherford Group. 


THE NURSE STARTING OUT AT ST. THO.\jAS'S. 

1n answer to prayers, a devoted mission worker offered 
ber services and made it possible for us to carry on this school. 
Sixty-five have been baptized and twenty-five confirmed. 

St. Thomas's is situated on a knoll, with a fine view of 
the high mountains through the vista of woods, and bas proved 
.to be a most suitable site in the midst of one of the most thickly 
settled sections of Polk County, some fourteen miles equally 
distant imm Rutberforton on the east and Tryon on the 


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west. The school-house has been enlarged by extending the: 
building and adding two wings. A barn has also been built. 
Health exhibits have been held by the nurses and lectures. 
on hygiene given. Sewing classes, guilds, and mothers'"" 
meetings have been formed, and all the communicants areorganized 
into what is known as "St. Thomas's League" for 
the good of the Church and the settlement. 

The teacher writes of St. Agnes' Guild, that it "consists. 
of fifteen members, nine old enough to. sew, and six small 
girls who cut out pictures and paper dolls; that they haveheld 
sixteen regular meetings dµring the past year, and have: 
made four large aprons, three small aprons, one petticoat, 
one waist, and also dressed a doll very nicely for a bazaar for· 
a church in the north." 

"These meetings we turned into bird talks, and invited. 
the boys of the school to join with us in discussing the birds. 
and finding out how many we knew of those which stay here 
all the year, and some of the very early migrants. Our first 
list was about thirty. The children and teachers did not. 
always know the birds by the same name, but could compare: 
names by descriptions. All the children showed great interest, 
especially the boys, and we enjoyed the meetings very·. 
much". · 

Birthday League for the Mountain Children. 

A number of children and adults have sent in their names: 
and the day of their birth. They are duly remembered on 
their birthday, and they in turn say a prayer for our mission 
work and contribute a small offering each year~ fn this. 
way it is hoped that one of the teachers in our mountain schools. 
may be supported. This association is know as "The Birthday,· 
League for the _Mountain Children." 

Several missionary plays have been given with great 

success at our mountain schools, and they have been found 

most helpful. Much is brought into a play fu:. the. way of 


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instruction in regard to the Church and her history. The 
teachers find that from a group of mountain children nearly 
all peoples of the world from the Esquimos to the Hottentots 
can readily be represented. 

St. Gabriel's Chapel. Rutherfordton. N. C. 

A chapel for the colored people has long been needed in 
Rutherfordton. Many of this race, brought by their old 
masters, had already been baptized in the Church for we 
found in the old register kept before the war the names of 
many slave children for whom their master had stood sponsers. 
After three years of special effort this chapel has been erected, 
overlooking the town, and the communicants, with the last 
class of eighteen confirmed in May, number now thirty-five. 
It is a common sight to see nearly, if not all, of this number 
present at six o'clock in the morning. A teacher is much needed 
for this work. The Sunday School has already one hundred 
enrolled. 

St. Joseph's and St.Andrew's, Chapels, Green River, N.C. 

· Just after the war Mrs Thurston, an aunt of Mrs. Frank 
Coxe, raised the money from small offerings and built a little 
chapel on the plantation belonging to the Coxe family, ten 
miles from Rutherfordton. Here regular services are held 
mostly for the tenants of the place, and some eight years ago 
another chapel, St. Andrew's, was built for the colored people, 
many being the old servants of the place. It is expected 
that teachers will be stationed here at an early date and effective 
work ·carried on amongst the children whose parents 
are anxious to send them to school and have them brought 
up under the influence of the Church. 

Besides the regular appointments, services are held from 
time to time at Spicers' Cove, Whitesides' Bridge, Chimney 
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a mountain chapel under ugar Loaf Mountain, and other 
ervices are held in cabin here and there through the mountain 
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On the Mountain Trails with the Mis ionary. 

In a recent trip through one of the isolated coves of the 
mountain the mi ionary inquired the age of one of the 
old inhabitants. He replied; "Come next August, I'll be 
eighty and six years old. I've 'worked' one road, and ground 
my corn at one mill all my life. My blood and 'hem', pointing 
to his wife, runs from Joe Wilson's to the World's Edge, 
(limits of the cove). "We're all kin." 

At the next cabin a barefooted, unkempt woman greeted 
me with a "how de" and on inquiring, ''You all well enough." 
she replied, "That thar gal of mine is ailing right smart: she 
has a risin on her side," It was evident that the child had 
a bad case of appendicitis. "I will be glad," I said, "to buy 


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a load of chairs if you'll put Molly on top and bring her to 
the hospital for treatment." But no amount of urging on 
my part seemed to make any impression. All further argument 
was settled by the father with these words, "Molly 
don't favor going." 

A quarter down the trail four women were huddled in 
one cabin and kept there away from others because they 
"had bad eyes." A lotion was sent them for application, 
and instruction given which they were urged to carry out. 
A very ser~o s contagious trouble seemed to be prevalent, 
and these poor creatures were kept apart in an isolated cabin;. 
but nothing had been done for them. 


GROUP NEAR ST. TuoMAs's. 
Afflicted boy so common in mountains is seen sitting in centre. 


Just now the greatest want in these isolated regions is 
a trained nurse. She could come from the nearest Mission 
House, twelve mi.'.es away, and, after getting acquainted and 
winning the confidence of the people, she could through 
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sionary. After all, is not the Church waking up more 
and more, to the fact' that there are two special duties long 
ago insisted on, "When ye go, preach and heal the sick?" 

Riding suddenly up fo a cabin of a noted moonshiner 
not long ago, the following conversation took place: In 
answer to my salutation of "Howde", he repeated it and added, 
"You be da preacher. Done met you-uns last year. Glad · 
to see yer. Me and Gus here" (pointing to his partner) 
"has been turned down by the· Methodists and Baptists, 
,and we are a thinking of taking up with you-uns. We-uns got 

to go down to the mill with this", (pointing to a fifteen by 

four log), "but my wife in thar is kinder ailing. You might 

start in on her." 

A young, bare-legged, sturdy boy was met back in the 
woods, not far from one of our mission schools, and was eager 
to guide me up a trail to the next cabin occupied by a noted. 
mountaineer. On the way I asked him how long he ha~ 
been attending school, and how far he had advanced in his 
studies. He replied, ''I'se been to school two weeks, and 
I'se got as far as 'cat's on the rug.' You. know where that 

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We reached the next cabin and an old bearded man rose 
in the customary hospitable manner of the mountains, and 
said, "Glad to see yer, come in and warm. I'd like to send 
all my children to yer school, I believe in eddication. Ed· 
dicated myself. Your teacher down yonder gave me two books 
tother day, and I read till twelve o' clock what England had 
done, and then I dropped England and took up Greece." 
Think of reading two old histories until two o' clock in the 
morning by the light of a pine knot. 

The Missionary in charge of the Rutherfordton Church 
has been helped to carry on this work by friends in different 
parts of the country. A number of our benefactors have 
entered into the rest that remaineth for the people of God· 
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~uch as this should be supported by the whole Church. Each 
-school should have a United Offering workerandseveraltrained 
nurses should be stationed in this district. We have never had 
.a United Offering worker nor any one supported by thegeneral 
Church through the Board of Missions. We have a fund in 
:reserve for endowment. 


OLD AUNT POLLY 

We think the results of the work here peak for themselves, 
especially when one thinks of the small expense involved 
in maintenance. There have been in the last seven 
Years over seven hundred baptisms and one hundred and fifty 
confirmations in these Associate Missions. The people are interested, 
longing to be taught and guided. so that now seems 
to be the time to take hold and develop and put on a firm 
foundation the work now well established in this district. 

Looking back over eight year.;, we see in this district of 
some three thousand square miles that the Church has made 
a deep impression on the community; that in the last three 
Years alone four hundred and twenty people, young and 


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old, have been baptized and one hundred confirmed. A 

chapel has been built near the hospital, where regular services 

are held, also two residences for the clergy who live close by on 

the hill at Rutherfordton. Here are the headquarters of the 

Rutherford Associate Mission and here prayers go up daily 

that God may bless this work so much needed to be done for 

these people scattered abroad without a shepherd. 

The Rutherford Associate Mission forms a strategic 

point, for it is the entrance into the many c.oves which penetrate 

into the Blue Ridge Mountains, where civilization with the 

railroads has passed by miles away, and here are these people, 

isolated, waiting to be taught, led, and guided to better things. 

We are able to do the work, if the Church at large wiUhelp us, 

to send more missionaries, teachers, and nurses into this field. 

This is what we need and must pray for: Messengers . 

of the Liv:ng God, men trained in a very real sense for the 

Master's service. This is a time of great emergency. But He, 

who had no place to lay His head asks His followers to give up 

more than money, their very life, the life filled with Divine 

love, which would impel many a soldier of the Cross to give 

himself without money and without price to the work of God 

and His Church. Such men are needed in the mountains· of 

Luzon in the Philippines and in the mountains of the Blue 

Ridge. Yes, men are being called to the front to feed God's 

sheep scattered abroad, unshepherded, and unfed. We believe 

the call will be answered and that our beloved Church will 
· support those whom she has placed in the Field. 


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EXPENDITURES. 

During the last seven years the following buildings ·have been erected 

and estimated costi; are here given including the lands; 

1908-1914 St. Mark's School, Chimney Rock Road, St. Mark's Mission 
House and barn, seventy-four acres of land, total value. $3,000.00 

1909-1914 House rented, Polk County, for work known as St. Thomas's 
Mission. Mission House built for teachers, school house, school 
house enlarged with two wings and extended, barn built, thirtyfour 
acres of land, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,800.00 

1910-1915 ·At Rutherfordton, Mission House or Rectory: at St. Luke's 
Chapel, chapel enlarged, house for teachers secured in the town 
with land adjoining our school: house improved and water 
put in. Total cost,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 

1915 
Land at Bat Cave for Transfiguration Chapel, and moved the 
same from old site in the gorge,. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350.00 

1914-1915 St. .Gabriel's Chapel for colored people completed and paid 
for at a cost of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,650.00 
Transfiguration Chapel with land, ......... ~ . . . . . . 350.00 
Total amount received and expended for.above,. .....$11,150.00 
Support of schools, including stipend and general expenses, 

(seven years) ............ "' ............................ : .. $12,000.00 


OUR NEEDS. 

Warm clothing for school children; blouses for toys, from eight to fourteen, 
strong material; women's plain· dresses, dark colors, and good sizes; 
children's aprons, gingham, to cover them all over; night gowns, for children . 
and adults; mill ends or odd lengths of waterproof material to be made into 
rain capes for the little school girls; cheap handkerchiefs; boots and stockings 
of all sizes; winter gloves. or mittens; baby outfits; clothing for the sick; 
garments of all sizes and decriptions for old men and women; outing flanlnel 
and other material for the sewing guilds and mothers' meetings; medica 
supplies for nurse, carbolized vaseline, zinc ointment, adhesive plaster and 
old linen for bandages. Suits put in some of the boxes will be greatly 
appreciated. 

All supplies and boxes should be sent to The Rutherford Associate 
Mission, and they will be duly acknowledged. 

To avoid mistake it would be a great help if the kind donor would 
enclose a list of the articles in the box, as well as in letter, notifying us of the 
gift. 

The cost of subcription. to "St. Francis Chronicle" is fifty cents, and 
~ith membership in "Birthday League" one dollar. 


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PRESENT NEEDS IN RUTHERFORDTON. 

Settlement House"Rutherfordton. 
Needed for found<1tion md basement. .. .. ........... . ... . 

1.000 
,2,000
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Boys and young women of the mill need to be helped. 
A site has been secured. for building to be used in this work. 

$40 ()()

Supportof SLMark's, one month,. ............ , ............•. 
Support ofSt. Thomas's, one month,. . .........•.......•. . .. . . 50 00 


70 .00
Support oiStFrancis' School, one month,, ........•........... 


4().00

Four teachers and two helj)ets, .............................. . 


50.00
Two Lay Readera, . ........................................ . 


30 00

Support of nurse, one month, including supplies, .. .. . . ....... . 
Funds for supportof Claud(one-legged. boy atSt. Andrew'sSchool), 

50.00
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7.50
Care of patient inHospital one week. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......... . 


30.00
Teacher's salary for one month (Chimney Rock.annexed) .. ..... . 

26.00
Expense of publishing and malling SL Francis Chronicle, ...... . 
Membership and .Birthday League and subscription toSt Francis 

J.00
Chronicle............ . ................•.............