ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
(!Inlnrrb (@rpl1au Asylum
DECEMBER 1, 1916
TO
DECEMBER 1, 1917
OXFORD, NORTH CAROLINA
PRESS OF OXFORD ORPHANAGE
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H. P. CHEATHAM, Superintendent __ ____ ______________ Oxford
REV. M. C. RANSON, Secretary to Board __ _____ ___ ____ Oxford
REV. ISAAC ALSTON ______ ______ ____ ____ _________ Warrenton
REV. J . W. LEVY ________ ________________ ____ __ ______ Kittrell
REV. G. C. SHAW _____ ________________ ______ ___ ____ __ Oxford
MR. I. C. JEFFREYS _______________________________ Rolesville
MR. M. F. THORNTON ____________ ______ ____ ___ ___ Warrenton
PROF. H. E. LONG ______________________________ Franklinton
DR. A. M. MOORE ___ _______________________________ Durham
MR. G. D. GRIFFIN _________________________________ Hertford
ON PART OF GRAND LODGE OF MASONS OF N. C.
Hon. R. B. McRARY, M.W.G.M.
ON PART OF THE STATE
MR. R. W. LASSITER, President First National Bank ____ Oxford
PROF. LUTHER BUCHANAN ______________ ____ _______ Oxford
MR. M. L. COLEY ____ _______ ___________ _____ __ _____ Northside
AUDITL!G BOARD
MR. T. C. HARRIS, of First National Bank ________ ____ Oxford
MR. C. S. EASTON, of Nat ional Bank of Granville ______ Oxford
TRE . URER
MR. HENRY G. COOPER, Vice-Pres. Nat. Bank of Granville,
Oxford
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Dec. 1, 1915 to Dec. 1, 1916
To the Board of Direct07·S of the Colored Orphan Asylum:
We rejoice to state that the pleasure which always
characterizes our effort in submitting to you a report of
the work of the Institution at the close of each year is
in no wise marred at the close of this year's labors.
We have fully realized and appreciated the Div.ine
Hand in directing the affairs of the Institution, as welJ
as the well-being of its inmates, although it has been a
year of some discouragement and difficulties.
We have enrolled in the Orphanage. 82 girls and 95
boys, all healthy and strong, while in previous years the
Institution has been greatly burdened with many weak
and sickly children. During the year 48 boys and girls
have been given their time, and are out in the world, do­ing
well from what w\l can hear of them.
We had a successful school year, running from Octo­ber
to May, with Miss E. C. Brinkle.y and Mrs. P. B.
Brandom as teachers, who rendered competent and faith­ful
service.
Many applications for entrance in the Orphanage
have recently been made, but on account of the high
cost of living we hope the influx will not be large until
after the winter season.
The outlook for the development and usefulness of
the Institution is good, and indeed at a premium, especial­ly
from the standpoint of training the children along the
lines of usefulness and common-sense business ideas cal­culated
to fit them, so far as our facilities will permit,
for the life and opportunities ahead of them. They are
trained devotionally three times every day, thereby keep­ing
their young minds in a religious and thoughtful
trend. They are. compelled, but do so with pleasure, to
attend Bible reading and Sunday school services every
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Runday morning, and Bible reading, lectures, or preach­ing
every Sunday eve.ning.
The girls have domestic teaching and training e.very
day in the week.
The boys are all trained to work in various ways-to
feed and care for stock, to hitch. drive, haul, and f arm.
They are also trained in the trades of carpentry, brick­laying,
brick-making, milling and firing. All of these
comprise demands of the hour. Should they, or any of
them, in the more matured paths of life r eceive higher
callings, this Institution can pl'oudly boast of having
laid for the boys a common-sense foundation, at least
of integr ity and industry, and this is equally true of the
girls. And we are glad to report that our people every­where
who are. fair-minded and unprej udiced, and who
know of the real work of the Institution, are delighted
with the progress of the plant, and r ejoice at the restr ain­ing
scepter which is woven over the inmates here daily.
Of course there may be a few people who are prompted
by some sinister motive, and who may not be really in­terested
in the welfare of the Home. But, as a whole,
the common rna es are enthusiastic and outspoken in
their support of the Institution, and t his is without re­gard
to race, party, or cr eed, the worthiness of the cause
overshadowing all else.
SOME OF THE IMPROVEME1,TS DURING THE YEAR
Special effort has been made this year in the clear ­ing
and ditching of some of the waste lands of the farm,
the,reby draining and preparing the farm for a higher
state of cultivation. The most of these lands have already
been broken deep with two-horse plows, well disked, and
seeded in oats, clover, rye and wheat.
BUILDINGS
Important improvements have been made during the
summer and fall on the new brick building. The tower,
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school rooms, domestic science. room, and kitchen have
been furnished. This building has been equipped with
blackboards made in the. walls of the school room, and the
domestic science kitchen, with comfortable and modern
double school desks.
The long-contemplated flour mill, in connection with
the. grist mill, has been installed to the entire satisfaction
of our neighbors and a large number of customers. This
has entailed upon us the necessity of reconstructing the
original millhouse, making it more than as large. again
as it was, changing it from a single to a double-story
building, and also adding another room in which to run
the corn-sheller, which obtains its power from the engine
that runs the mills.
These mills have done well this year. It seems that
it would have been impossible to have done. without them
under the crisis of the high cost of living during the past
year.
Our brick business has not been as prosperous this
year as in previous brick seasons, on account of the
scarcity of wood with which to burn the kilns, as well as
scarcity of orders.
The wheat thresher did well, making 175 bushels
toll. We found it necessary to erect a two-room brick cot­tage
on the yard of the mill premises for the. convenience
of the miller, and for the protection of the property as
well.
It is but reasonable. to suppose that, like similar insti­tutions,
this Home must have realized the tightness of the
times, and felt some hardships, on account of the fact
that everything bought for maintenance and improve­ment
cost two prices. The inmates of the Institution,
however, knew no difference, as we always make special
efforts to see to it that the table comforts of the Home
are first safe and secure, and it is especially noticeable
how well and happy the children have been the entire
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year. This was likewise due to comfortable and sanitary
quarters in which to live, and to the. exercise of proper
discretion in accepting applicants for entrance into the
Orphanage, to which special attention has been given
during the past eighteen months. It seems that the Good
Spirit must have a hand in this for the purpose of offset­ting
~nreasonable would be critics, for apparently some
people think the inmates here are immune from sickness
and that nature is robbed of its power over human weak­ness
and death when once the children enter the Orphan­age;
and if perchance, one of the children should get sick
it is unto them (the critics) an unpardonable crime and a
sin upon the heads of the management of the Institution.
The yield of field and garden produce has been, with
the exception of a short corn crop, satisfactory and plen­tiful.
The 26th day of July of this year saw one of the most
eventful anniversary occasions in the history of the In­stitution.
A large, orderly, and appreciative gathering
from all sections of the State was in attendance-per­haps
7,000 or 8,000 people. Dr. R. Spiller, of Mt. Vernon
Baptist Church, at Durham, was orator of the occasion,
and made a strong and instructive speech which touched
a responsive chord from an appreciative audience.
During the year the Orphanage has been honored
with many prominent visitors, but never was the Home
more delighted and happy than at the presence and visit
of its well-wisher and benefactor, Mr. B. N. Duke, of
Durham and New York City. With Mr. Duke were his
entire immediate family, and his friend, Professor Flow­ers,
of Trinity College, Durham, who delivered in our au­ditorium
a most eloquent and instructive address to the
boys and girls of the Institution. When it was learned
by the children of the Orphanage that it was their good
friend Mr. Duke, who, with bis distinguished company,
had just run upon the campus in their two handsome and
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commodious touring cars to hear the children sing, the
e.ntire Institution was thrilled with ecstasy, and at once
moved in a body at the tap of the bell to the chapel,
where Professor Flowers and Dr. E. T. White, of Ox­ford,
spoke. Mrs. B. N. Duke, especially, and the other
ladies in the company seemed to have enjoyed the filing
in of the little tots as the singing commenced. Mr. Duke
is well known all over North Carolina as a friend and
liberal giver to needy and worthy causes, and this Insti­tution
has been for quite a while one of the objects of
his sympathYI and help.
The. Baptist State Sunday School Convention, which
convened in Oxford in annual session in the month of
August, kindly visited the Orphanage in a body, and held
a most inspiring and sou]-stirring service at the Home,
leaving a collection of $37.15. Many strong and encourag­ing
speeches were made by leading ministers and laymen
of the State-such leaders as Messrs. S. N. Vass, N. F.
Roberts, A. B. Vincent, G. C. Shaw, J. E. Dellinger, and
many others.
The Holy Convocation, which convened in Oxford dur­ing
the latter part of September, visited the Home, also
in a body, and held a grand and inspiring service with
the children. Several of their leading men delivered rich
and cogent addresses, and they left a $5.65 collection.
One of the most charitable and generous visits ever
made to the Home by any of our neighbors was made by
Antioch Baptist Church and Sunday school in a body, on
the third Sunday in November (a most beautiful day)
and heJd a joint session in study in the Sunday schoolles­son.
After the lesson every male member among the
visitors made pleasant and encouraging remarks on the
lesson and to the children of the Home, and left the Sun­day
school the liberal collection of $5.20.
Also the Sisters' Union of Oxford made a most pleas­ant
visit to the Orphanage on the second Sunday in June,
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leaving a collection of $3.35; and the following week,
these sisters sent 18 new shirt jackets for boys.
We have received several boxes and barre.ls of cloth­ing
and bed quilts, for which the Home is indeed grate­ful.
Feeling the. need of immediate financial aid to meet
obligations for maintenance and improvements of the In­stitution,
we thought it well to make a short and quick
trip to New York during the summer in search of help,
but soon after ge.tting there found that on account of the
European war it was not a good time for such a cam­paign;
and the trip seemed entirely a blank one until
the day before r eturning homeward, when we. learned that
Mr. B. N. Duke had returned to the city. Upon calling
on him, we were r eceived courteously and given a pa­tient
and sympathetic hearing in behalf of this cause, and
when we were through Mr. Duke handed us his check for
$500 for the work. This chivalrous and Christain gentle­man,
who is always busy, asked quick and pertinent ques­tions
concerning the work. As soon as he saw the need,
he applied the remedy and said, as he bade me. good-by,
"Cheatham, take care of the orphans."
Thanksgiving day is always a pleasant occasion here,
which consists of devotional services and a big dinner for
all within our gates.
We are still looking forward to the time when the
Good Spirit will make plain to the good people everywhere
the. importance and beauty in accepting the grand idea of
giving on every Thanksgiving day one day's earning ac­cording
to the plan or idea suggested last year by the
State Board of Charity.
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The folIowing friends and benefactors sent the Home
on that day the amounts opposite their names:
Hon. D. Y. Cooper, Henderson _________________ $10.00
Hon. T. T. Hicks, Henderson ___________________ 10.00
Capt. J . M. B. Hunt, Townsville ________________ 5.00
Mr. C. S. Easton, Oxford ______________________ 5.00
Mrs. Barbee, Durham __________________ ________ 10.00
Dr. G. C. Shaw, Oxford _________________________ 8.15
It is gratifying to observe that the kingly spirit of un­selfishness
and of real uplift of humanity is possessing
the minds of all noble men and assemblies among the peo­ple.
The white Grand Lodge of Masons of North Caro­lina
just a faw days ago in the midst of their important
annual communication and legislation enacted, by unani­mous
vote, upon the pages of their grand and extraordi- -
nary proceedings, a resolution carrying out in spirit, and
almost in letter, the meaning of the one day's earning
idea to some Orphanage in the State during the year.
Prof. C. H. Moore, of Greensboro, State Supervisor
of Public Schools for the colored race, was one of our
welcome and most valuable visitors. Professor Moore is
exceedingly active and alive to every inte.rest, thoroughly
posted on every phase of the public school question; and
the real good he is accomplishing for the race is untold
and far beyond their imagination. He is well educated,
thoroughly affable and congenial, which qualities bring
him with ease and good effect in contact with the super­intendents
and Boards of Education in the respective
counties in the state; with this, together with his cogent
vim, he cannot fail to bring strength to the cause he re­presents.
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To the Board of Directors of the Colored Orphan Asylum:
We, the Committee of Audit for the Colored Orphan
Asylum, cheerfu lly testify to the correctness of Supt. H.
P. Cheatham's accounts, which we have carefully ex­amined
and audited every quarter of the past year.
T. C. HARRIS,
First Nat. Bank.
C. S. EASTON,
Nat. Bank of Gran.
The following friendly and interested persons sent
without solicitation the amount opposite their names,
including associations and conventions:
Woman's Home and Foreign Mission Convention of N. C._$ 40.00
Woman's North Bound Convention of N. C. ____________ 5.00
Baptist State Convention (Men) of N. C. __ __ _________ _
Babtist Sunday school Convention of N. C. ____________ 14.00
Baptist State Sunday school Convention of N. C., in Chapel 35.25
Holy Convocation visit to the Home _____ __________ ___ 5.00
Antioch Sunday school visit to the Home _______________ 6.00
Concert given in the Chapel (May) ___________________ 19.85
Halifax Sunday school Convent ion ___________________ __ 5.00
Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Convention (W. F.
Young.) __ ____________ __________________________ __ 6.00
Vance County S. S. Convention, by Mr . Wyche ____________ 3.00
Hardy Grove Baptist Church __________________________ 2.64
North Durham Baptist Church _______ ___ __ _____ ___ _____ 1.05
Second Baptist Church, Durham _____________ __ _________ 1.55
Baptist Sunday school, Chapel Hill ________ _____________ 1.75
Old Shiloh Association (Mr. J . H. Canady) _____________ 22.75
Woman's National Convention (Mr s. C. M. Cartr ight) ____ 2.75
Ministers' and Deacons' Union, Penn. Aye. Church ______ __ 2.00
Rey. H. Lyons ______________________________________ __ 5.00
"The Oaks" of Oxford _________________________________ 2.00
North Oxford Church and S. S. by Mrs. Alston ________ __ 3.00
Baptist Home Mission, Chapel Hill ______ ______________ _
M. E. Church, Chapel Hill ____________________________ _ _
Hon. B. N. Duke _____________________ ________ ___ _____ _
Hon. A. IV. Graham ___ _________________ ____ _________ _
Cedar Gr ove Association, G. Smith, Secretary ___ ___ ____ _ _
Rev. John EI:J.cknall, Garysburg, N. C. ________________ _
2.40
3.00
500.00
10.00
5.00
8.00
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,Woman's Union, Cofield (Mr. Turner Downing) _________ _ $ 4.28
Jonathan Creek Baptist ChUl'ch _______________________ _ 5.40
Mr. R. I. Cheatham, Norfolk, Va. (donation) ___________ _ 10.00
Neuse River Association _____________________ _________ _ 14.00
Hon. T. T. Hicks _____________________________________ _ 10.00
Hon. D. Y. Cooper ___________________________ ________ _ 10.00
Mr. C. S. Easton ____________________________________ _ 5.00
Old Eastern Association-Rev. T. S. Eavens, Treasurer __ 14.00
Peterson's Chapel Baptist Church (Rev. J. T. Law) ____ _ 1.35
Capt. J. M. B. Hunt, Townsville _______ ______ __________ _ 5.00
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, Durham (Mrs. Bue-lah
J. Barber) ___ __ _________ ____________________ _ 10.00
Presbyterian Church, Oxford, Rev. G. C. Shaw __________ _ 8.29
Olive Grove Baptist Church _____ ___________ ___________ _ 5.00
Chapel Baptist Church, Rev. Sharp, pastor ___________ _ 5.00
Northampton Sunday school Convention ______________ _ 5.00
Beulah Baptist Association ____ _______________ ________ _ 10.00
Zoar Baptist Church, Rev. J .S. Sills, pastor _____________ _ 10.00
Reedy Creek _________________________________________ _ 5.00
\Wake Association _____________ _____________ __________ _ 10.00
Baptist Church Sunday school, Seaboard _______ ______ __ _ 5.00
Sisters' Union of Oxford (in Chapel) __________ ________ _ 3.35
Mr. C. R. Emery ____________________________________ _ 2.00
Mr. M. J. Grant ______________________________________ _ 2.00
Mr. Bonney, Littleton _______________________________ _ 5.00
Mr. Stallings, Littleton _______________________ ________ _ 2.00
Mayor George C. Green _______________________________ _ 1.00
Collected by Rev. S. G. Newsome from individuals _______ _ 8.40
Sisters' Union, Miss Belle Garves, Manson _____________ _ 5.00
Deacons' and Ministers' Union, Granville Co. ___________ _ 5.00
$847.01
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Dec. 1,1916 to Dec. 1, 1917
To The Board Of Di"ecto1's, ColO1'ed 0 1-phan Asylum, Ox­fOTd,
N. C. :
GENTLEMEN: As we approach the end of the fiscal
year, in making up our summary of events and transac­tions
of the Institution for your information and consid­eration,
we can discern more clearly each year the ex­tensive
demands and vast importance of the work of
caring for and uplifting the unfortunate and helple.ss
class of children of our people in the State. In pro­portion
to these growing demands we acknowledge with
r eve.rence the unmistakable guidance of a Providential
Hand in all the struggles and operations of the work
and that a reaction is taking place on the part of the good
people of the State as to their duty to assist in the sup­port
of the Institution is very apparent and encouraging.
Another encouraging feature of the work: As the chil­dren
become of age and go out in life and take their places
in the State, in many cases their politeness, common­sense
and industry eem to commend them to many of
the communities, with the result that pleasant and fa­vorable
comments are sent to the Home as ple.dges to sup­port
and encourage the work in every way possible. In
many instances the accuracy of such statements has been
verified.
The people. are becoming more interested in the
Home and there is reason for their interest and sup­port.
The doors of this Orphanage are open to all the
churches and denominations of the race and the.y are
r epresented and cared for here.
The churche, Sunday schools, and associations of
eastern Carolina, including Wake and Person counties,
have given the Home this year most loyal and valuable
support.
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We were very much concerned in the beginning of
the present year about the war times and high cost of
living-in fact, high cost for everything we had to buy
-but I am glad to report that the Home has suffered for
nothing. To the contrary, the Orphanage has enjoyed
one of the most healthy and satisfactory years in its
history.
A large number of the older boys and girls (more
than fifty) became of age during the latter part of the
year and have been honorably discharged from the Home.
They are all doing well we hear. We have left on our roll
165 children, with new children coming in every week
or so to fill the places of those who have gone out.
The fact of the scarcity of, and high prices for, all
kinds of provisions caused us to turn our energies and
efforts to raise as nearly as possible everything in the
line of foodstuff. To this end our lands were well pre­pared
for a crop according to modern ideas of farming,
and the corn and pea crops were the best we have ever
grown up to the time laid by, and until the 40 days' re­markable
rain set in, which caused the corn to grow into
the most mammoth stalks and the peas to vInes. How­ever,
we harvested 100 barrels of good corn, and 105
stacks of nice forage; 900 bushels of sweet potatoes, and
200 bushels of white potatoes; and 100 bushels of wheat
together with the thresher.
The results of the trucking department of the farm
this year, were splendid and wonderful. Cabbage,
beans, collards, turnips, watermelons, beet s, peas, corn,
snaps, squash, onions, and many other vegetables-plen­tiful
for everyone in the Home, besides being the prin­ciple
support for 30 head of hogs-were furnished from
this department of the farm.
A special effort to furnish plenty of milk to the Home
was made. This was done to the great satisfaction of
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all, by fencing off all pasture land available on the farm,
and thereby kept fat five good milch cows.
Our stock of hogs was also enlarged and improved.
The peanut field was good, and from this we very nearly
fattened the killers before penning them. We have al­ready
killed 10 nice. hogs, leaving 12 more in the pens to
be killed later on. The Home prides itself on having
killed the largest hog in the county, which was given the
Home by Judge Graham.
We have sown a large crop of wheat and rye, which
is up and looking prosperous.
The flour and corn mills have been everything to the
Home this year. Our crop of corn being small last year,
we were left to a great extent dependent upon our mills
for bread tuffs.
We. have not had time to operate to advantage the
brickyard and saw mill this year as heretofore, on ac­count
of the extraordinary war times, which have driven
us with all of our thought and physical energies to the
plowshare to cope with and avert the high cost of living
as nearly as possible. But these two important branches
of the plant will soon become actively operative again,
as we shall be compelled soon to erect another brick
building for the boys. Also, I could not recommend to
you a more useful, urgent, and important addition to the
Institution than an entirely separate department for the
infirm of the Home. I would recommend that when a
dormitory is erected for boys, the building in which they
now reside be u ed for that purpose. This department
will supply a long-standing necessity.
This has been a year of many applications for en­trance
into the Home, especially as the. winter has ap­proached.
We are accepting at the present, however,
only the really needy, on account of the extraordinary
hard times now prevailing.
The Legislature of our State kindly increased the an-
COLORED ORPHAN ASYLUM 17
nual appropriation for the Home to $8,000.00, and also
gave the Home $5,000.0() extra appropriation with which
to payoff back indebtednesses incident to building, gen­eral
improvements, and maintenance. The white people
of our State cannot have too much credit and praise for
their sincere and heartfelt interest and sympathy in the
orphan children of the colored race, the good Oxford peo­ple
especially who best understand the needs of the Or­phanage,
for which, I am sure, our people everywhere
are grateful. We should .feel proud of such broad and
liberal Christian gentlemen as those at the head of our
State, Governor Bickett, Senator Geo. Holiness, of Tar­boro,
N. C.; Secretary of State J. Bryan Grimes; State
Treasurer B. R. Lacy; Representative. D. G. Brummitt,
of Oxford; Supt. R. L. Brown of the Oxford Orphanage,;
Dr. E. T. White, H. G. Cooper, W. H. Hunt, W. T. Yan­cey,
T. C. Harris, Judge A. W. Graham, of Oxford and
New York; Gen. B. S. Royster, of Oxford; Hon. B. N.
Duke, of Durham and New York; Hon. D. Y. Cooper and
Hon. T. T. Hicks, of Henderson; Capt. J. M. B. Hunt,
of Townsville; S. G. Vann, of Franklinton; C. S. Easton,
of Oxford, and a host of other great men in our grand old
Commonw.ealth, who are sincerely friendly and interest­ed
in this work and the general uplift of humanity.
The following is a list of friends who donated tel the
support of the Home during the year:
Special mention should be made of the timely and valuable
donation by Hon. B. N. Duke, of New York, of _____ $500,00
Union Baptist State Convention _______________________ 20,00
Beulah Association ______________________________ ___ __ 3.00
Cedar Grove Association, Bro. Geo. Smith ______________ 5.00
E ast Cedar Grove Association, Rev. J. H. Lyons ________ 6.00
East Cedar Grove Association, Rev. J. H. Lyons ________ 6.00
Middleland Association, Rev. Harvey Johnson __________ 10.00
Neuse River Association ______________________________ 26.00
Shiloh Association, at Manassas Baptist Church ________ 62.50
Shiloh Association, a.t Odell Baptist Church ____________ 22.00
Rey. J . H. Lyon, Oxford ---------------___________ _____ 5.00
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Wake Association, Bro. I. C. Jeffreys ________________ __ _
Wake County Sunday School Convention, I. C. Jefferys __
Sisters' Foreign Board, per Rev. J. P. Law ______ __ ___ _
Women's Convention, Mrs. Bettie Young _____________ _
Women's State Convention, Sister M. C. Ranson _____ _
Antioch Baptist Church, Miss Willie Howell _________ _
Antioch Baptist Church, Mrs. Julia Herndon _________ _
Belton Creek Baptist Church _________________________ _
Flat Creek Church, Rev. S. G. Newsome ________ ____ _
Mt. Moriah M. E. Church ____________________________ _
New Light Church, Rev. J. H. Lyons _________________ _
Pine Chapel Church, Rev. V. P. Harper _______________ _
Granville County Baptist Union _____________________ _
Sister Olivia. Alston, Weldon, N. C. ___ _________ _____ __ _
Mr. Bibby ______ _____________________________________ _
Mr. V. N. Bond, Print, N. C. ____________________ _____ _
Mr. J. H. Bullock __ _____________ ____ ______ ___ _______ _
Hon. D. Y. Cooper, Henderson, N. C. _________________ _
Mr. C. S. Easton, Oxford, N. C. __________ ___ __ __ ______ _
Mr. Fa.rmer, Goldsboro, N. C. ________________________ _
Hon. T. T. Hicks, Henderson, N. C. _________________ _
Capt. J . M. B. Hunt, Townsville, N. C. _______________ _
Mr. W. King, Rocky Mount, N. C. ___________ ___ ___ _
A. F. M. _____ _____ _________________________________ _
Superintendent Schlicter, Roanoke Rapids, N. C. ____ ___ _
Rev. S. G. Newsome, Agent ________________________ ~ __
Rev. S. G. Newsome, Agent __________________________ _
Rev. S. G. Newsome, Agent ___________________________ _
Rev. S. G. ewsome, Agent __________________________ _
Concert in Orphanage Chapel on Thanksgiving _________ _
Turner Downing Sisters' Union _____________________ _ _
Robt. Wyche, from Vance Co. S. S. Convention ______ ___ _
Hiss Belle Garves, Sisters' Convention, Middleburg _____ _
Sisters' Union, Rich Square, N. C. __ ___ __ _____ __ _______ _
Rev. John Blackna!l, Garysburg, . C. ____________ ____ __ _
$10.00
5.00
4.50
5.00
50.00
5.20
5.00
12.05
4.32
1.77
9.05
8.00
6.00
2.00
1.00
6.00
1.00
10.00
5.00
1.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
5.00
8.00
6.00
22.00
2.00
10.00
8.45
3.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
8.25
Total ________________________________ __________ $411.84
During the year these valuable and u able. articles
were sent to the Home by the following friend , for which
the Home is very grateful:
Mrs. J. L. White, Durham, one bbl. of clothing; Mrs. J. C.
Seagle, Lenoir, one quilt; Miss Annie Lassiter, Oxford, one quilt
and clothing; Mrs. Mary Combs, Ahoskie, two quilts; Mrs. Willie
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Ricks, Severn, two quilts and box of clothing; Baptist S. S. of
Ma,nson, 75 choice jars of fruit; Mrs. N. A. Cheek, Warrenton,
one quilt.
CONDENSED STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS BROM DECEMBER 1, 1916, TO
DECEMBER 1, 1917
State appropriation __________________________________ $8,000.00
Anniversary Day receipts ________________________ .:___ 142.00
Sale of brick _______________________________________ 406.23
Churches, Sunday Schools, Conventions, Associations, In-dividuals
and Agents ___________________________ _
Hire for children __________________________________ _
Saw mill __________________________________________ _
Grist mill _________________________________________ _
Masons ____________________________________________ _
Farm Products ____________________________________ _
411.84
201.32
20.16
525.18
50.00
' 200.00
$11,765.73
DISBURSEMENTS-DECEMBER 1, 1916, TO DECEMBER 1, 1917
Salaries and wages _________________________________ $3,481.25
Clothing and Bedding ______________________________ __ 2,025.15
Subsistence _ __ ___ ____ __ __ ___ _ ___ __ __ ______ _ __ _ ______ 60516.75
Wood and coal ______________________________________ 1,920.70
Repairs, etc. ________________________________________ 480.50
Office expenses ______________________________________ 250.20
Farm and outdoor expenses _______ ___ _______________ 940.00
Freight _________ __ '-_____________ ___________________ 179.25
Express, and R. R. fares for children to and from differ-ent
parts of the State ___________________________ 275.85
Electric lights ______________________________________ 169.00
Total __________________________ ___________ ___ $16,238.70
To the Board of Di1'ectors of the ColO1·ed 0 1'phan A sy­lum:
We., the Committee of Audit for the Colored Orphan
Asylum, cheerfully testify to the correctness of Supt. H.
P. Cheatham's accounts, which we have carefully ex­amined
and audited every quarter of the past year.
T. C. HARRIS,
First National Bank.
C. S. EASTON,
National Bank of Granville.
20 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
Our school is being taught by Misses Estelle Brink­ley
and Willie A. Howell. The children seem to be de­lighted
and are bending their energies to learn.
Thanksgiving day was a most joyful occasion with
the Horne, notwithstanding the high cost of living. The
children had profuse and bountiful tables of Thanks­giving
dinner. Money was sent for this purpose by Hon.
D. Y. Cooper and Hon. T. T. Hicks, of Henderson; Mr.
C. S. Easton, of Oxford; and Capt. J. M. B. Hunt, of
Townsville, and one. of the most interesting Thanksgiv­ing
concerts was given at night by the children, under the
management of their teachers, Miss E. C. Brinkley and
Miss Willie Howell.
That you, gentlemen of the Board, may know of the
magnitude of the trust and responsibility required at
your hands, in your efforts and desire to do the great
work which lies before you of saving the souls and
bodies of helpless humanity, I will say: Rarely, if ev­er,
does the Horne receive children of sufficient size or
training to be of any use at all to the Institution at first.
With a few exceptions, they corne into the Horne small,
sickly, and scrubby, entailing upon the Institution the
greatest expense and responsibility imaginable, and ev­en
now there is the largest number of babies and knee
babies ever received in the Home. But if you can bear
with patience and fortitude the cross of duty and respon­sibility,
and continue to rescue and save lives as you are
doing yearly, and train the minds and souls of this neg­lecte.
d and helpless class of humanity to the highest ideals
of Christian manhood, their lives will stand up some fu­ture
day against all odds of earth, and reflect upon your
heads the radiating light of joy and gladness, as a re­ward
for service, which will ring out: "Well done, good
and faithful Board of Directors!"
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The Home is blessed with these most excellent helpers
in the management of its affairs :
Miss Martha Wynn, matron of the girls' building.
Miss Margaret Pittard, matron of the boys building.
Mrs. Rhodie Ridley, matron of kitchen and dining
hall.
Messrs. Henry Kittrell and A. Pittard, assistants on
farm and grounds.
Mr. Dixon, miller and manager at the brickyard.
While it is exceedingly difficult to prevent diseased
children from entering the Home, we have been wonder­fully
fortunate in not having any epidemic or serious
sickness to attack the Home-and this is due largely to
the patient and faithful supervision of Dr. G. S. Wat­kins,
the physician in charge, who loses no opportunity
to advise us along the lines of health and sanitation.
The Home is also greatly indebted to the sympathetic
and kind-hearted Dr. Frank Fort, who so willingly gives
free of charge relief and joy in place of agony and crying
to the little. sufferers of tooth and jaw aches which are so
numerous among the children here.
Religious services Sunday mornings and prayer meet­ing
every Sunday and Wednesday evenings.
A standing invitation is extended to the ministers of
the different churches to preach to the Home an hour on
the Sabbath convenient to them.
22 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT
CoNDENSED STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS FROM DECEMBER 1, 1915, TO
DECEMBER 1, 1916
State appropria.tion _______ ____ ____ _____ __ ________ _ $ 6,000.00
Sale of brick _______ ____________ __________ ________ _
1,671.27
Anniversary Day _________________________________ _ 171.52
Hire of children _________________________________ _ 108.85
Saw mill ___________ _____ ______________ __ _____ ___ _ 226.15
Grist mill _______________________________________ _ 573.4.2
Flour mill ____________________________________ ___ _ 398.75
Grand Lodge of ~asons ____ ____________ __________ _ 350.00
Churches, S. S. Convention, Associations, individuals
and agents __________________________________ _ 848.01
$ 10,347.97
DISBURSEMENTS, DECEMBER 1, 1915, TO D ECEMBER 1, 1916
Salaries and wages ________________________________ $ 3,525.25
Clothing and bedding _______________ ___ ______ ______ 1,892.10
Subsistence ____ ____ ______________ _________________ 4,421.27
Wood and coal ___________ ______________ ___________ 1,812.13
Repairs ___________________________________________ 726.07
New buildings at brick yard and farmer's house ______ 565.75
Office expenses _________________________ ________ __ _ 161.75
Farm and outdoor expenses _______________________ _ 1,582.33
Frcight ____________ __________________________ ___ _ 225.31
Railroad fares for children ________________________ _ 172.15
Electric lights _____________ ______________________ _ 160.00
$ 14,243.11
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