The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02
THE STORY OF RED SPRINGS
Thriving Robson Town Is Modern Characterization OF
The Determination of The Scot To Hang 10 HIS ira
ditions and the School.

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years ago.
But the development of the college
these Presbyterians ave created IS not
my story. That has already been told,
and we have all admired the fine per
sistence and confidence that has &C
complished this work. The thing that
commands my attention is the plan that
his country college at Red Springs
has laid out for its work for the fu-
ture. And nov. like the orchestra
when it comes TO the words al seq
in the music. We will so back and
start again.
This college for women is quite the
life and motive of Red Springs, and
in making q move TO unite the Rec
Springs territory with the young coun-
ty Of Hoke it is not only the desire
of the Scotch community of upper
Robson to be made a part of the
more extensive Scotch community on
the other side of the present county
line, but is the eagernesS Of a vigor-
Gus, progressive movement to be al
lied with other vigorous progress.
Turpcntine yields to Cotton.
Fifteen or twenty years G Red
Springs was t. he tr,Uantine belt
and the proc 4c.ion of naval stores
seemed the chief purpose of life. AS
the pine tree failed the cotton tree
began to demand recognition. From
buying a few bales Of cotton a yea
Red Springs now buys ten to twelve
thousand bales a year, and fine pro-
Justice farms stretch away
the turpentine camps were but
q short time ago Hand
some homes have been created where
the stills were. Cotton gins have sup
planted tar kilns. Clean streets, good
country roads, well stocked stores,
an oil mill, prosperous banks and
business houses Of all sorts are in
Red Springs. This section has been
pushing ahead as fast as any other
part of the counties just to the north
west and the Red Springs folks w
the same restless atmosphere which
prompts to be doing something.
That UBIQUITOUS institution. the
~Sandhills Board of Trade, which is the
next neighbOr of Red Springs school
on the northwest likes to annex to it.
self all good things that nav in them
selves the elements of progress. So
the editor Of the Sandhills Citizen has
been laying some stress on the propo-
fsition that the Presbyterian College
is n Of the adjuncts of the sunshine
belt: and it looks as if there would
be an alliance present, not only of
the college town with Hoke county,
but with the whole territory that the
college has been established to repre-
sent, for Orange Presbytery is one Of
the sponsors of the Red Springs
school. Orange P%resbytery, on the
map, includes the region next above
the Fayetteville Presbytery. That is
it includes the Presbyterians Of that
territory. The Sandhills Board OF
Trade knows no distinction of re-
ligions or anything else. All people
are part Of it's bailiwick if they live
within it's limits. So the Reverend
nOnfnr L>0co &c 49, NE~4Lo H.: =.
pal Church writes to the Reverend
Doctor Vardell Of the Presbyterian
College, that your school is ours, and
l there o are.
} Wider Field for College.
In the enthusiasm and eagerneSs tt
make an attractive proposition to pre-.
: sent to the possible newcomers tn
Board Of Trade sees just one thing
l and that is that just across the lin,
: is a college for women and that it i.
: a college which is making a name 70!
itself along some new ines. A goO(
college FOR women in q good climat,
in a healthful location. which is do
ing good work, is a valuable asset. S,
a welcome is given to Red SPRING
over a wider field than simply Hok'
y county. Red Springs will be intro
y duced to the visitors from the Nortl
and New England. who will be show
d that they can bring their girls t,
r North Carolina and put them in schoo
cheaper than they can leave the girl
e at home. and that the school will
y be one in which they can feel a con
slant confidence n pride, and t
which they a 30 in an hours jour
h ney over three or four Of the bes
o roads in the State, picking the rout
with each different journey.
= The college at Red Springs is start
ing out on two lines thai are inter
d esting and c~ommendable. One Of thes
a is training the country girl to be
e Geve in the country girl and to hel
make the country girl a girl fitted 70
r. her country career and one who ca
n, help herself and the country by he
y training. Life in North Carolina
ID practically country life. Only or
he out Of seven people of North Carolin
Re lives in a place as big as the town
n $500 people. The other six live j
Is the country or in smaller village
ID Half a dozen not very big cities cor