The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-02
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idi1o ina runs dioitG iC
between the two counties. giving TO
HoEe county Led Springs and an eX-
tension Of rural cuntry from McNattS
station 70 Floral College. the strip
reaching practically across the lower
end OF Hoke county. This narrow
strip has been an a9itated land since
Hoke county was formed, and for that
matter before. for before Hoke was
treated an ambition TO form North
Robson county had been very active.
Much diplomacy ana considerable
flank work and struggling III the
trenches were necessary before the
peaceful separation OF Hoke was
finally and as in all other
human affairs there was an aftermath.
Red Springs is only a dozen miles
from s.aeford. ana Is twice hat far
from Lumberton. the capital OF Robe
son, and "A lot of Fec Springs folks
wanted to 60 with Hoke when the new
county was formed. But Robson OPP
posed the new county SO vigorously
tina il could only be set off by taking
a limited territory. The Hoke advo-
Gates took what was in sight and con-
cluded to get more when they could.
Ped Springs agreed TO stay il Robe
son as they apparently could not get
out, and to make another effort later.
The members Of the Legislature from
the territory embraced by Hoke con-
SeIteu TO take WHAT llcN Coulu Get;
ana SO the county was made.
were shaken over the boundary, the
heavens smiled. and Robson gave
HolSe a blessing and they parted.
But when the McMillans and the
McCallums ana the McLeods and the
rest OF them from Red Springs go over
10 Raeford and forgeather with the
McLaughlins an dthe Mclyers and
the McNeills. and then go Jack home
and figure that they areo + the same
family but live in different houses a
inconsistencies manifests itself, and
something that looks like "Clanna nan
Gaidhael ri Guillibh q chiele," and
means something like sticking togeth-
er, and then the RED Springs Scotch
want TO get into the Scotch county Of
Hoke.
7 like to get down and mix up with
these old Scotch folks, for I was a boy
in q Scotch Presbyterian commun-
ity IL Pennsylvania, and when l get
among q new bunch of them there is
a continual sense of being at home,
and a feeling that presently up the
street may come old Roderick Melon
aid, or Archie Mccullough, or Scott
Mcclellan, or some Of the others EhO
nave long ago left for the unknown
country. AS / recall in our early days
among our old Scots if those persistent
fellows wanted anything they gener-
dliH Ncll dlttt IL ditu IL lAlCS u X
go more han one they went, but they
usually got it before they quit.
So I reckon Red Springs will ar.
rive at the Hoke county door one o.
these days and knock and say. 1--WE
have come with the family and the
cattle and the rest of the things an(
W have come 10 stay"
But his is merely an incident il
the shifting political geography Of tn
State. Back OF it is the story AM
the lesson. Red Springs is a nev
town. 1t is q modern characterization
Of the determination of the Scot t
hang to his traditions and the school
Before the Queens Museum had beef
chartered in Charlotte just previous t
the revolution. Rev. David Caldwell
the young Presbyterian coming dow
from Princeton, had opened in Gull
ford county in 1867, his school, which
served as academy. college. theological
seminary, and better, as the founda
ton on which to build 8 growing sys
tenn OF education in the State, and t
start a remarkable number of youn
men on the o to useful live i
the various professions and callingS.
Beginnings of the College.
Some eighteen years ago the Pres
byterians of the Cape Fear countr
arrived at the place where the
thought they could a PreSby
terrain college for young women. an
with ali OF that confidence in thei
powers to get what they want they Sc
lected Red Springs as the site Of tn
institution they planned. and the
commenced work. One of the thing
hat compel the admiration of thes
people is the satisfied way in whic
they undertake their work, and e
ahead with What they have to cary
out what they have set as the obje,
tive.
Red Springs College commence
with a little wooden building and
few thousand dollars. The main thir
is tina 1t commenced. 1t had n
progressed very far until it found D
charles G.. Vardell, a Davidson ma
and Princetonian, and it was a hapI
find, for DR.. Vardell came to Re-
Springs with q clear vision. and IL
proper amount Of backbone to tai
hold of q job that to the average ms
would have appeared about as invitil
,a that OF old Sisyphus who strugEl.