Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-03-10
eAsIoNIA MoosEHEART

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prints the following which is of more
than ordinary interest locally as well
as generally:
Linwood College in CASTOR county
seven miles from Gastonia, may be-
come the site of Il great home for wild
owed mothers and orphans Of the
Moose order, if plans set in motion by
local Moose arc carried out. Moose
heart is the general name for all these
Moose Orphanage homes.
At ~ meeting of the local lodge OF
the Loyal Order OF Moose Monday
night, following n splendid talk made
by one of it's faithful members and
sponsors, Major A. L. Bulwinkle, con-
gressman from the Ninth district, who
said that during his entire stay in
Washington he had daily come in con-
tact and association with many Off
GERS and members Of this growing
fraternal order who, without excep-
ton, were enthusiastic in the perma-
nent establishment of q large Moose
heart Home and Orphanage in the
Carolnas." it developed that there are
now $4,000 members of the Moose
who maintain q home at Elgin, Illinois,
known and beloved as Mooseheart. In
this home there are today 1892 chill
dren and II widowed mothers, children
and wives of deceased Moose members.
The cost of keeping a child at Moose
heart is $4,000 n year, S2.5O.OO OF
which is for the Mooseheart school
system alone. The first two teachers
in a new vocational school Of cement
and ornamental concrete to be estab
lished in Chicago will.be graduates of
Mooseheart. The childen are not only
given every educational and recreation
ad advantage enjoyed by all the child
rem of America but in addition every
child entering the institution is given
thorough vocational training and re-
turned to the public a highly trained,
independent disappearing expert in
trade and the professions. The moth
ers may live and be responsible for
the home training of their children
throughout their entire course and in
addition take advantage of any voc1-
tional training they desire. Mother
and child are never separated. 1t was
unanimously decided that Linwood
would offer the most adaptable site, in
the entire state for such home as
this, and a movement which this
in view should be inaugurated at once.
After an earnest appeal by Mr.. j. NJ.
Hoyle. that campaign of publicity
be started at once the members voted
unanimously to appoint Major Bull
winkle as their Washington and Nat
ional representative to forward the
movement among the members of the
national and other state organizations,
and Rev. c. r. Gillespie to wage an
active campaign in CASTOR county and
with North Carolina local lodges.
Beautiful LinwoOd, with its uneXcelled
climate conditions. convenient loca-
ton, the fame of it's waters and their
immense value as curative properties,
its close proximity to the towering
and beautiful scene peaks of Crow
der's mountain and with the melodious
and distinctly sweet echoes of child
ish voices Of happiness from the
bygonc days. chronicled in dim dusty
pages of Castor history. offers the
ideal spot in all the Carolnas for the
Mooscheart homo for children and
herein lies another golden opportunity
to come into our own by saving this
historic spot.
What will we do with this OprOr-
tunity? The Moose members will
gladly do their best. the campaign
managers will leave no stone unturned
to enlist the aid Of national and state
influences. What do the people Of
Gastonia and CASTOR county desire for
beautiful Binwood?
The Gazette will anXiOusly await
the local verdict. Let us hear from
the public spirit of Castor men and
women