Roanoke Rapids herald., 1924-01-18
'EPIScOPALIANS TO
GET KANUCA LAKE
Decision To Purchase The Pro-
perty For Assembly Grounds
Announced


Unanimous approval of the
proposal to purchase Kanuga
Lake, near Hendersonville, as
the most appropriate site under
the conditions offered" as a
summer assembly around for
Episcopalians of the Seven Dio-
ceses was given by the special
committee appointed from three
of these states at a meeting last
night, following visit to the
grounds during the day and a
Chamber of Commerce dinner
at Hendersonville earlier in the
evening.
This committee, consisting of
a Bishop, a rector and a layrnan
from each of the seven dioceses
in North and South Carolina and
Georgia named at a meeting of
the Fourth Province of the
Episcopal Church held in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, in October de-
dided to heartily recommend to
their respective dioceses the
purchase of Kanuga Lake and
invite the five dioceses in Vir-
ginia and Florida to join in the
purchase.
The property. at Kanuga in
cludes a 1,ooo re tract, hotel
containing 1N rooms and 40
cottages, giving a total of 302
available rooms, 70 acre lake
with boating and bathing
facilities an auditorium in the
pavilion on the lake with a
capacity of 1000, gravity water
system, with hot and cold water,
telephone and electric lights in
every room, drives through the
property and an excellent nine
hole golf course (under 100
year-lease.)
The Hendersonville Finance
Company, owner of the proper
ty, has offered it for an assem-
bly, ground for S165, 900, althoug
real estate men say it has been
appraised on replacement value
from $350,000 to S45O,0OO. The
Hendersonville Chamber of
Commerce and representative
citizens this evening volunteed-
ed a fund considered sufficient
to cover expenses of prelimi-
nary campaign for funds to pur
chase the property.
Bishop Kirkman G. Finlay, af
the Upper South Carolina dio-
ceses, as named chairman of
the campaign committee to
raise the fund. His associates
are Bishop Edwin A. Penick,
Charotte. Bishop Junius M. Hor-
her, Asheville; Rev. Samuel B.
Stroup, Hickory; Rev. Frank A.
Julian, Greenville, S. c.; Francis
0. Clarkson, Charlotte, and
Charles B. Scovil, Concord.
All of the members of the
general committee, making an
investigation of dozen sites in
Western North Carolina, Were
present, with the exception of
of the Georgia members and one
or two others. w. H. K. Pendle-
ton, Spartangurg, S. C. repre-
sented Rev. F. A. Julian, and
Rev. Alexander Miller, fo Will
mlngton represented Bishop
Darst Harold V. Smedburg, of
Brevard was absent. Rev Willis
G. Clark, Asheville, and Rev. A.
w. Farnam, Hendersonville, met
with the committee.
Colonel Joseph Hyde Pratt,
director of Western North Caro-
lima, Inc, has visited sites in
half a dozen counties in this
section with the committee, and
following the decision to recon-
mend the Kanuga Lake site
stated that he will lend all possi-
BILE aid in the campaign and pur-
chase of the property.
Plans of the Episcopalians,
who have been meeting at
Christ's School two or three
summers, are to develop sum-
mer assembly ground on the or
der of Lake Junaluska for the
Methodist, Montreal for hte
Presbyterians, Ridgecrest for
the Baptist, Bonclarken for the