Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-09-08

the Luther Medlin Club and has ask
ed his headquarters to give him an
assistant with special athletic inter-
ests and training for full time religi-
ous and recreational work at North
Henderson.
1t Hughes himself has a club OF
South Henderson boys from II to IL
to whom he gives two evenings
week and some afternoons. The large
room back of the Salvation Army
meeting hall at South Henderson
makes splendid quarters for boys
club with its necessarily bulk equip
ment.
In addition to the Medlin Club, the
Federation was instrumental in or
ganizing a club of North Henderson
girls from Is to 20 under Miss Eliza
beth Fox in 1885. This club has met
continuously since, and some OF the
men of some of the civic clubs of
the city have been so impressed with
the girls of this club that they have
asked to have a delegation present at
a regular meeting of this girls club.
The fine qualities that people note in
these girls may be attributed to their
parents first, to their churches, and
to three other influences that have
come into their lives, to teachers of
the North Henderson schools who
visit the homes of their children to
an unusual degree, to Mrs Alex
Cooper's influence, and then to that
of Miss Fox, who, by staying in the
background, is developing great deal
of initiative and mature character
Began In 1885
In 1885 Mrs. Harry Chavasse organ
lied a club for girls at South Hender-
son, and last winter this club for
weeks worked in dramatics under
Mrs. Chavasse and Mr.. CODY Williams
of South Henderson. Within the past
year two other clubs have been organ
lied at North Henderson, both drama
tic clubs of boys and girls together,
are under Mrs. Payne and Mrs Henry
Perry and the other under Mrs. Mary
Crawford and Miss Josephine Thurs
ton, of the North Henderson school.
Sports for Business Men
g. Field sports for young business
men and for boys and young men of
high and junior high school age who
live within the corporate limits Of
Henderson. A valuable contribution
has been made to the recreation pro-
gram by the organization of nine soft
ball teams among the coming leaders
of this community. Any community
could well be proud that such men by
participation are becoming more and
more recreationally minded.
To Hnbnrt T owIS u,b0po tho
ration asked the city to contribute
under WPA this summer to the Lions
Club which has given him every pos
Sible aid, and to the director of WPA
belong the credit for this project.
The weakest spot in the 1887 pro-
gram is the failure to provide recrea-
ton attractive to the boys of high and
junior high school age living Within
the town limits. In June and before,
Mr.. Lewis made every effort to in
terest these boys in soft ball on the
junior high school grounds. It became
evident early in the summer that the
boys of Henderson do not want soft
ball nor do they want their summer
recreation, many of them have said,
On school grounds. Some readiust-
ment of plans to meet this attitude
might have made this recreation for
the boys as successful as any other
phase of the program
At Mill Communities
T. Field sports for the older bows
and young men at North and South
Henderson. Under the leadership of
Mrs. Chavasse a number of years ago.
Mr. VIII Perry became coach without
;harge of an older boys hard ball
cam at South Henderson; and later
Mr.. Rufus Strange did likewise at
North Henderson. In the dark davs
OF the depression these teams almost
went out of existence because of lack
ot funds for equipment. In the spring
OF 1873 the Federation asked each
civic club in Henderson and the Ame-
rlcan Legion to take a recreation pro-
ject.
The American Legion took the bovs
OF North Henderson, put one of it's
members, Rev. Mr.. Crawford, in charge
and authorized him to spend not more
than $50 for his ball teams. The XII
wants Club took South Henderson
and gave $50 for equipment. The
klwanis club put E. o. Falkner and
VIII Perry in charge of their project
Tor older boys ball teams. The paraly-
sis epidemic held up the work that
other civic clubs had undertaken.
Provisions for Financing
Last year the federation asked all
OF the organizations for money to go
into a general funds rather than to
undertake. propects severally, and
from the general fund Mrs. Chavasse
was given $57 worth of equipment for
the North and South Henderson