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September 23, 1921 •f MAROON AND GOLD Five WELCOME STUDENTS Call at our store and let us quote you latest prices on SHOES How aheut fine quality bed spreads at lowest prices TOILET ARTICLES A SPECIALTY WITH US W. V. Huffines 8c Bros. When In 'Burlington Make Our Store Your Headquarters Our Prescription DepdThnent is Unexcelled The City Dru^ Company “On the Square^’ FALL SHOES This fall is a season of high er shoes and lower prices. Our quality doesn’t drop—we hold fast to that. These fall mod els are in the newest last and shapes of the newest season Mens at IS-OO, $8.00, .$10.00. Ladies $4.00, $6.00, $7.00, $8.00. A free shoe shine with every -$2.00 piu'chase of shoes. Mebane Shoe Company Phone 114 Burlington, N. C. WELCOME, ELON STUDENTS We invite you to use our bank while in Elan. Money in your room is not safe. Deposit it with us and pay by check. ELON BANKING & TRUST COMPANY I will be your friend if you will let ire Call around. COLLEGE BARBER SHOP G. A. Pearce 31 EAST DORMITORY Keep Smiling WE BEG TO announce THAI BEGINNING MONDAY, SEPT. 19th, HIGH CLASS VAUDE VILLE WILL BE SHOWN AT THIS THEATRE. VICTORY BURLINGTON, N. C. Always A Good Show Often A Supet*oSpeciat -THE- Cri^stal theatre The Temple of Moving Pictures Quality ■ First • Last • Always Wm. C. Mclntire, Prop’r Buriington ELON-COLLEGE PHARMACY | ‘Prescription ‘Druggists EVERYTHING IN DRUGS | CIGARS AND SODAS | TELEFHONE6812 >; WE SPECIALIZE IN S-H-O-E-S FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS MONTGOMERY-JOHNSTON CO. BURLINGTON, N. C. (NE-4R POST OPnCE) WE DO YOUR LAUNDRY WORK Now Let Us Do Your Cleaning and Sponging and Pressing 50© Cleaning and Pressing 7oc Dry Cleaning and Pressing $1.00 ALAMANCD LAUNDRY BURLINGTON, N. C. THE DOCTOR SAYS: EAT MORE FRUIT. IT IS BETTER THAN MEDI CINE. IT CONTAINS MORE NUTRI TION THAN MEAT. You will find a choice lot of Foreign and Domestic Fruits AT Royal FruitCompany Corner Front and Worth Streeta BURLINGTON, N. C. STUDENTS You Need A Typewriter We have them—both new and used. A slightly used Fox Port able, Corona, L. C. Smith and Oli ver are in our stock. Come in and look them over. We also have Students Nott Books, Ring Binders, Pens, Inks Pencils. Get an Autopoint and £ Buddy—they go hand in hand. Adjusto-Lite lamps everywhere. CAROLINA OFFICE SUPPLY CO. (Opposite Burlington Printing Co.) Burlington, N. C. WE SELL FOR LESS A?id Dry Clean the Best LAMM THE TAILOR BURLINGTON, N. C. (By E. S. Rainey—Special Correspondent) The $30,000 baby building which was begun a little over a year ago at the Elon Christian Orphanage has now been completed, and twenty-five youngsters between the ages of two and eight years have moved in during the last three w^eeks. It is a handsome brick structure two stories high with a basement, com plete and modern in every detail. There are twenty rooms besides the baseme-nt. Four large rooms arc fitted up for th«» little innocents to sleep in. The others are used as school rooms and living rooms for the matrons. Realizing that the little ones neea milk and that in abundance, Superinten dent Johnston has had an up-to-date dairy barn constructed. When every thing is installed, the cows can be handled to the best advantage and the cicanest and pure«t kind of milk will be produced. There are in all seventy-five children being cared for at the Orphanage. Mri. S. V. Holt has charge of the new build iiig for the babies and Mrs. Lula With erspoon looks after the main building. The Superintendent is Mr. Chas. B. Johnston. When students visit the Or phaiia^ye, as they frequently do, they are j always politely and cordially received : by these three. Most people look upon the ordinary college student as a species of wild aniraal to be tolerated if poss ible. But not so with Mr. Johnston. His kindly eyes and cordial smile always spell welcome to visitors from amon^ the students. The Orphanage farm comprises one hundred and eighty acres of land. Nine ty acres is cultivated and the other is in timber. Mr. Dennis Churchill, a young man raised up at the Orphanage, is manager of the farm. Last ye-ar the fanii produced 5100 pounds of pork, 350 bushels of sweet potatoes, 125 bushels of Jrish potatoes, 255 bushels of wheat, and 100 barrels of corn. Being in the heart of the dry belt, this year’s crop of potatoes and vegetables has been al most a failure. During a good season enough food stuff, with the probably exception of wlieat, can be raised to feed the seventy-five childien and the omployees of the institution. The children of the institution, who are large enough, do all of their own work. The girls do cooking, sewing, mending and laundering; while the boys look after the dairy and the farm, and in this way, practically no hired help is neede*d. The first five grades go to school at the Orphanage and* the grades above these go to the Elon High School. After they finish the high school, they are al lowed' to attend the college where tu ition is free on account of the fact that both the Orphanage and the College are jf the Christian denomination. At pres ent there are two students in the colle-ge from the Orphanage. One is a Junior and the other is a Freshman. Several boys and girls in past years have taken advantage of the opportunity and have attended the college. Those who have become of age and left the Orphanage have been successful in many fields of work from trainea nursing to newspaper work. One nota- V)le success is Tom Walton, who has a game leg. Many former students of Elon remember him well. He learned shoe-mending while at the Orphanage, and later opened a shop in town. After doing a successful business here for a few years, he moved to Greensboro, N. C., where he now has one of the largest shoe shops in that city. The singing class is one of the best in any similar institution of the State. The class travels over the country a good deal giving concerts. Last year they took in over $1500. The boys take a great deal of interest in athletics and in the Boy Scouts. Many of them are members of the local Scout troop and some of them have been successful in securing varsity positions on the col lege teams. Andrews was one of the college baseball pitchers last year. Mr. Johnston, th© Superintendent, is a most interesting and likeable man. He is big and handsome and just in the prime of life. He seems to have the whole of his kind heart in his work. He has been in charge for five* years, and he has accomplished great things since he came there. But through mod esty he attributes his success to others. “People have been very loyal to me^', he said in conversation with the Maroon and Gold correspondent, ‘‘Since I have been in charge, we have paid off a large indebtedness, built the ne-w home, in* stalled the dairy and are now out of debt. This has been brought about by the loyalty of the churches, Sunday schools, and friends of the Orphanage children.' ’ ‘‘Do you like the work?”, he was aske-d. “It is wonderful to think of the good that is being done”, he replied, “but the work has its disappointments as well as its joys.” He might have said that the work liad its romances as well as its worries, for only recently was Mr. Johnston morried to Miss Effie Wicher, who has seen seven years of service as one of the matrons of the Orphanage. “Do you ever get tired of so many students coming over and . asking so many questions'?” “Certainly not. We are always glad to have visitors. It encourages us and makes us feel that people are interested in what we do.” Students who desire to see some of the results of the pennies, nickels and maybe dimes that they dropped in the old contribution box back at home, by simply taking five minutes walk from college, may see what a wonderful thing they did in helping to provide a home for the homele-ss. A TEMPTATION (Reprinted from last year’s Maroon and Gold by request.) It was evening time and the lake of blue Was' gold in the western glow, And the birds sang softly their evening lay Like the birds that we used to know. As the sun went down in the far off west. The gold to a purple turned; And I thought of the golden dreams oi youth When the fire of love had burned. I could see, as I sat by the lake so still, Her hair, and her eyes with their gleam, And my soul grew sick in that hour of peace, For I felt ’twas more than a dream. I could feel the touch of her soft red lips, And I knew she had played the flirt; I knew that my heart had been won and scorned, And, God, how the vision hurtl I leaned far out o’er the purple lake, And the tempter laughed with glee, For he thought he had lured my soul to death, But the sleep was not for me; So I rose from my place by the shadowy lake. And turned on my heel with a curse, For it’s hell to go on, on the long, long trail, When your heart has ridd’n in the hearse. —Sion M. Lynam. 1921 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE Oct. 1—Le-noir at Elon. Oct. 8—Lynchburg College at Lynch burg. Oct. 15—Wofford at Spartanburg. Oct. 22—Randolph-Macon at Elon. Oct. 29—Trinity at Durham. Nov. 5—Hampden-Sidney at Hampden Sidney. Nov. 11-12—Open. Nov, 18—Davidson at Davidson. Nov. 24—Guilford at Elon, All home games called at 3 P. M. Every cent of profit from The College Store goes for athletics.
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