North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . Springs, the Episcopalians at Charlotte,the Methodists of Eastern Carolina at Raleigh, the Odd Fellows at Goldsboro,and others still which I do not recall. Finally our conference felt that some-thing should be done for the poor children of our church and the conferencein 1904 elected an Orphanage Commission to confer with representativesfrom the North Carolina Conference as to the practicability of securing ahalf interest in the Methodist Orphanage at Raleigh. Upon examination ourEastern brethren thought that some legal complications as to titles mi
North Carolina Christian advocate [serial] . Springs, the Episcopalians at Charlotte,the Methodists of Eastern Carolina at Raleigh, the Odd Fellows at Goldsboro,and others still which I do not recall. Finally our conference felt that some-thing should be done for the poor children of our church and the conferencein 1904 elected an Orphanage Commission to confer with representativesfrom the North Carolina Conference as to the practicability of securing ahalf interest in the Methodist Orphanage at Raleigh. Upon examination ourEastern brethren thought that some legal complications as to titles mightarise if a union was effected and then all efforts looking to joint ownershipwere abandoned. But at the Salisbury conference in 1907 definite action wastaken looking to the establishment of the Childrens Home. Trustees wereelected, a charter was approved and authority given to secure a locationfor the institution. The, trustees chosen were Dr. G. H. Detwiler, FrankSiler, Harold Turner, N. R. Richardson, S. L. Rogers, G. L. Hackney, J. WILL YOU HELP OPEN THE DOOR FOR THE CHILD? Nelson, G. F. Ivey, S. B. Tanner, C. H. Ireland, J. K. Norfleet and J. A. Tanner soon resigned and Walter Thompson was elected in his stead. When Rev. Frank Siler transferred from our Conference Dr. T. F. Marrwas chosen to succeed him and the board now consists of the original mem-bers with the exception of these two changes. * * * * When the time came to select a location for the Home various townswere anxious for it an(J liberal offers were carefully considered, but theBoard finally accepted the offer of 165 acres of land in the suburbs of Winston. This land was valued at $ peracre. There were no buildings onthe ground but the old Davis Schoolproperty joined it and was so situat-ed as to make it almost a necessityfor us to secure it too. On thisDavis property were five buildingsformerly used as homes for theteachers in that school. The trus-tees seized the opportunity of buyingthi
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