North Carolina Camp-Meeting
By M. H. Brown
THE annual camp-meeting and conference for North Carolina will be held at Gastonia, instead of High Point, Aug. 15-25, 1912. This will accommodate our people in the western part of the State better than High Point. High Point was first chosen because no good location farther west had been found. Gastonia is in a new field, where many books have been sold, but no meetings held, by our people. It is a prosperous town, which, with its suburbs, contains 8,000 or 10,000 inhabitants, and is the metropolis of Gaston County. A full committee, in counsel with the president and the field agent of the union conference, were unanimous in the final decision to have the meeting at Gastonia. It is located on the main line of the Southern Railway, twenty-two miles west of Charlotte, and on the Carolina and Northwestern Railroad, about forty miles south of Hickory. Thus it is convenient of access from nearly all parts of the State.22Those from Asheville and farther west should ticket to Gastonia via Spartanburg, S. C. Those who go from Watauga County by railroad should go via Hickory over the Carolina and Northwestern, also all who live in the vicinity of Hickory. All who live in the east should go via Charlotte. Those who go over the Southern will go through to Gastonia without change, while those who go over the Seaboard Air Line will have to change at Charlotte, taking either the Southern or the interurban electric to Gastonia. The latter runs hourly; fare, fifty-five cents, the same as on the Southern. The camp-ground is well known as the soldiers' camp, and is less than half a mile from the union depot of the Southern, and the Carolina and Northwestern, and about the same distance from the interurban electric. Trains from the east and from the north arrive in Gastonia both forenoon and afternoon. The camp is nicely shaded, and very conveniently located for our own people and for the people of the city and its suburbs. There will be a dining-tent on the ground, and good accommodation for teams. Those desiring rooms should let us know, and we shall endeavor to secure them. Tents should be ordered at once. Address the writer. The first meeting of the conference will be held at 10 A. M., Friday, August 16. We urge all to be on time, and to remain till the close of the meeting.