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*****MH, AM) MRS. JOi; ll\INI S pobc With Uuir cuk* at the ltttiHparty honoring thitr 60th wedding ammti^ary.WorkSaysBestixty years of marriage has proved a couple of things to .Mr, and Mrs, Joe Haines of Mt. Pleasant.Mr. Haines, wiio was 87 last July 3. sjKke emphatically: Bovs nowadavs don't have to9rwork hard enough If I had a4k*boy I’d farm him out to• • xb-body like Bowman Barrier every summer.Farming is a good background That's what s w rungwith tIk* world today — not enough people have solid foundations of good hard work '*Mr. Haines should know He was a farmer, man and boy, for nearly 50 yearsluast Sunday the Mt. Pleasant community honored Mi and Mrs Haines on their 60th wedding anniversary.Tin' Haines couple, both outspoken individualist*, don a couple of pointseed•he was five years old Shesaid her father paid a dollar a month m school fees.She later attended FinkS» hool and Mont Amoena Sein-in a i v.lint Mrs. Ifainrs said a great deal id her formal edu-« .ition came alter she was mar i »ed.Three years after they were married Mr.. Haines took his young bride off the farm and moved to Sunderland Hall School in Concord where he was caretaker for the m xt nineyears.* I hat was a wonderful experience for me.** said Mrs. Haines. 1 was still a young woman and I participated in a lot of the aetivdies at theSchoolH aight I atm“People were just heller people in tin old da's, Mr.Haines eontrodi d. I he vdidn't steal from and cheat each other as much as theydo toda'.itBut Mrs, Haines isn’t si% 11that this is tr ie “I don’t r* llv think people change much, .shesa id.Parents To BlamefiOh# we ve got Mhov iuvrnlhhesill 1X1 it*on thedelinquency now, ted. But I hi a me it mammas and pappus, 'i es sir, and it’s always been like that —• you can look at the mammas and pappus and tdl what the children will lw like.For many years Mrs. Haines was a familiar figure aroundCabarrus county where she sold farm produce of every description — fioin butter andiggs to turkeys and chickens. Mrs. Haines recalled that shestarted to school at South Boston School m Mt. Pleasant whenAH«t having the xi! Mr.Haines bom ht an interest in a farm near Cochran’s (»m andlaved tlintil thev iiKivi dback to Mt. Pleasant in 1924.Mr Haines iaon of: * f ill*-lit 9 \lt;1 I i IV J Han*the\\ hoSiiicinthn Mt. Pleasant art*a ?a miliar buggy duringand folha aVIthe lt;tv it V*tin* foda rvBelle i itlv will tx* .!* on 1 e-11*inih'She was horn am! raised arrow the road from where Tusearora Mill now standsand she remembers when the only thing on that end oftowns except their house wasBerry Lent's Tan t ard.Yes. and J can remember when Lawson Heilig's Phetonwas Hu* first car in town My daddy had the second Pli ictonhere,” she said.Her father, Jacob Kudy, car-Continued On Page 10Ikannapolis, N. C.
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Sun, Oct 30, 1960
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