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MK AM) MBS. JOE II IIM S pose with their cake at the recent party honoring their 601 h wedding anniversary.Joe Haines Says Farm Work BestS~ ixty yean of marriagehas proved a couple of things to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Haines of Mt. Pleasant.\lr. Haines, who was 87 last July 3. spoke emphatically: “Boys nowadays don’t have to work hard enough, If I had a boy I'd farm him out to some* body like Bowman Barrier every summer.“Farming is a good back* ground That's what's wrong with the 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 56 yearsI^ast Sunday the Mt Pleasant community honored Mr and Mrs Haines on their 60th wedding anniversary.The Haines couple, both outspoken individualists, disagreed on a couple of points“People were just better people in tt;lt; old days. Mr. Ilaines contended. “T h r v didn't steal from and cheat each other as mtielt as they do today.**But Mrs, Haines isn’t so sure that this is true “I don't really think people change much, she •aid.Parents To Blame“Oh, we've got some juvenile delinquency now. she admitted “But I blame it on the mammas and pappas. Yes sir, and it’s always been like that — you can look at the mammas and pappas and tell what the children will be like 'For many years Mrs Haines was a familiar figure around Cabarrus county where s h e sold farm produce of every description — from butter and eggs to turkeys ami chickens.Mrs. Haines rec alled that she started to school at South Boston School in Mt. Pleasant whenshe was five years old She said her father paid a dollar a month in school fees.She later attended Fink School and Mont Amocna Seminary.But Mr*. II.tine* said a great deal o( her formal education came alter she was mart ird.Three years after they were married Mr.. Haines took h i s young bride off the farm and moved to Sunderland II a 1 1 School in Concord where he was caretaker for the next nine years.“That was a wonderful experience for me,” said M r s. Haines “1 was still a young woman and I participated in a lot of ti,c activities at the m hooi '*B ought I aimAfter having the school Mr. Haines bought an interest in a farm near Cochran’s (»in and stayed there until they moved hack to Mt Pleasant in 1924.Mr Haines js a son of the famed Dr. P .1 Haims who served the Mt. Pleasant area in his familiar buggy during and following the Civil Wat M If mlt; ', the lot ire Mary BcMe i i v, will Ik* 79 on December 3.She was horn and raised alt; res* the road from where Tiisearora Mill now stands and she remembers when the only thing on that end of towns except their bouse was Berry la»nt’s Tan Yard.“Yes. and I can remember when Lawson Heiliu s Photon was the first car in town My daddy had the second Phaeton here,” she said.Her father, Jacob Kudy, car*Continued On Page 10Jk.tiinapoLis. V C.
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Sun, Oct 30, 1960
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