We are all poor, but I have never seen a more faithful and untiring set of ladies

We now have a Woman’s Auxiliary, St. Agnes’ Guild, Junior Guild, Babies’ Branch, and a large branch of the Girls’ Friendly Society which meets once a week. The Junior Guild also meets once a week; the others, once a month. The ladies have had their Seventh Annual Bazaar. Their average profit has been about one hundred dollars. We have improved the church building in various ways too tedious to mention - have built this year a good and commodious Parish House, well arranged, with classrooms and auditorium, with kitchen and large dining-room in the rear. We are all poor, but I have never seen a more faithful and untiring set of ladies. We are trying now to pay a little note of one hundred and fifty dollars, and at the same time furnish the interior of the Parish House. If what I have stated in this will be of any benefit, I am sure I am delighted to give this little information. I always feel a delicacy in such matters; I feel like I am boasting. Faithfully yours, to serve the Ladies of the Woman’s Auxiliary, S. J. M. Brown

(Source: “The Church’s Work at Cooleemee,” by S. J. M. Brown, Written by Request, The Carolina Churchman, May 1915, p. 10)