shERRILU Editor and Publisher.
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1 BIG CONCORD TRADE DAYS MAY ME 2
Event Promises to Be Biggest
of Kind in History of County
With Many Bargains Available
ISO (MOBILES TO i
I Ol’/EH AWAY TREE
Tiiei For Autos Will Be
Given n ith Each $1 Spent
in Trade in Stores During,
the Big Event.
STORES IT'LL OF
SEASON ABLE GOODS
\nd These Will Be Offered
at Lowest Possible Prices.
Throughout Section.
~, ■ ~j:i \ i f tliis week begins
timciiriL and the •<#ent
• biggest thing of its
i jii.iniictl Mini offered hy the
i" r n!.;ii,i' <•!’ county. * Tilt*
w: 11 with tin* opening of
; • flu 1 business houses on
j i :i V . ami wiil continue until 6
j, ~ii Satni'l.-iy. .lune 2ml.
husim-ss house in Uoncord
j, : li- tie proposition and with the
, "f every merchant as.*
v , .: -- iiii-ii are expecting the
t- ,i,i i.n:g to \ '< iiconl—t4ie greatest
nf v|n.p]a vs in the history of
i . Iraiit Week was tirst plan*
•' ’> » ■ t • ,\s
i. i ,ii ; out meting itt
i , *. 'o -.st. i inter
tlif ji: rk. • \.-nr will run Through
two >.• enhi\giving every one an
i.pjxii- nity !■ vi>it the stores on the
s •••• .' ii i 1m- lc - work is done in
ti> .ii"!: : iil- anil <m the farms than
•it • 1 - -dvr 'lay* in t lie week.
Tu. aiifmiiuhi!:■■:. a Ford tonrin r
<:ir am! a t'i <-vn>h*t louring car, will
'■■ :’• itv-.ay as prizes • during the
h;.r •.• i . trade event is running.
Th F :■! v. ll 1* ih.• lirst prize and the
fh'vn.lft will be given to the person
tvnnng r! •• <• mud prize. t
"’I ile tin- autos are to he given
a" : - !iv tin- merchants they will not
pri/es to be offered dur
!! - ' week, by any means. The
I'lt/'-s will be found in the
stores nf tin* i i;j,. where hundreds of
I'iirgains j). v. goods, grocer
hs.Hi.] . • ••; .-.'-in! mlities will be offer-
I'. business men of the city
P- ' ‘* • f t" offer their goods at
I l ' tbat ii! Im astonishingly low
* ! -i" io be offered will be
' : ;l 1 hs!- - i,i edetl most tit this
purpose of letting the gen
'. r ; iitsi w hat will be of
"iores Muring the big
busmens men are eondiiet
' I .‘l'l.' r*f‘ping <-ampaign. A
•he business houses are
tcis in ibis paper v-,
“ 1 c r ii g special ads. set
!l v "iue of the many bargains #
and siiii others are
'■'•culir advertising space
"lb-rings before the pub
i t" tin advf-rtisments to
.* 111 r * ~"lar editions of local
•j-,. ' 1 he»ns;iin|.; extra copies of
i raile Week Special
fa,,,. . ” l ir ' ,l ‘"d. and these will be
the \r. tnrough the county hy
Association. The pa
ired direct to the
“ '■minty. so that everv
ls county and the sur- |
tH-n' I,r 1 1" f . whether or not a!
k " a newspaper,
big e\ent in the
1 l( |, banniTs telling of
' '- en erected in this
I ■ timers were erect*
Jittinvs h" 1| ts in county.
' u ’ll carry banners
i " week, and :t
' • - -' ii inrrying targe 1
u ; on it >• .if advertising
nip through this
. ! ' ! ain parts of Rmv
h«ifttu.< " “ '' if'iirg and Stanly
Ti ‘-kr-ts '
| ii ■' "'’ins to be given
T stofi. ‘ 1 111 practically ev
«sf "fJ .'". v The ■omplete
:i hi*- , 1 are co-operating
,(B 'Mi- found in the
bis- paper. For
' ''| ticket will he
storr deposited in
I p, , _ File imrehase is
'' T H-,.r<; ' I ‘- 1 id on account
At gft P *ivi-H.
,b ln . V, ‘tl 11’e1,,,.'. ,
h ' -'nd. ' ll ,b, ‘ evening of
' . ■• !r aft(i r the trade
.: his. 'ickets dejtositfMl
fein d.,,, wm
t itkl ,' Bn ; s drawn ' ' “'I' 1 ,hp luck^
~ "Tim. . , !l, ‘ drawing will
>»"" "I Central
ou fuur.)
THE CONCORD TIMES.
General Synod of the Reformed
Church Meets at Hickory May 23
The twenty-first triennial sessions of
the (ieneral • Synod of the Reformed
t'lmreh in the ITiited States will con
vene in Corinth Reformed ('lunch, at
Hickory. X. <\. beginning Wednesday
evening. May 23rd, at 8 o'clock. The
opening sermon will be preached by
the retiring President. Rev. George W.
Richards. I). I>.. LL. I).. of Lancaster.
Pa. Dr. Richards is the President
and professor of Church History in
the Theological Seminary of the Re
formed Church at Lancaster. Pa.
The Genera) Synod is the highest
judiciary of the lteforineh Church.
There are eight district Synods ai d
fifty-eight Clussses in the Reformed
Church. The (Masses elect the dele
gates to the General Synod, a minis
ter and an. elder for each ten ministers
on tiie roll of the elassis. Thote will
be almost three hundred ministerial
and lay delegates attending Uie Gener
al Synod, and in addition there will
be representatives of Hoards of Home
Missions, the Board of Foreign Mis
sions. the Board of Publication and
Sunday School, the Board of Minis
terial Relief and others making a del
egation far beyond -too. Hickory is
expeeting that the attendance from
North Carolina to swell the attend
ance to hear 000.
A social train is being run from
Washington. D. <\. leaving Washing
ton Tuesday night. This train will
stop in Greensboro. High Point- Lex
ington. Salisbury and Newton, giving
the delegation an opportunity to set 1
the Reformed Churches and the towns
and Ihe plant of Catawba College at
Xcw'uTi. Threi social Pullmans will
ome\ . cb-nate. »'• »n‘i Cineieuati,
'->oio. in iiig a part "I iup ' aroiir.a
cial leaving that place Tuesday night,
others will go by automobiles.
This will he the first time for the
General Synod to meet, in the South.
The fartherest south heretofore has
been Baltimore and Cincinnati. For
that reason a number of the minister--
ial and lay delegates will spend some
extra time touring (he mountains of
North Carolina and other places.
The citizens of Hickory are planning
to give the entire Synod a trip to
Blowing Rock and supper at that place
Saturday evening.
The Synod is scheduled to begin
Wednesday night. May 23rd. and close
Wednesday night. May 30th. This
week tin* special commissions and
hoards will present their reports, and
representatives will supplement these
reports by addresses on the floor of
Svihml. All these reports will he in
the hands of the standing committees
whom the newly elected President will
appoint by Saturday noon. The ac
tions of the Synod will take place next
week.
REPORT TROOPS ROW
TIRING ON BANDITS
The Japanese Government
May Be Able to Secure the
Release of All the Foreign
Captives.
Peking. May 21 (By the Associated
Press). —Reports that troops were br
ing on the Shantung bandits were re
ceived today by the diplomatic corps
which immediately drafted a new note
to the foreign office, asking the Japan
esee government how it reconciled its
promise to procure the release of the
foreign captives and the events trans
piring since that assurance.
As parliament has not acted on rati
fication of the Presidential appoint
ment of Dr. Wellington Koo as for
eign minister, the foreign office still is
officially without a head.
The diplomatic corps heard the re
cital of Marcel Berube, a Frenchman
of Shanghai, whom the bandits re
leased so that he could present their
ultimatum to the government.
Gov. Morrison’s Engagements.
Raleigh. N. C.. May 21. —Governor
Cameron Morrison will he one of the
! principal speakers tonight at the an
nual meeting of the Nprth Carolina
| Society of Washington. D. C.
j other speaking engagements of the
Governor, announced today, include.
Mav 29, at Elon College commence
ment.’ Eloii College; May 30. at Amer
ican Legion celebration, Charlotte;
| June 1, at Mooresville High School
commencement. Mooresville; June 12-
j 33. at University of North Carolina,
j Chapel Hill; June 15, at meeting of
Cotton Maufacturers’ Association of
North Carolina, Winston-Salem, and
.July 4th, at American Legion celebra
tion, Leiloir. ~
PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS
j Some of the important items that
I will claim much attention of the Syn
jod are the demands of the field of
i home missions. The Reformed Church
j recently received the two Classes oT
the Reformed Church of Hungary in
ito this body. Some of these churches
j had been fostered hy the Reformed
I Church in the United States, but Inter
I united with the j Hungarian Reformed
I Church under the fostering care ol‘ the
Reformed Church in Hungary. In the
transfer all the eongreg: Cmts except
three came into file Reformed Church,
i making the total membership and con
i stjtueney more than half of the Prot
! estjint Hungarians in this country.
| The Reformed Church is doing work
| among the Bohemians. Italians, .lews.
{Japanese and Negroes.
The Board of Foreign Missions will
1 report that the hoard is ready to enter
into a field in the Moslem World,
j somewhere in Arabia. Heretofore
j the work has been centered in North
1 Japan in the Hunan Province it. Chi
na. Dr. David B. Sckneder will heat
i the Synod to speak for the work in
Japan-
The Forward Movement will re-
Lreive much time and attention. Just
three years ago the drive for money
| was made resulting in it subscription
of sf».lilo.ooo.<>o, funds that would sup
plement the regular benevolent and
educational funds (if the church. Then*
| will he ;t strong effort made to push
i tin* Forward Movement to a success
! ful completion within the next two
years, the original goal being to eom
, plrte tin* fund by 1P23.
Tin* United Missionary and Stew
ardship will ask for y higher appor
tionment for. the regular work ol
llonn* and Foreign Missions, so that
more workers can be sent out into
needy and challenging fields.
-V great layman’s mass meeting is
planned for Sunday afternoon. Hon.
A. R. Brodbeek. of Hanover. Pa., ex
{ Congressman, and I lor.. E. U. Coblent/..
lof Middletown. Md„ Chairman ol‘
j prison supervision of his State, will
(speak. Dr. Paul S. Leinhaek. of Phil
adelphia. will preach at the eleven
| o’clock service. The evening service
! will be on “Life Service” at which
! time Drs. 11. J. Christman, of Dayton.
! Ohio, and John M. G. Harms, of Al-
I lentown. Pa., will he the speakers.
-V number of the Reformed Church
| people of Concord ai.d oth -r places
’in the North Carolina Chassis will at
■ tend one or more sessions. The minis
i terial delegates from North Carolina
are l evs. .J. ('. Leonard, I). D.. John
C. Peeler. J. A. Palmer and 11. A
Fesperman. The lay delegates are
Fibers J. T. Plo(it. of Gm*nsbor-i, duo.
W. Iledrick. of High Point. Byron ML
Shulord. of China Grove, ami J. ().
Moose, of Concord-
FEDERAL COUNCIL IS j
SUBJECT OF DEBATES
Council Both Defended and
Criticised at Today’s Ses
sion of Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly.
Montreat, May 21.—“ The only safe
ty to protestantism in America is to
have an organization in Washington j
to act ns a buffer against the great
unscrupulous power of Roman Cathol
icism.” Dr. E. W. McCorkle, of Rock
bridge Baths. Va.. declared here today
in urging the <>3rd General Assembly
of tin* Southern Presbyterian church
not to withdraw from the Federal
Council of Church of Christ in Ameri
ca. v
The tendency of separation has al
ways brought disaster to tin* Protest
ant Churches, I)r, McCorkle declared
in his defense of the Council, and he
asserted that it holds in its hands the
“salvation of European protestantism
against the danger and menace of
Rome.”
The Council. Dr. McCorkle said, has
accomplished much, and lie announced
that he is in favor of that body contin
; uing to present the cause of the Prot-
I estana churches through petitions to
the government.
Mon treat, May 21 (By the Associat
ed Press). —The General Assembly of
the Southern Presbyterian Church
here today rejected, 146 to 100, a mi
nority committee report favoring with
drawal from the Federal Council of
Churches of Christ in America. That
left before the Assembly the majority
report of its committee which would
provide for remaining in the Council,
and appropriating funds to cover the
Assembly's proportionate share of ex
penses. x
CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923.
SCHOOL KE DEATH
LIST M SHOWS 77
PERISHED II BLAZE
Two Young Ladies, of Whom
No Trace Has Been Found.
Believed to Have Perished
in Conflagration.
, I
SUSPECT OTHERS
DIED IN BUILDING
Efforts to Locate Two Chil-.
dren Have Brought No Re
sults, and They Too, Prob
ably Were Burned.
Camden. S. C.. May 21.—The death j
list in the Cleveland school house fire,
of last Thursday night today had been
increased to seventy-seven persons, j
with two more placed on the doubtful
list. Tracing down of rumors yester
day by Sheriff G. C. Welsh, of Ker
shaw county, resulted in tin* announce- ,
mens that Ellen Barnes, of Lucknow, j
and Fanniie Bowers, of Kershaw, un
doubtedly perished in the lire that ,
followed the falling of an oil lamp on i
tin* stagel during commencement play j
at the school.
Reports were current here that a
Miss, Blackmon and a Miss Thorne, j
both of the Thornhill section of this |
county, had attended the play and had j
not been heard of since. This is a ,
: remote and inaoessible part of the I
county and a more thorough search
was planned today to definitely ascer
tain their fate.
Ellen Barnes, according to state
ments made to the sheriff today, went j
i to the play with her brother Frank. I
I He escaped and made his way home.
Relatives saw the girl in the burning
: building, [but: jeouid i,o| sgye her.
Fannie Bowers went so (lie play with
'members of the Dixon families, 12 of
whom were lost. Relatives saw her
I in the burning building, but were tin
{-able to make their way to her. Her
mother has been unconscious ever
I si nee the tire.
Columbia, S. C . May 21.—A nation
wide appeal for funds for tin* relief of
the women and children who were wid
owed and orphaned hy the Cleveland
school lire in which 77 persons perish-
I ed Thursday night, was issued today
by Governor Thos. G. McLeod, of South
Carolina. All funds raised, will he
handled hy the American Red Cross,
i the Governor said. .
Tiie e;tH was issued after the Gov
ernor had been informed by the Red
Cross advisory relief committee ai
I Camden, that previous estimates of
money needed for relief work had :
been greatly underestimated. A pre
liminary survey, he was told, indicat
ed that permanent relief must lie pro
vided for the 12 orphans and U 4 wid
j ews.
The Alliance of Presbyterian Churches.
Indianapolis. May 21. —Dr. Henry B.
Master, of Philadelphia, today report
led to the Presbyterian (ieneral As
sembly as American secretary of the
Alliance of Reformed elm relies through
out the world holding the Presbyterian
j system.
! . After reviewing what hits been ac
complished in tin* sending of clothing
land shoes to Europe, and fixing ap
| proximately at .$42,.300,000 the sum
i sent abroad by the constituent church
es, tlit' report, referring to enlarging
{field of evangelisation says in i»sirt:
“Mon* than half of the 100,000 of
i our brethren in Russia live along the
[Volga River in southeastern Russia,
where the fa mint* is worst. And now !
another fact is beginning to loom up—
that there is a great movement in Eu
ropean Russia, east and southeast of
Moscow, reaching to the Ural inoun
j tains, where hundreds of thousands
tv ho have left the Greek Church have
I formed themselves into congregations
! called Presbytcrianski. because they
i have elders. If they need help, shall
wo refuse to help them? More than
this, we cannot say tit present, we ,
i must w’itit for the development of!
God’s providence. But we ought to
: prav for them as they struggle to the
! light.” j
Movement For New Depot at Moores
| i viile.
' Raleigh. N. C.. May 21.—The North
'Carolina Corporation Commission will
hold hearings on the petitions of the
town of Mooresvllle to require the
i Southern Railway to erect a r.ew de
pot at Mooresville and of citizens of
[ Oxford to require physical connection
. nt that point between the Southern
, and Seaboard Air Line Railways on
; Friday morning, it was announced to-i
I day.
Henry W. Miller, Vice President in
, charge of operations of the Southern
1 S Railway, will attend the hearings, it i
Was announced. Mr. Miller formerly.
' ' lived in Raleigh.
- j
Brooklyn's only woman optician,
■ Katherine Blanc, who has followed
1 j her calling for pearly a quarter of a j
, | century. now r owns the building in:
1 which she conducts her business and
- | has her own factory for grinding
I lenses. I
SANATORIUM HEARING
Doctors, Farmers, Preachers and For
mer Patients, Defend Dr. L. B. Me-
Rrayer.
Raleigh. May 21.—Testimony by I)r,
.T. M. Parrott, of Kinston, that Dr.
Paul McCain “hasn't a superior in Am
erica as a diagnostician.” together
with voluminous testimony relating to
the character of Drs. L. B. Mcßraver
and Reuben Mcßrnyer, 'and an exami
nation of H. A. Underwood, former en
gineer for the council of state, featur
ed the morning session of the legis
lative investigation of the state sana
torium for the treatment of pihercn
losis.
All five members of the committee,
headed by Chairman Thos. C. Bowie,
of Ashe, spent yesterday—on a trip to
and inspection of Sanatorium. A [em
bers of the committee stated today that
they went further into the case than
to_examine the physical equipment at
the hospital.
Doctors, farmers, preachers and for
mer politicians contributed to- the
character testimony offered in behalf
of Supt. Mcßrayer. .other witnesses
testified to his scientific skill and pro
fessional ability.
INJURIES PROVE FATAL
TO GASTON COUNTY WOMAN
Either Fe4l or Jumped From Auto Near
Hickory Early Yesterday Morning.
Hickory. N. (’.. May 21—'“Jack”..
Laws, ji young white woman whose
home is said to have been near Gas
tonia. died in a local hospital late
last night of injuries to her head caus
ed when she fell or jumped from an
automobile, according to a story told
Chief of Police Lentz hy Ruth Ennis,
a Caldwell county girl.
Robert Holler, of Newton, was driv
ing the car at the time, the girl said,
and refused to let Uie Ennis girl leave
the car. ID* seized her around the
waist and drove* rapidly with one
hand, the chief said he was told, and
the young woman fell or leaped from
the machine. The affair occurred on
the Rhodhiss road near here early Sun
day morning.
iToiler was held in S3OO bail for his
appearance, and Chief Lentz said Hol
ler also was under bond in connection
.vith tin* seizure of 35 gallons of whis
key in Ids automobile on I.nokcai
Shoals bridge several weeks ago.
FORMER justice day
RESIGNS FROM BOAR!)
Canhot Serve as Umpire of the Mixed
Claims Commission He Tells Presi
dent.
Washington. May 21.—Win. It. Day,
former associate justice of the Su
preme Court, today presented to Pres
ident Harding his resignation ns im
piro of the mixed claims commission.
Mr. Day explained that his desire
to resign was due to recognation of
tin* enormous amount of work lacing
the commission, with claims 'amount
ing to $1,4711,064.000 to he settled, and
to bis belief that a yoifhger and strong
er imin should he charged with the
work of adjusting claims on which the
American and German commissioners
are unable to agree. The resignation
becomes effective immediately.
CHARGED WITH DEATH
OF WILLIAM TAYLOR
Garland Wynn is Being Held on Sus
picion by Washington Officers.
Washington, N. C.. May 21. — M il-
Ija in Taylor was shot and killed at his
farm house near here last night, and
Garland Wynn was arrested and held
on suspicion pending an inquest. Tay
lor had chastised his 13-year-old daugh
ter. it was said, because she went rid
ing Sunday with Wynn and another
man, both of whom, he said, were for
bidden to come to tin* house, came,
md ii was sjiid the men had words.
After dark Taylor was called to the
door hy some ope and shot to death.
Sheriff Harris said he discovered to
day the prints of a bare foot and
founds ji man's sock. Wynn’s arrest
followed.
Funeral of Mrs. C. T. Troy.
The funeral of Mrs. C. T. Troy, who
died early Friday morning at her
home on Loan Street, was hold at
her late home Saturday at four
o'clock. The services were eondifbt
ed hy Rev. W. A. Jenkins, assisted hy
Rev. T. W. Smith and the pall bear
ers were W. A. Foil, P. M. Laffert.x,
W. J. Hill, Jr.. Dr. J. A. Patterson. Dr.
T. N. Spencer and Ernest Porter. In-
I torment was made in Oak wood cem
etery. A quartette composed of Mrs.
C. B. Wagoner, Mrs. It. A. Brown. S.
K. Patterson and J. B. Sherrill sang
several selections. The floral offer
ings were many and beautiful.
Supreme Court Ruling.
Washington. May 21.—A state can
not control freight rates upon a com
modity shipped between points within
its borders when the article is intend
ed for public improvements, the Su
preme Court held today in two cases
brought by the United States, and the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
a number of railroads against the
state of Tennessee. j
90 Per Cent of Our School Houses Are
-Just as Dangerous?
Boston. IMay 19.— Repetitions of the
' Cleveland. S. C., school fire in wliich
■ 75 children and parents were burned
to death, are possible in many schools
!of the country and Canada, Franklin
H. Wentworth, secretary of the
j National Fire Protection association,
j said today.
One of more of the dangerous con
i ditions responsible for the South
Carolina tragedy exist in 90 per cent
lof our school buildings, he asserted.
SUCCESSOR TO BOH
Li HOT CHOSEN YET
BY ENGLAND'S RULER
Marquis Curzon and Stanly
Baldwin Are Prominently
Named to Be Next Prime
Minister of England.
OTHERS ARE ALSO
BEING CONSIDERED
Bonar Law Forced to Quit
Because of 111 Health.—
Labor Party Against Ap
pointment of Curzon. J
London, May 21 (By the Associated
Press). —The physicians of Andrew
Bonar Law, retired British Prime
Minister this afternoon issued this
statement:
“Mr. Bonar Law lmd slight opera
tion on tin* Ihro.it today. Ootherwise
his condition it; unchanged.”
King George who is in Aldershot
had up to this afternoon asked no
one to accept the premiership in suc
cession to Bonar Law. The King, it
is said, lias no present intention of
certailing his visit to Aldershot which
is expected to liist most of the week.
Meanwhile the two most promising
| prospects. Earl Curzon and Stanly
Baldwin, chancellor of the Exchequer,
is away for the Whitsuntide holidays,
and plans to remain away until Wed
i nesday making jt very likely that the
| country will remain without a premier
[ throughout today at least.
Possible Nominees.
London. May 21 (By the Associat
ed Press). —Political gossips are al
most unanimously of the opinion that
| Marquis Curzon. Secretary of State
| for foreign affairs, will be ofHereil the
! Premiership and that, either he or
1 Stanly Baldwin will be successor to
Andrew Bonar Law who has resigned
because of ill health.
Lord Derby is also spoken of as a
possibility for the ottice. The Earl of
Balfour's age is generally regarded as
ruling him out, although it is sug
gested that he might take tin* Prime
Ministership in the event —which jit
present is ‘considered altogether un
likely—existing schisms in the conser
vative ranks are healed, and all agree
to pull together.
The Daily Herald, labor's newspaper,
says Curzon's appointment would ,be
ji disaster for Great Britain and for
Europe. • .
Lord Curzon's supposed aloofness
i and reputed attitude of unbending su-
I periority are alluded to hy many writ
| ers who, however, do not think he
should necessarily he barred from the
| post. Two or three newspapers in
deed assert that tiie popular impres
sion of Curzon is far from being cor
rect and that he is actually a modest
man of very human personality, who
would like to unbend, hut who does not
possess the faculty for doing so.
the cotton market
Opened Steady at An Advance of From
6 to 22 Points.
New York, May 21. —The cotton mar
ket opened steady at an advance of 6
to 22 points on unfavorable weather
1 reports, covering and buying, supposed
to he for the Japan account. July
sold at 25.56 and October at 23.13, hut
the demand was not active, and the
advance appeared to be meeting some
scattered south tern selling.
Cotton futures opened steady :VMay
27.15: July 25.55: October 23.20; De
cember 22.75; January 22.53.
Associate Justice Walker 111.
Raleigh, May 21—Associate Justice
I’latt D. Walker, of the North Caro
lina Supreme Court, is seriously ill
at his home here, it became known
today. Justice Walker has been ill
for about :i week, and his condition
! is said to have become gradually worse.
X’o improvement was noted in his con
dition today, it was stated at his home.
Nearly fifteen hundred women in
London earn a livelihood as hair
' dressers.
Booster Trip Tomorrow
The Booster Community Advertising Concord’s
Trade Event will start from the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow
morning at 9 o’clock sharp. They will take in Kannapolis,
Landis, China Grove, Salisbury, Mooresville, (Dinner)
Davidson and other nearby towns.
We have secured the Jackson Training School Band,
15 strong. Banners are all ready for the automobiles.
We need four or five more cars to go on this trip. Anyone
who has not already signed for this trip, call J. E. JDavis.
We want to boost Concord and make this Trade Event
a Big Success.
LET’S GO!
J. E. DAVIS,
Chairman Advertising Committee.
$2.00 a Year, Strictly in Advance.
THE COMMENCEMENT
EXERCISES AT MOUNT
PLEASANT THIS KEEN
The First Exercises Were
Held Saturday Evening in
Auditorium, Which Was
Unable to Hold Crowd.
DR. A. CHAPPELL -
THIS AFTERNOON
Commencement Sermon Sun
day Morning by Dr. Gonga
ware.—Address Tomorrow
Before the Alumni.
Last Saturday evening at K o'clock
the Class Day exercises at Mont Amoe
na Seminary, Mt. Pleasant, X. (\, took
place in tin 1 auditorium, and was at
tended by a large and appreciative
audience, entirely filling the spacious
room, while many’ \Vere unable to find
even standing room.
The program was divided into two
sections, the first part being the reg
ular exercises usual upon such occas
ions. which was carried out in a man
ner worthy of hte enviable reputation
of tile Seminary, and evidenced lino
training and much inherent talent on
the part of each member of the Sen
ior Class. The young girbtr in their
pretty pink dresses, were a sight to
delight the hearts of the crowd of ad
miring swains gathered to \ievv and '
listen to the various performances.
Where there was so much to commend
it would he a difficult matter to par
ticularize: suffice to say that ehen and
every girl carried off the assigned parts
in it graceful and retired manner.
The second section of the program
of the evening was a very delightful
playlet, entitled: “The Graduate's
Choice.” and all the members of the *
Senior Class took part in this play.
The plot centers around a maiden
“Youth”—clad in her white graduation
robes and carrying her diploma, who
wonders and soliliipiizes as to what
her/future life will be, unable to de
cide what forces sliyll sway her ir
this decision. She falls asleep, and is
awakened by an impersonation of her
own fancy, and in rotation all the vir
tues and all the vices are made to ap
pear before her for her to choos'e from
among them one who is to control her
future life. When, at last, she is still
unable to decide, tfve fairies, in white,
draperies and wings, enter and sing
around her and then take off the black
robes of the Vices, showing them turn
ed into Virtues, with snowy robes and
different names on their sashes. At
last Youth chooses "Faith,” as her
guardian spirit, and the scene closes
by Fancy crowning Youth with a
wreath, and all forming a pretty tab
leau. /
The Senior Class of Mont Amoenea
Seminary this year comprises nineteen
members, including the two graduates
in music, Misses Margaret Barrier and
Wilma Lucille St h ewn It. The other
graduates are: Misses Kuth Becker
dite, Bessie Lee Efird. Mary Virginia
Fisher, < >la Furr, Alma Furr, Mae
Blackwolder, Elizabeth Hahn,
Keller, Kuby Icntz. Helen Moyle, Inez
Shinn. I-aura Mae Shinn. Miriam Shir
ey, Mary Stewart, Alice Tavis, Betty
Williams and Ethel Williams.
Baccalaureate Sermon.
Itev. George .1. Gongaware, D. I).,
pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church,
of Charleston, S. C., and member of
the Educational Board of the United
Lutheran Church of America, deliver
ed a strong and appreciated sermon at
11 o'clock, Sunday morning, in the au
ditorium at Mt. Pleasant.
The speaker t>egan his remarks by
saying that it were enough honor if
only he were pastor of the old and his
toric church of Charleston; that it
were enough honor if only he were a
member of the Educational Board of
she great Lutheran Church in Ameri
ca ; but be considered it a greater hon
or to preach the Gospel of Jesus
Christ on this occasion. Continuing
liis introduction, Dr. Gongaware told
of a conversation with a mother, on
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