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PAGE TWO [ kannapolis department 1 |i (By JAMES L. MOORE) f f PROF. MORGANVINING, OF U. N. C.. SECURED AS THE | • COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER FOR KANNAPOLIS HI, AraioimremPTit to Tliis Effect Made Last N|(ht by Sup*. Wfcfoy of Lo cal Schools.—Baccalaureate Sermon “The Super Structure of Success ful Life*’ Sunday Morning at Re formed Church. —Declamation and ; Expression Events Monday.—Class Night Tuesday.—Address Wednes day. - I Kannapolis. May 12.—Prof. Mor- j gnu Viniug. head lecturer of the University of North Carolina, \viH_de- , | liyer the literary address to Central | high school graduates on Wednesday. fe evening in the final program that clos- j | es the four-day commencement exer j& ci&** here which begin Sunday morn ing. Announcement of the selection of Mr. Vining was made last evening by Herman B. Wisby. sui>erintendeut of the local public schools, after plans for securing Gov. Angus W. McLean ! | had been punctured, i Supt. Wisby wilt preside at the j £ (losing exercises while the Kev. .Tames j F. Moser, pastor of the Trinity Meth odist Church, will offer the invocation. Mr. Moser will also award the med als, these going to Edwin Lipe for his literary excellence, and Clarence Da t vies for his sterling qualities of I learning. The final exercises will be i held at j’jne Central high school, be ginning at eight o’clock. The inaugural exercises will be con ducted Sunday morning at 11 o'clock at the St. John's Reformed Church, [ with the baccalaureate sermon by Rev. L. A. Peeler. The subject of ,the ser mon is to be ‘‘The Foundation and Super-Structure of a Successful Life.” j .* The musical program of these exer- j r cises will be in charge of the high school glee club. The anpual declamation and oxpres-i sion contests, sponsored by R. C. Can-; non. O. G. Turbyfill and Miss Lena | Hartsell. will be held on Monday eve niiig while on Tuesday evening the: class exercises featured by the play. ! | '‘Yesterday. Today and Tomorrow,” I will be given. The gfadpating class is composed of Mabel Archer, Keller Brantley. Lil lian Braswell. Clara Cobb. Raymond Brinkley. Ollie Davis. Mary Lena 1 I Graeber. Clarence Davis. Mary Ethel Fisher. Myrtle Lee Joyner, Myrtle l r Irene Goodnight, John Nelson Hals- I stead. Leo McCombs, Jennie Reyn Mc- Kinley. Edwin Witherspoon Lipe,! Aileen Moose, Anie Pearl Moser, Bet- ’ tie Elizabeth Propst, Mabel Mozelle | Poole. EVertte L. Murph. Foda Av-j ary Robinson. Roy Rollins, Elizabeth ‘ Rogers, Estelle Sims. Olin Everette: Scarboro. Grace Loretie Smith. Allie! Mae Smith, Pauline Tesh, James Wal ton, Jr.,,‘Vivian Viola, Edna Blanche Walter, ami Phillip Monroe Widen house. __ The governing board consists of Phillip Widenhouse. president, Clar ence .Davis vice president; Edwin Lipe. secretary; and Annie Pearl Moser, treasurer. Other officers are. | Bettie Propst. giftorian: Annie Moose j and Foda Robinson, poets; Raymond Brinkley, testator; and Mary Ethel Fisher, prophet. I Miss Helene Harris is the teacher and Mesdames H. L. Lipe and John 1 E. Halstead are grade mothers. ■ , : | DEATH CLAIMS THRET IN FANTS. Three infants were claimed by death i here ■during the past few days. Winifred Plowman. 15 months old I son of Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Plowman. died Sunday afternoon after a short %■ illness. The funeral was conducted by the “Rev. Mr. Hoss, of China s »Grove, anil interment was in the local ( cemetery. Eugene Nelson Lewder, infant son ‘ of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Lewder, of 221 Oak street, passed away Monday | night and was buried Tuesday after noon in Stanly county. Rev. W. C. j f Jamieson, pastor of the First lVysby- 1 terian Church, officiated at the funer al services. i Death invaded the home Monday ULIJE THE TOILER I \ \Ajf\% L* j#; ' . SfpMf MOWJ, MR-S THE otE JERRY ON THE JOB IhT ) •*" j£g^ 1 ts Mm ct’ IJPP" feg^ night of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Petre, 731 North Walnut street, and laid hold on the infant daughter. Jeanette Bernice Petrea. The fOneral was j conducted from the First Baptist ! Church with Rev. Mr. Slaughter, as sistant pastor, in charge. The body ! was conveyed to China Grove for in ! teripcnt. t MUCH INTEREST IN BASEBALL MEETS AT T’ TONIGHT. The third meeting of the city bnse ; ball organization and all interested ; followers is scheduled to take place j this evening at the Y. M. C. A. at« l eight o’clock. Much iptCrest in the j meet is obvious and a capacity attend ■ ance is expected. ) The meeting is called by President W.' H. Whitley and associates to discuss the completion of soliciting of funds for the club and to lay plans for making the opening game, which event in local baseball history, is slated for June 3rd, the greatest HIGH SCHOOL ENTERTAIN MENT TONIGHT Piano pupils of Miss Pauline Smith i will entertain this evening at the Central high school with a recital. Several interesting numbers are list ed and since this is the first affair of the kind in several months a goodly sized audience is expected iu attend ance. 1 Eight o’clock is the time. JUDGE SINK TO HEAR INJUNCTION MOTION Judge Oglesby After Concluding Court Tenn Begs Off From vad kin CVHege Road Row. Lexington, May 11. —Judge H. , Hoyle Sink will come to hear the ; Yadkin College injunction motion against the state highway comrate- I sion, brought by Ed L. Greene as : mayor of the Long Quiescent village ■ that was incorporated 52 years ago ! but has not been active as a muniei ’ palit.v for about a quarter century. ! Upon agreement by counsel for the i plaintiff and the state highway com mission, Judge John M. Oglesby, who i has been presiding over Superior 1 court here tlfis week, ordered the motion to be heard before Judge Sink here at 10:30 Friday morning. The one week's criminal term was concluded here today and Judge i Oglesby was desirous of returning home. The state highway commission ■ had asked postponement from today . until tomorrow and the hearing •would have held Judge Oglesby for .an extra day. ! This will be Judge Sink's initia j tion as a Superior court judge, his first term of court not being sehed j tiled until next week. Byrd Will Not Fly Inal Lost Men Are Found. New York. May 11. —Commander Richard E. Byrd will not undertake 1 the New York-Paris non-stop flight until Captains and Coli are i found or it has been definitely estab . fished that .they are lost, Rodman , Wanamaker, the president of the Ajn ! erica Trans-Oceanie Company and] sponsor, for Byrd's flight announced tonight. “And even then." Mr. 'Wannmaker ! , said, “the plane ‘America* enters no i race. Its flight is to lie solely in the j cause of scientific progress. Its pur pose is to pioneer so that trans-atlun tie air-navigation may safely come, as come it will. “America sorrows with France as the hours go by without word of the ' French heroes,*’ Mr. Wannnmker said, “it never was the intention of the i ‘Ainericn’to start until the French aviators were found or the world ac cepted their loss as the supreme sac rifice to the science of aviation.” Armor for horses in bullfights, ad j vocated by animal lovers, was jeered |by crowds in Madrid, where it was j tried. The armor proved quite inef : feetual. since four out of eight horses l were killed. Spectators objected be -1 cause they claimed it discouraged the bull and prolonged the fight. SSaSi | > MKfi TO V pfCt< I . - COHPAMV;^ --J ■ ■■■ ■ * ‘ \ r ■i • * '< * f ! i I ' eaS— „ ~ m i j,, lji. ii ■. m. ;x '■. ■ ~~r- < i in i - ,J Have You Beard I This Ofte? Harry—How long have you been married? Harold —Let’s see. I bought this i suit I'm wearing four years ago. A visitor to a city ip Scotland was surprised to find the streets deserted ■ and inquired as to the j-eason. “Tag day,” was the reply. Two weeks later the visitor re- I 1 turned and this time the streets were .jammed solidly with people. “The tag day was a failure,” it was explained, “so today they're con ducting n house-to-house canvass. ’ Lady—A strong man like you ought not to beg. Why don't you look round for a job ? Hobo —I can’t look round, lady ; I gotta stiff neck. “Listen, Grandmother, the man in the radio lias to stop and cough eYery little while." “Get away from that thing, child. You know how easy you catch every thing like that!” Traveler —It’s a nuisance; these trains are always late. Official —But, my dear sir, what would be the use of our waiting-rooms if they were on time? Her —Why did you tell Joe you married me because I’m a wonderful cook? I can’t boil a potato! Him —But I had to give some ex cuse. He —I swear that you are my first love. She —What about Ethel? He—Oh, she —she was the ’last! “So Billikins is dead. Did he leave much?” “I think not. His heirs all seem to be -on the best of terms with each other.” Removal of Asheville Depot to Be Opposed. Raleigh, May 11. —Decision of the corporation commission in granting permission to the Southern Railway company to move its freight depot in Asheville to a new location two miles away will lie fought in Bun combe superior court, the Commis sion was notified today. The John Burroughs memorial medal this year will be awarded to Ernest Thompson Seton for his recent work on animal life. We have the fol lowing USED CARS !For Sale Or Ex-; change One Buick Sedan One Durant Sedan One Anderson Coupe One Buick Touring One Studebaker Sedan. Standard Buick G«; PHONE 363 AS THRILLING AS THE MOVIES s "1 PR.ETN S V^J /^~~ r j - ■ ' 1 •THE CONCOftb tIMES LETTER RECEIVED GIVES DETAILS OF DAMAGE OF FLOOD H. W. Blanks Will Forward All Old Clothes Given Him to Flpod Victims in His Old Home Community. First hand details of the damage and suffering caused by the rushing waters of the Mississippi - River and its tributaries in the greatest flood of the history of the country are given in letters received here by H. W. Blanks, of the Y. M. C. A., from his mother, Mrs. Lily> Faulkner Blanks, of Columbia, La. , Mrs. Blanks writes tnat on account of the high water only a dinky rail road train can gWinto the town where she lives and that it has to come in relays and makes only one trip a day. Part of the letter is as follows: “News has just been received here that 5,000 people are panicky at Winsboro, whore the water is five feet deep, and that there is a food suply that will last only two days. They are calling for help as the railroad bridge was washed away before people could get / Applied with a brush y \ l It drips in less than an hour J From pale ivory through the greens, -—grays, blues, oranges, reds and browns; and the oaks, walnu£ ai>d mahogany, Qiimi iiuii T Pee Wonderloid may be had in the popular enamel and wood colors, ready if! Ij 1 for use on almost any surface. i For furniture, woodwork, bric-a-brac, _ { floors, linoleum, etc. Frequent washing 1 WONDERLOIfI >r polishing improves the beautiful | ■ Apply it yourself with a brush —no experience necessary. Convenient sisje cans for home use. Ask about it. Ritchie Hardware Co. ■ - r ' SvNhO LOAS. .'-t£u»ffKHt“TvuhO 7 Pfeetr/JT OME \ i mr. * ' ,Ka<-DoU6au' the U 7 PS/vm t *oo job 0 ;Oo / NES -Vou 5eEN\ ALL ) l \Nofert I 0^IPPB3I? ' #v v :*r"’^'. | j'j'?!. l i-itaum u jl -j l - 1 . .' ,i i.r.Oi'UgaF -2ju X out of town. They were trying here thia morning to got lumbermen to build a barge to take them off on.” i Mrs. Blanks writes that the roar ing of the approaching cress of the •flood water is immense and that it can be hear A for miles. “I have sent word) to my negro tenants tp move to the hill* as fast as they can. They Win' nail up their houses and gates and only take their clothes with them. The negroes are so helpless. Every body is looking to their own interest the government surely will provide for them until they can get a start again for they will lose wfiat little they have.” She writes that her son-in-law has been for days in a government air plane traveling over the flooded area warning people of the approach of the peak of the flood and telling those with boats where the people have tak eu refuge on the higher ground so they can be taken to a refuge center. Mr. Blanks said that knowing the people there as he did that, he would be glad to accept and forward any old clothes that were sent to him for those made homeless in the flood area. “I will send them to some my relatives and they will be given out to those whose need is the great est. If we can send clothing now it will take care of the immediate HELLO, V£S, VJ HAT'S THE NAT T&e. T WELL, \AJ HAT \F V A N'T * HOLD»N<S up THE VMHOLF COMPAMy T \IL BE OVEfe. TO T.HE STUDIO *. . vmREN \ <3ET £.EADY, AND MSTBM,r DON'T R.IM6 NOE UP FDR TRIVIAL \ J--IKS THAT j (fl> ■ needs to some extent and the Red Cross will be able to do the other and take care of the rehabilitation prob lem,” Mr. Blanks said. Concord Hospital News. The condition of Fritz Hugh John son is improved. Mr. Johnson undei went an operation several days ago fm the removal of his appendix. Houston Furr, of Kannapolis, en tered the hospital Monday for treat ment. ..... Joe Pharr has returned to bis home in Harrisburg, after undergoing an operation for appeudk'tte ten davs ago. The couditiou of Mrs. J. D. Cham bers is greatly improved after under going an operation several day* ago. Mrs. J. M. TToufmun returned to her home on Vance street today after undergoing a serious opr rut .on at the hospital several weeks ago. Much improvement is shown in the condition of Odell Beam, who under went au operation at the hospital sev eral days ago. A trouble hunter for a telephone company in Lempstcr, New Hamp shire. found a family wash liung on the telephone line. Each Monday morning the subscribers had reported poor service. f ~oe.ro TA«tTu«rl ?N6 BA£VC VMOBE ) C***<t BnUih r>ghl* b * 1 7 1 ■ii f " i " ' ' ll ' f’' “ " HIGH SCHOOLS OF ‘ COUNTY COMPLETE DUTIES FOR YEAR Final Exercises Held Dilring Week at Bethel, Mt. Pleas ant and the Harrisburg High Schools. High schools of the county complet , ed their year’s work during the week and wound up the scholastic year with commencement programs. j Plays were given at each of tbe schools, three one-act plays being giv en at the Mt> Pleasant chool Monday niglrf, two plays “News” and “Neigh ,! bors” being g ; ven at the Bethel School , Monday night, and ope play, “It Hap . pened in June,” being given Tuesday night at the Harrisburg school. , Crowds which packed the auditor . j iums of the schools witnessed the . I plays and generously applauded the i well trained members of the casts. | More than >sloo was taken in at the i Bethel and Harrisburg schools, it was ‘ stated, no report received here from ! the Mt. Pleasant school. Dr. W. H. Frazier, president of j Queen’s College, spoke at the- Bethel j school Monday afternoon, being heard I by a large and interested audience. Rev. C. O. Williams, pastor of the Statesville Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Charlotte, delivered the baccalaureate sermon at the Harris burg school Sunday afternoon. A solo by Mrs. J. B. Wornble, of Con cord. was a feature of the musical program at the service. The recitation and fieclainat'on con tents were held at the Harrisburg school Monday night, these being heard j by another audience that taxed the auditorium. The final program at Harrisburg was given last night, with the liter ary address by Dr. E. J. Sox. The] program for the night beginning at 8 I o’clock, follows: Chorus—Glee Club. Salutatory—Viola Sides. History—Leonard Parish. Poem—Viola Sides. Prophesy—Jessic Ba rboe. Solo —Miss Elizabeth Woodhouse. Giftorian—Lloyd Garmon. Will —John Furr. Valedictory—Eva Spears. Class Song. Literary Address—Dr. E. J| Sox k Awarding of Diplomas. Death of Clyde Lefler. Alebainrle, May 10. —Clyde Lefler, 10-year-o!d son of Mrs. T. J. Lefler, of near Salem Church, of this county, died at a local hospital here .Monday night at D :10 o’clock, having failed to rally from a severe attack of pneu monia. Funeral services will beheld Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock at Friendship Church. Young Lefler was a very popular young man of this community and Stanly county and was wc’.l liked by all who knew him. He is of one of the old prominent families of Stanly county. Besides liis mother, he is survived by the following brothers arid sisters: * Miss Florence letter, teacher in the- Albemarle pub'ic schools; Miss Stella Lefler, at home; Miss Bertha Lefler, of Opucord; Misses Annie and Louise Lefler, at home; Carl Lefler, of Con cord ; Calvin Lefler, of Concord; Wren Lefler, of Albemarle; Charlie Lefler, of Albemarle; F. S. Lefler, of High Point; Milas, Claude and T. J., Jr., all at home. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Peele and chil dren, qf Charlotte, spent Tuesday in Concord with friends. ‘ ] . %ot SoH But just righM refreshing bred a few cents afll A breeze alwaj * i ■ your command the summer mt jP /MmSgL Electric fans « sizes, both stad and rotating. ff For your kit* // , small,whitee^ revolving f ans> 1 y■ | mrii f iKfrsT "Tj \\™\jUj lf4 imLEmiZSiSShSSbm Ritchie Hardwa^ Thursday, ANW ■ lv, y s ° ! ' H,bs o ; : " j N ■ nn( *er tire j,. Siiuiii,-,. fe„i. b * x lK " Ac W- 1 ™- "7 "i B .vwl. Jr., y t in an airpi ail , ‘ V S i mechanician r inoft , ‘ h ioji M L‘l 5111(1 l ß * .'V'U- U-uiS I '^ ( onin, and en I•’ary. l •’ary. who „ 0, 1909. I T Li . 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