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pirl of Fourteen Kidnaps Boy
Os Sixteen, Giving Custom Jolt
iX; phelby, May 8. — For once a staid:
,M) custom of society has received
A trick has been turned on
conventional way of doing things ,
Hgthat is getting married.
JrjElopemen ts and kidnappings regu-
J*rly tell of how the man entices his
Sjftde to the altar with various ineth-
WlciSs of persuasion, but Kings Moun- 1
?tain offers something new.
:|r«Thie time a girl, just 14 years of
a£e, admits tfiat she was the one who
.persuaded her man to run away |
with her.
■W'f "But it’s all settled now. They're
Tharried. Probate Judge Lake Stroup
Stfcd the knot at Gaffney Thursday,
■iafternoon and the 14-year-old girl
now has a 16-year-old husband.
\y , jic?i is the end of the story before
the story itself—or the cart before
the horse.
£»Last week, as the Kings Mountain
•Herald tells it. a new boy in the
town by the name of Cole left town
With Carolyn Terry, daughter of Joe
Jjfcrry, and said to be only 13 years
of age. They headed south and offi-1
eers of tfoe law and the parents of
the girl pursued them. The chase !
Jed through South Carolina and 1
Georgia, but the young couple made*
jgood their escape, although thejir
pursuers, it is said, were within 15)
•tnimites of them at times. j
. However, the young girl came back
_into Kings Mountain on the train
-Monday and the boy came in some
other way. The girl's parents wore
|f»till away searching for her and
'’Chief Wells, of Kings Mountain,
rounded up the couple. There was
Ho charge against the girl, but she 1
agairast going home because 1
t‘- Cycle of Women’s Dress.
Toledo Blade.
t In 1886 the silk dress of the aver
age woman contained 22 yards of
material. This was the time when
a line drawn from the back of the
neck downward described mid-way a
sudden and imposing outward curve.
It was nlso the time when, thanks -to
fashion, municipalities could dispense
with a good deal of the hired labor
for street cleaning.
About twenty years earlier, the pe
rmd of the hoopskirt. tlie yardage was
lb. Eight years earlier it was four
and a half. The disturbances and
embargoes of the Napoleonic wars
Room to have had something to do
with this style.
In 1883 it took throe yards to make
a sleeve ami six yards to go around
the bottom of the skirt. There ie
« tradition that in 1883. a time of in
dustrial depression. unemployment
and enforced economies, enterprising
young women went to parties and
came home with such souvenirs in
their sleeves as sides of bacon.
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she was afraid of a beating. So they
were both brought to he jail in Shel
by.
Comes Into Court.
I Thursday morning the case came
; up before Recorder John Mull, who
settles everything from matrimonial
disputes to boundary lines for moon
! shiners. There was no charge against
* the girl, but Cole, who is said to be
around 16 or 17. was charged with
kidnapping her.
j Then when the evidence started in
The jolt came. The young girl told
the court that the boy did not kidnap
her. but that, instead, she persuaded
, him to go off with her. According to
the judge she furthermore said she
tried to take another boy and when
he wouldn't go she took Cole.
That left the jurist with nothing
to do but turn the boy free. He
hadn't kidnapped anyone and so the
; judge ruled. But, as the girl was
said to be only 13 years of age. he j
referred her to J. B. Smith, county j
welfare officer.
| Thereupon the revenues of South ]
I Carolina were added unto. After a
I conference with the welfare officer the I
young couple together with her par
ents set out for Gaffney. S. C., where j
they were married about 2 o'clock in
the afternoon by I’robate Judge
Stroup.
In a long distance telephone, mes
sage Judge Stroup fcaid that the par
ents gave their consent to the girlV
marriage and stated that she was 14
years of age.
! Marriage under that age is im
■ possible in South Carolina, the judge j
• said, and only at 14 with the consent j
1 of the parents.
I The silk dress of 1026, that is, the i
average one. gets along with three,
j yards of goods.
The evolution of dress, as indicat- j
j ed by the stuff which has gone into!
i it. brings up the question as to wheth- j
er the cycle will oscillate, in the way
of a pendulum, backward toward bulk
and the bustle or go on until the
skirt of a woman is reduced to a
whisper and corresponds to the vermi
form appendix as a more or less in
convenient relic. It would appear
today that any one is entitled to
guess either way.
The mascot of Mile. Suzanne |
Lenglen, the French tennis star, is j
her color scheme—a yellow, green or ■
red bandeau, with silk sweater to
match. She selects these rollers ac
cording tii the class of player slie is |
going to meet. Yellow stands for a j
player of little account; green for an!
opponent worthy of some attention;
and red signifies the danger signal, j
when all her strokes and skill are to
be put forth.
“NEW WORLD SYMPHONY”
IS TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
Regardless of Bygone Contro
versies, Dvorak’s Composi
tion Holds Favor.
DARKENED theatre . . ,
a drama ot lonely, wind
mn swept prairie unfolding on
■Jgggg the silver screen . . . the
pleading, tearful voices of
violins lending deeper pathos to
the tragedy that is unfolding . . .
a symphonic breath of emotion
which makes the cinema panto
mime really live. . . .
What is this haunting fabric of
aound which sweeps almost every
Hs t r i n g of the
emotion, and
which can ex
press with equal
swinging rhythm
of charging red
skins, the rush
of city traffic, or
cabin? And why
do theatre audi
*• ■ "'“ "'■i ences through
out America, listening to it through
the years, often without being able
to identify it, continue to be swayed
by its magic?
It is the Symphony No. 5, “Prom
the New World," by Antonin
Dvorak. The subject of many a
heated controversy among musi
cians, as to whether it does or
does not express the authentic
spirit of America, it has, never
theless, endured in the affections
of Americans, and can now be said
to have attained a fixed place in
the musical life ot the United
States.
Antonin Dvorak was born on
September 8, 1841, in Mulhausen,
Bohemia. Music, rather than the
hereditary occupation of inn
keeper, claimed him in early boy
hood, and at the age of thirty-two
he scored his first triumph as a
composer with a patriotic cantata
which brought him both fame and
money.
In 1892 Dr. Dvorak accepted the
invitation of the National Conser
vatory of New York, to become its
director. The idea of an American
symphony must have taken almost
Instantaneous root in the mind of
the composer. Toward the end of
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1892, in what was apparently a
period of homesickness, he went
to Spillville, la., where he could
have contact with his own people,
a little colony ot Bohemians. It
was in this familiar environment
that music’s greatest tribute to
America was begun, late in 1892,
and'' completed early in the follow
ing year.
Critics have pointed out in the
thematic material of the composi
tion influences of the songs of the
Southern Negro, ot the weird
cadences of the American Indian,
and of melodies which breathe of
the mingling, in the New World,
of the myriad races of the globe.
Whether the symphony is Amer
ica’s contribution to music, or
whether it can
only be cited as
music's greatest
tribute to Amer
(J A troversy that
P l neve>r be settled.
o Jmf l Its nationwide
acceptance ca n
WEri well be argued
I A m e r i c a n ln
“ *“ 3i 3 '' 1 spiration, how
ever. One of its most recent tri
urnphs was the recording of the
complete composition, on five talk
ing machine records, as rendered
by the Philadelphia Orchestra, un
der the direction of Leopold Sto
kowski, one of the greatest living
masters of the symphony orchestra.
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TELL THE PEDDLERS TO MOVE
ON.
Monroe Enquirer.
Every once in a while n peddler
offering wares of one kind of another
hits town and gathers in some loose
cash from folks who imagine they
are getting wonderful bargains. It
may be hand-made lace, women's silk
lingerie, some novel Household appli
ance or a dozen or so other things
which peddlers are wont to offer.
But in practically every instance
these itinerant merchants find a suf
ficient number of Customers to war
rant them plying their trade and ev
ery so often these folks who have
purchased articles from these peddlers
find that the home merchant has a
superior article at a much lower
price.
Recently a merchant told a repre
sentative of this paper a little hap
pening which may serve as a warn
ing to some folks who allow them
j selves to be victimized b.v these trav
elling merchants.
I This merchant had a can for lace
by a stranger. The stock was shown
the customer who finally purchased
a quantity of shopworn laces of old
patterns which had been unsalable
b.v the merchant for some months.
He was very anxious to get rid of
this stock and let the lot go at a very
low figure.
When this merchant went to luneh
his wife all smiles laid before him a
quantity of. what she said, was im
ported hand-made lace which she had
picked up from a peddler who called
at the house during the morning.
The merchant asked his wife wbat
she paid for the lace. She told him. j
Then the merchant smiled.
“Why, Mary,” he said, “that is
some of that old stock I have had
at the store for months. I sold it
this morning to a stranger who asked
to see the stock of laces. I sold it
for a song almost, and there isn’t n
piece of hand-made or imported lace
in the whole lot.”
The wife was slow to believe her
husband until he produced a few rem
nants of the same pattern still in the
lot at the store.
Doubtless there are other similar
stories which could be related by
folks here.
Probably a little more advertising
on the part of the merchants and a
little more closer reading of the ads.
on the part of the buying public
would help both parties affected and
serve to rid the town of the itiner
ant merchants.
Obis’ Club to Give Demonstration.
Newton, N. C„ May 4.—The girls'
club at Balls Creek, In Catawba coun
ty will give demonstrations in the
preparation and serving of foods at
their local school commencement, re
ports the home agent. Miss Anna C.
Bowe.
Eighth grade members will give
demonstrations in salad making, while
those from the ninth grade will pre
pare and serve a breakfast to the
teachers. A luncheon will be prepar
ed and served the school committee
by students in the tenth grade, and a
dinner will be served the bifih school
teachers by eleventh grade pupils.
There are 75 members of this club,
and these are divided into ssx groups
according to age and grade, so that
effective work may be done, explains
the home agent.
USE PENNY COLUMN—IT PAYS
STEEL CONSTRUCTION TO CUT
HIGH COST OF HOME BUILDING
Use of Standardized Shapes
Promises Solution of
Vital Problem.
HHE application of the prin
ciples of skyscraper con
struction to the erection
of small residences is ad
vanced as a solution of
the high-cost-of-houslng problem
following an investigation, spon
sored by the American Institute of
Steel Construction, of the housing
situation in towns and cities
throughout the United States.
The mounting costs of building
construction have threatened the
very existence of the small, mod
erately-priced dwelling during the
last few years. To meet the situa
tion various expedients have been
proposed, the latest of which are
embodied in the housing bill of the
New York State Legislature, and a
home financing project undertaken
by the labor banks to reduce the
cost of home ownership to work
ers.
Such moves are of unquestioned
value, but It Is held that the use
of standardized steel construction
for the frames of small residences
cuts at the root of the problem and
promises a measure of permanent
relief. All-steel construction for
small dwellings, it Is said, can con
tribute still further towards bring
ing an attractive and substantial
ly built house more within the
realm of possibility for ths man
of small means.
Bteal In ths Homs
In discussing the use of steel In
residence construction, Henry R.
Brigham, Chairman of the Housing
Committee of the National Asso
ciation of Real Estate Boards, said:
“As this country grows the de
crease In timber reserves will make
tt increasingly more difficult and
expensive to use lumber In such
construction to the extent that It
ts now used, and the Increasing
congestion of our cities demands
The only woman who is included
in the list of awards of grants in aid
of research, just given out by the
American Council of Learned So
cieties, is Miss Bertha I’utnam, pro
fessor of history at Mount Holyoke
College. Miss Putnam is one of 21
American scholars who have received
A typical home of steel frame and steel wall construction. The roof
J to of metal tile.
construction offering greater re
sistance to fire.
“It to up to the steel Industry to
arrange tor the fabrication of steel
for such purposes In designs that
can be more easily and quickly
handled and erected than wooden
beams and girders, and at leas cost;
and to arrange for its distribution
In smaller unit shipments. It to pos
sible to extend the use of steel even
further by using sheet steel fqr
the walls."
The more to make steel avail
able for residence construction is
already well uhder way In this
country. A considerable number of
houses with steel frames, and
others of all-steel construction
have already been built In erect
ing a home of the new type at Tar
rytown, New York, steel frames
formed of bars riveted In the shop
were brought to the site and bolt
ed together. The shapes were so
arranged mat each would register
with the holes la the ones adjoining.
Substantial Economies
Not enough small houses of steel
frame or all-steel construction
have as yet been erected In the
United States to allow an accurate
estimate of average costs, lfr.
Thursday, .May 6, 1926
grants thus year to aid them in carry
ing on definite projects of research in
the social and humanistic sciences.
She intends to use he.’ grant for
transcripts and rotograps for study
of the actual practice of justices of
the i>eace in the later Middle Ages
in England.
Brigham, however, In citing an in
stance In which metal frame and
lath were used, stated that the
cost of the metal was about 14 per
cent less than would have been
the cost of wood joists, rafters,
studs, and lath for exterior and
interior walls. All-steel dwell
ings In England have been built at
approximately half the cost of
houses of a like nature built of
more conventional materials.
Familiarity with the use of the
monkey wrench, the plumb line
and the carpenter’s square to all
that to necessary for the erec
tion of the metal frame. Fac
tory production with the advan
tages of efficient material handling
and labor saving devices have
been substituted for expensive
hand labor on the job. A small
house In which fabricated steel
shapes were used was recently
erected In the ballroom of a large
New York hotel by four workmen
In M minutes.
Both through cutting the cost of
materials, and , through a redac
tion of labop-'' costs bn the job,
steel to provide a real
solution tor one of the most vital
problems of the day.