North Carolina Newspapers

White Man And Two -.•J- |1 I t .®i. h Fight Over Colored Woman THE PAPER WITH A HEART AND SOUL charlotte post THE PAPER WITH A HEART AND SOUL Price 5 Gts Worth More VOLUME 4 NO. 12 M^RF^TTE. N. G. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 1930 PRICK; S CENlt. Baptized Here % Bishop Grace Oscar Pratt Mortally Wounded; Tomlin Riley, White Man Shot and Cut Over Girl. WHERE WEATHER MAN ACTS LIKE VTLAIN James Lipscomb Flees After Shooting Men igWho Went To See His Girl Saturday. At a house on the corner of Caldwell and Boundary Sts. was the scene of a mixed fight last Saturday about 4 o’clock When the Smoke had ^feared away, it ■was found that Oscar Pratt was moitally wounded, and Tomlin Riley, white man, was shot and cut. It is alleged that the - shooting grew out a quarrel over the Pratt bringing the white man to the house to se^ Lipscomb’s girl. Pratt and Lipscomb began cur sing each other,then Riley butted in to take Pratt’s part, and Lips comb began shooting. He shot bmh the white man and the Ne gro. The Negro was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital where he died Sunday evening. Th- white man, only slightly wounded was placed in the city jail. All Spooners Barred From This Cemetery ’ Port Jervis, N. Y. — Automobile epooiiiug: f'oiniles who luive been visit- ueai* PtuT JtM’viff. .’t!t\'e been barretl by ofticiflls of the ceiiieterv af'ior S o’clock ai ni.^lit. r A constable patrols Uie cemetery and seizes any couples who enter the .i)urial around in aiaoinohiles or foot after the forlfldden hour, Spooners who lio not mind .spooky ■ places for pettliiu i>arlles liave been 'invading the cemou-ry i;i larj^e nunc ■ bers, and most .f iliein are said ‘come frton l’i*rt Jervis, Mbbileiown and other near-by conmiunities. RED SQUARE WILL BE RECONSTRUCTED It Was Rea] Hot in Kansas This Summer. Once Scene of Glamour and Tragedy in Russia. Washingion.—liussia's “Ited .SQuare," tlie Si-eiie m’ glamotii- and irased.v. is to ite recon.sLriKded. according to a report of tiie Xatiouai Oeograplile so ciety. In back of a tiigli !>otird fence the «-ork of turning the temporary woodeti nmnsoleum int(t a permanent i'esiiiig place of strtne is already under way. Smoritli flag stones will replace the ancieni coldiles and permanent revie\^Ing .stands are to be erected. Formerly the scene of public execu- tlon.s, of imiHTlal proclaraation.s and martial' parades, of bloody revolutions, it now re.sound.s with tlie tramp of the Ked army ami the footfalls of So viet workers, lllgti above the Krem- lln ivall rises a great clock tower, built tlie year before Columbus discov ered .America, Oppo.sife this historical slrticture are the 'i’r..diiig Rows with their arcaded sidewalk.s, arinind which the people In ail walk.s of life gather. Women in felt hoot.s, clerks in leather jnekets, ottlcials, usually well dre.s.sed, with their brief case.s under their arms, laborers in ilietr dirty slieepskin coats, slippered giris dragging hand cans liehind them offer a glamorous comntst. lenders cluster around the gates leading to ‘-lied Stpiare,” offering all manner of artlcle.s and making .sec tions of tlie sipiare Into virtnal out door department stores, •At night an open forum Is estah- Viet spoilkers gather little knuiis of lU- teners about thein to explain details of the Soviet plan of governmeni, and ofttimes the siiuaie is filled with h mass of people while tiie govei-iunent lead' ers proHaim ihe doctrines of the rev olution through nianimoih loud speak ers. \Vith the work of reconstructU)!! now started, all of this glumour is at a standstill, until when a new and even greater “Red Snuare” is com pleted, It can begin anew. Monument to Honor Amundsen Searchers Havre, trance.—A monument reii- resenii.ig a large iceberg and a sea plane witli ii.s f’u.selage lialf out of the water will mark the .spot in the Seine, along ttie i'aris-K'.uen-Havre md, where the IJitluim-47 liopped off ,for 'fire hunt rir Amundfsou in wlilcli the plaint' and iis crow of fF»ur were lost. Evt'ry naiioii in ihe world Filino.«t is : reprosoiited in -iomo pari or .Nr.-w York by If.'j resiaiuviiifs, siore.s and tliea- ter.-g. hoce in Ihe city, practi cally e\cr.\ l.oicuage Is spoken. g\lad- din could not nih liis lamp and wish for auxihing whirh money could not buy s-me\\]ierc In .V.nv York. .Mice and eiepliants. dhimooiis and g]a.ss. uiriilant'S and dhing stiiis. you 'an buy them all, if you hn\e the ftrlce, .New York is one of (he gateways and store Iiouses of I ln‘ cart It. ♦ IS The -Motor parkway runs for shout fifty miles down the center of i^ong Island. It costs a dollar to enter U in a car and. .since the \V4li Sitreet crash, husincss ha.s f.-Uien off. Motor ists now stop to conddei* Unit a dol -h?r will iiurclmse several gallons of gasoline, The parkway, with i(s in frequent traffic. Slid gets the dollar from inillionaires and lovers -and for tlie ^ame rensoTi: they can get along faster on it. * * * I uni told iliat, on a cliill autumn day, ihe hands of a .'.rranger placing the gulf (I.arse at tiroat Neck grew cold,-so he heat them together. At the clapping sound, .'■i actors stopped in the niiililh' of ilodr swiims and fo(di a how. * « iji I saw a cigarette smoker, the other day, go 10 ihi'ce places before he could buy tho, par'.h-Milar brand he fancied. Iso other hr.nn,d would do. Then he went til a gathering of friends where he smoked every brand of cigarette offered iijp. K>OH>>0-C>K>>>O-OC Get Marriage Blank From Slot Machine iioscow.—in oi-aer to facill- tare muiTiiive unii divorce for e ly ^ at (1 to save the liiTior of going to a ffice to get the nec- lie authorities slot machines Sk^Jilanks -olns' bave alter U,,. re.>?t'^ the colu re- Soviet Finds Use for Dead Cats; Making Soap Moscow.—Don’t waste your dead eats and dogs. The Soviet has found a use for riiern. {"Soap must be made rrtnn i-urs and dogs.’l says Pra\da, rlio Soviet newi paper. '‘One oat boiled down givt five ounces of fat, one iog more ihan. a pound.” Rats, ini.-e and iimriinds will also be used in preparing a popular toilet l>run(l calletl *’My (IrFinthnother’.s JBoii- Quec.” iioiling, instead of tlirowliig away the carcas.-scs yseti the state fur^'»yndft-ate, will' yieM annually 000 loii.s of fat for soap, reicashig an equal quamicy of fats edible by work- ei-s. An otlicial circular urges peasants not to tlrowii jnjppies, hut 10 b'rcp the entire liKer for one year and then knock ihem on ilie head, and sell the skims and carca.«.es to the fur syn dicate. Natural Well of Ice Found in South Dakota Kapid I'by, S. l). ~.A natural ice well, 17:; feet underground, from wlilch cry.stal cleaj- blocks of Ice can be cut in hottest weather, is occa.slonltig mneb iiiterest here. The well is lo cated at the gMisntn plaster mill at Hlack Hawk, seten miles liortli of liere. In digging for gypsum at the plant, workin.^n .sunk a .shall, at the end of wliicli a large bole was excavated in taking out gypsum. This filled with water to a iiep.h i.f eight feet, which freezes in summer and is contcil with thick ice. Woman Sues Post Office for Premature Suicide Belgrade.—-'The wife ol a workman U Miing the pti'-t (Ufk-e authorities for basing delayed rlie new.s that her hui^haud liad won a big prize in b lottery. She eJuinos iliat her husband, wlio ssa.s a chauffeur, committed sui cide through poverty and lurk of ss'ork. If he bud I’eceived the nows 15 minutes euiiiir he would nut have ended his life. Baby Girl, Three Months Old, Speaks Distinctly I'lfiis.—The ihree-nuuiih-old baby girl of an Aiinonian couple here speaks disiincily. in the last liir.'e weeks she lias used a voctihulary t*f 85 words. A number of Soviet lan guage speclalisrs have visited liie child iu order 10 investigate the phe nomenon. Topeka, Kan.—It lias been rather hot ail over the I’nited States this summer, hut in Kansas ilie weather man has been artlng up like a demon. Eor Instance. Jnle 'I’ruwbridge is a fainihand In (Jrive coiijits'. Lie vva.s employed on"the farm of Rev. (Jerrit Snyder near (Jove City. One after noon he was directed to v\alk over to some stacks of barley and bring in some equipment, lie walked throitgli the barley stubble and id-; p-er kepi gelling holier and lad ter. He looked down and both feet were arnially on fire. 'The frlrflon of tlie leather of his shoos on tlie lh)t around and the hot straw (.f the stubble actually set hi.s shoes on fire. 'I'ruwhrld.ge took off his shoes and he.gan fighting tlie fire in the stubble field, (dihers came to his aid and wlien the fire wa.s out ' Trowbridge wa,s taken to Dr. R. L. Ruttan at Grainfield and his burned feet dre.'^sed. Boiled Goldfish. The re-ords of the Kansas state fire inar.shal rontain aiithemic reports of numerous firr-4 In homes caused en tirely by sun niy.s. In one in.stance the sun ray=c >iruck tlm beveled edge of a mirror and ilien reflected to the rug and set tlie rug on fire. In an other borne a b. l*hle in fiie glass of a window made a magnifying glass of the spot and .set fire lo a bed. \V. A. Smith of Snokomo walked Into the living room of his home late one nfiernoon .•>ni noted that the gold fish wm-e deail. He reached into the howl and his hand was blistered. A sun ray had sirm-k the howl and had literally boiled ilio ft.=,h to death. At leasi ih.at’s Id.s vory and he has the b'^vv! Ian lo) fi^li 10 ^how for it. *»«— _ » 7. —JL.-. .-..i..-,--1rn*,v caused by sloe! usUiIng foo hot. Some stacks (*f hay and wheat have been burned and many fields swept by fire as the result of piiohforks slanding in (he hay or straw and catching the hot rays of the sun. There are a few insiances of whcee plece.s of wire lefl in .stubble field,', have become so hoi a.s m j-et fire lo stublde, and there are a few rep»ris of wltere high and dead grass along fences have been et on fire by (lie heal of the wires. Cars Driven Backwards, it is ijoi an unu.^ual sight to see motor cars of a '•en-iln well-known type being driven hai kwards across the Kanm.'^ prairies. '1 lie burning sun on ilie diiV* renilal on the rear axle had burned out the grease and wrecl'ed the gears so that the cars would nor nm forwai'd at all. Tour ists had 10 drive home or to the next service station sitting on the dash boards and [dlo;!i'g the car backwards, 'But rhe hot weather 1ms been great for the birds. They got cooked In sects. Motorists driving across the prairies strike grasslmppens and but terflies fljFd oilier insects. In large numbers. Tlie heat ef the radiators and the boiling sun cooked ihe Insects. When Ihe cars stopped anywhere the birds swarmed down upon the front of the car and. began ui eat. iome mo torists were kind enough to spread a blanket over tlm lu-aces and lamps so the birds could pick the insects In comfort and nor^ger (heir.feet burned. Yep, It Mirciy has been terrifically hot In Kans.is—as well as other places. SKIPPER SEES ISLE “AFLOAT" IN PACIFIC Captain Rep.^ts Discovery Near Society Group, .Noi-fdlli, Vii.—A-Vittatlng" Island, In- hali.ted only b.v blril.s, and another not AiSthle two ye.nrs a-o, were discovered b.v t.'apt. .r. (t. Rv.ms of the British steamer Bareora ir^d his crew, accord ing to a report itia*, b.v Captain Evans on his arrival In (Lnipton Roads. ills ship has Jii5l returned from a long crui.se to (i>. .Society Islands, Solomon Island anti various other Is- lamts in the .-^ouftr sea,s. 'File ('areora. ot'i of England, has been avva.v from six months and I has been steadily tfie go. \ fm, IN LIFETIME, SPENDS YEARS ABED Sleeping Equipment, There fore, Becomes Important. Uhicflgo.—What’s the most Important j piece of furniture in the American ,home? The answer is practically 1 unanimous—IJie bed! I Why? The bed sees more use flian jany other Fuie piece of furniture. The javerage person spends eight hours ieach day in bed—56 hours a week, i-46 hours a monlli, 2,012 liours a- year land, figuring a lifetime as 50 years, a I total of ,1T5,6(X1 hours during a llle- 'time. Quite a period! These statistics probably show why 25,000 See House of Prayer Congregation Parade Streets Here Last Sunday, HUGE MAP READY IN FIFTY YEARS Offers Relief Outline of U. S, and Canada. ‘It was on .April ai noon that wc ', «scs. has Re discovered the‘flojk e Island- It was In the Pacific t,^,- the Society js. with lands,” salii Evans- ' ’ " j'eiich a.ge witnessing a new Improve- “There were noof human life, f'’"''"' equipment. but there were great flocks of blrds- swarmlng over the.place. There must ■ have been a tho'i.5nnd birds at least In the flock Wf* si-w. We did not get close to the fslauff because we did not known how deep K.e water might be. Uiand Reappaart. “The fslnnd ap['rared to be only a few feet above Ue water. In some places It looked if the water was breaking ovei Us^-'-hore lines. “We also .sigliti^. the Tonga of the •Friendly islands, which was entirely submergei.1 two y rir^ ago. It Is now 600 feet Hbove lir^surface of the sea. There is no Ifie this Island either, except birds. I presume If anybody wanted to live t‘t'-''re they might be frightened for f«ar cnat the island might again he il-iimed by tlfe sea. from which It “At Solomon IslJjid we had a run- in with the beau [hunters. They at tempted to get f'J^’h with f ■ crew Tfitry. We gave .them TnTb Tf^clfeur^' of the civic authorities, but they were permitted to, return to tlieir haunts with a warning they must be good. “The Tonga Island appears to be shielding a volcano. When our ship pas.sed it we could see smoke. “The other Island which we sighted near the .Society i.-lands we called the Floating island. 1 don’t know any thing abom where if came from nor how long It will ternaln vl.slble.” World Needs New Drink, Fr-ncI'. Diplomat Says i.ondon, Lnglainl.—The world needs a new drink. That is Ihe belief of Viscount d’Aber- non, famed irade diplomat find war time chalnmin of rhe liquor traffic control !)oard. who recently declared before iho liGen-sing connni.ssion that not only is a siihsihnie for alcholic drinks warned. Imr a “vast fortune” awrlis the iiv eulor of one. “Ill \Ib\v of ihe fact that alcohol docs hnd!\ wh t Ir sel.s out to do,’’ declared VbcAOjnt rAi>eruon before the commission, “also tliat it la not a true -siimuJnnt and that the euphoria (sen.^'e of feeling well) it brings is mu e\euipt from Injurious reaction, ! comiiiue lo believe in the concoction 'of some preferable sub stitute. “Xoi only Would the discoverer there of earn the grailtude of humanity, hut a vast fortune would he his as well.” Viscount eVAhernon tlien gave It as his opinion ihni the new beverage would have to he appealing to the palate and would have to have ef fects that would appeal to the drinker more than iwesent-day liquor. Frenchman Would Show Toe-Dancing Fleas Here Bari.e, France.—The flea-tamer, Jean Rochet, who has presented fils per forming fleas at fairs all over Franoe, was preparing his troupe recently for a forthcoming .visit to the Fnlred States, pro\ Ided. he can get li through immigration a.nd quarantine stations. Rochet h.i-S devoted a lifetime 10 the study of fleas, teaching (hem tricks of toe dancing, gymr^asrlcs and jug- ffllrig. “Fach one is tra'mul acoordlii.i to his particular ciiaracier and temper ament,” said Rochet. “When first cauitht, each one is tied wUh a fine strand of golden wire which is fixed witli tlie aid of a micro.scope. 'rhi.-s prevents the flea from escapKig. since he can only jump a certain distance owing to the welglit of the golden win'. “The fleas begin to show propemsl- ties for eiiher dancing, juggling or ‘strong-man’ fears and these (inali- ties are developed carefully over a period of weeks. “They get to know me soon and are extremely obeifient. They can even be taught to ro'^pond to the din ner gong. I prefer itie male flea be cause he is more conscientious.” Locates Squeakers Loveland, Colo.—D. O. Kesler had squeak in Ids car that no garage man could fix. While Ke.sler had the spa.'i of rhP ftuptTA.. a mouse made Iter np,=t In on* of the hclifs. Five .\uung mice were found In the nest when Kesler Investigated trouble. Reduce Din of Building by Electric Welding Wilmingliin, Del.—,x U-Mtory hiilld- Ing is beina: erected here wiili lUtle more noise ihan in construction of n burn. The strncltira is an addition to Ihe Dni'fint orticie building ■vbleb. Avlll cover two cii.v W.-toK'S. .All of ilie stniraiilal steel fi-ume Is being electrically wtelded, tvhile the concrete Is mixed aij a central plant and hauled to the sill^read.v for pour ing. The absence of 'fhe racket of pneumatic riveting haratnar.s and the rattle of conerete mixer.? in operation liiis eliminated pracUcall.v all noise,ex cept iluit of nallltif toSetlier i.‘t^ liim- Iter forms for the floors and ,other concrete work. > Occupants of nearby office, buildings and peopic piissinpt tlie operation would hardly he a\va>-j0 that construc tion V as under wtty Jpnless tiiev saw It. The first beds, It they may he called ..such, were nothing If not simple, It Ts related lii a survey of tlie subject .published at the .American ' Furniture Aiart iiere. Your caveman simply ■wrafiped some eoverlng about himself, laid down “as is”—and tltere he was, all ready for a night’s repose. Hut tl.e bed was one of elvlllzatlon’s first ;aililevemenfs. Egyptians Had 'Em High. ; The Egyptians, it is believed, were ,tiie first people to get up in the world a.s far as sleeping was concerned. T'heir beds were so high a stool or a \t hole series of steps were required ■ to climb Into them. Failing out mtist li .ve been a serious business. The jheds were supported by long, curved >.,.-s, ending in clawed feet, graceful in Idesign. With tlie I'erslans, a bed must have ;boen a eorapileated contraption. It Is 'recorded that when .Artaxerxes, a Per- t hftl as' a gift to • Aihens, he sent atSnjjyWl’i'ot?”rorp‘s lof attendants, '•skiUed'TTT-preparing it ‘for sleep.” Just wliat tliese hed-me- ;clianies did has not been dl.selosed, hut Tlielr services were obviously eon.sid- ered essential and all part of the ni .ht’s work. The Romans, who divided all Gaul ,Ii!V0 three parts, us Latin students ,know, divided their beds Into five classes: 1. the. ordinary slee[iiug ^bed; 2. the reclinityg table couch; .T ■the smaller lounge for rest during the day; 4. the high marriage bed: S. .the funeral bed, carried during a ifmieral procession. No explanation is 'offered as to wliy tlie marriage bed wii.s higher tlian any of the otliers. j As time Went on, beds varied great- dy as to size and deeoraiion, but their leomfort steadily increased, as springs land mattresses were introduced and iimproved. During the time of Cliarle- ■niagne beds were very .simple and iofien made of bronze tubing, some- similar to tlie brass bed once ;|io,u>inr In America, .About tlie Thir- iteenili century, h"ds had increased in ■size .and lu.xury and tlie cnsiom of fimrkiug tlie marriage bed rigid oni [in Ihe middle of tlie main hall at a iwedding was introduced. Curtains, it |riuiy he added, were placed entirely jarotind the bed. j Achieves Importance. ; During the Fifteentli century, the hi d probalily aoliieved the greatest Im- ;portance of its career. It became an eliihorare piece of fni'niiure for dis play pnriioses and it was quite Hie tiling to receive guests in the bed- ro.oin, even kin.gs holding court recep- tion.s while reclining on the royal Couch. .At this time it was cn.sfoiuar.v to suspend draperies iitul canopies f.-oiii Ihe ceiling, hn( later cnluiiins to support tliese decorations were built as iiart of tiie tied and from this he- giuiiing evolved tlie four-poster bed which still retains its popiil-irily. Skipping tiu'ongli Hie centuries to the pre.seul, sniali. single heiT.s liave long been dominant in continental Eu rope, while Ilie double lied was eoni- nieiily used in this country, tlie popu larity of tlie twill lied being a com paratively rec.-nt plienonicnoii. Through all its ups and downs, com fort lias aiwa.vs lieen tlie major item determining sides. Wellesle.v, .Mass.—Tlie largest map In tlie world, which will ineaswe 6.3 feet tVom east to west and 4.'i feet from north to souili, is being con st meted lierti Conceived ?hy R.iger sv'! Swhson, noted .statistician, the work, a relief oiiillne of the Cniied States and I'an- ada, was begun about five .vears ago. It is estimated that 50 more years will be required for Its eenipletion, and approximately .?2,0tXl,0(jj will be expended on tlie project, I’tie map will be ten times larger than that of the I'an-.tmerican union wliicli the government possesses, Tlie latter Is flat, whereas that being pieced together here will be of spher ical form In exact ratio to tlie earttrs curve. The horizontal scale will be one inch for four niile.s. The vertical seaie will be one foot for four miles, in.sur- Ing that altitudes and depre.ssioiis de picted will ■ stand out prominentl.v.- A gallery L5 feet tiigti will encircle the map. Viewed from this, any sec lion reproduced on the work will ap pear just about as It would If aciually seen from an airplane at a lieiglit of 12 miles, ^ Not only will the topography of the Cnited States and Canada be Imitated with precl.sion, but by elaborate color Ti^ sIniuTare(?'as‘lJ‘f‘g!5‘p(tg^(nip-, •- Every river, mountain, raftroad line, elt.v, and smaller community of tlie two countries will be traceable from the gallery. The painted desert of Arizona, the everglades of Florida, California’s or ange grove.s, the pasture lands north of ■'■-« Rio Grande, and the ice-bound regions of nortliern Canada will be delineated. 'i'lie entire work will conform to data being furnished b.v the United States topographical survey. 10,000 Look O 11 A ■ Bishop Grace'Baptizea 6 0 8 Candidates A t House of Prayer Here Radius of Universe Placed at Nine Septillion Miles Washington.—The fradins of the universe lias been iMaced- at about 9,r,(10,POO,000.000,ooo.onb,000 mites. Tliat Is tlie caU'uki,jlon sent to the National .Academy tif Sciences h.x f’rof. Wilhelm lie Slier, of tlie Uni versity of Leyden, flSland, one of tlie world's foremost idiitheiiiiulcir.n-iis- tronomers. _ i OOOKX^OOOO oo-oooo-oooo-ooootxxo 0 Curfew Mistaken for Alarm of Fire liigersoll. Oat.—.All Uie olill- dreri whD wore supposed to ran home when ihe lown fire bell ran^ oi.i (In* cui-rew came scur- ;'ylji,i (o Ihe fire ena:iiie house ro«‘A-niiy to find out where was (he fire. The (own eonndl had neg- iceit'd In announce the date when .a new curlew law was lo rake effect. Volunteer firemen who knew nothing' about ilie uuannonn«-ed enru-w shared the children's dis- uppointmeiH when they learned ihe bell slgnuh'.l nolhing e.Y-iting ihan a warning u oiiiMrtL'i h 'is 1 Ijan f, :n i* old lo lion-.i'. C C-OOO-C O 0 0 C 0>0-0KH>0HV' V Designer of U. S. Capitol Urged in Hall of Fame W'ashington.—Charles Bulfinch, “the first American architect,” and design er of the United States Capitol, has been nominated to the Hall of Fame hy the board of directors of tlie .Ainer- iciui rnstitnte of Architects. Hum- iiiaries of -the achievements of tlie eai'Iy American deslg-ner have been .scm to each elector of the Hall of Fame b.v the board, •'Few architects of today can lioast of a list of such notable buildings ns those designed by Bulfinch,” says the hoard In its plea. It was stated that Biillincti’s record as a siatesmnn dur ing the formative period of Boston ( slioiild be sutticient to elect the ar chitect to the Hall of Fanve as a state.snian. If not as an architect. Bulfinch was born in Bowdoin square, Boston, .August 8, 1763. He died April 15, 1844, A graduate of Harvard, Bulfinch be came interested in designing work while attending to Improvements on Ills father’s and friend.s* houses. La ter he was utile to make an extenslxe tour of Europe, studying the types of architecture used in tlie old cities. Willie serving as a .selectman in Boston, Bulfinch inaugurated street lighting, the s.vstera of coeducation, establisliment of a hoard of health, and a financial oonimlttee that brouglit about order and system in the method of collecting taxes. In 1817, after completing his second term on the board of selectmen, Biil- flneh was appointed architect of tlie United .States Capitol In Washington. Among the many buildings de signed by the architect are the Con necticut stale house In Hartford lii I7D2, tlie first theater in Boston, five Institutional buildings, ten chui’clies, three hospitals, seven schools and seven commercial and bank buildings. The third session of the Annual Convocation of the Hou.se of Pray er was called to order last Tbura da,y at the House of Prayer on S. Long St. by Hish^/t C. M, Gratje who es'ablished the House of Pra.ver here about three years ago. Mare Than 2000 In 4(tcndanoa. The largest congregation ever to take Communion in Charlotte Avere given Communion Saturday night b.v Bishop Grace. After the Baptism Sunday at 1 P. M,, a .spectacular parade that was over a mile in length started at the House of Pra.ver and march edtlirongh the principal streets of the city. There were organizatmns from Chester and Rock Hill, S. C, Shelby, Salis bury and other nearb.y towns iu the par.hde. The feature of tb* parade was a string band of about 15 people on a truck, and the Daughters of Jerusalem. Sunday uig,hl^. ..Bishop Grace SI?? 'vV‘'i‘me Vanderburgh. ’’ Visitors. Some of the out of town visitors and delegates were as follows! Miss Hunt, formerly Mrs. Mad den who is well known here as the wife of Rev, Madden, who first started the House of Prayer here. Sister K. L, Glenn, Savan iiah, Ga., Mrs, Kissiah Hill and Ribie, Mrs. Ada Holloway and daughter little Mamie, Miss Net tie McDougald and Carrie Lee of Washington, D. C., Annie Brown, Mary Jones, Macy Stafford, Caro iyn .Jackson. Beatrice Coleman, Jo.sephGray, Sister Bertha Jor danj President, Miasionary Band, Allie Little, Jo.sephine Mickles, Clara Gray, Victoria Davis,Arthur Price, Eunice Patton, Wesley Da vis, James Hams, Dervie Lee Ervin, Mr, and Mrs. Lee McFall, and Celestine Brooks. i Long Skirt Blamed for Woman’s Death by Coroner I London,—H. R, Oswiild, a London coroner, presiding a't the Inquest on I the death of Mrs. Sarah Sledtiian, .said that the woman was killed becau-se she had trodden on the hem of hei long skirt and had fallen. He re corded a -verdict a.gniiist the iiltra- fashionable long skirt. Thirsty Chauffeur Wins Beer Money in Hungary Biulapest.—Ladi-slaw Almas.sy who. while driving his eiiiiilo.ver's car, met with an accidoiii re.sulting In the death of his employer, Ims won the law suit wiiicii he toMught against the lieirs of Ills late lioss. He claimed, that ilie acoirteiu alYlIcied lilm with an Iiiiqaouchnlde iliir.st and tliat un- le.ss he used costly preventive medl- cine.s he would he obliged to drink from 2U to 2n plms of beer a day. The court dei-ided "that nnisc not he" and awarded liiiii a iieiision of 844 a nioiuli. Spring Uncovered St. T.oiiis,--iiet’ord loi-.' water on the Mississlpiii river d'ae to dry weather in tile Ylidiile AA'e.-C uncotered part of tiie old levee here, and a spring of bubbling water, which came through tlie stone paving. Levee iiands have used It for drinking purposes. Memory Expert N. G. Peters would Tnstructor in a meiaory ^ tliief stole 21 plioa' er home Golf Ball Breaks Arm Killay, England. — The peaceful business of herding sheep was broken for .Artluir Williams wlieii his arm was struck ami liroken hy a golf ball. Charge Girls With ' | Reciprocal Biting^ Paris.—q’wo youna: girls wp*-' hroujrht l>oforo a niunieipa’^^^- lice )naa)J*n*aie' cliargefip•j “rerinrocal liiiinj:" oa . houi'^varfi. Wlit-n Pclice seiiovaied them $ ■■locked In. a cliiivin,e f, ■. Y llie nose of/iier^a i, "er op. •1\_ If;,