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THE CHAKLOTTE NJBWS, MAY 13, 1914. SOCIAL MS NIG ON DIED LAST WIG a 1 1 A YESTERDAY MARRIAGE. V Miss Ploma J. Phillips and Mr. J., Hn-rh Ftlarkburn were married at the heme of the brides parents, Mr. and fir Pjtvs Ahlpct Women Mrs. S. J. Phillips on Arlington ave- Ufie Ul V U"'C" nue. Sunnyside. yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. R. D. Carroll, pas tor of Allen Street Baptist church. Only relatives and friends were pres ent to witness the ceremony. The oride wore a gown of champagne moire silk with hat to match and car ried white carnations. She is only 16, and looked as pretty as she is youth ful. She is very popular in her section of the city. Mendelssohn's Wedding March was played by Mrs. Green. Af ter the marriage Mr. and Mrs. Black burn left for Lincolnton, where they will spend several days. Returning they will make their home in the city, where the groom is an employe of the Charlotte Electric Railway Com pany. He has a host of friends in the city. DECLAIMERS' CONTEST. Tonight at S p. m.. the young men of the Southern Industrial Institute will contest for declaimers' medal. Tomorrow night the young women will contest for recitation medal. The annual debate and awarding of prizes will take place Friday night. All these exercises will be held in Parker Hall, and the public is cordially invited. Succumbs to Disease After a Month's Illness Was Prominent in Letters and Club Woman Native of Mecklenburg, Wife of Rev. Walter Lee Nicholson. o. A SUNDAY MORNING MARRIAGE. Miss Edna Ferguson and Mr. R Huntley were married Sunday morn ing, the 10th, at the home of Mrs. H. C. Gibscon, 303 East Ninth street. Rev. L. R. Pruett performed the cere mony. Mrs. L. R. Pruett sang "I Love You Truly." and rendered Mendels sohn's Wedding march. Miss Sarah Watson, maid of honor, wore blue satin with race overdress. The bride was attired in blue coat suit with block hat and carried white carnations. She was given away by Mr. H. C. Gibson. Mr. J. C. Stokes was best man. During the ceremony, "Love and Flowers" was rendered and after the ceremony "Lohengrin. Mrs. Effie Jean Squires Nicholson, wife of Rev. Walter Lee Nicholson of this city, died last evening at 7 o'clock at the Charlotte sanatorium after ixn illness of four weeks, preceded by a period of several months of ill health. For a week it was evident to her loved ones and physicians, that Mrs. Niocol son was going steadily toward the in evitable, and each day new effort was put forth to discover something that could overcome the trouble which threatened her life, but without avail The cause was of a very serious na ture. An operation was performed but revealed a condition that skill could not overcome. On Sunday Mrs Nicholson entered the sanatorium Monday she became semi-conscious and from that time until the evenmg f-hnciows of yesterday gathered a'out her bed, there were only flashes of intelligence. She sank rapidly yes terday afternoon, the end coming at 7 o'clock. The news of the passing of this eminently good, this brilMant woman, was a distress to the city, es pecially to the world of womanhood with whom, as church woman, club woman, D. A. R. and U. D. C, she had been so intimately associated, so valued, so brilliant a helper in thought and action. They all knew, through The News, of her extreme illness, bat the death tidings came as they always do as a shock. Biographical. Mrs. Nicholson was born December S. 1S71. She was the daughter of John B. and Mary Ann Stevens Squires, and her birthplace, her parents home, was twelve miles north of Charlotte, part of the plantation being in Mecklenburg , and part in Union county. Her father The bride is highly accomplished be-. died 20 years ag0 He'r mother is icg especially talented in muie She stm living Xever stroag as a chiIdt Bl5o v vvvwr. ine groom noms Mrs. xicholson grew to girlhood and womanhood - with more mental thfrn a position with the Southern Power Company, and is esteemed by a host of friends. He and his bride are re siding at S16 Worthington avenue. LITTLE MISS HOSTESS. GREEN For her lovely little daushter. Miss i luuii, .us. . n. ureen win give a -u ruun j, ojv, cue party this afternoon at her home nn Rev. Walter Lee Nicholson physical strength, she having an es pecially alert brain, which she richly developed by study when a student at the Greensboro College for Women, of which she was a first honor gradu ate, and afterward by exhaustive read ing married of the Elizabeth, avenue. MR. AND MRS. WOOD HERE ON VISIT. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Wood ot Phila delphia, are guests in the city, visiting Mrs. Wood's sisters, the Misses Mac Nichols one superintendent of the Presbyterian hospital, the other of St. Peter s hospital. Mrs. Wood, before her marriage, was Miss Hazel Mac-; Nicnols, a graduate of Elizabeth Col lege and a girl ia college and ci Methodist ministry, a native of States ville. Mr. Nicholson at that time was in active ministry, and was serving churches in this section of the state. He and Mrs. Nicholson moved to Char lotte September, 190S, and this city became their permanent home. Mr. Nicholson's sight failed to such an ex tent that he gave up active work as a minister and engaged in the real : estate business. He built for his wife a beautiful home on East avenue, of marked popularity-! vhich was a jo-v and happiness to her, jtv. " land therein the last years of her life MISS WOOLWORTH TO BE ASSISTED BY MISS MOSELEY Cards as follows were last night: Queens College presents Miss Lcra Evalyne Woolworth pupil of Miss Elsie Stokes in a Piano Recital assisted by Miss Ella Mosely Violin pupil of Miss Ruth C. Smith Charlotte, North Carolina Friday evening. May fifteenth nineteen-fourteen at eight-thirty. Program. Piano were spent. ! To Mr. and Mrs. Nichols two chil : dren were born, the first dying in in- fancy. The surviving child, a bright rpceivpri : Iittle DO-v Waltter Lee, jr., is four .years old. I Woman of Brains. Mrs. Nicholson was a woman of splendid brain and a strong, true pur- pose in me, tne latter being ever jsubservent to the wise dictate of the , former. She was broad and comprehen jsive, in her mental scope. As a school girl and afterward when a teacher, of music, in Wilkesboro High school, where she met Mr. Nicholson, she ibrgan writing, her first efforts being for religious publications, she being fan earlv and very close student of the i Dible. During the past decade of her I life she became noted as a woman DtlMitImt?hUbe"rH,e"er editor' or SrWomao'M SSSSSSSf: " " " Chm sionary department of the Christian ' V, V "V Advocate, relinquishing the work a Piano- " Marsaret RuthTen LanS,year ago on account of her health. She 1 ti-o,r tr.-u,. o i- 'was deeply interested in missions, and - ?JnEw(5.iV icl,niann had been president of the Woman's v'nn (WMnis) Schuniann.Missionary Society of Tryon Street q-., ,1 I Methodist church, and later of Trinity Souvenir .. .. .. Franz DrdlaMethodlst churcn. Piano Mosely j The cauSe for which Y w c A tT?., tx" u . . I stands, appealed to her. She was a " i , , , 1Sr: ' ChPln-Llszt' member of the board of directors and v-n" Chopin i one 0f the editors of the Special Edi- ?'m , !tion of The New8 the association is Mazurka .. Mlynarski ; soon to issue. She had several splendid Miss Lila Mosely articles under under way for the Epec- vEHov ial Edition. v III. Rhapsodie Liszt she was gifted, not only as writer, i ,es: M T;ve lyn Bod- Eve-;tut teacher. She had the gift not only lyn Blake. Ruth Gill, Donolda Hagac,:0f acquiring knowledge, but so thor Maggie, Yorke Houston and Isabe: oughly assiminated it as to be able, Woolworth. a very delightful way, to impress others. For some time she had been teacher of the woman's class, of Trin ity Sunday school numbering about 35 a work which she loved and labored for with intense zeal, and benefit to those whom she taught. Prominent Club Woman. From the Incipiency of the Char lotte Woman's Club, Mrs. Nicholson was a prominent and interested mem ber. She was first vice president of the club at the time of her death, and had also held the position previous to this year. She had been chairman of various departments of the club, and under her leadership each had done notable work. Patriotism Appealed to Her. Being a daughter of Mecklenburg, the patriotic spirit of the county, sung in song and story, appealed to her. She was a member of Liberty Hall Chapter D. A. R. and also of Stone wall Jackson Chapter, U. D. C, in both of which she was an "ocean to the river of thought." To her literary attainments which were great Mrs. Nicholson added the stronger power of a pure, true nature womanly, wifely, mother-ly. She lov ed others, but she loved home, nus band child, best. Her devotion to this tri-umverate of love was known of all. Her life was crowned with kind ness, with usefulness, with purpose work will go on. Besides her husband and child, Mrs. Nicholson is survived by her moth er, three brothers, and three sisters. The brothers are: Mr. J. S. Squires, who lives with his mother in th northern part of the county: Mr. Mark Squires, an attorney, who is mayor of Lenoir; Dr. John H. ! Squires, of Wilmington. Del., special representative for the Du Pont Powder Company. He is the only absent mem ber of the family. The sisters are Miss M. Catherine Squires of the county; Mrs. J. W. DeLaney, who lives 10 miles north of Charlotte, and Mrs. Lula S. Clegg of the faculty of the city schools. Mr. Nicholson's brother, rived today from AETAOINNNNNN Mr W. T. Nicholson of Statesville, ar rived today from Atlanta to attend the funeral. The Funeral. The funeral will be conducted this afternoon at 4 o'clock from Tryon Street Methodist church by Rev. Dr. J. C. Rowe, pastor of First Methodist church of Abbeville, assisted by Rev. Dr. E. K. McLarty, pastor of Tryon Street church. The pall-bearers will be Messrs. A. J. Hagood, J .H. Little, John A. McRae. E. M. cole. J. is. ivey and Dr. A. M. Whisnant. City Pavs Tribute of Respect. Pv order of Mayor C A. Bland, the offices in the ciay hall will be closed during the funeral hour, 4 to 5 ociock, the board of school commissioners. 1 M ' ft muiiiui ULniEiiu & . CHILD Hi TAKES POSSESSION OF HER PliiCeWs Women's Garments of Quality PurceWs MR.J.C.SUMMERVILLE DIED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FUNERAL Mr. John C. Summerville died yes terday afternoon at his residence, 15 W. Palmer street, and the funeral ser vice was held at 1 o'clock today, the service being conducted at the resi dence by Rev. Hooper Adams, pastor of Westm4nster Presbyterian church. Mr. Summerville was a native of Paw Creek township, a Presbyterian in faith, and a member of Paw Creek church. He was 66 years of age, and was a man of excellent traits, quiet and unassuming. He had been a great sufferer, but bore up bravely. He moved to Charlotte six years ago. lie is survived by his wife and three sons and a sister. The interment was at Paw Creek. CHILD SWALLOWS NICKEL VERY ILL A little child of Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Wilson, of Gastonia, swallowed a nickel yesterday afternoon and was brought to the Charlotte Sanato rium very seriously affected. X-rays were used to locate the coin. It was odged in the child's throat and she was very seriously ill. Medicine was given and the coin was finally expelled. Miss Rosamonde Lucas is to have as guests during Elizabeth College com mencement, Miss Katrina Gose, of Burke's Garden, Va., and Miss Lu cille Polzogt, of Wilmington, Eliza beth graduates, ,both of whom arrive Friday. CHILD CROSS? FEVERISH? SICK? A cross, peevish, listless child, with coated tongue, pale, doesn't sleep; eats sometimes very little, then rav enously; stomach sour; breath fetid; pains in stomach, with diarrhoea; grinds teeth while asleep, and starts up with terror all suggest a Worm Killer something that expels worms, and almost every child has them. Kick apoo Worm Killer is needed. Get a box today. Start at once. You won't have to coax, as Kickapoo Worm Kill er is candy confection. Expels the worms, the cause of your child's trou ble. 25c at your druggist. . To properly appraise and appreciate .the extra value in Oaklond Heights lots, you have only to consider that they are: 25 per cent larger in area than ordinary suburban building lots. Beautifully shaded. Excellently situated. On permanently paved street. Street car service. Fronting on the beautifully lighted Plaza. Paved streets to the heart of the city. The highest point in Mecklenburg County. Overlook the beautiful Chatham Estates. - Persons interested in buying a home site can find none more desirable anywhere. OAKLAND HEIGHTS CO. J L. M'CLINTOCK. JNO. S.BLAKE. . Phone 1951 or 655. Through her attorneys, Messrs. Brevard, C. B. Fisher and J. D. Mc Call, of Charlotte, and W. A. Bristol and W D. Turner, of Statesville, Mrs. Ella Gaither, of No. 6 Park Court, Elizabeth, is answering the complaint Mr. and Mrs. Sam Carson, of States ville, for the possession of her child, Ruth Gaither. Ruth is now about 13 years of age, at what the law calls the age of discretion, and Mrs. Gaither has taken her daughter back to her home in Elizabeth as she claims she has the right to do. Mrs. Gaither says that some time ago she let Ruth go to Mrs. Carson's, in Statesville to live for a while, and that the Carsons insisted that she let them adopt Ruth; but that she pehsistently refused to do so; and that when she refused to adopt her to the Carsons the Carsons re fused to let the child visit her moth er and also refused to let the mother go to their home to visit her child. Thereupon she further alleges that according to her rights in the matter she went to Statesville to get her child she proceeded to take her daughter in an automobile and bring her to her home in Charlotte. Mrs. Gaither further alleges that she is not only entitled to the girl as her mother, being able to support and educate her, but that the claim ants are not so well able to do so. Mrs. Gaither further alleges that her daughter Blanche is now sten ographer and bookkeeper at the Char lotte Sanatorium; that her son Claude Gaither is about 18 years of age, is well qualified to take a po sition in a telegraph ofllce, that he has procured a position in the West ern Union office, and that he also desires his sister at home. Mrs. Gaither says she has the sig nature of officers of Statesville to a telegram that she us able and compe tent in every way to take charge of her children. She further says that she has the affidavits of as many as fifty of the best citizens of Mooresville to the effect that she is competent and able to educate and support he rsaid children and is doing so. She further says that unless the allegations of the said petitioners is absolutely priv ileged she intends to sue them for libel for defamation of character. Miss Ruth Gaither's Statement. North Carolina, Mecklenburg county. In the matter of Ruth Gaither: .Miss Ruth Gaither being duly sworn says: My name is Ruth Gaither, I am 13 years old, will be 14, 4th of next luarcn. l now reside in Charlotte, N. C, with my. mother, Mrs. Ella Gaither. I formerly resided in Statesville, un til the 7th of May, 1914, when I came to Charlotte to make my home in the future with my mother. I now live at No. 6, Park Court, Elizabeth Charlotte, N. C. ' As I was. going to school," in States-' ville, about a quarter to nine on the momins: of the 7th in rnmTun -nriih Annie Clarke, and Sarah Moore, who was just behind me, we saw an automo bile standing near the school; a boy was standing on the fender or step of the car; and Sarah said, "That looks like Claude." I knew who she meant, my brother. I said, "No it is not him." I had not seen him for two years. I did not recognize him at first, and she said "I know it is him." Then I said: "It does look kinder like him." Then I saw Mamma and knew it was Claude. He did not set off the steD at all he just stood there. I don't think 1 shook hands with him. I was too crazy to get to Mamma. I went right by Claude and got in the car and spoke to Mamma, and got in the car and Claude asked me what grade I was in, and I said I was in the upper seventh; and then he said he was in the same grade, and asked me how I would like to go to Charlotte and be in the same grade with him; and I said I would like it fine. Then we just rode on. I wanted to come on with mother. The only thing I regretted in leaving was missing school, because I would not get my certificate. I had not seen mother for nearly a year, and of course I had rather have gone with her than to get my certifi cate from the Statesville school, espec ially so, since I did not know when I would ever get to see her again. Uncle Sam Carson and Aunt Nell Carson, with whom I had resided, would not let me come to see my mother. Not long ago Mamma wrote them on one Friday to let me come io see ner ana they would not let me. I wanted to go and they wouuld not let me go. Mamma wanted me to go and spend Saturday and Sunday. I begged them to, but they refused to let me go. I know what kidnapping means, but I wns not kidnapped. The paper said that. Claude got out of the machine and took me by the hand, and lifted mc in. This was not true. I did not give him time to do this. I was in such a hurry to get to mother. Mother told me she was going to brins me on to Charlotte with her, and keep me there. I was a little sur prised at first at this; but my delight in going to Charlotte and being with Mamma wag greater than my surprise. The only thing I hated was not getting my certificate. I-ast SDriner befnrA srhnnT was out. 1013, one evening when I came from school I said I would be so glad when school was out, so I could go to see Mamma; and then Aunt Nell said. "I don't know whether you will go or not," Then I said: "Why?" Because I had been going every summer. Then she said: "If you intend to make your home with, us you cannot be going down there so much." I had been go ing to see mother every summer and Christmas Sometimes Christmas, not every Christmas. Before this time they had never said anything against my mother. After this thev would tell me all kinds of tales about mother. They seemed to be tailing me all this to try j to draw my affections from my mother, j I did not believe anything they said aDout my mother, and told them so from the beginning. This effort on their nart to riestrnv mv love for mv mother J New ; Crepe Ore Go Oe ale oday These beautiful Summer Dresses fresh from their wrapping and indeed extraordinarily smart they have the latest touches made of oft clinging Crepe dots and figures also plain colors, Rose, Lavender and Copen You will find many styles, each one as new and pretty as the other see them today. Our special price Really worth $12.50. tended to make me think less of my uncle and aunt. Up to this time I loved my uncle and aunt, but did not think they ought to have done what they did, that is, talk about mother the way they did, and not let me go to see her. I like them all right now. but do not,, like them as good as I used to. Of course I love my Mamma better and would rather stay "with her. I have made up my mind in the matter. I am going to stay with Mam ma. I just feel like they have not done right and I am going to stay with Mamma. I am old enough to know what I am doing. I intend to stay with my mother. I think I ought to stay here with her now because she needs me; Blanche is away from home at work; the other children are at school, and she is by herself now; Mamma seems troubled about this matter; and while she has me here she will know what I think about it. I take her part I am on her side. They ought not take me back away from Mamma unless I want to. And I don't want to go. I also want to live with my two sisters, Blanche and Grace, and my brother Claude. They are all nearer to me than any body else, and I want to be with them. I have thought I wanted to finish the Graded schools here and then go to college. I am a member of the Presbyterian church and hope to at tend Queens College. I want to finish- school and then finish college. I don t know what I will do then. RUTH GAITHER. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 13th day of -May, 1914. T. W. ALEXANDER. Mrs. Gaither further alleges in her answer that she came to Charlotte for the purpose of giving her children better educational and social advan tages than she could get for them in any other town in the state; that she lives in one of the best residential sections of the city of Charlotte; that she is now within a half block of the Elizabeth graded schools and within two blocks of Elizabeth Col lege, and within walking distance- ot Queens College. Mrs. Gaither further alleges that the Carsons are the uncle and aunt of the said child, are under no legal obligation to support or educate the said child, while the eaid Mrs. Gaith er is under such legal obligation. That the 'said Carsons sent to the said Mrs. Gaither at one time, about June, 1913, to come and get the child, if she would not let them adopt her; that she sent them the money to re- j turn the child, and that then they re fused to send the child home to her mother. That the- doctor bills and hospital bills for the said child has been paid by the said mother, and that the said Mrs. Gaither has never had any idea or intention of allowing the child to be adopted or belong to the said Carsons. She further alleges that the said Ruth wants to remain with said mother and proposes to do so. Warner's Features, inc., presents The Range War in three parts. A gripping story of the plains, pulsating w'th rapid-fire action, featuring Jose phine West and Joe Ryan. At The Princess today. . Rev. Dr. Frazier of Anderson, S. C, will preach at Tenth Avenue Pres byterian church Thursday night, in consequence of which there will be no prayer meeting service tonight. Warner's Features, inc., presents The Range War in three parts. A gripping story of the plains, pulsating w'th rapid-fire action, featuring Jose phine West and Joe Ryan. At The Princess today. WATCH FOR SPECIAL r Y. W. C. A. 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