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*• - - * * TWO SECTIONS * * TODAY * * * VOLUME XXIII TEN BIG CONCORD TRADE DAYS MAYMJUNE2 Event Promises to Be Biggest of Kind in History of County With Many Bargains Available TWO MOBILES 10 BE GIVEN AWAY FREE Ticket For Autos Will Be Given With Each $1 Spent in Trade in Stores During the Big Event. STORES FULL OF SEASONABLE GOODS And These Will Be Offered at Lowest Possible Prices. —Wide Publicity Given Throughout Section. On Thursday of this week 1 logins Trade Week in Concord. and the event promises to he the biggest thing of its kind ever planned and offered by the merehants of Cabarrus county. The event will begin with the opening of the doors of the business houses on Thursday and will continue until 9 p. in. on Saturday, June 2nd. Every business house in Concord 1 is behind the proposition and with the co-operation of every merchant as sured, business men lire expecting the event to bring to Concord tlie greatest nnmlier of shoppers in the history of the city. Trade Week was first plan ned by meiuliers of tlieMerclmnts' As - BawssynaMf the plans the event will run through two Saturdays, giving every one an Opportunity to visit the stores on the days when the least work is done in the cotton mills and on the farms than oil any other days in the week. Two automobiles, a Ford touring car and n Chevrolet touring oar, will lie given away as prizes during the time tlie big trade, event is running. The Ford will lie the first prize and the Chevrolet will he given to the person wining the second prize. While the autos are to ho given away by the merchants they will not lie the finest prizes to be offered dur ing tlie week, by any means. The 1 special prizes will he found in the stores of the city, where hundreds of bargains in sea son!) hie goods, grocer ies and other commodities will he offer ed. Tlie business men of the city have planned to offer their goods at prices flint will he astonishingly low. and the goods to be offered will he just tlie things needed most at this season of the year. For the purpose of letting the gen eral public know just what will lie of fered in the stores during the big* event , the business men are conduct ing a big advertising campaign. A number of the business houses are carrying page ads. in this paper: others are carrying special ads, set ting forth some of the many bargains they will offer; and still others are using their regular advertising space to put their offerings before the pub- lie. In addition to the mlvertisments to lie carried in regular editions of local papers, two thousands extra copies of Tre Tribune's Trade Week Special have been printed, and these will be sent broadcast through the county by tiie Merchants' Association. The pa pers will be delivered direct to the houses in the county, so that every one in Cabarrus county and the sur rounding territory, whether or not a regular Subscriber to a newspaper, will know of the big event in the stores of this city. Today large banners telling of Trade Week have been erected in this city, .and six other banners were erect- 1 ed at strategic points in the countv. I Jitneys and busses will carry banners, until the close of the week, and a j caravan of autos, each carrying large banners and a quantity of advertising matter, will make n trip through this county, also in to certain parts of Row an. Iredell, Mecklenburg and Stanly counties. Tickets for the autos to t>e given away will be given in practically ev ery store in the city. The complete list of stores which are co-operating in the event will be found in the donble page ad. in this paper. For each 1$ paid in a, trade ticket will be given, a duplicate to lie deposited in the store in which the purchase is made. For each $1 paid on account two tickets will be given. At seven o'clock on the evening of June 2nd, one hour after the trade event ends, all of the tickets deposited in the boxes in the stores, will lie pinced In one large liox and the lucky numbers drawn. The drawing will tnke place at the lawn at Central School. ( . (Continued on Itage Five). The Concord Daily Tribune ft ' ' General Synod of the Reformed Church Meets at Hickory May 23 The twenty-first triennial sessions of, the General Synod of tlie • Reformed ( Church in the United States will con vene in Corinth Reformed Church, at Hickory, X. beginning Wednesday ! evening. May 23rd, at 8 o'clock. The opening sermon will lie preached Ivy j the retiring President, Rev. George W. Richards. I). IX, EL. D.. of Lancaster. I Pa. Dr. Richards is the President and professor of Church History in the Theological Seminary of the Ite-j formed Church at Lancaster. Pa. j The General Synod is the highest | judiciary of the Reformed .Church. There are eight district Synods aril fifty-eight Chissses in the Reformed Church. The Classes elect the dele gates to the General Synod, a minis ter and an elder for each ten ministers on the roll of the classis. There will I lie almost three hundred ministerial': and lay delegates attending the Gener al Synod, and in addition there will lie representatives of Boards 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 409. FtickoTy is expecting that the attendance from North Caroliia to swell tlie attend ance to hear 500. A special train is being nut from i Washington, P. C.. leaving Washing ton Tuesday night. This train will stop in Greensboro. High Point. Lex ington. Salisbury and Newton, giving the delegation an opportunity to see the Reformed Churches and the towns and the plant of Catawba College at Newton. Three siiecial Pullnnius will cinl leaving that place Tuesday night. Cithers will gi* by automobiles. This will lie the first time for the General Synod to meet in tlie 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 the 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. ai d close Wednesday night, May 30th, This week the special commissions and hoards will present their reports, and i representatives will supplement these reports by addresses on tlie floor of Synod. All these reports will lie in the hands of tlie standing eonimittees whom the newly elected President will appoint by Saturday noon. The ac tions of the Synod will till*, place next 1 week. REPORT HOPS KM FIRING OH HDITS 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 fir ing on the Shantung bandits were re ceived today by tiie 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 appftint jmenf of Dr. Wellington Koo as for eign minister, the foreign office still is officially without a head. Tiie 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. Associate Justice Walker 111. illy tli* rrcM.i Raleigh, May 21.—Associate Justice! riatt r>, Walker, of (he North Caro-j linn Supreme Court, is seriously ill; at ldd home heVe, it. became known today. Justice Walker lias been ill for about a week, and ids condition is said to have become gradually worse. No improvement was not (Hi in Ms com dition today, it was stated at his home. Brooklyn’s only woman opticiah, Katherine Blanc, who has followed her calling for nearly a quarter of a century, now owns the building in which, she conducts her business and lias her own factory for grinding lenses. CONCORD. N. C, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1923. Some of the important items that ! will claim, much-attention of the Syn od are the demands of the field of home missions. The Reformed Church recently received the two Classes of tlie Reformed Church of Hungary in to this body. Some of these churches had been fostered by tlie Reformed Church in the T’nited States, but taler | united with the Hungarian Reformed] Church under the fostering care of the ] Reformed Church in Hungary. In tlie transfer all the congi-egr lions except three came into the Reformed Church making the total membership and con stituency more than half of the Prot estant Hungarians in this country. The Reformed Church is -doing work among the Bohemians. Italians, Jews. Japanese and Negroes. The Board of Foreign Missions will report that the hoard is ready to enter j into a field in the Moslem World, somewhere in Arabia. Heretofore the work has been centered in North Japan in the Hunan Province in. Chi nil. Dr. David B. Sohneder will tie at the Synod to speak for the work in Japan. The Forward Movement will re ceive much time and attention. Just three years ago tlie drive for -money ! i was made resulting in a subscription 'of $.9,490,090.00, funds that would sup plement the regular benevolent and educational funds of the church. There will lie a strong effort made to push (fie Forward Movement to a success ful completion within tlie next two years, the original goal being to com plete tlie fund by 1!I25. The Cnited Missionsry and Stew ««r4rUii»*.,wi,w ask for n higher appov- TinflmFEr tSST ' f fie legiitnr work of Home and Foreign Missions, so that more workers can lie sent out into needy and challenging fields. A great layman's mass meeting is planned for Sunday afternoon. Hon. A. R. B rod beck, of Hanover, Pa., ex- I Congressman, and IIoi:. E, L. Coblentz. lof Middletown, Mil.. Chairman of I prison supervision of his State, will speak. Dr. Paul S. Leinback. of Phil adelphia, will preach at the eleven o'clock service. The evening service will be on "Life Service" at which time Drs. H. J. Christman, of Dayton. Ohio, and John M. G. Dorms, of Al lentown. Pa., will he tlie speakers, A number of the Reformed Church people of Concord ai d other places in the North Carolina Classis will at tend one or jnore sessions. sjfln* minis terial delegates from North Carolina are' Levs. J. C. Leonard, 1). Ik. John C. Peeler, J. A. Palmer and il. A Fesperman. The lay delegates are Fleers .1. T. Plott. of Greensboro, Jim. W. Hedrick, of High Point, Byron S. Stafford,' of China Grove, and J. O. Moose, of Cor.^ohl. FEDERAL COUNCIL IS SUBJECT OF DEBATES] Council Both Defended and! Criticised,at Today’s Ses-' si6n of Presbyterian Gen-] eral Assembly. (By tbe A*«oeli»teil Press. Montreat, May 21.—" The only safe ty to protestantism in America is to have an organization in Washington to act as a buffer against the great unscrupulous power of Roman Cathol icism,” I)r. E. IV. McCorkie, of Rock bridge Baths. Va.. declared here today in urging tlie 03rd General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church not. to withdraw from the Federal Council of Church of Christ in Ameri ca. The tendency of separation lias al ways brought disaster to the Protest ant Churches, Dr. McCorkie 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." Tlie Council, Dr. McCorkie said, has accomplished much, and he announced that he is in favor of that body contin juing to present tlie cause of the Prot jestana churches through petitions to the government. Montreat, May 21 (By the Associat ed Press). —Tlie General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church here today rejected, 140 to 109. a mi nority committee report favoring with drawal from the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Tlmt left liefore 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. SCHOOL DEATH PERISHED IN BUZE jU- Two Young Ladies, of Whom * No Trace Has Been Found, Relieved to Have Perished in Conflagration. — 3- SUSPECT OTHERS DIED IN BUILDING — Wr Efforts to Lot** ' Two Chil drenJHave Be ght N o Re sults, and They Too, Prob ably Were Burned. m— (By the AK.ocit»(«d Fr«u.) Camden. S. ('.. May 21.- The death j list in* the Cleveland school house fire ; of lust Thursday niglfl today had been increased to seventy-seven persons ! witli two more placed on the doubtful list. Tracing down h rumors yester- j day by Sheriff G, <Welsh, of Ker- j show county, resulted in the announce- I merit that Ellen Barnes, of Lucknow. 1 and Fannie Bowers,‘of Kershaw, un- ] doubtedly perished in tlie fire that j followed the falling of an oil lump ofi j the stage during eoirimeneemciit play at the school. Reports were current here- that, a Miss Blackmon and' a Miss .Thorne both of the Thornhill Section of this county, had attended the play and had not been heard of since. This is a gemote and inaeessijde part .Os tlie county and a more 'thorough search was planned toils to definitely a seer tain their fate. § Ellen Barnes, according to /state ments made to the sheriff today, went to the play with her brother Frank. He escaped and mute Jiis way jrome. Relatives saw the *n*tnn»ih« burning building, hut could not save her. ] -Faunle Bowers went to -the play with ! j members of the Dixon families, 12 of j whom were lost. Relatives saw her jin-tlie burning building, hut were un able to make their way to her. Her mother has been unconscious ever I since the fire. Nationwide Appeal For Funds. | Columbia, S. ('.. May 21.—A nation ! wide appeal for funds for the relief of ] the wotnen and children who were wiil ] owed and orphaned by the Cleveland school tire in which 77 persons perish ] ed Thursday night, was issued today by Governor Tims. G. .McLeod, of South Carolina. All funds raised will he handled by the American Red Cross, the Governor said. The call was issued after the Gov ernor had lieen informed by the Rod Cross advisory relief committee at Camden, that previous estimates of money' needed for relief work had been greatly underestimated. A pre liminary survey. ho was told, indicat ed that permanent relief must lie pro vided for the 42 orphans and 14 will- I ows. ! Movement For New Depot at Moores- ville. /Hi the Awitcthlwl Pre»».» \ Raleigh, N. (’., May 21.—-The North! j Carolii Corporation Commission will I hold hearings on I In- petitions of the j town of Mooresville to reqhire the j I Southern Railway in erect a new de-1 pot at Mooresville mid of citizens of Oxford to require physical connection I at that point between the Southern and ( Sea hoard Air bine Railways on Finlay morning, it was 'announced to day. Henry W. Miller. Vice President in charge of operations of the Southern Railway, will attend the hearings, it was announced. Mr. Miller formerly j lived in Raleigh. Gov. Morrison's Engagements. I " (By the Associated Frees. I I Raleigh, N. C.. May 21.—Governor Cameron Morrison will be one of the j principal speakers tonight at the nri | nual meeting of the North Carolina j Society of Washington. D. C. Other speaking engagements of the] ] Governor, announced today, include: j ] May 29, at Ehin College commence | merit, Elon College: May 39, at Amor- j j ican Legion celebration, Charlotte:] I June ly at Mooresville High School j j commencement. Mooresville; Jm.e 12-j ■ ] 13, at University of North Carolina, ■ Chapel Hill; June 15, at meeting of] i ! Cotton Mnufacturers Association of ! ’! North Carolina, W inston-Salem, and July 4th, at American Legion celehra i ] tion, Lenoir. STAR THEATRE Today, Tuesday, Wednesday ] Cecil DeMiHe’s Greatest Pro duction ADAM’S RIB” Shows. 1:30, 4:00, 7:00 • SPECIAL MUSIC j ’ ADMISSION 10c, 25c SANATORIUM HEARING Dorters, Farmers, Preachers anil For mer Patients, Defend Dr. L. B. Me- Brayer. (By (he Associated Prex(.l Raleigh. May 21.—Testimony by Dr. J. M. Parrott, of Kinston, that Dr. Paul McCain "hasn't a superior in Ain erkii as a diagnostician." together I with voluminous testimony relating to the character of Drs. L. B. Mcßrayer and Reuben Mcßrayer. and an exami nation of H. A. Fluid-wood, 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 tubercu losis. All live members of the committee, headed by Chairman Tims. C. Bowie, i of Ashe, spent yesterday on a trip to and inspection of Sanatorium. Mem bers of the committee stated today that they went further into the ease than j to examine the physical equipment at I the hospital. Doctors, farmers, preachers and for mer politicians contributed to the j 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 Fell or Jumped From Auto Near | Hickory Early Yesterday Moniing. j (By the AMo'.-latfil Pre»».‘ Hickory, N. May 21.—" Jack" I.hws, a young white woman whose | home is said t<► have been near tlas tonia. died in .a local hospital late j last night of injuries to her head caus ed when she fell or jumped from an j automobile, according to a story told Chief of Police Lentz by Until Ennis, a Caldwell county girl. 1 Robert Holler, of Newton, was driv ! ing the car at the time, the girl said. |and refused to let the Ennis girl leave | the car. He seized her around the i 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. Holler was held in $b(X) hail for his j appearance, and Chief Lentz said Ilol j ler also was under bond in connection I'With the IgHziirelb gallons of whis !• key in- hisV automobile oo« Look* .« Shoals 1 iriilge several weeks ago. FORMER JUSTICE DAY RESIGNS FROM BOARD Cannot Serve as Umpire of the Mixed i Claims Commission He Tells Presi | dent. (By the Aseoelnted Press.> j Washington. May 21.—Win. R. Day. former associate justice ot the Su | premie Court, today presented to l’res j ident Ilarding liis resignation ns im pirc of the mixed claims commission. J Mr. Day ’explained that his desire to resign was due to reeognation ot j the enormous - amount of work facing tin* commission, - with claims amount | ing to Sl.47P.Ot;i.<HtO to lie settled, and | to his belief that a younger and strong |er man should tie chtirged with the wo*k of adjusting claims on which the j American ami (Jenmin commissioners are unable to agree. The resignation I becomes effective immediately. CHARGED WITH DEATH (TF WILLIAM TAYLOR Garland Wynn is Being Held on Sus picion by Washington Officers. < lly the Associated Press i Washington, X. C.. May 21. Wil liam Taylor was shot and killed at Ids farm house* near here last night, and Garland Wynn was arrested and held on suspicion pending an inquest, lay 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, lie said, were for bidden to come to tlie house, came, and it Was said the men had words. After dark Taylor was called to the door by some one and shot to death. Sheriff Harris said he discovered to day the prints of a hare foot and founds a man's sock. Wynn's arrest followed. The Alliance of Presbyterian Churches. (By (he Associated Press., Indianapolis. May 21.—Dr. Henry It. Master, of Philadelphia, today report ed to the Presbyterian General As- j seuibiy as American secretary of tlie i Alliance of Reformed churches through out the.world holding tin* Presbyterian , system. After reviewing what lias been nc- j complislied in tilt* sending of clothing I and shoes to Europe, and fixing ap proximately at $42 390.099 tin* sum j sent abroad by the constituent church- j es. the report, referring to enlarging ] field of evangelization says in part: ! "More than half of the 199.999 of our brethren in Russia live along the Volga River in southeastern Russia, where tlie famine 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 limim [ tains, where hundreds of thousands ! who have left the Greek Church have i formed themselves into congregations I called Presbyterianski, because they ! have elders. if they need help, shall we refuse to help them? More than : this, we cannot sa'y at present, wo ] must wait for the development of | God’s providence. But we ought to pray for them as they struggle to the j light.” j Nearly fifteen hundred women in London earn a livelihood as ha.r- I dressers. SUCCESSOR TO BONAR' LAW NOT CHOSEN YET BY ENGLAND’S RULER! Marquis Curzon and Stanly ' Baldwin Are Prominently Named to Be Next Prime Minister of England. OTHERS ARE ALSO j BEING CONSIDERED Bonar Law Forced to Quit h Because of 111 Health.— j Labor Party Against Ap pointment of Curzon.' London. May 2! (By the Associated Press).—The physicians of Andrew j I Bonar Law.- retired British Prime j ! Minister jhis afternoon issued this j ! statement : | -Mr. Bonar Law had slight opera- j jtion on tin- throat today. Ootherwise i Ids condition is unchanged.” 1 King George who is in Aldershot Iliad up to this afternoon asked no | one to accept the premiership in suc : cession to Bonar Law. The King, it is said, has no present intention of ccrtailing his visit to Aldershot which j is expected to last most of the week, j Meanwhile the .two most promising i prospects. Earl Curzon and Stanly | I Baldwin, chancellor of the Exchequer,' is away for the Whitsuntide holidays, ami plans to remain away until Wed nesday making it very likely that the country will remain without a premier throughout today at least. Possible Nominees. London. May 21 ißy the Associat ed Press(). —Political gossips are al most unanimously of the opinion that Marquis Curzon. Secretary of State tor foreign \tffl I*, offered .the Premiership and that either he or • Stanly Baldwin will he successor to Andrew Bonar Law who lias resigned j because of ill health. Lord Derby is also spoken of as a possibility for the office. The Earl of Balfour's age is generally regarded as I ruling him out. although it is sug- I gested that he might take the Prime .Ministership in the event—which at 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 lie In disaster for Great Britain and for i Europe. Lord Curzon's supposed aloofness and reputed attitude of unbending su periority are alluded to by many writ ! ers who. however, (he, not think he should necessarily lie barred from the ] post. Two or three newspapers in- I deed assert that tlie popular impres sion of Curzon is far from being cor rect and that he is actually a modest j man of very human personality, who ] would like to unbend, tint who does not possess the faculty for doing so. ! . | ' . THE COTTON MARKET | Opened Steady at An Advance of From ; fi to 22 Points. (By (he Associated Press, t New York. May 21.—The cotton mar-1 j ket opened steady at an advance of 9 J to 22 points on unfavorable weather ■ reports, covering and buying, supposed j to he for tin* Japan 'account. July ] sold at 25.59 and October at 23.13. lint ] tlu* demand was not active, and the i advance appeared to lx* mqeting some scattered southteru selling. ! Cotton futures opened steady: May 1-27.15; July 25.55; October 23.29: De cember 22.75; January 22.53. Supreme Court Ruling. (By (hr- Associated Press.! 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, tlie Su preme Court held today in two cases In-ought by the United States, and the Intel-state Commerce Commission and a number of railroads against the state of Tennessee. Booster Trip Tomorrow The Booster Community Adverrtising Concord’s Trade Event will start from the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow morning- at !» o’clock sharp. They will take in Kannapolis, Landis, China Grove, Salisbury, Mooresville, (Dinner) Davidson and other nearby towns. We have secured the lacksoti 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 I who has not already signed for this trip, call J. E. Davis, i We want to boost Concord and make this Trade Event I a Big Success. LET’S GO ! J. E. DAVIS, Chairman Advertising, Committee. ********** FIRST SECTION NO. 120. THE COMMEICEIENT EXERCISES AT MOUNT PLEASANT THIS WEEK' 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. I.ast Saturday evening at 8 o’clock the Class Day exercises at Mont Amoe na Seminary, Mt. Pleasant, N. 0., took place in the auditorium, and was at tended hy a large and appreciative audience, entirely filling the spacious room, while many were unable to find even standing room. The program was divided into two sections, the first part being the reg ular exercises usual upon such oecas- I ions, which was carried out in a man ner worthy of hte enviable reputation of 'tlie Seminary, and evidenced fine training and much inherent- talent on the part of each member of the Sen ior ' (’lass. The young girls, in their pretty pink dresses, were a sight to delight tlie hearts of the crowd of ad miring swains gathered to'view and listen to the various performances. Where there was so much to conimeml it would lie a difficult rnatteu to par ticularize; suffice to say that each and every girl carried off the assigned parts in a graceful and refined manner. The second section of the program of file evening was a very delightful ptnytet. . enttrted : "The -OrajJiurtUs. * (Tfioh-d,*’ and all the memiiers of the Senior (’lass took part in this play. ! Tlie plot centers around a maiden — "Youth"—clad in her white graduation robes and carrying her diploma, -who wonders and soliliquizes as to what her future life will he, unable to de cide wlnit forces shall sway her in this decision. She falls asleep, and is awakened hy 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 choose from among them one who is to control her future life. When, at last, she is still unable to decide, live fairies, in white draperies and wings, enter and sing around her and then take off the black robes of tlie 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 jhy Fancy crowning Yoiith with a (wreath, and all forming a pretty tab l lean. The Senior Class of Mont Amoenea Seminary this year comprises nineteen memiiers, including the two graduates in music, Misses Margaret Barrier and Wilma Lucille Stirewalt. The other graduates are; Misses Ruth Becker dite. Bessie Lee Efird, Mary Virginia Fisher. Ola Furr, Alma Furr, Alas Blackwelder. Elizabeth Hahn. Lena Keller. Ruby lentz, Helen Moyle, Inez Shinn. Laura Mae Shinn, Miriam Shir ! ey, Mary Stewart, Alice Tavis, Betty Williams and Ethel Williams. Baccalaureate Sermon. Rev. George .1. Gongnware, D. D„ j pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, of Charleston. S. (V. 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 began 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 the great Lutheran Church in Ameri ca ; but lie considered it a greater hon or to preach the Gospel of .1 esius Christ on this occasion. Continuing his introduction, Dr.. Gongaware told of a conversation with a mother, on , (Continued on page four)