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i , r -.'-, JK-jj.'.-.t--'.. 'Y- V--- . " ... . . .. . . , , PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS. Gaston i n A 7FTTF VOL. XXXVIL NO. 42. . GASTOXIA, BT. C, FRIDAY' AFTERNOON, MAY 26, 1916. ' $1.50 A YEAR IN ADYANOXL JAPANESE E MR.A. O.LLOYD RESIGNS AS SECRETARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AlluLlMPlll FOR ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL FUND SHOR T LOCAL ITEI.1S j""., 10 TAKE PART IN BRDWKIN6 MEETING Rev. Y. Hondo, Student at Emory University. Arrived This MornlnK Mr. Stapleton's "Dandle Ser mon" Strongly Impressed the Children Special Hernion for Men Sunday Afternoon "Will Church Members Murder Meet ing." At last night's tabernacle service there was a splendid crowd and at the close of the sermon quite a num ber of people gave their lives to "God. The service was closed with the gathering around the altar of a large number of church members and Christians who thus signified their willingness to co-operate with the preacher and respond to what ever calls he might make upon them for assistance during the remainder of the meeting. Evangelist Browning's sermon last night was a continuation of his talks on the Lord's prayer and his dis course was one which riveted the attention of the large congregation. He paid his respects in scathing lan guage to the church members and nominal Christians who are inactive and who will not make use of the opportunities to help save souls. It's the church members who will mur der this meeting if it is murdered," thundered the speaker. Wednesday night Mr. Browning devoted a good portion of bis dis course to the subject of taking God into your business. He begged his hearers to adopt the Biblical injunc tion to pay to the Lord one-tenth of their incomes. He gave numerous instances to show that the Christians who tithe are prospered by the Lord. He called on all in the congregation who follovd this Biblical plan of giving to .srond up. There were on ly a few who responded. He also pleaded with the Christian people to establish and maintain family altars. These discussions of practical every day Christian living, presented in the plainest and most forceful man ner, impressed his hearers strongly and will no doubt result in great good. THE CANDLE SERMON. ' Tuesday night. Mr. Stapleton de livered his "Candle Sermon," which is a discourse intended primarily for the children but which was greatly enjoyed by the grown-ups present as well. On account of the rain the crowd was not large but the service was a most impressive one. Large double deck tables covered with candles of every description, each one illustrating a different kind of a person and as he attempted to light one from the large candle in the center which represented Jesus the lighting power was interfered with by some object attached to the candle which by some means had to be eliminated in order to get the candle to shine. Each candle had its place in a forceful illustration. As the text was in the words of Je sus "I am the light of the world." and "ye are the light of the world," it was necessary to remove the hin drance from most of the candles before they could shine. For in stance, there was a boy with a bad temper who when he was spoken to would spit fire and Hash until all of that was burned off of him then he began to shine. Another very interesting illustra tion and one that seemed clear and amusing to the congregation was a big candle being rolled around in a doll carriage. After lighting him and getting him in the church, the speaker turned from him to attend to other matters whereupon the baby cried aloud and had to be rolled some more and petted by his pastor in order to keep him in a good hu mor. This represented the "baby" on the official board. Another inter esting one was a man in the church determined to have his own way or break up the church. A box repre sented tbxburch. As the candle on top of it was lighted a fuse blew out his light and a large number of fire crackers exploded inside the box or church. Such. things as, a man wiih a grouch, one with money in the way cardB, a big-headed person, man running from the preacher, one with bis bottle in the way, self-righteous man, poor and rich, and numerous others which were true to life as we see it daily were shown. The con cluding scene was of a person in the church who has never been convert ed and represented by a beautiful candle, unlighted. They were doing nothing till death came in the home and a little girl died which was the means of the conversion of both fa ther and mother. When Mr. Staple ton called a little girl to the plat form to light the candle there were many- in the audience weeping. There were about 75 kinds of peo ple represented in the talk and it held rapt attention from start to fin ish.':' ' Large, small, red, white, green, blue, yellow and gold candles were used and afforded a beauurui scene after all had been, lighted from the INSERT fOnv6mblirC e2H mnS 1 JAPANESE SINGER HERE. ent - at Emory University, Atlanta, and a personal friend of. Mr. Brown inV arrived tWlmornlnj-ooiNo. Sft from Atlanta and; will be Mr. Browning's guest here during the remainder of the meeting. Mr. Kon do has a wife and three children la Japan. He came to America from t l " 1 V, " - . f ft X r T. W. BICKETT Raleigh, N. C. Democratic Candidate for Governor. Charlie Ouiplin in "His First Vaca tion," 3 reels. Ideal Monday. Shelby has issued $40,000 m bonds for street improvement and the laying of sewer and water mains. et the best fountain drinks at Kennedy's Ilexall Store "on the square." Phone HI. Mooresville has organize a cham ber of commerce with approximately 10O members. Mary Miles Mbiter in "Jjovely Mary," Cozy Tuesday. The fourteenth annual meeting of the North Carolina State Nurses' As sociation will be held In Wlnstou Salem, May 30-June 1-2. Charlie Chaplin in "His First Vaca tion," in 3 reels, Ideal Monday. The election of Miss Mary O. Gra ham, of Charlotte, as president of Peace Institute. Raleigh, was unani mously ratified by the board of trustees at a meeting held Tuesday. Bring or end or phone your pre scriptions to Kennedy's Drug Store, phone 84. Six negro convicts escaped Satur day and Sunday night from the Bun combe county chaingang. Charlie Chaplin in "His First Vaca tion," in 3 reels, Ideal Monday. Vice-President Thomas R. Mar shall delivered the annual address before the students of the State Nor mal and Industrial College at Greens boro Tuesday. Of a class of 51 grad uates 4 9 were North Carolina girls. Mary' Miles Minter in Mary," Coey Tuesday. 'Lovely Three thousand newspapers and publications in Germany have had to go out of business, generally on ac count of financial difficulties, since the war began, according to the newspaper lists for the imperial pos tal district. The list for this year shows a falling off of 1,255 publica tions from the list of 1915, or an av erage of more than three a day. See the five window suggestions at Kennedy's, "on the square." Phone 84. the mission field last year to edu cate himself at Emory University. He will be at the University for two more years. Mr. Kondo has a splen did baritone voice and will sing at the services during the remainder of the meeting. , ANNOUNCEMENTS. There will be no service tomor row, Saturday, morning but the usu al service will be held tomorrow night. Sunday morning there will be preaching at the regular hour. At 3:30 Sunday afternoon Mr. Brown ing will preach again to men and boys, his subject being "Victor or Victim." Monday night be will preach a special sermon to boys and girls, his subject being "The Ant. the 'Rabbit,, the Grasshopper 'and the Spider." v- Everybody is cordially Invited to attend these services. Evangelist Browning Is preaching strong, prac tical sermons and Mr. Stapleton and his splendid choir ar f furnishing most excellent matie. - ' " - It la understood that , a special train -will bring a large crowd of people from Kings Mountain to the service next Tuesday night. . ' 'v i Hoard Accepts Resignation With He grets fces to Chester, S. C, to Takcr'Slmllar Position After June Has Been Here Two and a Years His Successor May Oiosen Soon. Mr. Alfred O. Lloyd, for the past two and a half years secretary of the Gastonia Chamber or Commerce, yesterday presented his resignation to President T. L. Craig of the Chamber and, at a called meeting of the board of directors held last night, to consider the matter, his resignation was accepted with re grets by the board This news will come as a surprise to many mem bers of the chamber as well as to the public generally. Mr. Lloyd's resignation becomss effectivo June 30th on which date he goes to Chester, S. C, to assume the duties of a similar position as secre tary of the Chester Chamber of Commerce, just organiied, at a con siderably larger salary than he re ceived here. The Chester people are to be congratulated upon secur ing Mr. Lloyd for this position. So far as is known the directors have no applications for this posi tion and no one under consideration as Mr. Lloyd's successor. Coming to Gastonia the first of January, 1914, from McKeesport, Pa., where he was advertising mana ger of TlTe McKeesport Daily News, on a visit to relatives here. Mr. Lloyd was choseri secretary of the Gastonia Chamber of Commerce wiUch had just been organized. He undertook the difficult work of per fecting the organization and getting it in working snape. a unamDer or Commerce was a new thing for Gas tonia, the detail work of which was an unknown quanity with local bus iness men. Mr. Lloyd was quite successful in getting it in good run ning order in a short time. To attempt any account of what has been accomplished by this organ ization since its Inception calls for more space than can be given the subject today. Suffice it to say that one of the biggeBt things done by the chamber under Mr. Lloyd's admin istration was the promoting of the first Gaston county fair last year which was a big success. This was a new thing for Gastonia, also, and called for an immense amount of work. How well that was done the public knows. During his residence here Mr. Lloyd and his family have made many friends, all of whom will re gret to see them leave. The best wishes of a host of friends here will go with Mr. Lloyd to his new field of labor. Get your cigars, smokes and to baccos at Kennedy's ltexall Store "on the square." Phone HI. Mary Miles M inter in "lively Mary," Cozy Tuesday. Death of Clay Cavin. Following a lingering illness or many months with tuberculosis Mr. Clay Ferguson Cavin, aged nineteen years, died Wednesday morning at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Cavin. in Mount Holly. Funeral services were held at the residence yesterday morning at 10 o'clock by Rev. S. L. Cathey, pastor of the Presbyterian church, of which deceased was a faithful member. The pall-bearers were Ralph Holland Magnus Edwards, Herman Hoover, Carl West. J. L. Finger and J.W. Farrar. The stricken parents have the deep sympathy of many friends. Mr. J. R. Davis, of the law firm of Gardner and Davis, of Kings Mountain, is attending Superior Court this week. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Babing ton and little daughter returned last night from a visit to relatives in Raleigh. Or. O. P. Rein returned yester day from Chapel Hill, where for the past three years he has .been assist ant professor of Germanics in the University of North Carolina. Dr. Rein has resigned his position at the University and has not yet decided upon his plans for next year. MrB. J. B. Reeves, who has been spending some time here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Long, left Wednesday for Hamlet where she will spend a few days with her sister, Mrs. I. McPhail. From Ham let she will go to Norfolk, Va., to join her husband and they will re side there in the future, Mr. Reeves having been transferred from Char lotte to Norfolk v byhls house. RHEUMATISM ARRESTED Many people suffer the torture of lame muscles and stiffened joints Ixcanse of imparities in the blood, and each suc ceeding attack seems more scute acta rheumatism has invaded the whole system. To arrest rheumatism it is quite ss im portant to improve your general health as to purify your blood r and the cod liver oU while its medicinal nourishment strengthens the organs to expel the impurities and npbuud your strength. Scott's Emulsion is helping thousands everyday who could not find other relief. Twenty-six Hundred Ikllar Raised in Two Hours tills Morning Gas ton County Expected to Contribute $10,000 of Total of 5O,0O0 ror This Institution None Payable Until Full Amount is Subscribed - Interest Growing in 1'rojxw.ed Charitable Institution. At a recent meeting of the trus tees of the North Carolina Orthopae dic Hospital plans were adopted whereby it looks possible now to realize this Institution within the near -future. Many of the most prominent and energetic business men of Gastonia and Gaston county are behind the projecj in earnest. A whirlwind campaign for subscrip tions' has already begun. Gaston peo ple propose to start this institution with a subscription of $10,000 or more given by Gaston countians for this humane puroose. The campaign for subscriptions has only been on a day or two and up to this time there has been subscribed 2,600, none of which subscriptions is payabje un til $50,000 has been subscribed. The institution is an assured success, provided the other counties of tne State do their share as well as Gas ton. There does not seem to be any doubt that Gaston will raise her $10,000 and also that Mecklenburg, Cleveland and Lincoln will swell this amount to at least $25,000 within the next sixty days. Many of our best business men are so much inter ested in this laudable institution to help the poor, crippled and indigent orphaned children of the State that they are leaving their work and mak ing this personal campaign thenW selves. Below is a copy of the subscription card clearly setting forth sufficiently the purposes thereof. Anyone de siring to help with this work is ask ed to cut out and fill In this card and mail to Mr. J. Lee Robinson, the treasurer, a subscription of any a mount desired, as all contributions however small or large will be thanK fully received and acknowledged. Some facts concerning this insti tution and its work might be of in terest to the general public who would like to assist the promoters In this undertaking. FACTS. Its object Is to provide a hospital, school and home combined, for the treatment, education and training of crippled children and those with chronic diseases; to aid them to be come at least partially self-supporting by means of education and the careful training of any special talent a child may have. It is absolutely nonsectarian. It is open to all crippled white children who need Its care. Children who cannot pay are to be received absolutely free. It will be a home, a training school and hospital where any physician or good standing may send his patients and have his Instructions for each case carried out. All moneys, bequests, legacies and donations received will be expended to alleviate the sufferings of diseased children. Experienced nurses and teachers will be employed. About seventy-five cents per day overs the cost of the care of earn child in like institutions. There is not an institution like this, as proposed, in the entire South and only about eight or ten in the I'nited States, thus the great State of North Carolina has a wonderful op portunity to lead along this philan thropic line as well as along he lines of commerce and agriculture. It is cheaper to cure and educate cripples, thus transforming them from the dependent to the effective class, than it is to support them through life. This institution will pay large di vidends in human character, more useful lives and better citizenship. Give the crippled, deformed children of sound mind a chance to make good. Mary Miles Minter in "lively Mary," Czy Tuesday. Rock Hill's Population. Rock Hill (S. C.) Herald. The Gastonia Gazette directs at tention to an editorial published in The Herald some days ago, in which the statement was made that the population of Rock Hill is about ten thousand. The Gazette accepts the chance to do a little bragging for its own town, and says that Gastonia will have fifteen thousand population following the building of new cotton mills which will be ercted there. The Herald does not know how much ter ritory would have to be taken In around Gastonia in order to find fifteen thousand people. However, Allen D. Albert, the civic expert, esti mated that the population of Rock Hill, including those people on the outskirts who are rightly to be con sidered members of the community, is fourteen thousand. The munici pality of Rock Hill Includes but four square miles of territory, and The Herald considers ten thousand a fair estimate of the population in this territory. As Mc Albert suggested, there are several thousand people outside the city limits who constitute part of the population of Rock Hill In every essential except the fact that they cannot be counted by the census taker In securing a record of the population, of .the city.. , Bay It Ik Gastonia. W. A. GRAHAM Raleigh, N. C. Democratic Candidate for Commit sioner of Agriculture. NEWS NOTES. William Barnes, aged 31, of Relds ville, was killed by a dynamite blast at Charlottesville. Va., last Friday. A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., says that James J. 'Hill, the great railroad magnate, is ill and that his friends and business associates are concerned about hut condition. A portrait of the late D. A. Tomp kins, of Charlotte, was presented to the A. & M. College. Raleigh, at the recent commencement by his broth er, A. S. Tompkins, of Edgefield. 3. C. According to the Charlotte weath er bureau, in the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening 3.19 Inch es of rain fell. This was six times as much m had fallen during the entire six weeks previous. Fifty thousand coal miners in, the Pittsburg district quit work Tues day as a result of dissatisfaction over the wage scale agreement re cently made with the operators in that district. Mrs. Annie Mitchell, widow of I K. Mitchell, who recently lost his life in a fire which destroyed the Neill hotel in Winston-Salem, has entered suit against the owners of the hotel for damages In the sum of $20,000. The Methodist General Conference refused yesterday by a vote of 435 to 3 60 to remove from the discipline of the Church the clause which pro vides the penalty of expulsion Tor Church members who play cards, dance and attend theaters. The biennial national convention of the Federated Women's Clubs of America began Its sessions in the Seventh 'Regiment armory in New York City Tuesday and will continue through June 2. More than 30,000 women are In attendance. Charley Lovett, aged 21, son of Harper Iovett. of West Hickory, was shot and killed two weeks ago in Muncle, Ind.. by John Stanley, a for mer cowboy and would-be bad man. Ix)vett's body was brought back to Hickory for burial. Col. John L. PhillipB. V. S. A., re tired, committed suicide Monday night in Baltimore, a victim of mel ancholia. He wag a native of Chap el Mill, this tate, where his body was buried. He was a son of Sam uel Phillips, who was at one time United States solicitor general. William Jennings Bryan is being talked'of as a possible candidate ror the presidency on the Prohibition party. Recently Mr. Bryan has sta ted that he had come to the point where he could no longer follow a party that refused to endorse Na tional prohibition. The colonel may yet be elected. The General Assembly of the Sou thern Presbyterian Church In tne United States in session at Orlando, Fla., Tuesday decided not to grant women full privileges as deaconess es, but showed in a long statement of the situation that it was not the desire to restrict the activities of wo men in the home and foreign mis sion elds. On last Saturday the as sembly decided that women should not appear in the pulpit. V. IK C. MEETING POSTPONED. There will be no meeting of Gas tonia Chapter, U. D. C, this after noon, by reason of the fact that the chapter room is being remojdeied. Announcement of the date of the next meeting will be made in The Gazette. ENTERTAINED FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS. The boys snd girls of the Union high school entertained at a recep tion in honor of the graduating class and the teachers last Friday evening. They indulged in a number of games and contests. Refreshments were served in two courses. Sweet peas and other flowers were used in decor ating the rooms. The hours were from 8 to 11. The affair was a thor oughly delightful one throughout. Mr. Taft haa so many personal friends among the Republican candi dates that he naturally hesitates to stata which of them has the least chance. New Tork Evening Post. Rev. J. E. Berryhlll, of Kings Mountain, was in town Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Haynes are spending the week in Asheville. Mr. A. E. Beam, of Cherryvllle. ' was a Gastonia visitor Wednesday. Mrs. C. Rush Hamrick, of 8hel- . by, was the guest Sunday of Miss . Mamie Pearson. Mr. C. L. Emerson, of Char- lotte, was a business visitor in, the city yesterday. Miss Kate Miller has returned from Hickory, where she visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Miller. Miss Irma Wllleford, of Kings Mountain, was a visitor in the city Wednesday. Mr. F. H. Robinson, of Dallas, was in the city on business y ester- ' day. Mrs. J. M. Holland snd little- -son, J. M., Jr., returned yesterday from a visit to relatives at Hickory. Mrs. Llnwood Robinson, of -Lowell, has been spending the week here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Long. Master Preston Covington, of Hamlet. Is spending some time here with his cousins, little Miss Wilms; KIrby and Master Fred Kirby. f Workmen have been engaged, for the past day or two in replaster Ing the overhead ceilings in the two waiting rooms at the Southern Rail way depot. Mr. Max D. Abernethy has re turned home from Chapel Hill where -he has been a student at the Univer sity the past session, t Messrs. Caldwell Ragan and, Earle McLean returned Wednesday from Westminster School, Ruther ford county. Mrs. R. V. Whitener, of Spar tanburg, S. C, spent Wednesday in , the city as the guest of Mrs. E. K. . Whitener at her home on Columbia street. k Good progress is being made oi the construction of the steel - frame of the First National Bank 1 building. The work has reached' the level of the third story. Mr. W. G. Gaston, of Lowell, has accepted a position for the sum mer with the Atlanta Construction Company, who have a sub-contract on the First National Bank building. Messrs. Fred M. Arrowood, Max D. Abernethy and Charlton Tor rence, students In the University of North Carolina, returned home Tues day night for the summer vacation. County farm demonstration agent J. M. Gray has recently placed 1 4 thorough-bred Berkshire pigs for the several banks of the county who made a special offer to the pig club members. Miss Jessie May Mackle, of Granite Falls, Is spending a few days here with her sister, Mrs. A. E. Woltz. She Is en route home from Raleigh where she has been a student at Meredith College the past season. Mrs. Lizzie Falls and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Harry Falls, the latter of Richmond, Va., have returned to Kings Mountain after spending several days here as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. V. E. Long. Friends of Mr. W. F. Marshall, of Raleigh, who recently underwent an operation for appendicitis at Rex hospital, will be glad to learn that he has sufficiently recovered to re turn to his home In Cameron Park. Mr. W. F. Wellman. of Coolee- . mee, spent Saturday night and Sun day in the city with his brother. Rev. H. M. Wellman, pastor of West End and Franklin avenue Methodist churches. Miss Mary Sydnor left yesterday for her home at Charleston. W. Va.r ' after being the guest for some days of her cousin, Mrs. Clyde C. Arm strong. Her brother, Mr. L. W. Sydnor, left for Charleston Mod nay. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Wilson and children left in their auto for Gra ham, where Mrs. Wilson and chil dren will make an extended visit to her father. Mr. John W. Stockard. Mr. Wilson will return to Gastonia Monday. Ground was broken yesterday fif the new graded school building to be erected in West Gastonia. Architect Wheeler is here from Charlotte today staking off the foun dation for the new school building in East Gastonia. Mrs. Stella Shetley, of Bessemer City, route two, who has charge of the demonstration work of the girls' and women's clubs, will leave Mon day for Greensboro to attend a con ference of demonstration agents which will be in session at the State ' Normal and Industrial College for a week. -VMr. Hugh E. White, who has marae his home in Gastonia during -the past year or more as govern ment inspector in charge of the con struction, of the postofflce building, left Wednesday for Savannah, where he will be in charge of the construc tion of a Marine Hospital, Quaran tine station and probably other gov ernment work. Mr. White's family will go to Black Mountain for the summer. Spend Yonr Money With Home Merchants. '- - - The hair's best friend la Parisian Sage. Get a bottle from J. H. Ken nedy ft Co. and see how quickly it will care dandruff and itching scalp and. stop the hair from falling ouu -(Adv.)