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THE CHARLOTTE NEW MAY 15, 1915. 500 Pair and his wife had been guests of -Mr. and Mrs. Liddell for a week or so, leaving only last Monday night. Beside being: nresident.

nf tho Ginsr- George Linwood Jeffers Donald Grattan McArn Landon Cats Rosser Will Miller Watson EATH COMES TO VINT01 LID DELL About 500 Pair Children's Mary aJna Instep Straps and Lace Oxfords. Textile Industry. Lewis Carroll Atkisson James Holmes Haddock Whiteford Ingersoll Smith A. M. College Commencement List of Graduates, Speakers, Marshals, Etc.

The annual commencement exericses of the A. M. College at Raleigh will take place this year on May 23 to 25. The baccaulaureate sermon will be preached on May 23 at 8 o'clock p. m.

The annual meeting of the alumni will be held Monday at 10 a. class day exercises at 3:30 p. alumni address at 8:30 p. fra commencement address at 9 p. m.

and the annual re Your Summer ham Mill at one time, and vice president of the Elizabeth Mill at the time of his death, Mr. Liddell for years held no office or engaged in no business in Charlotte. His time was spent between his Charlotte home and his summer- home at Great Barrington, and in travel, he and Mrs. Liddell devoting themselves to the education and rearing of their lovely young daughter. There was one otner influence Gossard On Sale $1.00 Prominent Citizen of Charlotte Passes After Three Days' Illness Rallies After Operation, but Sudden Collapse in his life wliich was as beautiful as it was strong that of his devotion to Mechanical Engineering.

Beverley Moss Blount Edward Lamar Cloyd Edward Livingston Cotton William King Eldridge William Benjamin Foster Frank Temple Gray David Lee Hooper Frank Kipp Kramer William Daniel Martin Asa Gray Phelps Frank Wilson Proctor Charles Wright Weaver These Come in Tan Gun Metal-Patent Colt and Black-Velvet Reduced to 1.00. Ends in Death Splendid Citizen and High Type Gen tleman. ft A Thpmp sons Phone 3279. his mother. His wife, his daughter, his mother these were the tribunal of love- before which his nature bowed.

When in the city he let no day pass, no "morn wear to evening" that found him not at his mother's side. She was throughout his life a guiding star. The companionship between the two was very tender and beautiful. Liddell was a man who preferred a quiet live, devoid of ostenta- ception at 10 p. m.

Tuesday, May 25. at 10 a. the graduating exercises will be held when the conferring of, degrees, the reading of honors and orations of the senior class will take place. The list of senior orators, marshals, graduates, follow: Senior Orators. Frank Kipp Kramer Arthur Lee Teachey George Linwood Jeffers John Rodman Williams Forrest Egan Wysong SHFPPARD'S CORN REMEDY Afer an illness which dated only from Tuesday night Mr.

Vinton Lid-dell, one of Charlotte's most prominent and most esteemed citizens, passed last night at 8:30 at the Charlotte sanatorium, where he underwent an operation yesterday afternoon for obstruction of the bowels. Mr. Liddell was taken sick Tuesday night. He had been up town, as ITCHING BURNING SKIN TROUBLE John Stewart Howard Removes Corns in three to four dajf time without pain. Hard Corns, Soft.

Corns, or Corns Between the Toes. Price 15 By mail for 17c in stamps. Made only by SHEPPARD DRUG 7 W. Trade. tion.

A man of large means could have commanded much and many, but he chose the life of home, of loved ones his wife, his daughter, his mother, sisters and brothers filling up the highest measure of his happiness. But Commencement Marshals. Robt. Williams Hamilton, Chief, '16. George Henderson Webb, '16.

On Hands, Arms, Feet and Legs. Also Head. Child Could Not Rest usual, in the afternoon, returning home Ion the car from the Southern Manu- flL.U j. Tommy Lee Millwee, '16. Robert Lee Hayes, 'i8.

Fitzhugh Lee Gammon, '17. Paul Worthy' Johnson, '17. William James Evans, Day or Night. Hair Fell Out Badly, meet a very delightful coterie of he was not a selfish man. He loved his friends of whom he had scores and enjoyed them.

He was a gentleman in whom were blended the highest, purest qualities; a gentleman, of highest type, true, loyal, honorable in all things, generous, magnanimous, kind in word and act; a man of clean life and clean record, having an abid 4 11 viIlTTT II SOLVE THE friends in the afternoon on the club veranda. He seemed in his usual health. In the night he was taken with an attack of nausea. His family physician, Dr. William A.

Graham, usea uuticura. I rouble Uone. Trimble, Ga. "The trouble my son had began with small blisters. His hands, arms, feet and legs were sore and sometimes it was Cass Roll.

Class Officers We have it. ah rVire ere and a trained fSsional to fit them. Art 00 and nn President Frank Kipp Kramer ing faith in the essentials of religion, Henrv Bacon Constable clinging to the faith of his sainted Vice-President prices lu toSS.50. father, to whose memory he placed a Lewis Carroll Atkisson Secretary Waverly Fletcher Kilpatrick Treasurer The following 15 words are spelled backward; when reversed and arranged properly, they form a complete sentence. Write it out.

YTILIBARUD DNA DETON YTIRUP ENOT RIEHT DRAVRAH SONAIP NOTYAD FO ROF TAERG DNA ERA TTEREVE. Mail your solution and receive absolutely free a copy of "EVERETT SELECTIONS" containing five complete pieces of music, together with details of OUR GREAT COOPERATIVE PIANO SALE. Correct solutions are worth from $25 to $150 credit on a high-grade piano. on his head. It finally ran into big eruptions.

The places were bad looking and he could not rest day or night. The blisters caused much burning and itching and he would often have to leave the affected parts exposed, with no clothing coming in contact. The places looked red John Stewart Howard was summoned. Mr. Liddell's trouble was quickly diagnosed, and every known remedy restorted to, that night and Wednesday, but without effect.

Tuesday morning Drs. T. H. Wright, George W. Pressly and R.

L. Gibbon were called in consultation. Remedies heroic in type, were resorted to, but the trouble could not be overcome. Yesterday an operation was deemed imperative. Mr.

Liddell was moved to the sanatorium about 3 o'clock and the Historian Prophet Poet aists Joseph Brandon Bruner beautiful memorial window in the First Baptist church, and exemplifying under and in all circumstances the spirit and character of a Christian gentleman. Mr. Liddell's daughter accompanied by Mrs. Walter Liddell, will reach here tonight or tomorrow. Mr.

Forbes Crepe Milton Lee Correll Some extra choice styles B. S. Degree. Agriculture vpfll ffooa quality an Liddell is expected tomorrow, also Joseph Brandon Bruner TEe'' Jno." Church Company Miss Anna Forbes Liddell and Mrs. iiik Crepe de Chene Waists S.

Ogden mother of Mrs. Walter Lid OF FINE PIANOS. MANUFACTURERS AND DISTRIBUTORS dell who are at Chapel Hill. Mr. Walter Hill, the nephew who Guy Winston Commander Rutledge Hughes Field Peter Melvin Gilchrist John Hubbard Hall, jr.

Russell Peyton Harris Vernon Ray Herman Columbia, S. C. are shown at anu po.u each. 1805 Main Street, P. M.

ASBURY, Mgr. left Mr. Liddell's home Monday night, operation performed at once. The knife revealeu a serious condition, adhesions as well as obstruction. Not withstanding the seriousness of his condition, so successfully was the operation done tsat Mr.

Liddell rallied well both from the anes-ethetic and shock. He regained consciousness and spoke to his wife who remained by his side will return for the funeral service Mr. and Mrs. Liddell have a hand and were very hot and feverish. He would scratch them till they would bleed, flis hair fell out badly.

He had been troubled for several months before I began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. It was only a matter of two or three weeks before the trouble was gone. "I had the eczema for three years and was healed in four weeks by Cuticura Soap and Ointment." (Signed) Mrs. Myrtle Powell, Sept. 16, 1914.

Sample Each Free by Mail With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Address post-card "Cuticura, Dept. Boa-ton." Sold throughout the world. Herndon Hopkins some mausolem in Elmwood cemetery, and Mr.

Liddell will be laid to rest John Stewart Howard Waverly Fletcher Kilpatrick White Corduroy therein. 50c and 75c yd. up to the very moment of the operation, and immediately thereafter. A sudden collapse however came about 8:30 and death ensued in a few min Mi EDS NOW The scarcest fabric utes. GRADUATES Attractive gifts for the graduates an important event in the lives of young people is commencement day.

Give them a piece of Jewelry as a commemoration of the occasion. We have for your inspection a beautiful as-sortment of suitable' gifts for the graduate and we would be pleased to show them to you and you are under no obligation to buy. Robert Vernon Knight Irvin Tracy Lewis Jesse Webb Lindley R. Timberlake Newcomb John Gay Pinner Carl Clawson Proffitt Charles Landon Proffitt John Duncan Ray Chauncey Hardwick Roberts Walter Johnston Smith, jr. Herbert Spencer Daniel McGilvary Tate Arthur Lee Teachey Jno.

Ernest Trecathan Buxton White News of Mr. Liddell's critical condition had been learned in the early evening and there was a sense of fore- WHY DON'T YOU USD ARM! on the market shown tomorrow at uvsuiiig wuau tuuiu iiirL uc ciiaxvcu uu. Friends hurried to the Liddell home (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) on Jiast avenue to make inquiry. In all too short a time the city heard the sad tidings of the passing of this true-hearted courteous gentleman, and sorrow was universally expressed. It was cnHHon pn rmo l-now 1-1 ATr iHH oil 'c 50c and 75c yd.

London, April 30. According to trade union officials, more than JEWELER, SILVERSMITH AND DIAMOND MERCHANT. 10 N. Tryon St. Charlotte, N.

C. B. F. ROARK, 000 miners have been recruited into B. S.

Degree. Chemistry. Henry Bacon Constable illness. Almost simultaneously with the British army since the beginning of the war. Most of these have been enrolled as engineers or sappers, thus providing trained men for this work, Wash Silk William victor Pearsall Frederick Carl Wiggins WILL SUPPLY YOU news of his illness came news of his death.

There came to the many friends who admired and loved him friends in business, in society, in club circles a sudden shock, a realization of the which is proving of the highest importance in the trench warfare on the front. B. E. Degree. For the Graduate Waists Civil Engineering.

John Cline Carpenter uncertainty of of the nqt-knowin The capture of Hill 60 near Ypres, a case in point, where the: spade played a vital part in the operations. John William Cox Dallas Thornton Daily Leonidas Polk Denmark Charles Patterson Eldridge Harry Benjamin Henderlite Tunneling and mine-laying of a swift and certain nature was essential to ART PHOTOGRAPHER. COOKE'S STUDIO 324 No. Tryon St. Phone 1511.

Some very pretty new styles in Wash Silk Waists are here now. Thev come in white and flesh' shades and sell at S1.98 each As remembrances for the graduating friend we offer the season's choicest flowers. Also many beautiful arrangements in baskets, corsages, and bou-" quets. SCHOLTZ, The Florist Inc. Phone 1443.

306 N. Tryon Joseph Raoul Leguenec, jr. this operation and the sappers employed were skilled miners from Wales and the north of England. Accustomed to working underground with a complete mastery of the pick Karl Osborne William Owen Potter Joseph McKay Spears James Hugh Ward, jr. John Rodman Williams Henry Kollock Wither spoon and prop, and an instinctive under standing of all the difficulties to be or 'Tiojsv the call will come.

Friend said to friend in startled whisper, 'Vint' Liddell is dead!" each with a tone of sorrow and sense of that it could be possible. Today Mr. Liddell was taken back to his beautiful home in the Liddell square on East avenue and there his loved ones will gather from their homes in this city and from homes in the north and east. No arrangements will he made as to the service, pending the arrival of the only child, Miss Vinton Liddell, from Bryn Mawr, and other relatives from the north and east, but the service will not be before Monday, or possibly Tuesday. Biographical.

Vinton Liddell was the youngest son of the late W. J. F. Liddell and encountered in the way of cave-ins and falls of earth, these skilled miners Electrical Engineering. FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Phone Us Your Orders.

MRS. H. S. BRYAN CO. The Florist.

Phone 653. Henry Milton Alexander are able to drive saps and tunnels with a speed and accuracy not to be attained in the case of ordinary infantrymen, although every infantryman is given a thorough course of in Late Style Suits $12.50 Each At $12.50 we offer a lot of good style new Coat Suits Jahn Mann Carter Raymond Crowder Aaron Conard Fluck Henry Mercer Harshaw a (C IL struction in Epade-work during his training. Part of the miner's usefulness, es pecially in nigbt work between the that sold as high as $18.50 i lines, lies in his almost uncanny 'abil Mrs. Liddell, the latter now in her 90th year. He was born at Erie, October 5, 1859, and was therefore in his 56th year.

ity to see clearly in what to ordinary persons is almost absolute darkness. Advises Jt Pasteurized and Clarifed. This- special ability comes, of course, from long working in the half lights and S20.C0 each. There are a good assortment of the new cloths and colors. Velvet Ribbons.

Mr. Liddell's father came to Charlotte to live May 20, 1875, the date of the great celebration of the Centennial of the signing of the Mecklenburg Dec of the underground world. It is of the greatest value, not only in sap laration of Independence. He Mr. Lid ping and tunneling, but also in the work of the "listening patrol" in night attacks, and in reconnaisances.

dell, Sr. became associated with the late Robert I. McDowell, father of Mr. What Size Box Do You Need We Have a Shirtwaist or Skirt Box in Almost Any Size You May Want. IP Mr nmpewwi INTERESTING FACTS ON mm F.

B. McDowell, in establishing what is now known as the Liddell Com-Danv. Mr. Liddell's family his wife INFANT MORTALIY. Cat; "mtUD 111 1111S yUcUlLJ Mun Back Velvet Ribbons at from yard to 89c yard.

and children did not come to Char By Associated Press. lotte until 1876. They lived first on Baltimore, May 15. Interesting facts regarding institutional infant mortal Silk Ho West Trade then South Tryon and afterward on East avenue, Mr. Liddell (Sr.) having bought the old home place of the late Colonel Thomas ity were presented to the National se.

Conference of Charities and Correc tions today by Philip Van Ingen, secre ke a specialty of our Silk Brem. Hose se tary of the American Association for Requires it Pasteurized and Clarified. So does New York, Chicago, Savannah and almost all large cities and many smaller ones. C. P.

DAIRY Mr. Vinton Liddell was associated at 50c and $1.00 the pair. iu6 values we offer at these Study and Prevention of Infant Mor with his father and brothers in the urices unusu; All the new shades are machinery business for several years. tality. He said that in most cases in this country where a woman was un Later he went to Alabama, remaining able to care for her baby the author there for some time.

His father died ities committed it. to an institution. In V. JH, suddenly in Atlanta, November, 18S8, and Mr. Vinton Liddell returned to 3100 PHONES 3101.

New York, city-of 1,738 babies under one year of age admitted to institu Charlotte to be with his mother, tions 51.6 per cent are known to have I Expert Hair' Dressing, Shampoo-I done in our brothers and sisters. He was mar failed to complete their first year of pecial ried February 20, 1889, to Miss Jane Hyde Hall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John G. Hall of Ridgway, Pa, They Third Floor Sanitary Beauty life.

This method of institutional care, Dr. Brackett said, was given up in Europe a number of years ago. came to Charlotte and this city has Parlors On Player-Pianos For The Next 10 Days at 25c. since been their home with the ex ception of several years spent in jc 5 i O'- '5. is- i(f travel abroad, and temporary resi dence at their summer home at Great Ti All Virtualos reduced and special terms if desired Try these Pianos out in your own house without cost to you.

"Write for Virtualo Book telling you all about it. ELECTRIC PIANOS A SPECIALTY. IT ACC FACTORY DISTRIBUTOR n. UJDDy Phone 2467, Charlotte, N. C.

lodays ase- Fighting Flies at the (Correspondence of the Associated Press.) London, April 30. Flies are considered so dangerous a foe that a staff of entomologists have been engaged to inaugurate, an anti-fly campaign at the British front. It is feared that the insects will carry the germs of epidemics from the eastern theater of war to the western unless prompt measures are taken to exterminate the larvae. The army will be ordered to clean up and burn or destroy all rubbish near the camps, which might serve as fly breeders. ment Specials.

48c 19c 39c ers. For the "wee" lady, our. 27-inch neat, matting covered box at $2.75 is just the thing. Other sizes at $6.00, $7.00, $8.00 and $9.50. We have also same especially finely finished solid red cedar chests at $13.50, $15.00 and $17.50.

These are. so well finished that they can be used in the nicest room. Everything for summer comfort. W. T.

McCoy Co. 25c Lot of Towels 6c sii aa Z. Auweis oc Eacn Skirr; iatary Ladies' Wash 3 vir 75c each 10- Palm Beach Skirts, tsli Curtain Materials, Barrington, Mass. They erected two beautiful homes, one on North Church street, now owned by Mr. S.

S. Mc-Ninch, the other the beautiful home in the Liddell square. To Mr. and Mrs. Liddell were born two children, a son, John Hall, who died in infancy, and a daughter, who bears her father's name Vinton and who is a student at the Misses Shipley's school at Bryn Mawr, Pa.

She will reach Charlotte tonight or in the morning. Her aunt, Mrs. Walter Liddell, left last night at 8 o'clock to bring her home. Beside his wife and daughter, Mr. Liddell is survived by his mother, Mrs.

W. J. F. Liddell, who was 89 in January, two brothers, Mr. Walter S.

Liddell of this city and Mr. Forbes Liddell of New York, and two sisters, Miss Eva Liddell and Mrs. Thomas Franklin. Beside these Mr. Liddell is survived by three nieces, Mrs.

D. B. Mc-Bride and Miss Anna Forbes Liddell daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Liddell and Miss Katherine Liddell, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Forbes Liddell of New York. Mrs. Forbes Liddell and Miss Katherine Liddell are abroad, having been detained there by the war. Mr.

Liddell is also survievd by one nephew, Mr. THIS IS THE TRADE MARK ON EVERT BOX OF GENUINE TEETHINA Midsummer Millinery and Children's Hats. THE QUALITY SHOP. 14 S. Tryon Street.

3 34c Yard. jkOR SALE ALL Known for early Half i'? Rernember Century aa a Safe The Sale of the Medicine for World's Famous Jap-a-Lac in Teething Babies. th iss M. Gomger Base went. tL 1.

Mofiett Macrae Co. Pull direction i In each box for GOWNS BLOUSES, M. to 5 P. Cholera Morbus, Cholera Infantum, Worms, Hives. Dysentery, Constipation and other ailments that make baby Buffer during the teeth in qr period.

Look for th Trad Marie. Sold by all drug, gists 25c. Write for our J- MoHett Medicine SL Lotus, Customers Received from" 9 'Mi. M. 203 SIXTH ST.

PRIME IE 5. Hill of Scranton Pa. Mr. HillJL.

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