Charlotte News, Births to Deaths and Everything Else, March 19, 1922

City News Told in Tabloid Form

--W.L. Bruns has returned home after spending the past week in New York on business.

--Born to Mr. and Mrs. S.A. Weed at their home on West Third street, a daughter, Lillian Odell.

--Hugh Montgomery is spending several days in Atlanta, attending a meeting of the National Cash Register company.

--Lee Folger has returned from Greensboro where he attended the Automobile Show held there during the past week.

--Mrs. Lloyd Blythe of Huntersville is getting along very nicely at the Charlotte Sanatorium, following an operation for mastoids.

--Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Allison, a daughter, Mary LaRue. Mrs. Allison and baby are at the Presbyterian Hospital.

--Born to Mr. and Mrs. N.L. Johnson at St. Peter’s hospital, a daughter, Sarah Janet. Before her marriage Mrs. Johnson was Miss Elizabeth Orr.

--H. Buford Patterson of the Tate-Brown Company returned Saturday night from Tennessee where he was called by the illness and subsequent death of his brother, Frank Patterson.

--D.J. Fant, engineer of the Southern railway, will speak to the boys at the Y.M.C.A. Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Mr. Fant has spoken to the boys on is previous visits to Charlotte.

--Florence Cole-Talbert, noted Negro soprano of Detroit, will appear in concert at Biddle University Friday night, March 24. Two numbers on her program will e negro spirituals: “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” and “Done Paid My Vow to the Lord.”

--Because of the inclement weather when “Every woman” was presented several weeks ago to benefit of the Phyllis Wheatley colored branch of the Y.W.C.A., the play will be again presented for the benefit of the same organization at the City Auditorium Friday night, March 31.

--R.T. Ferguson, formerly of Gaffney, S.C., has opened offices at 914-915 Commercial Building, for practice in diseases of women. Miss Mary Harvin, a graduate of the Charlotte Sanatorium, will have charge of the office. Dr. Ferguson and family are located at 1501 South Boulevard.

--Rev. W.A. Sharp, pastor of Calvary Methodist Church on South Mint Street, will preach a special sermon Sunday night at 7 o’clock on the subject “Asleep at the Switch.” The sermon is intended especially for parents. A special invitation to members of the Junior Order of American Mechanics, whose principles Mr. Sharp will discuss in the sermon.

--Marie, 15-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Wingate, 614 North Smith Street, died at the home of her parents Saturday afternoon. The funeral will be held at the home Sunday at 2 p.m. by Rev. C.O. Williams, pastor of Statesville Avenue A.R.P. Church. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

--After an illness of three days with diphtheria, Sarah Hope, 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Cooper of Lawyers Road, died at the home of her parents Saturday afternoon. The body will e accompanied to Rockingham Sunday and interment will take place there. She is survived by her parents, two brothers and one sister.

--Bishop Edward Rondthaler of Winston-Salem will conduct a service at 3 o’clock at the Y.M.C.A. building for the Moravian congregation here. He was a visitor in Charlotte during the past week among some of the members of the local congregation and returned Saturday afternoon. The Moravian congregation here has been organized abut a year and numbers about 75 persons.

--Rev. Milton F. Daniels, home mission superintendent and evangelist of Mecklenburg Presbytery, will preach at 6:30 o’clock Sunday evening at Pegram Street Presbyterian Church. At the morning service at 11 o’clock W.E. Price, layman, will have charge of the service, which will have some special features. Mr. Daniels will preach at 11 o’clock at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church.

--The Southern Public Utilities Company has secured for a cooking and gas range demonstration here during the first week of April, Mrs. S.R. Dull of Atlanta, well known dietician, writer and authority on cooking and food value. Mrs. Dull conducted a demonstration in Charlotte last Summer. J.A. Forney, manager of the gas department of the Southern Public Utilities company, is expecting a daily attendance of 500 house wives during the coming demonstration.

--Approaches to the city should be made more beautiful, declared Miss Annie Robertson, art supervisor of the city schools, speaking at the teachers meeting Saturday morning at Alexander Graham High School on “Art Appreciation.” Approaches on the main line of railways ought to be made beautiful and attractive as possible, for it is largely through the car windows that passengers form opinions of the city, she said.

From The Charlotte News, Sunday morning, March 19, 1922