The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1929, Sheet 109

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

A Newspaper Clipping.

Below we bring a clipping from the Times
published weekly at New Bern, N.C. This clipping
appeared on the front page, first column of the issue
of May 24, 1929. We bring the article just as it
appeared, with all its profusion of dashes.

“He’s Black, But One of Smartest Kids.

“Five-Year-Old Negro Orphan from Swansboro
Has Most Remarkable Memory.

“Prodigious is a good word to describe a most remark-
able feat of memory performed by little five-year-old Has-
kew Bates Leacraft Louder, orphan extraordinary from
Swansboro, but now an inmate of the Lutheran Orphanage
at the Oaks Farm.

“The Lutheran Catechism is a finely printed book of
thirty-eight pages —it was written more than four hun-
dred years ago by Martin Luther. Rev. Martin Dorpat,
the Lutheran missionary, here at present, told us he had
a child in the orphanage who could recite the whole thirty-
eight pages of that book from memory, and more than
that, the child would hardly miss a word, — and naturally
we were skeptical, —-and while we didn’t bet the dominie
it couldn’t be done, we, however, offered a small cash prize
to hear it done.

“Yesterday the Reverend brought the little colored tike
into our office — that kid’s remarkable mental powers
have left a solemn impression—-in a childish treble he
recited the whole thirty-eight pages—with us holding
the book —and not a falter nor mistake did he make —
he was a gracious, polite little man — thanked us grace-

Little Five-Year-Old Haskew Bates,
the Boy with the Remarkable Memory.

Mrs. Louder, of New Bern, N.C., and Some
of Her Orphans.

fully for the prize—he’s got that great human element
we all strive for —truth—faith—the Reverend says
he’s teaching him in preparation for the ministry — we
want to hear him preach his first sermon— it wilf¥e

worth the years of waiting.” <

5

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Eprror.)

Representatives of the Colored Mission Boar
North Carolina. — Director Drewes attended
anniversary solemnities at Greensboro, N.C.,
month. Several important conferences with the w:
ers attending the festivities were held. Mr. St
meyer, the architect of the Board and a mem
met Director Drewes at Greensboro, from where
two went to Alabama.

A New Worker. — Rev. Arthur W. Dreier has
cepted the call of the Colored Mission Board ,t)
Montgomery, Ala. He will probably have b
installed by the time this reaches our readers. x

ME

CONCORDIA SEMINARY
ST. LOUIS, MO.

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AFFE

Graduates of Immanuel College, Greensboro,
Byron R. Skinner, Selma, Ala., was the only graduate
from the Theological Department. The following
graduated from the Normal Department: Vivian
A. Foard, Monroe, N. C.; Ora Graeber, Kannapolis,
N. C.; Hopie F. Kirkpatrick, Charlotte, N. C.; Amy
Little, Kannapolis, N. C.; Mattie McConaughey,
Salisbury, N.C. The following students graduated
from the Academic Department: Nanny Brooks,
Bertha Brown, Badie Thompson Conyard, Tempie
Currie, Lottie L. Foster, Mary Bridges Gardner,
Murnel Graves, Margaret Hairston, Elbert Hasty,
James Hasty, Elizabeth Jarette, Theo. Johnson,
Dahlia Kerr, Maggie Little, Heba Daniel, Estelle
Murcheson, Anderson Nicholson, James Pasley,
Wilma Steepleton, Mary Thalley, Bernice Washing-
ton, Ary Williamson. Of these, Estelle Murchison