ELOPING WIFE CAUSES LAWMAN CHASE IN DELGADO SWAMP
Thomas Wallace alias Willie Brown, sought for abducting his half sister in law, fled into the Delgado swamp as officers closed in. After a long pursuit involving a mill, a house raid, and a night in mud, Wallace surrendered when confronted at a boardhouse with a pocket lamp. Loretta Wallace faced no charges.
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Delgado
Thomas Wallace
Willie Brown
Goldsboro
Wayne
Loretta Wallace
George Wallace
Wallace
Jackson
Rackley
Brown
von Hindenburg
Serif
Carter
Police Department
Bob Harker
el End
Warne
Hamstead Merchant J S Bowers Faces Espionage Charge
J S Bowers a Hamstead merchant was jailed in New Hanover on a espionage act violation charge after Hampstead residents reported s loaf statements. A preliminary hearing is set before United States Commissioner A 58 Williams on Monday as authorities questioned witnesses and conducted interviews in Hampstead and Wilmington. Bowers, aged about 50, asked that informants’ names be provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Bowers
Hamstead
New Hanover
Yesterdy
Hampstead
Bowers
Williams
Swers
United States District Attor
J. O. Carr
Spe
Phillips
Department " Justice
Marshall Hel
Wilmington
Scott’s
Ower
Remarkable gains in Seventh-day Adventist membership
A report by Rev. W. H. Branson details strong growth for the Southeastern Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, with membership rising from 2,?42 to 3,961 by end of 1917, 44 new churches bringing total to 124, and missions funds increasing from 48,589.79 to 121,605.33 over five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeastern Union Conference of Seventhday Adventists
W. H. Branson
Atlanta
Exposition Auditorium
San Francisco
Cal
Southeastern Union Conference
Carolinas
Georgia
Florida
Tennessee
Branson
Malachi
Union
L. D.ndall
Southern Publishing Association
Pastor Branson
Bok
A. G. Daniells
Florida Conference
Orlando
Fla
Union Territory
Graysville
Tenn
Reeves, Ga
Civil Service Exams Announced With Various Vacancies
The United States Civil Service Commission lists vacancies appearing daily with attractive salaries. May 8 openings include bacteriological assistant and printer positions. May 14 senior and junior land appraisers. May 15 checker. forest products engineers. plant pathologist roles with diverse pay ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Civil Service Commission
Checker
Winter Park Talk by James Sprunt Academy Principal
Andrew Allison, principal of the James Sprunt Academy in Chiang yin China, will speak at the Winter Park Presbyterian Church Sunday evening at 7. The event is announced by local church officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winter Park
Andrew Allison
James Sprunt
Chiang-yin
China
Presbyterien
Pat
School Bond Issue Talks Focus At County Meeting
School committeemen and locals discussed a proposed 250000 bond issue to fund educational facilities and salaries. A 10 cent levy and 30 cent per poll are projected to raise about 23000 to cover rising costs and reduce a 28000 debt, with plans for district campaigns and a mass meeting at the Academy of Music.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Thomas E. Cooper
Board of Education
Cooper
Charles B. Newcomb
Newcomb
R. W. Parsley
Academy of Music
Wen All
Bird Day Observed In Wilmington Schools
Birds were celebrated in Wilmington yesterday with songs pictures and displays as part of Bird Day. Students wore bird pins and joined Liberty Bell and Junior Audubon clubs as local schools including William Hooper and Union observed bird life linking it to geography science and composition. County rural schools also marked the day and New Hanover led state in bird club organizations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
United States
Congress
State Department of Agriculture
Liberty Bell
Audubon
William Hooper School
Allan Burriss
Hemenway
William Hooper
Conneling Hernett
Isaac Bear
New Hanover County
Soldier Writes of Military Experience at the Mexican Border
Corporal Charles E. Deil of the Ma chine Gun Company 119th Infantry recounts his border patrol duties during 1916 17 from Wilmington North Carolina to Glenn and Fabens Texas near Juarez describes camp life dog tents hard tack and corned beef patrols at the Rio Grande clashes with Murgia's cavalry Pershing orders and return to Wilmington praising his home town and Company H unit gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Deil
119Th
Sevier
United States
Mexico
Wilmington
N. C
Glenn
Morehead City
el Paso
Texas
Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi
Louisiana
Delta Point
Pennsylvania Infantry
Camp Green
Juarez
Rio Grande
Murgia
Madero
Pershing
Southern Department
Fabens
Juardaloup
Faben
Germany
Corrall
Fort Bliss
Seventeenth Infantry
119Th Infantry
Old Second North
Volunteers Rush to Join as War Headlines Spur Action
Reports of massive casualties and spectacular combat drive volunteers to sign up at British Canadian Recruiting Mission offices. Recruiters note crowds at depots as men insist I want to go and Kaiser must go, while veterans returnees reinforce the call to send more troops amid frontline bombardment and hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
Sergt. Net
Tie McPherson
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Marges
Whensman
Mexico Way
Fort Oglethorpe
Yankees
Miller Huggins
Liberty
North Carolina
Pantani
The
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Princess Street
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