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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1918
Page
6
Invitations announce Lena Irene Stassi to Bennie Tatein in Selma on April 19. Local clubs, churches, and hospitals host drives and hostesses plan community events while residents travel for family, work, and medical care.
Miss Helen Oliver teaching at Kings Mountain returned home with German measles and stayed a week longer. Miss Cora Page Inman left for Florida after visiting G. Page family. J. J. Oliver rural carrier traveled to Washington and back. Attendees at Easter Baptist church dedication in Fairmont and plans for a new Methodist church dedication in June. Bowls in Greenville for military training visited family here. Draper of Fairmont and Rev. Draper's son were visitors.
Clarkton residents report visits from Miss Kate M Johnson and Miss Emma Kelly to Lumberton on Wednesday. Adelle Single returns from Raleigh. Mrs W S Clark and daughter Cora Clark come back from Atlanta Georgia. Mr and Mrs M O Coble of Greensboro and Mrs Tate of Ramseur visit. Rev A Lapsley Jr of Tar Heel accepts invitation to deliver baccalaureate sermon at the Early High School.
Cecil B DeMille selected Geraldine Farrar to portray Montezuma's daughter in The Woman God Forgot at the Grand theater Monday and Tuesday. The production used research in libraries and Mexico to recreate Aztec palaces and costumes though feathered cloaks and robes for Montezuma and court presented a sourcing challenge for costume designers.
A new musical comedy company arrives in Wilmington offering three shows this week at the Royal. Opening Monday and Tuesday features The Two Bosses with Mae Kenna Ludlow Allen and Jack Wright, plus vaudeville acts Woodward and Duell and Dot Duell.
Miss Vera Best visits in town from James Walker Memorial Hospital Wilmington. Sergeant William Usher of Camp Jackson visits family here. Miss Mamie King of Wilmington visits relatives. Rev and Mrs Stanfield and Mr and Mrs Pifer motor to Evergreen. Miss Gladys McDonald returns from Wilmington. Girls Athletic Association program at the auditorium yields a neat sum to buy new instruments for the physical laboratory.
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