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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1918
Page
8
James Owen Reilly purchased from Thomas E. Wallace the three story Market street building number 20 occupied by G Dannenbaum used as a wholesale and retail ready to wear department store. The deal involving about 14000 dollars was finalized Tuesday before noon amid a shipyard boom.
Citizens urged to attend a lawn side song service at the Academy of Music directed by the Woman's Liberty Loan committee. Attendees should clip and bring the program sheet to aid the singing of Eternal Father and promote Liberty Bond sales. Weather is expected ideal with aims to ensure a successful patriotic gathering.
An official arm band bearing the State coat of arms has been adopted by Wisconsin women engaged in war work.
The Tidewater Power Company held its annual meeting at 11 o clock in the Murchison National Bank building electing officers for the coming year and a board of directors. Officers named include Hugh MacRae president H C McQueen first vice president Raymond Hunt general manager and others. Directors elected were Hugh MacRae C Van Leuven H C McQueen G H Smith Oscar Pearsall J G L Gieschen Jurgen Haar C H Taylor B H Bridgers W B Cooper Walker Taylor M J Corbett T W Davis J W Grainger J H Brown J W Brooks and Thomas E Cooper. Reports declared the company in good condition.
Willie McIntire of 620 MacRae street and Harrison McCoy of 614 Church street colored men were taken into custody by Sheriff George C. Jackson for failing to answer their draft board call and were handed to local draft officials for induction. Their New Jersey registration and arrest followed a authorities request.
Princess Victoria chairs a committee gathering pearls from English women for a Red Cross necklace. Queen Mary and Queen Alexandra contribute exquisite gems from their collections to the effort.
A large crowd at the East Wilmington colored church joined a War Savings Stamps event featuring a cake contest with Middle Sound. The cake sold for 149.20, while four fruit baskets added 6.65 for the East Wilmington colored school. Leaders J R Berry and Hezekiah Miller directed the lively bidding and voting.
The 26 year old Mr. E S Rushing died Monday at James Walker Memorial Hospital. His remains were sent to Hallboro for interment with services held from his East Wilmington home. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Rushing and survived by his young wife. A Women's Forestry Corps has been organized in England to do logging and saw mill work.
Miss Clarissa Harrold a talented reader will present on the seventh afternoon of the Redpath seven day Chautauqua here the famous war play The Man Who Stayed at Home which has had long runs in major cities in the United States and England
Evangelist W. Marvin Huggins preached the sermon to women at Southside Baptist Church, not China Grove as previously stated. The China Grove copy previously supplied by the minister's secretary caused the error, with the same sermon delivered there a year earlier.
A Shelbyville Tennessee药药药 1917 letter from H C Shapard's Sons Drugists praises Kilmer's Swamp Root for kidney bladder and liver health. They report years of sales with no complaints and urge readers to send ten cents for a sample bottle and information booklet, noting availability in all drug stores.
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