Council Acts on Bridge Contract and Pigeon Garden Damage
City Council approved a $950 contract for the Fourth Street Bridge with Standard Supply Company, the lowest bid among three. Bids for fire department uniforms were awarded to Edward Weaver. police uniforms bids were rejected. Discussion covered pigeon damage to southern gardens and potential remedies, including impounding and charging owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Street Bridge
Standard Supply Company
Ist Street
City Council
B. A. Merritt
Oore
Baltimore
North Eighth Street
J. H. Curtiss
Olely
Curtiss
Ruark
Supreme Court
Burke H. Bridgers
L. Clayton Grant
Walter L. Hatch
Wilmington
Drum
Bu Ble Corps
Ken
Ens
Aaa
McCaig
Jynene McCaig
Chaman Mostare
Clerks Sworn in Special Officers Guard Cotton Firm Property
Members of Alex Sprunt & Son, cotton export firm, have been sworn as special officers to guard the Champion press and warehouses. Guards patrol nightly due to wartime fears, with duties reduced to one night per week. The firm aims to protect cotton stockpiles and key infrastructure amid heightened security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Sprunt & Son
Germany
Tidewater Power Company Re Elects Old Board
At the annual stockholders meeting Tidewater Power re elected the old board of directors. Officers were re elected with Hugh MacRae as president and M F H Gouverneur as first vice president. The executive committee includes MacRae McQueen and Gouverneur. No reorganization yet. transfer to Brooks & Co of Scranton pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tidewater Power Company
Messrs
Hugh MacRae
M. F. H. Gouverneur
H. C. McQueen
J. W. Grainger
G. Herbert Smith
W. B. Cooper
Oscar Pearsall
Thos. W. Davis
Burke H. Bridgers
M. J. Corbett
J. H. Brown
C. E. Taylor
Sixteen Negro laborers leave for New York migration north
A group of sixteen young colored men departed last night from the city on the 6 45 northbound Coast Line train to New York City seeking steady work and higher pay. An elderly colored leader supervised the trip at Union Station as a large crowd hoped to join the voyage, with many left behind awaiting future transport. Since the migration began, estimates range from five hundred to a thousand people leaving with few returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Line
New York City
Union Station
Rotary Club Prize prompts student essays for factory sites
Interest grows as Wilmington Rotary Club offers three prizes for essays on why the city should donate free factory sites. School children are urged to submit reasoned reports, reflecting civic engagement and business development aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Wilmington Rotary Club
Sunday Schools To Be Traction Company Guests
The Tidewater Power Company will run free excursions to Wrightsville Beach for 34 Sunday schools in Wilmington and New Hanover county. From May 7 to May 31 over 3,000 children are expected to take the trips with dates and participating churches and churches listed by Superintendent T. J. Baird.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tidewater Power Company
Wrightsville Beach
Wilmington
New Hanover County
T. J. Baird
St. James’ Episcopal
S. M. Boatwright
St. John‘s Episcopal
Washington Catlett
St. Paul’s Episcopal
R. E. Tapp
St. John’s Mission
J. Edwin Bunting
Salvation Army
James Yates
Seventh Day Adventists
J. C. McKay
Bladen Street Methodist
J. B. Taylor
St. Paul's Lutheran
C. W. Polvogt
St. Matthew’s Lutheran
W. W. Kock
First Baptist
D. H. Howes, Jr
First Presbyterian
G. A. P. Bowman
Grace Methodist
K. W. Price
Delgado Baptist
L. W. Moore
Delgado Presbyterian
W. C. Scoggins
Church of the Good Shepherd
Ernest Irving
Church of the Ascension
C. H. Huband
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian
L. L. Latta
Third North Carolina Division Formed in Wilmington Naval Reserve
The Wilmington Division of Naval Reserves is designated as the Third North Carolina Division with headquarters here. H B Peschau will be commissioned lieutenant senior grade, E C Dickinson lieutenant junior grade, and B B F Peschau ensign. Total war strength must be enlisted by tomorrow for unit perfection and petty officers selection. Recruiting at Front and Princess Streets will stay open for the remaining men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Naval Reserves
Office of the Adjutant General
Third
North Carolina
H. B. Peschau
E. C. Dickinson
B.B. F. Peschau
Front
Princess Streets
Why Not Get Rid of Eczema
If your skin itches and burns with eczema wash the sore places with Resinol Soap and hot water dry and apply Resinol Ointment. Itchiness stops instantly sleep returns and healing begins as the soothing antiseptic Resinol arrests the disease's action and restores skin to health at little cost. Prescribed by doctors for over 20 years and sold by every pharmacy.
Soap Claim Promises Clear Complexion for Skin
An advertisement touts a cleansing toilet soap as purer and more cleansing for the skin. It claims money cannot buy better results and asserts the soap will keep the complexion clear.
Explaining Issue in Various Wards About Free Factory Sites
Residents of Delgado will hear a full explanation of the free factory sites plan tonight. Rotarians and the Hanover Concert Band host open air meetings to sway voters before next Tuesday’s election. Rallies drew about 250 in First ward with questions answered. Additional sessions planned on Front Street with the Band present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delgado
Rotarians
Delgado Store
Hanover
Fifth
Brunswick
Fourth
Harnett
Messrs
George Galvin
Milton Calder
Marsden Bellamy
Roger Moore
Claude C. Cashwell
Front Street
Front and
Market Streets
Chestnut Streets
Wilmington Farmer Offers 100 Acre Farm for Food Crop Growth
Frank P. Lamb of Wilmington offers his 100 acre Pender county farm near Coll Mill to New Hanover or Pender counties at no charge for planting in food crops to boost wartime supplies. He will provide wood for upkeep while the land remains cultivated and allows ongoing county use as desired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank P. Lamb
Pender County
Coll Mill
New Hanover
Pender
Erica
Bickett
Lamb
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the We
Champion
Lerical Force
New York
Tidewater
Episcopalians
Bijou
Advt
James Owen Reilly
City
J. O. Reilly
F. A. Lord
Trust Company
South
United States
The
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Princess Street
King's Business College
Raleigh, N. C
Charlotte, N. C
Ana
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