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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1917
Page
6
Mrs W F Cox and Miss Leila Cox of Tabor were in the city yesterday. Mr and Mrs J C Peddy of San ae were Wilmington visitors. Mr and Mrs K M Biggs of Lum on spent yesterday in the city with friends.
The Red Cross hosted a gathering at the armory for Wilmington Light Infantry members with ice tea and cake. News covers weddings George Cottle and Die Mintz at Delgado, and James M. Bullard and Ethel May Walker at Calvary Baptist, plus nurse Croom headed to France with Lt. Groom.
Hanson fights Aberg in a Lumina wrestling card with Gunner McGurley serving as referee noted in the ad. Local fans are urged to attend for the live action and official results.
Tonight at Lomina two features headline the bill. Mustangs Mutual Western presents a dramatic action filled tale led by Shorty Hamilton. A Modern Knight delivers a drama tease with surprising twists and thrills. The Singer Sting adds a beauty comedy with a novel ending. Lumina audiences enjoy cool ocean breezes and growing movie popularity.
Fort Caswell’s Gunner J B McGurley set to referee the Hanson versus Aberg game at Lumina tomorrow night. He plans to leave for the Oglethorpe officers training camp for the evening, signaling the clash will draw added interest.
A long roll of guests checks in at the Oceanic Hotel including S Frank Sheppard family from Raleigh Mrs Thos W Rouse Wallace John Parker and a family Mrs J F Dodson from Goldsboro Miss Willie Jeanette Mr Olive J A Bonner from Aurora EB Morris and family from Washington DC D C Towers CK Weekley Atlanta R H Ratherman Norfolk L B Noel Fayetteville J Beale Johnson Cardenas NC Mrs Hugh O Wallace Anderson H C Marley Greensboro Miss Ethel Hancock New Bern B Jones Jonesville Fla Sam Houston Charlotte D T Cronly Columbia H H Powers New York City B D Gowdey Fayetteville.
More than 3,000 people attended Lumina last night to watch the Wilmington Light Infantry perform drills worthy of regular troops. A post drill dance followed in a setting where national colors and allied flags fluttered in the Atlantic breeze. Ticket sales reached about 2,500 with additional beachgoers and trestle riders swelling the crowd beyond three thousand.
Interest mounts for the Hanson versus Aberg match at Lamien Ar tomorrow at 9 15 PM. A record crowd is expected as both wrestlers are well known to fans, with past meetings unsettled and a possible strong performance from Aberg. The Lumina beach attraction offers free admission and anticipates a large turnout after a long wrestling drought.
A long roster of guests arrives at the Seashore Hotel including Mrs. E L Moore and family in Laurinburg and many others from Columbus Ga Charleston and New York among towns like Madison Fla Darlington Hartsville and Little River. The notice names dozens of travelers with wives children and spouses visiting from multiple states.
Tomorrow the women of Wilmington will assemble at the Murchison Bank Building from 10 to 1 for Red Cross work. The gathering will feature a physician visiting from France to inspect the efforts and offer suggestions. Both Red Cross departments on the second and eighth floors will be active.
Dr. A Bascom Croom arrives from Maxton to practice in place of Dr G H Croom who joined Dr Pridgens Medical Corps unit and departs for Greenville training camp. Croom will occupy offices in the Murchison National Bank Building and has long served as surgeon for the Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard Air Line. His family will follow soon.
The Masonic reception at 8 PM on the roof garden of the Masonic Temple will follow the conferring of the Sublime Degree. Grand Master Claud L. Pridgen will preside with the medical unit and the Masonic Intelligence Bureau, aiding families of members at the front in Europe.
Members of the Wilmington Light Infantry and Troop C Cavalry enjoyed large glasses of lemonade served by Mrs. Graham Farmer and Mrs. EE Southerland at the Third and Grace streets corner. Donated by young men from the offices of Alex Sprunt and Son, the lemonades were shared after a strenuous morning.
Modern pharmacy touts Calotabs as a de nauseaated form of calomel, sold as Calotabs. It claims no taste, no griping, no nausea, and a clean sleep with morning appetite. The ad emphasizes its wide use for biliousness digestion and liver kidney troubles. It presents Calotabs as safer and easier to take than traditional calomel pills.
E. A. Todd and Sam King sentenced to one year in the state penitentiary for blockading were granted a ten day respite by Governor Bickett while awaiting a potential pardon. The men were arrested near Masonboro after a raid on an illicit distillery and convicted at the June term by Judge W. M. Bond. They remain free on bond as their lawyers pursue options in Raleigh.
Examination of 21 young white men drawn for military service under the selective draft system began at the YMCA gym. Dr J F Robertson and Dr Charles T Nesbitt led the medical staff with Exemption Board member C Chadbourn present to assist. By noon the process was rapid and officials expected all to be examined before nightfall with only three initially absent and later reported to have arrived.
At a noon meeting in Wilmington the Building and Loan League adopted resolutions to extend to enlisted or drafted members every consideration. The group urged directors to grant exemptions from payments and provide relief for soldiers and sailors called to service.
Willis R. Taylor a Navy member deserted his vessel at Chattanooga and came to Fort Oglethorpe to enlist in the Army fearing the ship would not see action. He told secret service agents he sought faster combat and was taken to Newport News, Virginia after arrest.
A fragment notes a Wilmington based committee including John D. Bellamy Jr W M Cumming and W A McGirt whose task is to craft a recommendation for league members to follow and adopt. The text indicates a formal decision process within the association.
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