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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1917
Page
6
Cries for aid and calls to arms echo as townsfolk rally for liberty. Notices of travels, visits, and weddings fill social columns, detailing arrivals from Raleigh to Wilmington and a quiet Maxton ceremony for John P. Stansel and Mabel Clifton.
The store advertises a sale with larger assortments and prices lower than ever before. Departments emphasize special efforts to create a good showing and highlight that original prices are already set as low as practicable for maximum savings.
An advertisement lists toothpaste and soaps such as Pebeco, Palmolive, Woodbury, and Talcum Powder. It features items like ladies' bags, linen collars, silk hose, baby caps, children's hosiery, embroidery, toilet paper, parasols, and assorted 25 to 50 cent value goods in a sale.
The page advertises bargains on dresses and ladies wear with very low prices. Items include White Washer Skirts at 2.50, Voiles Dresses from 1.50 to 5.00, Linen Middy Shirts at 1.00, and extensive hats and waists, claiming remarkable value and savings with limited expenditure.
Remnants of dressinghams percal es and lawns offered at low prices for home use. Items include awning striped shirting 36 inch white linen 25c white madras 36 inch black satin messaline 25c Turkish bath towels 10c Huck towels 36 inch fine unbleached sheeting 72x90 dimity bed spreads.
Classified shoe ads show bargains on mens eee beach shoes priced at 3.75 value and 2.85 men s long beach model with various sale values. Nearby listings note sizes and styles.
The Oceanic brings several arrivals including T. J. Joyner Florida J. H. Kelly Canajahai N Y O J Dykman New York City D L Ward New Penn A C Stallings Durham E H Osborn Greenville N C J B Johnson Raleigh S P Naul Forest Hill Gardens N Y John K Hayes Washington D C L V Grady Lee Formy duval Whiteville H L Lyon Whiteville and Miss Fryer Miss Schuibba Savannah The Carnival Night program features The Gulf Between a two reel drama and Beach Birds a comedy with Mutual bathing girls as headliners at Luina tonight.
Ad promotes Calotabs as a purified calomel tablet with no taste or unpleasantness. One tablet at bedtime, next morning liver cleansed and system purified. Money back if not delighted. twenty doses for thirty five cents. Also notes Carnival Night at Lumina on Wrightsville Beach with dance and large crowds.
Annie Von Bevel, daughter of Bruno Vent Bevel, reported victim of criminal assault, was laid to rest yesterday. Services were held at her father’s home in Castle Hayne at 5 PM with burial in Castle Hayne burying grounds. Clifton Kay, a colored man, has been in jail since August 2 on the assault charge.
Mr J C Carroll of the fire department visited Watha to spend time with his brother Arthur Spooner manager of the Winston branch of United Cigar Stores Company is in the city for a short stay. Mr C L Brown a traveling man from Nashville Tenn was a business visitor yesterday. Mr John Edward Wood treasurer of the Grand Encampment of Odd Fellows left today for Forest City then to Durham for a meeting on the 21st and 22nd of the month.
A long roster of guests checked into the Seashore Hotel, including W. B. Irby Jr of Memphis with family, Mrs. W. V. Moore of Memphis, Philadelphia visitors H. A. Black and Charles D. Black, and many others from Camden, Lumberton, Alexandria, Louisville, Atlanta, Raleigh, Washington, Jacksonville, Sumter, and more, with accompanying spouses and children.
Mr and Mrs Charles A Harris and family left yesterday by modern to spend some time at Wrightsville Beach Mr and Mrs John A Ricks left last night for Wrightsville Beach to spend several days
Funeral services for Benjamin L. Hoskins, longtime city resident, were held at 4 p.m. today from James F. Woolvin’s undertaking establishment on Princess Street. Interment followed in Bellevue Cemetery. Scores of friends attended the last sad service as numerous floral offerings were received.
The North Carolina State Board of Health ships more than six thousand ampoules of one percent silver nitrate solution to physicians and midwives to put in newborns eyes at birth. Mandatory under 1917 act, this prophylactic aims to cut infant blindness by at least thirty percent. Packages include sterilized needles and a government postcard return card for reorders.
Philadelphia August 17. Clergymen and laymen at the 43rd annual convention of the Catholic Young Men's National Union discussed plans to provide spiritual and physical support for American troops both here and overseas. Delegates from Catholic clubs nationwide attended the meeting and urged naming one member in each armed forces company to promote athletic games and smokers.
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