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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1916
Page
5
Wilmington seeks a new indoor baseball venture as E H Sussums of Charlotte visits to lease a site for a portable apparatus. He operates in Charlotte and Atlanta and hopes to bring his game to Wilmington, promising fast pitching without danger and a novelty for local fans.
Members of the Speakers' Club at YMCA debated whether to embargo food stuffs. The negative side won 2 to 1 with L F. Duvall and J. A. Livingstone as winners. Rev J. E. Reynolds presided. Next query on US intervention in Mexico. Also a note on Sir Edward Nicholl, who rose from clerk to shipowner and financier in the British mercantile marine.
The board recommended authorizing a $17,000 bond issue to cover $13,000 in existing debt and fund improvements at the county home and work house including a pumping plant laundry waterworks sewer and lights. They endorsed juvenile court reforms and discussed a reform cottage at the county farm. Back taxes show a rise with about $30,000 still owed.
Peterson and Rulfs operate as the slipper headquarters offering a range of Christmas slippers in sizes 14 16 17 20 and 22. Limited stock emphasized for seasonal shoppers.
Movement to fund Christmas entertainment for Civil War veterans proceeds slowly as committee members report scant public interest. Col Metts says funds are insufficient and urges contributions before the deadline, noting many veterans will go without the hoped for celebration this season.
Walter E Hapgood business manager of the Boston Braves visited Wilmington to arrange Braves Yankees exhibition games at Sunset Park on April 5. He recalled Chicago Tribune baseball days and 1896 Bryan campaign reporting while praising Bryan and noting his influence on player valuation for the pennant hopeful Braves.
Public school teachers met at Hemenway School to discuss better methods for teaching spelling penmanship language grammar reading and related subjects. Teachers from Cornelius Harnett Isaac Bear William Hooper and Hemenway schools reported on their assigned topics and participated in the session held yesterday afternoon.
Three city sub stations will handle insured and C O D letters and packages at Registry Department windows. Post master H McL Green announced the move today. Stations are at Owen Hill's store Fifth and Queen streets Ben Kaminski's store 802 North Fourth A street and Southside Drug Company Front and Castle streets.
The September filing by Rosenman Son Standard Oil and Kuester-Lowe sought bankruptcy for the McKinnon Company Maxton but Judge Connor dismissed at petitioners' expense for lack of fraud evidence and insufficient verification. Largest creditor Bank of Maxton resisted. receivership actions and asset liquidation cited as grounds. Lawyers included Bellamy McCormick McLean McKinnon Patterson.
The Masked Marvel, likely Louis LeReau, arrives by belated Northbound train and vows to prove Hanson is not the better wrestler. Hanson heads to Florence then Sumter for upcoming contests as fans hear of a hard Friday night match at the Academy of Music. Ladies admitted for a quarter as the controversial showdown looms.
Rt. Rev. John F. Foley, Catholic bishop of Detroit, will celebrate this month the 60th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in Rome on December 20, 1856.
The Boston National League club and the New York Yankees are set to play an exhibition game at Sunset Park on April 4 next year. Contracts were signed by team officials and city representatives, guaranteeing first string lineups and no rookies. The clash will feature stars such as Baker, Maranville, Evers, Donovan, Stallings, and Snodgrass among others, with ten exhibition games planned overall and coverage by noted baseball writers.
Tokio reports a National Defence Association lecture by Commander Sosaburo Takahashi on the U S naval buildup. He argued the U S Japanese war remains unlikely but warned against complacency, urging rapid American shipbuilding and expanded Pacific communications while Japan tones up iron foundry capacity.
J. B. Tattersall, leader of England’s largest cotton mill empire, started as a Lancashire mill boy reaching adulthood with early hands-on work in the textile trade. His long ascent reflects industrial era mobility and business consolidation.
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