Patriotic Penny District Fund Totals Revealed
A long list of district contributions from Mrs C M Weathers to Miss Lucille Townsend shows varied gifts from 7c to $10.41 as part of a Christmas card sale and bazaar proceeds. The overall total reaches 124.61 with district by district allocations across A to KK and other local areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atkinson
Clantine McDougald
Blanton
Mabel West
Lorenzo
HE. S. Bannerman
B. Bailey
M. Williams
W. Hall
K. Hawkins
Luther Toon
A. C. Craft
Janie Murchison
George Peschau
Bunting
Causey
Daniel
Hammond
Kelley
C. D. Gore
Baxter
Landen
Wm. B. Munroe
Noe
Burnett
Gerkin
C. S. Moore
A. McMillan
Southside Drug Co
Townsend
Jesse Price
E. C. Hudson
Jessie Harper
Fletcher
George Mitchel
N. B.shorpe
DeVaney
Outlaw
Pearl Davis
J. E. Marshburn
Howell
Weaver
Anderson
Farrar
W. S. Moore
Scott
Joe Curtiss
Croom
Greenfield
Whitted
Davis
Lillian Styne
McMillan
Owen
Chadwick
J. W. West
Brooklyn
Savage
Harrington
Bullard
Albro
Garden City
Barber
Winter Park
L. Williams
South Wilmington
Walker Taylor
Wm. C. Munds
Edward Bailey, Jr
Bazaar
M. T. Craig
Margaret Townsend
Lucille Townsend
Harry Payne, Jr
Bernice Schulken
Turning the Handle to Live Your Creed in Baltimore Sun
A Baltimore Sun excerpt opens with a reflection on turning the handle of life as a daily duty. It contrasts labor with reward, urging persistent effort to realize one’s creed and avoid stagnation. Local notices follow of visitors and social engagements during the holidays.
Local Military Visitors Spend Holidays at Home
Mr Winiter W Wood returns from the U S Radio school at Virginia Pesach to spend holidays. Sergeants Dan and William Quinlivan of Camp Sevier visit their mother Mrs Dan Quinlivan on North Second street. Private Leroy L Raun of the 115th Machine Gun Battalion at Camp Sevier and Mr W B Raun of Philadelphia stay with parents on North Fifth avenue. Mr J M Newbold leaves to spend holidays with parents at Hertford North Carolina. Mr Henry Cook of the Supply...
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winiter W. Wood
Virginia Pesach
Dan
William Quinlivan
Camp Sevier
Dan Quinlivan
North Second Street
Leroy L. Raun
Co. C
W. B. Raun
Philadelphia
T. J. Raun
North Fifth Avenue
J. M. Newbold
Hertford
N. C
Henry ©. Cook
the Supply
Company Returns Home Over Holidays to Camp Sevier
A unit from Camp Sevier in Greenville South Carolina spends the holidays with friends in Wilmington, sharing time away from the post and exchanging greetings with local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
120Th United States Oetry
Camp Sevier
Greenville
S. C
Idn
Wilmington
Gus Hill minstrels led by George Wilson at Academy show
Gus Hill's big minstrel company led by George Wilson and including Eddie Mazier and fifty singers tours with fifty dancers. They performed at the Hippodrome previous to this engagement and open with a scenic first part praised as pretentious. A grand noon street parade with two bands will precede the matinee and night shows at the Academy of Music tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gus Hill
Big Minstrels
George Wilson
New York“Hippodrome
Academy of Music
Eddie Mazier
Wm. H. Thompson
John P. Rogers
Jack McShane
Herbert Crowley
John Burke
James
Orrigan
Arthur Gros
John Carey
Fred McKramer
Melody Maids Bring Holiday Shows to Royal Theater
The Melody Maids company led by Billy Van Allen opens this afternoon at the Royal for a week of matinees and evening performances. Wilmington’s Frank Banks joins as a featured performer after recent work in Vaudeville, with The Virginia Minstrel and the That Jazz Trio as additional attractions today and tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melody Maids
Billy van Allen
the Royal
Wilmington
Eva Tanguay Stars in The Wild Girl at the Grand Today
Eva Tanguay headlines The Wild Girl at the Grand today and tomorrow presented by Harry Webber. George Rosner wrote the story, Howard Estabrook directed, a Selz Nick picture distributed by Select Pictures, with a costume revue showcasing the vaudeville queen's famed attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Tanguay
Harry Webber
George Rosner
Howard Estabrook
Selznick
Select Pictures Corporation
Firefly
Miss Tanguay
George Wilson and 60 All-White Singers and Dancers
Matinee show at Elvington's features George Wilson with a company of 60 all white singing and dancing comedians. Tickets priced 50 cents and 75 cents for matinee and evening performances with 1 dollar tier seating available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wilson
Automobile Fatality Darkens New Bern Holiday
In New Bern on December 24, 69 year old William Gaskin died after being struck by Dr. R N Duffy’s car near Griffith street. Duffy, returning from a patient, stopped, moved Gaskin to the hospital, but injuries were fatal. The accident occurred as Gaskin stepped into the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dispatch
New Bern
William Gaskin
Griffith Street
R. N. Duffy
Mr. Gaskins
Duffy
Griffin Auditorium
Te City
Automobile kills Fayetteville girl in city street
Fayetteville December 24 Miss Louise Holland daughter of Mr and Mrs R L Holland was fatally struck by an automobile driven by M N Pearson of Seventy first township Cumberland county on Hay street Saturday morning and died about ten minutes after reaching a hospital. She had just started to cross the street and appeared to step into the path of the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fayetteville
Louise Holland
R. L. Holland
M. N. Pearson
Seventy-first Township
Cumberland County
Hay Street
Holland
General Guillaumat to Succeed Sarail as Saloniki Commander
General M P Be Sarail will be replaced as head of Allied armies at Saloniki by General Guillaumat official notice. Guillaumat, Verdun hero, arrived in Saloniki with orders to assume command as soon as possible. London report had named General Guillemet as Sarail’s successor. An earlier Verdun victory was led by Guillaumat. A separate accident report notes a car struck a young woman, fracturing skull and thigh. she died at Cumberland General Hospital. Pearson was arrested and released with police finding no blame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bern
Associated Press
Paris
M. P. BE. Sarail
Saloniki
Marie Louis Adolphe Guillaumat
Sarrail
Guillaumat
Verdun
London
Athens
East
Guillemet
Guillaumot
Cumberland General Hospital
Pearson
Pelarra
van Viecet Drug Co
Memphis
Tenn
Jarman & Futrelle
Acort
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C. M. Weathersee Omah
Williams
Mabel En
E. Nutt
Stay Bowden
Fannie Thompson
Helen Weathers
Leftwich
Eliz Rhodes
Annie Kelly
L. Jordan
Florence Scott
Foster McKinney
Baltimore Sun
D. E. McKinne
Louisburg
E. L. Hart
Grace Street
Mattie Bloodworth
W. Y. Bannerman
Ann Street
Gladys Murrell
The
State Normal College
Pearl Andrews
Princess Street
W. W. Miller
City
Ian Snear
W. L. Miller
John McDougall
Claude Cooper
Trinity College
Senator
W. B. Cooper
Om O
Wilma Ek
Temple University
A. W. Ek
Chestnut St
Catherine Kennedy
James Walker Memorial Hospital
Red Cross Society
S. Abramovitz
A. Kosch
Santa
Browns
Gas Hills
Elvington
Melody
Frank Banks
the Wilmington Boy
Virginia Minstrel
Guullaumat
Saarail
Santy
Santa Claus
Belk-Williams
Academy of Music Tomorrow
Selznick Pictures Present
Marie Laygne
Foday
CamHle
Miss Laygne
Maines
Bray Hair
White
Fabel
On Earth
Kenny’s
C.D. Kenny Co
H. Koonce
Court House
New Hanover County
North Carolina
Carolina Beach
New Hanover
Carollea Beach Avenue
Carolita Beach Avenue
Atlanta Avenue
Elina Beach Avenue
Lanta Avenue
Fort Wastern
Pla Olina
J. J
Office of the Register of Deeds
Hanover County
B. Griffrin
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