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Wilmington Dispatch

Location

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1916

Page

6

Local Wilmington Social News Highlights

Several Wilmington families and visitors are noted at holiday gatherings and travels. Mrs. J. L. Carnes and relatives visit. Misses Florence Morris Minnie Hardy and others return home from Christmas visits. Mr. and Mrs. Austin of Ohio visit Mr. and Mrs. Munds. Mendenhall returns from wartime service. Ruth Stolter wed Dr. Edwards in a quiet ceremony. Christmas tree at Jones residence for Wilmington children. numerous invitations and visits follow through the week.

George S. Austin Painesville Ohio William C. Munds Ninth and Market Streets Pembroke Jones Airlie on-the-Sound Wilmington Jones

Coats Reduced Across Stores In Brief Sale

A sequence of price cuts is noted with coats marked down to 7.50 and 5.00 while other reductions appear as 0.00 in a concise sale listing. The item phrasing suggests multiple coat styles or stock from a single retailer.

Plans for Georges Carpentier to boost war relief meet

Chicago reports that plans to bring Georges Carpentier to the United States for the French War Relief benefit are in doubt. Willard’s next opponent would be chosen by Jack Curley with Willard accepting a $60,000 bid, with Curley able to top any higher offer. Fred Fulton says he will not press Willard, believing Carpentier's arrival would overshadow a Fulton bout.

Chicago Georges Carpentier French War Relief Society Willard Jack Curley Curley Fred Fulton Rochester Lardinatch Carpentier Williard Fulton

Willard and Carpentier Fight Talk in Albany

Mr Aubrey Macomber travels to Albany after Christmas with his mother Wrightsvirt Sound. Prof M C S Noble UNC dean spends holidays in the city. Willard says he may face Carpentier if demanded by the public, otherwise he expects no bout and doubts a 200 pound limit.

Aubrey Macomber Albany, Ga Chesmas Wrightsvirt Sound M. C. S. Noble The University of North Carolina

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J. L. Carnes Whiteville Minnie Hardy Freeman City Florence Morris Wadesboro W. A. McGowan Baltimore Meares Harriss Meares, Jr Raleigh Harriss Col Charles E. Johnson J. M. Woolard, Jr Bank of Hopewell Mrs J. M. Woolard John W. Pridgen Bride Nina Hazel Orrell North Carolina Court J. T. Chestnut James Walker Memorial Hospital Chestnut St.Augustine, Fla O. T. Wallace Florida Mrs. Wallace Mr. Wallace James Yates Salvation Army Yates Ware England M. W. Mendanhall Fort Mills S. C Vance Bounds Grace Street Mendenhall Charles Reid Mattie Edgar Everett Bundy Elizabeth City North Carolina Bundy J. D. Bundy Grace Methodist Church C. M. Mattocks Maysville David Jacobi Bingham Military School Asheville Edward Green Norfolk Mr. D. W. White Mr. M T Justice This City Delaware Beatrice Conkle Jacksonville, Fla H. F. Wilder Marion Keith Wake Forest College Currie W. C.peterson, Jr University of Virginia William McD. Bunting Donaldson Military Academy Fayetteville John Mathers Goldsboro J. B. Fearington Winston- Salem A. B. Croom, Jr Carolina Heights Charlotte Piggott New Bern Clarence L. Myers Greenfield Terrace Kate Julia Faison Mrs. Black Columbia, S. C E. M. Wilson Hugh Haverford, Pa H. McL. Green Nancy McKibben Flora McDonald College Red Springs William C. Glover Gladys Collins Julia Mattocks E. C. Sell North Fifth Street John Fergus Mr. Fergus United Realty Co Clarence A. Smith, Jr High Point B. F. Keith Caledonia I. W. Murphy Miss Sto"ter Doctor Edwards J. H., Hintze South Eighth Street Ruth Stokter Hintze Ellis L Fannie Stolter John H. Hintze Mrs Edwards Morganton L'Ariosa Clubs L’ariosa Boys’Brigade Church Streets Grainger Academy of Music Douglas Taylor Lucy Murchison M.e.hardin Mary N. Darden R. D. Cronley G. S. LeGrand Sarah Wall R. W. Cantwell R. D. Cronly Janet Menzies George E. Kidder May Carmichael Stanley Schulm Kate Northrop J. D. Taylor Marion S. Harriss Athalia Bunting Robert D. Cronly Jennie Gilchrist Jno Franklin Smith Helen Bolles Theodore James J. F. Robertson J. Walter Williamson Mary K. Bellamy A. F. Perry Thos. H. Wright Carolyn Holmes R. L. Henley C. 8. Grainger E. A. Metts Katherine Elliott Emmett Bellamy Atha Hicks R. W. Hicks, Jr Philadelphia Florence Taylor Louis Cotchett Agnes MacRae Charles Bidgood Carrie Myers John R. Murchison Mary Giles Bellamy Walker Taylor, Jr H. T. Moore A. B. Skelding Madelin de Rossett R. A. Williams Jennie Murchison Raymond Hunt Hugh MacRae Mary Wright Taylor W. H. Sprunt, Jr J. W. Grainger Louis Poisson B. O'Neill Homer Day Gray Hicks Henry Warwick Julian Morton J. N. Jacobs John Dennen Corbett Armand L. DeRossett J. C. Robson John OD. Bellamy Theodore Empie William Latimer Mrs. E Rich George A. Bishop Winter Park Delgado Baptist Sunday School L. W. Moore Dispatch Alma Hester Santa Claus A. D. Brown Belk-Williams Lopera J. M. Solky & Co One Price Clothiers and Furnishers North Front Street J. F. Clowbe Sec’y Dupont Farm Dupont Red N. Jacobi Hardware CO South Front Street
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