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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1917
Page
9
Society items highlight travel for Robert Platt and others to New York Asheville and Autryville. Attendance at church and hospital events noted along with a Valentine dance tea room opening and a concert at Cornelius Harnett school. Community groups including YWCA Lemon Auxiliary and Lions Auxiliary are thanked.
Judge Bond recessed the Quelch versus Futch et al title dispute in Superior Court until Tuesday at 9 30 am as he will be out of the city Monday Major Harriss the clerk of court told jurors need not appear until Tuesday morning and the case will likely be finished that day
The Wilmington YMCA Boys Division schedules the fourth annual Father and Son banquet for 7 p.m. in February 203 with talks on father and son relations. The event mirrors a nationwide trend started in Cleveland and aims to strengthen bonds between fathers and sons through shared interests and activities. Reservations are urged early for about 300 sons and their fathers, ages over twelve.
Local fertilizer plants run at full capacity preparing for a heavy demand from farmers for cotton corn and tobacco. Manufacturers fear material shortages from wartime imports may limit supply though substitutions aim to meet the coming season.
The degree team of the Red Men will travel to Dunn North Carolina on the fourteenth Sun Snow Moon at the 8th run 45th breath High Sun to guide Caicora Tribe No 182 and teach the secrets of Red Manship. The term lists officers led by J R Davis sachem and many Sagamores warriors and scouts with a note of rumored practice and an innner feast after a hunt.
Mr H H Woebse longtime Wilmington police officer and businessman on Nixon street died at his home 609 Swann street yesterday afternoon after pneumonia He was 66 and survived by his wife and two sons Henry and George Woebse Funeral at his residence at 2 30 pm and 3 pm at St Matthew's Lutheran church with burial in Bellevue cemetery
Miss Christine I. Tinling of Norfolk Virginia formerly of London England lecturer for the Scientific Temperance Instruction Department of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union will speak at 8 15 p m Wednesday in the Hemenway school auditorium on narcotics effects She will visit city public schools Wednesday morning and address parents and teachers at the lecture is free She comes to Wilmington under local W C T U auspices and is endorsed by P P Claxon Summer School of the South University of Tennessee
Beginning this evening a protracted meeting is held at Immanuel Presbyterian Church at Front and Queen streets for two weeks or longer. Rev T F Allen conducts the first week with Rev William Black in charge the second week. Choir director EB Johnson leads the initial week and a forty voice chorus participates nightly at 7 30 excluding Saturday. Mr C C Mattox presides at the piano with Mr Burr as soloist and accompanist invites all to attend.
Several farmers in the Masonboro and surrounding areas report lettuce damage ranging from twenty five to seventy five percent due to the recent freeze. Most say they have sufficient plants to reset and maintain normal spring acreage despite losses.
The National Special Aid Society moves to enlarge enrollment in its first aid program. Using the high school hall for meetings, a new class forms in the Senior class room at 3:30 PM on Wednesday with Dr. Coddington lecturing on first aid to the injured. Additional notes cover local lettuce losses and farm damage in Winter Park and nearby areas.
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