Social notices and society events in Wilmington
Mr and Mrs Isadore Bear and son Sydney visit Mrs S A Schloss. Misses McNeill and Pluncket visit from Warsaw. Mr and Mrs George P James return to Washington after holidays. Ernest S Whitaker and bride return from Florida honeymoon. Mrs Whitaker formerly Miss Thomas. Inter Se Codilion Club holds first dance at Cape Fear Country Club with many couples. Ladies Concordia Society meets tomorrow at 4 pm Harmony Circle. Reception for Rev R E Gribben and Mrs Gribbin at 207 Redross St. honoring St Johns parish. New Year reception at Rev W H Milton's home. Miss Hattie King returns from Bolton and Florence. Misses Sallie and Rosalie Turner return from Greensboro. Mrs Cuthbert Martin leaves for Hertford for Charles Whedbee-Evelyn Copeland wedding. Miss Mary Ball arrives from Albion to lead Domestic Science at Wilmington High. Ladies Aid Society Wesley Memorial Church Winter Park holds 3:30 pm meeting at Mrs Edward Ellis home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest S. Whitaker
Bride i
Florida
St. John’s Church
R. B. Davis
Redross Street
R. E. Gribben
St. John’s Parish
Gribbin
Cuthbert Martin
Hertford
N. C
Charles Whedbee
Judge Whedbee
Evelyn Copeland
Ladies’ Aid Society
Wesley Memorial Church
Winter Park
Edward Ellis
New Year Ball at Harmony Circle on South Front Street
The Harmony Circle annual New Year ball drew lively crowds last evening in the club rooms on South Front Street. Grainger's orchestra provided music from 9:30 p.m. into the early hours, with novelty dances and a midnight supper. The guest list included many couples and notable attendees such as Miss Rose Tapley, the Moong film star, as the event was described as one of the season's social fetes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmony Circle
South Front Street
Grainger
Elsa Bluetenthal
Lewis Stein
Lucile Solky
Alfred Sternberger
Golda Hucht
Baltimore
Willie Riseman
Lucile Sternberger
Harriss Newman
Margaret Solomon
George Sternberger
Lillian Solomon
Clarence Sternberger
Hilda Stern
New York City
Harry Solomon
Hattie Mae Cohen
New Bern
S. A. Nathan
Floretta Schloss
Irving Bear
Mabel Cohen
Joe Stone
Helen Schultz
Bert Schwab
E. J. Bear
H. C. Bear
Bluethenthan
G. Dennenbauw
Lewis Goodman
L. Bluetenthal
J. N. Jacobi
M. Roseman
Mirs
S. Mendelsohn
B. Solomon
S. Solomon
L. Stein
Henry Weil
Rose Tapley
Moong
Honc
Plates Presented For High School Bass Relief Tablets
Supt. J. J. Blair reports two engraved plates gifted by H. E. Bonitz to be set under the Paris bass relief tablets at Greenville High School. The tablets copy marble plaques of former Governors Aycock and Jarvis, carved by an Italian sculptor and originally placed in Greenville High School, with Bonitz as architect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Blair
H. E. Bonitz
Paris
J. H. Niggel, Jr
Aycock and Jarvis
Greenville High School
Bonitz
Re paving of Second and Dock streets planned
City laborers will re pave Second street from Market to Docks and Dock street from Second to Third. Dock street is completed with a grade resistant to washouts after resurfacing with gravel tar and granite chips. Second street will receive similar treatment for improved roadways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dock
Second
Market
Dock Street
Lillington
Escaped Convicts Seen Camping Near Lanvale
Mr W I Gore of Lanvale Bruns wick county reported two negro convicts possibly escaped camped near Lanvale last night One was described as mulatto about 140 pounds the other black about 160 pounds with one ankle shackle Police contacted county stockade official F M Rivenbark who said none of the county convicts were missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick County
W. I. Gore
Lanvale
F. M. Rivenbark
Mequial Society Meets Tomorrow At Victoria Theatre
The Third District Medical Society will convene at 2 pm in the Victoria theatre with a program of moving pictures from European war hospitals. Drs Green and Sidbury urge Eastern Carolina physicians to attend. admission by card only. The event includes lectures, case reports, and notable surgical demonstrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third District Medical Society
Victoria Theatre
New Hanover
Columbus
Harnett
Brunswick
Bladen
Robeson
Cumberland
Eastern
Carolina
Thos. M. Green
J. D. Sidbury
Atlantic Coast Line Adjusts Schedules Beginning Tomorrow
The Atlantic Coast Line announces a schedule change starting tomorrow January 3. No. 64 will depart Wilmington at 5 45 a m on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays instead of 5 15. From January 8 No 90 to Norfolk Richmond Raleigh etc will leave at 3 30 a m instead of 3 40. Through sleeping cars between Wilmington and Raleigh begin tomorrow at 3 40 a m arriving Raleigh 8 52 a m Returning car leaves Raleigh 7 25 p m reaching Wilmington 1 15 a m may be occupied until 7 00 a m Outbound cars may be occupied after 10 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Coast Line
Wilmington
Norfolk
Richmond
Raleigh
Two New Law Firms Form in Winston-Salem and Lumberton
Friends in Wilmington announce two new law firms effective January 1. In Winston-Salem Hastings Stephenson and Whicker form Hastings Stephenson & Whicker with offices in the O'Hanlon Building. Hastings is a former police court judge and Stephenson current judge of the same court. In Lumberton E J Britt and David H Fuller form Britt & Fuller with offices in the Pope Building to practice in State and Federal courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Winston-Salem
Lumberton
Hastings, Stephensson and Whicker
Hastings, Stephenson & Whicker
O'Hanlon
Hastings
Stephenson
Lamberton
E. J. Britt
David H. Fuller
Britt & Fuller
Pope
Captain Nathan O Berry Visits City as Business Guest
Captain Nathan O Berry of Goldsboro was a business visitor in the city yesterday, staying at the Orton Hotel as a guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan O’berry
Goldsboro
Orton Hotel
Notice of Absolute Divorce in New Hanover County
John Graham and Carrie Graham face an absolute divorce action in the Superior Court of New Hanover County North Carolina on adultery grounds. Carrie Graham is required to appear at the January 1917 term in Wilmington to answer or demur to the complaint. failure to respond may yield the relief demanded. December 12 1916. Clerk Wm Harriss, Clerk of Superior Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Graham
New Hanover County
Wilmington
North Carolina
Ww Harriss
Ie Iesta Weber
Superior Court
Foreclosure Sale Notice for Fred Foy Property in New Hanover County
Novice of foreclosure sale exposes to public auction on January 2 1917 at noon at the Court House door New Hanover County. The mortgage dated October 2 1915 to M D Bowen wife. filed in Register of Deeds Book 79 page 878. due to default, lots 9 and 64 in Harnett Township as per Holy Fountain Society records. The deed and title records cited include Book 2 page 458 and Book 64 pages. attorney listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Foy
M. D. Bowen
Office of Register of Deeds
Harnett Township
Register of Deeds Office
New Foyer County
Pia
Betsy Hansley
Bald
Freef
Local Notables Visit and Travel Plans
Mr. C. C. Wolffe the Florida Division superintendent of the Southern Express Company was in the city yesterday. Addison G. Ricaud has gone to Philadelphia and New York on professional business. Mr. B. F. Keith former customs collector is in the city today. Mr. Hiram K. King left for Durham to resume studies at Trinity College after holidays. Mr. Roy Marshburn has returned from an automobile trip to Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Wolffe
Florida
The
Southern Express Company
City
Addison G. Ricaud
Philadelphia
New York
B. F. Keith
Hiram K. King
Durham
Trinity College
Roy Marshburn
Columbia
Notice of Sale of Lands in New Hanover County
Public auction to satisfy a decree in American Bank and Trust Co. vs Alexander Newton et al. on February 5, 1917 at 12 m at the New Hanover County courthouse. The tract lies along the Cape Fear river in Cape Fear Township and is described by metes and bounds, with prior deeds referenced. Sale subject to court confirmation. Commissioner: Robert Ruark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
New Hanover County
American Bank and Trust Company
Alexander Newton
Court House
Cape Fear Township
New Hanover
North Carolina
Cape Fear
W. F. Potter
William F. Pitter
Wfe
J. O. Bowden
Office of the Register of Deeds
Register of Deeds
Foreclosure Notice on Wilmington Property 1916
Notice of foreclosure under a 1914 mortgage by BE Sellars and wife Dallia K. Sellars to the Co operative Building and Loan Association. Sale set for December 28, 1914 at 12 o clock at the New Hanover County Courthouse to highest bidder for cash. Property located in Wilmington North Carolina described as parcel in Jot No 3 block 323 with specific street boundaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. Sellars
Dallia K. Sellars
Co-operative Building and Loan Association
New Hanover County
A. D
Court House
N. C
Wilmington
New Hanorer
North Carolina
Fourth Street
Nixon Street
James Street
Niton Street
Thos. W. Davis
Foreotagam Sale in New Hanover County
Notice of a mortgagee sale by power of sale William Russ Jr and Charlotte Russ on December 1 1915 recorded in book 79 page 516 at New Hanover County. Sale to the highest bidder for cash at the Court House in Wilmington January 18 1917 for a described land parcel bounded by McRee and Taylor streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmingto
McRee
Taylor
Plano
Unclear OCR Summary of Historical Protest Event
Fragmentary OCR text mentions a governor, January date, a protest and a county context. Names and places are garbled, with references to Spicer and Emmett but details are unreadable. The fragment does not form a clear, reportable event or outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emmett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Isadore Bear and Son
Sydney
S. A. Schloss
North Fourth Street
M. McNeill
L. Pluncket
Warsaw
George P. James
Washington, D
Ladies Concordia Society
W. H. Milton
St. James’ Episcopal Church
Market Street
Sallie
Rosalie Turner
Greensboro
W. P. Mangum Turner
Annvay
Mary Ball
Albion
N. Y
Wilmington High School
Grace Logan
St.john’s Lodge No.1
A.F
A.M
Holden
A.D. Brown
Meqigal Society
Edward J. Wood
Charles P. Bolles
L. D. Bryan
Snead’s Ferry
Jos. W. Hooper
Andrew H. Harriss
Alexis Carrel
Hospital Royal
Compeigne
Pont
Lyon
Vizille
O. Laurent
Grand Palais
Fred H. Albes
New Vort
John Graham
State of North Carolina
Ain
Kwue Eod Ull
Les Eee
Oe Bos
Belk-Williams Company
Robert Ruark
Oscar P. Peck
North Front Street
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