Social Notes from the City and Surroundings
A dense roll of social items from last week shows Mrs. W. R. Smith returning from Williston and capt H W T Eglin visiting. Many locals travel, visit relatives or resume studies at UNC Chapel Hill and Greensboro State Normal. clubs meet, and church groups schedule events as 400th anniversary of Cordova’s Yucatan discovery is noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Rountree
Greensboro
State Normal
City
C.L. Pridgen
Council Asks For List Of Persons Not On Sewer Lines
Council considers compiling a list of residents and merchants who have not connected to the sewer system as water street cobbles are urged for replacement with a concrete base and sand filler. The Streets and Wharves Committee presented a petition from Water and Nutt street merchants demanding street improvements funded in part by the Coast Line and city taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Street
Grace
Dock
Nutt Street
Red Cross
H. Lacy Hunt
Chamber of Commerce
Water and Nutt Street
Hunt
Chamber
Merritt
Coast Line
Wall
MecCaig
Custom House
Bradshaw
Council
Fourth
Fifth Streets
Bunting
McCaig
Market Street
Seventeenth
Birthday commemorations for Lee and Jackson planned in Wilmington
Arrangements for the Lee and Jackson birthday events at the Academy of Music on January 19 are discussed at a joint Cape Fear Camp UCV and Daughters of the Confederacy meeting. James H. Cowan is named speaker. a dinner follows the exercises and parade decisions are to be made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee
Jackson
Academy of Music
Cape Fear
United Confederate Veterans
Daughters of the Confederacy
Ww. L. I. Armory
James I. Metts
Veterans
James H. Cowan
Wilmington Dispatch
Academy
Fire at 520 South Front Street Threatens Carter Building
Fire department responded to a blaze at 520 South Front street at 2:45 PM in a building occupied by Mr. S. L. Carter. Alarm from Box 45. Quick muster of fire crew limited damage and likely prevented spread.
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South Front
S. L. Carter
South Front Street
Sidbury Purchases Fifty Acre Tract in Federal Point
Three deeds filed in the register of deeds office include the sale of a 50 acre tract in Federal Point from Henry Horne to W. Sidbury for $100. Other filings include North Carolina Home Building Association to Thomas H. Wright on Magnolia Street for $1 and other considerations and Edwin W. Fuller to Emma T. Fuller for two sets at Carolina Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidbury
Federal Point
Office of the Register of Deeds
Henry Horne
W. Sidbury
North Carolina Home Building Association
Thomas H. Wright
Magnolia Street
Edwin W. Fuller
Mecklinburg County
Emma T. Fuller
Carolina Beach
Engineer Waldron Heads to Baltimore Conference
Major A. E. Waldron United States Engineer in charge of this district leaves for Baltimore to meet with engineers in charge of Norfolk Washington Baltimore and Philadelphia districts for a conference on this years undertakings. He will return Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Waldron
United States
Baltimore
Norfolk
Washington
Philadelphia
W. B. Judson
Waldron
Why March 4 Was Inauguration Day Fix
The article explains that March 4 was chosen because the first Congress under the 1789 constitution met on the first Monday in March and the date fell on the 4th. Therefore March 4 became the start and end date for presidential and congressional terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress of the Confederation
Congress
Druggist Mr W S Wolfe Joins Payne Drug Co
Mount Airy listed druggist Mr W S Wolfe has accepted a position with Payne Drug Company and has already arrived to assume his new duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. 8S. Wolfe
Mount Airy
The
Payne Drug Company
Terrible Sores and Remedy Advertisement
Mrs B A Bray of Cunningham North Carolina suffered three terrible leg sores from chiggers and found relief after using six bottles of Mrs Joe Person's Remedy with wash. The ad touts the remedy as safe for women ailments and offers prices and testimonials. Local druggists and stores carry the product and offer free testimonials by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. A. Bray
Cunningham, N. C
Joe Person
Person Remedy Company
Charlotte
N. C
Hanover Drug Co
Hardin’s Pharmacy
Southside Drug Co
J. M. Hall
Burnett Drug Co
Elvington’s
H. L. Fentress
F. Green
Greenfield Pharmacy
J. F. Jarman
Payne Drug Co
Inside Bath by Hot Water and Limestone Phosphate
An advertisement touts drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims internal sanitation improves skin tone and overall health, aiding headaches biliousness bad breath rheumatism and constipation.
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Bath
Magazine price jump to six pence next month
London news reports a February price rise for illustrated monthly magazines by one penny due to higher paper and material costs. Most magazines now sell for six pence.
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London
Divorce action and property sale notice in Wilmington
The action in New Hanover County seeks an absolute divorce on adultery grounds. A sale is set for January 18, 1917, at 12 m, at the courthouse to dispose of a described Wilmington lot under order of the Superior Court. S. M. Empie, Commissioner.
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State of North Carolina
New Hanover
John Bowman
New Hanover County
Wilmington
North Carolina
W. N. Harriss
Superior Court of
Court House
Gwynn and
Wood Streets
Gwynn Street
Wood Street
City of
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W. R. Smith
Williston
S. C
H. W. T. Eglin
Fort Caswell
E. W. Stone
McDonald’s
Robeson County
Gladys Page
Jacksonville
J. B. Church
Southport
Orton Hotel
Kate Lou Meredith
Washington, D. C
George Brooks
Beaufort
Mrs. Brooks
Jeanette Pearce
Edelweiss Krieg
Greensboro College For Women
Thelma Brooks
J. W. Brooks
Jenkinsstown, Pa
Beachwood School
Baraca
Calvary Baptist Church
J. A. Parham
Lumberton
Hospital Circle of the King’s Daughters
South Fifth Street
Cleweh Howell
Davidson College
Andrew J. Howell
Messrs
Everett McKeithan
Charles Hazlehurst
University At
Chapel Hill
Carlyle Shephard
A. H. Shephard
State University At
Anw KK Sorosis
North Third Street
G. C. Ambrosiana
Bride
Agnes Borkenhagen
Winter Park
Arthur R. Savage
W. B. Savage
University of North Carolina
Dercal Society of
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Luther Memorial Building
E. A. Hawes
Atkinson
Dover, N. C
J. F. Roache
Richmond
B. B. Cameron
Mollie Holton
New York
R. L. Weaver
Goldsboro
W. H. Overman
D. L. Gore
W. B. Cooper
P. Bolles
Johns Hopkins Hospital
John D. Biggs
Harry E. Payne
Waycross
Taines Walker Memorial Hospital
Ladies’ Aid Society
Wesley Memorial Church
Edward Ellis
Wonder Star
Girls’ Friendly Society of the
Church of the Good Shepherd
First Baptist Church
Miss Blackwell
J. J. Hurt
Elizabeth Moore
A. J. Moore
Lynchburg
Randolph-Macon College
Mary Louise Stover
Rebecca Symmes
Veritas Sanders
Mary Hall
Greensboro State Normal
Charleston
Woman’s Missionary Society of
R. E. Gribbin
R. B. Davis
Red Cross Street
Yucatan
Fernandez Cordova
Fay
A. D. Brown
Conan
Major Waldron
Conference of Engineers
Belk-Williams Company
Georgetown
S.C
S. S
George Brown
Bries
Christ
Winnie Bowman
Mary Onslow
David Livingston
Montgomery Livingston
Harry Livingston
Virginia Moore
Rel Moore
Armond Moore
Chares Moore
Harrier Aavorg
Rosanna Moore
S. M. Empie
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