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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1918
Page
6
A vivid scene of white bands across a sunny sky and twilight over snow laden roofs. A gentle blur of gray covers fields trees and brown shrubs as smoke curls from homes suggesting a pause in labor. A domestic tableau hints at love, a hearth, and the等待 voice of Louise May Gridley in Good Housekeeping.
A card party will be held Wednesday at 3 15 PM in the Hotel parlors under Colonial Dames for Polish Volunteers auspices. Prizes donated, tables sought, reservations to Mrs W N Harriss Mrs W Jamson Mrs Ashley Curtis Mrs Byrton Giles, or purchase at Bon Marche via Mr Lipinsky.
Local society notes list Miss Julia R Culbreth of Petersburg Virginia staying with Dr and Mrs N A Culbreth at 707 Princess Street. Also Miss Rosa Jones visits Berkley Virginia with brothers D E and T M Jones. A Red Cross event at 1909 Market Street is postponed to next Wednesday due to illness. Cape Fear Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy meets at Miss Lena Beery’s home 123 South Fourth Street and dues are requested. James Francis Woods returns to Massachusetts after visiting his sister N A Culbreth. Mrs Bertram Quelch visits daughter Dorothea Quelch in Richmond for training. The Wilmington Public Library will close at 6 this evening for fuel shortage.
Raleigh reports on Administrator Page orchestrating sugar price controls and redistributing hoarded barrels, aided by schools, ministers, and local boards. His policies curb hoarding, encourage distribution, and align with meatless and wheatless days, while earning praise for stabilizing supplies amid wartime constraints.
The next annual meeting of the State Teachers Association will be held in Columbia March 14 15 with general sessions at the Columbia theater and department meetings in the high school building and nearby rooms. Ten negroes accused for burning remnants of a burned building face charges of petty larceny and a $100 bond each. Emula May three year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Cal Moore of Hartsville was severely burned by clothing catching fire at a fireplace with her mother away. she is reported to be improving.
In Charleston on Sullivan's Island two young girls aged three and five died in a fire that trapped them in a room after their mother Mattie Potter left to shop. Fort Moultrie troops fought the blaze, saving nearby houses but failing to reach the children in time.
Rev L G M Miller of the Lutheran Theological Seminary Eau Claire dies after a stroke at Baptist Hospital The funeral is at St Pauls Lutheran Church at 2 30 this afternoon Interment in Winchester Virginia Wednesday Student pallbearers to serve in the procession.
Clemson College reports that demonstration agents and other organizers will complete a county by county program in the next two to three days to assist farmers across the state. The effort aims to coordinate agricultural guidance and support at local levels.
An advertisement urges quick action against dandruff linking it to baldness. It touts Parisian sage as a guaranteed antiseptic liquid sold by R. R. Bellamy with money back if unsatisfied. The copy promises soothed scalp, halted itching, and new hair growth.
In St Matthews on a Saturday night J M Wise was seriously wounded by Chief W Dowie during a pistol duel after Wise had argued earlier. Dowie, unharmed except for a bullet in his shoe, fired to stop Wise who retorted before the two reloaded. Wise was taken to a Columbia hospital. his fate remains uncertain.
Columbia S C January 22 reports say Chilean nitrate ships will dock at Charleston due to lack of deep water at Savannah Wilmington and Jacksonville earlier plan, with supplies for Florida South Carolina and Georgia farmers unloaded at Charleston as the first vessel arrives and the issue of extending ports remains unresolved.
By powers in two mortgage deeds, W A Simon and C F Howell with wives defaulted. Mechanic s Home Association will sell on February 15, 1918 at 12 m at the County Court House door Wilmington for cash the first tract in Block 20 and a second contiguous lot in the same block, describing street intersections and parcel lines. Roy, attorney for Mechanics' Home Association. 1-15-30 ft.
By decree of the Superior Court dated December 27 1917 the undersigned will sell at public auction cash in hand at the Court House door Wilmington on February 4 1918 at noon a described parcel in Wilmington North Carolina Beginning 80 feet east of the Queen and Second streets corner the lot runs 42 feet along Queen street 66 feet north parallel with Second street 42 feet west back 66 feet to the start part of Lot 6 Block 74 per the city plan. Commissioner William M Bellamy conducts.
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