War Commission Drive Aims 500000 For 1918 Church Aid
St. John's parish urges support as Episcopal War Commission seeks 500000 to fund chaplains and Brotherhood workers in camps and overseas. Dr. Milton of St. James and Rev Gribbin of St. John's stress church duty, with Bishop Durst and Leader Lawrence urging unified effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal
Wilmington
Episcopal Church
War Commission
William H. Milton
St. James
South
T. C. Parst
North Carolina
R. E. Gribbin
St. John’s
Camp Sevier
St. John’s Church
Durst
Mr. Gribbin
Milton
Lawrence
Masachusetts
United States of America
John R. Mott
Inspiring Addresses to Junior Red Cross Parade
The Wilmington Junior Red Cross parade showcased school drum and bugle corps, with Major Joseph W. Little urging children to support the war effort through Red Cross work and thrift stamps. Speakers emphasized duty, unity, and perseverance, invoking Patrick Henry as a rallying cry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington Red Cross Society
France
Hemenway School
Shepard Bryan
Kate Johnson
Elsie Cole
Augusta Wiggins
Myrtle Rhodes
Katherine von Glahn
Edith Sidbury
E. P. Brock
M. L. Stover
Postoffice Square
Front Street
Princess
Fifth
T. P. Noe
America
Cuthbert Martin
A. H. Harriss
Red Cross
Joseph W. Little
Major Little
Uncle Sam
Patrick Henry
Realty Transfers Two Deeds Filed This Morning
Two deeds filed for record today list J B Piner and wife transferring 11 14 acres in Federal Point township to J B Piner for $1 and other value. J O Reilly and wife transfer a 30 by 75 foot lot at Fifth and Nix streets to Martin O'Brien and wife for $500 and other valuable consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Register of Deeds
J. B. Piner
Federal Point
J. O. Reilly
Martin O’brien
Fifth and Nixon Streets
Clearing House Reserves Jump Over Legal Minimum
New York banks and trust companies report a week end reserve of 96,681,750 dollars above legal requirements, an increase of 29,005,520 dollars from the prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hydraulic energy storage idea becomes daily reality
A past crank promised to store energy in a box to move the Bank of England but failed. Today the concept has become common practice through hydraulics, powering operations every day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Patent Office
Bank of England
Maharaja of Gwalior’s Generous Allied Support
The Maharaja of Gwalior has donated extensively to Allied causes, including 50000 to the British National Relief Fund, 75000 for motor transport, 30000 for Belgian refugees, 30000 for munitions, 25000 for officers’ motor cars, and 5000 for telescopes. He also sent large checks to Princess Mary’s Fund and the YMCA, contributed 120000 in motor vehicles, and, with the Begum of Phopal, presented England with a hospital ship of 500 beds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maharaja of
Gwalior
British National Relief Fund
Princess Mary's Fund
Begum of Phopal
England
President Wilson Improves but Stays Indoors in Cold
Washington bulletin reports President Wilson shows some improvement yet remains indoors with no engagements planned. The note urges national unity and calls on the Episcopal Church, Red Cross, Y M C A and all forces to meet the hour's demands, stressing no room for slackers and the need for moral action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Washington
Episcopal Church
Red Cross
Woman Elected President of the State Forestry Association
Miss Julia A. Thorne of Ashboro becomes North Carolina Forestry Association president at the eighth annual convention, the first woman to hold the post. The event, held in this city, ran with low attendance due to wartime travel disruptions, but featured talks on cordwood as a war necessity, land classification for forestry and stock raising, and women’s evolving role in forestry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolinas Forestry Association
Julia A. Thorne
Ashboro
Miss Thorne
Forestry Association
North Carolina
Smoot
John M. Wells
Chamber of Commerce
J. M. Solky
North Carolina Sorosis
J.&. Hohknes
Association
Hugh MacRae
J. A. Mitchell
United States Forest Service
Mitchell
Holmes
A. W. McAlister
Clement S. Acker
Southern Settlement and Development Organization
Baltimore
United States
John J. Blair
Wilmington
J. S. Holmes
Chapel Hill
Hemenway
Joseph Stone
Douglass Kelly
Herbert McClammy
Hemenway School
William Smith
SMALL CASES DRAGGED IN RECORDER S COURT
Small cases from Hemenway school yard bicycle thefts were postponed by Recorder Harriss until Monday at 11. The youths may move to the juvenile docket. A Boy Scouts group rounded up the culprits. O D Godwin white was told to show employment by Tuesday or face action. Luther Moore colored faced costs and a year’s prayer for judgment. A Carolina Beach family dispute brought assault and abandonment charges. Batson and Lowé were dismissed or admonished to cease further trouble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hemenway
Harriss
O. D. Godwin
Luther Moore
Mint Cola Company
Carolina Beach
Jack Batson
Joe Lowé
President's Mediation Commission Urges Mooney New Trial
The commission urged President Wilson to seek a new trial for Thomas J. Mooney if California Supreme Court sustains his conviction in the San Francisco bomb outrages. It proposes postponing execution during the new trial and notes doubt about the justice of the convictions despite the jury's good faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooney
California Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Mangrove to repair Cape Fear lighthouse lights and buoys
The lighthouse tender Mangrove departs Charleston for the Cape Fear river to replace mispositioned buoys and rebuild two light structures damaged by ice. Materials are on board and repairs should restore aids to navigation to service condition, per lighthouse inspector H L Beck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mangrove
Cape Fear
Charleston
James Sprunt
Board of Navigation and Pilotage
H. L. Beck
Cape Fear River
Russian Congress 6 Formally Organized in Petrograd
The Congress of All-Russia Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates formally organized in Petrograd naming Nikolai Lenine Leon Trotsky and Marie Spiridonova honorary presidents. An executive committee of 13 will rotate as chairmen. Lenine praised Bolshevik gains and outlined plans for a Red Socialist army to shield workers from bourgeois oppression.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
Congress of
All-Russia
Nikolai Lenine
Leon Trotsky
Marie Spiridonovo
Lenine
Bolsheviks
Belgium Receives Additional U S Credit
Washington reports Belgium obtained a further credit of 39 million dollars raising total American loans to 86.4 million. Allied credits now total about 4.2474 billion dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Belgium
United States
Mechanics' Home Association to sell two Wilmington lots at public auction
By powers in two mortgage deeds, W A Simon and C F Howell and their wives defaulted. Mechanics' Home Association will sell on February 15 191% at 12 o'clock noon at the courthouse door in New Hanover County to the highest bidder for cash two described tracts in Block 20 City of Wilmington, including adjacent Lot 2, with metes and bounds. B W McBoy, attorney. 1-15-80 t1
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Simon
Annie HK. Simon
C. F. Howell
Jessie N. Howell
Office of the Register of Deeds of
New Hanover County
Mechanics’ Home Association
Court House
County of New Hanover
Wright Street
Fifth Street
Wilmington
N, DC
W.B. MC Boy
The
Mechanics’ Hiome Association
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Episcopal Church War Commission
DR. Milton
St. John’s Parish
the State Association
Julia Thorne
Recorder's Court
Coker
Clara B. Laney
B. H. Marshall, Jr
Margaret Jones
Thelma Batson
Isaac Bear
James Cavenaugh
Union School
Billy Huggins
Janey Beatty
Thomas Hawkins
Ruth Marshall
Gordon Smith
Mary Mildred Cowan
Donald MacRae
Wilmington Savings & Trust
Maine
Abhise Naeet
Lycates
N. C
N.C
Ledne
Bolsheviki
Columbia
N. Jacobi Hardware Co
Front St
Winter Park
Wrightsville
Wrightsville Beach
Seerelee Creene
Beach
Esneaes Ennewes
Earn
P. Am
Wrightev'le
Front and Princess Streets
Ninth and
Orange Street
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