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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
2
Jesse Wil was charged in Columbia with defrauding strangers after promising liquor and instead serving water. Six soldiers testified he took 3.59 dollars for a pint. a quart bottle of water and molasses was found on him. Recorder fined him 40 dollars.
In Chester South Carolina on January 30 a child of William Martin contracted cerebro spinal meningitis. The disease is believed to have been brought from Camp Jackson by a carpenter who worked there and lived near the outer canals. A strict quarantine is in force at the Martin house with day and night guards after the illness was detected last week.
In Kershaw South Carolina the municipal election produced a decisive result with incumbent J Massey defeating challenger E cene y by eighty two to forty five after a spirited campaign and heated race.
A law delegation reportedly agreed to expand Laurens county rural police from five to seven and abolish the township constable posts except Laurens Clinton. The bill to be introduced this week would raise rural officer salaries from 900 to 1000 dollars each.
Walterboro South Carolina January 30 W B Gruber a leading local attorney for 35 years announces retirement from legal practice to devote full time to farming and forests. The move surprises the community who regard him as an able advocate.
Columbia S C January 30 favorable action in both House and Senate is expected on a bill to establish the State Industrial School for Girls to reform and train white girls aged eight to twenty. The measure outlines commitment through probate or criminal court processes ending at age twenty one unless court-ordered earlier release.
In Chester South Carolina on Sunday night the city churches held a union service at First Baptist to bid farewell to Rev H A Bagby D D who has resigned. Dr Bagby delivered a brilliant sermon marking the occasion.
Walterboro D C Jan 30 Marshall G Gruber has accepted a position as cashier at the First National Bank to succeed W B Loadholt who resigned to return to his home bank the First National Bank of Fairfax. Gruber has been a successful farmer of Walterboro for several years and is described as a young man of ability.
In Laurens South Carolina January unseasonably cold froze ground delaying planting. Small grain shows resilience while cabbage transplanted in fall remains only partly safe. Ground conditions prevent farm work and few fields have been furrowed. Much cotton still in fields and damaged by cold.
St George South Carolina January 30 The exemption board for Dorchester county Saturday completed the classification of registrants under its jurisdiction under the selective draft act. The forwarding of records to the district board is now in progress and notice of classification by that body will be posted as papers are returned to the local board.
Washington reports a push to increase the Marine Corps from 30 000 to about 50 000. General Barnett testified before the House Naval Affairs Committee that 13 000 more marines are needed to meet the Navy program and to man ships and prepare for trench service in France. The corps has grown from 10 000 in 1916 to 36 000 with reserves, and officers must come from the ranks.
Washington officials urge using domestic money orders to transfer money to soldiers in France and prohibit sending currency through the mails. The system allows duplicates if lost and notes broad use by both families and soldiers, with French currency issues avoided. A War Department note says no War Department rules on this transmission exist. The item ends with a separate note about a Cologne woman admitted to the ministry by Baden's supreme church council.
Description notes that at Quantico the men construct trenches bomb proof shelters underground passages and first aid hospitals. They live and work in these facilities under officers with months of French front experience and alongside French and English personnel who have just returned from Europe.
By powers in two mortgage deeds W A Simon and C F Howell with wives defaulted. Mechanics' Home Association will sell Friday February 11 1918 at 12 o'clock noon at the Court House door New Hanover County for cash the described parcels in Block 20 City of Wilmington N C including two tracts with specific street-boundary measurements and lines of Wright and Fifth streets. Local attorney announces the sale.
After 25 years in service the veteran factory inspector of Pennsylvania Mrs Annie Po Leiscaring of Allentown has retired on a pension by order of Governor Brumbaugh.
By power of sale in a mortgage deed Herbert and Viola Eskins defaulted. Mechanics' Home Association will sell at public auction on Monday February 1918 at 12 o'clock at the New Hanover County Courthouse door. The land described is part of Lots 5 and 4 Block 64 in Wilmington North Carolina. McBOY is attorney for the association.
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