Order rescinded ban on soldiers visiting Wilmington
Fort Caswell commandant Colonel Chase lifts the weekend visit ban after Red Cross and Rotary committee pressure. Soldiers on leave may stay in Wilmington for weekends with strict conduct oversight to prevent repeats of past disturbances involving Fort Caswell personnel and local civilians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chase
Fort Caswell
Aig
Taylor
W. H. Sprunt
Jesse F Roache
Red Cross Committee
Sole Taylor
Sprunt
Roache
J. A. .Taylor
George H. Ief
C. Cadbourn
Ster
Messister
L. F. Roache
Inile
Hase
Tally
Went
Rotary Club
Macey
Red Cross
Rotary
Colidly
Campaign for sewer connections to curb unsanitary dry closets
Dr. Charles E. Low led a board of health meeting urging all residents within the sewer area to connect to sewer lines. Sanitary inspectors reported 800+ houses still lacking connections as city officials pledged support and discussed a trimmed budget with a reduced contingent fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Low
Board of Health
P. Q. Moore
Moore
McGirt
W. H. Hancammon
Even Piner
Graduate nurses seek higher pay in Wilmington rise
The nurses' association announces wage hikes starting July 1 for graduate nurses in Wilmington. Fees for medical and surgical cases rise from 25 to 30 dollars per week, and obstetrical tuberculosis and contagious disease cases rise from 30 to 35 dollars per week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nurses’ Association
Wilmington
Wilkins to Open Wilmington Architecture Office
L. J. Wilkins announces he will move from Florence South Carolina to Wilmington and open an architecture office. He is well known in the Carolinas from Leitner and Wilkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Insurance Manager Joins Army Aviation Corps
Albert F. Perry, manager of the insurance department at James & James, Inc., departs for Houston to join the aviation corps of the United States Army. Clarence Le Grand will take over Perry’s post. Perry is the sixth James & James employee to enter U S military service since the war began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert F.perry
James & James, Inc
Houston
Tex
Aviation Corps
United States Army
Clarence le Grand
Perry
James & James
United States
War Conference of Manufacturers at Atlantic City
Atlantic City hosts a large gathering of eastern and New England manufacturers to discuss providing military forces with needed supplies. Governors representatives and allied commissions address labor, coal, transport, insurance of workers, postwar adjustments, and how industry can unite to support the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
New England
Graduation at West Point seals 1918 class
The United States Military Academy at West Point graduated the class of 1918 in a ceremony attended by Secretary of War Baker, Gen. Peyton C. March, and other war department leaders. It was described as one of the largest and finest classes in the academy’s history, with praise for scholarship, military ability, and character. The exercises took place in front of Battle Monument on the West Point Plain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
N. Y
United States
United States Military Academy
Baker
War Department
Army
Battle Monument
West Point Plain
City cleans up youth crime and bans on visitors
The text describes severe violence leading to hospital care, court disposition, and vagrancy charges against young men. A 30 day prison sentence is noted for Levi Merritt. A moral cleanup banished about twenty young women while soldiers were still barred. A committee's work succeeded in reversing the visitor ban.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Walker Memorial Hospital
Levi Merritt
War savings drive sets up county headquarters and plans
A wartime drive rallying 75 workers laid plans for county wide organization for the war savings campaign. Vice chairmen were elected, census and canvassing to start once census cards arrive, with headquarters in the United States court room and a phone line from Southern Bell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
National Special Aid Society
War Savings Committee
P. H. Hasen
United States Court Room
Southern Bell Telayjhone Company
New Hanover County
Important Realty Deal Announced On East Front Street
Deeds filed yesterday include the sale of a residence on the east side of South Front Street north of the Germania club building from J. B. Fales to E. A. Hawes trustee for about $10,000. Other filings list a lot on Eleventh Street and 33 by 155 feet to D. C. Virgo and E. G. Story for $100, plus other considerations, and 13 acres in Harnett township on Middle sound from John H. Rehder and wife to W. D. Williams for $100 and other considerations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Front Street
Germania Club
J. B. Fales
E. A. Hawes
L. Perseghin
D. C. Virgo
E. G. Story
Eleventh Street
Castle
John H. Rehder
W. D. Williams
Harnett Township
Middle Sound
City teachers receive 20 percent raise and recall notices
Late yesterday the city issued contracts with a 20 percent salary increase over last year and asked teachers to return in the fall or inform authorities if they will not return. Many have taken other work or summer study, while others plan to return. A long list names teachers, principals, and janitors across High School and multiple city schools, with reassurances of re election or new placements as districts finalize staffing for the new term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maide
M. G. Little
A. R. Newsom
F. W. Pultz
Frederika Jenkins
Elizabeth Warren
Isabel Gulley
Emma Martin
Ethel Wood
Jane D. Wood
Margaret Gulley
Norma Styron
Sara Thomas
Mary Worth
Ethel Smith
Mary Bell
Burroughs Smith
Moses Jones
Gladys Taylor
Margaret Lindsay
Miriam McEachern
Adelaide Meares
Maud Kingsbury
Edna McEachern
Lina Gray
Annie McKay
Meta LeGrand
Heodora Leland
Ruth Shaw
J. T. Matthews
Isaac Bear Memorial School
Julia Hill
Esther Springs
Fannie McClees
Pauline Williams
Thelma Smith
Elizabeth Symmes
Jennie Jackson
D. W. Loring
J. H. Williamson
Cornelius Harnett
H. E. Fennel
Elizabeth Kelly
Fleet Williams
E. R. Clarke
Mary Eva Carpenter
Virginia Smith
Jack Neuer
Nellie Pickard
Annie Cavenaugh
Carrie King
J. P. Hawkins
William Hooper
Eliza Meares
Margaret
Cornelius Harriss
Laura Nixon
Bettie Love
Church notices ahead for Saturday or Sunday papers
Ministers may submit church notices to the city editor by Friday at 6 pm for publication in the weekend church columns. Notices received on time will appear in both Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning editions or in either issue as requested.
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Colonel Chase
Federal Court
California
Palm Beach
David
The
A. David Company
Just
Milans
Alma Brown
DR. Vineberg
Masonic Temple
Her
Jarman & Futrelle
Princess Street
John
McEachern
Market St
J.B. McCabe and CO
Certified Public Accoun
Murchison Bank
Wilmington, N. CG
Carolina Printing and Stamp Works
Grace St
Sullivan
King of Shoemakers
Front Street
Wilmington Savings and Trust Company
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
North Carolina
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