Food Conservation Meeting Highlights War Bond Push
A Wilmington academy mass meeting urged aggressive canning and storage to avert a food shortage. Judge George Rountree urged war bonds as a patriotic target, while Governor T W Bickett sent praise and urged continued thrift and summer fruit use. Local rural districts reported ongoing canning, acreages, and efforts to boost food crops amid wartime shortages.
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Eye Academy of Music
Eius
Eyalits
George Rountree
America
Rountree
Knights of Pythias subscribe $10,000 to Liberty bonds
Captain Thomas D. Meares supreme master of the exchequer filed a purchase for ten thousand dollars in Liberty bonds with Murchison National Bank. The order had already invested fifty thousand, making a total official subscription of sixty thousand dollars. The move followed a North Carolina Grand Lodge meeting in Rocky Mount and a resolution sent to President Wilson praising the nation and pledging support for a just and lasting peace.
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Thomas D. Meares
Knights of Pythias
Supreme Lodge Committee On Finance
Insurance Department
Order
Meares
Murchison National Bank
Captain Meares
Grand Lodge of
North Carolina
Pythians
Rocky Mount
Wilson
Raleigh
Woodrow Wilson
State Lodge
Pythian Order
United States
War relief drive heats Wilmington effort to aid troops
Wilmington activates unified war relief plan with Red Cross and Y M C A. a central meeting at the YMCA and a mass gathering at First Baptist to outline needs. The piece stresses Y M C A reach with soldiers from enlistment to service and outlines Red Cross equipment and comfort goals for American troops abroad.
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Wilmington
Red Cross
Organization Committee
First Baptist Church
Young Men’s Christian Association
America
Europe
Young Men's Christian Association
Pershing
France
American Red Cross
Army Medical Department
Shipyard Plant Talk Sparks Wilmington Chamber
Col. W H Garland of New York and Wilmington outlines plans for a shipbuilding yard here to employ 2000 to 3000 workers with steel plant follow up. He wants a site and local cooperation, saying Wilmington is ideal on the Atlantic coast for such industry. He expects to hire 609 workers within 60 days and to turn out ships by September first. The chamber nominating eleven directors also discussed livestock shows and a possible school bond issue in a forward looking meeting.
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Chamber of Commerce
Col. W. H. Garland
New York
Wilmington
Del
International Navigation Company
Garland
Wilmingston
Atlantic
South Carolina
Thomas E. Cooper
American Bank & Trust Company
Chamber
Messrs
M. W. Jacobi
J. G. McCormick
J. W. Yates
M W. Dt
Jacobi
Shallotte
Bolivia
Brunswick
Acker
Dr. Yeager
New Hanover
A. J. Moore
Fourth Son Ordained in Episcopal Ministry
Rev. Israel H. Noe, the fourth son of the Noe family to enter the ministry, was ordained a priest at the Church of the Good Shepherd. Archdeacon Thomas P. Noe preached. Bishops and pastors including Rev. W. R. Noe and Rev. A. C. D. Noe assisted. A Sewanee graduate, he becomes rector of St. James' Church in Macon.
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Israel H. Noe
Episcopal
Israel Harding Noe
Noe
Episcopal Church
Church of the Good Shepherd
Thomas P. Noe
W. R. Noe
A. C. D. Noe
Lake Landing
Thomas C. Darst
R. H. Gribbin
D. L. Gwathmey
I. H. Hoe
Sewanee University
Sewanee Theological Seminary
St. James’ Church
Macon
War Relief Campaign Names J Allan Taylor Leader
The War Relief Committee chose J Allan Taylor as campaign leader. The executive committee meets daily at noon at the YMCA to report progress and plan fundraising. Reverend F T Noe, chairman, called yesterday's meeting where lunch was provided for workers.
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J. Allan Taylor
War Relief Campaign Committee
War Relief Committee
Association
Washington and Lee Bestows Honorary Doctor of Divinity
Washington and Lee University awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity to Rev. J. M. Wells D D pastor of the First Presbyterian Church Wilmington a leading Southern minister and recent Moderator of the Presbyterian General Assembly held in Birmingham The degree supplemented his existing D D from Davidson College conferred last Tuesday by the Virginia institution
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Washington and Lee
J. M. Wells
D. D
First Presbyterian Church
Wilmington
South
Wells
Presbyterian General Assembly
Birmingham
Davidson College
Virginia Military Institute Plans New Gunnery Instructor
Virginia Military Institute will hire a veteran Canadian or British artillery officer to teach gunnery trench and grenade warfare alongside standard military science courses. The institute reports 600 or more graduates currently in training camps National Guard and Marine Corps.
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Virginia Military Institute
National Guard
Marine Corps
Wells Brothers Return After Honors at Two Universities
Messrs. William Calvin and John Miller Wells III return to the city with high honors from Washington and Lee University and the University of South Carolina. William Calvin graduated last Tuesday and plans a summer here. John M. Wells Jr earned an economics scholarship, was elected editor in chief of The Carolinian, and will spend the summer touring. The USC commencement occurred Tuesday, with Clarendon Spencer receiving a certificate in English.
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William Calvin
John Miller Wells, Jr
J. M. Wells
Washington and Lee University
University of South Carolina
The
Carolinian
Wells
Clarendon Spencer
Whiteville
N. C
South Carolina University
Experienced Demonstrator Mrs J C Pretlow Chosen Agent
Mrs J C Pretlow recently appointed home demonstration agent for New Hanover county. She is a John B Stetson University graduate and has post graduate study at Peabody School. Her background includes several years in teaching and demonstration work.
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J. C. Pretlow
New Hanover County
John B. Stetson University
Deland, Fla
Peabody School
Nashville
Knights of Columbus Approve $1 Million for Army Camps
The Supreme Board of Directors announced an appropriation of 1 000 000 by the order for the establishment and maintenance of recreation centers at all principal army concentration camps.
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Supreme Board of Directors
The
Knights of Columbus
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