Public Hearing Sought On Gas Rates And Streetcar Fares
Citizens attend a special meeting in Wilmington to express views on proposed rate hikes by the water and power company. The request would raise gas prices from 1 45 to 1 65 per thousand feet and potential streetcar fares, with the Public Utilities Commission expected to rule soon on the Carroll company’s requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Atr Yrehison
Rae
Clswater Power Company
Wilmington
Theorporation Commission
Hug MacRae
Wrightsville Beach
Corporation Commission
J. Ruark
Commission
Macrae
Commis Q
Perts
Gard
Real Estate Sale Near Greenfield Lake Announces Lot Auction
Mrs Elizabeth Ford signs with United Realty to auction five blocks of property along Greenfield lake and Carolina Beach boulevard near the shipyard. Sale set for Friday June 21 at 1 p m could spark housing development as most nearby lots are built on, with many overlooking Greenfield lake noted as beauty spots of North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Ford
United Realty Comman
Greenfield Lake
Carolina Beach Boulevard
Hanby
Sjanby Doperty
Imington
Directors to Examine Shepard Chemical Books in Receivership
Stockholders of the Shepard Chemical Co. won permission to inspect the company books to verify its status. Judge Co Lyon in Elizabethtown set a later date to decide if the receivership will become permanent or the company dissolved. Receivers Isaac C. Wright and J. Haughton James were appointed recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Te Shepard Chemical Company
Co. Lyon
Elizabethtown
Yesterdy
Ering
Tom Norrow
Isaac C. Wright
J. Haughton James
J- Lyon
Per
Lyon
Fritatin
senten @l
First arrest under new itinerant labor tax ordinance
Thomas Walton of Roanoke Rapids was jailed on a charge tied to Wilmington itinerant labor tax rules after allegedly offering higher wages and transport to workers from Bellville and Delgado mills. Walton denies all accusations as deputies prepare to proceed with arraignment before Recorder Harriss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Walton
White
Roanoke Rapids
Joseph Rackley
Coast Line
John J. Furlong
Walton
Harker
Harriss
Bellville
Delgado Mills
Wilmington
Chamber of Commerce
Bickett
State Labor Conference
North Carolinian Named to Presidency at Tri State Meet
The eighth annual Tri-State Water and Light association adjourned at the Oceanic hotel with W. E. West of Charlotte elected president, R. A. Easterling vice president, and W. F. Steiglus reappointed secretary treasurer. Greenwood, S. C., chosen convention site for next year. The meeting featured a talk on Red Water by Guy H. White of Columbia and a masterly address on water hammer by W. S. Smith of Atlanta. The group discussed a practical exam for superintendents and a civil service approach, with a deficit noted in finance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Water
Guy H. White
Oceanic
Tri-State Water and Light Association
The
Wrightsville
Association
W. E. West
Charlotte
R. A. Easterling
Union
S. C
W. C. Bridgers
Atlanta
E. D
Greenwood
Columbia
Sproles
Tidewater Power Company
Oceanic Hotel
Wilmington
W. F. Steiglus
White
W. S. Smith
Observaton
W. Livingston
Bar Examining Board
A. J. Sproles
Carolinas
Georgia
Donald Mac Rae Plans Semi Detached Homes in Sunset Park
United Realty announces the sale of three Tyler street lots in Sunset Park to Donald Mac Rae who intends to erect four semi detached houses. Architect Oswald C. Herring of New York, highly regarded, will draw the plans after a mass meeting pledge to aid shipbuilding workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Mac Rae
United Realty Company
Tyler Street
Sunset Park
Donald MacRae
Mr. MacRae
Oswald C. Herring
New York
Henry Bacon
Mac. Rae
Hor
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Yrge
Wilsell
North Carolinian
B. N. Figgatt
J. T. King
R. C. Fergus
W. P. Hooker
Porter Husham
I. Miller
W. H. Rivenbark
W. J. Watkins
H. S. Meredith
Payne Drug Company
J. H. Hinton
L. M. LeGwin
E. T. Taylor
Kinsey Hobbs
H. H. Hodges
W. L. Carter
Dlugin Bros
O. T. Wallace
Messrs
Wallace and
Hobbs
Grace Church
Ma T. Plyler
Grace Methodist Church
Durham
Trinity College
Jrim House
Alice
Rose
Copenhagen
Ron (Incorporated
Just
Milans
Alma Brown
Wilmington Savings and Trust Company
United States
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Princess Street
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