Society notes list locals and troops abroad updates
Relatives report Sergeant J W Rutland safely arrived overseas. Mrs M J Fowler returns from visit to son George T Fowler in training at Camp Jackson. Mrs M O Alexander and daughter Phyllis McLean visit western state friends. Thomas A Smoot Jr and Edward Smoot visit from Richmond. Miss Mabel Harper and Miss Dell Earnhardt guests of Miss Helen Weathers. Mrs M O Calloway leaves for Spartanburg after winter stay. Paul R Fowler of Pridgen sanitary dept arrives safely in France. Edmund A Hawes Jr and wife honeymoon in Virginia en route home. Willie F Mattocks reported safe arrival overseas. General James I Metts returns from Kinston for St Mary’s endowment fund. Alfred Sternberger arrives safely over there. joined signal corps. Is H Allan Huggins and wife return from Baltimore hospital visit. younger Mr Huggins’ condition improved.
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Is . H. Allan Huggins
Huggins
George A. Huggins, Jr
Baltimore
Mrs. Henrietta Kelly Dies After Illness at 68
Mrs. Henrietta Kelly age 68 wife of the late C D Kelly and mother of Mrs J W Bradshaw Mrs W A McGowan Mrs C H Hart Tampa Fla and Mrs A O Hightower Atlanta died last night at 11 oclock at the home of Mrs Bradshaw 1414 South Fourth street She is survived by a son F B Kelly Newport News A member of First Baptist church and regular church attendant during good health.
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Henrietta Kelly
C. D. Kelly
J. W. Bradshaw
W. A. McGowan
C. H. Hart
Tampa
Fla
A. O Hightower
Atlanta
Ms. Bradshaw
South Fourth Street
Kelly
North Carolina Dental Society Convenes at Oceanic
The forty fourth annual NC Dental Society convention opens this evening at 8 30 in Oceanic assembly hall Wrightsville Beach continuing through Friday. A board of examiners meeting follows with many delegates arriving. Mayor Parker Quince Moore welcomes attendees and Rev. Dr Jno Jeter Hurt offers the invocation. Dr S R Horton of Raleigh delivers the welcome response.
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The
North Carolina Dental Society
Oceanic Assembly Hall
Wrightsville Beach
State Board of Examiners
Parker Quince Moore
Jno. Jeter Hurt
S. R. Horton
Raleigh
Funeral for Mrs Virginia G Empie at St James Episcopal
Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia G. Empie will be held this afternoon at St James Episcopal Church at five o'clock. Rev D L Gwathmey will lead the service. Interment follows at Oakdale Cemetery with a roster of pallbearers listed.
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Virginia G. Empie
Ann Street
St. James’ Episcopal Church
D. L. ‘Gwathmey
St. Paul’s Episopal Church
Oakdale Cemetery
Walker Meares
J.W. Murchison
James Sprunt
Bladen Street Church to Lecture on Revelation of Christ
Rev E C Sell pastor of Bladen Street Methodist church will lecture at 8 pm on the Revelation of Christ the Most Remarkable Miracle. The talk ties to the day’s school lesson for next Sunday and all teachers are urged to attend. The public is invited. Wayne County Deserters. Sheriff Edwards and two deputies arrive en route to Fort Caswell with five enslaved individuals who failed parish requirements.
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Bladen Street Church
E. C. Sell
Bladen Street Methodist Church
Wayne County
Edwards
Fort Caswell
Washington Debates Railroad Express Contract Forms
Attorney General Gregory refuses to approve contract forms for express companies amid wartime consolidation. Officials Payne and Prouty discuss a clause to prevent postwar anti trust exposure, keeping unified control while avoiding future government sanction grounds.
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Washington
Gregory
Railroad Administration
New Consolidated Express Company
John Barton Payne
C. A. Prouty
Consolidated Corporation
Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery Promoted as Vital Health Tonic
An advertisement urges readers to use Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to boost vitality and clear blood impurities. It claims herbal formula without alcohol, suitable for coughs and skin issues, with testimonials from Rosa Lez Hoaan praising its effects on two boys and praise for curing scrofula.
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Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Rosa Lez Hoaan
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Mrs. T. G. Landen
Willington
Son
L. T. Landen
J. W. Rutland
M. O. Alexander
Phyllis McLean
Thomas A. Smoot, Jr
Edward Smoot
Richmond
Thomas A. Smoot
Mabel Harper
Charlotte
Dell Earnhardt
Lenoir
Helen Weathers
North Third Street
Paul R. Fowler
Edmund A. Hawes, Jr
Atkinson
City
Virginia
Mrs. Hawes
Cc. C. Mattocks
Willie F. Mattocks
Mattock Boys
France
C. C
James I. Metts
Kinston
St. Mary’s School
Metts
East Carolina
Alfred Sternberger
Rebecca Sternberger
Young Sternberger
Signal Corps
Aviation
Oceanic
Milady
Underwood & Underwood
Ed. Weaver
Princess Street
Palm Beach
Prin
Grove’s
Grove
Rosenmann
Belk-Williams CO
North Front St
M’cumber’s Station
Tide Water Power Company
Just
Milans
Alma Brown
Fruman
Azurea
Carmen
Dagett & Ramdale
Melba
Red Cross Streets
Wilmington Printing Comp
B. F. King
H. K. Nash
State Department
Herbert Hoover
Frederick C. Walcott
Vernon Kell
Wilmington Dispatch Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Washington, D. C
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