City residents urged to plant war gardens during cleanup week
Rotary Club members in overalls led a parade through downtown and suburbs to kick off a citywide clean-up and war garden campaign. Boy Scouts and Wiliston Industrial School students distributed garden notices door to door as trash collection and planting efforts begin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rotary Club
Old Sol
Fifth
Red Cross
Nence
Ann
James Holton
Rotarians
Boy Scouts
Willston Industrial School
Case Against George Moore To Be Tried Monday Morning
George Moore, white, faces prohibition law charges in Recorder's court. The case was continued to Monday for evidence and judgment after he was caught with 80-odd quarts of double distilled monkey rum while attempting to ferry contraband from Eagle Island. Harry Webster, colored, was placed in juvenile court and paroled for three months for trespass. Arthur McNeil’s trespass charge was dismissed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Moore
Recorder’s Court
Moore
Eagle Island
Harry Webster
oJhnson
Arthur McNeil
Capt. David Fallon War Savings Society Formed
The Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company employee groups in real estate signal and fuel departments formed the Capt. David Fallon War Savings Society. Albert T. Summey was elected president and Miss Florence Burkheimer was named secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Coast Line Railway Company
War Savings Society
David Fallon
Capt
Mrs Ethel Durden Tuberville Buys Carolina Beach Lot
Deed filed with Register of Deeds Haar records a transfer of lot 2 in the Northern section of Carolina Beach from New Hanover Transit Company to Mrs. Ethel Urden Tuberville for 100 dollars and other valuable considerations. Restrictive terms prohibit sale to colored persons or African descent and prohibit whiskey sales on the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Durden Tuberville
Carolina Beach
New Haner Transit Company
Ethel Urden Tuberville
Fragmentary line hints at party split in a group
A brief readable line notes a minor disruption causing a split within a group of fellows. The text suggests a slight jolt leading to division among participants.
Plans for Formation of County Limit Club in New Hanover
The county executive committee met at Major Joseph W. Little's office to lay groundwork for county limit clubs affiliated with the National War Savings Committee. New Hanover aims to recruit 330 members, or 1 percent of county population, by year end 1918, with membership requiring purchase of 1000 worth of war savings and thrift stamps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Limit Clubs
National War Savings Committee
Joseph W. Little
New Hanover
Wilmington and
Mammoth Society
Sister of dead soldier denies self defense in shooting
Miss Nora Cannady of near Bolton says Private Wilson Cannady was shot at his Fort Caswell home by Charlie Smith after Smith approached with a gun. She recalls Smith grabbing Cannady and firing as Cannady moved toward an arrest, then fleeing toward Bolton. The family intends to press charges. Cannady wished to be buried in his military uniform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora Cannady
Bolton
Wilson Cannady
Charlie Smith
Smith
Young Cannady
Fort Caswell
Miss Can
George Gillette
Port visit of Southern Territory official noted
Mr. C. H. Markham, Divisional Director for all Southern transportation area with headquarters in Atlanta, inspected the port yesterday in his private car. He stopped to become acquainted with the city and port, visiting cotton compresses and several points of interest in an informal tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Territory
C. H. Markham
Illinois Central Railroad
Southern Transportation Territory
Atlanta
Markham
Wilmington residents urge shipplant and hospital aid from Godwin
A letter to Congressman H L Godwin by Walter H Blair, NC candidate for register of deeds, argues Wilmington needs a shipbuilding plant, a convalescent hospital, and channel deepening. Blair cites population decline and unemployment, urging public support and a clear statement on why the city has been overlooked while neighboring states prosper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannibal Godwin
Walter H. Blair
Office of Register of Deeds
Godwin
Blair
H. L. Godwin
M. C
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C
Wilmington
Virginia
South Carolina
Georgia
Atlantic
North Carolina
South Atlantic Seaboard
Donations to the Home Aid January February
The Katherine Kennedy Home received various contributions in January and February including groceries from Mrs. Tom Bagley and Mrs. H F Wilder, coffees, ice daily from Independent Ice Company, drugs from J Hicks Bunting Drug Company and R H Bellamy, magazines, books, cash of 15.50, preserves, turkey rolls and potatoes, during a Tuesday Afternoon Social hosted by a friend and the Church of the Covenant following a Father and Sons Banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Kennedy
Tom Bagley
Ice
Independent Ice Company
J. Hicks Bunting Drug Company
R. H. Bellamy
H. F. Wilder
L. K. Taylor
Rebecca Sneeden
Church of the Covenant
Father and Sons
Fire alarms sparked by cigarette butt at utility yard
The Tidewater Power Company yard office at Orange and Ninth streets was struck by a small blaze started by a carelessly flipped cigarette butt. Fire crews were called out for a first alarm from box 61 at 7 25, and a second alarm from box 17 at 7 58 in the evening, which proved false.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tidewater Power Company
Orange
Ninth Streets
Wilmington Weighs Concrete Ships Against Shipping Crisis
Mr. Roy H. Robinson of Washington D C backs concrete ship construction in Senate testimony. Wilmington’s favorable conditions and local data boost Chamber of Commerce interest in multiple shipyards nationwide. Robinson may visit Wilmington later, but current duties in D C prevent an immediate trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Special Shipping Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Roy H. Robinson
Washington, D. C
Robeson
Senate Commerce Committee
Norway
Wilmington
United States Shipping Board
Robinson
United States
The
Washington
Rotary Clubs Press for Wilmington Channel Help
Telegrams from Asheville Winston-Salem and Wilson Rotary Clubs urged Washington to guard Wilmington's channel interests and secure sufficient appropriations for channel maintenance. Messages signed by N V Stockton L B Rodgers and T F Pettus expressed optimism that coordinated state action and chamber cooperation would win governmental recognition of the port's advantages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis T. Moore
Rotary Club
Asheville
Winston-Salem
Wilson
Washington
Wilmington
Winston-Salon
N. V. Stockton
L. B. Rodgers
Juniors Urge Support for Wilmington Ship Facility Project
The Jeff Davis and George Washington Councils of the Junior Order United American Mechanics sent telegrams to Sen. Simmons, Sen. Overman, Rep. Godwin, and James H. Cowan urging backing for a Wilmington shipbuilding plant, a convalescent hospital, and Cape Fear river channel deepening. The messages were issued by council officers B. F. Brittain Jr, W. H. Blair, George W. Z. Bornemann, and W. C. Capps, R. H. Eliverett, W. H. Hancammon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Godwin
Simmons
Overman
Jeff Davis
George Washington
James H. Cowan
United American Mechanics
Wilmington
Cape Fear River
Messrs
B. F. Brittain, Jr
W. H. Blair
George W. Z. Bornemann
Jeff Davis Council No. 63
Fisheries Product Company Elects Officers and Expands
The Fisheries Product Company of North Carolina elected officers at its noon meeting: Thomas H. Haynes president, Raymond J. Anderson vice president and treasurer, C. H. Keteltas secretary, and Thomas W. Davis along with Elmo Brown as directors. The plant is expanding with new machinery, more steamers, and a refrigerator plant at the lower Cape Fear. Overhauls of steamers, new piers, and wharfage are underway as fish scrap and oil production are scaled up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fisheries Product Company
North Carolina
Murchison National Bank
Thomas H. Haynes
Raymond J. Anderson
C. H. Keteltas
Thomas W. Davis
Elmo Brown
Cape Fear
Tidewater Officials Mandate Walk to Corner Stops
Officials enforce trolley car stoppage at corner posts, not mid block, sparking passenger walking tolls and saved coal. Signs misread. officials avoid front door stops on Princess Street. Methodist church in Japan reports a 12 percent member increase in the past year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tidewater
Princess Street
Methodist Church
Japan
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Soy
Captain Fallon
Limit Club
MR. Markham
MR. Robinson
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Officers
Alma Brown
Grocer
Payne Drug CO
Red Cross Streets
Tradesmark
Gold Bond
I. Shiier & Sons
Front and Princess Streets
Wilmington, N. C
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