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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1918
Page
6
The piece blends a poem titled The Happiest Man by The Benttown Bard with a column of social notices and local updates. It includes reports of residents visiting Wilmington and other towns, engagements, weddings, and church activities, followed by wartime home-front guidance and a call for food conservation measures.
Mrs. Herring earns credit for stirring interest in the club through hard work. Mrs. Pretlow urges county women to join the cottage cheese effort as a food sale is planned at the local market.
Mr. J. T. Kerr of Acorn Branch was a city visitor. Rev. C. C. Ware the Wilson NC state secretary for the Disciples of Christ will preach Sunday morning at the Dock Street Christian church. Mr. Clarence L. Dempsey postmaster with the 165th Engineers at Camp Sevier is visiting his parents at the county home.
Warsaw readers hear a patriotic verse by Mrs. Henry Livingstone Boyette praising the nation’s wartime stewardship. The speaker aligns women with wheatless and meatless days and urges support for Hoover’s conservation plan. It vows loyalty to Uncle Sam, with references to Kaiser dethronement and Old Glory in the Red, White and Blue.
In Maxton North Carolina March 8 two negroes Dock Douglas and Mullin Smith faced Recorder R M Williams over an assault on a woman riding home from work. Douglas released after insufficient evidence while Smith remained held for higher court verdict. Lawyers McIntyre Johnson Lumberton and Cox Laurinburg appeared.
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