Students pledge loyalty with new flag on Inauguration Day
On Monday March 5, 1917, in observance of national crisis, students conducted drills and pledged loyalty to the flag. The school expressed gratitude to Wilmington Savings & Trust Company for providing erasers. No tardies noted across first through fifth grades taught by Miss Bowden, Miss Worth, and Miss Whitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Maggie Bowden
Miss Worth
Miss Whitted
Margaret Eliott
Andrew Mahler
Miss Kendricks
Oneida May Pate
W. Yarborough
First Baptist Church
New Hanover County
Wilmington
New Hanover
North Carolina
Campell
Fifth Street
Campbell Street
Tock IG
Wilmingon
Hanover Building and Loan Association
Veterans Venture Fundraising for Washington Visit
The article honors old Confederate veterans of Wilmington Light Infantry, notes their advancing years, and outlines plans for a fundraiser at the Academy of Music in April led by Bessie and Florence Burkheimer to raise travel funds for a Washington trip. It lists a support committee from George Davis Camp and mentions talks at Hemenway School about presidents and inauguration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legions of
Our City
Lee
Armory
Market Street
Front
Front Street
Chestnut
Third
Academy of Music
Wilmington ‘Light Infantry
Wilmington Light Infantry
the Confederacy
Washington, D. C
Wilmington
Washington
Bessie
Florence Burkheimer
Metts
George Davis Camp
Sons of Confederate Veterans
J. H. Cowan
Col. Walker Taylor
J. H. Stone
W. R. Taylor
Hemenway
Blair
Margaret McCarley
Margaret MccClammy
Gladys Fore
Bessie Hinnant
Margaret Heverett
Olive Kuck
Marjore Merrell
Anna Bell Mohr
Maxton Civic League elects officers and plans clean up
Maxton March 9 The Civic League elected Mrs J O MacClelland president and others for the year. Clean up days were set for Tuesday and Wednesday with a call to residents to place trash for removal. A cooperative committee will push sanitation of stables and streets to curb flies and plan silver teas to fund beautification of the new graded school grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxton
Coast Line Hotel Cafe Offers Day to Month Rates
The Coast Line Hotel Cafe advertises rooms for daily weekly or monthly stays at reasonable rates plus meals any hour at 263 North Front Street. Call 208-W for reservations or inquiries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Front
New Tower Plant Ready Supplying Chapel Hill and University Station
The new electric power plant of the Southern Power Company near University Station is ready. Workers have installed poles and are stringing wires to feed Chapel Hill with electricity. Saluda plans a modern hotel as a summer resort expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Sothern Power Company
Chapel Hill
News
Saluda
Also Mentioned on This Page
Paul Weaver
Lula
W. C. Galloway
UNION
May Belle Carroll
Lina McEachern
Henry Bremer
Nancy Battle
Nettie Teachey
Dan Penton
Edward Koonce
Iome
Dorothy Boon
Onida May Pate
Yarborough
von Glahn
S. Clayton
St. Amand
J. F. Roache
P. Heinsberger
W. H. Brown
C. Leon
James M. Stevenson
D. J. Fergus
Mortgagor
C. D. Weers
Coast Line Hotel
Oyjo
Ahtoeliogit
South Front St
Dorri
Beery
B. Beery’, JR
Castle ST
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