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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1918
Page
2
A porchside poem honors a fallen service member with a blue star in a crimson flag. Local updates note residents visiting relatives, church sales, Bible class plans, war savings groups, and a Fayetteville wedding linking the community to wartime life.
Mrs. R F Tracey of Charlotte visits Mrs. W H Shephard. Mr and Mrs D A Brew of Phoenix shop in the city. Mrs Jennie D Harris of Norfolk visits her daughter Mrs A P Bright at Fort Caswell. Various locals travel to and from Phoenix Chadbourn Boardman Fort Caswell and other points. Calvary Baptist YWCA vesper service led by Mrs Vandingham on Sunday at 5 with True Worship theme aimed at young women.
The guidance from the U. S. Department of Agriculture details growing asparagus as a long term, endurable vegetable. It recommends deep, well drained soil with manure added to subsoil, two year old roots for quicker setup, and planting either in rows or beds with precise spacing. Mulch guidance varies by region and first year care is strict about not cutting shoots.
The Dispatch reports the pygmy ant eater at the New York Zoological Park. The buff gray creature works nights and uses four feet a tail and a snout to express indignation. It seeks quiet and an ant diet and dislikes zoological authorities.
The tramp poet Harry Kemp opens a theater with no programs or reserved seats. He heckles traditional norms by announcing programs insult intelligence and introduces each actor with a curtain. His first show is verse followed by The Prodigal Son about the son’s homecoming.
Chronicle notes a barber shop display urging conservation of gas to aid the war effort. Observers report eclectic town scenes including a Broadway detective buying a microscope and a pianist auctioning a patriotic girl’s hair in a Majestic lobby.
Visitors from Beaufort report the Harkers Island illness persists though abating, with seven deaths initially reported by the State Board of Health and more cases now seriously ill. Isolated residents lack access to doctors, while lumber mills eye women workers to ease a labor shortage as demand for mill hands and loggers rises.
Ottawa March 16 Everything is ready for Parliament’s opening Monday with many western and lower province members arriving by train. Ontario and Quebec delegates are expected Sunday or Monday. The session will be short and businesslike focusing on war measures and civil service reform. Sir Robert Borden and another minister will attend the Imperial conference in London next June.
The South Carolina Railroad Commission finds flagman H Lockalter and conductor J O Meredith of train 18 guilty of negligence in the February 25 wreck near Frost five miles from Columbia that killed 13. The report urges amending rule No 99 for clarity.
At the Mills Manufacturing Company stockholders meeting in Greenville D C on March 16 Allen J Graham of Greenville was named president and treasurer M R Reeves of New York was elected vice president and B A Burts formerly secretary and assistant treasurer became general manager The purchase of the controlling stake was completed at 275 dollars per share
A Pittsburgh claimant known as K. QO showcases a unique blend of nine-tenths acrobat and one-tenth sprinter in the boxing arena, illustrating a versatile athletic persona.
An advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Base antiseptic powder as a standard 25 year remedy to ease callouses tired feet and sweating. It claims to reduce friction in shoes, freshen feet, and aid comfort for troops in camp trenches at sea or on marches.
New York March 6 Rails were the week's leading feature in a moderate market aided by the administration bill giving the government control of transportation. Reading led advances with the year's high price, while steel and copper shares showed dulling. Pools moved cautiously as oils and tobacco rose modestly and call money strengthened.
In Caldwell New Jersey on March 16 arrangements are made by the Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association for memorial ceremonies tomorrow marking the eighty first anniversary of the late President's birth. Former Manhattan Borough President McAneny will serve as principal speaker at the services held in the old church beside the manse where Cleveland was born on March 18, 1837.
A sweeping campaign for the third Liberty Bond Loan will begin next week in the South Atlantic states. The drive starts Monday in Richmond and will travel through Virginia the Carolinas Georgia Alabama and Florida with public meetings in major cities led by speakers headed by John Burke Treasurer of the United States.
In New York on March 16 a campaign will launch to raise 3 million dollars for the Knights of Columbus camps and overseas activities within the archdiocese. Cardinal Farley approves, with 750 clergymen backing the effort a joint religious drive aims to be non sectarian for patriotic purposes and to set a model for similar efforts nationwide.
Fred Dyer the popular Australian boxer is to become a boxing instructor at Camp Grant Rockford Illinois. He joins the army camp staff aiming to train recruits in pugilism and grip leadership duties.
The war office reports violent artillery fire along the entire front, with intense activity in the Verdun region. A German Lorraine raid was repulsed and French aviators dropped over five thousand six hundred kilograms of bombs on railways and cantonments. Belgian lines saw heavy artillery, asphyxiating shells, and raids repelled near Merckem. In the East, French detachments pushed near Hill 1248 and Trnova after enemy evacuations, while British bombers hit locations on the Struma front.
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