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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1917
Page
6
Society news reports Miss Madge Cavenaugh recovering from appendicitis and travels of Vera Whitney and Elsie Roberts. Local meetings include telegra phy instruction and Fifth Avenue Methodist Circle. Also notes weddings, a concert program Songs of the Sixties, and multiple visits and social updates from Wilmington residents and invitees.
Mr J T Runge AP operator for The Dispatch returns to work after two weeks confinement at James Walker Memorial Hospital and his home following a collision with a Jacobi Hardware delivery truck on Second street between Market and Princess. His colleagues and friends celebrate his recovery and return.
Masonic Temple March 20 1917 Wilmington Lodge No 319 AF and AM holds their regular monthly communication this Tuesday evening for business. Members urged to attend visiting brothers invited to meet with us. J F Clowe, Secy.
Plainclothesman Coleman Wobbs nabbed Lennie Lewis alias Arthur Burden, a black man wanted in Robeson County for escape from a chain gang during a four year term for house breaking. Burden was arrested at the foot of Princess street and is held in the city prison awaiting requisition. He reportedly remained in the city for about ten years.
Chairman W A McGirt said the New Hanover board will not attend tonight's Southport conference on the bridge and ferry proposal. The Brunswick officials expect the New Hanover group to come, but Commissioner MacMillan will be away this week, ending discussion for now.
The Wilmington Choral Society performed the second part of Elijah at Grace Methodist church before about 600 people. Under E H Munson the chorus impressed, with W G Robertson accompanist and soloists Anna Graham Harriss Catherine Williams delivering notable performances. The Epworth League organized the event, with a finale of the National Anthem and plans for the third part on April 16 at First Baptist.
Tickets for the Hanson Gardner bout, billed as the season’s biggest wrestling event, went on sale at Neman's Cafe yesterday. Ring side seats are selling fast as Woolvin Hall is expected to reach capacity. Both fighters are in prime condition and fans anticipate a decisive showdown.
The New Hanover Poultry Association meets at City Hall at 8 pm to discuss plans for a poultry show in Wilmington next fall. Also reports note two cases for Recorder George Harriss, parole of Zack Jones for six months on larceny by trick, a continued embezzlement case against James Smith, a clothing theft at Leland, and deeds filed in Wilmington Beach Corporation, L M Woolard, and W D Orr transfers.
Mr. Levi Walton left this morning for New Bern on a business trip. Mr. J.M. Chadwick of 217 Harnett Street is able to be out after an illness of typhoid pneumonia. Mr. W. R. Allen of New Berlin was in the city yesterday on business.
Berlin reports Reichstag reconvenes to tackle Germany s birth rate crisis. A 28 member committee is to report with proposals ranging from economic incentives for early marriage and higher wages to measures controlling vice and disease. Other ideas include bachelor taxes and premiums for mothers with many children.
A nearly three mile front of flames from a Winter Park origin spreads toward Greenville Sound and Seagate endangering farms and buildings. Firefighters report little progress as the blaze crosses Masonboro Turnpike and threatens Wilson’s dairy and Mumford Farm.
Brunswick court opened with Judge Bond presiding and a small criminal docket only, while civil matters occupy the rest of the week. The judge praised women’s role in home making and avoided discussing suffrage on the bench, labeling Germany as Attila and stressing cruelty to animals and Prohibition laws. Community updates note a farm demonstrator plan, Tag Day funds for a reading room, ferry talks between Brunswick and New Hanover counties, and a Catholic church clerical roster amid reports of a German airship crew disaster.
London editorials note war reshapes class life with personal ads showing aristocrats seeking work and soldiers seeking extra pay. Ads include drivers, house management, nursemaids, ambulance drivers, and voluntary motor drivers for the French Army Ambulance Convoys in France. Directorships and Red Cross appeals are listed.
In Atlanta on March 20 the Georgia Legislature convened in a special session called by Governor Harris to consider a bone dry bill and an $80 deficit in the Confederate pension fund. The Aurora council did not raise the pay of policewoman Ann Forsythe, leading to her resignation.
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