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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1918
Page
6
A poem by Nora Perry laments repeated silence between near and dear ones. The speaker notes year after year of quiet, the unspoken full sweet word that remains just out of reach, and the loneliness left behind by those who have passed, with fond regret for kind words unsaid.
Social items list residents and visitors in Wilmington including Mrs W C Ganey and baby at Abbottsburg and Mrs E V King from Hampstead, plus tours by Miss Carrie Pearson and Mrs S M Wither. Epworth League program at Bladen Street church, YWCA organizers to National War Council in Richmond, and Trinity Methodist junior missionary meeting with readings and a mite box drill.
Aid organizers urge volunteers to report to the hall all day Saturday to speed a much delayed shipment. Time is tight and assistance is needed to complete loading and dispatch.
Mrs D McD Jones and her children travel to Whiteville for the annual Cole family reunion at Mr and Mrs M E Cole's home. The event also celebrates the Coles forty sixth wedding anniversary and Mr Cole's birthday with ten children expected to attend. Books for troops are being collected by Adam Empie who will pick up donations Saturdays. Mrs Edward MacDowell performs at Hemenway school with proceeds aiding the Mac Dowell Petersborough Colony convalescent camp for wounded soldiers.
South Wilmington and Sunset Park joined to establish thrift societies at the local school. J P Herring S A Matthews and W A McGirt spoke, with J W Russ as president and J T Bidle as secretary for the men’s society. women’s group led by Mrs O A Matthews as president and Mrs Ralph Kennedy as secretary.
The article presents dairy and dessert recipes using milk whey and junket tablets, tapioca pudding and whey ice directions, plus a note on a North Carolina Sorosis business meeting to fund furlough houses in France and library book drives. It also includes a New York Letter with vivid vignettes of wartime city life and a cabaret anecdote.
Lieutenant Robert C. Davis, while visiting his mother Mrs. Junius Davis at 403 Dock Street, returned to Camp Travis, Texas, yesterday afternoon. Elisha D. Warren is appointed machinist inspector with the Emergency Fleet Corporation after 26 years with Diamond Steamboat and Wrecking. His promotion by the Shipping Board is noted with pleasure. Headquarters will be at Tampa, Florida.
Beans are valuable garden crops suited to warm sandy loam but tolerating most soils. Plant after average last frost, avoid high nitrogen soil to prevent lush foliage, use straight rows for easy cultivation, and space 30 36 inches for horse cultivation or 10 24 inches for hand. One pint seed covers 100 feet. 40 60 days to harvest. plant every 10 14 days for steady supply.
John Dillon succeeds the late John Redmond as chairman of the Irish Nationalist party and is renowned as a respected figure in Irish politics. Born in 1851 and a medical licentiate, he has served in parliament since 1880 and led the anti-Parnellite faction after 1896.
Charles W. Parks former Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks born in Massachusetts 56 years ago today. Frank A. Scott Cleveland manufacturer and former War Industries Board president born in Cleveland 45 years ago today. Frank W. De Wolf Illinois geologist now in war work born at Vail Iowa 37 years ago today. Edith Barnes Mason opera singer born in St. Louis 25 years ago today. Emilio Aguinaldo Filipino insurrection leader born at Cavite P I 46 years ago today. William J. Cary Wisconsin congressman born in Milwaukee 53 years ago today.
United States formally recognized the new Russian government. French and British columns converged on St. Quentin. German admiralty reported the raider Moewe returning from a second successful cruise.
Of the missing counties all but two were claimed as normally favorable to Lenroot by Lenroot leaders district officials who assessed the political landscape.
One hundred years ago today in 1818 the Protestant Bible Society organized in Paris. Seventy-five years earlier in 1843 Brooklyn established its Board of Education. Fifty years back in 1808 Rev. Joel H. Linsley, first Marietta College president, died in Greenwich Connecticut. Twenty-five years ago in 1893 Jules Ferry’s state funeral occurred at the Luxembourg in Paris.
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