Calvary Baptist Church Services Announced
Calvary Baptist lists morning and evening worship with sermon topics Eye On Sail On and Messages Never Go to the Pead Office plus Sunday school led by J W Hollis and Junior B Y P U. Other churches on First Fifth Market Fifth Ave and Church Streets schedule sermons, Sunday school times, and youth activities inviting all to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baptist
Calvary
J. A. Sullivan
A. L.wale
J J. Hunt
D. D
D. H. See. Jr
Sauleee
Young the Devil
Solside
Fifth Avenue
Wooshe Steer
W. G. Hall
Methodist Church Services and Schedules
Trinity at Ninth and Market streets led by Rev W V MacRae offers 11 a m and 8 p m services with 9 45 a m Sunday school under M F Mien. Fifth Avenue church with Rev J M McCracken hosts youth sermon at 11, 7 30 p m by Rev J H Shore and Epworth League Tuesday 8 p m. Bladen Street church with Rev E C Sell holds 11 a m and 7 30 p m services and 3 30 p m Sunday school. Grace church at Fourth and Grace with Rev M T Plyler 11 a m and 7 30 p m services subject The Stability of the Times and 9 45 a m Sunday school. All welcomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
Trinity
Corner Ninth and
Market Streets
W. V. MacRae
M. F. Mien
Fifth Avenue
J. M. McCracken
J. H. Shore
Epworth League
Bladen Street
Fifth
Bladen Streets
E. CC. Sell
Aternoon
Rene, Grace
Fourth and
Grace
Kepts
M. T. Plyler
Times
St James and St John Episcopal Services Lenten Calendar
Holy communion at 7 50 AM for Women of Parish and 11 AM morning prayer by Rev Ludlow of Boone University China. Evening prayers at 5 PM. Confirmation class at 5 30 PM. Parish night service and sermon on The Difficulties of Unbelief at 7 30 PM. St John’s Third and Red Cross streets with Rev Gribben. Fifth Sunday in Lent March 25 Holy communion at 11 AM and school at 4 PM. Pilgrimage of Prayer prep by Woman’s Auxiliary. Rev Ludlow to speak at evening service. All welcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal
St. James
Wm. H. Milton
Geo. F. Hill
T. R. Ludlow
Ina
Cass
Lome
St. John’s
Red Cross
Reets
R. E. Gribben
Woman’s Auxility
Boone
Lutheran St Pauls Market and Sixth Teets Service Note
St Pauls Lutheran at Market and Sixth held morning service at 11 with the sermon Threading the Labyrinth of Lit. Catechumens to be examined. Evening service at 8 on The Fathers Business Abroad. Sunday School at 3 30. Mengert Missionary Society and Christian Association meet Monday. Visitors welcome at all services.
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St. Paul's
F. B. Clausen
Elcome
Mengert Missionary Society
Christian Association
Primary and Municipal Elections Called in Wilmington
Notice from the City of Wilmington announces a planary primary and regular municipal election for May 1 1917 to choose a mayor and council members from wards one four and six. It lists polling places registrars and judges and details registration periods closing on the second Saturday before April 17 1917. The council orders new voter registration for both elections and assigns officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Wilmington
City Board of Elections
City Board of Eleciors
City of
Wilmington
Engine House
Campbell
R. T. Darden
James Lewis
J. B. Elkins
Pollin Place
City Hall
Strat
Hodges
D. H. Howes
John R. Turrentine
Giblem Lodge
L. H. Partin
W. G Farmer
J. Austin
Fourth Ward
Mills
Dock Street
L. W. Warrock
J. B. King
John D. Bellamy, Jr
Kew Engine House
H. C. Cantwell
W. W. Sellers
L. T Landen
Old Engine House
John Walton
J. B. Fales
W. M. Creasy
Mann's Store
J. . Mann
W. A. Woods
J. H. Womble
Council
Christian Science Church Services and Reading Room
Christian Science church at Seventeenth and Market streets offers Sunday services at 11 a.m. with the subject Matter and a Sunday school at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday evening service is at 8:15 p.m. The reading room in the Murchison National Bank building is open daily 4 to 6 p.m. except Sundays and holidays. The public is invited to attend services and visit the reading room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles T. Green
Murchison National Bank
British French Losses Reported After West Front Evacuations
Berlin reports heavy Allied losses as British and French forces pursued the German retreat along the evacuated front. The release cites 52 and 200 English deaths near Ancre, failed attempts to occupy Ruoy, and German artillery keeping high casualties for Entente troops. It notes German gains on heights west of the Meuse with officers and hundreds of ranks captured, plus machine guns and mine throwers seized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Berlin
Sayville
West Front
Ancre
Ruoy
Ham
Leavy
Cramony
Soissons
Meuse
America Nears War Fury With Rapid Stride
Army funding fights persist as contractors move ahead on supplies. Navy awards destroyer contracts to Cramps Fore River Union Iron Works with aim to add 25 to 50 more ships. Submarine chasers and 38 submarines also contracted. New Mexico battleship launches at New York yard on April 23 amid yard closures to guard against spies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Quartermaster
Baker
Navy Department
Navy
Cramps
Philadelphia
Fore River Shipbuilding Company
Quincy
Mass
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
New Mexico
New York Navy Yard
Petition Drive Aims At Clark Good Roads Bond
Lumberton citizens circulate petitions to county commissioners seeking a May 8 vote on the Clark good roads bond plan. If approved, the election follows the April 9 filing deadline and supports a road commission, with a preliminary county-wide gathering set for March 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lumberton
N. C
Lumberton Graded School
Lumberton Cotton Mills
National Cotton Mills
Jennings Cotton Mills
Raft Swamp
Oak Grove
Long Branch
Mt. Elsam
Smith's
Tabernacle
Baker’s Chapel
Ten-Mile Meadow
Clybourn
Back Swamp
Beulah
Antioch
Smyrna
Broad Ridge
Irene McLeod
School of Dramatic Art
Misses McLeod
Miriam Weinstein
Mary Lee Caldwell
Margaret Pope
Jeanette Biggs
Elizabeth Wishart
Gwendolyn Barrett
Evelyn Sentelle
Evelyn Whaley
Maitland Thompson
Sarah Carlyle
Elsie Thompson
Mary Lawrence
Roberta Nash
Abner Nash
Edgar Deese
Clarence Deese
Leon Hamilton
Frank Gough
Rudolph Thompson
S. K. Nash
W. P. McAllister
James D. Proctor
Proctor
M. GC. McKenzie
Washington
H. A. Grantham
St. Joseph’s Church
Rome
New York
Maxton
Red Springs
Merritt Resignation Question Sparks Ward Debate
A city editor asks if Councilman Merritt should run for mayor while remaining in office, citing a family salary pattern total of 3900 and hinting at a possible race involving Dr. Smith from the First Ward. The letter questions loyalty to his ward and the impact on public funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Dispatch
Merritt
Third Ward
Mr. Merritt
W. E. Merritt
Hall
Water and Sewerage Department
Smith
Houston Merritt
British Force Seizes Roisel As Push Advances
Field Marshal Haig reported British troops occupied Roisel about eight miles beyond Perrone as they pursue retreating Germans toward the Hindenburg line. Frontal clashes near Beautz Cambrai and Coutst mein yielded heavy casualties for the enemy while British raids east of Arras penetrated second line trenches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
London
Field Marshall Haig
Roisel
Perrone
Ham
Guiscard
Chauny
Beautz
Cambrai
Coutstmein
Boiry
Bacquerelle
Arras
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China
Peking
Shanghai
Rembrandt
Germany
Les Darcy
New Orleans
Jeff Smith
Jack Dillon
United States
Havana
Menocal
Gonzalez
J. E. Reynolds
George L. Huband
Christian Endeavor
J. E. Cowden
Perry Dawson
Thos. D Mbeares
Mtg
Terk and Tanaprer
St. Matthew’s
Fourth
Harnett Streets
G. W. McClanahan
Luther League
Lutheran Church In America
St. Matthew's Brotherhood
Woman’s Missionary Society
Sixteenth
Citizens Bank
Pat
America
War
Robeson
Dr. Vineberg Masonic Temple
AOODS
J. W. H. Fuchs
Dep
T. Store
Aiso
Milan
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