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Newspaper

Wilmington Dispatch

Location

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Mar 27, 1917

Page

8

Welcoming Wilmington Engineers After Delayed Train Arrival

A large crowd gathered at Seaboard station to greet Wilmington Engineers returning from the Rio Grande campaign. The timetable kept shifting from midnight to 1 am and beyond, leading to disappointment as the troop train failed to appear. Local groups outline marching formations and banners for a civic welcome along Front Street, with details assigned to Red Cross, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and many other organizations.

Cobs Jones Carrier Carson Nye Pridgen Rivenbark Simmons Stewart Suggs Tople Williams Westmorland Justice Union Station Wilmington Seaboard Coast Line Seaboard Air Line Charlotte Mecklenburg America Rio Grande North Front Street Walnus Street Wilmington Light Infantry National Red Cross Society Front Walnut Chamber of Commerce Rotary Club Grace National Specialist Society Red Cross Society Front Street Junior Order of United American Mechanics North Carolina Society of the Colonial Dames of America Walnut and Grice Daughters Elks Banes Chestnut Knights of Pythias Germania Society Masons Princess Knights of Columbus Grand Theatre Market Street Edwin Metts Gereal

Georgia Troops Returning Home

The Fifth Georgia Guardsmen are due home from the border late today. A regimental banquet will be funded by a popular subscription. Every man receives a medal and 266 officers and men will be offered positions after Texas duty. The Chamber of Commerce vocational bureau mapped each man’s needs and skills and press coverage encouraged employers to hire them.

Associated Press Atlanta Georgia Guardsmen Texas Chamber of Commerce

For Sale Horse and Local Business Ads

For sale a well cared for horse priced at 175 dollars, view at 516 Queen Street by O. M. Hill. Motte's School of Shorthand advertises day and night lessons with Leon L. Motte, Chief Instruct or Official Court Stenographer, Church Street, phone 737-W. Piano tuning by T P Nipson via Yopp Woody Piano Co at 209 Princess Street, phone 313. Investors urged for Wilmington stock with April 7 deadline. People's Building and Loan Association directors invite inquiries, phone 1220.

Queen Street O. M. Hill Motte Leon L. Motte Church Street T. P. Nipson Ivers & Pond Piano Factory Yopp-Woody Piano Co Princess Street Wilmington People’s Building and Loan Association W. E. Perdew D. R. Foster

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