Local Society Notes and Civic Updates
The Blue-Ridge Club of the YWCA meets tomorrow at 8 pm in the Association Building living room. Mrs Cantwell joins her husband in Goldsboro and several church groups announce meetings and socials this week. Governor Bickett and Mrs Bickett left Wilmington for Raleigh after attending local events. April wedding invitations poured in for Mae Lates Willson and Newton Fisher at First Presbyterian. Clyde Daughtridge and Millard Jones wed in Rocky Mount with reception in Wilmington. guests included prominent regional figures. Red Cross drives invite women to volunteer at the Marine Hospital from 10 am to 1 pm on Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Blue-Ridge Club
Association Building
Paul L. Cantwell
Goldsboro
Cantwell
Christian Endeavor Society
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
South Front Street
Ladies’ Aid Society
Dock Street Christian Church
H. E. Byrd
Red Cross Street
Bicket
Thomas W. Bickett
Raleigh
Wilmington
City
Clyde Daughtridge
Rocky Mount
W. C. Galloway
Millard Franklin Jones
Richmond
BE. L. Daughtridge
R. C. Craven
First Methodist Church
Killarney
Lohengrin
H. Page Mauck
IL. W. Kornegay
Margaret Newell
Shields Jones
Sue Long
Roxboro
Lillian
Emory’ Braswell
Maurice Daughtridge, Jr
J. C. Braswell, Jr
J. C. Daughtridge
Fitzhugh Lafferty
J. D. Odom
T. B. Bond
J. J. MacKay, Jr
Jeter Jones
R. W. Jones
MacAdams
H. P. Mauck
Arnall
Fitzhugh Lassiter
Emma Mallette
Tarboro
Mary Ruth Divine
Atlantic Coast Line
National Red Cross Society
Marine Hospital
Local Personnel Movements Across Cities
Burke H Bridgers Esq left for Houston Texas to handle business matters . Ireedell Meares Esq attends to business in Winston Salem . W A Leitch longtime general passenger agent here departed for Augusta Ga to take district duties . B N Figgatt of Norfolk arrived to succeed A S Peatross as Dunns Mercantile Agency manager . Peatross leaves Saturday for El Paso Texas to assume Dunns Agency manager post.
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Burke H. Bridgers
Houston
Tex
Ireedell Meares
Winston- Salem
W. A. Leitch
Augusta
B. N. Figgatt
Norfolk
A. S. Peatross
Dunn's Mercantile Agency
Niehoff Replacement Challenge Faces Phillies Boss Moran
The Phillies confronts a problem filling infield duties after Bert Niehoff’s failure to report. Manager Pat Moran seeks a replacement for the smart infielder as he positions the team to address the vacancy.
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Eerse
Bert Niehoff
Pat Moran
Phillies
Niehoff
Mayor Urges Garden Planting In Wartime Wilmington
Mayor Parker Quince Moore issues a proclamation urging Wilmington and New Hanover County residents to plant back-lots and vacant ground with vegetables to boost food production and curb rising living costs. The governor urges widespread home farming to meet wartime shortages and sustain the community.
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Parker Quince Moore
Wilmington
New Hanover County
Thomas W. Bickett
Moore
Queen Contest Votes Show Vera Furlong Leading After Growth
Vera Furlong keeps the lead in the Queen Contest as Annie Banks holds second place. Janie Meares climbs from twenty fourth to fourth, showing how effort boosts results. The top votes total list includes Vera Furlong 1039 and Annie Banks 748 with many others earning smaller counts.
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Vera Furlong
Annie Banks
Janie Iredell Meares
Miss Furlong
Miss Banks
Nieses Vera Furlong
Dorothy Meier
Janie Meares
Elizabeth Powell
Louise Nelson
Florence Taylor
Elizabeth Sweeney
Mary Houston
Florence Morrison
Lucile Solky
May Wright Taylor
Lucy Murchison
Mary Pickett
Elizabeth Westbrook
Virginia Farmer
Miriam Holliday
Eleanor Harriss
Kate Faison
Julia Stone
Louisa Grant
Edna Myers
Charlotte Fennell
Lucile Burkheimer
Kate Northrop
Christine Stevenson
Mary Bellamy
Grace Brown
Helen Clark
Louise Shepard
Sallie Justice
Nelson MacRae Returns to Align With Hugh MacRae & Co
Nelson MacRae, a mechanical engineer from MIT, returns to Wilmington to join Hugh MacRae & Co. He previously worked at Winchester Arms in New Haven and is expected to oversee manufacture and sale of hardwood timber from Linville Improvement Company lands, with potential relocation to Linville, North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson MacRae
Hugh MacRae & Co
Wilmington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Winchester Arms Company
New Haven
Conn
Linville
N. C
Linville Improvement Company
Tabernacle Open Tonight For Livestock Show Visitors
The Tabernacle will stay open tonight to allow city residents unable to attend the Live stock Conference and Exposition to view the large display of pure bred cows and hogs. Cattle and hog owners consent to keep their exhibits until tomorrow morning, offering all a chance to see North Carolina’s finest stock and understand the livestock issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Tabernacle
North Carolina
Sage and Sulphur Compound for Dark Hair
An old time recipe for darkening gray hair via Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound now sold ready made in drug stores. Applied with a comb or brush, it darkens hair and adds a soft lustre, advertising a youthful look at about 50 cents a bottle.
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Wyeth
Enter New Hall On Next Thursday
George Washington Council No. 67 J O U A M expects to take possession of new quarters at 17 Berth Street and hold its next regular meeting there on Thursday night. Jeff Davis Council and Daughters of Liberty may also use the space, with extensive remodeling and beautification nearing completion.
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George Washington Council
United American Mechanics
Jeff Davis
George Washington (Council
Daughtrs of Liberty
Second Street
Jeff Davis Council
Mrs Amelia E Barr Celebrates 86th Birthday in Cornwall
Cornwall New York March 29 Mrs Amelia E Barr celebrated her eighty sixth birthday anniversary today. Mrs Barr was born in England on March 29 1835 she is America s oldest woman novelist of prominence and a famed seeker of sixty eight oe ae f he is
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Cornwall
N. Y
Amelia’ E. Barr
America
Triangular Debate Sends Teams to Lumberton
Miss Lydie Penton and Mr Owen Martin depart tomorrow morning for Lumberton to present the negative on the question that the government should own and operate railroads. Miss Marie Bonitz and Mr Cover stay to defend the affirmative as Goldsboro Illich school arrives for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydie Penton
Owen Martin
Lumberton
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Ad Ee Peter
John van B. Metts
Meets
Calvary Baptist Church
Cornelius Harnett School
J. T. Burke
Custie Street
Dock Street
United States
Levy
Helena Waxman
J. J. Hutson
Baltimore
Lieutenant Hutson
Coast Guard
Seminole
James Edmund Willson
Mae Lates
Newton Fisher
First Presbyterian Church
T Wooltex
A. D. Brown
ST. John’s Lodge
A. F
A. M
Order of the Wastes
New York
Belk-Williams Co
Grandma
New Hall
The
House of Fashion
Wilmington, N. C
Betty Wales
Romeo
Juliet
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