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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1918
Page
10
At the Warsaw Woman's Club meeting Mesdames J. C. Russ and Clar oe Brown were chosen as delegates with alternates Mrs. D. E. Best and Miss Eula Powell to attend the State Federation session in Raleigh, the largest club delegation yet. Various social items follow including engagements, marriages, and local notices across Laurinburg and surrounding communities.
Goldsboro notes report Wake Forest lecturer for Baraca class and a citywide patriotic rally at the courthouse. Medical updates include Earl Orsmond awaiting postoperative recovery for appendicitis at Goldsboro Hospital. A wedding at St Stephen’s in Goldsboro links Miss Mabel Kilpatrick and Mr Carl Hales. Also mentions a soldier’s safe arrival from overseas and a infant death in local homes. Clarkton and surrounding towns share obituaries, visits, and church events with several residents noted for recent travels and illnesses.
A Norfolk Virginian-Pilot remark notes the phrase smiles appearing in Caro Inn and other areas as largely moonshine reports. The piece hints at a regional misunderstanding or humorous misattribution.
Theodore Fowlkes visited his home in Meenerrin Virginia last Friday. W F Bell of Curris was a business visitor here Saturday. Lindsey Moore left for Norfolk last week to visit relatives. Su Tiussevy returned to Wallace after a stay with relatives. Effie Brown of Wilmington attended Berean High School commencement here Tuesday. Tott Jott of Motte's Business College Wilmington was a business visitor here late last week. T V Fordeaux was here for business Saturday. Cutlar Moore of Fort Caswell spent Sunday with his parents. Mrs Ira W Brown and son Hubert left Monday for a visit to Warsaw relatives. Henry Johnson and Hugh Davis left Wednesday for Hopewell Virginia for work. W A Brown of Rocky Point, member of the Pender county local board, was here Saturday. Mrs J A Cavanaugh of Wallace is seriously ill from a blood poison injury. The Pender County U D C met at the Court House Wednesday afternoon May 8 at 4. The following afternoon the children's chapter met with Mrs W I Taylor.
Abbottsburg residents and visitors are listed from Little River Pittsboro Wilmington Bladenboro and Hamlet with names including Moore Thompson J S Cain Walter Bradshaw Alma Hester and Ruth Agnes Smith. The group visited shopped attended a funeral in Clarkton and spent weekends in town and nearby locales.
An expert linguist notes a novel American idea learned abroad that postal censors for the American expeditionary force must know 47 languages. The Springfield Republican also reports England’s beer output shrinking from 36 million to 14 million barrels since the war began, and details on Britain’s Royal Air Service strength of 46,000 men, 176 airships and balloons, and over 2,500 seaplanes and aeroplanes.
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