Social notes and upcoming commencements fill spring week
Residents visit friends in Rocky Mount and Beaufort while several sisters and relatives depart for Sanford Roseboro and other locales. Community meetings include the City Teachers Association final instructions and a postponed Knights of Columbus dance. Announcements cover Epworth League events wreath preparations for Confederate memorials and missionary society talks. Commencement plans feature Miss Mamie Fennell in Washington and Flora MacDonald College events led by Rev. Henry Churchill King with a senior class play and a college concert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Stanley
Charles, Jr
Roseboro
City Teachers’ Association
Hemenway
Helen Jacobs
Wadesboro
Mamie James Fennell
H. L. Fennell
Wll
National School of Domestic Art and Science
Washington, D. C
Fennell
Charlotte Fennell
Washington
Wisconsin Avenue
Flora MacDonald College
Red Springs
North Carolina
Annie Marie Barr
Louise Hammond Dixon
Grace Gaither
Catherine Ruth Gilchrist
Lucy Davis Haskitt
B. M
Gladys Kirby
B. L
Annie James Johnson
Ethel May McEachern
H. A
Mary Griffin McLeod
Geneva Locke
Virginia Aiken Taylor
Sarah Ruth Townsend
Jane Dickson Wardell
Louisa Sanders Williams
Mice and Men
Department of Fine and Household Arts
Flora MacDonald College Conservatory of Music
Henry Churchill King
Oberlin College
Oberlin
Ohio
Salvation Army Sunday School Outing At The Beach
About 150 children under Adjutant James Yates and Mrs Yates left the city on a special car at 9 45 this morning for a beach outing hosted by Tidewater Power Company. They will return at 5 this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salvation Army Sunday School
James Yates
Tidewater Power Company
Engagement Announced for Eva Cole and Melzar Pearsall
Notices show the engagement of Eva Cole daughter of Mr and Mrs Henderson Cole to Melzar Pearsall with a May twenty second ceremony planned at Market Street Extension Wilmington North Carolina Invitations urge attendance. A Delgado Presbyterian lawn party raised funds indoors despite rain to aid Armenian relief totaling over 25 dollars with prior aid from the Ladies Aid Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henderson Cole
Eva
Melzar Pearsall
Market Street
Wilmington
North Carolina
Delgado
Ladies’ Aid Society
Delgado Presbyterian Church
Funeral Tomorrow for W. M. Canady at 2 PM
Funeral services for Mr. W. M. Canady of 119 Dawson Street will be held tomorrow at 2 o clock from the home, Rev. J. H. McCracken officiating, with interment at Greenville Sound. He died at James Walker Memorial Hospital after long illness. He was 77 and survived by two children J. S. Canady of this city and Mrs. Emma Eva Revill of Kinston. Pallbearers named W. L. Tharpe A. H. Leslie S. J. Bryant J. W. S. Harvey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Canady
Dawson Street
James Walker Memorial Hospital
J. H. McCracken
Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
Greenville Sound
Messrs
J. S. Canady
Emma Eva Revill
Kinston
W. L. Tharpe
A. H. Leslie
S. J. Bryant
J. W. S&s. Harvey
Four Officers Reserve Corps men to begin training at Fort Oglethorpe
Four men named George H. Bunker George W. Brooks George F. Catlettena d R. Humphreys recently examined for the Officers Reserve Corps left the city yesterday afternoon for Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. They will enter active training at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogiethorpe
George H. Bunker
George W. Brooks
George F. Catlettena
D R. Humphreys
Fort Oglethorpe, Ga
Resignation of Deputy Clerk Samuel P Collier Stuns Court
The spring term of the United States court opened with the public resignation of Samuel P. Collier deputy clerk of the District Court at Wilmington effective May 1. A. S. Holden was sworn in as coroner of New Hanover county. Judge H G Connor praised Collier declining the rest of his long service. The session named grand and petit juries for the term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel P. Collier
Federal Court
A. S.p.holden
New Hanover County
United States Court
H. G. Connor
Collier
Connor
Wilmington
N. C
Mr. Collier
District Court
Thos. S. Kenan
Supreme Court
Messrs
Ernest B. Stafford
W. H. Peden
W. T. Sampson
F. S. Sidbury
H. Bullard
B. Lee
M. D. Edmunds
J. L. Becton
W. T. Jackson
J. C. Mallard
B. F. Chambers
Ww. Harriss Yopp
Davis Clemmons
Paul M. Comes
C. D. Gore
M. B. Harden
G. M. Houston
C. M. Johnson
J. A. Powell
J. E. Fonville
W. H. Harrison
Fors Lennon
A. M. Alderman
A. D. Ward
F. A. Bissenger
MacRae Roderick
Sam Creech
O. D. Brown
M. Ashley Curtis
W. R. Newbury
Recorder Hears Preliminary On Killing Case
A large crowd fills the Recorder court as Oscar Johnston, colored, faces a preliminary hearing on four charges of killing Neal Walton. Richard Miles, colored, receives six months on the roads after larceny conviction. Garfield Green, colored, gets three months on the roads for assaulting a female. James Moore, colored, and J W Knowles, white, see their cases continued to tomorrow for reckless driving and unlawful Jamaica ginger sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Q Oscar Johnston
Neal Walton
Richard Miles
Garfield Green
Garfield
James Moore
J. W. Knowles
Jamaica
Wilmington Cadets Commandant Change at High School
Maj. George Werner, newly named commandant of Wilmington High School cadets, has left the city for Jacksonville. Prof. Malcolm Little will succeed him as commandant. W. P. Mangum Turner returned to Wilmington after a weekend with his parents on Church street in Greensboro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Werner
Wilmington
Jacksonville
Malcolm Little
Greensboro
W. P. Mangum Turner
Julian A. Turner
Church Street
Govt Announces Officers for Nine Engineer Regiments
The War Department named officers for nine engineer regiments to be sent to France for railway work. Assignments include regimental commanders and adjutants in New York St. Louis Chicago Boston Pittsburgh Detroit Atlanta San Francisco and Philadelphia, led by Lt Cols McKinstry Townsend Langfitt Jadwin Burgess Sewell Canaugh and Dakyne with adjutants Hall Hall Black Somervell Atkins Bullard Cross Tomkins.
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Associated
Washington
France
War Department
New York District
C. K. McKinstry
X. H. Price
Chicago
W. C. Langfitt
R. D. Black
Boston
W. P. Woeten
L. Ks. Atkins
Pittsburgh
Edgar Jadwin
B. B. Somervell
Detroit
Harry Burgess
R.F Fowler
Atlanta
John §.Sewell
Engineer Reserve Corps
C. P. Bullard
Monthly Report of the Associated Charities for April
The April report lists receipts from Hanover county five donors and a church totaling several dollars. Disbursements include secretary wages groceries rent and cash assistance to those in need totaling a few dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Charities
Hanover County
A. D. Harriss
Thomas R.post
H. W. Konig
Intern German Sailors Camp Planned at Lake Kanuga
Information from Washington reports a camp for interned German sailors to be built at Lake Kanuga near Hendersonville. The Gresham contract provides for 250 prisoners arriving in squads and up to 3000 to be encamped with 109 cottages and several buildings. Prisoners may work in agriculture and road projects in Pisgah National Forest lands nearby.
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Associated Press
Asheville
N. C
Washington
Immigration Commission
Howe
New York
Pisgah National Forest
Lake Kanuga
German Version Of Late Battles Suppresses French Gains
A German official war report circulated via the German Official News Bureau suppresses French successes on the western front. It claims most French initial gains were reversed by German counterattacks and describes the Chemin des Dames ridge attempt as a complete failure.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
London
Hindenburg
Vauxillon
Western Front
Winterburg Hill
Aisne
Chemines Des Dames: Ridge
Housewives urged to economise on everything
The New Hanover Food Conservational mission held a noon meeting in the office of Chairman W. A. McGirt to plan expanded crop growth and future maturing harvests. The keynote urged greater thrift and a single effort to stretch food supplies, with public groups asked to aid in promoting crops and conserving waste. Committees were to be named to advance the movement quickly.
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New Hanover
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Imperial scepter crafted for 18th century coronation
Fragment mentions a scepter likely intended for use by a czar at coronation, dating to 1757. The reference notes the piece was preserved as an oval object, linked to Paul I’s era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul
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