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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1918
Page
4
Miss Olive Tell shines as Winifred Stanton in the Mutual Empire production The Girl and the Judge at the Grand tomorrow. Judge George Chartris courts the social misfit daughter as scenes of New England and Petrograd luxury unfold on lavish sets.
Eight registrants including John Harrison Yates James A Sullivan Myer Miller Owen Davis Holmes Walter Davis Mills Thomas Earl Edmondson Hammie L Chaplin and James Eugene Sloan from the city are notified to appear before the draft board Thursday afternoon. Six of the eight will be sent Friday to Fort Scriven Georgia to begin overseas training. A fragment on breakfast cereal tips suggests fruit with toast to avoid stomach upset and potential life-saving wheat guidance.
American League games feature Cleveland at Chicago and St. Louis at Detroit along with New York at Philadelphia Boston at Washington. National League slate includes Cincinnati at St. Louis cloudy Brooklyn at Boston clear Chicago at Pittbury and Philadelphia at New York cloudy.
The Metro Super production The Legion of Death opens Monday and Tuesday at the Grand. Elaborate sets recreate a salon and library of a Russian grand duke with spacious rooms, rich draperies, and dim lighting.
Nashville at Atlanta shows cloudy skies while Chattanooga at Birmingham remains cloudy. Memphis at New Orleans experiences clear weather and Little Rock in Mobile stays clear with quiet conditions anticipated.
This evening at 8 30 the county medical society will gather in the chamber of commerce rooms to receive the committee report on the Capt. H Tate Moore memorial and its plan to form an operating room at James Walker Memorial hospital. Attendance is expected from all members.
The fragment states bread and gravy with potatoes are nourishing and urges keeping wheat for soldiers. It reads like wartime rationing guidance or sentiment on food distribution and sustenance for troops.
Columba South Carolina May 8 Frank BE Broyles assistant secretary state board of charities and corrections has returned from Dillon County where he inspected the institutions. He reports the chain gang abolished with five men remaining three trusties and two in chains. To save costs the five were sent to the cenitary and the trusties are used for repair work under county commissioners.
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