City Council Eyes Water Mains Extension and Inland Waterway Funding
Chamber of Commerce and Rotary urged the council to authorize 1000 to entertain the Atlantide Deeper Waterways Association on their Wilmington Florida visit and to back an early $5 000 project for extending water mains in the northeastern city sector to boost fire protection for local manufacturers. Officials debated taxes and co operation with plants while calling for joint review by tax and finance committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlante Deeper Waterways Association
Hugh MacRae
Tidewater Power Company
Wilmington
Onme
Florida
MacRae
McCaig
Council
Massachusetts Bay
Willington
Daniels
Clamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Chamber of Commerce
Finance Committee
J. C. Williams
Belk-Williams Company
Man
Trease
Marcus Jacobi
Chamber
K. W. D. MacMillan
Card of County Commissioners
Bandage Makers Display Civic Spirit at Red Cross Unit
The Wilmington unit of the United States Red Cross Military Supply Organization operates in the Murchison National Bank Building with 200 plus women sewing and assembling bandages. Mrs. Lyman Delano chairs the group. Miss Marie Grainger inspects finished work. many volunteers oversee specific tables including pads, sponges, gauze, and bandages. Knitting head Mrs. Henry Savage will move to the eighth floor to ease crowding as operations continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
United States Red Cross Military Supply Organization
Murchison National Bank
Lyman Delano
Walter Parsley
Henry Bear
Marie Grainger
Thomas Moore
John Freeman
Isabell Belden
May Rankin
G. H. Croom
J. W. Grainger
J. F. Robinson
Washington Catlett
Lena Beery
Robert Montgomery
Ruth Smith
Nannie Emerson
Louise Worth
Cuthbert Martin
Roger Weightman
J.M. Solky
Henry R. Savage
Preeent
Last Chance to See Womanhood at Victoria Theatre
Last show tonight at the Victoria theatre draws large crowds for the patriotic film Womanhood, The Glory of the Nation. Wilmingtonians are urged to attend this afternoon and again this evening to witness the lesson it teaches and an opportunity to see it a second time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria Theatre
Eastern women’s intercollegiate debate league planned
Six leading Eastern colleges for women including Vassar Wellesley Mt Holyoke Smith and Radcliffe plan to form an intercollegiate debating league. Organizers say the league will foster competition among liberal arts schools and provide structured debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Colleges
Vassar
Wellesley
Mt. Holyoke
Smith
Rad
Wilmington Boy Goes to France for Red Cross Ambulance Unit
Julian Walker Morton, son of T. Li. Morton of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, left Wilmington for the University of Virginia to join fellow students enlisted in the American Red Cross Medical Corps. He will train in Philadelphia before sailing to the western front in France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julian W. Morton
Medical Corps of Red Cross
Julian Walker Morton
T. Li. Morton
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Morton
Dock Street
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Medical Corps
Ambulance Corps
France
Europe
Aged Citizen George Judson Beach Dies at 61
George Judson Beach of 2014 Pender avenue Carolina Place died last night at 8 45 at his home. He was 61 and had worked as an engineer at Champion Compress for 25 years. He was a Fifth Avenue Methodist member and is survived by his wife two sons Arthur and Albert and daughter Mattie plus adopted son Ernest L. Hines and brother William J. Beach. Funeral from the home at 3 30 this afternoon with Rev. J H. McCracken officiating. burial in Bellevue cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Judson Beach
Pender Avenue
Carolina Place
Champion Compress
Fifth Avenue Methodist Church
Beach
Messrs
Albert J
Arthur A
Mattie Beach
Ernest L. Hines
One Squad Enlisted for French Front Engi neer Contingent
At the office of Major A Waldron in the District Engineer office it was stated that only one squad of seven men and a corporal have passed physicals for the nine regiment Engi neers to work on France lines. More than a hundred applications were received but few appeared for examinations with railroad delays slowing enlistment. Once enough volunteers are secured they will be sent to Atlanta for training before heading abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. &. Waldron
France
Waldron
Atlanta
Berry Crop Good Profitable Season In Chadbourn Area
Maxwell Moyers and A F Powell Jr of Whiteville say Chadbourn and Tabor in Columbus county produce a strong strawberry crop. Prices firm as crown berries near shipment. growers expect larger tobacco acreage and reduced cotton. Moyers and Powell returned to Whiteville after the near term visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh News and Observer
Maxwell Moyers
A. F. Powell, Jr
Whiteville
Columbus County
Chadbourn
Tabor
Columbus
Messrs. Moyers
Powell
Ward Lines Map Out June 5 Militia Registration
City Board of Registration issues ward by ward boundaries for the June 5 Military Registration Day. Registrars and instructions highlight how eligibles should locate registration offices, answer twelve questions, and handle absence or illness with mail or agency registration options.
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City Board of Registration
Wilmington
First Ward
Red Cross
Rankin
Fourteenth Street
Dock Street
Sixth Street
Third Ward
Church Street
Fourth Ward
Boun
Fifth Ward
Sixth Ward
Receiver Named for Champion Cycle Works in Superior Court
Judge Bond appoints Mr. Fred W. Gerken as temporary receiver of Champion Cycle Works after E. R. Pickard filed in Superior Court claiming ownership through purchase from Carrie Pearson. The action targets Hodges and Chesley Bellamy as trustee, seeking winding up per contract terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. R. Pickard
Superior Court
Fred W. Gerken
Champion Cycle Works
Bond
R. B. Hodges
Chesley C. Bellamy
Pickard
Champion Cycle Company
Miss Carri¢é
Pearson
Ly. Clayton Grant, Esq
Surveys Indicate North and South Cotton Acreage Rise
Charles Price of Orris Bros & Co reports a six percent overall increase in cotton acreage across the South after ground surveys. He finds South Carolina up four percent, North Carolina up four percent, while Georgia shows a thirty percent decrease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Price
Orris Bros. & Co
New York
Price
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Graduation Exercises at Gregory Normal Institute
Colored graduates at Gregory Normal Institute held graduation exercises highlighting progress of the Afro American race. The program included Invocation, a duet, class history, essays on education and race, poems, music, class prophecy, a class will, and a class song featuring students Lulu Elise Dobbs Lulu Gertrude Evans Isabelle Hall Johnson and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory Normal Institute
Ganz
Helen Capehart
Isabelle Johnson
Lulu Elise Dobbs
Phoebe Annabelle Jones
Helen Elveta Capehart
Fanny Belle Cutlar
Flotow
Lulu Gertrude Evans
James Edward Telfair
Will
Lillian Gladys Whiteman
Booker T
Washington
Isabelle Hall Johnson
John LeRoy Jordan
Farmers Favor Prince Fixing At Mass Farmers Meeting
Fargo North Dakota May 23 A minimum price of one dollar per bushel for potatoes and two dollars per bushel for wheat to be guaranteed by U S and Canadian governments may be asked at a mass convention of farmers called by the Equity Co operative exchange Farmers from Northwestern states and Western Canada attend the two day meeting It will discuss a maximum price to consumers and introduce a resolution to prohibit future grain trading Labor needs of farmers will also be discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fargo
N. C
United States
Equity Co-operative Exchange
Northwestern States
Canada
Also Mentioned on This Page
Inland Waterways Association
Chamber of Commerce and
G. J. Beach
Bellevue
Raleigh
Bora
MR. Gerken Mape
Maryland, States College of Agriculture
The
Wilmington Savings & Trust Company
Princess Street
Cuan
Raleigh, N. C
Prom Delivery Service
Royal. Society
Royal Society
America
Navy
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