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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1917
Page
12
The Teaching Sunday School meets at 3 30 p m and the Mengert Missionary Society and Christian Association will gather Monday. Normal Institute proceeds with Pi service at 8 o clock with D Wilcox speaking. Strangers and worshippers are invited to attend these services.
Third and Red Cross is Rey Gribbin rector. Holy communion at 11, Sunday school at 4 p.m. Evening prayer at 8. Visitors invited to rail services at Paul’s Sixteenth and Market. Whitsunday week includes Holy Communion, morning prayers, and evening services. all welcome. visitors always.
Pith Avenue invites all to Rev J H McCrack preaching at 11 am with sermon The Greatest Force In Human Life and 8 pm The Sunday Time Killer. Bladen Street Fifth and Bladen hosts Rev E C Sell at 11 am and 8 pm with Sunday School 3 30 pm. Grace corner Fourth and Grace features Rev M T Plyler at 11 am and 8 pm with 4 musical service at 8 pm. No night service. All welcome.
Luther an 8 percent Matthews English Evangelical at Fourth and Harnett streets led by Rev G V McClanahan holds services at 11 a m and 8 p m with sermons The Coming of the Holy Spirit and The Birthday of the Church Sunday School at 350 p m Luther League meets Wednesday at 8 The Women’s Missionary Society meets Thursday at 330 P M Paul’s Church at Market and Sixth streets with Rev P F RB Clausen preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m sermon topics include Three Periods of the Work of the Holy Spirit and The
Delgado Rev A L Goodrich preaches at 11:15 with L W Moore as superintendent. B P A meets Sundays at 7 pm. evening service at 8 pm on Will the Word End in 1917. Southside church at Fifth Ave and Wooster St with W G Hall. services tonight at 8 pm Where Are the Dead. Sunday School 9:45 am and 3:30 pm sermon Will Jesus Come Again. 8 pm Greatest Question Now Before the American People. First church at Fifth and Market with Rev Jno Jeter Hunt and Dr F W Fileicher.
Edward Tew 11, son of Henry Tew, was accidentally shot at Little River while his father fished. The rifle discharge wounded his cheek near the ear. he was taken to a local hospital where an operation was performed and he is recovering without complications.
Chas. H. Nixon a respected Black farmer with three small truck patches on his Twelfth street and Castle street properties. He expects to clear 300 to 400 dollars this season from crops worth about 100 dollars sold so far. At 63 he does all the work himself and aims to inspire others to follow his example.
An outing at the beach is advertised with cars running every half hour in the afternoon. The notice emphasizes convenient transport and a sunny day for visitors.
Rev J E Reynolds pastor announces preaching at 11 a m and 8 p m with morning topic Heaven and evening Noahs Ark Sunday school at 945 a m Christian Endeavor at 715 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 oclock public invited to attend all services
Christian Science church at Seventeenth and Markey streets holds Sunday service at 11 a.m. with the lesson Soul and Body. Sunday School at 12 15 p.m. Wednesday evening service at 8 15 p.m. Reading room in Murchison National Bank Building open daily 4 to 6 p.m. except Sundays and holidays. Public invited.
Advertisement for Reserve shares in a new series of the Orton Building and Loan Society. Emphasizes high interest earnings and saving through building and loan, courtesy of Office James & James, Inc., Southern Building.
An advertising note promotes swimming at Lumina today with cars available every half hour in the afternoon suggesting convenient transport for bathers.
In Lumberton this week the graded schools closed a highly successful year. Diplomas were issued to graduates including Misses Sarah Branch Viola Boone Ethel Boone Pearl Edwards Mary Lee Caldwell Helen Sentelle Evelyn Sentelle Marjorie Steele Rachael McNamara Margaret Pope and Messrs Abner Nash Carl Greaves Eugene McWhite Harrell Humphrey. Awards were given for best NC before the Revolution essay Pearl Howards and best attendance Evelina Beckwith grammar school Margaret Biggs. The Glass Day exercises closed with songs salutatory class poem history trophy bearer prophecy wills and testament. The June 5th registration day for men 21 to 31 looms as a countywide holiday and a military census precedes draft. Sunday prayer service at Chestnut Street Methodist Church for President Wilson and allied armies is planned. A two week drive for food and feed crops has ended with 5600 in attendance at 60 meetings. A National Aid Society meeting is set for Monday at 4:30 in the High School auditorium.
A letter to The Dispatch argues for funding a local canning plant to preserve crops and provide jobs. R W Hicks urges business leaders to contribute cash for a $15,000 investment and notes prior arrangements for produce payments. He asks readers to contact him Monday.
Advertisement notes a beach trip service running every half hour this afternoon and asks readers if they plan to go. It presents a simple transit offer without extra details.
The U.S. Army shoes have just been received at Peterson and Rulfs. Advertisement.
A North Carolina Board of Agriculture tour notes extraordinary eastern potato yields with some fields surpassing 1,200 bushels per acre and total state output far exceeding last year. Officials cite seed potato plans, diverse varieties at Buncombe, and a shift to corn and soil experiments including scuppernong grape crosses. Major Graham says eastern lands show high humus content and strong yields, with large tracts owned by Mark W. Potter and Norfolk Southern.
Lucy B. Moore the Florist declares being not put out of business after the hailstorm wrecked glass roofs on all greenhouses. She thanks hundreds of friends for sympathy telegrams and offers of assistance from florists across the state.
An old advertisement promotes Acid Iron Mineral from Ferrodine Chemical Corporation. It claims boosted strength, memory, ambition, and social life by supplying concentrated iron. Warns against alcohol and habit forming drugs, urging readers to buy fifty cents to a dollar’s worth at a drugstore to improve health and productivity.
William P. Simms reports from the British front that game birds and other creatures persist amid heavy fighting. Rabbits and partridges flourish under martial law, while doves fly above shell bursts. Dogs act as mascots as artillery blazes. A battery cat seeks mice amid cratered ground. A lone white dove circles the conflict.
The article argues Wilmington faces a choice on Cantonment plans, noting a projected $25 million to $30 million impact. It claims the opportunity could almost double the city population within sixty days and expand every business sector, urging decisive action to avoid missing the chance.
The article notes impressive dedicatory exercises for the Marion Sprunt Memorial Hospital and describes planned interior features including fresh linens and a basement bay milk station with nurse in charge. It praises the gift as a city and county asset evoking pride and reverent appreciation.
The Orton Building and Loan Association begins a new share series next Saturday June 2 at the office of James and James Inc Southern location. Shares cost 25 cents each and mature at 100 dollars, advertised as the safest way to save.
The Orton Building and Loan opens its new offices on Saturday June 2. James & James Inc advertises the Southern Building as the location for the new office and subscription services.
Advertisement notes an outing at the beach with cars running every half hour this afternoon indicating organized transport and a leisurely social event for readers.
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