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Newspaper

Wilmington Dispatch

Location

Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America

Date

Nov 05, 1916

Page

3

Robeson Baptist Association Met at St Pauls for 34th Session

The Robeson Baptist Association held its 34th annual meeting at St Pauls with 52 churches reporting 40 present. Highlights included sermons on Christ’s preeminence, Recorder Day initiatives, education reports, and diplomas for Back Swamp teachers. Two new churches joined, total membership about 7,339, and delegates to state and national conventions were elected.

R. E. Sentelle The Baptist North Carolina W. L. Poteat Wake Forest Alexander Miller Japan Walter N. Johnson A. T. Howell Stephen McIntyre McIntyre R. T. Allen J. D. Moore Raleigh N. C Back Swamp J. M. Fleming Snyder Fayetteville J. J. Scott R. N. Cashwell Archibald Johnson Charity and Children Thomasville Lumberton Lumberton Baptist Church Ss. F. Conrad J. S. Butler W. R. Davis C. L. Greanes West Lumberton North Lumberton Robeson Baptist Association Association Woman’s Missionary Societies Woman's Missionary Society D. B. Lancaster L. B. Olive Delway School Hobgood Oxford College St. Pauls Baptists St Paul’s

Captain Asa Burriss Named Guide for Grampus Investigations

A civic notice extols Capt. Asa Burriss of the City Fire Department as guide to the fisheries schooner Grampus during next week’s investigations of fish banks off the coast and Cape Fear bar. The piece lauds Burriss for honesty, skill, and seaworthy temperament, praising his boatbuilding, knot-tying, nets, and local knowledge.

Asa Burriss Cape Fear Black Creek Bar Lockwood’s Folly Morehead City

Giraffes Disrupt British Telegraph Lines in German East Africa

In a home letter, Royal Engineers officer A. G. Ross reports giraffes in German East Africa causing telegraph delays by moving at night and breaking wires as they collide with the lines, bringing down the cables.

London A. G. Ross British Royal Engineers German East Africa

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HSN W. R. Surles Jesus Christ Christ L. R. Vasser Order of Business J. R. Miller Tors W. S. Cobb Biblical Recorder C. J. Thompson W. C. Galloway Cain Asa Burris Paradise Adam Bede Ham David Copperfield Tennyson Grampus Asa Aca Dannenbaum Market Street New York Ducator Peterson & Rules Farley & Company Lazaro Rubini Guyerre Columbia Records Ibin Ee
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