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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1917
Page
5
The executive committee mails large literature packs for the Fifth Annual Southeastern Fair November 6 to 9. The materials include a pink blotter with fair details, envelopes, cards, and a booklet naming all committees, officers, counties, and underwriters.
Admiral Beatty urged Democratic unity against autocracy and denounced German war crimes. He warned that the Kaiser controls the German Reichstag and called for American support alongside the Allies. He spoke to Wilmington Red Cross women on economy and fundraising, noting 640,000 ambulances on the Western Front and urging bread and meat conservation.
Four teams convene in the YMCA gym at 8 pm for the first night of the 1917 18 Volley Ball League. Captains Avery Cates Koelling and McManus lead squads with trials to balance the lineup. Oscar Kellar to referee. no admission. games scheduled every Thursday through winter.
City records presented by city clerk Capt Thomas D Meares show a net 207 218 increase in assessed value for 1917 over 1916 bringing total valuation to 17 577 636 with assessed revenue of 313 762 58. Gains mainly from corporation and bank stock and realty while money and solvent credits and stock in trade fell. Polls rise to 4623 from 4478.
Unusually large Keiffer pear crop shifts market expectations. Miss Annie Pretlow reports profitable offers from firms in Charleston S C and Savannah with $1 per bushel to $3 per barrel ranges. Firms include Southern Fruit Company Fidelity Fruit and Produce Company C Coleman McConnell Bros Zimmerman Co McAveh Bros.
The list of those failing to report to the exemption board published yesterday loses the name of Mr. Thomas Griffin, who has reported to Akron Ohio, living there for some time. John Smith, colored, travels with a carnival company with unascertained address. Joseph Janichi has been sent to Fort Caswell for holding awaiting trial. Sydney Pegram Braswell exempted conditionally and Dr Miles W Maloney held for service were announced yesterday.
Mr Charles E Taylor president of Wilmington Savings and Trust Company was elected vice president of the savings bank section for North Carolina at the American Bankers Association session in Atlantic City New Jersey He has served the Wilmington institution for twenty years during which time it grew substantially and earned spots on the national honor rolls of savings banks.
The report from Superintendent C S Burnett details December street work including Red Cross street from Fourth to Sixth with clay gravel and binder plans, Seventh Street paving near Market Dock, and drainage and pipe repairs on Bladen. Police report a housebreaking and stolen property crackdown with four negro youths arrested and pending trials.
The Times editorial says a close union between the United States and Japan, prompted by Viscount Ishii's New York address, could hasten world deliverance from the German menace and foster future peace in the Far East. It notes Germany engineered Pacific intrigue to sow US Japan enmity, now undermined by a strengthened alliance.
Residents report Seventh Street between Market and Dock now smoother after gravel topping and binder edges applied. Citizens praise the renovation as a model of municipal effort while motorists and pedestrians detour briefly to traverse the new surface.
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