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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1917
Page
6
A collection of social news items from Wilmington including visits to Castle Haynes and local guests from Fayetteville and Green ville, plus Red Cross bulletins detailing donations and hospital work. The report notes include names such as Mrs. D R Kelly, Miss Ruth Farr, Miss Mildred Newlin, and Mrs. Silas Sheetz, with Red Cross unit updates and a letter from Dr Claude Pridgen praising local support for wartime relief efforts.
The parliamentary labor party considers abandoning British participation in Stockholm. Americans James Lord and John Golden join fraternal delegates as the question hinges on uniting aims among allied workers. Miners and railway unions back the recommendation to forgo representation until broader agreement is reached.
Fairfax Harrison, chairman of the board, notes cotton shipments must be in multiples of 65 bales in the Southwest and Mississippi Delta regions and 75 bales in the Southeast. He cites looming pressure on railways from government and business as the reason for the order. The New England area faces maximum facility stress this fall and rail freight acceptance north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers will be tightly regulated.
The month of August closed with possibly the lowest death rate on record in Wilmington and New Hanover, totaling 40 deaths. Of these 23 were colored and 17 white, with seven non residents. Infant mortality was low at eight under five, including two premature births, six colored and two white.
The County Commissioners did not meet this afternoon due to Labor Day observance and will reconvene tomorrow at 3 PM. City Council sessions were canceled tonight. Many city stores closed at 1 PM to allow clerks to enjoy the holiday.
Morning exercises draw business men to the beach opposite Col. Walker Taylor’s cottage as they prepare for possible service. The program starts lightly with daily increases and includes a planned instructor. a surf dip caps each session as a bathers’ class invites every man in the city with a bathing suit to join.
Nine units of National Guard troops from North Carolina and Tennessee totaling about 1000 men arrived at Camp Sevier, swelling its population to over 6500. North Carolina contributed seven units including Wilmington cavalry and six infantry companies from Raleigh Lexington Burlington Asheboro Thomasville and Reidsville as part of the 3rd North Carolina regiment.
Plymouth Mass Sept 3 German airmen over a French town near Rheims at night dropped poisoned candy that killed many children who ate it. The notice comes from Brownlee Bensel Gaul a former Harvard student now driving an ambulance on the Western front, via his father Rev F J Gould Toledo Ohio. He says Germans continue shelling hospitals and towns.
The Wilmington division of the National Naval Volunteers camped at Harbor Island North Carolina and expressed sincere thanks for the First Aid kit and twelve hospital shirts sent this morning. They request continued support and offer service in return.
Mr. W. D. Thornburgh, day clerk at the Oceanic Hotel, helped three young ladies from the surf near The Oceanic yesterday morning after they seemed doomed. Six people were rescued from the surf that day. names of the girls were not learned.
The Kneisel Orchestra's farewell concert at Lumina drew an unusually large crowd last night with detailed programs and excellent renditions in both afternoon and evening performances. Beachgoers spent yesterday on the last Sunday of the official season while hotels closed. cottages stay open until late September as the city’s pleasure seekers continue weekend visits near Lumina.
Capt George F Catlett son of Prof and Mrs Washington Catlett leaves Wilmington for Wrightstown New Jersey to assist in finishing touches for the 26th Regiment Engineers who are likely to sail for France soon He will command about 250 men on site with Major H E Longley at the staff station The unit will focus on supplying water to American camps in France and Mrs Catlett plans to join him later if his stay extends
The State will provide 550 to Wilmington High School as a supplement to the general school fund. The approval followed proof that the school is a county high school with at least 250 county residents regularly attending. The grant came as a surprise and was announced by the Board of Education office after verification by Prof. N W Walker State Inspector of High Schools.
A holiday boxing menu across the country features top names and several title bids. Carl Morris meets Fred Fulton in Canton for a potential heavyweight title challenge, while Ted Lewis defends his welterweight crown in Akron against Johnny Griffiths.
A New York report details Joe Sessa alarmed by feather ticks on his fire escape and Nicholas Carnivale’s alleged involvement. The piece shifts to a Broadway producer and a fallen star amid a string of debauched episodes, painting a sordid view of theater life.
A bustling snapshot shows a conductor with polished nails on a street car, Al Woods and Sam Harris at a soda fountain, an officer with tangled spurs, a dancer resting on a Majestic roof, Tad playing a solo, and a laborer in a red shirt soothing a fretful baby outside a Fifth Avenue shop. A soap box orator taunts police, a famed dancer naps in Central Park, and a woman smokes while her daughter watches.
Readable text indicates a spotlight event titled main attraction scheduled to be pulled off at Pertland with unclear details about performer or exact timing.
The American Red Cross announced a nationwide Junior Red Cross program inviting all U S schools to join. The fee per pupil is five cents with enrollment funding via a deposit equal to the total fees. The junior body will be nationally directed with state committees handling relief and studies in health, feeding, first aid, nursing, and aid to senior chapters.
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