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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1917
Page
5
Rev J H Shore presiding elder will lead the Wilmington Districts Fourth Quarterly Conference at Trinity Methodist church tomorrow night. Shore will preach at Trinity church Sunday morning.
A morning police raid at the Murchison National Bank Building on Front Street drew a large crowd as officers seized a shipment of rifles. Tuck Savage helped manage safety while crowds watched anxiously for news from the ten story structure.
A letter from T D Love read to the Rotary Club prompted a committee to investigate why Federal Point township roads lag while other county roads are kept in good condition. The missive urges action to improve access to Fort Fisher and Carolina Beach, arguing roads boost tourism and county development.
Last night at Carolina Beach pier fifteen drums were landed by anglers including George Hutaff Jr Spooner Percy Wells Herring Warren Albert Beach and Miss Smith of Charlotte. Drums averaged about 30 pounds and Beach alone took five sizable catches while others reported smaller hauls.
Lieutenant T L N Ballinger of the Aviation Corps United States Navy toured the Cape Fear coast visiting Fort Fisher Sea Beach Carolina Beach Wrightsville Beach and Southport with Camp Site Committee members Col Walker Taylor General Manager A B Skelding and Lieutenant Atkinson. He seeks five hydro aeroplane stations along the coast to serve scouts and patrols and returns toward Norfolk with a favorable impression of Wilmington likely report.
Insurance Commissioner James R Young calls on all state mayors to attend Electrical and Firemen’s Institutes at Wrightsville Beach September 18 to 21. The Electrical Institute targets inspectors contractors and utility and insurance personnel while the Firemen’s Institute focuses on fire chief officials building inspectors and firefighters with aim to reduce state losses through education and coordination.
Dr Joseph A Speed first lieutenant in the medical corps of the First Regiment of Field Artillery is in Durham to administer a second typhoid vaccine dose to Battery C members. He travels through the state offering similar immunizations to soldiers and plans to depart this afternoon.
A garbled quotation discusses commercial bodies probing a matter and seeking support. The speaker asserts broad backing from all commissioners, calling them fair and intelligent men. The closing line signs off as Po with affectionate regard.
E A Todd and Sam King once convicted of illicit whiskey distilling in New Hanover Superior Court will not serve their year long prison terms. Governor Bickett commuted sentences and they will pay a combined $1 000 fine instead after appeals and a petition with over a thousand signers. Todd financed the operation and King fired the furnace at the Masonboro plant near the public school.
Mr James A Parham night editor of The Morning Star for five years becomes manager editor of The Charlotte Observer. He leaves for Charlotte yesterday. Mrs Parham and children follow later. J F Reynolds succeeds Parham in The Star news department. George F Cochran to share duties with Reynolds under city editorship. Parham praised as one of the state’s best newspaper men with Raleigh News and Observer and Fayette Index editing background.
Funeral services for Rev. William M. Shaw, noted Presbyterian evangelist, were conducted today at the First Presbyterian Church after his sudden death at his Southport home. Interment followed at Oakdale Cemetery beside his eldest son Carl. dignitaries and honorary pallbearers from Wilmington and Southport attended.
Tonight at 8 oclock Rev Mrs Janson of New Bern will preach at Ebenezar Baptist Church. Special music planned. He is a Tuskegee graduate and noted constructive leader among his race. the event invites white and colored citizens to hear him.
Mr. Cooper of Wilmington spent the weekend at his camp Sans souci on the Pee Dee. He arrived in the evening with invited friends and enjoyed rest and recreation. Breasts and bream were plentiful and served appetizingly.
Because women are becoming owners and managers in Iowa they will have the chance to study agriculture from a woman's standpoint in a new year course offered this year by Iowa State College.
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