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Newspaper
Wilmington Dispatch
Location
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1917
Page
4
A mixed column of letters and observations touches on food conservation via may pops goat meat economies and urge readers to hear suffragist pickets on Maine woman suffrage. It critiques Luxbury's wartime paraphrase of Grant, German and Argentine sentiment, Russian situation, and charity practices amid Allied anxieties.
The debate on the anti trading with the enemy measure pushed through Congress now heads to conference. The bill, seen as vital since the wartime declaration, aims to curb German financial influence in the United States by empowering the President to act against pro German activity and alien enemies within U.S. borders.
State news notes Durham clerks refuse to join the strike on the Seaboard Air Line while Richmond strikers grow in number. The effort to gain higher wages through strike action is likely to be listed as a failure. A mutual credit bureau for Durham merchants is adopted by the Chamber of Commerce and will begin operation immediately. Merchants also set National Pay Up Week for October 29 to November 3.
A special automobile session of the municipal court heard cases charging Judge J. Allen Austin with driving up Main street at a gait exceeding the statutory limit. The judge issued a blanket decision in the cases assessing costs against each speeder.
Mr. Joseph L. Kirchner, superintendent of Harris Granite Quarries' Granite Quarry plant, was seriously injured Tuesday when a blast exploded unexpectedly. He was directly over the charge as it went off and sustained facial, hand, and chest lacerations with body bruises. Eye damage status undetermined.
Lumberton residents flocked to the Edmund mill pond near Mt Elsam for a fishing event in which water was drawn off and tickets sold. About 2,000 attended with over 400 entering the pond paying 1.50 each. A large crowd made it hard to obtain a mess of fish despite catches.
Reports indicate swift work on buildings in regiment reservation No 1 near the Dowd house to house heavy artillery units instead of the previously assigned ammunition train. Comments arise about establishing an artillery range near Charlotte.
In a Monroe Journal report, Doc Payne encounters a man who refuses to hear, wastes many words, and is turned over to Doc Stevens. Stevens quietly suggests the man wants exemption papers, but the reply is a swift acceptance of going to war.
The Charlotte Observer argues that Southern ports should handle export cargoes to Europe due to Northern port congestion. It favors Norfolk Charleston and especially Wilmington, praising harbor facilities rail links and potential elevator for wheat as essential to a large export shipment from the region.
A collage cites editorials from Gastonia Gazette Greenville Reflector and Salisbury Post critiquing civility in shops and media, warning tobacco market anxiety, and urging firm action against seditious talk while condemning leniency toward offenders and Kaiser references. It notes Bryan’s return and journalist shifts.
Cardinal Farley completes fifteen years as archbishop of New York today. He is seventy five, born in Ireland in 1842 and ordained in Rome in 1870. He was chosen Archbishop of New York on September 15, 1902 and created a cardinal on November 27, 1911.
The ad claims pyorigg cures riggs disease with rapid gum color restoration to pink, reduced redness, inflammation and soreness, tightened teeth, and bleeding cease. It touts a medicated ointment sold in original packages for one dollar at best drug stores including Jarman Futrell in Wilmington.
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