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i r n S t - T9E WILlVilNGTON DlSPATCHSATORD AY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER" 2:19161 PAGE SIX - . - - - I ' - 1 1 1 - - l.llH LJ JMWII II lllP "iWM II i , I !1 .4, . . f RaGirtspniAeStiGces '.ft,; , -i . -f Desp ;lMrsrW.-A. Brown, of Rocky Point, spent yesterday . in the city with friends. -5f ' Mrs. Chauncey G. Southeriand has returned from Richmond, Va., where she spfrnt several days. 1 -55- Mrs. B. H. Stevens, of aavannan, Ga., s visiting her sister, Mrs. E. T. Mahone, on North Second street. Mrs. Stevens formerly lived here. X Mrs. H. W. Stephens and little son, ,H. W., Jr., left last night for itocicy Point, where they will spend several days with relatives and friends. -X- Mrs. E. E. Fulcher and little daugh ter, Mary, left last night for Balti more, where they will -spend some time with relatives and friends. ' Mi and Mrs. S. J. Cline, of Harris burg, Va., returned to their home last night after spending ten days in the city with relatives and friends. Mrs. W. M. Flowers and daughters, j Miss Thelma and Mabel, of Mars j Bluff, passed through the city yes-1 terday, en route to Willard, where they will make their future home. -3- -X- . Miss Cornelia Pridgen, Miss Violc. Hellburn and Mr. Rufus D. Pridgen, of Conetuck, are spending today in j the city with friends. The party mo-1 tored down in Mr. Pridgen's machine. Dr. v FIVE SERMONS. , Hurt Will Bcfiin ArT Interesting Series Tftiorr. ? Dr. J. 3. Hurt, pastor of the ; First Baptist church, ia arrahfeMfe to de liver five sermons durinfc , tin pres- Ment month that are expected to create no little attention. "'The Building of the Home'v will be the subject of the series which will be started tomor row. The first three sermons are to be preached the first thrfee Sundays in this month while the fourth arid fifth will be delivered on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve respectively. The sermon on New Year's Eve will begin at 10 a. m. while the others will 'start at 7:30 p. m. Following are me dates and subjects: December . 3 "Prospect: Choosing , London, Dec tgbe flat racing season in England,., which ended with the first week of November, was . ac counted quite successful, notwith standing thai it ran . into the third year" ot the warf ; There were twenty three meetings in England, eleven at Newmarket, four at; Ylhgfleld, three at Gat wick, three ' at 'Newbury &vM. isrb at Windsor, v There "will be jump- rit vmets during the winter , ' butnas specie 1 trains , are not permitted and the supply of petrol for iiitdmoiries is limited, the crowds are not expect ed to be up to the usual standard. - i; The King continued to lend his patronage and appeals in the final list of winners with purses aggregat ing $3,685 to his credit. All the cl&ss.c races of the English turf were maintained, although many of them did not come up to the value of the past years. mm. wmmmsmmimm worths. preserv-lil I J .r . ,'. ,-. . 1,.-,-,. , t--L.i.--- """" ., .-. J " ""2 I f tand in vv ; v i i - I I -1 l i II 11 v I1J 3 I i M : TtSLfcX '-: , J I- 'Y ; ' u .... 1 I X - I I " d III .'3.- Newmarket is not "a race .track,, in the American sense. The grand, s aifd surroundinfir enclosures seem rathri athftrtiifir station' Biet in ithe midst of never-ending- fields of won-j derfully green and velvety tun. uut to the right there;, are the familiar white rail fences i which . merge the several slants ; or straightaway courses into the home stretch. Wit nessing the start of an English race ; is hot vouchsafed to the spectators., As it is a mile race the horses start a mile away from the ' grand stand, j If it is a mile and a half race they-: start a mile and a half away. The tracks here are built tor racing, not j to afford a spectacle. The race-goer must be content with the brief strug gle he sees in the last hundred yards H .Eyery day this, popular store forces ahead with its value giving reputation. Fri day our store was sdmost full to its capacity wtih customers for the $5.00 to $7 5() Hats placed on sale at $1 .95. Naturally they expect to get just what we advert i, and we are sure they all went away more than pleased at least they all bought hats We have only a few more left. They all go today. Be sure you see them. i or so and th flash tiast the winning The leading winning owner was B. ; po&t Eypn thrill is denied Hulton, a newspaper proprietor,, with ;wh oenaaonn11v the 'finish line is j $86,820. The Earl of Derby, whose - moved a furlong or so up the track to a Partner for. tne journey. tjme ig almost wholly taken up by . December 10 "Realization: Stand-j nlg duU(VS as under Secretary of Wai, ing at the Marriage Altar and Look- kf?pt hig raeing establishment intact ing Out." j nnd was the second winner with December 17 "The Test: Can Youthful Dreams Come True?" Christmas Eve1 "Home-Coming: Strengthening the Ties That Bind." New Year's Eve -"The End: Fore gleams of the Home Over" Yonder." $45,830. The Duke of Portland was third with $40,025, Iord Falmouth Tyati fourth with $31,500; J. Buchanan, fifth with $25(1425, and Lord D'Aber- pnnfarm irt onmo rPTlttirv-Old tradi ti,on. ' j During an afternoon's, racing this nw. 1 Jl V fwifllrCI rill jrcai Ullf UUU1U Set? n ujc Lav.n.n cut j the colors long familiar to ,tne n;ng lish courses, the primrose of Lord Rosebery; the black, white cap of MADE LAST APPEARANCE. County Solicitor Peschau Will Open Office in Garrell Building. l,ro,l F onnfnl Knorrl "u'u lJl 1 ' "'Tl " WVSi; "'V- ' . t, , rtu .00 i f the Duke of Portland; the yellow, I llUilug Will muc, 10 p.iAiii. wiiu P"J, , . . im . ; n . , , o .'black cap of the Duke of We3tmm-1 260. The winning jockey was S. , . 1 . r, A the blue and yellow hoops of. . ?. . I Baron de Rothschild : the dark blue ' past tne wire. . . ...... . - nf Tor. A day's racing at Newmarket, known as "headquarters" of the Eng lish turf, retained this fall many of the picturesque features of pre-war sey; the light blue and pink sash of Major Waldorf Astor, and the scarlet of Lord Decies, who married Miss Vivien Gould. Countv Solicitor George L. Peschau MISS PEARSALL DELIGHTED. wm open an office for the general aays, wun some uisuncuy novei ui-. Miss Rachel Pearsall and her ac-. wotinc nf lnw nn the second floor f i tractions, 'llie crowds were pernaps comnanist. Miss Julia Post, delighted thP Oarrell huild'ne earlv next week. ! a bit more subdued, although English J a Ilarge audience at the Chadbourn j His term of office expires on Monday racing throngs never have quite the Memorial building, of the Winter ! and he raatie his last appearance in ; same exuberance, or the same ten th.n.iTT(fii.ion nVnifofi ot o rof i. ' t, i. uj 1 HpTinv tn "ride" a winner home as - "r , necoraer a voun us iwuswutui " . . . . . ....inv.M mnV m nnihl he Both of the mftPtl,n- has inat rounded out a . one meets on tne tracKs arounu inow . T, TVi'iore tne rast-settmg sun i-ods me The return to London from New castle by motor clecrly makes up for any thrills that may have been wanting at the track. First there is ; the headlong rush along the road to rai given last evening. Bom 01 me morninff. He has iust rounded out a young ladies did credit to themselves term that has given general satisfac- j York, Latonia or Louisville. TRIALS POSTPONED. Bakers and and Bread Dealers Face Recorder Harris Monday self-:is3urunce, while the lo3ers lose with no disposition to "grouse" or "grouch" as it would be rendered in "American." Newmarket lies seventy miles northeast of London, but this is not accounted a great distance when a Will 1 splendid big motor car has been sue- 1 " II J ? li A li fnr tha avnnMa-nt manner in whifh fhp , I,. - x i. , winnorss hers take their wmnines I mnu ol 118 proiecmi t.wv. .xv .v .... " iinn ru :m H.nn Liie lai l liiil lit; nut program was rendered. !n ,vVD.ni1ia f nnnviVtinns to hi?? I with a calm and somewhat disdainful " . credit does not mean that he has been Y. W. C. A. CLUB FOR 1 indifferent but rather that he has been THE YOUNG FOLKS anxjous for citizens to get full jus - For the purpose of meeting every tjce Saturday afternoon and promoting . ' : study and play, the Discoverers' Club J was organized by a number of the i youngest members of the Y. W. C. A. yesterday afternoon. Following are, o-t- u-i:. mw9 j cessfully requisitioned and the day's the officers elected : Miss Gladys ; " I program offers a card of seven well- ; Fore, president; Miss Margaret Mc- The trial of the six local bakers i filled race3. Clammy, secretary .and Miss Dorothy ' and bread dealers, recently arrested ! The way leads out the famous Banck, treasurer. They will begin at on charges of failure to properly stamp j Seven Sisters Road, through Epping once preparing for a play to be given the weights on loaves of bread offered village, and its royal forest which. December 20th. j for sale in compliance with the city I just a few weeks before the war K- -X- I ordinances, has been continued until ' started, rang and echoed with the UNIQUE PARTY LAST EVENING. : Vnnrinv nftprnnnn Thev w'll he heard chorused voices of thousands of Ger- At the home of their teacher, Mrs. by Justice George Harriss as Recorder! man singers. The old English inns ; me city s aenai aeienses piay m prat- i . i i ts n e A t nni t nnv m a.v n. hkiiiiimv rays and night closes in. For headlights in times of war are taboo and the motorist must grope his way through the darkness as best he can by the pale . ! flicker of his screened sidelamps. 1 I Qnma rf ttia T57nlich nhailffAlirs have become adepts in the dark and speed , along at twenty to thirt ymiles anj hour, swerving . suddenly ' now and then to avoid a darkened wagon or a j motor bound in the opposite direc-' tion. To the novice from abroad this running through the blackness of night and the narrow escapes from collision are anything but Teassuring. . The outskirts of London may be ! I reached within that first hour or ! darkness in which the searchlights of ALL WOOL SERGE SUITS AT $7.95 Just received today, Black, Green, Navy and Copen. Suits, made from all wbbl American Serge, trimmed with black, velvet ; Venetian lined ; all sizes ; $12.50 values . ..... . . . . .$7.95 ANOTHER SALE OF WOOL BLAN KETS BEGINS TODAY We have just received two more cases of North Carolina made Wool Blankets in 10-4, 1 1-4 and. 1 2-4 sizes, both in whites and grays and which are a part of our early purchases and should have been delivered to us in August. The prices today are at least 50 per cent more than when these were bought, but owing to the late season, we are going to give you the benefit of the bargain. Every pair is all wool filled and guaran teed full size. Priced: $2.95, $3.95, $4.95 and $6.00. LADIES' MEN'S AND CHILDREN'S SAMPLE SWEATERS. All the very newest styles just c lose, out from manufacturer who has sold up his output. The price for the samples were 20 per cent off from what johlrrs had to pay for them and these, too, Wl. offer you, beginning today. If you waul a Sweater do not miss this chant o. MISSES' 75 UNION SUITS AT 50c Misses' Rib Fleezed Union Suits, me dium weight and just'the kind almost every mother wants to buy for her c liihl. Have been very scarce and are now soil ing in almost every store at 75c. Tln;; week's freight brought us another r.ns. of 36 dozen ; all sizes )0c LADIES' UNION SUITS 49c. Light weight Fine Ribbed Suits; jusi the right weight for this climate, 75c values; all sizes 48c Mill: foiipaiiy G. A. P. Bowman, the Inasmuch Class at that time. of young ladies of the First Presby-; terian church gave a delightful and ! unique party last evening.' The oc'ca-1 Mr. John Isaac Carroll, of Cone sion was in the form of an heirloom tuck, is a business visitor in the city party. Each of those in attendance today. " were attired in dresses worn by their j grandmothers and great-granumotn-ers, and to make the affair more real istic the young ladies wore their hair puffed and powdered. -X- -jv- x- -x- - -x- -x- -x- -x- -:- i DAILY BIRTHDAY PARTY. The following invitation has boen receivecPby many friends here: "Mr.-and Mrs. James Derrick Sanford announce the mariage of their daughter Irene Elizabeth to Mr. William Percy Cole on Wednesday November the twenty-ninth nineteen hundred and sixteen " Iaurinburg, North Carolina." Cards enclosed read: "At Home after December the fifteenth Hamlet, North Carolina." -X- -K- ; The many friends of Miss Rena Peterson, of No. 610 South Third street, regret that she is confined to her room with a severe attack of rheumatism. While Miss Peterson's - -X- - -X- X- -X- j Lilioukalani, former Queen of Ha ; waii .who is reported critically ill, j born in Honolulu, 78 years ago today. I Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann, of Bos j ton, president of the house of depu j ties of the Protestant Epis-.copal geenral convention, born at Geneva. in. Y., 56 years ago today. Sir Alfred W. Dale, vice chancellor of Liverpool University and a noted figure in the English educational world, born 61 years ago today. Louis C. Crompton, representative in Congress of the Seventh Michigan district, born in Lapeer county, Mich., 41 years ago today. Irene Vanbrugh, one of the cele brated actresses of th English stage, born in Exeter, England, 44 years ago today. M. J. Kelley, manager of the S . coiid-tion is not considered serious ! Paul American Association basebail it i ? sufficiently so to keep her in-1 Club, born at Otter River, Mass., 40 dooi.iIor a period. years ago today. and public houses along the road a! ways are a source of interest to vis iting Americans because of their quaint construction and still quainter pames. hTere are the "Fighting Cocks,' the "Bull and Horseshoe," the "White Heart," the "Coach and Horses," the "Three Tuns," and scores of others. The English coun tryside is beautiful at all times of the year, and in the autumn months the grass is as green in the fields as in the spring. "Six-Mile Bottom," is a welcome station along the way, for tice so" that they may be skilfully directed against ny intruding Zeppe lin tha't may venture aver in the later reaches of the night. Sweeping in from the country the spectacle of the searchlight canopy over the city is one never to be for gotten. The blazing white beams shoot, from every angle, and some more powerful than the rest appear to be impiously struggling to pry their way into the very mysteries of Heaven itself. Great, broad bands of dazzling, dayligjht, they flash their Bankers' Associatida.-tlirough 4ts Sav- f feetly liquid the assets of-eommercial ings Bank Section, has instituted a campaign for the encouragement of thrift. Aside from an effort to di rect the attention of the people to the direct benefits which at; the ownership of savings accounts, banks through the issuance of eral Reserve notes. Fed- It is thought by many students of savings banking that the financial scheme under which the country ope- from there to Newmarket lies a six-j way into dark and mystic space. They mile stretch of arrow-straight road cross, interlace, turn and sweep writh i lie in the financial stability of the which invites a speed limited only by an effort that nti pyrotechnic display fear of the county constable. ever has attained. It is difficult to Newmarket, somewhat slow and realize that these marvels have been sleepy by geenral disposition, is alive called into play by the grim business ayd throbbing with excitement on of war, rather than to thrill and mys racing days. I tify in the spectacular brilliance of The road from town to track is fairly clogged with all manner of ve hicles. One finds wartime racing is a bit cheaper than th? ordinary sort and entrance to the grand stand is to bo had for one pound with two shillings extra as a. war tax. The stand is not large, for England takes its racing in the open on the broad suade. In return for a five-pound n'-'-'v a one-pound note, or perhaps yr- "two and six" in silver, you get a bit of numbered pasteboard, which their display. -lawns and in the open air paddock Betting goes on "as usual," .withj .'the bookmakers calling their odds in a manner calculated to attract and per- By the time the twisting, tortuous streets of the inner city are reached the searchlight trials generally are at an end, and once again comes the slow groping through the gloom. A day of war time racing is a day of striking contracts. the purpose is to enlarge the sunnly i rates not be brought to a state of capital available for industrial and ; of measurable perfection, until some means has been devised whereby sav ings banks can readily secure funds with which to pay their depositors. The Federal Reserve act has appar ently left the work half done. Mutual savings banks are not eligible to membership in the Federal Reserve system. A study of methods that will place savings banks in a position to meet any demand from depositors has been undertaken by the Savings Bank Sec commercial expansion. The assets of savings banks are the bonds and securities of corporations and business institutions engaged in trade and transportation. Savings banks, it is argued, are the keepers of the confidence of the pub- country. Confidence, writers on econo mics agree, shares equally with gold in upholding the financial structure. The Federal Reserve act provides for the mobilization of the gold reserves of the' country and for making per- ! tion of the American Bankers' Associa tion. . -Ono Hundcrd Years of College Aid. Boston, Mas3., Dec. 2.Vwm tional churches throughout l ho ,m!. try have prepared for a anitaM.- ; servance tomorrow of tho oim lin" dredth anniversary of the organiz-iiM of the Congregational Kdn ration So ciety. During the century of ii , , v isterice the society has disbursed ovt 16,500,000 in maintaining am! i schools, academies, rollcgr:;. u.i in :: schools, and in religious work :wwi State universities. Forty-two cl leges, in twenty-one States, trom Mas sachusetts to Washington ami (run California to Georgia, have lia.l tii.ir inspiration from the CongroBitju::!! body. The nocietv lias ailnl iwz men to the number of over tii.min ,m getting treir education for t h Ini tial! ministry. n The Store That Sella Woolte Tke Gift Witk J.I. T IT xjjlg i ersonai ioucj Haven't you found that this is hardest kind to find? You want to give something beauti ful, something useful and at the same time something personal. Why not, then, present your wife, mother, sister, daughter with a Wooltex Coat or Suit the gift unusual, beauti ful, useful sure to be prized one cer tain to be given by no one else? A .D. Brown The Store that Sells Wooltex Coats and . " Suits': - -r. AMERICAN LACK THRIFT H New York, Dec. 2. Thrift, plain, Sweden, Germany and Switzerland.. Of everyday thrift, say the wise ones, Is the 2,100 savings banks 634 are mutual what is required to deal the "solar institutions having no capital stock, plexus" to the high cost of living in These mueual savings banks have at America, And savings banks, it is ' this time more than .000,000 deposit generally admitted, furnish one of the ' orS and nearly $4,000,000,000 in sav most potent factors in the encourage-' mgs accounts. The proportionate ment of thrift. Which has served to, amount of business the mutuar insti render timely and interesting the pre- tutions do Is therefore approximately sent celebration of the centenary of four-fifths o fthe total. the establishment of the first saving bank in the United States. The mutual saviags banks are locat- When the first savings bank opened ed largely in. the New England States, : its doors in Philadelphia one hundred where there are 412. In-New York, years ago today the population of tnu New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Dele ware, S United States was 9,500,000, and there and Maryland there are 199, and in , were but 246 banks in the country. Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, and jMinne- Four years later, in 1820, there were sota there are 21, while there is one f ten savings banks, with 3,635 deposit- in West . Virginia and one in Californ-,! ors and deposit accounts aggregating ia- In the other States the savings ? $1,138,576. Since that time the growth banks are stock concerns. Of the has .been very great. j total number of savings bank deposit-1 There were at the beginning of the ors- 3,634,000. are in New England and present year 2,100 stock and mutual 3,181,000 are in New York, so that savings banks, in the United States, i approximately six savings bank de These banks have . . 10,502,0'00 deposit- Positors but of ten are . residents of ors an,d approximate $4,700,000,000 in these seven States. These, depositors savings accounts. This is . nearly $1.-1 have about three-fourths of the total J 000,000,000 more than the total amount savings bank deposits of the coun- or ail Kinds of money and currency try- J' - In the country. Every tenth person r, lt . .--..':rV""r . , has a savings account. t,0TOf,o From the -figures given, it is ap- "mi me aauu-ui. lujiii is con fined to a comparatively small area of the country anil-it-ti comparatively small number of ""the people. Get Acquainted Certificate GOOD FOR 25,000 VOTES IN THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH PRI7C CAMPAIGN Contest IvTanager, The Wilmington Dispatch. Enclosed find $ for which send The Wilmington Dispatch M 1 ADDRESS For months. Old Subscriber i New Subscriber please issue the votes to which this subscription payment is entitled under the vote schedule In your subschiption campaign and the 25.000 vote "Get Acquainted" coupon to m ...... .'.v; y ADDRESS ....." 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