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M. . v- 1 ' . ' - W 1 MORNING STAR, WILMINGTON, N. MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1918: FIVE. ROLL CALL OF THE - 3..:i.;i, : -'-hi. ni . v . i . ; . ,1 i MOOSE GIVE DANCE N NEW YEAR'S HIGHT Preparations Being Made For. Elaborate Entertainment. COMMUNITY TREE ON POSTOFFICE GREEN FINAL FIGHMG WAS SANGUINARY CHILD LABOR HERE IN VISITOR'S EYES RED CROSS CLOSES Final Reports Wired to Atlanta This Afternoon. Vilmint011 Chapter Lacks Approxi mately 1,000 Member of Having Ueuched Goal Coturty Will Go Over the Top Today. Tin- Ked Cross Christmas roll call c!oSes this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock wlien the final ieport of the Wilming ton chapter will be wired to Red Cross headquarters of the southeastern di vision in Atlanta. When roll call "Headquarters on Princess street clos ed Saturday evening, the Red Cross chapter still lacked approximately 1, 000 members of having reached its coal of 5,000. This deficit can easily be' made up, however, declares W. A. jlcGirt, chairman of details, if the canvassing committees will pursue their work relentlessly until the last minute of the roll call. Chairman M. T. Piy:er, who return ed to the city yesterday morning, urges that all canvassing committees, the manufacturing plants and the roll call committees at the shipyards send in their complete reports 'before 5:30 o'clock this afternoon. Many of these committees, particularly those work in? at the shipyards, have withheld their reports until today in order to send in a full list of members. Thje negro organizations and many of the rural districts are expected to send in complete reports today, and these ivill aid to a large extent in gaining the goal set for the roll call. The negroes are especially urged to send in their complete reports today; other wise they will not count in the results of the roll call. New members enrolled with the Red Cross today will benefit the Red Cross and Wilmington, as they will help to swell the county's total when the re port is sent to Atlanta. Members en rolled after today will be of benefit only to the Red Cross, as it will be too late to include thiem in. the roll call. For that reason Chairman McGirt urges that every Wilmingtonian who ever expects to join the Red Cross should do it today and help Wilming ton take a leading place among the cities of the state when the final re sults of the roll call are published. The Red Cross, it has been pointed out. is an organization laboring to relieve human suffering in peace lime as well as during the war, and is confronted by a task in the days of reconstruction as great as that ac complished by it during the war. The convalescent soldier and those soldiers )ermanently disabled will turn to the Red Cross to be helped back to health and to be placed in new industries for which special training and new edu cation are required. Protection from luherculosis, from other forms of dis ;ase, from pestilence and poverty, ;mm suffering and distress is one of '.he many duties of the Red Cross in normal times. , As Chairman Plyler las pointed out, lending one's support :o the Red Cross by becoming a mem ber is furnishing protection for one self, the members of one's family and n the community in general. The following appeal urging Wil-ning-tonians to give their whole learted support to the Red Cross Christmas roll call and by enrolling today to aid in making 'it the most suc cessful membership campaign ever conducted by the Red Cross has been issued by J.: G. McCormick, chairman of the New Hanover rood administra tion: "The end of roll call week should find Wilmington well 'over the top.' There is no organization more deserv ing of our support. Since the signing of the armistice our obligation to sup port the Red Cross is even greater than before. Deservedly termed 'the greatest mother in the world,' its past record challenges the admiration of the civilized world. With your assist ance its future in the great era of re construction will be no less 'glorious. Our returning soldiers bear evidence of how well the Red Cross has fulfilled its duties abroad, and it has been no !pss mindful of its obligations at ome. To fail to measure up to our full duty in the present membership drive w ill be a crying shame. The Red Cross needs your dollarr-or more, if your needs will permit. In addition to material assistance, the Red Cross should have your warmest sympathy and heartiest support and co-operation. You should esteem it both an honor and a privilege to have your name appear on the Red Cross mem bership list, such an honor and such ?- privilege that no true American can afford to deny himself. In the end, Wilmington should do- what hereto fore she has always done, her full, duty. The membership should exceed the most optimistic expectations of the tireless workers, so that when the "ial call of this great roll call is made Wilmington 'shall not be found want- '3H. PICKETT LAID TO REST rvi.e Held Prom St. Pauls Church 'Masonic Honors at Grave. "he funeral of R. H Pickett, who deI of heart affection early Satur 1y morning, was held at 4 o'clock rom .St. Paul's Episcopal church yes Ttlay afternoon by ReV. D. L.. Gwatn-m)'- rector, and interment was made !n akriae cemetery with Masonic honors. '. Mr. Pickett was a- distinguished J1ason.- having held high office in the cal and state organizations. Pall bearers from the order were W. D. icMiHan, Jr., E. L. White, Dr. M. J. arson, e. j,. Davis, C. B. Newcomb M Norwood Orrell. - The Knight eiriars formed the escort and among nose who came from a distance for strvice was Jos. P Ehem, of New prand high priest of the Royal 'rc chapter of North Carolina. C. Ashley and R. W. Scott, Jr., of Bol were also here to attend the fun- aI- The floral tributes were very umerous anil unusually neautiful. ; - . , p'nys Heturn -Engagement. ' - . ""-kens at the residence of Adolph ".man. 106 North Sixth Street, are ' Popular with certain parties be : "be of their many fine eating quali Wi laat after stealing two of the vp, V5 ,riday night, whoever it was, im k asain Saturday night- and bar more, and a turkey "into the i,( i as Officer Marcus Gray of ; --"quarters would say. At least it , supposed that the Friday night thief Anv of the Saturday night raid. i'UnnVdy" "Mr Golman has lost a nice 1jcn of chickens and a turkey, and j; Police have b,een advised of; the lode WIU Keep Open-House New Xay for Members and Vls it!nr Brothers Big: Masquer ade Ball. The Wilmington lodge of the Loyal Ordei1 of Moose is preparing to enter tain royally and in a manner appro priate to the season on New Tear's dav. At the session lield Thursday evening in the Moose club rooms plans were perfected to keep . "owen-housa" throughout the day and serve refresh ments and lunches to all members of the lodge dnd visiting Moose men -who happen- to be in the city -upon that day. The climax of the day's celebration will be a masquerade and fancy-dress ball which will be given In the club rooms in honor of the lodge members and their friends. Dancing will com mence vat 9 o'clock and continue until mid-night. At 11 o'clock the couples will unmask and the judges of the evening will award prizes. Four prizes will be offered, two for the couple wearing the most artistic cos tumes and two for the funniest mas querades. x The New Year celebration of the Moose club will undoubtedly be one of tne most elaborate social affairs ever staged here by a fraternal organiza tion. The club rooms are to be pro fusely decorated with evergreens and patriotic colors. The club occupies one entire floor above the A. David company, on North Front street, wnich furnish a commodious and ideal dance hall. The rooms will be opened in the' early part of the morning on New Year's and will remain open during the entire day, giving the club mem bers an opportunity to gather there with their friends or to meet visiting brothers from Moose lodges in adjoin ing districts. The reading room of the club, well equipped with popular magazines and good, literature in book form, and the billard tables and loung ing rooms will furnish entertainment for members who drop in at the club during tlie day. Music for the ball will be furnished by an orchestra which will be engaged for the evening. Music for the .last dance given -by the Moose club was furnished by the Whitlock-West or chestra, and the committee on arrange ments hopes to secure these musicians for the New Year's dance. With an already large membership that it increasing almost daily, the Moose lodge is planning to extend its club Tooms to include another floor of the building in wnich It Is now housed. This will afford space for the installation of several additional fea tures for the attractive and handsome ly fitted club. methodists arranging plans for Centenary Campaign to Raise $35,600,000 Among Churches of South April 27 to May 3. Returning early yesterday morning from Memphis, Team., where he .went last week to. attend a convention of general conference secretaries of the southern division of the Methodist church, Rev. M. T. Plyler, pastor of Grace church, reports that' plans are well under way for the inauguration next spring of the Methodist centenary movement to raise $35,000,000 to be expended for missions and in charitable work. " Mr. Plyler, as chairman of the board of missions for the Eastern North Carolina conference, was among the representatives of this district at the session, in Memphis, which opened Wednesday of last week and continued through Thursday night. The cam paign to raise the desired funds, Mr. Plyler reports, will be conducted dur ing the latter part of April and first of May, commencing upon the last Sunday. in April and closeing the first Sunday in May. The sum of $35,000,000 to be raised during this period will be appropriated for use in home and foreign ' mission fields, for church ex tension work and in relieving the dis tress of the poor. , The centenary movement, according to plans developed at the conference in Memphis, will be conducted along the same general line of recent cam paigns for securing funds for patrio tic and humanitarian projects. Each district will, be organized through Its church leaders and each church will be allotted its quota of the fund. Plans for the centenary and suggestions for raising the funds will be "printed in a hand-book and issued during the early part of January. The majority of these directions for' the campaign were outlined while the Methodist di vines were in conference Wednesday and Thursday. As chairman of the. Red Cross Christ mas roll call for New- Hanover coun ty, Mr. Plyler was interested in not ing roll call activities in Tennessee and other states through which he passed. Influenza, he states, is ser iously handicapping the Red Cross drive and throughout the south- east ern district generally. Wilmington, he declared is showing up as well as and perhaps better than many -other cities in the south-east. FIJNERAI OF MRS. WTTLIE Bld Yeserday Afternoon From the Residence Lovely Floral Tribute. The funeral of Mrs. Charlotte Fen nell Wylie was held yesterday after noon at 3 o'clock from the residence of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fennell, 807 Market street, Rev. Dr. A, D. McClure of S. Andrew's Presbyter ian church, and Rev. Dr. John Jeter Hurt, af the First Baptist church, holding the service. . Interment was made in Oakdale. Selections were given by a quartette composed of Mr. XFenley. Mr. Muse, Mrs. Julian Taylor and Mrs. -Meredith Seldom has there been seen such a profusion of beautiful flowers as were sent to the grave by loving friends, of whom there are so many, deeply sorrowing over the passing' of a most lovable young woman. ' Pallbearers were J. O. Hinton, James F " Post, George Honnet, Lieut. W. C. Denny, Capt. E. ,A. Metts and C. L. Dickinson. t Among those attending the e ervlce were Miss Mary Hardlson of - Rocky Mount; -Herbert . Wyche and Colonel James, of Greenville, ,N. CX - . ' - , t- r ' f l- "'"t Preparations For Celebration Christmas Eve Nearly Complete. Entertainment at Community Christ mas Tree Commences at 7i45 -Tree to Be Erected Today Lean of Decorations Ashed Much Interest Is being shown In preparations for the community Christ mas tree and entertainment which will be given tomorrow evening upon the postoffice lawn under the auspices of the War Camp Community Service, and withtout doubt large crowds will at tend and take part in the community song service, one of the principal fea tures ot the entertainment, provided the weather is favorable. A very complete selection of Christ mas carols and patriotic songs has been prepared for the occasion by the Victory chorus. The school children and the,, community as a. whole have been requested to join in the singing around the Christmas tree and assist in making the celebration a "com munity affair" in every sense of the word: The. singing will be led by Mrs. G. S. Boylan, Miss Nellie Bowden and Prof. W. G. Robertson. The following statement relative to the entertain ment Christmas eve was given out last rright by A. E. Howell, commun ity service secretary: "The committee arranging for the community Christmas tree on the postoffice lawn and the many friends helping to make it a success hope that this will be a real tree. Everybody who . has anything that would be of use in decorating the tree Is asked to bring it to the Army and Navy club building today, or better yet, come and put It on the tree. Any one who can come and help decorate the tree is rgent'ly requested to do so. "The tree will be brought in f,rom the country by T. C. Morris, of East Wilmington, who says he expects to have it on the postoffice lawn by 11 o'clock this morning. A squad of Boy Scouts will assist in setting it up. As soon as the wiring, is completed and the electric lights strung on the tree, it will be ready tfor the bells, colored bulbs. and all that goes to make up a real Christmas tree. Everybody can contribute to this part of the decora tion as this first step toward helping the Wilmington Christmas spirit. If the decorations are not placed on the tree personally, leave them with Mr. Howard, foreman at the Army and Navy club. He" will take care of them until someone can .put them on the tree. "Now, the tree alone would not "be Wilmington's expression of her Christ mas spirit. It takes Wilmington voices raised in song to do that. This is also being provided for.' F. P. Har rill, president of the Liberty chorus, will provide a piano for the occasion, to help Mr. Robertson, Mrs. Boylan and Miss Bowden lead the singing at 7:45 Christmas eve. Mr. Harrill plans to meet with the Liberty chorus on Fifth and Market at 6:45 p. m. to sing carols about the city and wind -up this trip at the community treet 7:45 so the chor us can help in the general singing about the tree. "The entertainment will be opened Tuesday evening by the' boys' drum and bugle corps. Upon this occasion, schjool hoys and girls will have a very prominent part. They have been sing ing carols at their school for several 'weeks and will be able to lead well. Children will be requested to stand in groups according to their schools. Cards with the names of the schools will be placed in prominent places so each boy or girl can find hia or her group easily. Words to the songs will be projected upon a. screen so all who are not familiar with them can sing. "It was because our army was a singing army that it was able to ac complish such great feats on the bat tle front in France. Surely singing will mean as much for us as a com munity as' it meant for the army. The boys will still be singing when they come home. Let us take advantage of this opportunity to decorate our tree and sing in honor of the season and this most blessed of all Christmases in the last five years. Let us also be come a 'singing people welcoming' home a 'singing army." " ENSIGN SHAW AT BEST Fine Yomur Naval Officer Burled in Oakdale Yesterday. The remains of Ensign Harry Faison Shaw,' who died of pneumonia in New York Thursday, arrived on the train fromthe north yesterday shortly af ter noon and the funeral service was held at 2 o'clock from the First Pres "byterian church by Rev. Dr. John M. Wells, pastor, assisted by Rev. Dr. A. D. McClure of St. Andrew's Presby terian church and interment was made in Oakdale. A detachment of men from the na val reserve station here acted a.s pall bearers, the honorary pallbearers be ing John -Wells, Jr., George Mitchell, Ensign Bernard O'Neill, Edwin Josey, Gray Hicks, Lawrence Wright, B. B. Reynolds and Louis J. Polsson. s Present at the funeral besides many friends were Mrs. W, M. Shaw of Southport, Ensign Shaw's mother; his sister, Miss Ruth Shaw, who had been with him in New York, where she had stopped enroute overseas; his brother, Prof. Henvan Shaw, of Haverford col lege, Pa., and Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Fai son, of Goldsboro. Loved ones have the deepest sympathy of a multitude of friends in the city. Ensign Shaw was very highly esteemed for his flne qualities and news of his death was received-her with much regret. THIEVES LOOT A CHURCH St. John's Mission at Fourth and How art Streets I Robbed. Thieves, supposedly young ones, at some time recently entered St, John's mission at Fourth and Howard streets and ransacked the entire building, stealing a number of articles of more .or less value, and certain vestments that had been the property of Rev. R. E. Grlbbln, reotor, who is' now in France. . . " Rev. J. H. Taylor; rctor-in- charge, discovered the thefts yesterday after noon when he visited the church and found the building pen. Everyhook and corner of, the house had been searched by the thieves, who carried "away certain silver articles and a. lot of crockery some times used at church, entertainments. Included in the silver articles was a small baptismal fount and a silver plate used in making col lection for the' orphans, , . Mr. Taylor reported the affair to the police last night. 7 - v Lieut Sailing Writes of 81st Division Losses. Speaks In Highest Terms of Captain Ijoushlin and Lieutenant Davis. Lieutenant Isaac TlHery Writes Of Ills Experiences. A letter from Lieut, J. H. Sailing to his wife describes the final fighting of the 81st division up to 11 o'clock November 11, as horrible in its losses, and speaks In highest praise of the bravery and efficiency of Capt. J. J Loughlin and Lieut. Gregory Davis, both of this city, who fell irf'the Jast of the battles. A series of very interest ing letters from Lieut. Isaac G. Tillery, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Tillery, 309 South Second street, has also been re ceived and are given below. Lieutenant Sailing, who was with the Applewhite realty agency, and whose recent promotion -to first lieutenant has just been learned, says tinder date of November 13: "No mail from you for almost two weeks now, but guess it is somewhere in France and will catch up with me the first time we stop for a few days. I have not written to you myself since the middle of last week, but when you know of the hell we have been through I know that you will pardon me, and some day, when I am home again and the horror of it all and the sadness have worn off, I will try to tell you the whole story. Now I, can tell you only part of it. We have traveled at such a pace since the first of the month that the days and nights have been crowd ed together. We are on our way to the western front, marching all night long and snatching two or three hours of sleep during the day. The three nights we marched last week we aver aged about 25 miles per night, and it rained and rained and rained,. It is true I could have ridden, but as part of the company had to march, I hoofed every step of the way with them. When we arrived in the vicinity of Verdun, we tookup immediately a front-line position which we held until Friday morning, when we were relieved by the French and ordered to go over to our right and support the 322nd in fantry, which was going over the top and forward that morning. Everything went forward as prescribed, but gee! how this division suffered! The 323rd and 324th were also going forward on our right, but Sunday morning when we went forward and took up the as sault, God, how we suffered from ma chine gun fire! But did they stop us? Not a. bit. All night Sunday night and Monday until 11 o'clock when the ces sation of hostilities came, it was one perfect hell. "I guess you wonder where I was: Sunday morning when our troops had moved so far forward as to make it necessary to move eur supply base, I took a big ration and 'supply train and ran it up close to the front and es tablished a base in the woods nearby. In fact, from the hill where I was lo cated I could see the whole scene of battle. Even then (Sunday night) the sights around the first aid stations were horrible. Got in at 3 o'clock Monday morning, after being in the saddle since 7 o'clock Sunday morning. During that time I wore two horses completely out. Was up again and out at 6:30 o'clock getting things in shape for the day, and was starting out at 8 'oclock on horseback when the cap tain up and said he would go with me. When we reached the bottom of the hill we heard the first peace rumors, and later Lieut. Whitelegg, of brigade head quarters, confirmed them, stating that hostilities would cease at 11 o'clock. However, hell kept up until tne last minute, but when 11 o'clock arrived everything ceased and the stillness of death reigned over the battlefield. We were then well up in the line, and past us had been riding wounded and dead, and the thought struck me, making my heart heavy and sad, that even then there Were wives and mothers and sweethearts home rejoicing over the declaration of peace, while strewn all around were the bodies of their beloved husbands and sons and loved ones. Oh, how doubly sad to them will be the news that those noble boys died in the last 24 hours of the conflict! "Captain Joe Loughlin was one of those heroes who went across that great divide in those last trying hours, and I must say for Joe that In his ca pacity as intelligence officer for his regiment, that he was always just a little better than any other intelligence officer in the whole division. Lieut. Gregory Davis died as a gentleman and an officer should, gallantly leading his platoon to the last. In my own regi ment one of my beat friends, Lieut. Bill Bailey 'got his' while leading a charge in the last five minutes of the fracas. "How happy I will be when the word is received to go home! There is one consolation: We were going forward to the last minute, and in this last drive we' captured more towns and more ground than aay other' division on the entire front. One artillery officer .of another outfit told me that he had never seen the 'Wildcats' before, but they are 'some fighters!' "In these last and most strenuous days of the fight, Dry was in the hos pital with the grippe, and the captain, who Is still with us and will probably remain, was sick Sunday and Sunday night with the same complaint, leaving the whole Job up to me. For three or four days I was in the saddle from 16 to 20 hours each day, but thank the Lord, I pulled through." Lieutenant Tlllery's Letters. Lieutenant Tillery, of the machine guns, says in his first missive that his travels since he left camp have been extensive, beginning at Halifax, N, S., thence through England via Liverpool, London and Dover to Ypres in Belgium, and over a gdod deal of France,-v He went, into the trenches first on July 16. He writes of shells falling all around him and his platoon for hours at a time, as he would write of a Bhow'er of rain. He writes very graphically of his preparations for going over the top the first morning ana describes tne tremens dous beauty of the barrage which pre. ceded the attack, During the terrifio uproar ef-shells and gens he netioed a ground mile digging in as fast, as ever his entrenohing teels could work, Like Zeb Vance in the civil war-, who noted a rabbit beating it for the rear and exclaimed, "Go it Molly Cottontail, if I didn't have any .-more reputation than you have to sustain, I'd run, too Lieutenant Tillery says 'As I watch ed him during this awful din and roar, it occurred tofine that Mr, Mole was a very -wise animal and I wished I was a mole!" : . . . In a letter of November. 8, Lieutenant Tillery Bends word, to "Jeisse Roach that if he wants exoitement not to join the engineers, but geMnto a. machine gun company." He says he is obsessed . (Continued on. Page Si,. Report on Wilmington by Child Labor Investigator. Local Condition as Seen hy Agent of ' the National Committee Studying Child Labor Conditions in State. Miss Theresa Wolfson, special inves tigator of the national child labor committee, has submitted the following report on Wilmington conditions, ap pearing in yesterday('s Raleigh News and Observer, in .connection with re ports on other North Carolina towns: Thia is a seaport town and railroad terminal of about 22,000 inhabitants, It has an excellent boys' club division of the Y. M. C. A. and a capable secre tary who has come into intimate touch with the 2,000 boys of the city. Through the activity of the Y. M. C. A. and sev eral city clubs a Newsboys' club has been organized which counts in its membership 70 active newsies ranging in age from 8 to 14. The boys meet about three times a year and once a year a dinner-is given to them by the newspaper managers and city clubs. The boys' secretary keeps in touch with these boys as much as he can. Nevertheless for the last year delin quency among newsboys has been about; 14 per cent, according to the Y. M. c. A. secretary. School is dismissed i at 2:30 and the afternoon papers are is- t sued at 3:30 or 4. During the Interval i the boys congregate, and many gamble, j shoot dice or fight. Theft of money or ! papers or fruit from stands is common amour them. The Western Union em- I ploys about 15 boys and the Postal Tel- ' egarph about nine. The Atlantic Coast Line railroad offices employ boys of 13, 14 and 15 at good wages. The boys of the upper grades In school have been leaving in order to accept these posi tions, which pay from $22.50 .to $40 a month. There are aoout 100 boys in Wilmington who work irregularly, do not attend school and are typical street urchins; sometimes they sell papers, sometimes they work on the docks, dis tribute hand bills, or haul wood. These boys, who come from an unfavorable environment, fbrm aboirt 85 per cent of the delinquency cases of the city the most common offenses being the steal ing ,of peanuts, candy, fruit and fci- cycleB. Children engaged In blind-alley Jobs -unregulated occupations which lead nowhere but which keep them on! the street at any time of the day or night derive no benefit from their employ ment. Juvenile delinquency decreases as the degree of child labor regulation increases. Mercantile Establishments. Several young girls are employed In the 5-and-10-cent stores, but the dry goods and department -stores do not employ children except in delivery ser vice. The manager of one of the large stores said: "We can't use young boys and girls, they are not capable." The drug stores employ boy clerks and soda dispensers," who are subjected to the late hours and excessive standing com mon to this kind of work. Amusements. Robert, a little lad of eleven years, attends school in t forenoon and af ter 2:30 goes to work in a moving pic ture house, vriitrt; ilk sseiijj candy, pea nuts and soft. drinks until 10:30 every night. He works on a commission ba sis and if he cleans up the theatre after the show or early the next morning, he can earn $5 a week. He is In the second grade in school. The other moving picture houses em ploy boy ushers. One had a 14 -year-old boy as operator who learned to run the machine by helping a former oper ator. Messeng'er Service. Messenger service does not hold boys. Of the 15 in the employ of the Western Union, few have been in the service more than a year and over half have been there but three months or less. The spirit of adventure and the prom ice of easy money leads young boys into this work. Its irregularity artd constant association with street influ ences leave their mark upon the boys. Thirteen-year-old Elbert, a small wiz ened little fellow, has been working for We've a FINE your pondering over the question of mother Small Rugs, 48c to $6.50. Room Size Rugs, $6.60 to $85. BELK - WILLIAMS COMFY ALL NEW MONEY In Silver Coin and Currency at this Bank. As the government has requested the banks not to dis tribute Gold Coin for Christmas Gifts, we suggest the -use of new silver coins or. currency for those who desire to Give money this Christmas. After , All a pass book of the "People's" with a deposit entered on same is the best of gifts. THE PEOPLES' SAVINGS BANK ' Corjier Front and Princess Sts. NEW MONEY During the holidays we ronpv over nnr nrmnTor We are also nrenared to vui uuoiumci o ana xiicuuo, Total Assets Over Three THE WIEMINGTON , CSAVI2V&& T1ZZ7ST CO.K HO PRINCESS STREET ' 1 RSI Oldest arid Lardest North i jaaet.,A.,...M.L,.,.,A.....M!i.L..,u.y..J.....w t.........i.......t.L, I , ,15 1". 2SO DRUMS Just Received by Express. All sizes. Priced $39c to $2.50 J. H. Rehder & Go. The Popular Uptown Department Store. ,We refund car fare on purchases of 2.00 1 and over. the Western Union for six months. He is on the job one week at 7 a. m. and quits at 7 p. m. ' The next week he goes on, at Id . m.land quits at 10 p. m. Since he is paid! according- to the num ber of messages delivered lie never takes more than 10 or 15 minutes for his meals. He sleeps in the back of an. old paint store most of the time be cause his family lives out of town. He, has been arrested for "scrappln' with anothejr messeng-er boy over a "cig butt." 4 pal. of Elbert's. 12-year-old Albert, works as-messenger boy from 8 in the morning until 2:30 in the after noon," when he goes to a vaudeville house and sells peanuts and candy until 10:30 or 11 o'clock at night. In this place he receive 10 cents for selling a dollar's worth of candy. He earns on the average ?4 a week, working practi cally 12 hours a day. The boys who deliver for stores are paid by the trip,- at about the same rate as messengers. Between trips they hang about the stores virtually idle. Street Trade., As Wilmington is'a town with a con siderable transient population, little "neweies handling morning and .even ing newspapers "are numerous. Many (Continued on Page Six). Few LUG Yet to Sell In sizes from the small 27 in. width to the full room cover and we know of nothing that will appeal to the home lover 'more Better just come An today and buy one of these rugs and cease m m : ! : vV .' will pay out only new cur- "furnish new silwr rnins to - H ft M sfef?r! lie axe giu tu oci. v c jiuiti and a Half Million Dollars. ft M? Carolina Savings Bank VENIJEABLE MAN PASSES. Dr. O. M. Knight Die After Illneae of - Two Day Remain to Richmond. Dr. O. M. Knight, grand-father of ' Mrs. C A. - Himmelman, Died early Sunday morning at the residence of . . Mr. and Mrs. Himmelman, 1902 Perry'. Vj j) avenue, after an illness of only a few, days. He was 95 years old. ! Mr. Knight came to Wilmington i from Nottoway county, Va., last Feb- ruary and since that time has lived.,1 here with his grand-daughter jand her! family. He seemed in good health unr til two ago, when he contracted W ? 1 1: slight cold which grew worse quickly ' . developing into pneumonia and prov-J L ing fatal. .' y i:i. . Dr. Knight was the oldest graduate . .v. of the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington. otW Jr; fht ;lh The remains were taken last nigh to Richmond, where funeral service will be conducted and interment made, Surviving the deceased, besides hid grand-daughter here, is his daughterJ Mrs. Cyrus De Camp, of New xorici city. what will I give I ' i i !i; a. if i tit Si I' 4 r im itt l- i. Mi. I ,r 5 n f I Mi? 'Ml if u ml -:. W 7f r - A
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