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Major Claude L. Pridgen is the
Grand Master of North
Carolina
SEVERAL FROM CITY
GO TO GRAND LODGE
Second Time in Its IHistory
That an Army Officer Has"
Presided as Grand Master
of the State
When the Grand Lodge of North
Carolina Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons convenes this evening in tho
Masonic Temple at Raleigh for its
131st annual communication it will be
presided over by a Grand Master who
is an officer in the United States Ar
my on active duty for the first time in
more than 100 years, and the officer
hia time will be a citizen of Wil
mington in the person of Grand Mas
ter Claude L. Pridgen, Major, TJ. S. A.,
attached to the 113th United States
Field Artillery, stationed at Camp
Sevier, Greenville, S. C. Grand Mas
ter Pridgen was elected to the high
eat honor that can be conferred upon
a Mason in North Carolina at the an
nual communication held last January.
; Daring the summer he enlisted for
service in the army, and his duties as
Grand Master have since been per
formed by Mr. George S. Norfleet, of
Winston-Salem, Deputy Grand Master,
who will succeed him as Grand Mas
ter at this communication. The in
itial address of Grand Master Pridg
en will be one of the features of the
opening session of the communication
this evening.
The proceedings of the Grand Lodge
of North Carolina are of exceeding in
terest to a large number of citizens of
this city, for Wilmington has for a
long number of years been one of the
strongholds of Masonry in the State.
The city has the honor of having the
oldest lodge within the confines of
the State in St. John's Lodge No. 1.
This, with Wilmington Lodge No. 319
and Orient Lodge No. 395, places this
city in the lead in Masonic activities
in North Carolina ' withr;a large and
progressive membership.,
Mr. A. S. Holden, of this city,. Is
chairman of the committee on credentials-
of the Grand Lodge, and he
went to Raleigh on Siraday tot dis
charge the duties incumbent-upon that
committee.- Representing' the three
lodges of the city the following gen
tlemen left for Raleigh yesterday:
Messrs. ft. A, Huggins, Chas. B. New
combe, F. H. McCullough, F. G. Rose,
K. W. Jewell, P. B. Bell and F. M.
Holley. .
When the Grand-Lodge convenes for
this communication there will be ab
sent several loved faces that have
been seen at al communications for
a number of years,- death having laid
a heavy hand upon the Grand Lodge
during the past year. Included in the
nuinber who have died are four Past
Grand Masters, among them Mr. C. H.
Robinson, of this city. The others are
Col. John T. Nichols, of Raleigh, Hon.
H. A. Gudger, of Asheville, and Dr.
Francis M. Winchester, of Charlotte.
Another gTand officer who has been
claimed by death is Mr. Leo D; Heartt,
o! Raleigh, Grand Treasurer since
1305.
During the War of J8J2 General
Robert Williams was Grand Master of
North Carolina, he then being in the
service as a Brigadier General in
cocaiand of North Carolina State
troops. When Maj. Pridgen tonight
convenes the grand body it will be
the sejond time in its. history that an
3:y officer has so officiated.
Another unusual feature of the, meet
'02 this year is the fact that two of
the chief officers of the State are serv
,u as officers of he Grand Lodge.
State Treasury B, R. Lacy is acting as
reasurer to fill the unexpired term
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A Thrift Society is Being
Formed in Every Room of
Each School
If the grown people show the same
spirit as the children, the thrift cam
paign in New Hanover will be a tre
mendous success,"-: said one of the
committeemen yesterday afternoon,
In reviewing the work of the day,
which had been spent in organizing
the Union, Hemenway and Cornelius
Harnett schools.
Today the work is proceeding in
the other schools of the city with the
same encouraging results. Every
room in every school is being form
ed into a thrift society, and the pu
pils are enthusiastic to begin the
work.
Tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 at the
High School there will be a meeting
of the presidents and secretaries of
the societies which have been formed
in the schools .together with repre
sentatives of th National Special
Aid Society, which will work in con
junction with the school children in
this thrift campaign. At . that time
the city will be laid out in districts,
and the various school societies will
be allotted their work.
Incidentally there is a very inter
esting and important announcement
that will be made at that meeting
tomorrow. It is one that will put
additional enthusiasm and energy in
to the workers, and encourage the
wnoie city.
The societies with their officers at
the Union school are as follows:
A-l President, Margaret Garrett,
secretary, Hampton Davis.
A-2 President, George Farmer,
secretary, Hilda Reinhold. '
B-l President Hershchell Lennon;
secretary, Margaret Schinberger.
B-2 President, Carl Zellers; sec
retary, Edith Gore.
B-3 President, Earl Mobley; sec
retary, Edythe Donnell.
C-l President, Marguerite Don
nell; secretary, James Wiberg.
C-2 -President,. James A. Meier;
secretary. Thelma Herring.
C-3 President, , DeWitt Sidbury;
secretary, George Dew.
D-l President, Carl Hill; secre
tary, James Center. -
D-2 President, Hugh Little; sec
retary, Winnie Byerly.
At the Cornelius Harnett School
three societies were organized with
officers as follows:
Society B Eunice Johnson, presi
dent; Tom Batson, secretary.
- Society C Kennith Lee, president;
James Grimsley, secretary.
Society D -Harold , Cavenaugh,
president; Louise SuUiv&hv; secretary.
MR. SAND LIN INJURED.
Wilmington Man Meets With Accident
Aged Cduple Marry.
(Special to The Dispatch.)
Beulaville, N. C, Jan. 15. Mr. Ed
ward Sandlin met with a serious acci
dent last Friday by falling through a
hole in the floor of a barn, breaking
his right foot, left thumb and dislocat
ing his left shoulder. The attending
physician" says it will be a month or
six weeks before Mr. Sandlin recovers
sufficiently to attend to his business
as usual. Mr. Sandlin's home is 114
North Eighth street, Wilmington, but
for some time has been conducting
the Edward Sandlin Piano and Sew
ing Machine Company, at this place.
Mr." W. M. Bishop, postmaster here,
is quite ill, suffering with heart trou
ble, it is said.
A wedding of more than ordinary In
terest took place here at the home of
the bride at 7:30 o'clock last Thurs
day evening, when Mrs. Kittle Bass,
aged 79, became the bride of Mr. Wil
lis Gresham, aged 75.
of Mr. Leo D. Heartt, and will in all
probability be elected as the next
treasurer of the fraternity. Governor
iThos. W. Bickett is the Grand Orator
i for this year, and will deliver the an
nual oration at the opening session
I this evening.
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Greater Food and "Feed Crops
Are Necessary to Win .the
War
FARMERS INSTITUTE
SCOTTS HILL 19th
Experts From the Departments
Will Be There to Explain
How to Produce More
Foodstuffs
The first of the series of institutes
for farmers to be held in this sec
tion will be at Scott's Hill on Sat
urday of this week, and County
Agent J. P. Herring is endeavoring
to so impress the importance and
value of the meeting upon the peo
ple of the county that there will be
a large attendance. Soil fertility,
food and feed crops, live stock, mar
keting and other topics of the great
est importance will be discussed by
experts In the different lines sent
here by the State and National De
partments of Agriculture.
At the same time there will be
held a woman's institute, conducted
by Mrs. Mittie M. Henley, assistant
home demonstration agent, and the
county home demonstration agent,
to which women are invited to come
and join in the discussion of home
economies, home conveniences, food
conservation, war time recipes and
other things pertaining to the home,
A practical demonstration in cook
ery will be given. The women are
urged to bring pencils and notebooks,
and to bring a lunch and stay all
day.
In connection with this institute
County Agent Herring has sent out
the following call for the farmers
to attend:
"It is needless for me to tell you
thut we a-e engeged in the most
destructive and far-reaching war
the world has ever known. You
know that as well as I do. But I
fear there are a great many of our
people who fail to realize the seri
ousness of the situation and are not
making arrangements for large food
and .feed crops which will be abso
lutely necessary for us to win in
this war. It matters not what our
opinions were . at one time in re
gard to the war, we. are now in it,
and must either win or lose. We
tan not ever Slink of the idea of
losing it, think of nothing but "win
ning. Every American who reads
the papers and keeps posted in re
gard to the atrocities committed by
the Germans on defenseless women
and childien, and compelling aged
men to work for them in factories
and on farms so they can send their
own men to fight in the trenches
against our soldiers and our allies,
must be filled with indignation and
be "willing to do all he can to win
the war for world-wide democracy
and freedom of the - people. We
simply must win or suffer indigni
ties unmentionable and our coun
try ma3 bankrupt in paying the
entire cost of the war.
"To do our part in winning the
war we must do everything possi
ble to grow the best crops this year
we have ever grown. Labor will be
scarcer than ever before, therefore
it behooves us to make every per
son's work count for the most. With
this in view -1 have planned to hold
some special meetings or farmers'
institute.! and have the promise of
the cooppration of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture and the Experi-
FfifgHt Station to send us men and
Pwothen to discuss subjects in which
we are all vitally interested. We
want to greet these people with
large audiences and get the most out
of the meetings we possibly can.
To do this it will be necessary for
us to do personal, work in seeing our
neighbors anaf getting them to prom
ise to attend, and also for them to
see their friends and get them to at
tend iflso. I am counting on you to
co-operate with me. in. this work. .Ad
vertise the meetings in every way
you can by announcing at churches,
Sunday schools and any other gath
erings you may attend, also by
speaking to people about them.
"Already the call has gone out
asking the farmers to prepare for
larger food and feed crops for this
year In a few months there will be
many thousands of our soldiers In
Europe. These soldiers must be
fed and fed by the farmers of the
United States, if wo are to win the
war. Neither England, France nor
Italy are in a position to feed and
clothe their own soldiers. We must
raise enough for our iiame demands,
ou? soldiers and those of our allies.
The meetings that we are going to
hold will be for the purpose of con
ferring with each other as to the
best metihodB of growing larger
crops and meet the expectations of
those who are relying on us for food
ciiJ, feed,
Plea&w do all you , can to .make,
these meeting? a success."
Nurse -It's time for you to take
nourishment again, '
Patient I'm tired. q taking nourish
ment; jjlve ma v something to eat.
Judge. . - .
EXPERIENCED MEN ARE
WANTED IN ENGINEERS
Army Seeks Skilled Workmen
for Immediate Duty in
France
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There is an immediate need for the
foreign service of woodsmen, lum
bermen and road and bridge builders,
and the Engineering Department of
the War Department is sending out
an urgent appeal for enlistments in
this branch. Repeated calls for men
skilled in these lines of work have
brought some results, and the train
ing camps have been combed for
available men, but still the required
number has not been secured, and
the government is asking for those
who can serve to come forward. Reg
istrants who are qualified ma volun
teer by first obtaining the permis
sion of the local boards. The next
call for men under the selective
service act is still several weeks in
the future, and the need of men for
this special service is for right now.
It is stated that the Twentieth En
gineers, familiarly known as the lum
bermen's regiment, needs i quick for
immediate service in France 3,000
experienced woodsmen and lumber
men. These are divided as follows:
For Woods Work Woods bosses,
woods sawyers, woods filers, logging
teamsters, top loaders, saddlers,
wagoners, skiddermen, blacksmitfcts,
gasoline motor truck drivers, gaso
line motor tractor drivers, gasoline
motor repair men, stationary engi
neers, stationary firemen, log scalers,
tie hackers, pole and piling men,
charcoal burners, cooks, woods labor
ers. For Logging Railroads Track
bosses, track men, locomotive engi
neers, locomotive firemen, brakemen,
machinists and laborers.
For Sawmills Saw mill foremen,
construction millwrights, operating
millwrights, machinists, sawyers, fi
lers. for circular and inserted tooth
only, carriage men, edgermen, trim
mer men, stationary engineers, sta
tionary firemen, boilermakers, gaso
line motor truck drivers, gasoline
motor tractor operators, gasoline mo
tor repair men, cooks and mill and
yard laborers.
Also are needed a few all around
planing mill mechanics, and a few
stenographers experienced in sawmill
office work.
The Twentieth Engineers is the
largest regiment in the world, con
sisting of 7,500 men, divided into 10
battalions of 750 men each, each bat
talion divided into three companies
of 250 men each. Their work will be
in France, where they will convert
forests into the various requirements
of American Engineering Corps,
among which are sawn and hewn
ties, bridge timbers,- telephone poles,
trench planks, pit props, lumber for
cantonments and hospitals, firewood,
charcoal and the like. Years of prac
tical experience as woodsmen or
sawmill men is absolutely necessary
for those enlisting. .The pay runs
while abroad from $33 to $96 per
month for the enlisted men, and, of
course, all expenses.
In addition to the needs of the
Twentieth Engineers, 3,000 men are
wanted at once to be formed into
auxiliary unit battalions of highway
construction men, the Forty-first,
Forty-second and Forty-third auxxil
iary forestry battalions. To qualify
for enlisting in these men should be
skilled in the following work: Road
building, bridge building, operating
rock crushers, operating road roll
ers, driving motor trucks or as ordi
nary road laborers.
A moment's thought will show the
very great importance of the work
which is assigned for these organi
zations. On account of the large
amount of work of tills character that
has been carried on in Eastern North
Carolina, it is hoped that there will
be quite a number of men to volun
teer for service from this section.
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Better than the ready-made ktad.
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The finest coujrh syrup that money
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much as ready-made preparations, can
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takes hold and conquers distressing
coughs, throat and chest colds will
really make you enthusiastic about it.
Any druggist can supply you with
ounces of Pinex (Cft cents worth).
Pour this into a pint bottlo and fill
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syrup. Shaka thoroughly and it is
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family supply of a most effectual,
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It's trulv astonishlnaf how tmicklv it
acts, penetrating thxauffh, every air
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Pinex la a special and highly eonoen
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STEWARDS' RECEPTION.
Informal Reception at Fifth Avenue
Church This Evening.
The board of stewards of the Fifth
Avenue church will give an informal
reception in the lecture room of the
church this evening from 8 to 10
o'clock, to the entire membership of
the $bjurch. Refreshments will be
served.
AUTOS FOR HIRE
for
Pleasure Driving, Dances
Wedding and Commercial
City Livery Co.
Phones 15 and 315.
FOR SALE
200 Barrels Gore's Fancy Syrnp,
50 Barrels Gore's Fancy Molasses,
500 Bass Gore's Fine Ground Meal,
Different Varieties Seed Oats, Wheat
and Rye.
Please write us for samples and
prices.
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