Service Flag Dedication at Holy Name Church
A thousand-strong congregation attended a grand service flag dedication at the Holy Name Church. Knights of Columbus, G A R members, and relatives filled pews as the Star Spangled Banner echoed from the organ. The service honored eighty stars and urged support for the Third Liberty Loan with prayers for guidance and victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knights of Columbua
Mia
Joseph T. Cahill
Father Hartman
Daviee
Joseph Carroll
James Frankigan
Joseph Mohatt
Maurice Lane
Milledge Grace
Edward Ganff
P. A. McGovern
Supreme Court
England
France
America
Moses
Morament
Frederick Ahrens
Benito Abobo
Joseph Avill
Wallace Barton
Pietro Badalucco
Frank Bell
John Ball
William Brennen
Charles Cahill
Pietro Campagnino
Charles Cole
Emmet Cole
Silas Cole
Ott Cobry
Harry Cox
John Carroll
Iden de Bolt
William Doody
Maurice Dinneen
William Dinneen
Beata Hangs Official in Puebla Town Folklore Incident
In San Balta Sar Puebla a village president Juan Garcia was lured into impersonating an effigy for a hanging during a festival. The huehues and townspeople danced in the plaza as the execution proceeded, the effigy struggle largely unseen amid the rising frenzy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
San Baltasar
Puebla
Juan Garcia
Hy Enomica
Community meeting details at April event
Reading is unclear but mentions an April gathering for a group named APPATION with refreshments and a call for all members to attend.
Alien draft dodgers in Cheyenne tale gruesome efforts to avoid service
Reports from Cheyenne recount aliens and Americans attempting to dodge military service. A man cut off four fingers after a partial amputation to avoid marching, later sentenced to Leavenworth. Other cases include a man killed by dynamite blast, a store-robbert suicide, a drowning, and a throat cutting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
France
Leavenworth
Stray Horses Disturb Cheyenne Northeast Neighborhood
Cheyenne residents report a nightly herd of ten to fifteen stray horses disturbing lawns and sidewalks in the extreme northeast. Police say the animals cause property damage and will be impounded at the city pound once captured, with damages and release fees charged to the owner. If more complaints arrive, extra officers will pursue impoundment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
American Nurses Learn Boxing at Camp Custer Training
Four thousand one hundred nurses at Camp Custer cantonment are to receive boxing lessons to learn self defense before heading to France. The plan follows concerns over assaults on women and aims to prepare nurses for dangers in war service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Custer Cantonment
France
Lear
Nun Receives Legion of Honor Medal for Bravery
A French award honors Sister Basilides, a nun from a convent near Thanon in Alsace Lorraine, for facing Boches who attacked the convent. She led shielding women and children, drove the invaders away, then nursed wounded soldiers at a Red Cross hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Morgan
France
Legion of Honor
Sister Basilides
Thanon
Alsace-Lorraine
Sister Baasllides
Boches
Red Cross
County demonstrator gives talks on food substitutes
Miss Kathryn Bennitt, county demonstrator with the extension department of the state university, visits rural communities to demonstrate the use of substitutes and food conservation. On Wednesday she spoke for two hours at the Highland colony about wheat and meat conservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sighland Colona Home Economics Club
Rt. Peters
Red Cross
Miss Bennitt
Highlanders
Burns
Highland Colony
Kathryn Wilson
Cheyenne
Bennitt
Harrison
The
State University
A. B. Bowman
N. E. Shee
Dale
Mine Bennitt
Divide
Farm Bureau
Trecy
Urday
Carpenter
Kathryn Bennitt
Flighland
Honor Roll Items From W.S.S. Club Named
Readers see an honor roll listing for the W.S.S. Club totaling $1000 with names including William E. Mullica Mrs. Ida M. Hous and Burdick. The fragmentary notice highlights donors and a recognition list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.S.S. Club
Bewine
William E. Mullica
Ida M. Hous
Burdick
Russian Prince Turns Robber in Bolshevik Chaos
In Petrograd a Finnish family is robbed of half a million rubles after an auto stop. A private detective tracks the band to a Russian prince and his servants who confess to highway robbery as their only livelihood amid Bolshevik ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Cologne Gasette
Petrograd
Petersburg
American engineers wounded reach hospital after Cambrai action
Twelve American railroad engineers wounded during the Cambrai advance were brought to Red Cross Hospital No. 2 in Paris. They describe aiding the railroad repairs behind the lines and the rapid German retreat, with one sergeant recounting his back wounds and a German ambulance attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Cambral
American Red Cross
Frank Haley
Ninety Seventh Street
Newark City
Cambrai
Fritz
Sheila
Charles Geiger
Pullerton Avenue
Chicago
Fronteline
Hella
Red Cross
Paria
Annie K. Duval Dies. Pioneer of Cheyenne
Annie K. Duval widow of J. F. Duval died Saturday night at 1815 Van Lennen street after a long illness. Survived by five children Louise J. and Mary of Cheyenne Joseph Duval of Council Bluffs Ia Mrs Harry Heater and Edward Duval of Denver. Funeral from St. Marys cathedral Tuesday morning. Mrs Duval was a Cheyenne pioneer, living here for the last thirty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie K. Duval
J. F. Duval
van Lennen Street
Louise J. and
Mary
Cheyenne
Joseph Duval
Gouner] Bluffs
Harry Heater
Edward Duval
Denver
St. Mary's Cathedral
O'Eloek
Duval
Patsy McMahon Buried After Cheyenne Obituary
Patsy McMahon nephew of Tom Walah was buried at St Marys Cathedral at 9 am Monday. Father Hartman officiated. A longtime South Side resident, he was widely known in Cheyenne and had many friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patsy McMahon
Tom Walah
St. John's Hospital
St. Mary's Cathedral
Father Hartman
South Side
Cheyenne
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Battle of the Somme
Battle of
Ancre
Ce’ Rmonies
ST. Mary's Catalonal Ark
NG Street Parade
Athens
Bragklin
Vom Bach
Eppigy
M. W. Ay
Basilides
County Demonstraton
Mits
Annie K. Duvallis
Patsy Mmahon
State Leader
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