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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1920
Page
12
Fragmentary report describes military activity near corn fields with Mexican units and private groups involved. Details unclear on location or outcome, but evidence of confrontation and property damage noted. Further confirmation pending official dispatches.
Miss Elizabeth Moore and Miss Frances Mentzer hosted Squad 4 and Squad 8 at a gymnasium dinner. Guests enjoyed cherry and black decor, red candles, and toasts after a four year sponsorship tradition. Sponsors Meyer and hostesses assisted. squads and leaders named.
Initiation was held at K of G hall with Rose Frank and John Gottschalk joining the WTiCG. Memorial services are planned, graves of 148 soldiers and 12 WERC members to be decorated. Various guilds and circles met, teas planned, and local residents and guests visited or traveled for summer plans and events.
Rehearsals for The Wayside Piper pageant proceed nightly with Gretchen Arp in the piper role and a cast of eighty from Cheyenne. The Dance of the Hours features twelve young women and the Dance of the Wireflies showcases sixteen children as a June 4 show at the Princess theatre unfolds.
The text notes a social moment with Mr Bon and his parents Mr and Mrs Stephen Bon, indicating a family gathering or visit at a community setting. The passage emphasizes the Bon family presence and their relations.
The Young Women's Auxiliary of the Baptist church hosted about 75 city youths for a misfit social in church parlors. Guests wore misfit attire with varied costumes and enjoyed a musical program along with fishing ponds fortune telling booths and Chinese booths. Food sales ran throughout the evening led by Miss Nelle Batt and Mrs. Fred Watson with other helpers.
Sheriff Pat Royce of Casper travels to Panama to extradite a prisoner. He will marry in Denver en route and continue to Panama for a honeymoon, then return with the wanted man to Casper.
Yale hires Catherine T Bryce as assistant professor of elementary education starting fall semester under Dr Frank Spaulding. Bryce, former Cleveland elementary schools assistant superintendent, will teach three graduate courses and bring decades of experience and authorship in reading language and spelling.
Actress Colleen Moore launches a No Stars for Summer club in Los Angeles urging women to skip hats to cut costs and protect hair. She reports enrolling over five hundred high school girls and plans drives into stores and factories to spread the campaign. Her idea mirrors earlier film era titles Griffiths and Vourneur works.
Chaplin plans The Kid as his next five reeler while Florence Vidor may wear stylish gowns in The Jackknife Man contrast with The Family Honor. Fox will film the queen of Sheba in New York with J Gordon Bawar directing Cleopatra and Salome. Joanna Standing appears in upcoming comedies. Florence Moore with Marcus Loew. Louis Bennison signs Broadway and film deal. Bertam Grasby in Clara Kimball Young's Midchannel. George Sargent to direct Alice Joyce in The Prey. Rural photoplays multiply with five under way this summer.
Workers struggle to lift a heavy cement sidewalk around the site of the city county building. The annexed path, laid years ago around the Adamsky property, resists removal despite two days of heavy labor.
Two films starring Fannie Ward shot in France are being brought to the United States while the pictures will also be shown in France.
An elderly man in an Irish courthouse, confused, climbs the bench stairs instead of to the witness box. The judge jokes whether he aims to be a judge, and the man replies, in Irish humor, that he is an old man perhaps fit only for settling his fate. The father of the girl is described as a very tight old gentleman.
Edmund Platt of Poughkeepsie New York the United States representative from the Twenty sixth New York district has been nominated by President Wilson for membership on the federal reserve board to succeed Albert Straus who resigned.
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