Mexican Troops Battle Privates in Joms Corn Rails
A fragment reports a clash involving Mexican forces and privates amid railway yard conditions. Details are sparse but indicate a confrontation near corn rails with unspecified units and outcomes.
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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1920
Page
4
A fragment reports a clash involving Mexican forces and privates amid railway yard conditions. Details are sparse but indicate a confrontation near corn rails with unspecified units and outcomes.
Miss Elizabeth Moore hosts Squad 4 guests with Miss Frances Mentzer for Squad 8 at the gym. The 6:30 event featured cheyenne high school decor, a toasts and yells program, and gifts including a laying cup and a large white cake with four red candles. Sponsors Major Kerwin and school officials attended.
The W Ti CG held initiation at K of GC hall with Mrs Rose Frank and Mrs John Gottschalk joining. Comrade Brookhart spoke as plans formed for memorial services and graves of 148 soldiers and 12 W ER C members to be decorated.
Rehearsals for The Wayside Piper pageant proceed nightly as Gretchen Arp prepares to play the piper with eighty local cast members. The Dance of the Hours features twelve young women and the Dance of the Wireflies stars sixteen children. The show opens June 4 at the Princess Theatre.
The text notes the Bon family frequenting a location with Mr. Bon accompanied by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bon, indicating a family pattern or social context relevant to the article.
The Young Women’s Auxiliary of the Baptist church hosted about 75 city youths last evening for a misfit social in the church parlors. Guests wore misfit costumes and enjoyed an entertaining program with music, games, fortune telling booths, Chinese booths, and fishing ponds. Food sales supported the event, with Miss Nelle Batt and Mrs. Fred Watson among the organizers.
Casper Sheriff Pat Royce heads for Panama to fetch a prisoner without extradition papers and will marry in Denver en route. The couple plans a honeymoon in Panama before returning to Casper with the wanted man.
Yale University announces Catherine T. Bryce as assistant professor of elementary education for the fall semester joining Dr. Frank Spaulding’s graduate program. Bryce, former Cleveland elementary schools assistant superintendent, will teach three courses and has authored many children’s books and pageants.
Actress Colleen Moore launches a Los Angeles driven campaign to curb hat buying amid high living costs. She claims five hundred high school girls joined on first canvass and plans to expand to store workers. She argues sun and air save money and hair, urging a summer without hats to lower prices. The note ends by listing Griffiths and Venezur films as contemporaries.
Chaplin’s next five reels will include The Kid Florence Vidor to wear gowns in The Jackknife Man The Queen of Sheba biblical film to be shot in New York Joanna Standing to appear in upcoming comedies Florence Moore linked with Marcus Loew Louis Bennison signs Broadway then films Bertam Grasby to appear in Clara Kimball Young’s Midchannel George Sargent to direct Alice Joyce in The Prey Rural photoplays dense with five under way this summer.
Workers wrestle to move a heavy cement walk laid around the Adamsky property after demolition for the city county building. Despite two days of effort the sidewalk remains stubbornly in place, resisting lifting in one piece.
Two films featuring Fannie Ward shot in France head to the United States for exhibition. The pair will also be shown in France, bringing the actress and her French productions to continental audiences.
An elderly man mistook the stairs to the bench for the witness box in an Irish courthouse. The judge teased him asking if he wanted to be a judge. The man replied he is old and perhaps that is all he is fit for. The father of the girl is described as a very tight old gentleman.
Edmund Platt of Poughkeepsie New York 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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