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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1916
Page
6
The Winchester Athletic Club finishes ticket sales for the Ford drawing. Tomorrow night at The Empire the drawing will occur in a public program with Helen Ware in The Secret Love and films including Human or Athletic Movements Analyzed and Speight Songs. Admission is 10c to 15c.
Local fans pack The Empire for Geraldine Farrar in Carmen the first screen appearance of the grand opera star. Her entrance is touted as a major sensation and the program includes Spotlight Songs with Mr. Garrison. Admission 10 and 20 cents.
The Empire Theater drew praise for music and a well balanced program of pictures and vaudeville. Seven reels and two vaudeville acts played by day, nine reels plus vaudeville at night. Large crowds were accommodated and left satisfied with the value at the box office.
At market close in Baltimore the 8 o clock session showed No 2 red wheat priced at 1 08 and 84 cents per bushel while corn stood at 50 cents on the latest wholesale quotation.
Shepherds claim sheep wool indicates weather shifts. Crisp wool signals dry spell, while limp soft wool suggests an approaching storm.
Advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a internal treatment that cleanses blood and mucous surfaces. It claims credibility from a physician, lists Toledo Ohio makers F J Che nny & Co, notes availability from druggists, and cites a price of 50 cents.
The exhibitor notes the high salary for Charles Chaplin and promises to show his first two reel subject The Floorwalker this Saturday matinee and night if patronage allows. The plan aims to satisfy patrons and justify continuing Chaplin’s expensive features.
A large supply of dynamite fixed in an old brass cannon near Braddock street was detonated causing a deafening blast. Windows rattled and houses shook. damage centered on James W. Hill yard. The cannon failed to explode and police denied any Mayor Ward reward offer.
Edward P. Sherman, son of A B Sherman, jailed in Winchester on a charge of robbing the Larrick and Larrick general store at Middletown in the county on the night of March 30. Sheriff Pannett and deputies tracked him to a Hagerstown boarding house where he was captured after a decoy letter. A watch was found on him. he faces a hearing in a day or two and may be tied to another theft in Middleway, Jefferson County, W Va.
Mrs Julia Ann Anderson died yesterday at her home in Boyce Virginia at an advanced age Funeral services will be held at 11 oclock Thursday morning at the house conducted by Rev B C Wilson of the Methodist Episcopal Church South White Post
Police jailed Walter Winkfield for twenty days after a defiant court appearance. Walter Foreman received a suspended $3.50 fine and was ordered to leave town as the pair tangled in a mixed cider and whiskey case near Gore.
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