Pickford Delight at Empire Tonight Stella Maris Screens
Empire Theator presents Mary Pickford in Stella Maris a six part picture with Little Mary in a role tailored to her dramatic talent. Tonight adds two reels of Daughter of Uncle Sam and a Pathe Hearst News segment from the Flanders front. Show starts earlier at 7 15 on Saturdays and 8 on other nights with admission 10 19 and 20 cents including tax.
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Wanta Norte
Mary Pickford
Stella Maris
Mary
Jijso
Pickford Artcraft
Pickford
Pathe-Hearst
Flanders
Empire
Sam
Hearst-Pathe
Decoration Day at Old Chapel Near Millwood Clarke County
The annual Decoration day exercises at Old Chapel near Millwood in Clarke County were held at 4 PM. Rev. Giles B. Palmer of White Post Va delivered the address. Clarke residents and others laid flowers on the graves of Confederate veterans and others buried there.
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Old Chapel
Millwood
Clarke County
Giles B. Palmer
White Post
Colored vet's son in France in expeditionary force
George E. Cooke and wife of 1102 South Main street report their son John H. Cook of Company B 513th Engineer Corps is in France with the American expeditionary forces. He arrived safely from Camp Lee and expresses pride in serving. His father notes Confederate service in Virginia units and a family with connections to Dr. John H. Kenny and novelist John Eston Cooke.
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George E. Cooke
South Main Street
John H. Cook
Five Hundred and Thirteenth Engineer’ Corps
American Expeditionary Force
Camp Lee
Cooke
Twenty-fourth
Virginia Infantry
John H. Kenny
Richmond
Philip’ Cooke
Larke County
John Eston Cooke
Winchester Soldier May Be James Hatcher Cited
An Associated Press dispatch from France dated June 2 reports 38 American expeditionary forces members cited for conspicuous bravery. Private James Hatcher rescued a wounded comrade under shell fire, though some in Winchester believe the reference may be to Captain James Hatcher of the heavy artillery, son of Mrs. Ada S. Hatcher of Fort Loudoun Seminary. Mrs. Hatcher has heard nothing from her son since May 12. Also, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Oates returned to Baltimore after visiting relatives on East Piccadilly Street.
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Associated Press
France
James Hatcher
Winchester
Heavy Artillery
Ada S. Hatcher
Fort Loudoun Seminary
Bach Baked Potato Help TV Fill Wheat Ships
A fragmented OCR item mentions Bach and a potato theme tied to television filling ships with wheat. The readable text lacks clear events or dates, making a precise summary difficult.
May Carry Mail On Early Train From Winchester
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad plans to run an early morning passenger train to Brunswick to haul mail if enough workers can be hired in the area. If 12 to 15 employees are found, the train will join the regular schedule with locked mail pouches. Mail for the train would close the night before, and the Winchester-Brunswick run currently brings passengers from 4.45 am to Brunswick and links at Harpers Ferry with eastbound No. 8 to Washington and Baltimore.
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Brunswick
Winchester
Harpers Ferry
Washington
Baltimore
Not Same Boy Arrested Here
Roy Wessen, cousin of Charles Wassen, was the youth arrested here on a forgery charge, not Charles. Roy’s mother reports he is doing well since his Winchester incident and shows improvement after the local arrest. He was released at his parents’ urgent solicitation.
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the Star
Charles Wassen
Hagerstown
Roy Wessen
Charles
Roy
Doran
Winchester
Boyce Forms New Virginia Volunteers Company
At Boyce Clarke county a first meeting drew about fifty men to petition the governor for permission to form a Virginia Volunteers company. Capt Logan R Fay and others assisted the effort. Captain Philip Walker declined the captaincy but offered support. Dr Randolph was chairman. Hugh Nelson, Jolliffe, Manning and others from Boyce and nearby communities participated.
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Frederick County
Virginia
Boyce
Clarke County
Virginia Volunteers
Logan R. Fay
R.S. Jolliffe
DuShane
Brengle
Latek
Randolph
Manning
Hugh Nelson
Carper
Jolliffe
Page
Burrell
Messrs Green and Meade
White Post
Luray Banker Visits Here on Confederate Memorial Day
Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Gander of Page County Virginia spent Confederate Memorial Day June 6 as guests of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Sloat at their South Maine Street home. Gander is a Page Valley National Bank director and prominent farmer.
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M. V. Gander
Page County
John S. Sloat
South
Maine Street
Name Harold Darling omitted from Star list of former employees now in federal service
The Star correction notes Harold Darlington, telegraph operator, wrongly left off a previous published list of former employees now in federal service. Darlington is with the signal corps at Camp Merritt New Jersey and expects to go to France soon. He has been under hospital treatment after nose surgery.
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Harold Darlington
Het
the Star
Darlington
Ws Signal Corps
Camp Merritt
N. Z
France
Hospital
Stamp to fund wartime aid promises quick relief
A five dollar stamp pledge claims to enable painless forty operations and protect against lockjaw for fourteen wounded soldiers. It also promises first aid packets for sixteen injuries and enough adhesive plaster and surgical gauze to aid hundreds of wounded soldiers.
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S. H. Hable
Shenandoah Valley National Bank
B. R
E. Bruce Capper
Bark
A. L. Shearer
B. &O. Railroad
Glaize &Bro
Hes
Colored Vets Son
R. E. Oates
James M. Oates
East Piccadilly Street
Ad Cliff
Esther Shaw
Luray Banker
Pershing
Hink
Gray. & Sheetz
N. Braddock Street
F. Grove
A. G. Swanson
Auc
Valley Chapel
Martinsburg Pike
Red Cross
Chamberlain
Hall
Cheney & Co
Eee
Ohio
Tow & So
Toledo
Waltham
Hodgson & Brown
Jewelers
West Water St. Bel
Jones’ Creamery
W. Miller Fletcher
Woodward’s
S. Main Stréet
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