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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1918
Page
6
Tonight at the Empire a revived 5 and 10 cent night with war tax will offer a varied program. The serial The House of Hate screens again with a late News reel, comedy, color travelogue, cartoon, Ford educational reel and a Man-of-War feature starting at 8.
The Winchester Woman’s Christian Temperance Union observes Flower Mission Day on Thursday afternoon June 13 at 3 o clock. A special service for little children will be held. SEORETARY.
A list explains how a single thrift stamp can purchase items such as silk trouser laces, toothpaste, garters, shoe laces, legging laces, cutlery, gasoline for vehicles, buttons, navy socks, soap, tobacco, brushes, and yard of cotton cloth for uniforms. It highlights diverse everyday goods attainable with small savings.
Miss Elia Santele departed this morning to visit friends in Washington, D C, continuing a pattern of social travel noted by local society.
Mrs Lanham leaves with her sister Carrie Croson for Alexandria Virginia to visit relatives and friends. The pair plan to spend time there before returning.
Trade reviews hail Tyrone Powers in The Planter a seven reel spectacle from Herman Whitaker set in Southern Mexican jungle. The sunlit scenes show native villages plantations and monasteries with dramatic fire storm and tropical weather.
The Star printed a corrected recipe for White Cup Cakes tested by Mrs. M. E. Bramlee. The proper ingredients include two cups powdered sugar one cup shortening one cup milk one cup corn starch one cup rice or potato flour three teaspoons baking powder a pinch of salt whites of six eggs and a half teaspoon vanilla.
Mr H G Boyles of the United States Navy, the youngest sailor from this section, has returned to duty after visiting his parents Mr and Mrs Charles G Boyles. He expects to leave for France shortly.
A post office circular reports about 100 sacks of mail destroyed by fire outside a French post office on April 2. The sacks mainly held parcel post and newspapers and were addressed to units including the Sixteenth gun Infantry and the Fifth through Seventh Field Artillery regiments.
Four colored men from this draft jurisdiction have been inducted by voluntary enlistment and will leave on Saturday, June 15, for Hampden Institute for two months of training in a special branch, probably as mechanics. The men are William Carter Tokes of Opequon, Robert Clayton Washington of Stephens City, John Ifford Washington of Stephens City, and John Lucien Bannister of Winchester.
The exemption board received a Denver telegram stating Luther C. Lowery a 4 registrant from Winchester has applied for induction in Denver. He is an actor traveling with a stock company known locally as Cricket Lowery. Mrs J J Fielder of Winchester Public Schools faculty left for Milford Virginia.
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