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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1916
Page
6
Empire theater presents a College Jubilee featuring a seven member quartet singing vocal solos and violin numbers with blackface and Charlie Chaplin impersonations. The program, including fine pictures, promises a novelty addition away from standard vaudeville offerings.
A Blue Bird production presents the classic French legend Undine with Ida Schwall and a troupe of graceful divers and girls in five reels. A comedy short accompanies the feature with 10c to 15c admission. Matinee at 2.45 priced 10c.
Memorial Hospital benefit show Friday night drew praise for its strong lineup and high quality acts. Admission for the fundraiser at 8:30 included balcony seating at 75c and 60c, with lower floor 25c. proceeds support church activities at Kernstown and a Yard party following the event.
Major Richard Hunter Pope of Shenandoah Valley Academy joins Virginians at the Plattsburg military camp in New York. Other Virginians listed include Wayne Scott, George Marion Ludwig, Lucian Keith, Hugh Spilman, and D Mountjoy Cloud. By June 1, 10,493 men enrolled nationally, including 114 from Virginia.
The first C. V. R. R. excursion of the season will run Thursday June 22. The train departs Winchester at 7 26 a m. Fares to Atlantic City and South Jersey resorts are 6 50 and to Asbury Park and North Jersey resorts 8 50. Tickets valid for sixteen days.
Captain Conrad reports a core of 72 enlisted men with new recruits, urging parental consent to join the United States Army. Out-of-town men report for duty while others work out of state, and multiple new volunteers are accepted at the North Market barracks as recruiting efforts expand to Strasburg Middletown and Stephens City.
The piece reviews possible congressional action to guarantee pay for civil service workers called to active military duty, notes past hardships in the Spanish American War, and suggests hiring clerks or assigning duties to wives of absent guards, with President Wilson asked to consider the plan.
Soldiers spend much of the time drilling and acquainting new recruits with military tactics. The men say they are getting good feeds at the Ite Palace restaurant on North Main Street.
Mrs Andrew Ryland of Cumberland Maryland daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank J Russel of the city is seriously ill at home and expected to be brought to Winchester for special treatment. Mr and Mrs William E Cooper and their son Clark Cooper departed this morning on a motoring trip to Atlantic City.
A 10 acre tract with six room house, well and cistern, assorted fruit trees. Located one mile from Winchester on Berryville Pike. Apply to M. W. or W. I. E. Fisher. June 20-tf.
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