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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1916
Page
6
A strong Monday program at Empire features Pathé’s Who’s Guilty Truth Crushed To Earth story with Tom Blank recalling his truth telling past. Miss Helen Holmes stars in The Girl and the Game cliff dive sequence while Pathe News provides world events and a comedy reel rounds out the bill.
Florence Reed stars in The Dancing Girl a Henry Arthur Jones drama presented in five reels at the Paramount. The program includes a travel picture and an animated cartoon comedy with admission ten cents. Tuesday night offers an exquisite treat for cinema patrons.
Twins Earel and Pearl Clayton died yesterday in Grottos from probable pneumonia poisoning linked to condensed milk preparation. The five month old siblings were survived by parents Mr and Mrs Howard Clayton a brother Carl and a sister Margaret.
The Boomerang company lists Captain William Henry Sherer first lieutenant William Conway second lieutenant Lewis N Huck third lieutenant Robert Streit orderly sergeant Peter Miller. Sherer, well educated in military affairs, declined a Virginia regular forces commission offered by Governor Lecher due to his ties with the Boomerangs. Additional recruits would be accepted.
The article notes Frederick County's prompt mobilization for the Confederate war effort with seven companies in service and two more ready. It mentions William Baker Miller and Co Coker depositing forty dollars in Farmers Bank at Winchester to aid families of married men in the service, under J. H. Sherrard’s discretion, to defend rights and women against the described threats.
Fragmentary report to General Funston via General Pershing describes a Mexican mounted charge from the flank during a parley with General Gomez as a machine gun opened from the front. Seven survivors, all enlisted men, reached the main column after the action near Carrizal. Details on casualties or whether the Mexican attack was checked were not released.
A verse by Walt Mason laments a man who, despite two hands, two legs, two eyes, and all vital organs, blames circumstance for his lack of success. The speaker notes the wolf at the door and a perpetual whining mindset, criticizing the subject for not having a spine.
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