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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1919
Page
6
Wallace Reid, Paramount star famed for vigorous masculine roles, headlines The Man From Funk Range at Empire tonight. A two reel feature follows showcasing the world’s largest sugar factory and a ten month transformation of a dense forest, illustrating sugar production. Tickets are 11 and 17 cents.
A note on the film Dont Change Your Husbands highlights trifling details that alter married life. The piece mentions a polished traveler, glue, onions, and a divorce court outcome. The Empire presents the picture tomorrow night.
Plans are completed for a July 8 and 9 meeting with local apple shippers and railroad representatives to discuss transportation of Frederick County 1919 apple crop. Attendees include B&O and CVRR officials J D Clarke E R Rouzer C V R R Michael Lowman R B White W A Shropshire JIm McCabe M Kart C H Hobbs George Harlan W F Harrison.
The chautauqua week July 14 to 20 on the Equity grounds promises the best entertainment yet in Winchester. It features 24 special features and 12 performances including Polly of the Circus, Robin Hood, lectures by notable men, illustrated cartoons, and more high class items. The program aims to provide affordable entertainment for small towns, with season tickets costing less than individual shows would.
Entertainers will move between Winchester and nearby towns to host several chautauquas in one week. Performances in a big tent on Equity grounds include afternoon and evening shows. Tickets are selling fast with limited season passes at Chamber of Commerce. season tickets cover all performances for 2.50, while single admissions total 5.85 for all events.
Mr and Mrs T 8 Jolliffe depart for Columbus Ohio to attend the Methodist Centenary Exposition at the state fair grounds. The Methodist Church community here has many travelers for the event as well as for visits with relatives. Mrs Koons’ illness brings John C Koons back to Washington after a weekend here at the Haddux home. Virginia H Smith plans a trip to New Haven with E Virginia Smith. Professor Samuel Barton of Sewanee, visiting his old homeplace for summer, is in town today.
The Rev. Dr. W. C. Wicker of Elon College North Carolina preached at First Christian Church yesterday morning and evening. He spoke on The Spirit of Christ In Christian Living in the morning and Life and Light of Christ in the evening to large congregations.
Mr. Fred S. Boyd and his bride Miss Catherine Elizabeth Bell have returned from their wedding trip and taken apartments on West Piccadilly Street.
Winchester sold 132 excursion tickets for a trip to Washington and Baltimore. The train was assembled at Strasburg and became well filled by Harpers Ferry on the main line.
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