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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1916
Page
6
The Divine Sarah Bernhardt will be featured next Thursday at the Empire in Tristan Bernard's Jeanne Dore a five act screen production. Admission is 10 and 16 cents.
After weeks of delay a definite start date is announced for the fifteen part serial The Girl and the Game starring Helen Holmes. A free 3 30 matinee will be held that afternoon inviting both adults and children to attend.
German forces gain ground north of Verdun with 600 prisoners and 12 machine guns taken. Crown Prince troops push across Douaumont ravine as French counterattacks retake ground near Haudremont and Meuse. Austrian drive into Italy slows, Balkans show impending moves with large Entente force at Saloniki.
The Virginia Classis of the Reformed Church in the United States met at St. Pauls Reformed Church Roanoke on May 27 with over thirty delegates. Rev B K Hay of Mount Jackson was elected president, Rev Walter Switzer vice president, Rev M M Noacker corresponding secretary. The opening sermon was by retiring president Rev W H Causey and Dr W T Adams spoke on foreign missions. Professor H J Benshoff also addressed the gathering on Christian training.
Grand opera star Geraldine Farrar will appear in Carmen at the Empire on Friday June 9. The program also features Saran Berthaardt in a screen appearance and other top acts like Helen Ware in Secret Love and Aridine. Ticket prices 10 15 and 20 cents.
At a Woodstock board meeting the Mutual Telephone Company approves building a new metallic line from Cedar Creek to New Market. President P. S. Rhodes and Treasurer S. B. Miley lead the project with district directors assisting. all materials are ordered and work will start upon delivery.
Local applications fail to reach the seat of catarrh says ad. The cure is taken internally and said to purify blood and mucous surfaces. Presented as a prescription from a top physician, with testimonials available. Sold by druggists for 75 cents. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a cure for salt rheum describing severe itching oozing and scaling. It claims only blood purification and improved health can end the disease and urges readers to ask their druggist for Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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