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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1918
Page
6
The Empire bill tonight from 7 to 8:30 features high class vaudeville with two reels of comedy pictures opening at 7. Admission ranges 11 22 and 33 cents including war tax. The same acts closed a week’s engagement Saturday at B F Keith’s Chestnut Street Theater in Philadelphia.
Through special arrangements with the Italian government the Ford Pitt Theater Corporation announces the American exhibition of the first and only authentic Italian war pictures The Italian Battlefront in ten reels photographed under the supervision of the Italian General and to be shown at the Empire theater tomorrow.
A stranger driving a West Virginia registered car and using the name Jones from Harpers Ferry was arrested last night for public drunkenness. He posted bond for police court this morning but failed to appear and forfeited the money.
The gasless Sunday observance is spreading in Winchester and Frederick County with only medical and outlying-district cars on the streets for church services. A Washington dispatch says the Federal Fuel Administration intends the rule to continue for several months to build up gasoline stocks that would otherwise be used for pleasure Sundays driving.
The War Department announced that Private Edgar C. Drake of Stephens City was recently severely wounded in action in France. Relatives were notified last week when The Star issued the announcement.
Miss Jane C. Moore marked her birthday September 25 with a surprise party at the rectory hosted by Mrs Malcolm S. Taylor. Guests included Mrs N M S Hammond Mrs Archibald Osborne and Miss Sarah Willson of Elkins. The decor featured cut flowers and a red white and blue supper table with a heart shaped cake.
Announcement reports the marriage of Hollis Snapp of Winchester to Mary Braithwaite of Martinsburg W Va. The wedding occurred Saturday afternoon in Martinsburg and was performed by Rev Roy Schmacher pastor of the Christian Church.
Capt William Cooper of the medical corps and his grandfather Mr George W Neal of Hagerstown Maryland have been guests for several days at the home of Mr and Mrs A H Jackson on East Water Street Captain Cooper serves with the medical department of the University of Michigan as an instructor in military tactics
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