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LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

is spending a few days in Cam
bridge and the county, as the guest
of friends.
Mrs Harry Jones, OF Leonard
town, is visiting her mother, Mrs
. Eym. E. Simmons, at her home on
Willis street.
Misses Betty North and Myrtle
= abbott left on the train this morn
ing for Deals Island, where they
Will spend sometime.
Miss Ella Moler left on the
train this morning for New York,
Philadelphia and Baltimore,to spend
sometime on business.
Mrs. E. A. Perry has returned to
her home on Locust street, after
visiting friends and relatives at
Terre Hill, Lancaster county, Pa.
Mrs. Rodney Todd left on the
train this morning for Deals Is
land, where she will be the guest
of friends and relatives for some
time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Granville Hopkins,
of Philadelphia, are spending some
time with his mother, Mrs. John W.
Fletcher, at her home on Mill
street, having motored from Phila-
delphia yesterday in their Loco
mobile.
| Quite a rumber of members of
| Dorchester Lodge, No. 10, Indepen-
dent Order of Odd Fellows, left on
| The early train this morning, en-
route for Ocean City, where they
will attend the sessions of the
Eastern Shore Odd Fellows Re-
union
Mr.. E. Gore will sell valuable
| personal property, consisting of
mules, horses and farming imple-
ments, at the farm on the Stone
Boundary road, recently tenanted
| by Frank Haggett, on Wednesday
hext, Aug. 10. commencing at 9
O'Clock.
Owing to a misunderstanding we
were advised last Tuesday that
Miss Gladys Johnson, of Todd
Vile, had been awarded one of the
scholarships to the State Normal
School, at Baltimore; this was a
mistake, as the scholarship was
awarded Iris Johnson.
List of letters remaining uncall-
ed for in the Cambridge postoffice
to Aug. IS: VIM. H. Barwick, Joe
claires, Capt. Thos. Lions, Harry
Marel, Grover Clevelar>aul, Hur-
hey Williams, Samuel ferry, Maui
rice Williams, Mrs. Louis T. Ash
fon. Miss e. Brown, Lille Jackson,
Rome Reese. Eliza Stewart,
ss5vs1n .- w II. Medford,
he County Commissioners have
Rengaged Engineer Herbert Hatton,
Bwho had charge of the paving done
pseveral years ago, and also that
(which is being done now in Cam
bridge, to make the survey of the
\ Blackwater Canal route. Mr.. Hat
ton will make the actual survey
while General Peter c. Hams than
whom there is no higher authority
in this country upon engineering
questions of this character, will be
the consulting engineer.
An automobile owned by Mr.. G..
HI. Basshor, and driven by Mr..
Fred Wiley, backed into a Ford
car, owned by Mr.. Vivian Carroll,
| about six o'clock yesterday after
| noon, and completely demolished
| the front of the Ford. Both cars
were at the Long Wharf,a when
Mr.. Wiley started to back out of
| the crowd, he struck Mr.. Carroll's
car The automobile was stopped
as quick as possible, but not until
it had done considerable damage.
| Mr.. Reynolds Pardee, son of Rev.
Thos. Pardee, pastor at George
town, Del, who was braking on an
extra freight train from Cam
bridge to Seaford, had his foot
| badly crushed between two cars
while the train was shifting at East
New Market yesterday. Mr.. c. P.
Wright, of fredericksburg, who hap
pened along shortly after the acct
| Cambridge Hospital. Late in the
afternoon it was not known
whether or not Mr.. Pardee would
/ lose his foot.