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Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

Grand Opera House tonight.
Miss Jessie Wheeler, OF Baltimore
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Samuel
Meekins, Choptank avenue.
Misses Myrtle Abbott and Blanche
Pattison arrived home on the train
last night, after visit to relatives at
Hurlock.
Mrs. William H. Hooper and dau-
ghter left this afternoon via Milton
for Baltimore, where they will spend
sometime.
Mr.. Daniel Phillips Willis, of Bal
timore, is visiting his parents, Rev.
and Mrs. ID. H. Willis, at their home
on Choptank avenue.
Miss Betty North returned home
last night, after having spent some
time at Williamsburg, where she was
the guest of relatives.
Governor and Mrs. Harrington ar
rived home on the boat this morning,
after having spent short time at
Baltimore and Annapolis.
Quite a number of the Boy Scouts
of Washington, who are camping at
Chesapeake Beach, visited Cambridge
today, spending several hours here.
The School Board at their meeting
today awarded the contract for build
ing the addition to the office on Court
Lane to the firm of Simmons &
Blades.
Mrs. R. Frank Brannock and
daughter, Miss Elsie, arrived home
on the train last night, after having
spent ten days with relatives at
Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ralph H. Shaw and little
daughter, Ruth India, of Vineland, N.
j., are visiting Mr.. Shaw's mother,
Mrs. Ruth H. Handley, at her home
on Gay street.
Mrs. BERTHE Adams and little dau-
ghter, Ruth, are spending sometime
in Baltimore as guests of Mrs. Ad-
ans brother and sister-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Todd.
Mr.. H. L. Edmunds, of the Dixie
Realty Co., and Mr.. Howard Sher
man, have returned to their homes
in this city, after spending sometime
in West Virginia on a business trip.
lSlSI anu lltllS
daughter, Harriet Elene, of Philadel-
phia, are spending several days at
Springdale farm, visiting Mrs. Fish
er's parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
H. Seward.
Mrs. James R. Jones, and Misses
Maggie Navy and Sarah Jones, have
returned to their homes in this city,
after spending sometime at Ocean
Grove, Asbury Park and Long
Branch, N. j.
Mrs. Joseph o. Wright arrived
home on the train last night, after
having spent sometime with Mr..
Wright at Woodberry, N. j., where
he has a position with the Interna
tional Harvester Co. X
Mrs. Edward Lee, of Williams
burg, Va, who has been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. w. D. Powell, at her
home on Oakley street, has gone to
Old Point Comfort, Va, where she
will be the guest of relatives.
Miss Edith Bennett, who is connec-
ted with the work of the Red Cross
Visiting Nursing Association, in the
New England States, is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Ben
nett, at their home on Willis street.
- stare AUDITOR =. Enos Ray, OF
, Prince Georges, county, is spending
! a short time in Cambridge, repre-
sentatives of his department being
engaged in auditing the books OF the
! Clerks and the Register of Wills Of
fees.
Mrs. Oscar Wright Sibley and dau-
ghter, Catharine, who have been the
, guests of Mrs. Sibley's sisters, the
Misses Thomas, on High street, and
Mrs. Jennie V. Mills, left for Guffin,
, Ca, Monday night. They spent six
weeks at San Diego Fair, Cal, and
two weeks at Boston, Mass, as guests
of Mrs. Sibley's sister.
. The concert which was to have
been given by the Citizens, Band, III
the Spring Valley, tonight, instead OF
Thursday night, has been called Off
because a number of the bandmen are
out of town. These concerts, which
are weekly events during July and
} August, attract a large number OF
, people living in and near Cambridge.
, The members of the two branches
of the Cambridge Yacht Club enjoyed
q I'll sCotCludy ONShlhS, q
. large boat leaving the Long Wharf
shortly before eight o'clock and
, cruising around for about three
; hours. Refreshments were served
and music, furnished by number OF
y the young gentlemen, was greatly en-,
: joyed.
. After spending millions upon mil
!. lions of dollars upon public build
= ings in small towns-Milford, Del.
: for instance-the Republican part!
!. now holds up its hands in horror ov
; er the fact that the Democrats are
; giving the people in the rural sec
!. lions some public buildings. The
present unprepared military condi
. ton in this country follows half ;
!. century of Republican control unde
; such leaders as Mckinley, Roosevelt
. and Taft, and yet there are some Re
!. publicans who think they can foo
; the people into holding the Demo
. cratic party responsible.