The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-05-08
The Daily Banner
Published Daily Except Sunday.
CAMBRIDGE, MD, MAY 8, 1916
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

u Op0Id tonight.
Mr.. Robert Price returned thi
morning to Baltimore, after havin
spent yesterday at his home on Au
rora street, this city.
The old-fashioned man who pro
posed on his knees now has sol
who proposes when she is on hi
knees.-Columbia State.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas H. Twille,
left Sunday on the boat for a bust
ness trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia
Harrisburg, Pa, and other points
Miss Minnie Corkran, who spent
several weeks in Baltimore, return
ed yesterday to her home on Mary
land avenue. She was accompanied
by Mrs. Louise Keyser.
There will be box social at Black
water school Thursday night. Should
the weather be unfavorable, it will
be held on Friday night Proceeds for
the school. Everybody invited.
Mr.. and Mrs T. s. Hooper, of near
Vienna, delightfully."- entertained at
dinner yesterday Mr.. and Mrs. John
{ A. Lewis, Misses Lula Wall, Tonne
Hooper, Bertha Wiley and Perla
Hooper.
1 Mr.. ". Bayly Brannock on Satur-
day filed his papers as candidate
for the nomination for the City Coun-
Gil, to represent the Fifth ward of
this city. He is making a strong con-
test for the position, and is looked
upon as an ideal man for the office.
Tho macmillan nnor, Io,eo ,,rooro,,,
of photoplays, headed by the great
The Girl and The Came" with dar-
ing Helen Holmes as the heroine, will
be shown at the Auditorium tonight.
Tomorrow night, special Rluebird
feature, The Grip of Jealousy" with
Louise Lovely.
The engagement of Mr.. T. Robert
LoCompte, of Washington, D. c., to
Miss Martha Jane Bartlett, of Cen
treville, has been announced recent
ly. Mr.. LeCompte is the son of Mr..
Samuel z. LeCompte, of this city,
while Miss Bartlett has many friends
here, having been the guest of Mrs.
Carlton H. Waller upon several oc-
casions.
Workmen today started work on
the demolishment of the oyster house
of Capt. Levi B. Phillips, situated in
East Cambridge, at the end of the
railroad, on the creek. Captain Phil
lips expects to start at once on the
erection of a modern, up-to-date
building, and whereas the building of
his brother, Col. Albanus Phillips,
proprietor of A. Phillips & Co., was
the latest thing in modern construc-
ton last year, the new building, it
is reported, will contain a number of
features not incorporated in the 9TH
er building.
Does advertising pay? Of course,
there are few people who think
not; they did not think the increas-
ed expenditure for good roads would
pay; they do not think improved
machinery an improvement over the
old hand labor plan; in fact, they
think, apparently, that the Pilgrim
Fathers got along very nicely, ana
cannot see why anyone should desire
change from the days of a century
or so ago, but then the real, live bus
mess man thinks and knows differ
emily; he knows that advertising
brings people to his place of bust
ness; he knows that it is easier to
sell an established advertised brand
of goods than one that is not Ma
than's Furniture Store knows that it
sold 400 brooms last Saturday after
noon in a half an hour, as the result
of advertising. II they had not been
advertised, no one would have known
that they had brooms to sell.