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Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

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Mr.. Elmer Dean is spending a
! short time this week in Baltimore.
Mr. H. w. McCarty, district mama
ger of the c. & p. Telephone Com
pany, spent sometime in Cambridge
today on business.
Mr.. Daniel B. LeCompte left on
the steamer yesterday evening for
Baltimore where he will spend a
short time this week on business.
4 Miss Onoma Brown left on the
boat yesterday evening for Balti-
more, where she will spend several
days this week as the guest of
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Dawson
! left yesterday evening on the steam
er, after having spent the weekend
in Cambridge. having come over for
, the Harrington-Dayis wedding.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Disharoon
and little daughter, of Salisbury,
have returned homeJ after spending
/ the weekend with MIR. and Mrs.
Miles H. Woolford, at their home on
High street.
! Miss Virginia Carly, of Frederick,
and Miss Mary Byrn, of Hood Col
lege, have returned to Frederick, az
ter having spent the weekend with
Mr.. and Mrs Samuel L. Byrn, at
Linden" farm, near Cambridge.
Mr. and Mrs. o. T. Andrews and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Slacum spent
Sunday as the guests of relatives in
Lakes district. They were accompa-
MED home by Mr.. Andrews mother,
who will spend sometime with them.
i Don't miss the big musical show.
j. H. Harris Ideal Girls, with band
! and orchestra. One performance
each night. Free band concert at Z
o'clock in front of the Opera House.
Photoplays start at 40. Nine. Pc
! trova, in Extravaganza will be
shown once only at $50. Musical
show starts at $50.
The Metropolitan Life Insurance
| Co. has sent Mr.. George Dean, one of
| its agents, to the Metropolitan Home
for Recuperation of Agents, at Mt.
McGregor, New York, where he will
/ spend sometime. Mr.. Dean has been
slightly i'll, and threatened with a
general breakdown, for several
weeks, and finally decided to go
/ away and take long rest.
Mr.. Ionic Slacum, of this city, has
entered into a contract with Chas. c.
Fulton & Co., publishers of the Bal
/ timore American, to bring their pa
pers for almost the entire Eastern
Shore from Elkton early Sunday
morning Mr. Slaeum's large auto
mobile goes to Elkton Saturday, leav-
. ing here in the afternoon at four
o'clock, and reaching Elkton about
o'clock; it then waits for the
train which leaves Baltimore at
midnight, and leaving Elkton about
half-past one o'clock comes to 1T
lock, where another auto me-
and takes the papers down
ninsula as far as Crisfel6
The truth of the fe>
story is vouched f. ~
! N. Stichbury, wb ~@as
! sitting in the lillian
! Spedden, in dct, last
Monday, wheA across the
! porch into thef 1fonowed close
| ly by a dog, at II same time the oc-
cupants of the room heard a Kissing
sound, and in a very short time a
large black runner snake glided in
I to the room, Missing all the time, and
coiled in front of the mantel; just as
! it had raised up to spring, Mr.. Stitch
| bury struck it, and repeating the
blow, killed it, The snake measured
4 feet 91a inches in length and
seemed very angry. Apparently it
! had been disturged either by the cat
| or dog, and had glided into the room
! for the purpose of attacking its enc
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