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Brief Local News

| Miss Emma Ralph spent yesterday
| as the guest of friends at Sharptown.
| Misses Myrtle and Hazel Meredith
! have returned home, after having
spent a few days in Baltimore.
/ Mr.. and Mrs Fred Drobisch, of Bal
! timore. are spending few days at
| CCrnersville, with Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
! VI. Barrack.
! Mrs. VIM. LangVille and daughter,
Miss Betty. of Baltimore, are visit
ing her sister, Mrs. VIM. c. Barrack,
at Cornersville.
Mr. Felipe Cortes, of Baltimore,
is spending several days in Cam
bridge. as the guest of his brother,
Ir. Scipion Cortea.
Mr. Edwin Howard, OF Baltimore,
spent Saturday and Sunday with his
father, Commander T. c. b. Howard.
/ /. :. n, at his home on High St
Mrs Maggie LansviIle has as her
guest at her home at Cornersyllle
Miss Catherine Swope and Mrs. Hell
! Ell Frank and son. of Baltimore,
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Langville and
SUI, L HOllldS, Vi bdllllilplt. al ASlI
ing Mr.. Langville's aunt, Mrs. Geo.
NJ. Wheatley, Washington street.
Mr.. Lloyd Shorter. OF Wilmington,
Del. spent the weekend as the guest
OF his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
| Shorter. at their home on Light St,
| this city.
Mrs. James X. Spicer, of TayIor's
/ Island snpnHino several DAYS at
the Hotel Dixon. as the guest of her
mother, Mrs. Isabel Robinson, OF
| Washington, d. c.
Mr. and Mrs John H. Cosby, of
| Georgetown, Del, spent sunday as
| the guests of Mrs. Cosby's mother,
Mrs. Robert G. Henry. at her home
! on William street.
Mr.. Oscar X. Wiley, who is en-
ployed at Camp Admiral, spent the
weekend in Cambridge. He reports
that work on the new site is rushing,
but that difficulty is being experience
ed in getting labor.
Mr. and Mrs Charles Dashieli,
| Mrs. Robert TraverS, Misses Nellie
Bothum, Annie Harrison. Roy Hor
! ney have returned from Denton
Camp, having made the trip in Mr..
Dashiell's touring car.
Hon. William H. Maguire, of Madi~
son, who recently announced his can
didacy for the Democratic nomina-
ton for the State Senate, today stat
ed that if nominated and elected, he
would donate his entire salary to the
Red Cross.
Cambridge Lodge, No. l212. re
Gently gave 500 to the Million Dol
lar Fund which is being raised by
the National Order for work in con-
nection with the war. The money
will be expended for hospital work
among the wounded soldiers on the
battle field.
A large number of Cambridge peo-
pie visited Shiloh Camp yesterday.
the crowd there at night being one of
the largest ever seen On the grounds.
Both sides of the two roads whic b
pass the Camp grounds We're lined
with automobiles, it being estimated
by some persons that there were as
many as a thousand care at the
Camp. The Camp closed last night.
Candidates for office on the local
county tickets must file their papers
on or before midnight Tuesday, Au-
gust 21st. Candidates for Comptrol-
/ day. Aug. Tth. So FAR there ha
been but little political activity oil
either side in this county, but with
/ in the next few days it is likely tina
/ the various candidates and thei
friends will begin to hustle.
The same organization which rem
dered such splendid services in rails
/ ing the Red Cross Fund will nov
. take up the work of raising the Com
pany { Fund. The solicitors viii
;. start out at once to collect for tn
g fund, and it should be pleasure a
/. well as a privilege to contribute t
+ this cause, every cent of which viii
E be expended in behalf of our owl
7 military company.
]. Governor Harrington has instruc
ted AdJutant General Warfield t
s designate the States Attorneys il
+ the different counties of the Stat
& to act as the agents of the Govern
I. ment in making appeals from dis
+ charge and exemption rulings of tn
& local draft exemption boards. 1t
/ also reported that the Governor in
+ tends to issue more stringent regu
q lations in the matter of exemption
! as it is determined that every ma
+ who is able shall do his part. b
8 this ruling of Governor Harring
i ton, States Attorney A. Stengle Ma
Z rine, of this county, will act as tn
: Agent of Uncle Sam to appes
! against the exemption claims c
& those drafted.
There is going TO be a not time a
the meeting of the Republican Stat
= Central Committee in Baltim or
!. Wednesday of this week, unless tn
, predictions of the wise ones in tn
. party are wrong. 1t is expected tina
there will be a show down of strer
= 9Th between the two opposing faC
. lions, former Governor Goldsbol
3 ough, William F. Stone, W. Blade
2 Loundes. William T. Warburton an
. others on the one side, and Nations
Committeeman William P. jackson
Ovington Z. Weller, United State
= Senator France and others on tn
4 opposing side. Inasmuch as ther
seem to be some slight differences c
= opinion in both parties, the polit
. clans are all watching each other.
The flight of time means nothin
, to one when that person happens
. be motion picture star. Take Lot
!. Use Huff and Jack Pickford, for in
, stance. 1t was not long ago tia
. these two popular young Famou
X. Players stars were playing ultra-u
: ira persons in Booth Harrington
. Seventeen" and they had no sooa
= er completed work in that pictuf
? than the hands of the studio cloc
. were turned back nearly a hundre
= years-and they found themselve
Dickens characters. In other word
= they are starring in the Famou
q Players adaptation of the celebrate
noyelists Great Expectations
. which is the Paramount attraction