The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-19
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

Cn1S week IN BalIlmOre.
DR.. P. P. Payne has returned to
his home in this city, after having
spent several days in Baltimore.
Sheriff George F. Sherman, who
recently took charge of the Sheriff's
office, has named as his deputy Mr..
d. Henry Turner.
Mr. George Bell, of Baltimore, ar
rived in Cambridge this morning to
spend several days with friends in
town and the county.
Miss Ida Meredith, of Western
Maryland College, Westminster, Nd,
arrived on the train last night to
spend the Christmas vacation at
her home in this city.
In the Banner yesterday we stated
that those knitting sweaters for the
drafted men should put on 80 to 35
stitches, when we should have said
60 to 65 stitches.
Mrs. William B. Chapman, of Will
mington, arrived in this city on the
train last night to visit her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. William B. Richardson,
at their home on Maryland avenue.
Miss Louise Linthicum, a student
of Western Maryland College. is
spending the Christmas vacation at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Linthicum, near Church
Greek.
Messrs. Julian James and Norman
l.. Wilson, students at ST. Johns
College, Annapolis, are st their
homes in this city, St. Johns having
been closed Oil account of an cpl
demic of mumps.
Motor car tags for 1918 are being
issued by Commissioner Baughman,
V no urges all to have their tags by
January LIST, and in order to do this
to send their applications at once.
He wants his Office to keep right UP
With the work.
Tie Postofiice Department at
Washington has instructed postmas-
: tCrs to have their offices open on
Sunday. Dec. %, to $50 a. m, and
$50 to ) p. III. for the receipt and
: delivery % mail. as the following
! Tuesday will BE Christmas.
The Local Draft Board for Dor
chester county and the Legal Advis-
DRY Board will hold sessions each
night in the week from seven to ten
| o'clock, for the purpose of helping
persons requiring assistance in fill
ing out the questionnaires.
The Rev. Edward l.. Hubbard, d.
D.. will deliver his lecture, Funny
Things in Methodism," at Beckwith
Hall Thursday night, Dec. 9th. The
public is cordially invited to be
present. A small admission price
will be charged.
Csc. buys Thrift Stamp, sixteen
stamps fill a card, which, with the
payment of a few cents, may be ex-
changed for War Savings Certifi-
cate, which will be redeemed by the
government at the postoffice in 1928
for $500. Your money draws four
per cent. compound interest.
This week is Maryland Week, and
meetings of the following societies
will be held at the Hotel Emerson,
Baltimore: Maryland State Horti-
cultural Society, Maryland Agricul-
tural Society, Horticultural Society
and Crop fff I I3feTeHaent Association,
Dairymen's Association.
Miss M. Cecilia Vickers, student
at st. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg,
Md, and one of her schoolmates,
Miss May Driscoll, of Savannah, Ca,
arrived in Cambridge on the train
last evening They will spend their
Christmas vacation with Miss Wick
ers' parents, at their home near
Church Creek.
There will be a business meeting
of the newspaper men of the Eastern
Shore at Salisbury next Saturday. TO
discuss general conditions in the
business. Prices of all supplies used
in the production of newspapers have
increased greatly, and so far no
means has been discovered by the
country newspapers of passing the
increased cost along.
State Senators Newton R. D. AL
len. of Baltimore county, and Rich
ard A. Johnson, of Howard county,
were in Cambridge yesterday for a
short time. The gentlemen are
members of a Committee appointed
by the Senate at the special session
to make an examination of all OF
the farming property owned by the
State in connection with its various
institutions.
1t is not the person who saves
spasmodically that is successful; it
is the one who saves regularly and
Systematically who comes out ahead.
Such a person has money to invest
when there is money to be made.
Buy War Certificates and Thrift
Stamps and get the best savings Sc
C>rity the world has ever known.
For sale at your postofice or any
bank, and at many business places.
By purchasing War Certificates
and Thrift Stamps you are helping
the government, you are backing up
your own boys and friends who are
fighting, you are showing your 10y
atty and patriotism, you are saving
money you have the best security in
the world, you are getting good
rate of interest, and you are form
ing habits of thrift which will even
tually be of the greatest value to
you.
The public schools in this county
will close on Friday of this week for
the Christmas and New Years holi-
days and it is reported will be clos
ed for two weeks. The extended
holiday is the result of two special
facts; in the first place, owing to the
shortage of coal, the school authori-
ties do not deem it wise to open the
schools for three days only, as the
amount of fuel consumed would be
almost as great as if the schools
were run the whole week, and by
keeping the schools closed for the
whole week ~he fuel supply for 200
schools will be conserved. In the
second place, it has been the expert
ence of practical school men that a
| broken" week; that is. one in
which there are two or three days
holiday, is not productive of actual
results in proportion to the expense
| incurred in running the schools 1t
very frequently happens that many
pupils are absent, work is not we'll
] prepared and the general situation is