The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-04-18
CAMBRIDGE, MD, APRIL IS, 1917
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

Mr.. Richard Smith is spending a
| short time this week in Baltimore on
! a business trip.
Mr. Harry Wilson left on the boat
/ last night for Baltimore, where he
/ will spend a short time this week.
Capt. George Hubbard was a pas
senger on the boat last night for
Baltimore. where he will spend sew
eral days.
Mr. William B. Yates was a pas
| senger on the train this morning fo1
Baltimore, where ne will spend sew
eral days.
Mr.. Roscoe Leonard left on the
B., C. & A. boat last night for Balti-
more, where he will spend several
days this week.
Mr. and Mrs James Busick and
| Miss Loleta Wilson left on the train
! this morning for PhiladeIphia,W where
they Will spend several days.
Mr.. Paul Lee, who has been visit
ing his father, Mr.. George Lee, at
his home on Muir street, returned Oh
the boat last night to Baltimore.
Miss Shirley E. Skinner, who has
/ been visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Edgar NJ. Skinner, left Mon
| day for Roanoke, where she will re-
sumo her studies at Virginia College.
Mrs. w. F. Ekas and little daugb-
| ter, who have been visiting Mrs.
Ekas' parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel
| Brohawn, at their home on Race St,
/ left on the boat last night for Balti-
more.
A package of tickets, numbered
| from ISL to IFS, for the Mock Trial
on next Monday night, has been lost
by Arnold Leonard. The finder will
kindly return same to the Banner
office. Those tickets will not be re-
deemed at the Postofiice Pharmacy
or the Cambridge Opera House.
Francis X. Bushman, the worlds
! most popular motion picture hero,
with Beverly Bayne, In Diplomatic
Service" a big feature of Americas
entrance into the great European
conflict, at the Grand Opera House
tonight. Other photoplays include
, a big L-Ko comedy scream.
Mr.. Calvin Harrington, trustee,
So1N at puDilS GotlC at INC S'tIuA
/ House door, yesterday afternoon,
through Hastings Bros, auctioneers,
thehome place of the late w f. Col
district, near Golden Hill, to Mrs.
| Clara E. Gootee, of Golden Hill, the
price paid being $500.
We call especial attention TO an az
ticle, which appears else where in
this issue, from the National City
Bank of New York. the largest Ma
tional Rank in the United States,
having a capital of $25, 600, 900, and
surplus and undivided profits of $751;
100000. This article deals With the
food situation in this country, and is
we'll worthy of the attention of ey-,
cry Intelligent citizen.
Mr.. Stuart Bready, special agent
of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington Railroad Co., spent
sometime in Cambridge today and
while here made addresses at the
public schools on the subject of safe
ty. The Railroad Company has for
number of years conducted an ac
tive campaign in the matter of edu-
eating the public to avoid unneces-
sarily jeopardizing their lives by
walking on the railroad tracks, and
other properaty. Hundreds Of lives
are lost every year by persons walk
ing along the railroads for the pur-
pose of taking short cuts" etc.
Mr.. Wesley Webb, of Dover, sec
rotary to the Peninsula Horticultural
Association, of which Mr.. Samuel L.
Byrn, of near Cambridge, is presi-
dent, spent several hours today in
Cambridge on business in connection
with the Association. Mr.. Webb, who
was caller at this Office, states that
Delaware farmers are making active
preparations to largely increase the
acreage of land under cultivation not
only because of the patriotic appeal
to the farmers of the country, but
also because they believe this will be
the most successful year the farmers
in this country have ever known.