The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-07-05
HBrief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

4 There Will be meeting OF the
Boy Scouts tonight at ! o'clock.with
drill at 80 O'Clock.
Mrs. Marion Cook left on the e>rIy
train Yesterday for fredericksburg.
where she will visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. George F. Harris, or
I Baltimore. are visiting Mrs. Mary H.
! Ennis. at her home on West End
I avenue.
Mr. Charles S. Jackson. of the
! United States Internal Revenue Ser
vice, is spending a few days in Cam
/ bridge
Mrs. Edwin Griffith is spending
several days in this city visiting Mrs.
! William Fletcher. at her home on
/ High street.
I Mr. Robert G. Henry is spending Il
few days with his mother, Mrs. Rob
ert G.. Henry, at her home on Will
! liam street.
Misses Vivian and Doris Eskridse
left this morning for Portsmouth
Va, where they will spend the rest
of the summer.
Mrs. A. c. Marks. OF Washington,
D. c.. is spending sometime with
her mother, Mrs. Mary H. Ennis,
West End avenue.
Mrs Lindsay c. Marshall and two
children, Angelina and Frances, are
spending the month at Warrenton,
Va, visiting relatives.
Mr. Robert Ransone OF Chester,
/ Pa, spent yesterday with his moth
er, Mrs John W Ransone, at her
home on Locust street.
Mrs. John W. Matthews is spend
ing ten days in New York city, visit
| ing her son and daughter-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Wesley ID. Matthews.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Miller and
son, Ralph, Jr., of Baltimore, are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Mat
! thews, at their home con West End
avenue.
Mr.. Gilbert Robertson, of Balti-
more, is spending a few days with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ
! Robertson, at their home on Glasgow
! street, this city.
Misses Fannie and Margaret Mat
thews left Tuesday morning for New
t York city, where they will attend the
summer sessions of Columbia Uni
versity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Scott and
| daughter, Marian, left last night for
Baltimore, after having been the
! guests of Mrs SCOTS parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. E. Denham.
Mr.. Richard Hughlett, Jr., has
! been awarded the contract for eXca-
waiting and grading for the new Ar
mory to be built at Hyattsville, by H.
| d. Watts & Co.
! Mrs Guy Stoker and son, Guy
! Emerson left on the boat last night
/ for Baltimore, where they Will visit
Mrs. Stoker's sister. Later they will
spend sometime at Bel Air, Ma
Mr.. Clarence Todd left OF the
early train yesterday enrout9 fer
Topeka, Kansas, after having been
| the guest cf his mother, Mrs. + y.
! Todd, at her home on Nue d. L5 Eau
street.
The contracts of the Postal Tele
graph Co., with the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company having expired
the business from Cambridge is now
handled by the Western Union Tete-
| graph Company, the Western Union
contracts starting July 1St.
Bailiff Charles G. Pritchett was
fined 81 and costs by Police Justice
George w. James, after hearing the
evidence Tuesday morning, upon the
charge of assault and battery upon
his wife. He took an appeal from
the magistrates decision to the Cir
cult Court.
Mr.. E. r. Christopher, 21S High
street, this city, who enlisted a few
days ago for the Field Artillery, will
leave tonight on the boat for Balti-
more, enroute for Columbus, Ohio,
to be sworn in, in order that he may
take up his new duties with Uncle
Sans fighting force.
The solicitors for the Red Cross
Society had short rest yesterday,
| but today entered the work with re-
newed vigor. Dorchester county must
raise $4,000 for this cause. Talbot,
Wicomico and other neighboring
counties have already given this
amount. The need for the money is
right now, and it is hoped that ev-
eryone will do his share.
''Patria," the big preparedness
serial, which started at the Grand
Opera House last night, and pleased
such large crowd, will be shown
hereafter on Tuesdays. Be sure you
see the next chapter; it is called
THE Treasure" and will be shown
in addition of tthe regular Para
| ,,l,
Behan, the famous actor, in the big
political feature, His Sweetheart" "
Mr.. James Brummette, of this
city, is in the hospital as the result
of the car which he was driving last
night crashing into a culvert on the
State road, between the Washington
Street Railroad Station and Race St
The accident occurred early in the
evening, and was the result of Mr..
Brummette being blinded by an ap-
preaching autom obile. The cal
which he was driving was badly dam
aged. and it is feared that Mr.. Brum-
mette's injuries may prove serious.
On account of the increased ex-
penses in connection with the opera
ton of their plants, the Dorchester
| w a1ef company anu the Cambridge
Ice Co., have reduced their dividends
to a one per cent. quarterly basis.
Both of these stocks were formerly
upon an per cent basis, but owing
to the increased cost of coal and 9th
err materials. the directors reduced
the stock to a four per cent basis fol
the present. In letter sent out the
hope is expressed that the Compa
MES will be in a position to resume
the former dividends in the next few
months.
Be prepared to be tagged on Sat
urday, for the young ladies of Zior
, Church are going to sell tags for The
benefit of the Red Cross Fund. This
should be enough. for everyone
, knows the work of the Red Cross
and it has the endorsement of al
nations. belligerents or neutrals, fol
, il is the only practical method b!
which relief can be given to the sol
diers and sufferers of the war. b
prepared to give, literally and cheer