The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-10-08
The DAILY BANNER
Brief Local News
Opera House tonight.

Mr.. Frank j. Tucker, of Baltimore,
is spending few days in Cambridge
and the county.
Mrs. George w. Woolford left on
the steamer last night for Baltimore,
where she will spend short time.
Donald Brown, who recently sIf-
fered a severe wrenching of one of
his knees in football practice, has
sufficiently recovered to be out again
! Mr.. Lloyd Gould has returned to
Wilmington, after spending the past
week with his family, at their home
in this city.
Mr.. Sidney P. Townshend, of Ches-
tertown. Referee in Bankruptcy, is
spending a sho rttime in Cambridge
on business.
Lieut.. Richard H. Dixon, who is
now stationed at Washington, spent
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Rich
ard H. Dixon, at her home on High
street.
| MI ttuu NILS. w lillian Speuucu,
whose marriage occurred during the
summer, have gone to housekeeping,
having leased the residence No. lbs
Church street
Mr.. Ware Wesley Hurley, of Ell
liott, and Miss Vulia r. Pritchett, of
Bishops He,>,.. were married Satur-
day evening ut Grape Parsonage, by
Rev. John NJ. Kelso.
The many friends of First Lieu
tenant Spence Phelps will be delight
ed to learn that he has been cited for
special bravery in action and recon-
mended for promotion to the rank of
Captain.
The Editor OF this paper desires
to publicly express his appreciation
of the very valuable assistance rem
dered him Monday afternoon by a
well-known and popular young gen
tleman, who helped to save one of
The Banner windows from, being
broken.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence a. keene,
who have beer spending several
weeks at Atlantic City, haze return
ed to their home in Cambridge. On
account of the drafting of Mr..
Keenes successor at Craig Hall, he
was requested by the management to
help them out during the rush sea-
SON.
The ladies of Beckwith church will
serve an oyster supper in Beckwith
! Hall Thursday evening, Oct. 10. Sup
per will be served promptly at six
O'Clock, and will consist of oysters in
all known styles and lots of other
good things for which Beckwith festi-
walls are famous Ice cream etc, will
also be served. The price of supper
will be forty cents.
This paper will greatly appreciate
having items of news telephoned or
sent to the Office During these times
Of the great scarcity of help, and
when the demands of public duties
are unusually heavy, it is rather a
| difficult matter to follow up careful
ly and Systematically the various
news leads, and any help that may be
given by the public will aid very IA
terially in getting out paper brim-
full of interesting local news.
| in Wi
found a notice from Mayor Orem,
notifying all theatres, pool and bill
lizard rooms, bowling alleys, churches,
etc., to close at once, and giving no
tice hiatt there will be no more pub
lie meetings of any kind in churches.
halls, etc, until the Health authori-
ties give permission for such. This
notice, of course, refers to all church
meetings, club meetings, lodge meet
ings, etc.
/; There must be no let up in the
Fourth Liberty Loan drive; now is
the critical time when the Loan must
not only be subscribed, but oversub-
scribed. To show the Kaiser at this
time that the American people are
squarely back of the determination
to make the world safe for the flu
ture, will mean the saving of hun
dreds of thousands of lives of Ameri-
can boys; it may mean the saving OF
the lives of many Dorchester county
men. Let there be no slackening
) now, but instead an increased deter
mination to put this loan over in
! the hope that it may be the last one
| These are hard times on practical
; lyly every business enterprise of Cam
. bridge and the county, and it is par
ticularly so upon this paper. as prac-
; tically one-half of our force is either
!. off in the military service or sick. We
regret our inability to comply witt
! the wishes of many persons to pub
lish long articles which are sent tt
, us, but should We do so, we should
be unable to get out any issue at all
as all of the time of our employees
. would be taken in the preparation Of
J such articles, and there would be NJ
time left for the other work neces
sary to get the forms ready fol
putting on the printing press