The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-10-19
Brief Local News

Mr.. William L. Barrett, of Car
ney's Point, is visiting his family, at
their home on Cemetery avenue, this
city.
Rural Carrier VIM. j. Twilley, who
has been i'll for several days, has
recovered and is now on his route
again.
Mr. Thomas Robbins, of Baltimore
spent several days this week in Cam
bridge. Mr.. Robbins enlisted several
weeks ago in the Marine Corps, and
is expecting his call at most any
time
John S. Skinner advertises in this
issue the sale of a large lot of valu-
able farming property, including hor-
SEES, machinery, vehicles and all i'm
plements required to carry on a first
class farm
Mr.. and Mrs. William Nj. Gordy, of
this city, announce the approaching
marriage of their daughter, Ruth, to
Mr.. Benjamin S. Insley. The we'd
| ding will take place at their home on
Belvedere avenue, Saturday morning,
october the twenty-siXth, nineteen
hundred and eighteen, at ten-thirty
o'clock
Miss Nellie Shackelford. who is en-
gagged in government work in Wash
ington, d. c., is spending several
days with her parents, Nh. and Mrs.
Edgar Shackelford, at their home on
Locust street. Miss Shackelford has
as her guests Mrs. George Lace and
the Misses Irene and Jencie Stouten-
burgh, of Washington.
The annual meeting Of the Mary
land Federation of Woman's Clubs,
comprising all Of the various Wo-
mans Clubs of the State, which was
scheduled to be held in Cambridge
on the oath of this month, has been
indefinitely postponed, upon the ad-
vice of Mrs. Frances Sanderson, Pres
ident of the Federation
The American Red Cross has made
a survey of all the nurses in the
country with the idea in view of OBJ
tanning full statistical knowledge of
the nursing resources. All the posi-
BILE pressure that can be brought to
bear not alone in getting the nurses
to fill out the QUESTIONABLE which
has been prepared for the purpose,
but in getting the interested coop
Grafton of the general public in look
ing up nurses and assisting them in
filling out the QUESTIONABLE will be
greatly appreciated.
Nathan's Furniture Store has al
ready had many responses to its adj
vertisement for the pictures of the
men from this county who are in
the service, as will be seen from the
number of pictures on exhibition in
their window on High street. How
ever, these pictures do not represent
one-tenth of the number of men who
are in the service, and it is to be
| hoped that everyone who has a son,
a brother, a father, a mother, sister
or any other relative, will see that
the picture is furnished in order
that the people of the county may
have the opportunity of seeing
those who are in the service.
Local Examiner Robert Christoph-
er will hold examinations on Satur-
day, Nov. 9th, commencing at nine
O'Clock, for the position of Clerk
Carrier at the Cambridge postoffice.
The applications must be made on
the form prescribed by the Civil Ser
vice Board, which may be obtained
from the Local Examiner by applying
at the Cambridge postoffice. mas
much as several days are required in
which to make such corrections in
the applications as are necessary, and
to arrange for the examination, per-
sons contemplating taking it should
secure their blanks as early as pos
sible.