The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-09-14
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight

/ Miss Lucille Gerlach has retrrEeG
tome, after having spent sonac1r,o,
in Harrisburg. Pa.
Mr.. Herman S. Holland, of Easton
spent several days this week in Cam,
bridge on business trip.
Mr.. John M;tthews and fan ily
| have returned home, after spending
a short time IN Baltimore
| MIR. Granville Lewis, of Lynch
burg. Va, is visiting his uncle, DR.
Guy Steele. at his home OF Church
street
Mrs. Richard Templeman Naylor
! OF Ruxton, is the guest of Mrs. I'd
gar A. Jones, at her home on Oakley
street, this city.
Mrs. Milbourne Cannon has re-
turned home, after spending some
time in Baltimore as the guest of
friends and relatives.
Mrs. John F. Nichols has return; i
to her home on Maryland avenue, af-
ter having spent sometime in Balti-
rore and Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. F. Snow left on
the steamer last night for Balti-
more, to s:,ad several days as the
guests of their daughter Mrs Harry
Woodrow
Miss Clara Plumber who has been
spending sometime at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. Martin w Smith, High
street, has returned to her home III
Philadelphia.
Miss Lennie Robbins lett gu the
B.. c. & a. Loaf last night ,or her
home in Baltimore, after having
spent a few days as the guest Of rel;.-
tjyes in Cambridge.
The steamer Dorchester came
down from Baltimore this rn3rning.
but though she comes once in a
while, the officials at the wharf state
that there is no certainty as to whe-
Their or not she will run regularly
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Geoghegan
and son. Henry, of Newark, Worces-
ter county, spent last week in Cam
bridge and Taylor's Island, visiting
relatives and friends. The trip was
made in Mr.. Geoghegan's touring car
Mrs. W. c. Hearn left yesterday
afternoon for Baltimore, where she
will remain until the first of Novem-
Der, after which time she and her
husband will move to New Haven,
Conn, where they will make their flu
ture home.
Sheriff Sherman requests that the
person who found his automobile
numbers, No. 25262, kindly return
same just as promptly as possible, as
it is more or less embarrassing to the
Sheriff to have to ride around with
out them.
When he failed to enlist his sweet
heart gave him white feather. Mon
tbs afterward he sent the feather
hack to her: it was no longer white,
as he had been wounded in battle,
where he proved that he was not a
Stacker, in over There, the big fea-
ture of the present war, at the Grand
Opera House tonight.
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Woolford,
of this city; Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel w.
Woolford, of Woolford, and Miss Vir-
ginia Webb, left this afternoon by
automobile for Chesapeake City,
where they will spend several days
as the guests OF Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Reese, and Mrs. Harry H. Howard.
Complete returns from all of the
districts in the county show that the
registration last Tuesday resulted in
the listing of 3.167 persons. or near
ly fifty per cent more than were reg
istered last year, when the men be-
tween the ages of 81 and 81 were
enrolled
The tomato is not nearly so popu-
lar at this time as it was year
ago, or, in fact, a few weeks ago.
That article of food which used to
be called a 'tomat," and then a to-
mato, Qong "A") but which later
| became a tomato, (real broad 40
! is now just a plain old ''tomat, y
bringing only zoe. basket. We won
der why the potato never became a
potato (broad APO
A case of much interest TO the pee
pie of the upper portion of the coun-
" is expected to come up for trial
in the Wicomico County Circuit
Court next week, when the Howeth
versus Reid case, which was remoy-
ed from this county to Salisbury,will
be brought up. The case was tried
at the April term of the Dorchester
County Circuit Court, but the jury
could not agree upon a verdict.
The wool Tor knitting sweaters for
| the drafted men has been received
and the committee urges that all
persons who can or will find the time
to knit such sW eaters get wool and
get started, as soon as possible. Ii
| is quite likely that considerable
number of men will shortl| he CALI
ed, and it is important that the
sweaters be ready for them. che wool
en- be secured at Red Cross Head
quarters in the New Armory.
The Local Board is badly ii need
of help, and earnestly requests that
all persons who can possibly do SO
such as preachers, teachers, lawyers
stenographers, book-keepers, etc
will try and give them aid for al
hour or so tonight. Copies must bf
made of all of the cards of regis
trants last Tuesday, and these mus
be forwarded to the Proves. Marsha
General at once. If there is delay
h. at no