The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-28
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Grand Opera House tonight

Mr.. Vernon +. Thomas was grant
ed a divorce yesterday from his wife,
Mrs. Margaret \. Thomas.
Miss Jessie Dali will hold a box
social at Middletown school Friday
night, the proceeds to go to the Red
Cross.
Mrs. W. Grason Craig was a pas
senger on the steamer Joppa last
night for Baltimore, where she will
spend d few days this week.
Miss Nettie Y. Mace, who has been
spending the past week at her home
in this city, left on the b., c. x \.
steamer last night for Baltimore, en-
route for Annapolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. William II. Hooper
have returned from Norfolk, where
| they visited their son, Mr.. Scion E.
Hooper, who is student in the Re-
serve Officers School at the U. S.
Naval Operating Base, near Hamp-
ton Roads.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. P. Vinton receiv-
ed a letter today from their son,
Laird, who, as a member of Co. C,
seth [. S. Engineers, has been i'll
France for several months. He
writes that he was recently assigned
to duty with the British Royal Engi-
neerS, but later on expects to rejoin
his own company.
Senator and Mrs William F. APP
plegarth, and Mrs. Hubert Apple
garth, left today for Atlantic City,
to attend the Bankers Convention.
Messrs. Milford Nathan, vice-presi-
dent, and L. Thurman Phillips, cash
Ter, also left to attend the Conven-
ton, so that the Farmers & Mer
chants National Bank is well repre-
scented. The other banks, it is stat
ed have not sent any representatives
at all.
Elsie Ferguson, the famous stage
star, in her second big Aircraft fea-
ture; The Rise of Jennie Cushing"
again this famous beauty scores a
big triumph. This picture is entire
ly different from her other feature,
and you are bound to like it. Ros
coe (Fatty) Arbuckle. the screens
funniest fat man, in His Wedding
Night" and you can bet Fatty is
a scream in this one. Don't miss
this big show at the Grand Opera
House tonight.
Mr.. Charles X. Dill received a
message yesterday that his brother,
Mr. Carroll Dill. had been seriously
injured in an automobile accident in
Philadelphia Saturday. SO far as
could be learned, Mr.. Dill and an
other gentleman, who is employed
| by the same firm, were out in an au-
tomobile which was driven into a
hole thirty feet deep, caused by a
cavern of the street upon which
they were driving. Mr.. Dill'S lnJu-
ries consisted of several cuts about
the head and body, in addition to
being badly bruised, and are consid-
cred Of a serious nature.
who never read anything, who new
er read the war news, who never
read the general news, who never
read anything except few bits OF
social news, and l just think how
awfully shallow they are, some of
them have good minds, some of them,
in fact, most of them, have many adj
vantages, and yet they are wasting
away their very lives upon surface
things, superficialities, things that
mean nothing and count for nothing
in the great plan of every human
life. Like birds of prey; they fit
hither and thither, seeking only to
extract something for nothing, to
garner where they have not planted,
sowing seeds of unhappiness, of dis
trust and discomfort, using all of the
beautiful things of the world, drink
ing deeply and fully from natures
fountain of plenty, but in reality on
ly a source of worry, of disappoint-
ment, incapable of appreciation,
fiittering away the precious mo-
ments of life, percious moments that
should be spent in service, in MAX
ing someone happier, in shedding
rays of sunshine into the lives of all.
VIII they ever wake up land what
will be the state of their minds when
they do awaken to a just understand
ing of how they have fooled away
their time, dissipated their talents,
and brought so much of misery, per-
haps want, into a world that was in
tended to be bright and joyous?