The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-20

Miss Nettie Mace, State Librarian
is spending a week at her home OF
Glasgow street.
In another column in this issue
will be found a notice of "shot gun
diplomacy" which goes into effect
tonight.
| Miss Margaret Small has returned
to her home on Mill street, after
having completed a three weeks
course at the National Service School
in Washington, D. c.
The Door Between a big Blue
| bird feature, with Ruth Clifford, and
The Mystery Ship" furnish the
thrills at the Grand Opera House to-
night. See Company c in action to-
morrow, matinee and night. Matt
nee starts at $50.
Senator L. Atwood Bennett, of
Salisbury, spent the day in Cam
bridge, looking after his interest in
the suit now pending between Mrs.
Mamie D. Sherman, Miss Nettie
Howeth and Miss Whsle Howeth, of
Reid's Grove, against Isaac S. Ben
| nett and himself.
The band of gypsies which has
been located in the first woods above
Jacktown, on the State road, left
last week. This band has been in
the county for over six months, hav-
ing spent the greater portion of the
winter in Lower Dorchester, near
Grape.
Rev. J. L. Ward will leave tomor-
for Chestertown, after having been
row for Chestertown, after having
been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Waller, at their home on Maryland
Ave. Rev. Mr.. Ward, who served St.
PauPs M. p. Church, this city, eight
years, returned here in the interest
of the Forward Movement, and pre-
scented the issue at both the morning
and evening services yesterday.
Corporal Dawson Foxwell, who has
been connected with the Headquar-
tiers Company of the One Hundred
and Fifteenth Regiment, at Camp
Mcclellan, Admission, Ala, has re-
ceived an honorable discharge be-
cause of physical disability, and has
returned to his home in Cambridge
He expects to resume in a short time
his position with the Cambridge
Electric Light Company.
The members of the John R. Kenly
Post, No. 81, G. A. R., will attend Di-
vine services at Zion Methodist Epis-
copal Church next Sunday, May 26th.
The members will meet at the En-
CINE House at 1890 in the morning
and will go to the church in a body.
They hope to have all of the vete-
rams of the Civil War, both Blue and
Gray, the veterans of the Spanish
American War, and the Boy Scouts
in line with them.
Elsewhere in this issue will be
races to be held at the Dorchester
County Fair Track, Decoration Day,
Thursday, May 30th. In the list will
be found many county horses that
have the reputation of being "goers"
so that some very close and exciting
races may be expected. Every dol
lar of the proceeds goes to the Red
Cross Fund, the race being gotten up
by a number of the horsemen as a
means of helping this fund.
ALI of the employees of the Cam
bridge branch of McCawley & Co., re-
ceived life insurance policies rang
ing from $500 to $1,000 last week;
the size Of the policy depending up
on the length of time that the recipi-
ent had been in the service of the
company The minimum amount of
service emitting an employe to a
policy is six months; all persons en-
ployed for that period of time or
longer were examined without any
costs to themselves, all expenses in
connection with the policies being
borne by the firm.
Mr.. Charles X. Dill, of this city,
| who has long peen a great pigeon
fancier, has in his pens at his home
ON Race street a number of fine
Homer birds, which he has been
training for flyers. On Wednesday
of last week Mr.. Dill sent eleven of
his birds to Philadelphia, by his bro
Their, Mr.. Carroll Dill. The pigeons
were loosed at Broad Street Station,
Philadelphia, at twelve o'clock, noon,
and seven of them were back in
| their pen on Race street, this city, at
four O'Clock on the same afternoon,
having covered the distance in four
hours. OF the four which did not re-
turn, three of them were young
birds, and were not able to hold the
| pace set by the older ones; the
other one, which was purchased by
Mr.. Dill over a year ago, from par
ty in Baltimore, returned to his old
| home in that city. Mr.. Dill states
that it is his intention to ship the
birds to New York for the next fly,
and upon their return, he will send
them on UP to coast as far as the
| State of Maine.