The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-02-16
The DAILY BANNER
Published Daily Except Sunday
CAMBRIDGE. MD. FEB. 10. 1915
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.


Messrs. j. Simmons and Frank
Dawson are spending several days
in Cambridge Mr.. Frank Dawson is
now located in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs Ivy l.. Phillips, who
have been spending several days in
New York and Philadelphia, arrived
home last night on the train.
Secretary of State Thomas W Sim
mons, who has been spending a por-
ton of the past week at Annapolis,
arrived home yesterday evening on
the train.
Mr.. William S. Mallonee left on
the train this morning for Whining
ton and Baltimore, where he will
spend several days with relatives
and friends.
Prof. James B. Noble, Superinten-
dent of the County Schools, who
attended the school meeting at An
napolis Thursday, has returned to
! his home in this city.
There will be an important meet
! ing of the Girl Scouts Monday after
noon at the Parish House at four
o'clock. All members are urgently
requested to be present.
State Land Commissioner James
S. Shepherd is spending the week
end with his family, at their home
on Oakley street, having arrived
home last night on the train.
Mr.. Harlan H. Wilson, who is
Woman of the LIST Glass, United
States Navy, is spending two days
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
ry Wilson, at their home on Race
street.
Judge John r. Pattison, of the
Court of Appeals, was a passenger
on the train last night, having re-
turned from Annapolis to spend the
weekend with Mrs. Pattison,a lat their
home on Mill street.
Mr.. Leslie McQuilkin, Government
Inspector on the Cambridge Post
office, has returned. Now that the
weather has moderated, work on the
| Postoffice Building will be pushed
| forward just as rapidly as possible.
! Mr.. Edwin Howard, who has been
! spending short vacation with his
| father, Commander Thomas c. B.
| Howard, at his home on High ST.,
left this morning on the early train
enroute for Baltimore, to resume
| his duties with the Internal Revenue
! Service.
Douglas Fairbanks. at the Grand
Opera House, in The Good Bad
Man, a sensational Western drama,
and THE Fighting TRAIL the big
| Western serial, make a big double
| Western bill tonight. This is show
everyone wants to see. There will
be no disappointments, as the entire
show is here.
Reports from different sections of
the county bring the agreeable in
! formation that the snow and ice is
rapidly disappearing from the roads
and fields, and that, apparently, but
little damage has been done. In
number of sections of the Shore, on
| account of poor drainage, whole
| fields are covered to a depth of sew
eral inches with the water, seriously
threatening growing wheat.
Several persons reported during
the past two weeks the killing of
large numbers of chickens; from
the diiseFFiippt lea of the manner in
which the chickens were killed it
| became apparent that a weasel was
responsible for the killing. The
animal was recently killed and may
De seen in the window of Tschan-
tres store, Poplar street. Several
| years ago, a weasel which made its
home in the lumber yard of the firm
of Thomas Higgins & Son, at Vienna,
killed very large number of chick
ems before it was finally killed. 1t
| is reported that weasels very seldom
eat any portion of a chicken that
they kill. their only desire being for
the blood, which they suck from the
veins of the chicken.
Of much interest throughout Mary
land is the announcement of the en-
gagement of Miss Margaret c. Bayly,
daughter of Mr.. A. Hamilton Bayly,
and the late Mrs. Bayly, Of Cam
bridge, Md, to DR.. Brice w. Colds
borough, also of Cambridge. Miss
Bayly, who is one of several attrac-
tive sisters, is granddaughter of
the late DR.. Alexander Hamilton
Bayly, of Cambridge, and has been
the guest here on number of occa-
sions of her aunt, Mrs. James H.
Gator, at Earl Court. DR.. Goldsbor
ough, who is a son of Paymaster
M. Worthington Goldsborough, US.
N, retired, is a brother of former
Gov. Phillips Lee Goldsborough. He
frequently visits here, his daughter,
Mrs. Burr Powell Harrison. The
wedding will probably take place in
the spring Baltimore
Sun.