The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-05
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

Miss Nita Perry returned home OF
the train last night, after having
spent the holidays in Baltimore.
The friends of Mrs. Levin Pylan
will regret to learn that she is yer.
i'll at her home on Race street.
Miss Mamie Corner has returned
to her home in this city, after spend
ing the holidays in Baltimore.
Mr.. J. H. Burgess was passen
| ger on the morning train for Balti
more, after having spent severa
days in this city.
Misses Lula Holland, Margare
Holland, and Eloise Edger have re
turned to their homes, having spen,
| several days at houseparty in Sea
ford
Miss 1mogene Seward, daughter Of
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Seward oil
Stewards, left this week for Wilmore
Pa, where she will become a teacher
mi the high school in that city.
Lieutenant Lawrence F. Simmons
of Camp Lee, Virginia, is home on g
furlough, visiting his parents, Secre.
tary of State and Mrs. Thomas w
Simmons, at their home near town
Miss Bertha Nathan left ON the
morning train, enroute for New
York city, where she will spend
sometime as the guest of her aunt
Mrs. Stuard Hirischman, and other
relatives.
The Christmas entertainment hello
at Madison on Christmas night, un-
der the direction of Miss Lulu Sta
pleforte, was quite success. The
children took their parts we'll and
did much credit to their director.
Mr.. Henry Hooper, who has been
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William H. Hooper, at their home on
Oakley street, left on the train this
afternoon for Philadelphia, to re-
sumo his studies at the University OF
Pennsylvania.
Mrs. John G. Mills returned home
on the train last night. after having
spent a short time with her daugh-
ter. Mrs. Harold Tschudi, at her
home in Baltimore. She was accom-
panied by Miss Frances Insley, who
has been visiting relatives in that
city.
The infant daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John H. Fam, OF Baltimore,
died this morning at the home OF
Mr.. Robert Gootee. on West Emo
avenue. Funeral services will be
held from theA.home of Mr.. Gootee
Monday afternoon at $50 o'clock,
with interment in Cambridge Gene
terry.
Prof. Leon Hanford Jones, princi-
pal of the East New Market High
School, left this week for Norfolk,
to enter the commissary department
of the Fifth Naval District, U. S. Ma
val Reserve Force. Mr.. Jones, who
is a graduate of Washington College,
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hanford
Jones, of Church Creek.
At a Thrift Meeting held Tuesday
night at Spedden's Hall. in the Neck
district, $4,000 was subscribed in
War Savings Stamps. The people of
that section expect to increase their
subscription to $2,500. The speak
ers were DR.. B w Goldsborough,D DR..
E. L: Hubbard, and Mr.. Edgar B.
Charlie Chaplin IN his last and
best picture. The Adyenturer, will
be shown at the Grand Opera House
tonight. The heating apparatus.
which was out of commission this
week, has been repaired, and every
thing will be done for the comfort
of the patrons. other photoplays
are included in the bill.
The Cambridge High School and
the Cambridge Academy will not
open Monday, as it was expected, but
will be closed for several days on
account of frozen pipes. 1t will be
announced through this paper when
they will be opened. Peach Bios
som and East Cambridge schools will
open Monday, after having been
closed for the Christmas and New
Years holidays.
Two fires occurred recently, the
one last night at. the home of MI.
Brad Franta.n, on Trenton street,
which caught from the chimney, hay
ing been of slight nature. Another
fire this morning, at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Merrick, on
Washington street, was of more
serious nature. A defective f1ue
caused the upper part of the house
to catch fire. Rescue Fire Company
answered both alarms.
The marriage of Miss Louise
White Wilson, niece of Mr.. and Mrs.
Levin S. Dali, to Lieut.. Horace G..
Longaker, will take place quietly on
Wednesday, January the 9Th, at IL
O'Clock, at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Dali, on High street. Only the
members of the two families will be
present, and wedding breakfast
will follow. Lieut.. Longaker is As
sistant Surgeon at the Naval Operat-
ing Base, at Hampton Roads. Va.
Miss Aurelia Dashiell, who made
an appeal in The Banner yesterday
for material for her class to continue
making bed slippers for the soldiers,
wishes to say that she does not ask
anyone to purchase material for
this purpose, but rather give any
scraps which may be in the home.
Anyone wishing to make such con-
tribution may communicate with
Miss Dashiell, and she will call for
them. or send them to the Seventh
Grade of the Cambridge High
School, of which she is teacher.
List of letters remaining uncalleo
for in the Cambridge postoffice to
Jan. 5: Geo. NJ. Collins, Tony Dali
fonson, E. G. Dabest Candy Co., Joe
Edghane, J. G. Hardesty, H. E
Cook, Mr.. and Miss Kohring, c. R
Jackson. C. H. Mills, Albert w
Sharp, j. R. Stokes, Walter Wright
Miss Maud H. Carter, Miss Nora
Chester, Mrs. ]. e. Dom, Miss Mao
mie ,wney, Miss Laura Hubbard
Miss Josephine Johnson, Mrs. Caro-
]inie Limore, Miss Clare Parker Mrs
Robert, Miss Sallie Seward. Mis-:
Amelia Tyler, Mrs. Mary Wilson,
G. Walter Wright Postmaster