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Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

Grand Opera House tonight
Buy War Savings Stamps to pave
the Allies way to Berlin.
Mrs. James n Thomas is spending
sometime ar Wa .hingLon, d G.
Mrs. Reese Wider and little son
Jack, of Baltimore, are the guests OF
Mrs. Jack Dali, at her home on Chop
tank avenue.
Mrs. EDWARD Thomas is spending
several days with her husband. who
IS III training a: Camp Mcclellan, An
nison, Ala.
Mr.. Preston Horseman and sister,
Miss Della, with Miss Jessie Dali,
spent Sunday as the guests of friends
near Springdale.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. G. Swindell and
son, Master James, of Philadelphia,
are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Jas.
Moler, at their home on Vue de
L'Eau street.
The Farmers & Merchants Nation
al Bank has given five dollars to the
Boys Garden Club of Cambridge, to
help encourage the boys to become
food producers.
Every man and woman displaying
a blue ribbon, marked Honor Roll,
w. S. S." is patriot, and has earn
ed the honor by selling a certain
amount of War Savings Stamps. Are
you helping the good cause?
All leading merchants in Cam
bridge are selling Thrift and War
| Savings Stamps. Don't wait to be
asked, but buy at least one Thrift
Stamp every time you make a pur-
chase. They are the best investment
on earth.
Mrs. Burgess Richardson has re-
turned to this city, after having
spent a month at Easton, where she
gave instructions to the operators Of
the C. & P. Telephone Co., previous
to their entering the new building
which has been built by the company
| at that place.
The booth at the corner of High
| and Locust streets, which will be
| open during the present campaign
for the sale of War Savings and
Thrift Stamps, is in charge of Mrs.
! William n. Andrews, chairman, and
Miss Lille Willis, assistant. The
| booth was opened this morning, and
the first sale was made to Mr.. Jas.
Willis.
The Senior History Glass of the
Cambridge High School will discuss
the history of France from 10 to IL
o'clock tomorrow Thursday morn
ing. This will probably be the last
day that the class will meet for the
| - h cfo a
| public is cordially invited to be
present. Come and learn some in
| teresting facts about our gallant ally.
Old Sport, of Salem, was seen on
the State road the other day driving
his big touring car along at good
rate of speed, but on the back Of it
was tied a bicycle, which it is said
! Old Sport uses when the car breaks
| down. They say he carries rope
under the seat, and when the car
stops, he ties the rope around his
waist, mounts his wheel and speeds
| away.
On account of the storm last Fri
day night, the War Savings Stamp
meeting to have been held in Straits
election district, had to be postpon-
ed, but having taken refuge from the
storm in the store of Mr.. Frank H.
Jones, those in the store were in
vited to invest in stamps. and cut of
| % persons present, rs pledges were
secured. Mrs. Leah e. Moore is in
charge of the campaign in the dis
| trict.
Fanny Ward, the famous star of
stage and screen, is featured in the
big Lasky-Paramount feature, ION
The Level" which will be shown at
the Grand Opera House tonight.
Don't miss seeing Eddie Polo in the
big Western serial, 1.-The Bulls Eye.
Tomorrow Thursday night, Vivian
Martin in Molly Entangled," and
Animated Weekly, featuring the first
fifty Yankees to return to the United
States.
U. N. Bethel, vice-president OF
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, states that reports
now tabulated show that of the en-
ployes of the Bell Telephone System
throughout the country, 119, 4O2 sub
scribed for $8,060,050 in Third Lib
erty Loan Bonds. The average sub
scription was $6S. Mr.. Bethel an
nounces that these figures include
only subscriptions on the company
easy payment plan, no account hav-
ing been taken of subscriptions made
by employees directly through banks
or other channels.