The daily banner., 1919-08-23

Brief Local News

Miss Ruth Phillips is spending Sc
eral days at Ocean City.
Miss Frances Marshall left thi
morning for Annapolis, enroute fo
Warrington, Va.
Mrs. Joseph w. Phelps is spend
ing several days as the guest o
relatives in Salisbury.
Misses Essie Bunch and Claudin,
Jarrett, of Virginia, are guests o
Miss Lola Sulivane, this city.
Mrs. Harry keenan, and children
left this afternoon, enroute for Re
hoboth, Del, where they will spenC
sometime.
Col. John w. Sherwood, of Wash
ington, D. c., is visiting his sister
Mrs. l.. P. Harrison, at her home Oh
Glasgow steret, this city.
Mrs. C. V. Lilies, of Cumberland
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
T. ]. Galloway, at thei rhome or
West End avenue, this city.
Miss Muriel Kurtz, of Stewards
town, Pa, is the guest of Mrs. r
Frank Brannock, at her home Oh
West End avenue, this city.
DR.. A. B. Bennett, ofWashington,
D. c., is in port for several days on
board the yacht Aragon, with Mr..
and Mrs. Carr, as their guest.
Mrs. SaIlie I. Buck, who has been
spending sometime in Philadelphia,
as the guest of her son, has return
ed to her home in Cambridge.
Mrs. Daisy Hall and children, of
SteWartstown, Pa, are visiting Mrs.
Halls sister, Mrs. r. Frank Bran
mock, 219 West End avenue.
Mr.. Harold Tschudi, of Baltimore,
is spending a few days with Mrs.
Tschudi, at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Mills, Oakley
street.
Mrs. Willie A. Martin has return
ed to her home on Glasgow street,
this city, after having spent the past
two weeks in Canada and Niagara
Falls.
Miss Myrtle Blades, of Whining
ton, and Miss Mable Blades, of Po-
comoke City, are visiting their aunt,
Mrs. John w. Brown, Choptank ave-
nue., this city.
Mrs. John Fitzgerald, of Balti-
more, is spending several days as
the guest of her aunt, Miss Mary
Byrn, at her home on High street,
this city.
Mr.. George H. Dawson, of the
State Auditors Department, is spend
ing the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
L. Eugene Ross, at their home on
William street.
Mrs. Edwin C. Hopkins is spend
ing sometime at Atlantic City, hav-
ing accompanied her son, Mr.. Ed
win G. Hopkins, Jr., who spent sew
eral days here this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Phillips and
little son, Denny Powell, have return
ed to their home in Honolulu, after
spending sometime with Mr.. Phil
lips parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Luther
Phillips, Locust street.
Miss Nettie V. Mace, State Libra
rian, arrived in Cambridge last night
after having spent the past ten
da, and will spend the remainder of
her vacation with her sister, Mrs.
George w. Woolford, Glasgow st.
Quite a number of persons have
expressed their intention of attend
ing the League of Nations meeting
at Ocean City tomorrow. The meet
ing is in the interest of the ratif1ca-
ton of the present treaty which is
being held up by the Republicans in
the United States Senate to which
body it was sent several months ago
by President Wilson.
Three airplanes few over Cam
bridge about one o'clock today, the
machines making a circle over the
city. Many different guesses have
been offered oexplain their pres
ence, one being that they were max
ing an observation of crop condi-
tions in this locality. 1t would seem
most probable, however, that the
planes were enroute to Salisbury,
where they will make flights during
the Fair next week.
! Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Cannon enter
tanned quite a number of young
folks at their home on Cemetery ave-
nue. Thursday evening, the occasion
being the eighteenth birthday ami
versary of their daughter, Miss
Evelyn Cannon. Music and games
were enjoyed during the early part
of the evening latter which the guests
repaired to the dining room, to par
take of the delicious refreshments
which had been prepared for them.
, Miss Cannon was the recipient OF
| large number of very pretty pres
entS.
Mr.. Hillary Blades, of Pocomoke
City, is visiting his sister, Mrs. John
! w. Brown, at her home on Choptank
avenue. Mr.. Blades has just return
| ed from duty overseas having been
home about three weeks. He was q
member of the Army of Occupation
being attached to the 18th Field Ar
! tillery, Fifth Division. His Com
| pany was one of the luckiest thai
went through the war, as notWith'
standing the fact that they were ir
the thick Of the fighting, they die
not have a man killed, and only two
or three wounded.
While not so many residences
have been built in Cambridge this
year, due probably to the great in
creased cost of all materials enter
ing into construction, and the be
lief upon the part of those contem
plating building that such mater1
ais will be lower in year or so
there have been more business stru'
lures erected than in any single
year in the history Of the city, will
theexception if the year following
the fire. There have been construc
ted during the past few months no
less than twelve store buildings, al
of which are said to be rented