The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-10
Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.


Mrs. Ford Richardson and two lit
tie sons, are visiting her mother, Mrs
James r. Jones, this city.
Reginald Smith, first-class yoeman
who is stationed at Scotland, is
spending furlough with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. B. Smith, of this
city.
The latest reports from Hooper S
Island are to the effect that the sit
the past day or so. although it is still
critical.
The many friends OF little Dorothy
BrambIe, who has been seriously i'll
at her home in this city, with pneu-
monia, Will be glad to learn that she
is rapidly recovering.
Corporal John j. Barth. U. S. A,
Air Squadron, is spending a ten days
furlough with lis parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Barth, at their home
on Maryland avenue, this city.
Don't miss the big moving picture
classic, ITO Hell With The KAISER"
which will be shown at the Grand
Opera Hous etonight, and Saturday,
with special Saturday matinee. This
is the big picture that you have heard
SO much about, the picture that pack
ed Ford's Theatre for two weeks at
from so cents to $3.50 prices.
Funeral services over the remains
of Miss Margaret Holland, who died
at the Cambridge Maryland Hospital
Tuesday afternoon, were held from
the undertaking parlor of w. H. Will
loughby, at East New Market, yester-
day morning, at ten o'clock. with in
terment in the East New Market
cemetery.
Miss Winnifred Dunnock. who has
been spending the holidays with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. M. Dun
mock, at their home at Taylor's Is
land, has returned to Baltimore to
resume her position as milliner de-
signer with HcSchild Kohn & Co.
She was accompanied by Miss Susie
Dunnock, who will be the guest Of
Mrs. Charles Tuhman, of that city.
reports from Huriock, this coun-
ty, to County Health officer Victor
! c.. Carroll, indicate that there are
about two hundred cases of influenza
and that the situation has become so
serious as to necessitate the closing
of the schools, churches, moving pic
+ ture parlor, pool and billiard rooms,
and all other places of public assem-
/ bly,. The merchants have been di-
, rected to close their stores at 7 p.
m, with the single exception of
! Saturday night, until further notice.
List Of letters remaining uncalled
for in the Cambridge postoffice to
January 8: Clarence Bradford, j ohm
B. Dean, Z. Il. English, Charlie Fran
ces, George Fiddler, Johnson & Cas-
| ten, VIM. A. Marsh, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Moore, VIM. Murphy, w. E.
/ Rusmelle, Mrs. AlYerta Cornish. Mrs,
C. E. Howard, Mrs. Lea Layton, Miss
Mary Mcguire, Miss Marie Mache1,
Miss Mildred Mills, Ethel Paine, Mrs.
Gerrit Smith, Mrs. Florence Sthother,
Mrs. Mary Williams, Miss North Viii
son.-G Walter Wright, Postmaster.
Rev. H. w. Dunkley, pastor Of
Grace NJ. E. Church, South, this city,
left on the afternoon train today for
Baltimore, where he will attend the
State Convention for the League
) of Nations, which will convene in
that city tomorrow. Rev. Mr.. Dunk
Hey attends the Convention as a dele
gate, he having been appointed by
Governor Harrington. Rev Willis
H. Brannock, of Baltimore, who is
spending several days in this city,
will occupy Mr.. Dunkley's pulpit Sum
J day morning, and Rev. J. D. Brown
will preach at the night service.
Fourteen new cases OF influenza
have been reported to DR.. E. E.
bridge, since yesterday at noon. This
is a decided increase in the number
of new cases, and indicates that care
full attention is necessary upon the
part of all those who are in contact
with the disease. The advice of DR..
Victor c. Carroll against permitting
children to run the streets and attend
public meetings, and also against the
men and women congregating in
large numbers, is timely, AID, if fol-
lowed. should do much to check the
increase in the disease.
! Postmaster Wright has begun to
move into the new postoffice build
ling, and within the course of the
next few days will be completely re-
moved. Some morning in the very
near future the patrons Of the office
will wake up to find that overnight
the place of business has been
changed from the old location where
! it has been for many years to the
new location, as it is likely that the
actual transfer OF business will be
made at night, SO as TO interfere as
little as possible with the daily bust
ness routine.
Not sufficient business to justify
a boat every day" is said to be the
reason given for cutting down the
steamboat service on the Choptank
river line to three times a week. III
other words, this public service cor.
poration, apparently, cares nothing
for the convenience of the public, ii
alters its schedule to suit its own
convenience, and the public may be
damned for all it cares. Just such
an attitude as this is largely respon-
sible for the Bolshevik conditions in
Russia and Germany today, Unfor.