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Brief Local News
Grand Opera House tonight.

Mrs. Carlton Waller, of Whining
ton, Del, is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Harper, Locust st.
There viii be i box social at Link
wood Friday evening of this week
April 4th. Everyone cordially in
vited to attend.
Starting this week, the dry goods
ytores OF Cambridge, which have
been closing at five O'CLOCK, during
the winter months, are now keeping
open until six o'clock.
Mr.. l.. Eugene Ross, who, with
Mrs. Ross, has been spending the
winter in Baltimore, has returned tc
his home on William street. Mrs
Ross will return in a few days.
The Forbidden City," Norma Tai
madge's greatest dramatic feature
will be featured at the Grand Opera
House tonight. This is the picture
that created such a sensation at
the New Theatre in Baltimore a few
weeks ago.
We learn our worthy friend, Santa
Anna, of Vienna, in addition to be-
ing a reporter, statesman, and a
jurist, has launched into the medical
profession. He made the announce
ment on Friday evening. More pills.
| Success to him.-Bill Bent.
The Baltimore American, in its
current issue, states that there is q
chance Of electing a Republican May
or of Baltimore as the result of the
| primary contest for the Democratic
nomination for that Office. There is
| degreeof truth in the statement;
there is chance, but it is the kind
of a chance that is fatherod by the
wish rather than the expectation.
Miss Drusilla Phillips, student at
the Peabody Conservatory, will be
the soloist at a musical to be given
in the New Theatre, Baltimore, Sun
! day afternoon, for the benefit of the
boys in the service. She viii be ac-
companied by Miss Lena Stiebler,
teacher at the Peabody, and will rem
der selections by Carrie Jacobs Bond,
Charles Wakefield Cadmon and
Frank Tours.
Rev. Leonard 3. Smith, of Seattle,
Washin gton, is spending sometime in
| Baltimore, where he is attending the
sessions of the Maryland Annual Con-
ference, which opened today. Before
returning to Seattle, Mr.. Smith will
visit his mother, his brothers, Messrs.
Russell P, Edward T. and Carlton
B. Smith, and his. sister, Mrs. Will
liam Phillips, all of this county. Mr.
Smith was pastor Of Christ Metho-
dist Protestant Church, Baltimore,
for several years before accepting
the call to Seattle.
Cambridge Lodge, No. 1872, Be-
nevolent, Protective Order of Eiks,
will be hosts Thursday evening of
this week at Their home, corner High
and Locust streets. The committee
in charge of the arrangements has
succeeded in getting Prof. Arthur
Delroy. an enter tainer of national
reputation. for the eYening, Prof.
FDe1roy coming here from PinehUrst,
N. c., to fill the engagement. Those
who attended the sessions of the
Maryland State Bankers Association
at Atlantic City last summer will re-
member the splendid evenings enter
tainment that he gave the members
of that body.
/ Former GoveInor Charles Whit
man, of New York, has accepted the
invitation of the Salvation Army to
become it's National Chairman for
it's Home Service Fund Campaign,
which begins May 10th. 1t is expec-
ted to raise SIS, 100000 for the ex-
tension of its rescue work and ser
vice to the deserving poor. In ask
ing Governor Whitman to accept the
craftsmanship, Commander Booth, of
the Army, stated that the Governors
familiarity with the work of the Sal
walton Army And the poor, he knew
why the Salvation Army had adopted
as its slogan the phrase, "a Man
May Be Down, But Never Out"
There is quite a great deal of
building going on at this time in
Cambridge, and still more is contem-
plated. and that is the way to keep
business going, TO keep the wheels
of commerce turning; it's a poor
policy that will work but one way,
and if everyone puts OF improve
ments until prices come down, why
should not everyone else put off buy
ing until prices come down? Mr..
Blank will not build because wages,
lumber, nails, hardware, and all
kinds of building supplies are, he
says, high, but Mr.. Blank expects the
carpenter, the lumberman, the hard
ware man, the plasterer, and all the
other fellows to keep on buying his
high-priced stocks, and would think
they were foolish to wait for things
to come down. Business az Usual
is mighty good motto at this time,
and the way to have it is for every
one who can furnish work to do SO.
Prices will come down some after
awhile, but the decline is going to
be gradual and slow, and many a
business concern is going to lose lots
of business and n great many GUS
toners waiting for prices to come
down