The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1922-06-01
The DAILY BANNtR
CAMBRIDGE, MI, JUNE l 1872
Brief Local News

Misses Reita Wiley, Dolly Hooper
| and Lillian Slacum, spent short
| time this week in Easton.
Mrs. George Johnson, has return.
! ed TO her home at Washington. d. c
| after visit with her brother. Rev
r. u Nicholson
Mrs. Lawrence Fitzmaurice, oil
| Baltimore, is the guest of Mr.. and
| Mrs. George w. Meekins. at then
! home on Belvedere avenue.
| Mr.. Mace Harris, of Baltimore, is
! spending few days with his parents
! Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Harris, at then
| home on Choptank Avenue. this city
Miss Blanche Nicholson, who has
| been spending several days with hel
| brother Rev. r. Y. Nicholson
| Maryland avenue, has returned &c
! her home at Washington.
Today's rain is worth many thous-
! ands of dollars to horticulturists
! throughout this section, benefittine
| not only the trucking corps but the
staple crops OF wheat, corn and ha!
! Us well 1t is reported that the hay
crop this year is the shortest for a
great many years.
The Mems Bible Glass OF Zion
NJ: E. Church will tonight celebrate
: their first anniversary. They have an
exceptionally fine program arranged
after which a supper will be served.
All members are requested to be
present and are asked to bring their
wife or lady friend. We hope to sec
every member present.
Mr. Oliver r. c. Gore, was operat-
ed upon at the Cambridge-Maryla
Hospital late yesterday afternoon for
appendicitis and according to late
reports is getting along very nicely.
Mr.. Gore had been i'll for several
days but as the symptoms were con-
f1icting his case was not positively
diagnosed until yesterday afternoon.
The Arcade tonight repeats it's
success of last night with Lila Lee,
Lois Wilson. Jack Holt and Ccnrad
Nagel. The show is a good ore, as
usual. Tomorrow night the Wash
ington College Glee Club Will be the
attraction in minstrellsy which the
manager of the theatre understands
to be first class. This is the first
time the Cleo Club has appeared here
Tickets on sale now at Arcade Box
Office
Charles Duck Jones in Pardon
MY Nerve" is the William Fox West
ern show at the Grand Opera House
tonight Buck Jones, as whlrl-
wind cowboy is hard to beat. To
morrow and Saturday Charles Chap
lin in his latest feature Pay Day"
Katherine Macdonald in The Beau
tiful Liar" and Harold Lloyd in The
Non Stop Kid make big three
feature show for tomorrow and Sat
urday
What is said TO be the oldest con-
tinuOus bank account on the amer'-
can continent came to light recent!
in Philadelphia. In 1872 the bank
of North American was chartered b!
the infant Congress and just nine
days later Mordecai Lewis & Com
pany importers and later manufac-
turers of whitehead and other pro
ducts opened an account with the
bank. 1t was disclosed the other
day during celebration of the 15Oth
anniversary of John T. Lewis & Bros.
Company. direct descendants of the
Original depositor, that the account
has never lapsed since that dav.
American business is gathering
venerableness.
In the midst of the preparation
being made in Philadelphia for the
celebration in that city in 1926 OF
the 150th anniversary Of the signing
of the Declaration of independence
it is reported that this event OF the
National importance is being ante
dated four years by the celebration
in the same city Of the $50 tn ami
versary of the founding of Phila-
delphia business house. The firm in
question is John T. Lewis & Bros.
Company manufacturers of white,
lead 1t is stated that the concern
| was organized in 1872 by Mordeca!
Lewis, transacted its business
throughout the period Of the Revo-
lutiona1y War, opened its present
bank connection in 1871 and has
kept the account ever since, thus
justifying it's claim to being the. old
: est bank account in North America
During the $50 years Of its existanc'
; the Philadelphia firm has been under
the direction of five generations OF
/. tho same family.
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