Smyrna times., 1904-12-14
SATURDAYS SNOW STORM
AFFORDS FINE SLEIGHING
MAIN RTREET A MERRY CARNIVAL AND
MANY FINE SLEIGHS HAVE BEEN OUT.
Unfortunate Accident During the Races yester.
day Results 10 the Death OF Edward @.
Walls Valuable Driving Horse.


A severe snow storm visited this
section Saturday and all day long it
showed incessantly and was drifted by
the high Northeast winds. Business
for the time being was at standstill
and very few persons ventured out.
When the storm cleared away Satur-
day night leaving a depth of seven or
eight inches of snow on level with
some good sized drifts along our pub
lie roads, the thermometer took a de-
cided drop Sunday morning and regis
tered within five degrees of the zero
point. The consequence was that the
churches were slimly attended. Since
Sunday the weather has moderated con-
siderably and the fine sleighing snow
has furnished some exceIIent sport and
our streets have been agog with merry
sleighers. The small boy with his
skates took his diversion on the Per
slmmon Pond and not few went to
Lake Como where in some portions
the ice was reported five inches thich.
John @. Blizzard procured wagon
load for his ice house The ice IN the
Smyrna River has also delayed. navi-
CATION.
The sleighing carnival has been the
one pastime of the week aud most
everybody who owned sleigh was out
on Main street and other streets in
town. Racing as usual was one of the
principal sports and attracted much at
tention. 1t was not until yesterday
that our best sleighers were out. And
before the contests were fairly entered
into an unfortunate accident happened
that put an end to the racing for the
day at least. On the boulevard" were
Edward &. Walls with his favorite
Happy G., Reuben Warren with his
Sentinel, G. S. Martin with
"Flossie", Will Dollev (colored) with
L.. M. Prices "Browny b., Harvey
FAIRIES with Gentlemen Jack" and
Clifton Turner with his favorite mare
"May. These compose some of the best
trottlng horses in this vicinity and the
spectators were prepared to see the
best racing of the season, The trouble
was all caused by racing both ways of
the street. Racing up from the pond
were Edward G. Wall, Reuben Warren
and W. M.Lewis G. S. Martin. Coming
down Main street in oppsite direction
wasClifton Turner and Will Dolly. jog
gine along in front of W. A. FAIRIES
undertaking establishment was the
sleigh driven by w. Fl. Lurty of
Brenford. Turner passed to the right
OF Lurty's team and Dolley instead of
following him passed to the left of Mr..
Lurty and just as he did so he came in
COLI sion with the fast sleigh of Mr..
Edward G. Walls. The latter in at
tempting to avoid the accident ran in
to and upset Martins sleigh. The
shaft of Prices sleigh broke two ribs
and pierced the lung and liver of Mr.
Walls "Happy g." causing hem
orrhage from which he died at O'Clock
last evening. Besides our local
veterinarians. Mr.. Walls summoned
DIR. Simon Harger a specialist from the
University of Pennsylvania, Phila.
delphia, but to no avail. He was dead
by the time the specialist arrived. In
the death of "Happy c., Mr.. Walls
has lost one of the most valuable
horses in Smyrna. Besides having
speed it was kind and gentle and a
good family horse. The sleighs were
also damaged, the one owned by Mr..
Price being almost completely demol-
ished. 1t was a fortunate thing that no
personal injuries were received. Mr..
Walls and Mr.. Martin were both
thrown out but not hurt.