Smyrna times., 1912-10-02

Chickens (dressed) ............... ..,..... 30
Butter Country )............. ............ 22-25
Potatoes, white, per basket.............,.. r.
Potatoes sweet, per bssket.............. As
country yLaro.-.......... ...................... u
LIVE STOCK.
Calves, per pound .............. ......... 81
Beef, dressed. ~
L.amOS....... ........................... 3
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SMYRNA AND VICINITY
Short Items of General Interest Gath
cred During the Week.
Fresh fruits and vegetables at
Cummings Phone 139.
Crabs Tuesdays and Saturdays.
Grab meat to order. r.-Gunning's Odd
Fellows Hall.
"Feed the land and the land will
feed you. Buy Tygert's celebrated
Fertilizers of S. ]. Reynolds
Try Turner's fresh meats-beef,
pork, veal, and lamb. Fresh line of
groceries aways on hand. George w.
Turner & Son.
Smyrna Benevolent Society will
meet at the home of Mrs. j. H.
Hoffecker, Oct. 7th, at 7.3O o'clock.
The Ladies' Mite Society of Asbury
M. E. Church will meet Saturday
evening, Oct., 5th, at 7.SO O'Clock.
While white potatoes were at
premium last season, second size
tubers are now selling in this section
for forty cents basket.
Kennard & Co., Wilmington, call
special attention to their advertise
ment which has reference to the
preparation they have made for Old
Home Week in Wilmington.
Cattle are bringing big prices at
stock sales that are being held in
different parts of the county. The
bids for extra dairy cattle have in
some instances exceeded $3.50 a head.
Some farmers have been losing
their chickens by the wholesale and
it is said eagles have been seen.
Others say the birds are merely
immense hawks. At any rate the
chickens are going at a lively rate
from some farms.
The heavy rains during the early
part of last week delayed farm work
to a considerable extent, the farmers
being compelled to stop picking to-
matoes. Consequently much of the
crop was allowed to rot on the vines,
entailing a big loss.
Rev. w. E. Matthews, pastor of
Smyrna Circuit, will not be in his
pulpit Sunday, but services will be
III LuC ClluICAlCo al bAiC
appointed time. Rev. and Mrs. Mat
thews leave today for a trip down the
lower part of tthe Peninsula and will
be gone over Sunday, returning some
time next week
The annual election of the officers of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of the Asbury Methodist t
Episcopal Church will be held at the
home of Mrs. Alfred L. Hudson, Sr.,
tomorrow, Thursday afternoon, at 2. 80
O'Clock. A full attendance of the
members of the society is desired. -
Secretary.
The Kent county committee of
Progressive party number one-the
-Allee-Layton faction-have issued a
call for a county convention to be held
in Dover tomorrow, Thursday. 1t is
stated full county and legislative
ticket will be nominated and that it
will be independent of any other SET
of nominees. The convention will be
held in the Century Club rooms.
James B. Wood, colored, lit year;
d, was registered in the first election
district in Laurel at the last registra-
tion. The aged man was born in SUSSEX
county in 1895, and is prob ably the
Oldest resident of Delaware. Hi:
extreme age has naturally enfeebleC
him, and he has lost his sight, but
still retains a remarkable memory. -
Laurel Leader.
Despite the weather conditions, the
Millinery opening of Mrs. M. w.
Campbell on Thursday, Friday anc