Smyrna times., 1921-03-09

Because of competition the price Of |
milk has been reduced to 10 cents |
quart in Lewes.
The oyster packing house at Bowers
Beach has closed, over 10000 bushels
of oysters having been packed.
Agriculture students of Frederick
High School are being given practical
work in a creamery testing cream and
studying dairy products.
An appeal to the Delaware Legisla-
ture not to pass any laws of a compul-
sorry Sunday observance nature was
made at meeting in Wilmington re-
Gently.
Twenty-three women members of
various Lodges of Rebekah in Della
ware were awarded the Degree of
Chivalry at meeting in the Whining
ton Odd Fellows Hall Saturday.
Seventh Day Adventists are holding
meetings in Smyrna in the motion pic
ture theatre.
Some of the largest timber mills in
lower Delaware have been closed be-
cause of the lack of orders.
Samuel Steele, of Millville, working
in a sawmill, broke leg when large
log rolled on him recently.
Bids will be opened March 18th for
construction of a new high school at
Lewes, $250O00 being available.
Sussex county has purchased an au-
tomobile for the Assessment Board to
use in viewing lands to be assessed.
While trying to crank a refractory
automobile engine, Benjamin Collision,
of Bridgeville, broke an arm.
Miss Elizabeth Woodruff, of Mil
ford, has been appointed a member
of the Mothers Pension Commission
of Delaware.
]. B. Dickerson, near Bridgeville,
has a goat which joins the dogs in a
fox chase and keeps the trail as well
as any of the dogs.
A sign of early spring is the large
catches of black perch being made by
Rehoboth Beach fishermen in the bay.
The State Highway Commission is
surveying the road between Harring-
ton and Milford, preparatory to build
ing a modern boulevard.
The large stable of mules owned by
a road construction company neal
Georgetown that went into the hand:
of a receiver were sold recently al
auction.
The Milton lumber mill has beer
forced to close, being unable to mar
ket the products.
By saving an iron bar in window
four prisoners, two white and two col
ored, escaped from the county Jail a
Denton, Md, Saturday. All were be
ing held on minor charges.
On the last day of February in low
er Delaware, the crocuses were
bloom, the jonquils were in bud, farm
ers have finished blowing and plant
ing English peas for the canning faC
tories, land for early white potatoe
is being prepared and "Uncle Jed
Williams, of near Gumboro, declare
that winter is past. He predicts
very wet spring.
The Home Economics class of til
Seaford public school gave a dinner
the girls basket ball team on Frida
night, in recognition of the team
good work. Five games have bee
played resulting in three victories ar
two defeats. The girls have score
85 points this season to their opp
nents' 54. The team captured IL
championship OI Ine girls DdSheCDd
teams of the State by defeatir
Caesar Rodney at Dover by score
16 s.
Sussexcounty farmers have becon
so enthusiastic over good roads tn
they are offering to bear the expen
themselves if the county highw;
commission will send outs urveyors
lay off the grades. Farmers betwe
Delmar ard Hebron appeared befo
the county commissioners and repol
ed $1,277 raised by popular subscri
tion for a gravel road between t
two towns, and offer to do all t
work themselves. A similar road
be built between Providence a
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