Smyrna times., 1929-09-04
FIREMEN'S CARNIVAL ENDS
Closed Monday Night in Smyrna
With a Large Crowd-Auto Goes
to Elizabeth J0nes-Awards

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Smyrna Firemen closed their
week of Carnival Monday night
after an interesting, and we hope
profitable week. The crowd on
Saturday night and the Labor Day
crowd on Monday night helped to
bring the gross receipts up mater
tally. The total receipts so far
figures S6,484.7O. This is about two
thousand dollars less than last
year Had the receipts of the Fire
mems Parade Night been up to
par, the receipts would have been
about $500 or $4,000. What will
be cleared will not be known until
after all bills are in. The carnival
started Friday, August %. While
a number of nights were sparsely
attended due probably to the earn
ival plan all over the state and
peninsula being over worked as
well as to the fact of carnivals
nearby being held on the same
dates, our Firemen had built on
Visiting Firemen and Parade,
Night, Saturday nights and the
night of Labor Day to pull up the
receipts. They were disappointed in
this, on Thursday night last, Visit
ing Firemen's Night, when a storm
came up after the parade and"ki
ed" business for the evening. This
was a severe financial loss for with
the prospect of taking in $1,000,
the gross receipts only amounted
to about $500. The parade was
held but not without its handicaps.
Had it not rained, there would
have been twenty companies in
line. At 7.30, the hour of the pa
rade, some 1000 or 5000 people
were crowding the streets. Nine
companies got here in time to join
the parade. They were Clayton,
Cheswold, Odessa, Hartly, Green's
boro, Middletown, Christiana,
Chesapeake City and Denton. The
parade formed at North Main
street, marched down Main to
Frazier, out Frazier to Union, to
South street and to School grounds
where the carnival was held. Much
disappointment was felt over cut
ting Commerce street out, but it
vas afterwards explained that the
parade was cut short on account
Of the impending electric storm,
that as much business could be de-
rived at the carnival as possible.
The judges of the parade Joseph
B. HUM, Wallace Elterich and r.
w. Slaughter, awarded prizes as
follows: Middletown, $25 for best
band; Chesapeake City, Md, $40
for most in line and Denton, Md,
$40 for coming the longest dis
tance. Nine companies either got
here or phoned they were held up
by rain. They were Dover, Cam
den, Magnolia, Harrington, Laurel,
Millington, Md, Sudlersville, Md,
Chestertown, Md, and Church Hill
Md. There was, of course, keen
interest in the outcome of the car
nival prizes to be given away and
it was near the midnight hour be-
fore the announcements were
made and the carnival came to a
close. The Four-Door Sport Mod
el Chevrolet Sedan went to little
Miss Elizabeth Jones, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. holland Jones and
granddaughter of Chief of Police
and Mrs. Joshua NJ. Lewis, of
Smyrna. The Speed Motor Boat
went to Mr.. Charles Burg of Phil
adelphia; the Living Room Suite
to Mrs. Gertrude Foraker Enlow;
the Refrigerator to Mrs. Ellen
Slaughter Fox; the Breakfast set
to Miss Mildred F. David, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Horace David;
the Floor Lamp to Edwin Hutchi-
son; and the cake to Mrs. Arthur
Boyer.
MAY DEDUCT GASOLINE TAX