Smyrna times., 1930-09-03

a position IN the Banking house OF
Elliott, Johnson & Company, Will
mington, as telegraph operator.
Peaches Peaches have been go
ing from our shipping station the
past week at the rate of from five
to eight cars per day. They will
now drop down daily and finish up
the first of next week. They have
been bringing good prices the past
week and the crop will prove a
profitable one to our farmers the
most so of any for the last six
years. The number of cars going
over the road the past several days
have been from so to so and the
entire number to date 5000.
Peach Splinters. - In acknoWl-
edging the basket Of peaches sent
by John NJ. Voshell, General Han
cock, said they were SO much finer
than any he had seen that he would
like to know the name of them.
Of course he was duly informed
that they were of the "Susquehan-
ma" variety.
John II. Hoffecker shipper some
Of the same variety to the city
market that a counted basket
numbered Sc peaches, the trees as
a usual thing are what growers
call shy bearers.
"Shipleys Last Red" ripening
between the Ward" and the
"Smock", has attracted attention
/ for its beauty, size and marketable
qualities.
# Clarence Hopkins at Leipsic,
bought in Philadelphia several lots
of peaches for his evaporator at
less prices than he could get them
for at home.
Messrs. Hopkins & Paige went
It strong on peaches last Saturday
Their pile numbered over 100
baskets. This was stock nearly
four days ahead of the dryer, but
it was in good keeping order.
The young Republicans of this
town we are informed, will meet
on Friday evening at 8 o'clock
over the Office of A. Lee Cummins,
Johnson building, for the purpose
of organizing a Garfield and Ar
thur Club.
Marriages Truax-Nagle. At
/ ~
August 10th, by Rev. ]. F. Boone,
John TruaX of Oxford, Md, form
erly from near Smyrna, and Miss
Alice B. Y. Nagle of Baltimore
City.
Conner-Voss. the 25th ult.
at the NJ. E. Parsonage by Rev. It.
H. Haynes, William E. Conner and
Miss Cinthia f. Voss, both of
Smyrna Landing.
Freeston-Boggs. July 29th,
1880, at the NJ. E. Parsonage, Do
yer, by Rev. William P. Davis,
James D. Preston and Miss Mag
gle r. Boggs, all of Kent County,
Delaware.
misunderstanding. July 25,
by Rev. E. D. Willard, William H
Whitnack of Dover, and Miss Mel
lie Beardsley of Springport, N. Y.
Stevenson-Daisey. - August 10,
at Mt. Holly, n. J., by Rev. J. S.
Heisler, Tinley ]. Stevenson of
Kent County, Del, and Miss Sarah
]. Daisey Of Medford, N. J.
Scott-sipple. Near FELTON,, on
the 18th ult., by Rev. John Down
ham, George w. Scott and Miss
Matilda I. Sipple, all of Kent coun-
ty, Delaware.
Deaths. -Hardcastle.- In Smyr-
ma, August 26th, at the residence
of her brother-in-law John Bayn-
ard. Miss Louisa Hardcastle, aged
20 years.
Golt.-In Dover, on the 10th in
stant of consumption, Mary A.
Colt, in the 50th year of her age.
Manlove.- Dover, August %,
1880, Amelia, wife of William Man
love, in the Goth year of her age.
Harper-Near Leipsic, July 31st
of typhoid pneumonia, Annie E.
beloved wife of Henry K. Harper,
aged "a years.
Alexander Harper of Leipsic, has
moved to Berlin, Md.
William Spencer, son of Samuel
Spencer of this town, went to the
Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia
on Monday accompanied by DR..
Collins, to be treated for a hip af-
Fiction from which he has been
suffering for some time.
Miss Louisa Hardcastle, well
known in this section and on the
Eastern Shore, had a stroke of
paralysis on Wednesday last from
which she died the next day.
Mr.. A. B. Richardson of Rich
ardson & Robbins of Dover, has
just been granted a patent for a
soldering machine for soldering
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