Smyrna times., 1930-08-27

public sale in this town what land
he died possessed of in the upper
portion of the county. A small
farm of 21 acres in Blackbird Hun
dred was sold to a man named
Simmons at $500 per acre; an
other farm of 1875 acres in the
same locality was not sold, only
$500 per acre being bid.
Delegates following were
delegates elected to the Demo
cratic State Convention on Satur-
day in this town to represent Duck
Creek Hundred: William B.Collins,
w. t. Cavender, H. R. Mustard,
A. Lee Cummins, Charles Griffith,
James C. Robinson, Andrew Spear,
and Charles E. HAZEL.
On Saturday evening as a
freight train on the Delaware and
Chesapeake railroad was within
two miles of Easton, Md, it ran
into small drove of horses, kill
ing two of them, throwing the en-
CINE off the track a distance Of
about 20 feet and nearly burying
it. No person was injured.
Kent County Fair.-The annual
fair by the Kent County Agricul-
tural Association is to take place
on the 14th, 18th, and 10th Of Sep
4 tember at Worton Station, Nd.
The fair promises to be very ex-
cellent affair and the trials Of
speed will no doubt prove an at
tractive feature.
The heat of Sunday drove the
people out of the cities in all di-
rections in search of cool place.
The two excursion boats to Bonn
bay Hook were filled and Wood
land Beach in the way of eating,
etc, had the most busy day of
the season.
A good platform and shed de-
pot, to give shelter against sun
and rain has been erected at the
Main Street depot of the Smyrna
and Delaware Bay Railroad. The
Saturday passengers on this line
numbered more than any proceed
ing day.
Fodder saving, at least with
those who can spare the time from
their peaches, has commenced.
Mr.. Ransom, near town, has the
blades of his entire crop of so
acres pulled. The warm dry
weather of the past week has ma
tured the crop very fast.
Over hundred glasses of soda
water were drank Saturday even
ing at Hoffecker's Drug Store.
This was as fair a record of the
weather as the mercury in the
i thermometer.
Mr.. Peter L. Barcus of Moorton,
4 (now known by name of Cheswold)
/ has sold a house and lot in that
place to Mr.. James Brown for
$3.50. Mr.. Brown drew S1,059 pen
sion money last week.
The Temperance Committee ap-
pointed at the last annual confer
ence will meet in this town on
Monday next, the 3Oth instant.
Visitors-The visitors since our
last issue are as follows: Rev.
James Stubs, Glassop, Derbyshire
England; William Carrow, B. F,
VanWinkle and wife, New York;
Rev. E. Stubbs, Miss M. P. Wipple,
Mrs. NJ. A. R. Bradley, W.B. Scout,
Miss Salian Cohen, A. S. Bradley
F. Smith, Edward Q. Bowman, Eu-
gene Sugart, B. Blades, John
Sparks, Al. Sparks, Joseph Tull,
Esq, wife and child, Philadelphia;
DR.. William Davis, wife and child,
Camden, N. j.; William C. SEIZURE
man, Chester, Pa; Miss Belle o.
Daniel, Misses Maggie and Anna
Hill, Miss Florence Hoffecker,
Thomas Palmer, Wilmington; Miss
Lizzie Wharton and Miss Joe Fow-
/ Ter, Dover; Newton Moorton, Flor
ence, n. J.; Miss Blanche Roe,
Greensboro, Md; Miss Bessie Col
Inns, Milford; Mrs. William A. HUI
kill and children, Odessa; Mrs.
Kate Christman, Camden, N. j.;
Richard H. Armstrong, Middle
town.
Theodore P. Haughey, Esq, Pres
ident of the First National Bank
of Indianapolis, made a short visit
to his relatives here last week
leaving for home on Monday, pro-
posing a short visit to Saratoga
on the way. He has been spending
several weeks at the White Noun
tains and Ocean Grove. Being
from the pivotal State of the pres
ent political contest he was very
naturally questioned as to the
state of affairs in Indiana. He
says the contest there is one of un-
usual warmth, that numbers of the
Greenbackers are going to the Re-
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