Smyrna times., 1930-10-29
SMYRNA FIFTY YEARS AGO AS !
REvAMPED FROM OUR FILES.
ITEMS ABOUT SMYRNA FROM
SMYRNA TIMES, OCT. 81, 1880

Notes of Marriages, Deaths, Real
Estate Deals and Matters of In
terest of Half Century Ago
(The Smyrna Times has started
10 look back over its files and tell
what happened around the correspond
ing date of this ISSUE half century
ago. We hope to make this a regular
weekly feature. If it does nothing else,
it will call to mind people and events
of that day that should be interesting
to the present generation. We hope
our readers will find it interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
eJly sought and read-Editor.]
Colonizing Bombay Hook The
Wilmington Morning News of this
morning has the following: "The
German Land Association held a
meeting yesterday, in this city,
about one o'clock. There was a
full attendance. The committee
which had been appointed, when
the association was organized,
nearly two weeks ago, to go down
the Peninsula and inspect the diff
ferent tracts that had been offered
to them, reported in favor of Bonn
bay Hook Island. The committees
in explanation of its report allud-
ed to the adaptability of the land,
and the easy access to good mar
vets for products, both by land
and water. The report was adopted
unanimously, and a committee of
three appointed to purchase the
property. The price was fixed at
$4,000, which amount is to buy
all buildings erected thereon. The
capital stock of the company was
fixed at $4,000. The name of
Bombay Hook Company was de-
cided upon and this alteration was
put into the charter AS soon as
the property has been purchased,
shares will be made out and dis
posed of at $50 per share. Part
OF the emigrants arrived by the
12.4O train this morning and re-
mained till daylight in the P, w.
& B. waiting rooms. They number
20 or 25 men, women, and children
generally plain robust people. The
for the News must have
got the figures confounded the.
SIC, 900 said to be fixed on as the
price doubtless meaning the num-
Der of acres, some of the tracts
alone amounting well on to those
figures, the ultimate sum amount
ing to not less than 100000. Some
of the tracts on which exorbitant
figures have been demanded, will,
if the parties do not come down,
be banked out or taxed for inn
provements. until the owners will |
be willing to sell. The unimprov-
ed marsh has, we believe, been |
mostly bought for about 50 per
acre and its sale at this price is |
a good thing for the owners. This |
is one of the most important en-
-erprises that has ever been un-
1ertaken in Duck Creek Hundred, /
ong desire but not expected to be
seen by the present generation.
It's fertility and value has been
Known, but there was neither skill
lor capital to utilize it. 1t these
can successfully bank
against the incoming tides and get
he land properly drained, they
will have a soil whose fertility
'annot be excelled by any Western
liver bottom. In their original
ZONES they are used to the most
cultivation and the re-
ult is the most abundant crops.
,he transformation from breed
ng place of malaria and mo-
quitoes to go and 80 bushels of
orn and 400 to 600 bushels of po-
atoes per acre will seem indeed
The success of this
nterprise will give additional
'alue to every acre of ground in
he Eastern part of the Hundred, .
nd our people should lend a help i
ng hand in removing every OBJ
tacle out of the way Of the new
ettlers. $
Court Proceedings
Court convened at Dover on
fonday of this week all the
ndges being present. Peter P. J,
'ollins of Smyrna, filed his petit
ion for hotel license with the
rivilege Of selling Intoxicating
quors, and was permitted by the
'ourt to make his affidavit at
ome, it appearing from the GER
igcate of his physician that he is
onfined with an attack of acute :.
The first criminal case was that
f the State with Ella White, who :
yas indicted at the October term,
S79, for the larceny of goods
rom the store of ]. McGonigal of
,over. The only defense was de-
very of the goods to her by then
Jerk in the fulfilment of a con-
ract of his own with her. Verdict,
-uilty. F. A. Williams, Esq, for
he State, 3. Watson, ESQ. for the