Smyrna times., 1930-12-03

ting near the stove. Shortly af-
forwards the basket and its con-
tents were found consumed, the
room on fire, and ten minutes
longer the flames would have been
beyond control.
The annual meeting of the
Teachers Institute of Sussex Coun-
ty will be held in the Georgetown
Court House this week. There
will probably be 125 teachers pres
ent. The ladies will be entertain
ed by private families while the
male members of the Institute will
be provided for at either hotel at
one dollar per day.
The streets were merry for two
or three hours on Saturday morn
ing with the sleigh bells, but by
noon it was over. The snow was
just right for the boys and misses
with their little sleds all day. They
however, needed no music but
their own laughter
Business Changes George Van
Wrinkle has rented the 'tworden''
store houses of Messrs. Tschudy
and Cats on the "HilP'.
A. H. Hobbs, who has been mer-
chandising in this town and Ken
ton the past three years will re-
turn in the spring, to the store he
formerly occupied in Odessa.
Mrs. c. M. Collins will remove
her trimming store from this town
to Wyoming, January 1st.
| Sale of Property.-The Smyrna
Building and Loan Association has
sold the Asa Campbell house on
Main Street to John Raughley of
Duck Creek Neck for $1,000. Mr.
Raughley will occupy it in the
spring.
Francis Greenwell will sell his
personal property at public sale
near Slaughter's Station on Mon
day, December 9Th.
Joseph E. Williams has bought
of Theodore Cavender a four year
old heifer that will butcher 700
pounds and will be on the market
next Monday. This animal is more
circumspect than the other, and it
is not calculated that it will kick
over the moon.
The Schooner "Kate Miller"
built at Smyrna Landing seven
years ago for Captain Vance, went
ashore near Hatteras the first part
Of last week and will probably be
a total loss. She was proceeding
from Wilmington to Galveston
with railroad iron.
Marriages. -Wetherby-Kersey -
At the Baptist parsonage, Dover,
November oath, by Rev. B. G.
Parker, Thomas w. Wetherby and
Miss Mollie Kersey.
Grace-C Cofin-At the home of
the bride, on the 10th ult. by Rev.
j. Robinson, Robert J. Grace and
Miss Lydia Coffin, both of Kent
County, Delaware.
-Barrett.-At the M E.
Church, Magnolia, on the 21st ult.
by the same, Henry E. Johnson
and Miss Maggie M. Barrett, both
of Kent County, Delaware.
Wilson-Hayes.-At the residence
of the brides father on the oath
ult., by Friends ceremony, Daniel
Mifflin Wilson and Edith, daugh-
ter of Manlove Hayes, all of Do
yer.
Duger-F r-Farley.-On the 4th ult.,
at the home of the brides father,
by the Rev. G. Leighton Gerhart,
John Dagger, of Kent County, and
Mrs. Mary E. Farley, of Union
County, Pa.
Deaths Jones-In Wilmington,
on the 1th ult., Richard X. Jones,
in the 18th year of his age.
The pupils of N. School will be
entertained on Friday afternoon
by Colonel G. H. Raymond in an
account of his trip to the White
Mountains and what he saw that
would instruct and interest them.
Governor Cornelius Comegys,
father of our present Chief Justice
is said to have been the first Gov
ernor of Delaware that issued
Thanksgiving proclamation.
A. P. Griffith, real estate agent,
sold a farm in New Castle county
of SO acres, belonging to Absalom
Perry, to Joseph w. William of
Kent County for $1,000 cash.
Butter is frequently one of the
scarcest articles in the market,
and is now commanding 80 cents,
five cents higher than is usual in
hog killing time.
Rev. William B. Gordon and DIR.
William Cummins were appointed
to represent the Episcopal Church
at the State Temperance Alliance
to-day.
The frozen roads of last week
gave black-smithing a boom-one
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