Smyrna times., 1931-04-01

very regular and earnest attend
ance.
Six young men who set out on a
rollicking midnight tramp of the
streets on Monday night were Sc
noisy as to cause complaint and
arrest of five of them the next
day, the sixth having business
which called him away early Tues
day morning. The Alderman fined
them each 81 and costs (S2.5O)
They call it going on the "war
path and their mixture of whoop
profanity and song was carried out
as far as the western limits of the
town. It is to be hoped that this
will warn them of the danger in
the habits they were contracting
and save their names from appear
ing in the paper for a repetition of
the offence.
The amendment to the charter
of the Duck Creek Improvement
Company offered in the Legisla-
ture last week by Mr.Register pro
vides for an increase of the penal
ty of cutting the banks or stopping
or destroying the works of the
company to $500 instead of S1OO
as heretofore and also provides for
an Imprisonment for six months or
a year and further empowers said
company to change the location of
banks.
New School House.-The Trus-
tees of Bethel Church in ''Whop-
ping" have bought the two double
dwellings of the Cloak estate half
way to the Landing and intend in
part with these to build a two
story school house adjoining their
church, the upper room being in
tended for a public hall. The build
ing will be 20 x 81 feet and it is
intended to have it finished in time
for their annual Conference which
meets here in May.
]. Albert Reinhart, now princi-
pal of State. school, Westchester,
Westchester County. N. Y, and
formerly principal of the Friends
school at Woodbury., N. j., has
been selected as professor of phys
les and agricultural science at Del
aware College to take the place of
Professor E. d. Porter, who has
gone to the Minnesota University. |
Professor Reinhart is a native of
West Virginia.
Marriages Allen-Robbins. At
the home of the brides parents, on
the 23rd instant by Rev. t. L.
Gardiner Of Shiloh, Daniel w. Al
len, formerly of Smyrna, and Miss
Amy A. w. Robbins of Lower
N. ].
Louderbough-Ayres. On the 1st
instant at Topeka, Kansas, by Rev.
D. McCabe, Thomas B. Louder
Dough, formerly of Dover and Miss
Sarah Ayres of near Silver Lake,
Kansas.
New Firm Miss Mary E. Savin
and Mrs. Mary c. Reedy have rent
ed the room in the Johnson build
ng on the second floor opposite the
Times Office where they will open
IN Monday next new Millinery
store. They are fitting up their
lice light airy room and getting in
heir stock of goods this week.
Typhoid Pneumonia is prevailing
o an almost unprecedented extent
throughout Slaughter Neck, and
n the neighborhood of Milton. DR..
George W. Prettyman of that town
las twenty-five or thirty patients
Frustrated with this dreaded mall {
Ldy. !
Deaths. Ocheltree. In Whining
on on the 9th instant in his 10th ..
ear, John McCabe, son of Joseph ,
y and Emma ]. Ocheltree.
Short. At the residence of his !,
ather, near Hawkins Chapel of
William H. Short in
is 18th year.
Saturday morning brought us a !
risk snow storm of several hours I
and procession from the i
epot of nearly a score of teachers, g
Mostly females, in quest of Pro- {
essor Groves and his examination Z
rill. Both vanished with the day. f
The Kent County railroad will I