Smyrna times., 1931-09-02

says they have had 10 rain COM
paratively since wheat harvest and
not enough at that time to drive
the men from the fields. The corn
he thinks in that section will not
be much over a third of a crop.
The farm of the late r. B. Gar
man at Blackiston's Cross Roads,
Isl acres, was sold on Thursday
last at Administrators sale for S.
600 to Mrs. LeCompte. She also
purchased the Reversionary right
in title for $1,000 and tract of
woodland in the Blown Woods"
A acres, for $400.
The party at Collins Beach on
Thursday night last was the larg-
est perhaps of any that ever at
tended there. The carriages were
estimated at 300. Cards are out
for the closing party, which will be
on Thursday evening, September 8.
1T is designed to make it the one
of the season.
The canning factories are in
trouble about tomatoes. The dry
weather has so interferred with the
production that not half the fruit
that was expected is received and
the probabilities are that they will
not be able to fill their contracts.
Mrs. Theodore Cavender pulled
two lemons from a tree last week
that were of unusual fine size, one
weighing and the other 9 ounces.
The latter was within quarter Of
an ounce of one grown last winter
at Belmont"
Deaths - Davie. At Marcus
Hook, Pa, on the 25th instant, Su-
san F. Davie, aged 65 years.
Knots. In this town August
25th, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Knots in
her 64th year.
A. P Griffith, real estate agent,
has sold the farm of Abel Sevil in
Blackbird Hundred, containing 118
acres, to A. D. Helveston of Penn
sylvania for $500.
Robert H. Cummins and James
Mcdowell are the jurors drawn
for this Hundred to attend the
September term of the U. S. Court
on the 18th.
Messrs. J. E. Tygert & Co., have
been shipping out Of the Creek to
fill distant orders, over 100 tons of
phosphate per day for the past two
weeks.
John M. Voshell has sold the
Joseph Reynolds farm, 277 acres,
near "Blanco", Queen Anne's
County, Md, to James Crawford
for S77OO.
James T. White Of this town, and
another man have laid $4,000
bricks in foundations and cellars
during the past four weeks.
The main waiting room of the
new depot at Wilmington will be
fifty feet square.
Farmers are selling new corn for
seventy-fve cents per bushel.
The following are the visitors Of
the week: Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas M. I
Hyle, Mrs. James Robinson and
child, Miss Anna M. Hoyle, Harry
Hoyle, Mrs. Mollie Gallaher and |
son, Mrs. Ella Schaffer and son Will
liam H. Bostic and wife, Miss
Rebie Adler, Miss Carrie Scout,
Miss Matte Meharg, Miss Eliza
Smith, Miss Belle Hughey, Miss
Florence Huntingdon, Harry Foster,
w. B. Sanders and wife, Edwin
Evans, Philadelphia, Pa; Mrs.John
Devnish, Miss Mary Devnish, Will
Miss Sarah Janvier, Con-
ey Island; Miss Kate Kelly, Salem,
N. j.; Newton Moorton, Florence,
N. j.; w. P. Dickson and wife,
New York; Miss Addie Meredith,
Miss r. Anna Maxwell, Miss Laura (
Middletown; Thomas
Haynes, Chestertown, Nd; Miss
Maggie Hill, Locust Grove, Md;
Mrs. Tempy Stevenson, Miss Lizzie
B. Stevenson, Miss Rena Smith,
Miss Ida Shelton, Dover; Miss
Emma Smith, Easton, Md; Miss
Florence Dickson, Brenford; Miss
Laura Smith, Templeville, Md; ].
G. Smith, Townsend; James Clark,
Kenton; Harry Shermer, German
town, Pa; Harry Deakyne, J. r.
Jefferson, Chester, Pa; Miss Laura
M. Garrison, Bridgeton, N. J.
Personal Brother Way, of the
Middletown Transcript, was in
town on Monday and made US a
pleasant and fraternal call.
John r. Reese, a former citizen,
now residing near Newark, came
down on Saturday to attend the
yearly meeting at ''Brynzion" Bap-
tist Church and has spent several
days since in visiting his old
friends. He is now in his SO wear