Smyrna times., 1932-02-24
SMYRNA FIFTY YEARS AGO AS
REVAMPEO FROM OUR FILES
ITEMS ABOUT SMYRNA FROM
SMYRNA TIMES, FEB. %, 1882
Notes of Marriages, Deaths, Real
Estate Deals and Matters of In
terest of Half Century Ago

NOIeS Ol NAArTldStS, DedunS, he1
Estate Deals and Matters of In
terest of Half Century Ago
tThe Smyrna Times has started
to 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,
1t will call to mind people and events
OF that Gay that should be interesting
to the present generation. We hope
our readers will find 1t interesting and
that it will make the Times more eag-
erly sought and read-Editor.)
LARGE TRACK OF LAND TIC
BE SOLD George w. Ingram
real estate agent of Middletown
went yesterday to Draxton anC
Webster counties, West Virginia
where he is about making a SALE
of $4,000 acres of land, belonging
TO the Davis and Budd heirs. This
property was purchased by the
late Judge Isaac Davis, of this
town, thirty or forty years ago anc
was part of the large estate left
to his children. The proposed pur-
chasers are number of English
capitalists. who are purchasing
with view of mining and man
ufacturing. Mr.. Ingram has been
down in West Virginia for some
three weeks this winter. He was
very much pleased with the soil of
West Virginia, and says it is the
place for poor men who want to
buy farms to go. Plenty of the
best woodland can be bought there
for S1.25 per acre. The land he is
about selling rests upon bed of
coal which is carted around to the
villagers and sold for 25 cents a
load.
VENDUES- following per-
sons will sell their personal prop
erty at public sale: E. E. Philleo,
near the Blackbird Camp Ground
on Thursday, February %.
Wesley Warren, Main Street,
Smyrna, on Thursday afternoon,
February %.
Patrick Hanifee near Duck
Creek on Friday, February "a.
William j. Corrie at Blackbird,
Saturday afternoon, February 25.
George Boyer on the road from
Moorton (Cheswold) Station to
Leipsic on Tuesday, February %.
James Powell on the road from
Clayton to Delaney's on Tuesday,
February %.
b. v. Weldon, Administrator,
near Townsend on Tuesday, March
z.
Annanias Ennis, near Taylor's
Bridge, Wednesday, March s.
MARRIAGES - Carrow Van
hekle. February 18th at the resi-
dence of the brides parents, near
st. Georges, by Rev. j. Owen Sy-
pherd, John w. Carrow, Jr., and
Annie, youngest daughter of F. P.
Vanhekle, Esq, both of New Castle
county.
Johnson-Sharp. At the Dover
District parsonage, February 18th,
by Rev. R. w. Todd, D. D., Isaac
Johnson and Miss Lizzie Sharp,
both of Kent County.
Russell-Jewell. At the residence
of Joseph Pyle in Dover, February
18th, by Rev. B. G. Parker, James
Russell and Miss Mary Belle Jew
ell.
Rothwell-Vasey. At the M. E.
Church, Middletown, February IA,
by Rev. w. L. S. Murray, William
r. Rothwell and Miss Fanny Vasey
both of Middletown.
The Conference at MiddIetown
commences on Wednesday week,
but the committees on examination
between twenty and
thirty ministers, and the preach
ers in the first, second, third, and
fourth years. and the candidates
for admission, will meet on Mon
day previous. The following can
didates will apply for admission
into the itinerancy: Vaughn Col
Inns, w. B. Guthrie, G. l.. Hard
esty. S. M. Morgan, S. M. McFad-
den. A. P. Prettyman, S. P. Smith,
G. H. Williams and Benjamin War
rem.
Postmaster Baggs will move this
week the furniture of the Post |
office from the building which it
has occupied adjoining the Fruit |
Growers Bank for the past IA
years to the apartment of the |
Johnson Building occupied by A.
Lee Cummins as a phosphate Of
fee, adjoining door to the Times
Office entrance. The new office |
will be more attractive and con-
venient in every way, and both the
P. M. and our citizens are con-
graduated on the change.
Primrose Crossing" is the name |
Of a new crossing on Commerce
Street in front of the shoe store of |
Joseph H. Primrose, a great con-
venience in bad weather as a short |
cut, and will save many a step to |
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