Smyrna times., 1932-08-24

wages among the people who art
patrons of the road.
More people went to the Mill
ington Campmeeting, Seegar':
wods, last Sunday, than apparent
ly had anticipated the going a day
or two in advance. But the day
was bright and the air cool anC
bracing. Every available convey
ance, public and private appeared
either in the morning or afternoon
to be on the way to the camp. Del
awareans are not such campmeet-
iners as the Marylanders and it is
not surprising to learn that the
woods was full of people not one
third of whom could have been in
attendance on the preaching, had
they so desired. The preaching
Sunday was by Revs. Chas. Hill,
]. o. Syphered and Rev. Mr.. Hoff-
man of the M. E. Church South.
DELAWARE POSTOFFICES- =
Delaware contains III postoffices,
less than any other state in the
Union. Since the last adjustment
there has been an increase of only
ten, and within the present year
but two have ben established.
There are six presidential offices,
with only one of the second class
Wilmington and none of the
first-class. No office gained more
than one hundred dollars. The fol-
lowing will show the new salary:
Dover $1,000; Middletown, $1,000;
Milford, $14O0; New Castle, $1,000;
Smyrna, $500; Wilmington, ST.
700. All of these offices are of the
third class except Wilmington
which is second class. It will thus
be seen that Smyrna is the second
town in the state below Whining
ton in the amount of it's mail mat
ter. and would probably be the
first if the mail matter incident to
the Legislature, courts and other
legal business not of local char
acter were left out Of the Dover
count.
AN ADDITIONAL MAIL Post
master Swiggett of Wilmington, is
heartily in favor of an afternoon
mail on the Delaware Railroad. and
says when the petitions are all in
he will 60 to Washington and pre-
sent them to the proper authorities
himself. The mails, in the event Of
the petitions being granted, would
be conveyed on four instead of two
trains as now, the additional cost
to the Department being compar-
atively small, as mail matter is
carried by weight AS it is now, a
shipper cannot receive mail matter
and answer it the same day. With
an afternoon mail a man down as
far as Pennington receiving his
mail as late as 1888 by promptness
can return an answer on the up
mail at Alb. In the fruit season
and particularly during the time Of
the shipment Of peaches the num-
Der of letters over the Delaware
road increases fully fifty per cent
to New York which included all
points North of Philadelphia; TWEEN
ty-five per cent to Philadelphia and
ten per cent to Baltimore. The
nature Of the peach and other fruit
business necessarily requires the
most prompt attention to all mail
matter connected with it, and the
afternoon mail would otherwise be
a great desideratum to the most Of
the towns asking for it, as they
now receive but one mail a day.
Frank g. Bell, son Of William
N. Bell, who went to California six
years ago a half grown boy, for
the purpose Of learning a trade, re-
turned home last week a fully de-
man. To leave home at
bis early age, for such a distance
and 50 long a time evinced a
plucky resolution that is not often
endured where there is not an en-
forced necessity. His object was
to learn the trade Of architecture
and building with Edward Farrell,
Who went to California over thirty
years ago with the late Henry
whose daughter he
married Specimens of Franks
architectural drawings are familiar .
TO many of our readers, having
been on exhibition at the Dover ,
fair, where they have taken sue
eessive season. Frank brought I
back with him a number of speci-
mems of ore from the mines, wood |
from the forests and shells from .
the Pacific coast. Perhaps the most
curious specimens of his collections
are a dress worn by a princess of
the Navigator's Islands who mar
ried a gentleman from Maryland
named Williams and a table cloth I
feet, both made from the in
ner bark of a tree. The Naviga- /
tors Islands are inhabited by can
nibals but the whites have got