Smyrna times., 1932-09-21

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soft and fruit not otherwise desir-
able for market. This is pro
nounced the most unsatisfactory
year in the history of peach cul-
ture- -demoralizing alike in the two
chief factors in it's marketing, the
laborers who gathered it and the
commission men who converted it
into hard cash. The excess of
fruit above what was anticipated
was just that much too much and
made it unsatisfactory to both the
shipper and his agent. The great
est hardship has fallen on the rent
er. The railroad management it is
said, has never been so unsatisfac-
tory. This does not apply to the
part under I. N. Mills which has
been skillfully run, but after it left
Gray's Ferry. The best paying
orchard we have heard of was that
of William Morgan between Cen
trail Mill and Seven Hickories
whose fruit was remarkably fine
and well colored and will return a
profit of $100 it is said from eight
acres. Every man who essayed to
speculate on peaches was burnt
and badly so. The amount of
money locked up in baskets aggre-
gated an enormous sum. One
farmer, A. L. Hudson, tells us that
he had at one time $4,000 baskets
on the road, his entire stock, and
sooner than pay the high price
then demanded by the manufactur-
ers, he ceased picking until some of
them were returned. The renters
especially will have much of their
peach money packed away in their !
barns until the next crop, when
ever that is. After all, the rich |
grain crops, supplemented by the |
peach crop has made the country /
rich, that is, more money in cir
than at any period since
the flush times during the war. If
one has not got what he expected
another has, and it's effect is felt
from the large land holder down to
the humblest laborer.
PERSONAL Mrs. SaIlie Farson
Miss Laura Farson and Miss Laura
Warren have gone to the Alum
Springs, Shenandoah Valley, Va, Ito
spend September and October.
James @. Stubbs, son of Rev.
James Stubs of this town, and
Miss Henri, also mute, will be
this evening in Philadel-
ohia where they both reside.
The following young people have
eft for distant schools: Miss En-
ma Hudson and Miss Kate Tschudy
n. j.; Miss Beatrice
Woodward, Philadelphia; Miss =
Iamie Heitshu for Bethlehem, Pa;
Alfred Hudson and Albert Cum (
nins for Lawrenceville, N. J.;
Alex. g. Cummins, Jr., Fox Chase, 4
Pennsylvania.
Motion Hudson, who has been
wing west for the past SO years, 5
or the past 16 years in California (
5 visiting his nephew a. L. Hud- !
on near town.
Frank J. Smith near Moorton,
as gone to Binghampton, n. NJ, (
lis native place, to spend month I
With his friends. 6
Mrs. r. p. Hoffecker Sr., is on a {
7eek or two visit to friends in 5
Jewark, n. J. 5
The following persons have been Z
isiting friends here the past week: {
Irs. Mary Dougherty, Misses Mary p
nd Emma Young, Miss Florence
icKee, Miss Emma Stats, and
lother, Mrs. Jane Emerson, Miss p
allie Bell, Philadelphia; Rev. Jam +
8 L. Houston, wife and children, q
William J. Mannering, Wilmington; E
Irs. William r. Finn, Miss Laura q
Iorrell, Newport; William G. En- q
rson and wife, Indianapolis, Ind; 2
1rs. Lizzie Smith, Germantown, 4
a.; Miss Mary Shears, New Hav- 2
n. Conn; Miss Lizzie Hopkins, +
aston, Md; Howard Reed, New p
astle. e
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