Smyrna times., 1933-02-15

BUY or build.
SALE OF THE REAL ESTATE
OF HORACE SPRUANCE De
CEASED real estate of the
late Horace Spruance, near this
town, was offered at public sale at
noon today by the administrator,
w. G. Spruance, Esq, and sold as
follows: No. IA Home farm, 225
acres and 1451a perches, at $130
per acre to A. L. Hudson. BY
ing between the Duck Creek road
and the mill pond, SO acres and
461a perches, $60.25 per acre, to
William @, Spruance. C-Lot adj
\ joining B on the East, acres and
20 perches, $57 per acre to Will
liam C. Spruance. dot adjoin-
ing c on the East, 5 acres and 155
! perches, S8O.25 per acre to Robert
Denney. No. 2-Lot Of one acre Of
ground at Clayton, 1925 to Man
love Hayes for the Delaware Rail
road. The lands in this county not
counting the fractions in perches,
aggregate $36,488. This does not
include the 139 acres in New Cas-
tie county. The land laying in
New Castle county will be sold at
Green Spring Station, this after
noon. The sale of the farm of the
late Horace Spruance today was
the largest, that is, reached the
highest price per acre for strictly
agricultural purpose Of any land
we think ever sold in our vicinity.
The Font Hill" farm of Daniel
Cummins adjoining the town some
fifteen years ago, 100 acres, sold
for 5000 per acre, but it was for
speculative purposes, and directly
after divided into town lots.
SPECIAL SERVICES SUNDAY
The Episcopal and Methodist
churches had especial interest in
the day-the first from a meeting
in the interest Of the Odd Fellows
and the last from the interest Incl
dent to the revival. The Odd Eel
lows were plucky in plowing
through the slush, twenty-eight of
the number being on hand, Rev. w.
p. Gorden preaching them dis
course that interested them very
much and caused a regret that the
weather was such that all the
members of the Lodge could not be
present to hear him. His text was
Bear We one another's burdens
and so fulfil the law of Christ" At
the NJ. E. Church about 130 or 140
persons assembled and after a
practical discourse directed to the
attention mainly of the young
christians, twelve persons, mainly
adults, were admitted to member
ship on probation. There would |
have been probably double this
number had the day been good. BY
appointment, Mrs. E. B. Stevens of |
Wilmington, and Mrs. Ettie E.
Baldwin of Newark, N j., address
ed the Ladies' Missionary Society, |
Friday afternoon, and between $50 |
and 7.30 in the evening, the Juven-
lie Missionary Society. The regu-
lar protracted meeting service at |
7.30 o'clock was attended by
pressing throng Of people who gave
Mrs. Stevens close attention as she
beautifully, after reading the mar
rative of the visit of the Queen of
Sheba to King Solomon Mrs. |
Baldwin also made a brief and (
pertinent address to the congrega-
tion after a number had presented |
themselves at the altar of prayer.
NEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The Presbyterian society of this
town on Monday purchased the two
vacant lots on Commerce street /
just above the establishment occu- /
piel by ]. 3. Evans & Company be-
longing to J. S. Huntingdon of this
town and George G. Simpson of
Wilmington for $3.50 and $500 re-
spectiveiy. Their object is to erect 1
a new church on it as soon as ar
rangements can be made, a build /
ing that will cost from $4,000 to
$4,000. The object is to get a
more eligible location, the present H
one being on the extreme limit Of
an unfrequented street and thus
not so likly to be visited except
by the habitual church goer. The
present church which is good i
and situated on a beauti-
full lot, will Of course be for sale.
This building was erected about 81
years ago under the auspices of
the Methodist Protestants, then
called Radicals" "A
preacher Of the denomination nam
ed Barnes came in this section as
a propagandist, silver-tongued
orator, attractive to the people and
drawing crowds wherever he
preached. The M. E. church or old
side as they were termed in dis
tinction, were Of course disturbed
by such ground swell and to stem
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