Smyrna times., 1933-05-17

of this county and especially of
Camden and Wyoming have been
in terror by reason Of a gang of
burglars who were committing at
very short intervals, serious night
robberies. Their last raid was on
Friday night which led to their ar
rest causing a general rejoicing.
They were two negroes of Will
mington, Bob Allen and Henry
Reason From all accounts Allen
and his gang have been working
the State for some time and many
thousands OF dollars worth of
goods have disappeared. The evil
dence against the prisoners is a
dead certainty and the prisoners
were taken to Dover and lodged in
the Kent County Jail
THE NEW PRESBYTERIAN
lCHURCH-The foundation of the
new Presbyterian Church and
Chapel was commenced on Monday,
that is, the ground was staked off,
and the work of digging commenc-
ed today. The front of the Church
will be 81 feet s inches and side
walls 56 feet. The chapel will be
46 feet 2 inches by 25 feet, or on
continuous line, front to the rear
the structure will be 70 feet deep.
It will be one story, high pitched
roof. There will be two entrances,
through the tower at one corner
and a covered stone porch at the
other. The steeple will be about
100 feet high. The design is pro-
nounced a handsome one and the
architectural effect will doubtless
be pleasing and attractive.
BRINGING THE STEAMBOAT
TO SMYRNA LANDING. - On
Monday afternoon by invitation of
the Messrs. Tygert, twelve or fif-
teen of our citizens boarded the
steam tug Aida at the granaries
at Smyrna Landing for a little ex-
cursion down the creek to Roth
wells Landing and back, to view
the creek and its possibilities for
commerce. It was within the re-
collection of the youngest Of the
party when Smyrna Landing was
the busiest commercial spot in all
the regions round about: when 4O,-
600 to $4,000 bushels of grain have
been deposited in her granaries in
a single day: when her wharves
held hundreds of cords Of wood and
in the early summers, like quanti-
ties of bark and huge piles of lime,
the traffic presenting the animated
scene of scores of teams waiting
turns but eager to effect the object
which called them there. Now the
place is as silent commercially, as
it used to be active. Even the
quick resound of the caulkers
hammer and the builders ADJ is
not heard in constructing the home
of the sailor and the craft that
made him the master of the COM
mercial relations between us and
those we trafficked with UP or
down the river. The changed con-
dition of circumstances about us
had much or in fact all to do with
this, but the loss of the forest traf-
fic is in measure counterbalanced
by the increase of fruit, grain, ber-
ries, and all kinds of farm products
that now find ready sale, where
as, in the days when grain and
wood were the single staples, they
would not pay in many cases for
the transportation; in fact there
being no demand for them. The
question now is can this lost traffic
be restored in a new relation to the
community? 1t is believed it can.
The object in asking the excursion
lists to make trip on the Aida
was for them to see for themselves.
Since the establishment of the
phosphate works and the transpor-
tation line from Rothwell's to Phil
adelphia, the creek between these
two points has been slowly filling up
with sedimentary deposits, and in
many places it is now only about
five feet deep at high water The
Messrs. Tygert think that COM
paratively small expenditure, some
$4,000 or upwards, with a dredging
machine will enable them to do
most Of the fruit, grain and coal
traffic at the Landing, thus saving
the most of the farmers two-thirds
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