Smyrna times., 1933-10-11

and in.
E. B. Downs at Downs Chape
has rented his storehouse to Char
les M. Polk.
DR.. Henry Johnson of Crump
ton, Md, has been in this tow
prospecting with a view to locat
ing.
]. Frank Ruth has bought of A
Lee Cummins several building lot!
in West Smyrna for which he paiC
$3.50.
William J. Campbell at Collins
Beach has a pen of 20 fine hogs
that run from so to 300 pounds il
weight
VanGasken & Cats have con
tracted to build a dwelling fol-
Benjamin Turner in West Smyrna
this fall.
Richard S. Marin has purchas-
ed Of the Thomas heirs their farm
located at Thomas Corner, Black
bird Hundred, for $4,000.
Edward Beck is building an ad-
dition to his horse shed back Of
his store, Is by 80 feet, for further
business accommodations.
John Hutton of the Western
District, Kenton Hundred, has
raised this year a stalk Of corn
that has On it seven ears Of corn.
The new bridge built over Paw
Paw Creek near Salem M. p.
Church, Blackbird Hundred, has
been completed. The cost was
500.
Samuel Warren, the owner, is
having erected on the site Of the
property burned down at Black
bird year ago last winter, a new
store and dwelling.
Richardson & Robbins, Gamers,
Of Dover, have introduced a
Dense Air Ice Machine" at a cost
Of $4,000 in their factory. 1t is to
be used in preserving poultry.
The roof of the new school
house has been slated except the
rotunda- The floors are being
laid and the plasterers are expect
ed to commence work next week.
J. Frank Wilds, present Regis
ter of Wills, has bought the house
and lot of Mrs. Powell on Brad
ford Street, Dover, for $4,000 and
after some improvements viii
make it his home.
]. Frank Ruth, who did the
brick work on the new school
house, win leave next week for
West Virginia, prospecting with a
view of locating and manufactur-
ing brick and contracting.
Miss M. E. Janvier and Mrs. S.
w. Raimond, having concluded to
discontinue their school here, will
sell their furniture, musical in
struments, etc, at public sale, on
Saturday afternoon next at three /
O'Clock.
At the Middletown Fair a spec
ial premium was offered to the |
lady visitor who should have the
most awards. This was granted |
to Mrs. Presley Spruance, of this
town, her premiums numbering
thirty and amounting to S32.50.
William D. Hudson near town,
is making himself fish pond on
the farm on which he is residing,
hate the Horace Spruance proper
ty. The dwelling house is being
carried through course of paint
ing and papering by John Will1in-
son Jr.
Several cases of diptheria are
reported from the neighborhood of
Blackiston's Cross Roads. Two
deaths have occurred, Benjamin
F. Graham and Charles H. DuKn
each losing a child by the disease
and several others are i'll. The
public school has been closed.
Thomas E. Bailey has on his
farm a variety of peaches later
than the Salway, larger and finer
in every way, that he has sold
to ]. NJ. Arthurs' caDnery at Ken
ton. He delivered 100 baskets on
Saturday, finishing the remainder
of the crop this week. Those he
has were budded from a tree
found in the neighborhood
MARRIAGES -Abbott-Faucett.
At the Smyrna M. E. Parsonage,
October 4th, by Rev. ]. d. Rigg,
John c. Abbott and Miss Sallie
Faucet, both of Kent county, Del
aware.
Barr-Motherall - At Newark.
September 9th, Robert M. Barr
of Wilmington, and Jennie z.
Motherall Of Newark.
Haldeman-Quinby. In Philadel-
pIhia, October 4th, by the Rev.
Henry c. Weston n n pracdday,f |