Smyrna times., 1934-12-27

town with mayor, town council, &c
VIM. J. Phillips has entered upor
his duties as successor, in the f1oul
and feed business, to John w
Meredith.
Fred J. Carter has rented the
house recently occupied by DIR
Woodruff opposite the Smyrna
House, and will open an oyster
saloon.
G. Leon Speakman, who went
down with the Peninsular excur-
sion last week with some sporting
friends, reports a good time and
game plenty.
Jerry Goldsborough predicted
several days in advance the cold
SNAP of last week and the snow
of Saturday night, and it was veri-
fed to the letter
John A. Wright, who has been
the foreman in the brick yard of
his father, VIM. P.Wright, at Clay
ton, has purchased a brick yard at
Chestertown, Md, and will remove
his family thither the first of
March.
The children of the Band of
Hope" presented two lady instruc-
tors with handsome testimonials of
respect on Saturday afternoon
Miss Jennie Smithers with a jew
elry case and Miss Grace Quigg
with a gold pencil.
Thos. M. Hoyle has commenced
the erection of a double dwelling
on the piece of ground which ]. E.
Tygert put in the market last
Spring between North street and
Railroad Avenue. He contemplates
other Improvements the coming
season.
The Twilight Party is new
wrinkle in society. The only light
is from the CRATE fire. All the
company gather about the glowing
Goals, and each one tells story,
sings a song or recites a poem.
There are great possibilities for the
twilight party.
Persons who enjoy the comforts
of home certainly had their cup
fuH on Sunday, for with a steady
fall of rain from early morn till
bed time and two inches of snow
making the streets both slippery
and slushy, but few people got out
of the house during the whole day.
The property on Main street
known as the Budd property was
sold at public sale by Geo. ". Mas
sey, trustee, on Thursday last to
John C. Bailey for $500. This
was considered a good price con-
sidering the condition of the prop
erty, which will doubtless undergo
important improvements in the
future.
A note from Levi E. Anthony to
friend in this town, dated John
sonville, N. Y, December goth,
says: Yesterday at o'clock A. M,
the Thermometer was degrees be-
dow zero; 10 A. NJ, degrees be-
dow; IL M, 2 degrees below, and
10 P. NJ, 16 degrees below. Sat
urday morning it was % degrees
below, and at IL o'clock A. NJ, 10
degrees below and good sleighing.
The visions of delightful sleigh
rides revealed to the minds of our
young gentry by the falling snow
of Saturday night was dashed to
the ground by the descending rain
of Sunday morning. The founda-
ton for a good sleighing snow was
splendid, and still is.
Only one more week of Leap
Year, then in the language of the
Poet, will not some exclaim:
"Old Year you must not go;
We did 50 laugh and cry with you
We've half a mind to die with
you,
Old Year, if you must, die"
Geo. Reed Lofland, one Of our
wide-awake young farmers, who
though a Benedict for some four
years, was not initiated into the
mysteries of the nursery until a
few months past, but we can safe
ly say that in his estimation no
little prattler ever crowed so pref
tily as his little boy, Mark Greer.
The above, however, is not what
we intended to write, but comes in
as a very natural preliminary to
the statement that is to follow,
namely, that the cradle In which
his little boy is rocked is so years
old and that the bed quilt under
which 1t Is rocked to sleep was
pieced by its fourth great-grand-
mother and made by its third great
grandmother. Mark was the cen
trail figure of a ceremonial event