Smyrna times., 1934-09-13

Gu yeSUSIudy WIN N"SAA
as teacher.
Voshell, Groves & Company have
sold Mrs. Susan A. Keith's house on
Delaware street to w. A. Winford
for Slips.
E. H. Beck, real estate agent,
has sold the stables, carriage house
and lot of E. Blais to John Whit
ter for $500.
Edward A. Thomas of Shiloh, N.
j., is employed by DR.. c. o. Swim
ney as bookkeeper to straighten up
all book accounts.
Herman Hirnheimer is making a
great Improvement 20 his house on
Commerce Street by erecting a
porch across the entire front.
Voshell, Groves & Company have
taken Office with B. V. Weldon on
Main Street where their business
will be transacted in the future.
MAINHlAGE1o. - huOlIS OdI-
rell-At the M. E. Parsonage,
Smyrna, September 2, by Rev. J.
B. Quigg, Lewis Knots, of Milling
ton, and Miss Rachel Darrell, Of
Kent County.
Voshell, Groves & Company, real
estate agents, have sold the farm
of Charles LeCompte near Black
iston's Cross Roads. containing
163 acres to Stephen Minner for
$50 per acre.
Miss Lucy A. Redden Of Mary
land, who had been visiting George
A. Deakyne of Thoroughfare Neck.
was seriously injured while dis
mounting from a carriage in this
town on Monday. Her dress caught
in some way and she was thrown
heavily against the curb, cutting
her head severely. Her injuries
were dressed at the drug store of
DR.. Cloak and she proceeded on her
journey
A wagon built at the shops of
William G. Fairbanks and George
w. Tighman for Messrs. Lewis &
Price was put in use this morning
for the first time and pronounced
by all who saw it a great credit to
our Smyrna mechanism. It has
several points Of merit not found
in other wagons and is claimed to
be the best wagon ever built in the
town. Messrs. Lewis & Price put
it in severe service in loading four
cars to fill a Maryland order for
phosphate.
TRUSTEES SALE - George
Gray, Esq, trustee. sold at the
hotel Of Alexander Maxwell in Mid
dletown two farms, "Mayfeld" and
''Middlesex" situated in Appoquin-
mink Hundred and belonging to
the estate Of William Wilson, de-
ceased, the former to Samuel Rob-
erts Of Blackbird Hundred for Sill
360.75, and the latter to Nathaniel
Williams of Middletown for S.
089.5O. Ten additional acres of the
Middlesex farm are situated in
Maryland and it was agreed that
the purchaser should take that
also at uniform price per acre.
FIRE NEAR KENTON- Mr..
John w. Graham's home farm out
buildings, two miles west of Ken
ton, were all burned to the ground
at an early hour this morning. The
buildings were insured in the Kent
County Company. Fifty tons of
hay, 230 bushels of wheat, 1000
new peach baskets, 300 berry crat-
es, reaper, mower, fan, in fact, all
of his farming utensils were de-
stroyed. He estimates the loss at
81, 400 besides the buildings or al
together $4,000. The fire was dis
covered about 2 o'clock this Tues
day morning and is supposed to be
of incendiary origin. Mr. Graham
drove one of his neighbors (who
owns the farm he lives on off his
place this morning telling him he
had feared such loss at his hands
for some time but he feared him in
no other way. His cows had been
left in the yard and all were saved
but cne. Mr.. Graham has the
sympathy Of the entire commun-
ity
LOCAL TOMATO CANNING
INDUSTRY Both John H. IIof-
fecker and the Diamond State
Picking establishment canned to-
matoes one day last week, and will
put up the same vegetable one or
more days this week.. After that
peaches will be mainly out of the
way, and they will probably give
their attention to tomatoes until
frost comes. The low price to
which they fell last year. put a
damper on the business and MANY
OF the recently started up factories
which had both reputation and ex-
perience to gain. have remained