Smyrna times., 1934-07-26


SMYRNA TELEGRAPH OFFICE
AS indicated last week the tele-
graph office has been removed
from the depot to the business GEN.
! tire Of the town again, the works
on Saturday being located in the
office of the Philadelphia and
Smyrna Transportation Company
the most central position it could
be placed. Charles Allen is the OPP
orator and Perkins Brown the mes
senger The telegraph office is
more and more a necessity social
intercourse and business methods
and it is important that every ap-
pliance should be afforded for the
public accommodation. The busi-
ness of the office has been on the in
crease SLOWLY but steadily and as
such, the office is one of increasing
value to the company and likely to
grow faster in the future than has
been the case in the past. The
change was effected through the
agency of ]. E. Tygert.
SPEAKING FROM THE PAST
AS we look back through the dim
vista Of time, we see little group
standing on an elevated plot near
the village of Duck Creek Upon
inquiry we find it to be a funeral
cortege, the bearing of the chief
mourner stamped him as a man of
mark of that early day in our
country's history, for it was away
back in the Fall of 1746 that Capt
Samuel Lloyd left sleeping on the
hill top that overlooks the babbling
water of the Green Branch Ditch
Company, as it wends its way to
the creek, his young wife but 80
years of age, to be followed only
IL years later by his own remains.
This information is CLEANED from
the stones that mark their graves
and is only given to answer the in
quiry so often made, Whose
graves are those ?" When we re-
call the fact that tomb stones were
a luxury that but Few INDUCED in
those days we are forced to the
conclusion that Capt. Lloyd was
the head Of prominent family
that has so completely passed
away that no one living in this
community knows more than the
silent and time defaced stones tell
Such is the mutation of time.
WHEAT YIELDS Eugene Crow
at Sunnyside threshed 1000 bushels
Of wheat from 40 acres. One field
yielded 80 1-2 bushels per acre. He
sowed the Delaware Champion va
riety
Mrs. Rebecca Williams on the
Budd Farm near town, got $50
bushels from 50 acres about 20
bushels per acre.
Samuel P. Truax got 26 bushels
per acre on a 21-acre field. His
other field was something short of
this.
James Startling got 1919 bushels
from 50 acres -25 1-2 bushels per
acre.
William Bradley down the neck,
had a yield of 1,20O bushels from
60 acres-20 bushels per acre.
c. H. Griffith Of the same neigh
borhood had a yield of over 20
per acre from so acres.
George Reed Lofand's Big Oak
field yielded 20 bushels per acre.
Thomas z. Bailey's crop near
Kenton was about 25 bushels per
acre.
H. c. Murphy in the Alley, had a
yield Of % bushels per acre.
John Garrison in Raymond's
Neck had 721 bushels from %
acres Of stalk ground and Joseph
z. Disch in the same neighborhood
had AIS bushels from % acres.
There is considerable wheat yet to
thresh, and more good yields will
doubtless be yet reported before
the work is through with.
PAIR OF MULES KILLED BY
TRAIN On Friday morning last
William D. Hudson, one of our
young farmers, sustained quite a
serious loss in having pair of val
uable young mules killed by the
first passenger train south on the
Delaware Railroad that morning.
The accident occurred near Clay
ton at what is known as the Duck
Creek road crossing Mr. Hudson
had the day before four teams run
ming hauling lime, one of his men
driving a pair of horses taking the
lead both going and coming, the
others following in a procession.
On Friday he had taken off one Of
the teams, but the driver having
the lead the day before was still oh
and sustained the same relation to
the other teams as then. At the
time the accident occurred the
three teams were on their way to
Clayton for loads. The road was
exceedingly dusty and the noise