Smyrna times., 1935-10-24

Smyrna and clayton edcn Seen
to be entering on building boom
The Good Templers Lodge, OF
this town, now number ~ mem
bers.
The Odd Fellows are planting q
row of shade trees along the Gem
etery front.
There are said to be ten persons
engaged in the retail oyster busi-
ness in this town.
The new dwellings of Mrs. M. H
Carter, William E. C. Bell, and
James VanWinkle, are going up
rapidly.
The flying of wild geese south
ward is an indication that ice is
closing in the waters of the higher
latitudes.
The heavy winds on the Bay
Monday week blew schooners
ashore at both Collins and Bow
ers' Beach.
Joseph H. Wright broke ground
yesterday for a double dwelling on
South street, adjoining the grounds
of the public school
Some Spanish chestnuts grown
at Belmont" measure nearly four
\ inches around them and an inch
thro,1Ch tho fat uyou
A Progressive Euchre" party
has been organized in our town as
a social entertainment by a COM
pany of ladies and gentlemen.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. T. Underwood
will celebrate their silver wedding
on Monday evening, November 20,
at their residence in Kenton.
Rev. DR.. Caldwell, president of
Delaware College, will supply the
pulpit of Rev. DR.. Umsted, at the
Presbyterian Church next Sunday.
We hear of a farmer whose new
ly husked corn has a blackeye from
too much warm weather and too
much of it in the crib at the same
time.
An exchange says that a folded
newspaper placed under the coat IN
the small of the back, is an excel
lent substitute for an overcoat.
Now is the time to subscribe.
Tomato canning is about over
for the season. It commenced late,
went along slow, but held out long
er than usual. Nevertheless, as a
season, it has been a poor one.
Henry w. Morrow, of Whining
ton, delivered an address in the in
terest of the Good Templers at the
Town Hall last evening. This clos
es his connection with the Alli-
ance.
The chestnut is not classified
strictly a fruit, but the boys and
pigs do not stop to discuss classi-
fications of nature when such
tempting fruit is within their
reach.
Henry D. Webster, a former resi-
dent of Blackbird hundred, but who
has been resi6ing for some years
past in Maryland, moved his fam
lily, last week, from Cecilton to
Clayton.
r. II. Darrah Of the Middle AL
ley, took up last week from half an
acre of ground, $50 baskets of po-
tatoes. They were Of the Bur
banks, Scotch Blue and Scotch
White varieties.
Rev. ]. B. Quigg, P. H. T. Wyatt
and Edward Gilbert were appoint
ed to represent Smyrna Lodge, No.
II, 1. o. G. T., at the State Grand
Lodge, I. o. G. T.. which convenes
at Dover, to-day.
Robert Pyle, of Wilmington. with
several helpers, is doing the brick
work for the water works contrac-
tors, our home bricklayers having
their time fully occupied for the
remainder of the season.
Our post Office has been out OF
postal cards for about six weeks
which has ben quite a deprivation
to our people, but which has beer
in a measure supplied, recently, by
DIR. E. M. Cloak, at his drug store
The mechanically straight rows
of wheat in their bright shade OF
emerald makes the newly drillec
wheat fields objects of decided
beauty, in the midst of decayins
nature that everywhere surround:
them.
The subjects of the two deaths
recorded elsewhere, which occur
red, in Dover, within the pas
week, Mrs. Anna E. Scout and Gar
ret Forcum, were both, until the
latter part of their lives, residents
of this section.
The warm weather that has
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