Smyrna times., 1935-07-25

gather.
The new school district which
was laid off more than two years
ago near Blackiston's Church and
which has had no school house
upon it because of the inability to
agree as to the location, is likely
to have a school house ere long,
half are having been given it at
Blackiston's Cross Roads on which
it is said the erection of a new
house will commence in a short
time.
c. S. York, of Chestertown, who
put in the water works there which
have been so popular with the
people, was in this town Monday
prospecting, and took home with
him a bottle of water from the
spring below the mill and also one
from the Green Spring branch rum
ming between this town and Duck
Creek to analyze. The first-named
to the taste, without subjecting it
to a chemical test, seemed the
purer of the two.
Rev. William B. Gordon, rector
of st. Peters P. E. Church, held
his evening service on Sunday at
$50, thus having the service over
before the necessity of lighting gas
and enduring the heat that would
thereby be generated. The We'd
nesday evening service has been
dispensed with for the heated term.
Rev. Mr.. Gordon purposes in few
days to make a trip to the noun
tains to recuperate his health. Rev.
DR.. Tullidge will officiate during
the two weeks absence.
The lovers of flowers were much
interested in the unfolding of the
Night Blooming Cereus, belonging
to Mrs. T. j. Lambdin, on Monday
evening. 1t commenced to unfold
shortly after dark and by ten
o'clock was in full bloom and by
morning had accomplished its mis-
sion as flower. 1t differed from
the usual kind seen here in being
a prickly cane stalk that comes out
from the side near the top of the
plant. Mrs. Lambdin has two
plants each of them with several
buds that will shortly bloom.
An easy method of destroying
stumps was recently proven by a
farmer, says the Salem Sunbeam.
The farmer bored holes in the top
of a number of stumps which he
wished to remove and placed in
them a quantity of saltpetre. He
then filled up the holes with water
and plugged them and left them
to season. About a month ago he
took out the plugs and poured in
kerosene and set it on fire. The
stumps have smouldered away
without blazing, and now there is
nothing left of them but ashes.
Barnum's large Asiatic elephant,
Albert, which killed keeper James
Sweeney, at Nashua, N. H., was
taken to ravine in the suburbs
of Keene Monday, and killed.
Thirty-three members of the Keene
Light Guard, at 15 PAGES, sent that
number of bullets into the heart.
The huge beast fell dead without a
struggle. Albert was 80 years old,
and had been used as a performing
elephant until the last three
months, when he had shown temp
er. He was valued at about S1O,-
600. The remains have been do
mated to the Smithsonian Institu-
tion at Washington.
The uplifted axe has fallen at
last, in the appointment of Charles
M. Newlin Marshall of the District
of Delaware in the place of H. H.
McMullen. The Democrats had be-
gun to distrust the Administration
at Washington for the long delay
in turning out the Republicans, and
this break is of course highly pleas
ing, as it would indicate that Del
aware's turn at the offices had
come. The other significant fact
is that it was a removal and not
an expiration, Mr.. McMullen hav-
ing only few months or only un-
til May, to run. The inference of
those seeking offices is that there
will be clean sweep with little re-
gard to the Civil Service law which
has but few admirers in Delaware.
4, HE DRANK PARIS GREEN
On Friday morning a colored
man who was working in the field
Of Gamaliel Garrison drank three
dippers of water from a pail which
was brought from the house.
Shortly after he learned that the
boy who carried the water had
walked through the potato patch
that had recently been Paris green
ed, a portion of which had been
knocked off the vines into the
water as he walked between the
rows. Knowing it was an active
poison hl1t NOT knotuir,or hour y,o,,oL