Smyrna times., 1935-07-11

cumbers and squashes are in
market.
]. Henry Jefferson has sold to
Abram Evans and Richard Evans,
each, a building lot on East street.
The steam threshers will start in
several of our adjacent neighbor-
hoods today in getting out the new
wheat crop.
New Workers pay 1-2 cents for
pond lilies. Wouldn't some of our
boys rejoice if they had access to
that market?
July comes with splendid grow
ing weather. A nice shower fell
on Monday and the corn fields are
pushing ahead rapidly.
Sheriff Ford sold the real estate
of Elizabeth c. and James B. Hen
ry, of Delaware City, last week to
David p. Bush, for $4,000.
The report of the Fruit Growers
National Bank shows $165, ,641 .83
on deposit subject to check, and
1922 ,56119 loans and discounts.
There are at Hoffecker's cannery
a full force of workmen engaged
in making cans for canning peach
es and tomatoes the coming season.
Rev. w. S. Robinson, of Milford,
has had the title of A. M conferred
upon him by Dickinson College,
though he is graduate Of Ear-
ward
A hailstorm and cyclone all with
in one week! Our people are rath-
or fond of novelties. but they would
prefer this kind wouldn't come so
thick and fast
George w. Gordon has purchased
of James Collins two lots in the
rear Of the one on Glenwood Av-
enue he recently purchased of Mrs.
Catherine Douglass.
MARRIAGES
Eddington-Ewbanks-Att the Mil
ford Baptist Church, June 28th, by
the Rev. S. B. Hayward, William
T. Eddington and Miss Lydia W.
Ewbanks, all of Milford.
One of the largest excursions of
the season to Cape May promises
to be that of next Wednesday when
the Odd Fellows of Chestertown,
Md, will be Joined along the rotue
by many persons who want pleas
ant days recreation.
The Rev. Joseph Bers, who has
been officiating in st. Anne's Epis-
copal Church, in Middletown, for
some weeks has received a unan-
imous call from the Vestry to be-
come Rector of the Parish, and has
had the matter under considera-
tion.
DEATHS
LeCompte-At the residence of
her daughter, July 3rd, Mrs. Mary
J. LeCompte, wife of Charles Le-
Compile.
Marvel-.Near Willow Grove, May
27th, Phillip Marvel, aged S5 years,
5 months and 19 days.
A two year old child of F. J. Car
row fell from the second story win
dow of his residence on Commerce
Street to the step below, from
whence it bounced upon the pave
ment. The fact that it was not in
jured beyond bruise or two, cannot
be accounted for unless, perchance,
it slid down upon a golden sun
beam.
George T. Thompson, for a few
years past tenant of D. J. Cum
minis big oak" farms, has bought
of T. ]. Munday his farm, more
familiarly known as the Benson
farm, situated on the State road, a
mile and half from town. Mr.
Munday about three years ago,
purchased this farm of Tschudy &
Cats. The farm contains about 90
acres.
The shower that visited US last
Thursday, covering a breadth of
but few miles in extent, brought
with it also a shower of hail quite
destructive in the course of it's
track. Hail fell more or less
throughout the course of the pass
ing cloud from Duck Creek to
Moorton, (now Cheswold), but that
of greatest destruction was a small
vein which seems to have COM
menced about the farms of II. P.
Massey and Henry Anthony, pass
ing in an easterly course taking in
the vineyards of James and Levi
Anthony, E. Lower, and the farms
of George Thompson, William M.
Boyer, Isaac Truax, Daniel Ford,
Theodore johnson, Carey Frazier,
Joseph Forakers, the Clement
Brothers and Joseph E. Disch.
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