Smyrna times., 1935-02-28

tionL Its first use for divine wor-
ship will not perhaps be until East.
er Sunday, when the work of reno
walton will be completed and the
reopening services held.
Next Monday a new class of be-
ginner will be formed in the pri-
mary department of the Smyrna
Public Schools All children over
six years of age who have never
been to school will have an oppor-
tunity of starting. The children
who started last December but
have been kept home by bad
weather and sickness are request
ed to join the new class. Another
new class will not be formed until
June.
Smith, little son of Jesse Vane,
residing near Severson's Church,
during the Christmas holidays
while having in his mouth some
peanuts that had been hulled.
started to run across the floor
when he tripped and fell violently
on his head. In the force of the
concussion in unconsciously swal-
lowing the cracked kernels, some
of them went down his wind pipe,
it is said, and lodged in his lungs,
from which time he geban to waste
away and grow feeble. Last week
he coughed one of them up and it
was hoped the difficulty was re-
moved, but he steadily grew weak
er and died on Sunday.
TOWN OF SMYRNA CoNsID-
ERS WATER WORKS - In the
month of November last (after the
narrow escape from what at one
time threatened to be a serious
confiagration) the Town Commits
sloners of Smyrna took up the
question of fires and our made
quate means of meeting them, an
account of whose deliberations was
given in the Times at the time.
After getting what information
they could about economical meth
DDS of water supply for fires they
were about to adopt the cistern
method but learned that in almost
every place where tried it had
been abandoned for water works
on the Holly or some such system.
They very naturally concluded that
II unsatisfactory in other places it
would prove so here, and the ex-
penditure in the trial of several
thousand dollars would be a use
less waste of money. Those in
favor of water works seeing the
danger and daily risk we are run
ming in delay, would proceed as
soon as possible to have them con
structed, believing that the expend-
iture Of $1,000 or some such sum
for cisterns would be only tempor-
lzing, inadequate and virtually lost
TO the town, and that after all we
will have to come to water works.
1t cannot be denied that the taxes
Will be increased and may be felt,
at times onerous, but will they not
be infinitely more bearable than to
see ourselves as almost homeless
we are unwilling to spend
six-pence to save a pound? Wat
er works become less expensive
year by year by the dividends from
water rents, and in most of the
OWLS after a few years they be
'ome self-sustaining. The above
5 only the practical side of the
question: there is no appeal to
own pride in remaining dull, dead
md stagnant while our sister
owns are adopting, as much as an
advertisement Of their towns as
desirable places Of residences as
or safety against fire, all the
modern improvements for business,
:omfort, safety.
DOWN STATE TOWNS CON I
'IDERING ELECTRIC LIGHTS /
md WATER WORKS The rip /;
IAN Wrinkle sleep" that has been /
o tong characteristic of this PEN /
nsula seems to be breaking, and |
old Rip" is arousing himself and Z
ubbing his eyes as if in renewed
trength to take more penetrat- !
ng look and vigorous push in the /
direction of new deeds. For the i
asst three or four years this has s
'een manifested in the erection of {
lew churches or remodeling and
ieautifying old ones, not only in ]
he large towns but in small viii |
ages and obscure country places.
'here are but few towns large
nough that have not for some
ime had gas, and now they are
eaching out in the direction of
water works and electric lights. t
n fact there is an ambition to
,eep up with the cities in all the
ew improvements, and with water I
yorks and electric lights they can
ave all the comforts in their 9
ONES that are claimed for the I