Smyrna times., 1936-02-13

numbered 12O scholars, teachers
and visitors, on Sunday, a crafty
ing increase to the officers and all
interested.
Mr.. Maxwell, the maker, and Mr..
Bartlett, the representative of the
water-works pump, were in town
yesterday. They find the pump do
ing good work now.
Joseph L. Beckett, whose bust
ness has been in a measure for the
past several weeks suspended by
the dull times and want of orders,
started up again ON Monday in full
fore.
Sau-ah Brah, from Farther India,
will exhibit over 800 Oriental crys-
tai scenes at the Town Hall on Fri
day night. He comes under the
auspices of the Smyrna Hose Com
pany.
Rev. DR.. Tillidge will preach in
the Presbyterian Church on next
Sabbath, February 14th. The Rev
DR.. Umsted, the pastor, we are
pleased to state, is improving in
health.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage of Miss Carrie Roche AL
len and James Francis White at
the residence of the brides father,
Alvan Allen, in Wilmington, at 230
o'clock p. M. on Wednesday, oath
inst. The bride is well known here,
being a former resident of this
town.
Joseph B. Wallace, the Constable
at Kenton, was arrested and taken
to Dover jail day or two ago, but
got bail and was home before the
collector who took him down. Wal
lace had been breaking the peace
by smashing things generally at
his brother in laws residence
where his wife and child had taken
refuge.
The selection Of the Overseer of
the Poor, in the place of T. B. Lew
as, deceased, on Wednesday, fell to
e. B. Smith, of Mispillion Hundred.
Twenty-one out of twenty-seven
applicants were present. It it
thought that if there had not been
three or four applicants out of the
Lewes family, one of them would
have received the appointment.
On Sunday night thieves got into
the dwelling of George A. Hall, on
Delaware Street, through a back
window and had good feast on the
edibles they could find in the way
of bread, meat and preserves, TAX
ing nothing with them but a small
bag of -four and some things from
the cupboard. The silverware and
other things in the room were not
disturbed.
The snow storm of Wednesday
and Thursday is generally consid-
cred the biggest snow since the
Winter Of Sc, thirty years, but
those who remember the "big
snow" Of 81 say the one last week
was a baby in comparison with
that of ffty-five years ago. The
snow last week was from fifteen to
eighteen inches on the level and
banks four to five feet deep.
The Ladies' Mite Society Of the
M. E. Church held their annual
meeting on Saturday night last and
the following officers were elected
to serve for the ensuing wear:
President. Mrs. George A. Hall;
Vice-president, Mrs. w. H. Baggs;
Treasurer, Mrs. John P. Hudson;
Secretary, Miss Irene Roberts;
Parsonage Committee, Mrs. Joseph
Smithers, Mrs. John H. Hoffecker
and Mrs. Edward G. FAIRIES.
The churchyard on the occasion
of an interment is always a place
of gloom but a funeral on such a
day as last Wednesday with a driv-
ing snow storm singing a requiem
i'm connection with the burial SER
vices must have been the intensity
of gloom. Such was the time ap-
pointed and the occasion of the
funeral of James H. Jacobs, an in
dustrious young farmer, who died
at the residence of his step-father,
Benjamin d. Burrows, on the Sat
urday previous after a long ill
ness. He leaves a widow and sew
eral young children. The funeral
services were conducted by the
Rev. E. E. White, and interment at
Brynzion Church.
Robert Steel, Cedar Park Stud.
near Philadelphia, has sold to Ter
ence Carvin, proprietor of Kenton
Hotel, for stock purposes, the hand
some bay stallion Spring Hill, foal-
ed in 1878, sired by Happy Medium,
dam Molie Jackson, by Voorhees,
Abdellah Prince. Spring Hill was
bred by John Brown of Torresdale,
Penn. Mr.. Steel sold Happy Med
dum three years ago to General
Withers, of Kentucky, for 3O,OO0.
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