Smyrna times., 1936-03-05

Cards ere not announcing the
wedding of Miss Mary V. Williams,
daughter of the ate John H. Will
aiams, and S. Brady Cooper at the
Bethel M. E. Church, near Moor
ton, Thursday evening, March 18th,
at eight o'clock.
The thermometer has ranged
from IA degrees to 16 degrees every
morning since Friday until this
morning, when it crept up to % de-
grees, but the bleak winds has
made the past six days appear very
much like zero weather.
At the annual election of Trus-
tees at the M. E. Church, on Mon
day, John B. Cooper, William Far
les and w. W.Tschudy, whose term
of three years were expired, were
reelected for another term of
three years and Robert D. Hoffeck-
er, Sr., was elected to fill the va
cancy caused by the removal of
John CoSden to Maryland.
The marble tablet, which has
been put in place at the water
works, bearing the names of the
Town Board and that of the chief
engineer, was put there, not at the
expense of the town, but as private
contribution from those whose
names appear on it. In doing this
the Board only followed the custom
in the construction of works else
where.
There will be an annular eclipse
of the Sun on Friday, March 5th,
invisible here for several reasons,
sufficient one being that the sun
will set a minute or two before the
eclipse begins. The central path of
the eclipse, along which the whole
of the sun except a small circum-
ferential ring will be hidden, be-
gins with the rising sun, tinting the
eastermost cape of New Guinea,
crosses in an E. N. E. direction the
Pacafic Ocean and the Mexican
States and ends with the setting
sun.
The stockholders of the Philadel-
phia and Smyrna Transportation
Company held their annual meet
ing in this town yesterday. A six
percent dividend was declared pay
able to stockholders on demand and
the following Board of Directors
were elected to serve the ensuing
year: John Fl. Hoffecker, Isaac R.
Stats, John E. Tygert, Captain A.
Scout and w. G. Pierce. The Di-
rectors organized by electing John
K. Tygert, President; w. G Pierce,
Secretary and Treasurer; A. z.
Jardine, General Manager.
Mrs. S. p. Mason, while crossing
from the corner of Mrs. II. r. Car
rows residence to the Town Hall,
on her way to call upon a friend,
made a mis-step, which threw her
to the ground, hurting her quite
severely about the face and body,
but fortunately, breaking no bones.
She managed to get as far as the
residence of Mrs. M H. Carter
which was her destination, from
y.nence she was conveyed to her
home on Main street in one Of the
hotel hacks and is now improving
as rapidly as her advanced age will
permit.
Isaac Truax, is one of the farm
ers who sees after the "odd and
ends" of his business and has nc
occasion to complain bitterly of the
"hard times" The most of oul
farmers are seeing the benefit in
having warm stables for their hors-
es and shelter for their cattle an6
other stock, but Mr. Truax ha:
gone a step further in keeping g
coal fire in his hennery all winter
the result being that he will be il
the market with Spring chicken.
by the time some folks get started
and is now gathering fifty or sixty
eggs a day.
The communication on our frs
page "Three-Fourths of the Way
Across the Continent" is from tbs
pen of. George s. Hoffecker, son O
John s. Hoffecker, so well known
to our readers as the author of tn,
letters which have appeared il
these columns from time to TIM
signed Rambler" The first nam
ed, who writse over the name o
Max Maxey" left a Connection
school where he was preparing fo
a profession, at the command o
his physician to put his books asid
and chose between an out-of-doo
life or broken down health striking
out for the frontier, as the chang
had to be made. His letter Is
description of his journey to hi
new home whose bracing air ha
impaired the hoped for vigor o
life.
On Monday morning a little four