Smyrna times., 1937-06-24

tion.
The strawberry short cake will
be far too short for another year
The curbing around the Town
Hall is being reset and straighten-
ed.
There has been considerable
damage in some fields of wheat by
the hessian fly.
There is talk of Aspury Meth
odist Sunday School making their
excursion to COLCHESTER.
The Sunday School of st. Peters
Church will picnic at Woodland
Beach next Wednesday.
The first raspberries in market
were from the patch of j. D. Scout,
on sale Saturday by t. B. Megear.
The sale of DR.. Charles Noble
farms will be effected tomorrow
by John Biggs, Esq, agent for the
heirs.
The hay harvest commenced last
week, and will hardly be out of the
way before the wheat is ready for
the reaper.
]. B. Mifflin has purchased one
of Mr.. Anthony's lots on South
Street on which he purposes to
build a cottage.
The fields of wheat on the Cow
gill farm seeded by Joseph Fore
acres last fall, are remarkably fine,
all things considered.
Presley Ford is accredited with
the best field of corn in Severson's
Neck, with that of Charles Griffith
close by pressing it hard.
The 'Home School, closed on
Friday for the summer. Prof.
Herman Roe viii open again on the
first Monday in September.
The members of Love and Union
Lodge, G. U. o. o. F., will give a
grand picnic in Mudge's woods
west of Clayton on Monday, July
4th.
The wood work of the Taylor
shops has passed under the paint
ers brush the past week. The red
of the windows is especially no
ticeable in the artistic effect.
If the white and colored people
carry out their programs as out
lined for the Fourth of July, we
shall have rather big time of it
in the way of music, professions,
&c.
Browns latest is bells on the
tongue of his hack. The ting-ting
wabulations are intended to imi-
tate street cars, the coming of
which will be sure to catch the ear
of the drummer.
The finest fields of wheat on the
road to White Hall Neck. so we
are told, are that on the Daniel B.
Cummins farm. and the two fields
of John Bennett, and those of B. F.
Cummins and T. B. Donovan.
John Hutton of the Western
District" has bought a tract of
land known as the Atkins land,
1 1-2 miles this side of Dover for
SLIPS. Mr.. Hutton designs erect
ing a house and moving there next
year.
We are indebted TO Frank Col
Inns for a box of the finest straw
berries we have seen this year. His
patch came into full ripening
when the others were going out,
and he has found profitable
market.
There was a vast amount of
thunder and lightning on Sunday
evening but small rain fall. West
of us it was heavier and accom-
panied in some places by hail es-
pecially in the neighborhood of
Downs Chapel.
Joseph Burrows was run over by
a horse and carriage at the Bonn
bay Hook crossing one evening
last week, but fortunately more
scared than hurt. The boys were
too busy with their play to notice
approaching carriages.
The William Denney farm in
Raymonds Neck in the tenure Of
the Clement brothers presents a
beautiful field Of corn, and the
same can be said Of the wheat and
In fact, as far as that goes, Of the
wheat Of the neighborhood.
There are fifteen applicants for
the position of Principal of our
schools, from which the selection
will probably be made at the meet
ing of the Board two weeks hence.
One of the boys wants the selec-
tion to fall on on who Is good at
playing ball.