Smyrna times., 1937-05-06

May opened with summerlike
weather and the trees will soon be
casting a full shade.
John M. Voshell has a COW that
is % years old and has been CIV
ing milk continuously for 20 years.
Jenney Wren arrived on Sunday
to renew former scenes and asso-
Citations, and will make a protract-
ed visit Of several months.
Potato plants are coming
through the ground which means
that the earliest of the tubers will
be in the market in about six
weeks.
A. Price Griffith has sold his new
and attractive home on lower Main
street to William E. Waters, of
Philadelphia, for the sum of $1,000
Mr.. Waters expects to move down
and take possession of it the latter
part of this month.
Herman Hirnheimer is giving his
store a coat of buff paint. Miss
Mary Savin, E. j. Colt, Jacob Lein-
berger, Mrs. Amanda Spencer, Will
liam G. Mitchell, H. d. Boyer, H.
r. Mustard, and William H. Sith-
ems are repainting their dwellings.
A call was issued Monday for a
meeting this evening in the rooms
adjoining the Americus Club
rooms, ito discuss the feasibility of
organizing and establishing
Board of Trade for the promotion
of manufacturing and other busi-
ness interests of the town"
There is, judging from what we
see in the papers, unusual interest
manifested throughout this State,
Maryland and New Jersey in the
Convention of Peach Growers
which is to be held in Dover on
Thursday of next week. The whole
question of peach interests and es-
pecially the basket question will
come up for consideration and it
will be very strange if this meet
ing does not speak with potential
voice.
Mr.. Reynolds the owner of Wood
land Beach is having an artesian
well bored at Woodland Beach. 1t
was commenced on Friday, The
workmen striking a solid rock
when thirty feet below the surface
which broke the point of the drill.
suspending operations for day
or so for repairs. 1t is expected
good and sufficient water will be
reached 100 feet below the ground.
A number of new bath houses are
being constructed.
On the goth of June, Queen Vic
toria, the ruler of the United King
dom of England. Ireland, Scotland
and Wales and Empress of India,
will have completed a reign of fifty
years. This fact has given to the
present the title of the Jubilee
Year and observances began in In
dia, where they were conducted on
a most extensive scale, and elabor-
ate preparations are making in
Great Britain and Canada for cele-
brations of various kinds.
On Monday man hired team
from the livery here to go to
Chestertown, Md. When he got TO
Millington, Md, the horse baked
absolutely refused to go any
further with the carriage. The
man settled the controversy with
the horse by taking him from the
carriage mounting his back and
riding him clear back to Smyrna,
exchanged him for a better dis
posed animal, rode back to Mill
ington, hitched it to the carriage
and then continued his journey to
Chestertown and back.
Chief Justice Comegys will deliv-
er an Grafton in the Opera House,
Wilmington on the 18th inst, on
John M. Clayton, the great Whig
Statesman of Delaware. Judge
Comegys from family and social
relations, as well as from COM
mingling in his younger life in the
scenes and incidents in which Mr..
Clayton took such a leading part,
is better fitted than any other per-
son in the State to do justice to the
great lawyer, politician and states
man. The leading men of he State
besides Hon. Wayne Veagh, Hon.
Benz. H. Brewster, Col. A. K. Nc
Clure and Chas. Tmory Smith from
Pennsylvania, will be present, and
will participate with some seventy
or more Delawareans In banquet
after the public meeting.
Mrs. r. s. Rust, corresponding
secretary of the Home Missionary
Society occupied the pulpit Of the
IA. e. Church on Sunday morning.
If not 30 ready In speech as most
female speakers, she has a subject
Of great importance to inspire her
to labor, and Is doubtles q very
competent organizer. After the