Smyrna times., 1937-10-28
The Kent county court COM
its fall term on Monday.

The newly sown wheat was bene-
flied by the heavy rain of Thurs
day night.
Six horses for Pennington and
Lewes came down on the Tygert
last night.
G. A. Wick moved into his new
house corner Delaware and Frazier
streets on Monday.
The young folks of Smyrna, had
a hop at the Delaware House last
night, the second of the season.
Mrs. George D. Collins has a
geranium plant that stands six feet
high, and is full of buds for winter
bloom.
The annual meeting of the
Homeopathic physicians, of Della
ware, win be held in Smyrna, on
the 10th proximo.
The agent here for a Phnadel-
phia poultry firm, bought ninety
dozen eggs from one merchant in
Leipsic on Monday.
The first carload of new corn
from the west arrived in Philadel-
phia on Tuesday, graded No. 8 yel-
low, and sold for 48 cents.
Harry Il. Collins has resumed
housekeeping in his old home, the
house lately occupied by Mr.. Ment-
zer, opposite the Smyrna House.
There are some women, says an
exchange, who wouldn't be happy
in mansion in Heaven unless they
could clean house about once every
three months.
a dwelling belonging to John
Armstrong, at Taylor's Bridge, was
destroyed by fire one night last
week. It had been unoccupied for
two or three months.
why is a small boy like a wo-
man 2" said a certain man to his
troublesome wife. No response.
Because he will make a man
grown" said the conundrumist.
The typos of the Time office were
treated Saturday to several variet-
les Of excellent wedding cake from
Mrs. p. II. r. Wyatt, the mother
of Mrs. George Carter, the bride.
Samuel a. Benson, who has rent
ed the rooms in the Johnson build
ing formerly occupied as a postof-
flee, arrived yesterday from New
Castle to put it in order for a
candy kitchen.
a potato graces the window at
Clements store that weighs two
pounds. It was grown by John T.
Jerman, and is known as he PRO
life" variety. twenty-five Of them
filled a peach basket.
The rattle Of hail for a while |
during the rain Of yesterday, was
q reminder Of winter. On Monday
they had a driving snowstorm
throughout the Northwestern Stat
es, and everything frozen in.
Wild geese have been going
South quite freely the past week or
so, and three f1ocks passed over
the town this morning. This would |
indicate that freezing weather is
driving them from Northern wat
ers.
established between Smyrna and
Dover, and the first message pass
ed over the wires Saturday from
Denney's drug store to Burton's |
drug store, where the phones are
located.
The Salem Sunbeam reports a
crop of potatoes that turned out
nearly 300 bushels per acre. The
yield must have been much better
there than here, judging by the
scarcity in market and advance in
price over this time last year
Little Harvey FAIRIES, who has
had several serious mishaps, falling
twice from a scaffolding twelve or |
fifteen feet high, and is at this time |
carrying his arm in splints to pro-
tect a fracture in a recent fall.
came near losing an eye while at
play last week.
Ephriam Lower, near Brenford,
finished hlsking corn on his farm
i(now the E. r. Dick farm last
week, the crop between TOO and
800 bushels, and the yield "a BUSH
els to the acre. The most of the
farmers have but fairly commenc-
ed husking yet, their corn not be-
ing sufficiently dry.
The Adonis Club, which has its
rooms in the johnson building, or
ganized last week by the esection
of the following officers: President,
]. G. Longfellow; Vice president,
Charles M. Wharton; Treasurer,
Hirons Denney; Secretary, Wind