Smyrna times., 1937-08-05

Vic Ol OuL OLu 1dI llcLS says Oil
there is in growing wheat now is
the straw for bedding horses and
making manure
"a. L. and J. P. Hudson have each
the foundation walls enclosing
large cellars for their respective
new residences, about completed.
The signals at Clayton which
have occupied places between the
tracks have been removed to the
side and rear Of the Office build
lngs.
The present indications are that
the railroad estimate of 2,358, ,233
baskets Of peaches will fall by
marketing time to not much over
100000 baskets.
The Smyrna Cornet Band and
Belmont Camping Club left on
Monday for a week at Woodland
Beach. They number between
twenty and thirty.
The railroad has constructed a
side track at Townsend on the line
Of the Queen Anne's road nearly a
half mile long. It's use will be
mainly to accommodate the peach
trains.
The bids on the improvements at
the Smyrna Town Hall were only
two, Joseph Wright $3.50 and
Weldon & Humphreys S1556, 50 the
contract was awarded to Mr..
Wright. The changes to be made
were noted in a previous issue of
the Times.
Mr. and Mrs L. NJ. Price have
the sympathy Of their friends in
the loss by death on Sunday of
their youngest child, Wallace jam
es, after a few hours illness from
cholera infantum. In the shades
of yester eve it was sorrowfully
laid to rest in the Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
The picking of the troth peach
will commence this week and the
mountain rose next, that is what
is left of them from the rot. The
sign of the farmers is for a West
wind, a wind not surcharged with
moisture and heat, as has been the
case with the prevalent South
winds of the past three weeks.
William w. Jones, Of the Mid
die Alley" sowed last year IL
bushels Of wheat on IL acres and
had a yield Of 205 bushels. This
was only a fraction over a bushel
to the acre in the sowing, the yield !
being up to if not above the aver
age of this seasons crops. Much
of the deficiency is attributed to
the new enemy that cut off SO
many heads
JFrank Wilds, Register Of Wills, !
has admitted to probate the last \
will and testament of John Wright, I
late Of Kenton Hundred, and
granted letters testamentary unto /
William r. Wright, James D. |
Wright and George D. Wright, ex-
ecutors; also, upon the estate Of
William Knots, late of East Do /
yer Hundred, to Joseph Mcdaniel. /
the executor named in the will
Sunday was another depopulat-
ing day to the town, especially felt
by the churches. A number of our
people are off on summer trip. /
The Camden camp meeting had It's
usual voteries, though the day was
one Of decided warmth. An excur-
sion to a camp meeting near Ches-
tertown took away seven packed /
carloads Of the colored people. A
number went to the Beach for the
day.
The following paragraph was
handed US this morning: Quite a
number went to Woodland to-day.
Among others, our genial friend
Nathaniel Painter Pratt drew a
graceful pair Of reins on a hand
some pair Of blacks, hitched to a
seventeen seat barouche, with his
family and large number of in
vited guests on board, and started
in high spirits for the home Of the
festive mosquito.
The experiment Of bagging
grapes previous to their blooming
is being tried quite extensively this
year at Vineland, and there Is
every indication that the expert
ment will prove a success, both as
a preventive Of rose bug ravages
and rot. The clusters which were
bagged week previous to the
time Of blooming, the filling out
finely, and it is thought this meth
cd will be quite generally adopted
next year.
FALLS HEIR TO $4,000
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