Smyrna times., 1937-11-25

will put on a Mother Goose enter
tainment at the Smyrna Opera
House tomorrow night.
Leonard Revis has 400 little
chicks, which were Matched in his
incubator at Duck Creek last week,
with another lot Matching off in
about a week.
A festival will be held tomorrow
evening at Kenton under the aus
pices of the Mite Society, the pro-
ceeds to go for the purpose of buy
ing a bell for the M. E. Church
there.
Thanksgiving services will be
held tomorrow at 1890 o'clock, a.
m, in the Methodist Church. Rev.
VIM. S. Robinson will preach
sermon adapted to the day and to
the occasion.
Rev. J. F. Stonecipher, of Dover,
preached in the Presbyterian
Church here on Sunday last, to in
terested audiences. The pulpit will
be filed next Sunday by Rev.
George Porter, of Newark.
Cards are out announcing the
wedding of Miss Harriet Denney
Bishop, daughter Of John H. Bis
hop, and jefferson Cooper, both of
Moorton (now Cheswold), at noon
on Thursday, December 1st.
Obediah Voshell, a well known
farmer of Kenton Hundred, usual
iy in robust health until a few
months ago, died on Thursday, and
was buried in the Odd Fellows
Cemetery, Smyrna, on Saturday.
The recently organized town
authorities of Clayton have levied
tax of 45 cents on the $1OO for
municipal improvements and street
crossings, &c, are being laid and
fifteen lamps ordered for lighting
the streets.
z. G. Walls is receiving a num-
ber of solutions to his rebus adver-
tisement which was inserted in the
Times last week and appears again
this, some Of them being from par
ties living in the states of New
York and New Jersey.
VIM. a. Johnson, who contracted
for the Edison electric plant in
Milford, and has since purchased it,
spent Sunday and Monday in town.
He is well pleased with his success,
and may soon take more active
place with the Company.
"Al" FAIRIES, as be was usually
called, one Of our blacksmiths, and
a man Of clever qualities, died last
week, it IS said, from blood poison /.
ing caused by an injury to bis hand
in preparing for an anvil explo- .
sion On last Fourth Of July morn
ing.
VIM. r. Legg Of this town, has
bought Of w. w. Tschudy the house
now occupied by VIM. H. Hazel on
Union street, for $1,000 Mr. Legg
for thirty years has occupied a
house on the same street. He viii
move to his new home in the
spring.
The Pennsylvania railroads were
inspected by the railroad officials
on Thursday. After visiting Reho-
both and Franklin City they re-
turned to Clayton, where they were
the guests Of Superintendent l. N.
Mills, Of the Delaware division.
Oxford and Centerville, Nd, were
visited Friday.
The Thanksgiving turkey is not
so far out of the reach of the con-
sumner this season as usual Ship
pers were paying IL and 13 cents
a week ago, but this week notwith-
standing the favorable weather,
they have dropped down to IL and
IL cents. This is from two TO four
cents below the usual price.
One of our young sportsmen
went out last week with gun and
dog dreaming" of a well filled
game bag. After trudging for
miles over fields and through bush
es and briars, he returned in the
evening with two little tit sparrows
for his supper. He is not of the
kind to be thus thwarted, however,
and still intends to sup off of part
ridge.
VIM. T. Johnson, has contracted
with the Town Council of Milford,
for eighty-five sixteen-candle-p
er lights to burn every night in
the year at SIT per lamp. The town
has been lighted with gasoline sew
enteen nights in the month until
IL o'clock, at an expense of $13 for
each lamp per annum. The cleo
trio burners are claimed to give
twice the light.
Smyrna came off with one of the
honors at the meeting of the Grand
Lodge, /. o. o. F., in Wilmington. Il