Smyrna times., 1938-05-05

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Blackbird Hundred was the first
to make its appearance last week
in straw hat.
John r. Wilson has a patch of
over 20O0 cabbage plants which he
challenges the county to beat.
The teachers of our public
schools have purchased an outfit of
Archery for outdoor exercise and
diversion.
Herman Roe, Chief Templar, will
make an effort to reorganize the
Good Templar's lodge at Kenton,
tomorrow night.
Rev. j. K. Kilburn, of Yale Col
lege, who preached at the Presby-
terian Church last Sunday will fill
the pulpit again next Sunday.
When nature is in the mood it
can do things in hurry, as in the
change from almost winter to
a summer aspect the past week.
Two drum fish, the largest
weighing about sixty pounds, were
brought here yesterday with load
of trout. They were caught in the
Delaware Bay.
George M. Stevenson delighted
number of his patrons with straw
berry ice cream on Friday and
Saturday evenings, made with ber-
ries from the South.
There were six or seven clerks
Of school districts il Kent county
who failed to appear before Audi
tor Boyce last week at Dover to
have their accounts properly audit
ed.
John w. Graham residing half a
mile beyond Kenton, is furnishing
milk for the Smyrna Creamery,
fifty quarts day at present, which
will be more than doubled when
the cows get on grass.
Policeman Grants pay has been
advanced $40 per month. This is
because Of the extra night work
required, the lamps being now
lighted every night in the month
except the four at the full Of the
moon.
Twenty OR more candidates for
teachers certificates were in at
tendance on Superintendent Han
dy's monthly examination Satur-
day and put in solid day wrest-
ling with the knotty porblems,
some not being through by evening
car time.
The step from freezing weather
to summer was only week
Among the other evidences all
around were those of both aspara-
gus and sea trout in the market
yesterday, the first Of May. a
change yesterday brought the tenn
perature down again To the point
where fire was comfortable.
Miss Layton's address On Hin
doostan at Asbury NJ. f. Church
on Sunday morning, followed by
some stirring words by Mrs. z. e,
Stevens. were attentively listened
to BY the congregation Miss Lay
ton in her younger days lived near
Kenton where her father owned a
farm, her brother, Safety Layton
going from there into the ministry
Leonard Revis has prllets that
commenced laying eggs at the age
of three and half months old.
They were Matched in his incube-
tors the first Of the year and the
first of the eggs were laid week
before last. He is shipping spring
chickens again this week to the
cvity markets to which from forty
to fifty cents per pound are realiz-
ed
3. F. G. Rothwell has resigned
the office of collector of Blackbird
Hundred in favor of John Locker
man, whose appointment has been
confirmed by the Levy Court. Be
sides having a large force Of farm
hands to see after, Mr.. Rothwell is
giving extra attention to dairy
purposes in producing milk for the
creamery, and he feels it will pay
him better to be at home.
Mrs. z. 3. Stevens organized at
the close of Asbury NJ. E. Sunday
School last Sunday a young ladies
Missionary Band with the follow
ing officers: President, Miss Laura
Bell; Vice-President, Misses Sallie
Harris, Bertha Price, Nora Cotton;
Corresponding Secretary, Miss
Bertha Hoffecker; Recording Sec
retary, Miss Mary 3. Hall; Trea-
surer, Miss Edith Bell. This takes
the place Of the young ladies Mis-
sionary Society, organized by Miss
Mary 3. Spearman, some years
ago, and which went along very
efficiently until about a year ago.