Smyrna times., 1939-11-09

The thermometer dropped to 8
degrees last night-the point wher,
freezing begins.
George H. Niven, the Temper
ence lecturer, will speak at Leipsi,
tomorrow night.
Charles H. Jones, of this town
has organized a singing class o1
twenty persons in Clayton.
The steamer ELLA" on the ap.
proach of cold weather has dropped
from three to two trips week.
w. L. Collins, moulder, and John
Mannering, paper hanger, Of this
town, have found employment al
Dover.
A flock of wild geese, twenty
three in number, passed over the
town yesterday evening on their
way south.
Joseph Robinson now rides in a
new milk wagon in serving his GUS
tomers-made for him by ]. G.
Lassell & Co.
Charles FAIRIES, residing near
Duck Creek, has bought lot of
E. H. Beck in West Smyrna, and
is making arrangements to build a
dwelling on it at once.
Robert Scout, for some years the
blacksmith for the Taylor Broth
ers, has opened blacksmith shop
at the Beckett carriage works for
horseshoing and other work for the
general public.
Mrs. William Perry, Of Thor
oughfare Neck, who has been re-
ported by the newspaper writers,
to have deserted her husband, was
gone only few days, having re
turned home last week.
The Homeopathic Medical So
ciety Of Delaware and Peninsula,
will meet at Elkton, Md, next
Thursday, Nov. 14th. DR.. Q. o.
Swinney and Or. r @. Moore ex-
pect to attend the meeting.
The annual meeting Of the Kent
County Bible Society will be held
In Asbury NJ E. Church at Dover
on Tuesday, Nov. 12, at IL o'clock
Rev. Or. Mclean, Of the American
Bible Society, will present the ad-
dress.
The walls Of the extension Of As
bury Methodist church were finish
ed yesterday and the enclosure will
be completed in day or two.
There will be nothing then in the
way of going on with the neces-
sary work.
The brush Of the painter has
made a radical change in the ap-
pearance Of the Smyrna House.
From dark earth color, In its dress
of green and white it has been so
transformed in appearance as to
look like the first bloom of spring.
According to its time honored
custom, the Presbyterian Sunday
School will hold anniversary exer-
cises on Thanksgiving night, Nov.
28th. Preparations are making for
an interesting programme, in which
the children will largely partici-
patte.
Complaint is made that num-
Der of boys are meeting around the
mill pond and other places and en-
gaging in mischief. They are
doubtless the same fellows who
fired bullets into the new gilded
links suspended from the main
gateway entrance into the Odd
Fellows Cemetery.
Says the Greensborough Free
Press: The Philadelphia and Smyr-
ma Transportation Company an
nounce the November schedule of
their steamer Ella. This line has
become noted for the rapid and sat
isfactory manner in which freight !
is carried and is winning large |
per cent of Philadelphia shipments.
Halloween was observed on Thurs
day night by the boys in this town |
with more than usual abandon, as
was apparently the case in other
towns. throughout the country. |
The next morning the streets from
one end of the town to the other
was covered with corn which had |
been used in throwing against the
windows. It must have amounted
in the aggregate to several bushels.
This was mostly by the smaller
removing of door steps, tossed |
gates, etc.
James Cook died suddenly at his
home in Wilmington on Saturday
He arose at the usual hour to do
some work, and when his wife
came down stairs at GAO o'clock,
she found him stretched out on the
floor dead. He drew a pension of
w per month, which was granted
to him on October /, 1864. He had