Smyrna times., 1939-11-23

Peter Shane has commenced the
manufacture of brooms at Duck
Creek.
Nine cents per gallon is what the
creamery is paying for milk this
month.
Thomas Dickson died at the resi-
dence of his nephew, ]. P. Dickson,
at Brenford, yesterday, aged Sc
years.
Abram Stats was thrown from
his wagon last week by the start
ing of the horses, (and was pain
fully hurt by being thrown on his
head.
Some of the farmers in the
Necks, as on the backbone of the
Peninsula, can dip the water from
their wells, so full is the earth of
water.
The Business Mems Protective AS
sociation has petitioned the Smyr-
ma Town Council to have the
lights in the business portion of the
town burned all night.
A citizen of Clayton was fined
S5 for shooting a pigeon a day or
two ago. The fine was imposed
not for shooting the bird, but for
firing the gun in the town limits.
E. H. Beck, real estate broker,
has sold a farm of $50 acres, near
Salisbury, Md, belonging to w. H.
Money, of Townsend, to ]. B. En-
rock, Of Burlington, N. J., for S4,-
500.
Washouts occurred early yester-
day morning between Townsend
and Middletown and near the canal
bridge, delaying the morning train
an hour and a half in reaching this
town.
Charles H. Jones purposed or
ganizing class in singing at the
Ladies Temperance Reading Room
tomorrow evening, and he would
like those wishing to take lessons
to be on hand.
The addition to Asbury NJ E.
Church now being built was inter-
fered with by the rains of last
week and again by the storm of
this. Plastering of necessity had
to pc postponed.
A Shakespearean club has been
formed in Smyrna among the mem
bers Of St. Peters Church. A
meeting to talk over the organiza-
ton was at the residence of John
G. Bailey last evening.
A spirited revival has been in
progress the past two weeks at
Raymond's Church, under the man
agement Of the pastor, Rev. Mr..
Maxwell, Of Leipsic. The number
of conversions are reported to be
between twenty and thirty
The Street Committee of Smyr-
ma Town Council have been in
structed to correspond with a stone
dealer for broken stone for the
streets. 1t is thought that the
material can be had at cheaper
figure than that put on last winter.
One day last wek little child of
Fred Gootee while at play fell over
a sleeping dog of John r. Cameron,
Jr., the latter in its startled condi- |
tion. suddenly burying its teeth in
the child's face, the wound requir-
ing to be stitched up by a ply
sician.
In addition to the hauling of
bats from the brickyard to the
slough on the Landing road below
"Whopping," the Board of Commis-
toner's intend, it is stated, to give
it heavy coating of shells. The
wonder is that it has taken so
many months to reach this conclu-
sion. Their non-action has been
lut CduSt VI uluSn IiilAClSlu
George C. Rothwell, of Blackbird
Hundred, has an apple tree in full
bloom though bare of leaves from
the frost. If George were super
stitious he might take this as
good omen-that his candidacy for
Sheriff of New Castle county sub
ject to the decision of the Demo-
cratic party, will bloom out into
the full nomination by the decision
of the people next June.
Yesterday morning after the rain
had been coming down for some
hours in succession like heavy sum-
mer showers. rafting like a drum
corps on the roofs and filling the
yards with water a husband broke
the silence within by remarking,
Mary, I believe the world is COM
ing to an end" mo" she replied,
"the next time this takes place it
will not be by water" and he was
greatly relieved that her superior
knowledge Of Bible history gave
u