Smyrna times., 1939-02-09


One Of our young ladies has sue
cesswully trained her cat to turn
summersault at her command.
Theodore Mannon takes the lead
of his neighbors in gardening,
having already planted his onion
sets.
The dance at the Opera House
next Wednesday night promises to
be the most imposing Of any for
the past four years.
The Rev. James Moore, Of
Princeton Theological Seminary,
preached at the Presbyterian
Church, morning and night.
Over a dozen laborers left this
town yesterday to work at Collins
Beach. Their first work is cutting
brush from Isenburg's woods to
use in making the embankment.
The Republican Club Of Duck
Creek Hundred, at their meeting
on Manday, passed resolution
extending a reception to Senator
Anthany Higgins on any day he
may name.
The Tuesday Club will meet on
Tuesday night Of next week with
Mrs. L. E. Anthony, at the west
ern extension of Mount Vernon
street. The diversion on this ev-
ening will be an angling party.
The effort to get the Legislature
to purchase the Insane Asylum of
New Castle County as a State In
stitution reveals the fact there are
over 100 insane persons in New
Castle County, 20 in Kent and y
in Sussex.
Our Legislature has appropriat-
ed $4,000 to give Delaware a suit
able representation at the New
York centennial on the Both Of
April, the anniversary Of Wash
ington's Inauguration as President
under the Constitution.
1ACIt was q Sdln6 " DdSCDdll
played last Saturday between the
Red Ribbon nine, Of Raymond's
Neck, and the Delaware Star nine,
of Severson's Neck, the score
standing 26 to IL in favor of the
Red Ribbon. ]. Edgar Jerman act
ed as umpire.
The papers Of yesterday record
ed extreme cold weather through
out the north, the thermometer
registering 20 to 40 below zero.
The cold wave struck us last night,
the mercury this morning stand
ing at IS, the lowest notch since
the week before Christmas.
John Cosgriff was visiting near
st. Georges on Sunday and was
among those who visited the whale
in the canal near that place. The
captain in charge Of the whale
told him that about 1000 persons
had been to see it that day. He
says it is something well worth
going to see.
Superintendent Handy has the
Endorsement Of President Raub Of
Delaware College in favor Of the
Hundred or Township method Of
school direction instead Of the
single district system as at pres
ent. BY making the hundred the
unit, all the schools located in the
hundred will be under one Board
Of direction.
The dredging machine which g.
F. Somers, the contractor, sent to
clean out Duck Creek, or as it is
to be called hereafter, Smyrna
River, arrived at Smyrna Landing
yesterday, and Mr.. Weeks the
Government Inspector, arrived this
morning. The work of digging out
the shoals and widening the
stream, will we presume, com
mence at once.
The protracted meeting COM
menced Sunday in Asbury NJ. E.
Church. There is no special man
Hesitation yet, but the indications
are said to be good Rev. Mr..
Robinson preached a sermon on
Sunday morning calculated to
arouse the membership, and at
night his discourse was of char
acter to arouse the serious atten-
tion Of the thoughtful.
A document prepared by Mr..
Frank E. Herbert, member of the
Board Of Trustee Of the Poor from
New Castle, shows that Delaware
pays the following out of her
school fund to other States: to the
Pennsylvania Institution for the
instruction of the deaf and dumb,
$2,106.66. To the Columbuia In
stitution for the blind, $4,000 and
to the same for feeble minded chill
dren S454.50. Total $3,421.16.
No ice yet in this part of the
country. The farmers say they
will have to market their butter as
they did before ice came into fash
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