Smyrna times., 1939-12-14

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Sweet potatoes are now selling
at 40 cents per basket.
Plumber Jones has fixed up tn
Smyrna Creamery to be heatet
with hot water.
j. B. Scott dispatched his dos
last week which was supposed t
have shown signs of hydrophobia.
Cards have been issued for tht
marriage of Miss Elmina Ross Il
James p. Price at the residence o.
the brides father, near Blackis
tons Cross Roads, December 31st
Rev. William Sheers, of Sassa,
fras, Md, will supply Asbury M. E
pulpit next Sunday. 1t is expected
Rev. Mr.. Wilson will come next
week and his family a week or two
later. In the meantime the par.
sonage will undergo some needed
improvements.
Miss Maggie Bowen, of Camden
N. j., died on Sunday and was
brought down on the train this
morning for interment at Bethel M
z. Cemetery, near this town. Rev
E. Stubbs, Of Philadelphia, came
along to officiate at the funeral
The deceased was a niece of Mrs
John B. Cooper.
The purchaser of the store and
dwelling in Cheswold was not Rob-
ert S. Collins as Inadvertently stat
ed in our last issue, but William F
Collins, who has been successfully
merchandising there for several
years. The sum paid Mr.. Bishop
was $4,000 cash.
Messrs. B. v. Welson, William
Lewis and Samuel Wheatman re-
turned from the lower part of the
State loaded down with the spoils
of the fields and water, having 143
partridges and some perch. They
say they could have killed a cart
load of birds if they could have
been gotten from the pines.
Duck Creek comes up well with
its porkers. George P. Collins
slaughtered two which weighed 44e
and 3S6 respectively; Joseph Col
lins three which weighed 277, 28e
and 275; G. v. Price two weighing
294 and BAT, and Peter Shane two
pigs which weighed 231 and 100
pound each. Several large hogs
had been previously killed.
James G. Lassell, who has been
shut up in his home for several
weeks by increasing feebleness is
very kindly remembered by his
friends not only socially but by
those who have shared with him in
better days the sport and pleasure
of the field. Since the cunning
season commenced he has been
kept fully supplied with partridges
and other game, the greatest plea
sure Of his friends being to share
the spoils of a days outing with
him.
Rev. G.. w. Dame, rector of St.
Peters Church, this town, COM
menced the first Of his monthly
meetings, in Clayton on Sunday af-
.ternoon. Wright's Hall, where the
services were held was completely
filled in attendance on the initial
services. The sermon was mainly
explanatory of the Episcopal
Church, its methods, modes, ob-
jects and the ignorance of some
people in relation thereto. A choir
of six voices led the singing, Mrs.
Frank Reynolds presiding at the
organ.
George F. Brown is about to re-
new his effort to get patent on a
grain seive which was commenced
some eight years ago and on which
two caveates have been filed in the
Patent Office at Washington. All
other selves are made of wire. This
is of corrugated sheet metal con-
tanning holes to let the cookie
through, and as was proved at the
time by several who tried it, did
its work very completely. The
idea, he says, is wholly his. his first
conceptions being when a boy on
the farm. The enterprise. he says,
is backed by syndicate.
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