Smyrna times., 1940-10-24

of the season.
A church wedding is always an
enjoyable feature for the young to
look forward to-an event that
will take place on the 5th prox.,
when James r. McCausland, a.
young druggist of Philadelphia,
will lead one of our pretty and pop
ular young ladies to the marriage
altar. This wedding will have the
distinction of being the first since
the enlarging and beautifying of
the church.
Mrs. A. M. Stephenson, mother
of Rev. r. K. Stephenson, while
spending the summer in st. Paul,
Minnesota, fell down stairs and
broke her arm. Last week while
returning to her home in Port De
posit, she stopped in Baltimore.
In starting down stairs she made
misstep, fell and broke her right
arm in the elbow, cut her head,
hurt her neck and injured her hip.
Her daughter, Mrs. Matlack, left
Smyrna for Port Deposit and Bal
timore.
The next two weeks will be busy
times with the politicians of our
state. Matters in Kent are peace
full, as far as brass bands go, but
the battle for the next ten days
will wage most fiercely in the up
per and lower counties. Sussex is
literally beseiged. According to
the announcements for meetings
by the committees of the respec-
tive parties. The people will have !
little time for work on their farms
if they follow out the work laid
down for them by the politicians
At meeting of the Board Of |
Directors of the Kent County Mu-
tual Insurance Company last week,
Walter Q. Hoffecker was unani-
mously elected the Agent for
Smyrna in the place of J. t. Jer-
man, who resigned on account of
i'll health, being now in Colorado.
Mr.. H. who has been in the insur-
ance business to considerable ex-
tent for the past years, is thus
given a much wider field, the Kent |
County Mutual having a large
amount of insurance in this vicini-
ty to look after.
Some of our people who went to
the Harry Lindley entertainment
at the Opera House on Friday eve
ming for a quiet evenings enjoy
ment were considerably annoyed |
by the conduct of some six men
who had come up from Dover, evi-
IDENTIFY on a frolic. The complaint
is made that they were regardless
of the pleasure of others of the 4
audience, noisy, profane, indulged
in knocking each others hats off
&c. We give the above as it was
given to US, but will add that our
people are always glad to see per-
sons from other towns who come I
for legitimate objects of pleasure
or business.
One of our citizens Che has no
boys) procured 1000 chestnuts a
week ago and spread them out
carefully in the spare room to dry I
and sweeten for eating. He did
not take rats into account, but
they did the tempting nuts, To-
they were all gone but two worm
eaten ones which the rodents had
kindly left to mark the spot where
his treasure had been laid. Where
they had gone was plainly reveal
ed by the hole near by. Now said
individual is humane man and
does not like to take life even of a
mouse unless it becomes too de-
structive, but he is from this time
on a sworn enemy Of chestnut low
ing rats.
The blackbirds are unusually
thick this year in the ''Necks" con-
tiguous to the marshes. We gave
an account a week or two ago of
how one man was shot and severe
ly wounded while he and his neigh
Dor were fighting them off their
uncut corn. The latter being cut |
and punched is most protected,
but Nathan Moore topped and
bladed a small field, the ears in
which exposed condition just suit
ed the blackbirds. Mr.. Moore,
found last week that the only re-
course outside Of spending the day
in the field with gun in hand, was
to husk it, which was done, the en-
tire contents of the field being in
the crib by Saturday night.
Hon. George Gray had a large
audience to hear him at the Opera
House on Wednesday evening last
in discussing the issues Of the cam
paign. He spoke for about two
hours, confning himself mainly to
the Mckinley Bill. Senator Gray
is man Of fine presence, an i'm
pressive speaker and aims to at
tract by force of statement rather