Smyrna times., 1941-06-12

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day School which was to have
come off last Sunday afternoon
following that of Bethel in the
morning, because of the stormy
day has been postponed until to-
morrow, Thursday evening. Ray
monds and Friendship schools will
have theirs next Sunday afternoon.
The young clerks in the store of
Buchanan and Collins have had bad
luck the past week. In stringing
a piece of meat, Frank Armstrong
nearly amputated his finger with
the knife, and on Monday, George
Lees cut off nearly one-half an
inch of his finger in getting it in
the dried beef cutter. He is spend
ing a week or two in Millington
while it is healing.
We are having long, cloudy and
rainy spells as in the last and pre-
vious summers, but with wide
difference as to the amount of rain
fall. None of the rains in the past
month or two have been suffiient
to reach the roots of the plants and
trees, while doing very well for the
crops that are titled. Good rains
have fallen the past week or two in
nearly all parts Of the nation.
The farmers have been sleeping
under blankets with the exception
of a very few nights, since the
time that their corn was planted,
not good temperature for its
growth, however much of it may
suit the wheat. Monday morning
the temperature was down to 48
degrees, within four or five degrees
of the frost point, and yesterday
it was but two or three
degrees higher. We are at the
season, day and night, that warmer
weather may be expected.
Michael Riley, who bought the
store rooms between the stores of
E. G. Walls and the T. B. Megear
on Main Street, few weeks ago,
has appropriated it to meat
market, where he intends to keep
q supply of fresh meat, according
to the demands of the season
beef, mutton, lamb, etc. Mr.. Riley
has gone into the business to make
it his life's work, and hopes to
merit a liberal share of public pat
ronage. Mr.. Riley is honest,
straight forward, and will doubt
less do his best to serve the people
in satisfactory manner.
Don't fail to attend concert on
Tuesday evening, June 18th, at the
Smyrna Opera House. You will be
aiding the effort to secure the 500
contribution offered by a friend of
the Smyrna Library Association,
besides getting the value of your
in an evenings entertain
ment. The vocal selections and
the orchestral accompaniment will
help to make this the finest concert
heard here this year. The admis-
sion is Csc, reserved without furth-
er admission. Tickets and chart
at Hoffecker's Drug Store, on June
IL.
A lad, named James Shahan,
aged about IL years, was run into
while crossing the track of the
Delaware-Chesapeake road, mile
below Clayton, on Friday, and was
knocked insensible. He seemed not
to have noticed the approach of
the train. The wagon was demol-
ished and the off horse was killed,
the one next to the engine being
only slightly injured. The dying
boy was put on the train and car
ried to Clayton, where he expired
a half hour or so later. He lived
with Loadman Jones, near Blanco,
and was coming to town after a
load of baskets. The railroad was
exonerated by the Coroner's jury.
Mrs. Elizabeth Slaughter, wife of
William M. Slaughter, died in this
town yesterday morning, in the
45th year of her age. They moved
here a year ago last March, from
Downs Chapel, but for some months
she had been on a steady decline
from a cancerous infection of the
She had been for a num-
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