Smyrna times., 1941-10-02

Farmers are busy and cheerful.
Harry Lindley has the Opera
House the first four nights of this
week.
R. C. Moffett and Company have
opened photograph saloon in the
old stand.
A few peaches still linger and
peaches and cream have still held
their place on some favored tables.
The amount of money in our two
banks subject to check amounts tc
the neat little sum of 1882, ,555.18.
The Benevolent Society will hold
their annual festival and entertain
ment in the Opera House on Octo-
ber goth.
William N. Ransom has grown
an apple this year which weighs
26A ounces and measures Is inch
es around it.
Corn and potatoes are ripening
spendidly. The farmers should stop
swearing and hold a Thanksgiving
camp-meeting.
The Autumnal Equinox was down
for the 23rd, but it did not come to
time, and the storm has not put in
an appearance yet.
Postmaster Satterfield examined
the post offices of Smyrna and
Clayton Monday and found them
both in good condition.
L. E. Anthony has raised this
year 400 baskets of onion sets from
three-fourths of an acre having
sowed 80 pounds of seed.
Mark Scout has erected build
ing on his property at Smyrna
Landing 48 x 16 to be used as a
granary and carriage house.
The merry -go-round which was
at Woodland Beach all the summer
and at the Dover Fair last week,
has been carried to Norfolk, Va.
The Centennial Church will have
an OK roast at the Hall adjoining
the church October 18th, and want
the people to come and help eat it.
Miss Thomas of Baltimore, who
will sing at the concert on Friday
evening, is the leading soprano in
one of the largest churches of that
city.
The foliage is beginning to show
the tints Of autumn, and the leaves
are beginning to fall. So it is not
Jack Frost alone who does this
work.
William Fell late proprietor of
the Delaware House in this town,
has taken hotel at Allentown, Pa.
Mr.. Fell is a natural born hotel
keeper.
A special meeting of the Ladies
Benevolent Society will be held at
Mrs. t. B. Megear's on October 6.
A full attendance is requested.
Committee will please report.
Over 200 tickets have already
been sold for the lecture of Prof.
Handy in the Presbyterian Church
next Tuesday evening - Patrick
Henry, Orator and Statesman.
Mrs. Lucy Washington of Port
Pervis, N. Y, prominent temper
ance worker will have charge of
the services at the Methodist
Church next Sunday morning and
evening.
A considerable crowd of people
assembled around the post-office at
o'clock Saturday afternoon to see
an attendant of the Photograph
Gallery walk tight-rope. Larger
exploits are promised next Satur-
day.
The Chautauqua Circle will hold
its first meeting of the year at Mrs.
John H. Hoffecker's on Wednesday
evening, October 7th. Any inter-
ested in the work, or desiring to
commence the course are cordially
invited to attend.
A plant in the window of George
M. Stevenson, opening six beautiful
blooms of the Night Blooming Ger
eus at one time, attracted the at
tention of a good many ladies last
evening. This is the second time
it has bloomed this year.
The cap was completed for the
Stand Pipe, and many other things
necessary to be done were finished
last week, but leak was found al
the entrance, and the water was
let off again yesterday, so as to
make it absolutely tight.
Tickets are selling rapidly fol
the Concert and Recital next Fri.
day evening. The chart is not oper
at Hoffecker's Drug Store, and
many places have already beer
marked off. The indications are
that there will be full house.
The funeral services of ]. S
Gearhart whose death occurred al