Smyrna times., 1941-06-19

There is a run on short hair-cuts.
Summer has come and promises
to make up for lost time.
The warm weather is putting
things astir at Woodland Beach.
Wheat harvest will soon be upon
us. Some farmers will cut Satur-
day.
The Clayton Call comes to US this
week, enlarged to nine column
paper.
The basket makers of Smyrna
and Dover are now getting a cent
for making basket.
Blackiston's school had a picnic
last Saturday, and Garman's school
will have next Saturday.
Abel Evans, of Raymond's Neck
has frisky calf that has not the
least semblance of a tail.
The Smyrna Creamery used 35,-
500 quarts of milk during. May
making $3.50 pounds of butter.
Dr. Conoway reports two mild
cases of heat prostration in the
neighborhood of Leipsic already.
Michael Riley hs purchased fif-
teen head of fine cattle from Offley
Hill, for butchering as he needs
them.
Commerce Street, opposite the
johnson Building is being very
much improved by new curbing
and relaid brick.
The weather seems the hottest at
the soda fountain, or at least jam
es p. Hoffecker's new shaker is be-
ing kept in pretty active motion.
Cabbage and other truck is COM
ing in abundently. Buchanan and
Collins sold on Saturday four bar
rels Of cabbage, and two of other
truck.
The Children's Day exercises at
Leipsic on Sunday are spoken of as
being very fine. Unfortunately our
correspondents letter from there is
too late this week.
Messrs. Hardcastle and Jones
shipped on the Steamer Ella nearly
10000 pounds of wool on Friday
making with the previous ship
ment, nearly 10000 pounds.
Mrs. William Naylor of near
Greenspring recently set a goblel
on turkey eggs, and he has Matched
them and is now setting on hens
eggs. That is a very accomodat-
ing gobler.
Two farmers in speaking of the
peculiarities of the rose bug say
where it lights there it seems tc
live, even though it be the walnut
tree, which no other living thing
will tackle, to their knowledge.
The friends of Herman Roe, who
is now travelling in Europe, are
favored with an interesting letter
from his pen which is on the front
page, giving his observations Of
Edinburg, which doubtless will bt
read with a great deal of pleasure
Pension money is getting to be Z
big source of revenue. 1t bring!
with unerring certainty into {
number of families large suppl!
in money This money finds al
outlet in number of businesses
but perhaps in no other as much a.
the saloon.
Abe Gibbs whose death was re
ferred to in our last issue as being
drowned at the Tygert-Allen Phos
phate Plan in Philadelphia, wa
brought down here for intermen
on Friday He was a religion
man, and his funeral was largel,
attended by the members of tn
Centennial Church.
utSt dIt SlllIllIS 0dyS lOI Ill
sellers Of reapers and wheat cut
ters, and number Of them hav
been carried out of the town durin
the last week or ten days. Their
is also similar movement with tn
farmers by the taking of their ma
chimes to the shops for repairs pre-
paratory to the harvest.
Lewis Hamilton, whose short Ill
ness was referred to in our last is
sue, died in very peculiar way
from lock jaw-though he had re
ceived no visible injury. Lock jav
without some serious injury c
wounds, is not often met with b
a doctor in his lifetime, though
is recorded in the medical books.
A warm wave has prevailed sine
Sunday. Shat, coupled with th
dry weather has been very hard o
the vegetation. Monday was tn
hottest 18th of June ever known i
New York or New England. Th
highest in Baltimore was 98 d,
grees. In Wyoming the heat $
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