Smyrna times., 1941-11-27


r. P. Mason was bailed out of jai
yesterday and returned home from
Dover in the afternoon.
The thanks of the Times Office i:
due Mr.. E. c. FAIRIES for a variety
of excellent wedding cake.
L. C. Mccoy put a new tin roof
on the store of ]. H. Jefferson last
week, and is putting one on the
Clement store house this week.
The meeting of the Benevolent
Association will be held at the resi-
dence of Mrs. T. B. Megear next
Tuesday evening, December 1st.
All the participants in the ''Dee-
strict Skule" are requested to be at
the rehearsal at the Opera House
this evening and be there by Z
o'clock.
Rev. R. K. Stephenson will COM
mence his revival services at Bethel
Thanksgiving evening by preaching
a sermon appropriate to the day
and occasion.
The Y. w. C. T. U. will meet on
Friday evening, November 9th, at
the residence of Miss Julia Grit
fifth. A special programme has
been arranged for the occasion. All
are cordially invited.
Some of our larger school boys
and others wanted game of foot
ball on Thanksgiving day and sent
a challenge to Middletown, receiv-
ing the disappointing answer that
they had no organization there.
Rev. S. M. Morgan preached a
very interesting sermon to a large
congregation at Bethel last Sunday
as he did at the other appoint
ments. He is spoken of as the sue
cessor to Rev. R. K. Stephenson.
We are requested to announce a
meeting of the Board of Trade at
the Transportation Office Friday
evening, 7.30 o'clock. A matter of
great business interest to the town
will be before them for considera-
tion.
During the several cold days last
week, quite number of persons
killed their hogs. The heaviest
porkers we have heard of were two
raised by Charles H. Jones, on
North Street, ass and 374 pounds
respectively.
Postmaster General Wanamaker
proposes to extend the free delivery
system to all well settled country
places, so that farmers may have
adequate mail facilities, such as are
enjoyed by the poorest as well as
the richest people of the large cit
les.
Adjuster Bailey of the Fire As
sociation, Philadelphia, with Walter
o. Hoffecker, the insurance agent
of this town, adjusted the loss on
the outbuilding of Mrs. Lydia Colt
and paid her Wednesday last the
sum of $2,125.25. The fire it will
be recollected occurred on the night
of the previous Thursday.
j. Stats, in renting the farm of
Mrs. Lydia Colt, contracted to take
possession of it the first of Decem-
ber, which he will do, though the
burnt outbuildings have not been
replaced yet, leaving his stock and
part of his family at his present
home near Green Spring. Mrs. Colt
will move to Smyrna this week.
The observations which were
made at Harvard during the lunar
eclipse Sunday has established the
fact that the moon has no satellite
of her own. The uses of a sattel-
lite are to light up planet at night
and to produce tide in its oceans
or atmosphere; and as the moon
has neither of the latter, she has
no need of a moon of her own.
The "Deestrict Skule" which will
be held at the Opera House, tomor-
row, Thanksgiving evening, promis-
es to be an immensely popular
thing. The old scholars that COM
prise the school will doubtless be q
great surprise to the boys and girls
of the present day. Doors open at
7.30 o'clock; school will call at s
o'clock.
During the past week Walter O.
Hoffecker has been surveying the
canals and bitches, some fifty in
number, in the reclaimed meadow
of the National Dredging Company
Cedar Swamp, near Collins Beach
and when finished, will make an
accurate plot of the same. This
bed of rich alluvial soil, comprises
some 1000 acres.
Tomorrow will be something like
holiday, as is the general custom
There will be the regular prescrib-
ed service at st. Peters, with SER
mon by Rev. G. w. Dame. The
methodist and Presbyterian con-