Smyrna times., 1941-08-28

town on Thursday evening.
Reciprocity sugar has dropped to
4 cents a pound-in big lots.
Boating here is getting to be a
popular amusement, as beach part
les are on the wane.
A. B. Nudge, residing in Clayton,
has bought the Boyer" house in
that town, of John c. Bailey.
Yesterday ended the period
known as the dog days." which
everybody is glad to see pass.
The mill-pond is fulfilling its old
name of "lover's retreat" 1t is
quite a resort on Sunday evenings.
The Fair season will soon be
upon us. Those of Ea.ston, Dover,
and Wilmington, have been an
nounced.
The summer vacation will end
next Monday and the Public School
will open on Tuesday, September
1st. The same corps of teachers
will be in charge.
The coal barons met in New
York one day last week and order
ed an advance of fifteen cents per
ton on all sizes of coal, to take ef-
feet on September 1st.
The meeting of the Epworth
League in Clayton next Tuesday
and Wednesday promises to be an
important occasion and the citizens
are making every preparation for
it.
A movement is on foot by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company it
is said to make the uniform rate to
passengers two cents per mile, thus
doing away with the mileage book
business.
Notwithstanding the abundance
of peaches in the country they
have been the scareest product in
the local market. Tropical fruits
are much more surely and easily
obtained.
Last Saturday rough crowd of
darkies coming into town, threat
ened to assault two young white
men sitting on the mill-pond
bridge, but finally passed on with
out molesting them.
1t is confidently believed that the
letter in the Philadelphia Record
last week, giving an account of the
race difficulty" here, purporting to
be written from Smyrna, had its
authorship in Dover, and the writ
er's name was Whelan.
Yesterday and Monday were the
biggest peach days by the Steamer
Ella. This was also the case with
the railroad, fifteen carloads being
shipped from Clayton. 800 cars
went over the Delaware Railroad
on Saturday and 267 on Monday.
A week, or more ago, while Mrs.
Fisher was preserving, a swarm of
bees got into her kitchen and held
the fort until they were smoked
out. The bees, however, had time
to get into the preserves and die in
it, thus running the whole mess.
Quite melee took place at the
Ebenezer Camp Meeting near
Townsend on Sunday. The minis
ter in the midst of his sermon was
obliged to give way to the ruffiians
One man was cut up quite badly
Rum is supposed to be the cause.
What are known as the "shel
gamblers" who operated at Collins
Beach in July and were interferec
with by the sheriff for violating the
law, paid the Beach another visit
on Sunday. They came to Smyrna
on the midnight train Saturday
night.
A drunken tramp was discovered
Saturday night by some boys neal
the mill pond lying in the street
He was awakened and started ul
town but he had sense enough t,
turn and start walking the othe
way, thus escaping free nigh
lodging.
Charles H. Register who went t.
New York as is his custom for tn
peach season, returned home Sat
urday to remain, because of tn
general decentralization of the mar
ket. All kinds of ffruit-watermel
ons, pears, apples, grapes, peaches
will sometimes not sell for enoug
to pay the freight.
One of our landowners who ha
basket making timber, says tina
he wants to keep up with the pre-
cession; that since the basket mi
which started at cents a baske
has gone up to 8 cents, he is goin
to advance the price of his lumbe
also. The basket boys have onl
partially caught on.
The bunch of keys which wa
taken from the Alderman's offic
door, during the melee of the 15t
inst, for the taking of which Chin
Potts Is under bail of 5000 for hi