Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-01-02

The TIMES wishes its readers a
happy new year, with prosperity
throughout.
It's about time to think over
what good resolutions you will
make with the New Year.
The Steamer Ella has been I'M
able to get out of the creek this
week on account of the ice.
Watch-night services will be
held at the Methodist Church to-
night, commencing ct eleven
o'clock.
Capt. Fleming, of Leipsic recent
ly killed a hog, months and ten
days old that weighed 375 pounds.
How's that for rapid growth?
The personal property of 3. F.
c. Rothwell at Collins Beach sold
at Sheriff sale on Monday. J. S.
McClary's property was also sold
yesterday.
1t is stated that there will be
less changes among the farmers
the coming spring than usual.
There is much less demand for
renting farms.
w. o. Hoffecker, agent of the
Kent County Mutual, is busy re
ceiving premiums on insurance
policies. The old policies expire
at noon tomorrow.
The announcement is made that
T. l.. Mason and Miss Mollie Wei
don, two well-known young people
of our town, will be married Thurs
day of next week.
Prof. Theodore Ascherfeld has
rented the house of H. Hirnheimer
on lower Commerce Street and will
move his family here from Harve-
de-Grace in the spring.
Mr.. Stokesbury caught yester-
day in the Garrison mill pond
where the water had run out by
the recent break, a German scale
carp weighing z "a pounds.
If our store keepers didn't have
plenty of business this Christmas
it certainly wasn't the fault Of the
weather, for it was just cold
enough, just sunny enough and al
together just beautiful enough to
suit the taste Of Jew or Gentle.
The boys had a strong wish
gratified by skating on the mill
pond yesterday. The owners of
ice houses would like to see two or
three inches more added to it so
they could go to work, but the
Frost King has not exercised his
regal authority.
William Turner had his throat
cut quite badly last Wednesday
evening, in front Of Huns barber
shop by crowd of drunken color
ed men. He had started to his
home in Spruance city and was at
tackled with the above result. Two
VI Tue NOioltA ll1til WtAt O. ANoeC1
and one sent to Dover jail.
The first regular annual meeting
of the Board of Trade, of Smyr-
ma, will be held on Monday evening
next, at the Office of Alderman H.
G.. Budd, at o'clock. A full at
tendance of all the members is re-
quested, as business of special i'm
portance will be brought before the
meeting. All who are interested
in the welfare of the town, though
not members of the board, are
most cordially invited to be pre-
sent and give US their names.
The following officers of Mispah
Lodge, No. 16, A. o. u. w, have
been elected for the ensuing term:
Master Workman, A. N. McGaw;
Foreman, E. c. FAIRIES; Overseer,
E. NJ. Fowler; F'inancier, Clarence
Prettyman; Recorder, George M.
Stevenson; Receiver, o. B. Voshell;
Guide, James E. Carter; Inside
watch, j. Harvey Speakman; Out
side watch, M. F. Reed. o. q.
Voshell will represent this lodge in
the grand lodge which meets in
Wilmington.
The severe storm on Thursday
night and Friday that broke the
fine weather was very severe in the
Middle and Eastern States. Snow
falls Of eight inches are reported in
Boston and New York, with wind
velocities of 80 to AZ miles per
hour. The snowfall in Western
Maryland is the heaviest in fifty
years. In Virginia the blockade is
so near complete as to almost stop
business. Great damage was done
to the resorts ON the New Jersey
coast. In New York City the
storm was so thick az to almost
stop railroad and steamboat traffic.
The young people who were
wishing for a white Christmas
thought they had 1t or part Of it
at least ~, the ovruy that ro,yoroJ