Smyrna times., 1941-10-30
"All Hallow Fen" next Saturday.

for Smyrna, November 9th.
The wheat is mostly up, and the
fields are looking beautifully green.
November 18th, there will be a
total eclipse of the moon.
1t is time to take down your
screen doors and windows.
The Scott recitals at the Opera
House, Monday evening, November
End.
The feathered songsters have bid
us adieu. The chirping sparrow
remains.
The mill ponds that were getting
low, were filled up by the rains of
last week.
1t is time for the small boy to be
hunting turnip patches and sim
mon trees.
Our phosphate dealers speak in
terms of satisfaction of the sales
of the season.
Col. Robert Hill is having the
bricks of his dwelling touched up
with bright red color.
The heavy wind and rain storm
of last week whipped off a great
many apples from the trees.
The thermometer registered
down nearly to the ice point this
morning, and it felt very much like
winter.
Rev. R. K. Stephenson has a re-
vival growing in interest at Sever
sons as has also Rev. ]. D. Reese
at Friendship Church.
William N. Ransom has husked
900 bushels of his corn and finds
the yield has been about go bushels
per acre. The field has % acres.
The machinery of the late phos-
phate works at Rothwells Landing
is being taken out for removal to
the Tygert, Allen factory near
Philadelphia.
James H. Roberts has brought
some of the finest corn that has
come to market-great big ears
that look to be foot long and SC
perfect and bright.
The wealth of this country is
put down by the last census al
$62,61O,000,00O, or about $1,000 fol
each inhabitant. Somebody has
got hold of our share.
Assessor William Legg is max.
ing additional assessments. Per.
sons having moved to the hundred
or those who have come of age
should give in their names.
The entertainment of the Madam
Fry Family, including the elocu
tion of Prof. Currie was highly en-
joyed on Wednesday evening. Tht
Misses Fry never appeared to Sc
good an advantage.
H. D. Boyer is putting up new
grainery and corn crib on his farm
three miles down the state road
Last spring he erected new
stable, wagon house and COW shed
and thus had his farm well-equip
ped.
The Ladies Benevolent Societ.
will hold festival and entertain
ment in the Opera House on Thurs
day tomorrow evening. CHECKER
salad, oysters, ice cream, etc., vii
he served in abundance. The objec
of the ladies in the festival appeal
to everybody.
We were shown this morning
sweet potato in the possession o
Mrs. Susan Wells and grown b.
William Charles Deakyne of Thor
oughfare Neck, that has been ou
of the ground thirteen month:
and would pass for potato re
Gently dug from the ground.
luGIt 10 Undoubtedly SoiiSitSi
able interest manifested in the re
suit of the State elections mex
Tuesday-in Pennsylvania, Me-
Jersey, New York, Massachusett
Ohio, Maryland, Nebraska, Missis
sippi, Iowa, and Virginia The Al
rangements to be made to receiy
the returns from the Wester
Union Telegraph Company.
The storms last week were M
of such a destructive charactt
here, but along the Atlantic Coas
and out in the ocean, it ragged wit
a fury almost equal to that of tt
blizzard of 1888. Many vesse
were wrecked, and one of them il
volved the loss of an entire ere
of ten or twelve men. 1t was fo
tunate that the full effects of Il
storm were not felt inland.
The boom hasn't come yet. A
conditions are favorable for its a
rival. The crops have been POT
in Europe this year, and have bee
unusually good in this country. "
all know that this means that "
shap exchange our surplus whe,