Smyrna times., 1941-07-03
SMYRNA DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
CONTINUED from Page Two)

S. G. Pratt, Pittsburg, Pa, is
home" on his summer vacation.
Misses Anna Cox, and Ida Hurn
of Middletown have been visiting at
the District Parsonage.
Miss Blanche Cochran of Middle
town, is the guest of Miss Sue Cul-
breth.
A. w. Cummins recently of Pied
mont, Alabama, who has been
spending a week or two home,
leaves this week to take charge of
a new daily paper in Staunton, Va.
Miss Dell Lippincott is spending
the summer with her parents in
Bristol, Pa.
Miss Lou Stern is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Mary E. Stern.
Mrs. Sallie Ransom is visiting
friends in Wilmington; Mrs. Joseph
B. HUM and daughter, Philadel-
phia.
Mrs. ] IS. Gearhart and son Ar
thur, are on visit to Galena, Md.
DR.. Cahall of Frederick, made
the Times Office a friendly call this
morning.
Col. George H. Raymond left for
Atlantic City this morning.
William A. Scott of Baltimore, is
visiting his daughter. Mrs. j. Ed
Hoffecker.
Mrs. John R. Senior of Philadel-
phia, is visiting Mrs. Motion Hud-
son.
Rev. R. c. Jones has been the
guest of Rev. R. K. Stephenson for
several days.
Misses Mamie and Florence Gill
dersleeve are visiting Miss Maggie
Blackiston.
Mrs. ]. w. Jones is spending a
week or two with Mrs. Mary Rob-
erts at Chester Heights.
Miss Elva Wilson, teaching at
Salem, N. j., is home for the sum-
mer vacation.
COUNTY AND STATE ITEMS
New Castle is to have a grand
celebration on the Fourth.
The Mosquitoes have commenced
to present their bills down the
necks.
Camden Camp Meeting will be-
gin on July the 21st, and zoar on
18th.
The cornerstone of the new M. P.
Church at Frederick will be laid
July Fourth.
Soft shell crabs are plentiful this
Crabbers down the State
are making good wages.
The Laurel post Office has been
raised to the third, or the Presi-
Dental Glass, with salary of ST.
600.
Minos Conoway's receipts from
an acre of strawberries were $500,
and D. F. Burton, from seven
eights of an acre, $500.
George G. Kerr, a farmer near
Newark will realize $500, from sew
en- acres of scarlet clover seed, a
new crop.
A number of the Sunday Schools
of Kent County will picnic in the
camp meeting grove, near Camden.
Last week Sheriff Cole sold the
farm of Isaac Pearson, in West
Dover Hundred, to Mrs. c. S. Pen
for $2,375.
Delaware will send birch wood
from New Castle County, white
oak from Kent, and cypress, or red
cedar, from Sussex, to the Worlds
Fair.
William Rothwell of Middletown,
has associated himself with G. v.
Williamson & Co., commission mer-
chants of 303 Washington Street,
Wilmington.
Jacob B. Brown, of Wyoming, es-
Inmates his crop of apples at 10,-
600 baskets. He has begun ship
ping the early varieties of which he
has $500.
The Middletown papers claim
that the peach convention has done
much to give that town the prom
inence among Peninsular towns to
which her geographical position
her.
Notwithstanding that the con-
asked him to remain
Rev. w. P. Patterson has his pas
torate at New Castle, Presbyterian
and he may go to a West
Philadelphia Church.
July Fourth will be celebrated in
by a big street parade
and fireworks in the evening. In
the afternoon an interesting pro-
gram will be gone through with on
the Academy grounds.
Five hundred feet wide, thirty
four feet deep at high water, and
fleet at low water, will
be the dimensions of the Eastern
Channel of the Delaware River at
the bulkhead bar, below New Cas-
tie, when the dredgers complete
their work.
The fruit farmers have never
realized better prices for their fruit
than they have so far this year,
and they have every prospect now
of granting good prces for the ma
turing fruit, providing they can get