Smyrna times., 1942-10-15

in our banks subject to check, (as
per report published, one last week
and the other this) amounts tl
1921 ,132.57. This looks like a gen.
eral health condition of things in
this community.
L. M. Price, who manufactures
his phosphate at Smyrna Landing
had every ton disposed of a week
ago, and calls for more. He made
up nearly 100 tons more than he
had laid out at the beginning of the
season for his fall sales.
Rev. Geo. w. Dortiss, the new
pastor of Bethel A M. E. Church
to succeed Rev. ]. T. Hammond
who came with his family from
New England the first of the week
preached his initial sermon on Sun
day, and was well liked by his con-
gregation.
This is beautiful weather, and
may it continue through the au-
tumn. But this is the time when
we begin to recollect how to shut
the doors and wind up the venti-
lators in the window frames. There
is no better reason for keeping out
the way of drafts, whether drawn
at sight or through passageway,
We call to mind no season when
the farmers have been so far adj
vanced with their work-the hur-
ried condition of the crops by the
long drought, and no loss of time
in the fields by bad weather. Most
everybody is done seeding wheat
and there is a large acreage. VIM.
Geo. Truax, near Rothwell's Land
ing, had seeded about 100 acres;
Jas. T. Truax, Theodore Mannon,
Matthew Ford, Jr., Charles Wheat
man, each seventy-five to eighty
acres, and Jas. A. Buckson, on the
RothWell farm, has gone a score or
so beyond the hundred acres.
Next Sunday promises to be a
most interesting day at the Meth
odist Church. The Sunday School
will have charge of the auditorium
both morning and evening, in the
Observance of Columbus Day. They
will march into the room singing,
with banners, and will have var
led and interesting program, in
which music by school, choir and
organ will form a conspicuous part.
The object is a worthy and needed
one, to recarpet and repaint the
room, and they are looking for lib
eral contributions by card or in the
basket, from the audience.
Last week brought us the up and
downs of temperature, from freez-
ing, (thin ice appearing on Thurs
day morning) but the disturbed air
allowing but slight deposit of frost,
and the damage of tomatoes,
though considerable, was not as
blighting as it would have been
otherwise, and the canneries are
running this week on partial time.
Light frosts are usually experience
ed the first part of October, and
our Gamers have usually run until
the latter part of the month, and
one season, several years since, a
week in November. The rain of
Saturday night, though not heavy,
was just what was needed to help
in the termination of new sown
wheat.
The Smyrna Creamery made
last month $3.50 pounds of butter
from 81,085 lbs. of milk.
A number of people give express
sion to the opinion that the Town
Hall is the place to make political
speeches
The regular meeting of the w. c.
T. U. will be held in tthe Temper
ance Room" Monday afternoon, Oc-
tober II, at half past two.
Cooper Bros, of Cheswold, have
shipped ten carloads of oak wood
and about as many of chestnut
posts, to parties in Pennsylvania.
The workers in the canneries do
not come out of the season with the
full pocket as with the plethoric
crops of the previous two or three
years.
The Prohibitionists of Blackbird
hundred, will hold meeting at
Walkers School House on Tuesday
evening next at 7.30 o'clock, 10 be
addressed by the Rev.Alfred Smith.
Geo. w. Turner, who set up in
the butcher business for himself
week before last, has returned to
C. H. Register, with whom he pre-
viously worked, and this pleases
everybody and themselves too.
At the Third Quarterly Confer
ence of the Asbury M. E. Church
on Friday evening, a committee of
five was appointed to act in con-
junction with the Presiding Elder
in selecting pastor for the next
conference year. They will report
at an adjourned meeting.
There is getting to be littel
more life in politics, but nothing
like that which our older citizens
witnessed in those of quarter of
century ago, and the time is get
ting too short to expect much
more warmth. The differences are
not so many and varied as they
were in ante-bellum days, but they