Smyrna times., 1942-01-22

Ten days per annum is the aver
age amount of sickness in human
life.
The high tides last week inter
fered considerably with the musk
rat trappers.
While Mrs. George H. Raymond
was at church Sunday, a dog got
into the chicken house and killed a
number of fowls.
The first of Buchanan & Collins
has been dissolved, Mrs. Collins, re-
firing, the firm name hereafter be-
ing Buchanan & Co.
Persons who have kept a watch
ON the weather say there has been
but two full sunny days since the
coming in of the year.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society
will meet at Mrs. T. B. Megear's
Tuesday evening, January 26th. "A
full attendance is requested.
The windows of Mrs. Charles H.
Register, on Commerce street is at
tractive to the passer by, from
their handsome blooms of choice
plants.
The Peninsula Horticultural So
ciety which commenced its fifth
session yesterday in Dover, will
hold until tomorrow evening, dis
cussing many important things for
the benefit of the farmers.
BY a lecture circular received by
last nights mail, from Superintend-
ent Tindal, we infer thxat the Kent
County Teachers Institute will be
held next week at Dover, though no
announcement has been made.
The Middletown Transcript calls
the prevalent epidemic which is
causing such small attendance
upon the church services, 'Morbus
Sabbaticus." 1t differs somewhat
from the grippe in that it gets IL
its strongest work on Sunday.
Last night brought us another
snow of two or three inches at the
end of two rainy days and the mer-
curry down to IA degrees. This is
very much like winter, but the
worst feature is the very frequent
changes from rapid melting to Sc
we're freezing.
Steve Demby, colored man on
the farm of E. Beck had very Sc
we're kick Monday on the side of the
head by mule leaving the imprint
of the shoe above the jaw. If he
had been little further from the
animal so as to have received the
full effect of the kick, it would
nearly have taken his head off.
Rev. R. K. Stephenson left last
week for Port Deposit, Md, to at
tend the funeral of his mother, Mrs.
Agnes Stephenson, who died in that
town on Monday night, aged IA
years, and was buried at Hopewell
Cemetery, on Friday. Six children
survive her, one of them Mrs. Ro-
berta Matlack, being also of this
town.
The bar room of the Delaware
House, j. c. Armtrong, proprietor,
. has been fixed up by the owner in
the most tasty manner. The bar,
with an elaborate piece of work.
manship, is of antique oak with
cherry facings, while the back
against the wall, is of correspond
ing finish with large mirrors. 1t is
claimed to be one of the finest in
the state.
This is great country. We are
always just holding an election,
just had one, or are in the throes
of preparation for one that will be
the most important for veal OF
woe, and on which the brightest
prosperity or utter destruction OF
this country depends. And yet il
keeps lighting on it's feet every
time. Business joys, or people gel
married, but it seems just now as il
the undertaken was the busiest
man in the community.
Ice, heat, rain, snow was ths
topic generally discussed last week
The Chilean complication, the tall
of war, the silver question, tn,
Presidential election and the situa
ton at Washington took a bacl
seat to the weather, and this is no
to be marvelled at. Five days O
rain, fog and slush made thing
about as miserable as could be i'm
agined. Every person that on
meets complains of illness in hi
family. The physician are doini
more business than they can easil,
attend to.
The Unexpected snow that fee
from two until eleven o'clock Fri
day morning, though the groun
was wet and muddy, was from fou
to five inches deep. If it had fallei
on frozen ground it would hav
made a fine season of sleighing. A
1T was, quite number of youn
people of the town and farmer
frnm the country 1uero tarontod 70