Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-07-16


invited to make addresses. The
new brass band, recently organized,
calling themselves the Central
Cornet Band" William H. Steven
son, leader, will furnish the music
for the occasion.
Rev. DR.. Caldwell will fill the M.
E. Pulpit next Sunday, morning
and night, the pastor being absent
at Oxford, Md.
The trip of the Excelsior to Cape
May on Monday proved a very
pleasant one to the excursionists,
nearly 300 in number. One of our
citizens tells us he has been going
on river excursions the past 80 or
40 years, and never had more
pleasant one. The boat being a
large one, drawing some nine feet
of water, could not get into Wood
land Beach until the rising of the
tide, nine o'clock and after, and
hence did not leave Cape May until
the evening.
In former years Delaware wheat
used to command two or three
cents more per bushel in the city
markets than western wheat, being
especially desirable for milling pur-
poses. For several years the pric-
es have been the other way, as a
result of threshing from the field,
and consequently damp, tough
wheat. A farmer tells us that the
loss, even when there has been no
special damage, has been enough in
the city prices to pay the cost of
threshing, and they are that much
out of pocket to begin with. He
believes, and is acting on that prin-
ciple, that farmers must come back
to stacking for Delaware wheat to
get its former good name and pric-
es.
The showers that fell on Thurs
day were very unequal in their dis
tribution, some places having
good rain, and others nearby only
a light shower. While good grow
ing showers, there was not enough
to wet the lower tubers in the po-
tato hills at this place until the
heavy fall of Sunday evening. The
rain in some neighborhoods on
Thursday was accompanied by
streaks of heavy wind and in some
places by hail. John H. Farrell,
near Leipsic, had every shock of
wheat in his fields of some eighty
acres blown down, requiring force
of seven men three days it is stat
ed, to right them again. In Balti-
more it unroofed houses and did
great damage. In Philadelphia and
vicinity buildings were demolished
and people buried in the ruins, while
boats on the river were carried to
the bottom with all on board Glou-
cester, New Jersey, appears to have
suffered more than any other point
as far as the destruction of prop
erty is concerned, several persons
being killed.
We had about 1.45 inches of rain
fall during the month of June.
The Episcopal Sunday School of
Dover, will make an excursion to
Woodland Beach next Wednesday.
Miss Lizzie Disch, teacher of the
primary department at Townsend,
has returned to her home near
Smyrna Mrs. Eliza Hazel, relict
of the late Henry X. Hazel, died at
the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Joseph E. Disch, near Leipsic, on
Tuesday of last week, aged 80
years.
A Fourth of July entertainment
and festival was held at Hayes
Grove, just above Little Creek, in
the afternoon and evening, by the
ladies of Little Creek.
About eight o'clock Friday even
ing, an engine and seven freight
cars jumped the track on the Della
ware Railroad just north of New
Castle, while bound for Whining
ton. The cars were loaded with
miscellaneous freight. Neither cars
nor engine were damaged, and no
one was hurt.