Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1943-01-07
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

SMYRNA AND VICINITY
1t was the coolest Christmas holt
day for twenty years, take it all
the way through.
About forty couples from distant
points attended the dance at the
Opera House on Monday evening.
1t broke up about 3 o'clock.
Messrs. Beck & HAZEL have sold
the Burrows House, corner of Main
and Railroad Avenue, purchased
some months since by Samuel w.
Hall, to Joshua Boyd, of Leipsic,
for $3.50.
The local preachers of this con-
ference will have charge of Kenton
Church from Friday until Sunday
evening, in holding one of their
Associations. 1t will doubtless be
an interesting event to the citizens.
The new Brussels carpet pur-
chased of Strawbridge & Clothier,
which was put down last week on
the Sunday School room at the M.
E. Church with the handsome wall
painting, gives some idea how the
room will appear when the new
seats get in.
Two of our staid citizens who
have been chewing tobacco for
forty or fifty years, agreed yester-
day to quit, viz: one would as long
as the other did, and now they are
watching each other with a knaw-
ing interest.
Matthew Ford, overseer of the
road leading down the Neck, by
Smyrna Landing, is in process of
greatly improving its travel by
oyster shelling the sand hill just
below the phosphate factory at
IRothwells Landing. During the
past week two car loads of shells,
1900 bushels, have been dumped on
the sandy part, which will give
them a hard road where has been
heretofore a sand bed, very trying
to teams.
John P Hudson has sold his farm
half mile west of Clayton, lat
acres, to ]. c. Bowers for $4,000.
Mr.. Hudson bought this farm of
Mr.. Bowers a dozen years ago or
more, Mr.. Bowers two or three
years after moving to Kansas,
where he resided until the present.
The last five years were not profit
able out thr, and h returned east
for a ornament home. He took
possession the next day.
The melting weather of Sunday
and Monday had the appearance OF
soon opening navigation on the Del
aware, but the colder weather OF
yesterday materially checked dis
indignation. The ice that hac
broken up in most places, lodged
at the bends in our creek and thus
far have made an impossible bar.
rieer to navigation. The steamer
Ella has considerable freight await.
ing transportation, and hopes tc
get out tomorrow or as soon there
after as possible.
The Jerman Chapel Sunday
School did not have its Christmas
entertainment until Tuesday of last
week consisting of singing, speak
ing and presentations, a happy
event to the participants. The new
belfry and bell did their first ser
vice on Sunday last. Persons moi
knowing of it, mistook it at frs
for the fire bell but its location
after moment thouht, will obviatt
any difficulty on this line.
Saturday evening was the wind
ing up of the holiday week as vel
as the end of the year, and there
We're the usual number of people
astir until near the midnight hour
as is the usual Saturday night Gus
tom. Between half past ten ant
eleven o'clock the M. e. Church bel
rang for the usual watch nigh
meeting (Which, however, was no
announced, and therefore out of thu
mind of many but some fifty PEG
pie were in attendance, mostl,
women, to observe the expiring o
the old and the birth of the new
year, with it's possibilities. The oil,
year, in its closing moments, wa
tolled out, and the advent of tn
new welcomed in the joyous ringing
of the bell. May it bring happi
mes and prosperity to those who di'
not find it in the old year.