Smyrna times., 1944-09-21
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

The large quantity of nuts is
said to indicate a cold winter.
Frank Hieman has extracted
300 pounds of honey this year,
one of the best years for honey of
the last ten.
A merry-go-round, or carusel,
was put in place yesterday on
Commerce street, the same place
where one was run a month last
spring.
Miss Mary Deakyne, daughter of
Mr.. Alexander Deakyne, of Thor
oughfare Neck, died on Monday of
typo-malarial fever, after a weeks
illness. He also has son and a
daughter down with the same dis
ease.
One hundred shares of Smyrna
National Bank stock were sold in
Wilmington Monday to Joseph L..
Carpenter, Jr.
Levelling and paving the cutters
to the curb was completed last
week on Commerce street from the
carpet factory to the rectory, but
some damage has been occasioned
by the heavy rains of this week.
The lucky man who won the
$22 chair at Clarence Prettymans
was John l.. Truav, who guessed
that the bean jar contained in
numbers 7,249, being only 20 short
of the actual amount.
Beck and HAZEL have sold
through their agency the farm of
EdwardBeck, near Brenford to
Charles Massey of Philadelphia.
Last Monday night a pleasant
little birthday party was given to
Willie Luesher, at which event he
was 9 years of age. After an
evening of joyful mirth in which
all sorts of games were INDUCED in
the little folks were invitde out to
refreshments. Those present were:
Nettie Bitter, Emma Redman,
Julia Weldon, Lillian Speakman,
Elsie Mcdowell, Amanda Fisher,
Amelia Fisher, Gertrude Fisher,
Norman Taylor, Baynard Fowler,
Linden Welson, George Boehmler,
John Gearhart, Morris Hinson and
Foster Redman.
The w. c. T. u. met Monday
night at the residence of Mrs. Ed
ward Beck and elected Mrs. Kate
Smithers president for the coming
year.
PERSONALS
Joseph Wright received a tele-
gram this morning announcing the
death of his grandson, Douglass
Fallows Wright, son of Edgar S.
Wright, Philadelphia, age years.
Joseph E. Warden of Philadel-
phia, former Smyrnian, is in
town today.
John P. Walker, railroad agent
at Kenton, and Miss Emma Lola
Greenwich will be married at 8
p. m. today.
Walter w. Hynson, who has been
working at Atlantic City the past
three months has returned home.
Miss Lizzie Reynolds, who has
been quite ill the past month, is
improved.
Miss Annie Lambdin returned
last week from visit of ten weeks
to Virginia.
Miss F. Estelle Waters is visiting
in Wilmington.
Oscar Grant, of this town, has
accepted a position in I. B. Wick
ers grocery store.
Among the visitors who spent
Sunday in town, coming down to
register, were: Frank Williams and
Harry France, Wilmington, and
Linwood Sisco, Charles Stern and
B. F. Redman, Philadelphia.
Wilmer Collins and wife, of Cam
den, N j., spent last week with
their Smyrna relatives.
Mrs. Harvey Speakman and Mrs.
Harry Douglass went to Atlantic
City last week.
Clarence Smithers of Old Point
Comfort, Va, is visiting his Smyr-
ma relatives.
Miss Helen Ringgold left Mon
day morning for Darlington Sem
mary, West Chester, Pa, where
she will take a course of higher
study.
w. G. Warren and Willard We'll
don returned to New York on Sat-
urdy after five or six weeks vaca-
ton.
Miss Rena Williams returned
last week from a five or six weeks
visit to Altoona, Pa.
VIM. M. Bell and family returned
from his cottage at Rehoboth last
week.
Miss Harriet Layton, of Bridge
vile, Is the guest Of Miss Lizzie