Smyrna times., 1881-04-13
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
FORTY or fifty boats are fishing for shall
III Smyrna Greek for the city markets.
Two advertisements in the business col
lmns are calling from Wilmington for
female help.
GEO. D. ARMSTRONG, of Thoroughfarr
Neck, is running on the j. +. Tygert
buying stock, country produce, &c.
THOMAS S. BUcKMAsrER in loading lumber
at Clayton one day last week mashed the
end Of his third finger so severely as to re
quire amputation.
TIE advent of the black Martin and the
bursting leaf buds are usually simultaneous
1.-THE 10th to 18th Of April. hut the Martin |
this year is little previous"
MRS s. NJ. COLLINS and sisters have |
opened trimming and dressmnking store
in the stOrsrOoin formerly occupied by
Robert Gass. See ad. next week.
The green is blending with the yellow Of
the weeping willow. giving some indication
of opening Spring though snow and irerz
ing weather still continue in the North
and West.
THE last was the brightest Spring
Sunday that we have had, calling out to
the churches a large class Of w0rshiperS.
This was especially so at the NJ. E. Cnurch,
filling every available seat.
New SPRING GooDs.-Misses Collins 4
Savin after several days Of careful selecting
in the CITY have opened very full stock oi
beautiful Spring goods and dress trimmings
that cannot fail TO attract the attention Of
the ladies.
SAvIN & REEDY. eur new millinery firm,
in the johnson building, second floor oppo.
site door to the TINES office, had their for.
NAL opening on Saturday and have since
attracted good number Of vi-itors to look
at and admire their new styles. They
have been kept busy preparing new bon
nets for Easter.
BETHEL NJ. f. s. SCHOOL on the Circuit
met and organized last Sunday for Spring
and Summer months. Herman Anderson.
Supt., Mrs. r. NJ. Cooper Asst. Supt; C..
B0ggs, Sec; J. P. Jefferson, Librarian; r.
NJ. Cooper. ChoristPr; Miss Lizzie Garrison.
| Organist. There was considerable interest
manifested and prospects for good School
hattsring.
TEE work Of putting down the new iron
bridge over Mill Creek between Smyrna
and ROthwelrs Landing will he commenced
in few days. 1t will require about 6fteen
working days 10 complete it for travel
The MPssrs Tygert are contemplating the
erection of a temporary bridge for passing
to and from the boat while the new struc
ture is being rlaced.
REApPoIxrEs -Yesterday Gov. Hall re-
appointed Prof. J. II. Groves. State Super
intenient Of the public schools and Henry
Z. Carpenter, Assistant Superintendent. a.
provided in the new school law. the latte
has been teaching in Lewps and is repre-
sented rs very capable for the position
Nothing else was expected than the reap
pointment Of Pref. Groves.
SUDDEN DEATH.-Mr. William Turner on
of our old residents came to rather a suddPl
|! death on Monday. lie had worked at tn
bench all day ~ usual hut after supper wa
taken with paralysis and was a corpse D.
! 10 30 o'clock. lie was &c years OF age an,
bSu WOFkrl NJ MS bTdlNs
this town all his life, we believe, and die
p with the respect Of all who knew him, for
: well spent life.
: A LARGE funeral attended the remains {
Mrs. F. j. Smith to GlenwoOd Cemetery o.
4 Monday from the residence o. the latte
!, near Iloffecker's Mill. She was daushte
= of the late VIM II. Start. She had hpe
; in very feeble health all the winter frOI
consumption, but hal grown much bette
u and was about as usual, hut was carried o
n without a note Of warning by heart diseas
IS Qua Building and Loan Association hs
issued new series Of stock and we call th
}. attention not only Of men Of families hi
,. our young men to this, one of the hest pO
O sible means to lay by something for a futul
q start in business. In our cities and tOwI
IF many men of families have by the mear
n of these associations been enabled to pr
If vide themselves with homes who new,
It could have done it otherwise.
70 ENTERTAINMENT TO-MoRRow NIGHr.-Tt
10 entertainment TO he given To morrow nigI
; ut the Town Hall, for the hen-fit OF Il
nj school Of Miss JaRvier and Mrs. Raimon,
Of promises to he one that will be intrrrstiT
- IN all its "details, as the published pr
10 grammes show, and it should be encourage
10 by full house. Ii has been prepared
Q. cover only a reasonable space of time ar
"a all friends of education should be presen
M TIE Beer Drinking Socialists Of W
or nington got immensely excited ever M
$ Registers Sunday Excursion hill when tn,
a. learned il had passed the House, and sit
of naered down only when they learned it hr
no failed in the Senate. BY the way, the fa
no of this bill signaled the fate Of anoths
le the appropriation from the public fund
No keep the Bombay Hook road ia travelli
rs condition. The going down of one csrr
of the other down with il. The road over d
%; old creek can thus be kept up only at p
le, vats expense.
II ROBERT DENNEY Of Duck Creek in
1r moving an orchard ot 600 peach trees III
of bore good crop Of frat last year design
he leaving DOZEN or more trees for fam
he uss and in an examination of about
in trees found but one that he did not C
slider virtually killed by the past whit
~, and that was natural fruit. II. II. App
~ ton, a large peach grower near Odessa ,
presses doubts about any further pre-
.a from the mature fruit hearing orchar
=" Mr.. Denney has an orchard at the HoIi
~ OF Smyrna Creek which he thinks Is !
- little injured and even finds live blosso
!" in il.
re The following officers were elected
'h' the SMYRNA Building and Loan Associate
W. last night:
'h, President. John II. Hoffecker,
q Vice President, A. Price Griffith.
ine Secretary 7 Cooner