Smyrna times., 1883-02-28
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
PERSONS who by change of residence
this week also change their post office
address, will please notify us.
THE vendue sales, which are occur
ring almost daily show steadily good
prices for all articles, especially stock.
J.E. TYGERT & Co.'s phosphate mill
has been for some time running force
of 80 hands on phosphate intended for
corn.
The heavy cutting of shade trees at |
this season is said to be injurious to
them. The proper time to trim trees
is July.
To-Day ends Winter, by the Calen-
dar. Come gentle Spring! But if you
cannot be gentle yet awhile, don't
coquet with us.
NEXT Monday will be the day of the
Town Election when seven Commits
sioners, Alderman, Assessor and Treas
urer will be elected.
THE preliminaries of this years crops
will be begun tomorrow, the day when
the nine months contracts for labor
begins with the farmers.
H. c. DOUGLASS, Executor of Emily
F. Mitchell, deceased, will sell farm
of so acres on the road from Parsons
Hill to Brenford, Tuesday, March the
goth.
H. P. MASSEY has procured and had
erected on his farm large bell that
will ring out to the farm hands about
noon merry notes that will be readily
interpreted to say, come to dinner !'
A MAN in speaking this morning of
the Smyrna Transportation Com
pany," offered to bet that inside of five
years three masted schoone-s would be
running to Florida with cargoes of
phosphate and to Germany for phos-
phate material.
ABEL S. RIGGS intends starting his
brick yard as soon as the weather will
permit, with considerable force with
the intention of making 1,000,0 900 Of
bricks the coming season. The local
demand is likely to be much larger
this year than usual.
JOHN PYLE gives notice in another
column that he will open wholesale
and retail commission house, Marcl
, 26th, at the corner of Second and
Orange streets, Wilmington, for the
sale of all kinds of country produces
and solicits consignments.
r The yellow ned,r that usually
comes with the first warm days o
Spring was little previous this year
the first coming to market last Satur
9 cause it is the first fish, but it takes
good appetite to so more than tw
messes of them.
: MEssRs. John d. Burton, Thomas I
e Lacey and III. P. HAZEL, the Commits
e sioners named in the Act of Incorpora
:. ton of the Delaware Fertilizer Com
+ pany of Clayton Delaware" give motto
o that they will open the books for sui
j. scriptions to the capital stock at tn
n Smyrna House, on Saturday next.
G T.
q T. Cavender for phamphlet containin
i the opinion of the Judges on Repre-
Il sentation, and also First Biennial r.
q port of the Commissioner of Fish an
i Fisheries for the State of Delawar
If The last is much clearer document
Ie the information it gives, than the frs
? THE corporators named in the act
- incorporation of the " Philadelphia an
- is Smyrna Transportation Company
II John HI. Hoffecker, John Z. Tyge
and Herman S. Tygert, give motto
Ig elsewhere that books for the subscri
le tion of stock will be opened at the off,
N of ]. L. Tygert & Co., Monday, Mare
= 5th.
It, OUR preachers are assigned homes
is the Conference at Cambridge as fl
- lows: Rev. T. E. Martindale, with
III Straughn Rev. J. d. Rigg at L
"a Creighton Hotel; Rev. ]. T. VanBurk
of low with l.. w. Bothum; Rev. r.
Stephenson with Luther Andrew
=, Joseph Smithers, District Steward, wi
III Jos. SauerhoR. The conference nae,
ms Wednesday, March 7th.
MISSIONARY MoNEY.-Last Sund
" the last monthly collection of the w
was taken in the M. E. Sunday Scho
the aggregate for the year being So
or $39 in advance of last year. I
nts collection in the congregation was 81
IDS nine more than last year, making
Ich total of $470. This may be increaS
al by sums from several persons who ha
en- not vet paid ANYTHING.
act QUITE an interesting and spiri
mo debate occurred at the last meeting
W Smyrna CoRclave, No. As, I. o. H.,
re- Wednesday evening last, the subj
ses being a live one, viz: "Should
,ar. whipping post be abolished" The
aor cussiOn was highly enjoyed, nearly
IN whole membership present particiE
,oa- ing. The decision on the merit of
rtv debate was in entire keeping with I
: 4e aware instincts, on the negati
ons Other States having a surplus of W
. ~ beaters may take courage from ID
20. wares persistency. a-
cial PAPER HANGING has progressed
AN the scale of advancement as rapidly
elds any improvement called in use in get
by up attractive dwellings. 1t is reall
lifii- decorative art. or artistic la its effe
rops when properly selected and placed
Is of the walls with the skill that belong
J be a workman that has a good eye
the experienced hands. 1t gives us pl
ing. ure to state that in our industr
sent and enterprisEg young mechs
owl Joseph E. Carter, we haye one VIII
stag keeping abreast with the adyan
sage taste in house furnishing, from up
man stering, to the largest wants of
tude painters brush, or the higher ski
~ In artistic effect in the combinatio
rs of colors where the design is to ma
fall, room really attractive.