Smyrna times., 1883-04-11

rates.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet on Tuesday, April
18th, at three o'clock, at the residence
of Mrs. Edward Beck.
REV. DIR. TULLIDGE, residing near
this town, officiated both morning and
evening at the Episcopal Church in
on Sunday.
The Sunday School of the Centen-
nial nj. f. Church will give an exhibit
ton and concert at that church On
Friday evening next, 18th inst.
The Diamond State Pickling Com
pany is putting up week by week to
fill orders in Wilmington and Philadel-
phia 100 dozen tumblers of horse
radish.
THE books of the Diamond State
Conserving and Picking Company"
which has just been chartered by the
Legislature will be opened next week
for the subscription of stock.
THE market is fairly supplied with
seed potatoes from the North, but we'll
up in prices, $1.50 per bushel. New |
Jersey and the lower part of our state
furnish the sweet potato paintings.
THE Commissioners are thinking
enough about new sittings for the Town
Hall to enter into correspondence with
n manufacturing firm in regard to
them. Let us be thankful and take
courage.
THE rivers have furnished us less
fish this than any previous Spring for
wears, but the pleasant weather of the
past week has brought herring, perch
and shad in more plentiful the past
two days.
ABEL S. RIGGS commenced manufac-
turing bricks at his yard near the
Landing, Monday morning with three
moulders. The wants for the new
school house and Presbyterian Church
will be considerable, and he is thus
seizing the first opportunity of suitable
weather to be ready for the first
demands.
WHEN the Committee on Street
Lamps and lamp lighters too, wish to
60 back on the people, they should not
select night of public entertainment
when the moon is only little thin
crescent and the night dark drizzelly
one. If we ever needed street lamps,
we did last night and these men ought
to have known it.
ONE of our old politicians, man
who has had as much to do in influence
ing the elections of this Hundred for
the past thirty years as any man in
Duck Creek Hundred, says that he is
satisfied from what he sees and hears
that if the question of Local Option
was submitted to the people it would
receive two votes for, to one against it
Mrs. NJ. H. CARTER met with an acci
dent on last Wednesday that has caus
ed her great deal of pain and is like
: ly to disable her for some time. II
4 crossing her floor, either from catching
her foot in something or from virtigo
she is not certain which, she wa!
: throwa PROSTATE, her right knee ant
t wrist of the left hand sustaining yer,
C painful injuries.
+ PERsONAL.-Cardsa are out for anoth
# er church wedding on Wednesda,
q morning next at the NJ. E. Church
: John 4. Hofecker and Miss Ami
- Waters of this town.
'e Jos. V. Smith went to EaSton o
n Monday to attend the funeral of h
i. sister, Mrs. Lydia A. Wood.
- DR.. Whitley and wife of Frederic;
~ are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. DR.. Hiron
~ THE wheat has pearted" up durir
Cl | 4I,o ,ooef foxry Iox,C aOI Y0uy 10olyc arras
and healthy. Under the influence
warm rains and genial sun shine Il
late seeded will soon present waV
A. appearance that will make the farme
lg feel happy and strengthen their antiC
ly patton of good crop. Some fields tn
were seeded early last fall and bad
- cut by the insect, we are informe
have been seeded to oats and OthC
oy will be planted with corn.
Vi SCHOOL ELECTIoN.-The school elt
us ton of this town on Saturday result
ds in the reelection of Geo. w. Tayl
ole and Dr. E. NJ. Cloak for three ye;
nv votes cast-30. 1t was virtually q vC
on in endorsement of the plan of the Boa
he of Directors for the erection of a n
yn. building for the consolidated pub
~. schools in accordance with the grOwi
demands of both education and popu
leu ton.
But At Clayton Morris Kirmse was
mt elected for three years and Isaac Gre
Mt to fill out the unexpired term of Hori
Spruance deceased.
rn-
VOW THE improvements being made fr
-~J fipna 70 fipna OF ClaufOn hxy tho y
road Company presents q very subst
tial appearance. All the water he
+bo and low places about the station
w being filled with oyster shells about
pc inches deep. The carriage road o
ope the Delaware & Chesapeake r.
r where it was low and wet during ra
Ives weather has been filed up solid v
The shells They are brought from Oxft
: at Nd, at a small expense and NAL
the most excellent and favorable fill.
eign appearance about Clayton don't !
pro- as though it was going to be loopeC
han to Smyrna, very soon by either qU
that rant or a semi-circular railroad.
ne me- MANLovE HAYES, ESQ, of Do
tho a Director of the Delaware Railroad
+;oo company with David ]. Cummins
OCndlOI W. L. AdNCAuCI, OH
Io,v- went over the route of the prop,
osod loop of the railroad from Brenford
ar. this town to Green Spring. Mr.. HI
who will we presume report his obse
" Of tions and impressions to Presi
a IN FELTON, of the Delaware r. R., anC
Jon to President Roberts of the Pennsy
a his MIA. If the subject is entertained
ExS engineer will be detailed to ma
4 Of survey. We do not know of CO
yern. Mr.. Hayes impressions, but our
The citizens who accompanied him f
+ do the obstacles in the way of constr
"a bv ing the curve less than they had al
,itro. pated.
city THE beauty of the Delaware sy
y has of non-advertising personal proI
The sold by the Sheriff, though it may
'ntin- gregate a much larger value tn
mmi- parcel of real estate that is advert
quar- was shown in sale of store goods
lssur- week in Liepsic where Isle IL
at the gloves sold at only one cent
have Such sacrifice of property is ba
,reaty Gus, and while our Legislature is
stood ering almost every law on the st
n Re- book, they might well afford to cf
guar this. When a man feels that he is
recau- robbed, enabling a man who has
fIUn of mona forfrnafa cd hoe ,,,o.o..