Smyrna times., 1885-05-20
Smyrna and Vicinity.

long lelG WdHU III the WcdCicI VI GI0
past week.
A NEW bulk window hes been put in
the store of Mrs. Lizzie Collins, the
past week.
IT is announced that E. Harry Beck
and Miss Ella Graham, of this town,
will be married this evening.
THE authorities are having the Della
ware railroad put in thorough repair
for the contemplated fruit crop.
THE demand for Paris green islikely
to be active this season as the potato
bugs have come i'll renewed force.
The music of the lawn mower was
the necessary result of the rains and
warmer weather of the past week.
STRAWBERRY checks, six colOrs,
will do well to leave their orders early.
THE effort to beautify yards by sod
ding and other works of improvement
is noticeably ahead this Of any other
Spring.
THE English sparrows have been
very troublesome to some of our gar
dcners in their raid on peas, cabbage
plants, sc.
The Smyrna COrnet Band have add
ed picolo, clariOnet and drum major
to their number, making it now have
seventeen members.
THAT "bird of close relationships"
the mosquito, put in an appearance
the past week in much stronger num-
bers than usual on their first visit.
care you Il member of the church ?"
He asked on skates beside her.
80 yes "-she slipped-''I used to be -
I'm now poor backslider."
r. NJ. FOWLER, Of the 0. IL. Bal
ley Il Co., lithographing firm, Boston,
is canVassing the town for subscriptions,
skctching our public buildings, &c.
Ell POTTER, of Wilmington, will
be in town next week Those wishing
pianos or organs tuned or repaired
may leave orders with A. p. Griffith.
THE warm weather of yesterday was
much to the liking of the bull frogs
who made the distant ponds musical
last night with their deep bassO harmO-
nies.
B. V. WELDON has been re-appointed
collector of the Town taxes, and par
ties paying the same before the 9th
inst, will have a rebate of five per
cent.
Jos. B. FAIRIES is building Il berry
house, wagon house and department
for berry picllers, two stories, 64 feet
long, Is feet wide, on his farm near
BreufOrd.
Two SOCIAL pic-nics were held in
Belmont Grove on Saturday, one a
company of larger school misses and
the other Juvenile members of the
Band Of Hope.
Two NEW statiOn-hOuses are being
built at Green Spring and at Black
bird. The houses will be 10 by 80 feet,
built Of wood, Gothic style, and will be
neat and convenient.
The annual Episcopal Convention of
this Diocese will be held in this town.
commencing this day two weeks. 1t
will be attended by fifty or more min
listers, Bishop Lee presiding.
THE best evidence that more atten-
tiOn is given to taste and appearance is
the annual increase of painting, JOS
E. Carter, one of our painters, alone
having nine painters in his employ.
THERE were too many shad in mar
ket on Saturday considering the other
fish in the way for the temperature of
the day, and late in the evening one
party sold at as low as six for quar-
ter.
A CRUsTY old bachelor attributes
the large congregations at the churches
these May Sundays to the Spring bon
nets and new Summer outfits. Well.
Summer is dawning on us really beau
tiful.
THE country is now lovely. Every
thing appears to be full of life and en-
joying life To the lovers of the beau
tiful there is nothing equal to the
country in the month of may, unless it
be the month Of June.
The cold weather prevailing the first
half of May is attributed to the great
mass of icebergs and fields of ice now
upon the Atlantic coast. One ship re-
ported itself surrounded by icebergs for
a number of miles.
Mrs DIR. BUTLER, returned mis-
slonary from India, and Mrs. f. B.
Stevens, secretary of the w. +. NJ. S.,
will deliver addresses in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, tomorrow Thurs
day. evening, at Z! o'clock.
IN 1879 the wheat crop averaged
ten bushels person and 700 bushels
per mile Of railroad; this year, estima-
ting it one-ffth short, the crop will
average six bushels person and 333
bushels per mile of railroad.
SOME of the early planted fields of
corn are up and perhaps ready for re-
planting, while the lOwlands, from the
heavy rain storms of last week and
the week before have been too wet
until the present week to put the seed
in the ground.
JACOB LEINBERGER is determined to
be up with the times. He has put in
his shambles a Ridgway refrigerator
big enough to hold a beet, a sheen. and
lamb at the same time and he gives
notice in an advertisement elsewhere
when to come for meat.
HARDCAsTLE & JONES shipped about
5000 pounds Of wool by the IV0ert to-
day Wool has come in slowly. partly
because Of the cold weather and partlv
possibly because of the low Dr;oo
They have advanced little, and will
pay l8 cents for good, unwashed wool.
TROUT and shad have both been
abundant the past week and to add to
the number of wagons disposing of
hsh on Saturday was one selling fresh
mackerel at fifteen cents Der dozen.
The schools Of mackerel passing up
our coast this Spring have been unus-
ually large.
PRESLEY LATTOMUs, of Townsend. n
young man 10 years of age while on a
loan OF straw on Saturday, was thrown
to the ground from mistep, lodging
on his head and shoulders, iniuring the
spine and producing paralysis. from
the effect of which he died the next
day.
ATTENTION is called to the adyer-
tisement Of Browning. This section of
Delaware and Kent county, Md, is
represented by S. w. Boyer, a sales
man OF large experience, who will take
especial pains and pleasure in waiting
on customers from this part of the PEN
lnsula. Persons visiting the hOusa