Smyrna times., 1885-05-20

d. D., will conduct the services. Other
ministers are expected to be present.
The public are cordially invited to
| come over in Macedonia and help us.
G. K. MORRIS, Pastor
THE II year lOcusts and the 13 year
lOcusts are both to appear together the
coming Summer. They have not ap-
peared together for 22l years. When
they arrive, they will doubtless make
some extraordinary music. A tele-
graph dispatch published in the papers
Of yesterday, noted the fact that the
fiTst-named had appeared in Chicago.
They ought to appear in this latitude
as soon as that.
THE "Neck used to be noted for
its bad roads, but by a careful and iu-
diciOus system of mending this has
passed away, and there has been dur
ing the past few years scarcely any of
them but what it was a pleasure to ride
over. IfsOme of the Overseers of Ken
ton hundred would take a tour of OBJ
servatiOn they might see something
that would lead to an early improve
ment of their thOrOughfares.
REV. DIR. CALDWELL spent several
days in Wilmington last week, having
been designated by the late educa-
tiOnal convention held at Dover, to
visit that city in the interest of the
Conference Academy. He was quite
pleased with his success, thinks they
will secure nearly 81 900 from that city
and feels entirely confident of getting
by the lst of August the full amount
OIL To l.,
The A. NJ f. Conference which has
held an interesting session the past
week in Wilmington closed last night
with the reading of the appointments.
Rev. S. ID. W. Smith who has been
pastor of the Bethel Church of this
town since last Fall has been returned,
much to the qualification Of the society.
J. NJ. Proctor goes to Mt Friendship,
near Kenton; NJ. F. SlubV to Dover
A. NJ. Buckley to Milford; Chas
Farera, to Middlctown
AN exchange says: "The families
that raise no flowers, and have no
musical instrument in their houses, are
so far behind the times that they are
little removed from barbarism. You
will find it Il great civilizer, and a
source of infinite pleasure. He that
has no music in his soul," Shakespeare
says, g is fit for treason, stratagems and
spOils." To enjoy public worship you
must understand music, and to be up
with the times in church music, YOU
must have an organ.
CHAs E. MOORE, the successor to
Col. Douglass as fruit and grain shipper
at Clayton, is getting harnessed to his
new business, though May gives very
little to do besides small lots of grain
and asparagus. The active season will
commence with Strawberries, which,
from the lateness of the season, will
not be going to the market in cOnsid-
erable quantities before the second
week in June. The growers Of the
lower part of the Peninsula are expect
ing to send berries to market next
week. A shipment was made from
Marion Station, down the road, on
Monday.
THE entertainment of the members
of the Band of Hope to be given in the
Town Hall on Friday evening prom
ises to be one of variety and excellence
and the indications are that it will be
largely attended. They have been un-
der careful training and the juveniles,
who now form quite large body, are
looking forward to the occasion with
youthful enthusiasm. The broom drill
and rainbow will each be especially at
tractive, while there will be choruses.
recitatiOns, solos, &C., to fill out a
pleasant evening. The exercises will
commence Mt a quarter before eight
O'Clock. Admission will be 10 cents.
THE EUery EUeniag under the head
lines of The best Wheat in Delaware"
thus refers to a farmer of this vicinity
B. F. G. ROthwell, a tiller of a tract
of land containing about $50 acres in
Blackbird hundred, lays Just claim to
the ownership of the best field of wheat
in Delaware. He has 14O acres plant
ed in wheat, a 4O-acre patch of which
stands about two feet high, and is
growing rapidly. Grain one foot high
is rather the exception ut this time.
The adaptability of the land for cereals,
and the liberal application of Della
ware phosphate are given rs account
ing for the great superiority of the
prospects for big yield.
THE MiddletOwn transcript takes IN
the subject of rObbing birds nests, and
says:
The boy who enjoys the frantic sor-
row OF bird robbed of her young is
either inhuman by instinct or has not
been started on the right road to grow
to be a useful man. Parents should
teach their children to love and pro-
tect the birds that build their nests
about our homes, as if to crave our
guardianship, and which tighten
our hearts in our darker moments
with their cheerful chirrup and clad
some songs. The boy who loves birds
Will never grow up to be cruel man.
Delaware sends much money annually
TO enllghten the heathens in foreign
lands, many of whom probably never
wantOnly robbed birds nest in their
lives"
A PROMINENT agriculturist, who has
given all his time and attention to The
study of farms and farming, gives the
| following points in regard to finding
the right kind of farm hand. Habits
! are ofthe first consideration. He saws:
A man who INDUCES in smoking
| pipe at all hours is liable to burn your
building; careless man will waste
and destroy twice his wages; a pas
siOnate man will spoil your horses and
cows and break more than he earns:
a drOne will annoy you to death an
immoral man will corrupt the minds of
your children careful, high minded.
thinking man will look after your in
terests and will earn his money, what
ever you pay him. Those first named
shun at any price the last one seek
early, and when you have found him
keep him as long as you can! lie is a
Jewel OF the first water, and hard to re-
place"
The Town Commissioners are hav-
ing the row of willows on lower Main
street, near the mill pond cut down, to
be replaced with a longer row Of
branches from the same, running from
the pond up to HamiltOn's corner.
We mnst confess to a spirit of sadness
to see these old trees thus 20 the "wav
of all the earth. :" For more than fiftV
years they have graced the descending
hill with their massive shade and
served the boys of the past two or
three generations with material for
making whistles on the opening of
Spring-a place that many of our men
now past middle age cannot pass
without calling up pleasant memories
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