Smyrna times., 1885-03-25
Smyrna and Vicinity.

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INVITATIONS are issued for a socia
hop at the Town Hall on Monday night
April 9th.
THE snow of Sunday that amounted
to less than an inch here was eigh;
inches deep down in Virginia.
Do NOT fail to read the new Store
advertisements of w. F. Clement
Johnson Bros. and J. B. Cooper.
IF our ice men hadn't their ice houses
filled they could get supply of good
ice this, the last week in March.
THE Ladies' Benevolent Society will
meet at Mrs. DIR. w. T. Collins Tues
day evening, March S1st, at Z! o'clock.
A. P. GRIFFITH & Co., have sold a
acre lot at Smyrna Landing, belong
to Jos. Kennedy, fer $500, to VIM. H.
Isbell
E. P. POTTER, piano tuner Of Will
mington will visit this town on Mon
day next. Orders can be left with A.
P. Griffith.
GEO. w. Us. TAYLOR received a car
load of Oliver chilled plOws on Monday,
three wagon loads of which were sent
to Dover that morning.
THE only class who have not COM
planned about the cold weather have
been the coal dealers. Their business
has been brisk all the time.
GEO. JONES son of VIM. S. Jones
from near Kenton and Miss Anna
Lohand, daughter of l. G. Lonand of
Dover will be married this evening.
MONDAY to Friday inclusive, March
1917, 1854. No fire in school room.
Windows open to keep room cool.
Teaching at Leipsic. J. B. COOPER.
THE days and nights balanced in
length the first of the week. The days
will commence to grow in length with
each week for the next three months.
AS a business ventue the Roller
Rink" takes the lead of anything start
ed in this town lately. The people
flock to it very much as they do to a
circus.
THE week of bitter weather ending
yesterday has filled the Delaware al
most as full of floating ice as any time
during the short, cold days of mid
Winter.
THE tOOt of the Maryland fish horn,
suggestive Of "yallar neds" and the
first run of herring at this time of the
Spring-has not been heard yet rever-
brating over the hills.
A. WALLEN, JR., late of Clayton,
was in town n day or two the past
week getting signatures to a petition
asking for the position of postal route
agent on the Delaware railroad.
SOLOMON P. HURD, near Smyrna.
will be married this evening to Miss
Willie Mccall, near Middletown.
They will make a short visit to Phla-
delphia, and return to his home on
Saturday.
f. G. FOWLER, of Washington, who
has been appointed to act as Assistant
POstmaster-General during the tenn
pOrary absence of Mr.. Hay in Florida,
is a brother of f. NJ. and A. f. Fowler,
of this town.
A LITTLE daughter Of JOS l.. Caven-
der fell down a flight of stairs several
days ago and received a severe wound
Of the head which at first was thought
possible fracture of the skull. She
was unconscious for some hours.
The correspondent who was ''shock-
ed" at some things he observed while
on visit to the Rink on Saturday and
pens his structures for us to publish.
does not give his name, as he ought to
know is the custom in all such cases.
The public schools were again emp
tied in several of the departments dur
ing the past week, fully deciding the
question about which there was a diff
ference of opinion, that the present
heaters are inadequate to warm the
building.
SPRING has fooled the merchants this
time land for that matter everybody
else), but when the gentle maid does
come along with her sunny smiles she
will find them at the counters ready to
furnish a complete outfit suitable to
the season.
THE post Office window has con-
tanned during the week past a minia-
ture steamboat, perfect in model in all
its parts, made by J. F. Hill, recently
removed from the country to this town,
whose only instruments were a scroll
saw and glue pot.
The citizens of MoOrton are desiring
for some reason a change in the name
of their tOwn-Jhat of Arlington "
having the largest preference. In
doing it, however, they will have to
get the recognition of both the railroad
and Post Office Department.
a. l.. HUDSON, who has kept diary
of the last two Springs, says there has
been three days during this March
that the thermometer has not regis
tered freezing weather, while during
March of last Spring there were but
three days that it froze at all.
ON Sunday evening last as Miss
Jennie Boyer was returning from
church, she slipped on the pavement.
and endeavOring to save herself fell.
catching on her hand, producing a
fracture of the lower end of the radius.
Dr. Moore was called in and reduced
the fracture.
A TEAM that was left unhitched on
Monday in front of Winford's store
started off and got from a trot into a