Smyrna times., 1888-04-04

BETWEEN thirty and forty of the
Fairfax Lodge I. o. o. F., of Whining
ton made friendly visit to Morning
Star Lodge on Friday night last.
What occurred at the Lodge is not
known TO outsiders, but at Geo. M.
SteVensOE's restaurant it was very ap-
parent that they knew how to get
away with first class supper
Jos. B. BENSON caught two shad on !
Friday, the first caught this spring off |
the Bombay Hook fishing grounds. |
The Wilmington fishermen arrived on
the ground and threw out their nets
that day for the first time this spring.
They float twelve to fifteen seins, and
besides supplying local fish dealers, ship
large quantities to Wilmington.
The young clerks, getting restrive at
remaining in the stores seventeen and
eighteen out of the twenty-four hours,
are agitating, as the warm weather ap-
proaches, the subject of early closing.
It is not to be wondered at that the
boys want to get down to the mill-pond
once and a while beside Sunday, to
hear the frogs rejoicing over the return
of brighter days.
PROF. ELY, of the Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, estimates the
losses from bad roads in the United
States, in the wear and tear on horses
and wagons, at one hundred millions
Of dollars per year. There are ten
millions of horses, he says, in this cOun-
try, and good roads would save an
average of ten dollars for each horse,
making the total one hundred millions.
If the roads were all the time like they
were here in March Prof. Ely might
} safely double his figures.
A. p. CROCKETT's creamery put
through lot or two of milk last week
but did not get down to steady work
= until yesterday, putting through dur.
, ing the morning $50 gallons of milk
The machinery seems to work to the
. entire satisfaction of the operator, Mr.
Webb, and there is nothing apparently
. in the way but a sufficient supply o
milk, which will grow as the farmers
can adjust themselves to the new way
of converting their milk into butter
n The machinery is of course an object o
curiosity to a number of persons wh'
have never seen the operations of ;
g creamery.
MRS. EDITH STINsON LURTY, widow
{ of John Lurty, who died some twelv
years ago, expired ON Monday morn
d ing after an illness of some weeks, il
the 50th year of her age. The deaf
of her husband left her with famil,
: of three children to struggle agains
adverse circumstances, which she di
with great fortitude and bravery. Sh
ID commanded in the highest degree tn
a. respect of her neighbOrs, and in the il
ness which ended her life, receive
:. from them the ministratiOns of kint
. ness which she was ever ready to b
stow on others, when help and syn
pathy were needed.
ks ONE of our business ladies had i
he tended to go to Philadelphia in fe
days to lay in a stock of goods in h
line-which called for good weather
OF their wear but on reading Jer
At Goldsborough's prediction that Il
Jle weather of April would be very mu
after the order of that of March, d
I a cided to postpone her visit TWO
ed three weeks. April came in We
20. pretty, as did March for that matt,
and enough of it has not passed to t
yet what it is going to do, but if JeT
ug persists in giving us such weather
'ru that of a week or two ago, some of
Jay friends talk of going down and thrO
ing him in the creek.