Smyrna times., 1889-11-20
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Ladies
Mite Society will be held tomorrow
evening at the close Of the prayer
meeting.
THE farmers who got mired in their
wheat fields in June, did not expect
such an experience in their corn fields
in November.
THE plastering on the addition to the
Methodist church was interfered with
by the rains of last week and again by
the storm of this.
SOME of the farmers in.the Necks, as
on the backbone of the Peninsula, can
dip the water from their wells, so full
is the earth of water.
THE train reaching here from the
north at 1,26 o'clock, commenced yes
terday to bring pouch from the Phil
adelphia post Office direct.
L. p. POTTER, piano and organ tuner
from Wilmington, will be in town
about the 2lst and 22d insts. Miss
Mollie Thompson will receive orders
for him.
The Business Mems Protective AS
sociation has petitioned the Town
Commissioners to have the lights in
the business portion of the town burn
all night.
A CITIZEN of Clayton was fined So
for shooting q pigeon day or two ago.
The fine was imposed not for shooting
the bird, but for firing the gun in the
town limits.
CHARLES H. JONES purposes orga-
nizing a class in singing at the Ladies
Temperance Reading Room tomorrow
evening, and he would like those wish
ing to take lessons to be on hand.
The Street Committee of the Town
Commissioners have been instructed
to correspond with a stone dealer for
broken stone for the streets. 1t is
thought that the material can be had
at cheaper figure than that put on
last winter.
A SPIRITED revival has been in
progress the past two weeks at Ray
mOnd's Church, under the manage
ment oft pastor, New. Mr. Maxwell, d,
of Leipsic. The number of CONVEX
siOns are reported to be between
twenty and thirty.
IN addition to the hauling of bats
from the brickyard to the slough on
the Landing road below "Whopping,' y
| the Board of Commissioners intend, il
is stated, to give it a heavy coating oi
shells. The wonder is that it has
taken so many months to reach thi:
conclusion. Their nOn-action has been
the cause of much profanity that
might have been avoided.
GEO. G. ROTHwELL, of BlackbirC
Hundred, has an apple tree in full
bloom though bare of leaves from the
frost. If George were sUperstitious hC
might take this as a good Omen-tha
his candidacy for Sheriff of New Cas-
tie county subject to the decision o
the Democratic party, will bloom ou
into the full nomination by the decis
ion of the people next June.
THE previous rains since wheat
seeding have been bad enough on tn,
young wheat but that of yesterda,
morning, from three to five inches, wa
the worst of them all. Many acre
were flooded, in some cases almos
whole fields, and in the lowest ground
the wheat cannot be other than drown
ed out. The springs are so near th
top Of the ground that there is n
place for the water to 90. Enoug
rain fell this one storm to make a cor
crop.
AN effort is being made and hume
ously signed, asking that the mail o
I the new time schedule be change
from the train that leaves Philadelphi
at 6.07 P. NJ, to The one that leaves tn
city at 4.01. If this should be done
f the evening mail would reach here an
be opened by o'clock, instead of
o'clock in the evening as at presen
This would accommodate the countr
2 people as well as many in the town
! A similar effort is being made by th
towns below.
r YESTERDAY morning after the raj
had been coming down for some hour
in succession like heavy summer show
/
B roofs and filling the yards with watC
J.. a husband broke the silence within b
remarkiDg, MARY, ] believe the worl
. is coming to an end" NO" she n
= piled, "the next time this takes place
Q will not be by water :" and he WI
r greatly relieved that her superiC
q knowledge of Bible history gave the
this assurance in the midst of Il
storm.
THE storm that originated on Il
. Western part Of the Gulf of Mexico O
s Friday, (where the heavy rains vii
J. South and East winds for some montl
n have come FROM and reached here {
Sunday evening, brought one of Il
. heaviest rainfalls Of the season.
d stretched across to the Western State
r where it turned to snow. II is WOI
? derful where all the water comes fro
the frequency the long duration, Il
, immense waterfall. No one remeI
70 bers such a period covering so maj
rt months, and wonder when will
10 cease.
d THE following from the DeLaWdped
\ from what we have heard, would a
ply as well to Smyrna as Dover:
u 1--WE learn that persons of our tow
q have lost money that they invested
d western hands, and one paper in I
st adjoining state says that the loss
!. one town there amounts to $4,000
II seems as though it would be a muC
y better plan to invest at home rath
IS than send the money away, even
greater interest can be obtaine
+. Why cry hard times in this town whs
so much Of our money circulation
. taken up and sent Off Invest
J. home"