Smyrna times., 1889-04-10
THE oily tongue seldom sticks to its

- WuoU u NCICltu JOuIlldllsU say 70 IhS
craft.
CLAYToN's Hardware Store is the
place to buy Farming Tools and Har
ness of all kinds. 4
THOs. J. MUNDY near Cheswold, |
commenced last week to plant new
strawberry patch.
KEEP ahead of rather than behind |
the times. This advice is given to
every business man.
RADIsHEs were in market on Satur.
day, raised by man near Blackistons |
cross roads, whose name we did not |
learn.
HERE is a good thing to know
Ripe tomatoes will remove ink and |
other stains from white cloth, also
from the hands.
THoMPsON's Seed Sewers for sale
very law by w. F. & J. r. Clements,
Clayton, Del. II
STRAwBRIDGE K CLOTHIER have
added a carpet department to their
large store, as will be seen by adver-
tisement.
RIDING in the country around would
be good now if the road scraper could
be drawn over the roads to fill up the
deep cuts of the winter,
The Loyal Legion will give a musi-
cal and dramatic entertainment on
Wednesday evening 18th instant.
Don't fail to be present.
THE outbuildings and fences on the
farm of d. w. Trumpler near town.
take the lead in presenting the first
springs product of a neat coat of
whitewash.
THE management of the Smyrna
Opera House has entered into a com
binatiOn with the managers of the
Dover, Milford and Salisbury Opera
Houses to present irst-class attractions
| successfully at each of the places
named.
TOMATOES are a luxury in England
| where they are considered "A great
delicacy. They are raised principally
in hothOuses, as are grapes, because of
the short duration of sunshine. The
best market for our product is the
| foreign market.
Col. GEO. w. CUMMINs has the
finest field of wheat on the State road
below Smyrna. Joseph r. Jefferson
on the BrenfOrd road has a field
equally we'll matted. Many fields of
wheat are looking as well as is usually
the case the first of May.
REV. ARTHUR TORRENs, who has
not yet completed his studies at the
Princeton Theological Seminary, it iS
understood will accept the call to the
pastOrate of the Presbyterian church
here, though he has not yet formally
done So It will be several weeks
before he will be ready to assume the
full duties of pastor.
THE old men and the matrons, the
young men and the maidens, and even
the half grown children want to hear
Mrs. LOckwOOd's lecture tomorrow
evening; because she is a celebrated
woman. and an eloquent talker, and
her subieci is one of absorbing interest
-" The Social and Political Life in
Washington"
The road over the Smyrna mill dam,
which has been like a basin in some
places to hold water, has been filed
up the past week with dirt from the
mound in the Odd Fellows Cemetery
which was being cut down. The con-
ditiOn the dam has been in for some
time has been a source of ANNOYANCE
to people travelling over this road, and
they will rejoice that something has
] hppn HOpa tn rnuna6xr ~
WE have had occasion two or three
times to speak of the fact that persons
have been called up to run to a fire by
mstaking the farm bell of VIM p
Cummins for the alarm bell The last
. time was a week or so ago. Mr.. C's
bell rings awful early to 'git up" and
f prepare for the days duties-so early
that our town people indulging in un-
conscious cat-naps, and thus the more
easily disturbed. think it way in the
night when there is no business for
any other bell to have its clapper in
motion but the fire bell.
! AT THE Presidential election four
, years ago Benz. F. Butler received two
] votes in Delaware, one of which was
that Belva Ann Lockwood has ever
been voted for in Delaware. Perbap,
the nearest she ever got to it, was
, when last fall her fellow champion o
wOman's rights, Mary Ann Stewart O
Sussex county, offered her vote at tn,
polls. Mrs. Stewards vote was no
received by the election officers. But
= no one can foretell how many vote
a Mrs. Lockwood may poll in this Stat,
s next time. She will lecture in Smyrn,
a tomorrow evening; everybody will q
9 to hear her; she always captivates he
audiences Possibly her lecture will
win votes. If she doesn't get the vote
. she will doubtless try to content her
I self with the dollars, which are almos
= as acceptable in these degenerate days
: THE three days storm ending will
u Monday, (Of course it was three days
q that has been the style of the weathe
for the past year or two was littl
= more here than a fierce wind with a
q occasional light fall of rain or hail. bu
! south of us in lower Maryland, Virgin
j., ia and North Carolina, it was equal &
!. the blizzard of last year, causing niue
IS destruction of vessel property and Civ
IT fall of snow in the mountain district
g of twelve or more inches. As W
could see the sky along the norther
horizon most of the time, the stOru
n must have reached a very little dis
= tanee north of US. Unlike most of tn
= weather disturbances which we expt
,. rience on the Atlantic Coast, this on
y did not come within the range Of tn
u Signal Service observations in the Fa
/ West, but appears to have develope
9 on Friday night almost on the line q
D. the Alleghanies, and to have acquire
j. intensity very suddenly And, liz
the blizzard of last year, it seemed {
le remain stationary for three days, bl
ID blowing like a hurricane most all th
d time. The temperature has since moo
W Grated into beautiful spring lib
T. weather.
ii Building and Loan Association.
e The stated annual meeting Of tn