Smyrna times., 1889-05-22
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
Nor a circus in Smyrna this Spring /
THE roses are unusually fine this
year.
WHEAT is fence high in some parts
Of the country.
QUERY.-Can an audience" witness |
a base ball match.
IT is not too late to get strawberry |
checks printed.
THE Sunday Schools are beginning
to prepare for "Children's Day"
THE first trip to WoOdlawn Beach
for the Summer will be June the 9th.
WM. A. WINFoRD is giving his dwell
ing on Delaware street thorough
painting.
WIN. r. SMITH, near central mill, has
a splendid field of wheat, that was
headed out last week.
WHILST the pigs may be Sin the
clover" the COWS are evidently in the
garlic the way the butter tasts.
THE town never looked prettier than
at present with the tress in full leaf
and the lawns neat and we'll kept.
Mrs. GEORGE D. COLLINS has a gera-
Mum plant 81 feet high. 1t will take
a ladder to gather the tOpmost blooms.
4 PROSPEROUS town is made up of
prosperous individuals, for after all,
towns are just what people make them.
WHIsKEY would not intoxicate if
left in the jug. 1t is when the man
takes the place of the jug that the mis-
chief is done
BETWEEN HOO and 1900 los. of snap
pers were shipped to Philadelphia on
the last trip of the steamer Citizens
from Smyrna river.
CHAs. c. BoEHMLER has opened his
Ice Cream ParlOr aud will be glad to
serve his patrons with the best of Ice
Cream, Water Ices, &c. T
A NUMBER of young people attended
the party given at Mr.. John Heitshu's
near Cheswold, on Wednesday evening
by his daughter Mamie.
REV. W. S. ROBINSON will deliver ar
address on the "Principles of Freema
sonry" before Harmony Lodge on the
evening of June the 9th.
If the "Children's Day" celebration
does not come this year before the usu
ally allotted time, it will fiud the rose
have passed their season of glory.
Mr.. CAMPBELL, proprietor of Wood
lawn Beach, is making needed improve
ments about the house, pavilion ant
grounds, preparatory 10 the Summe
reception Of visitors.
THE country is now at its lovliest
and those who can afford a carriag
ride will be well repaid. The road
are good and nature has donped he
most beautiful robes.
WI. GEO. HILL and VIM. NJ. Be
put in Smyrna River this morning 1
cans of young shad, sent by Dr. Short
lidge, said to contain $4,000 each, froI
the hatchery, or over a half million.
GEO. w. & S TAYLOR have invente
a machine to set out cabbage, tOmatoe
and other plants. Now, if they wi
invent one TO pick up potatoes in gail
ering the Fall crop, they will save
great deal Of backache.
THE Society of Christian Endeavo
will hold a Strawberry Festival at th
Opera House on Friday evening for tn
} benefit of church improvements. Th
r Society will meet this evening in th
, church at T.30 o'clock.
Y IF Delaware strawberries were on
. ripe now, the growers would strike
bonanza; very few Southern berri
are in market aod those few are po
n in quality and high in price. Storm
q this Spring ruined the Southern berl
crop.
3 THE annual convention of the p.
, Church Of the Diocese Of Delaware vi
- be held in st. Paups church. Georg
- town, on Wednesday June 9Th, ty
n weeks from to-day. More than six
g clerical and lay delegates are expect
l. to be present.
Is FISHERMAN STOCKEsBERRY and "U
q Gle" David Richards gave US on Satu
day, what is probably the last roes
. Summer in the way of shad. The ];
1t ter have largely departed and they pl
" pose to give their attention in t
,e future to sturgeon fishing.
D. HENRY S. ANTHONY has his n,
T.. house on South street erected a
- sbeathed-a two rOomed front, II
Oe will be an addition to this handsol
e. street. The brick foundation for {
building for Winter chicken raising
the rear CT his dwelling has also be
lg laid
70 The new residence Of John Cosgr
- which adds another house to the han
" some row on Mt. Vernon street,
al also been raised and sheathed, and '
r proceed rapidly to completion.
az For the insect that skeletonizes
" foliage of roses, hellebore, applied
be. for currant worm, is effective A SO
he tion Of saltpetre, tablespoonful to /
- gallons Of water, kills the cabbi
20 worm. Paris green sprayed on the
as liage of the plum trees at bloom
bis time and several times thereafter
on strOys the curculio. Sticky fly pa
al attached to a lath, if held befor
grapevine while some one Btartles
lgi thrips on it, will capture them as q
Dw spring away.-American Garden.
re, WE have received a letter from K
his ton setting forth in terse language,
il the result Of the action Of the court
,ca refusing to relicense the hotel th
~ that amounts, according to our cor
pondent to a malignant feeling on
er- part Of some of those who want I
the lie bar in the town. The wrath,
to cording to our correspondent, Is %
ON tested towards those who had taken
Ike in the action of securing the closing
in the saloon, the minister coming in
rth the larger share Of the abuse, seel
ave to annoy him in different ways
mt since. These things are stated as
alr. as the circumstances that led to the
.er monstranee against the hotel. part
ms larly the aun0yances at the late !
re- val there by the saloon men, but
nee withhold them at this time, hol
LAY the parties implicated both for I'll
'een selves and the character Of the pl
.en- viii not make general exposi
: OF = necessary,