Smyrna times., 1889-02-06
Smyrna ard Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
EASTER falls on the 2lst of April this
gear.
BROKEN faith cannot be tied up with
red tape.
MRS KATE DOUGLASS has given her
house on lower Main street a hand
some coat of paint.
ONE of our young ladies has success
fully trained her eat to turn summer
sault at her command.
So FAR this season there has been no
ice on any of the peninsula streams to
interfere with navigation.
The Young Peoples Society of
Christian Endeavor has for its lesson
next Sunday evening Luke 18th, 13-4O.
A COLUMN of very interesting mat
ter pertaining to bills before the Leg
islature will be found on our first
page.
THE Ball at the Opera House next
Wednesday night promises to be the
most imposing of any for the past four
years.
THEODORE MANNON, down the
Meek, ;" takes the lead of his neigh
bOrs in gardening, having already
planted his onion sets.
The next holiday will be Feb. 22d,
Washington's Birthday. After that
comes the general fun and frolic of
" moving day." March 25th.
ROBT. J. BURDETT gives C. w. Ken
nedy & Co., of Wilmington a flatteriag
endorsement on the Farrand & Votey
organ, in our advertising columns.
THE more liberal Democrats in the
Legislature are showing a disposition
to unite with the Republicans in claim
ing a convention on the vote of 1887.
THE trains that leave here at 8.28 A.
NJ and 4.49 P. NJ. stop at Cheswold to
take on and leave off passengers for
and from Philadelphia and Wilmington
WEa again call attention to the enter
tainment of the Moss Family, at the
Opera House tomorrow evening,
Read their advertisement for speci.
fications.
THE Republican Club of Duck Greek
Hundred, at their meeting on Monday
! passed a resolution extending a recep
tiOn to Senator Anthony Higgins OF
any day he may name.
THE time of the year has come tha
brings one Of the delights OF the farm
ers-gOing to the vendues. The ven
due season, is, however, the sure pro
mOnitiOn Of the early approach O
spring work.
The members of the Chautauduar
| Literary and Scientific Circle are re
quested to meet Saturday evening
Feb. 9th, at 745, at the residence O
Miss Mary Thompson.
SECRETARY.
THE effort to get the Legislature t,
purchase the Insane Asylum of New
Castle county as a State institution re
veals the fact there are over 100 insan,
persons in New Castle county, 20 il
Kent and II in Sussex.
/ OUR Legislature has appropriate,
I EA3OCU w fANC DCAdtWdlG u SulLhUAG TEL
resentatiOn at the New York centen
nial on the Both of April, the anniver
sary of Washington's Inauguration a
President under the Constitution.
| SMYRNA has receded instead of ad
vanced in its mercantile interests 81
say our visitors. 1t is no trouble {
lind the cause and the remedy, if Ou
merchants want to get out of thei
heterogeneous method of doing bus
mess.
JOHN COsGRIFF was visiting nea
st. Georges on Sunday and was anon
those who visited the whale in th
canal near that place, an account {
which is given on our lrst page. TIL
captain in charge Of the whale tOl
him that about 1000 persons had bee
to see it that day. He says it is some
thing well worth going to see.
LEGISLATION has been livelier tn
past and this week. There has bee
introduced in both Houses 100 bill
and joint resolutions. OF this numbo
about 20 have become laws, mostly a
incorporation acts. The only act
general interest being one to enabl
the heirs of deceased hotel and saIoo
keepers to transfer their licenses.
The dredging machine which G. ]
, Somers, the contractor, sent to clea
D out Duik Creek or as it Is 10 be calle
hereafter, Smyrna River, arrived
3 Smyrna Landing yesterday, and M
Weeks the Government Inspector, a
2 rived this morning. The work of di
f, | ging out the shoals and widening u
stream will, we presume, commence
once.
A VISITOR to Milford, waikiki
through its streets at night will agrl
/, with its citizens that it is perhaps d
l best lighted town in the State. WI
3 I. and r. M. Johnson, formerly Of tn
l town who own the plant are Just
proud Of their success in giving b
town a good electric light and pleasir
Z the people. Its numerous handsOn
D mercantile establishments with tas
/ arrangement Of goods on a single iii
and brilliantly lighted up, look iii
stores and not ike junk shops as is tl
y case in the conglOmerated stores
+ other places that could be name
a The town has now over 1900 electT
4 burners aud constantly being added {
which is claimed to be more than
2 any other town in the county Of tl
s same population.