Smyrna times., 1890-04-02
Smyrna and Vicinity.

This Is hOly WICK, COmLnOnOlhB
with Palm Sunday.
GOOD Friday, April 4th, is the next
legal holiday in some States.
DIR. MOORE had chimney blown off
in the storm of Thursday night
Mrs. SUSAN DANIEL lost one of her
match horses last week from lung |
fever.
THE elective officers of Morning |
Star Lodge will be installed on Friday |
night.
JOSEPH STEPHENSON of Green Spring
lost S72 in cash and bankable note OF
SS6, on the road last week.
DON'T fail to see Harry Lindley as
George Washington Way back in the
Lime Kiln Club tonight.
THE thermometer this morning reg
tered 40 below the freezing point, with
patches of snow in the shade that fell
on Monday.
SHAD are being caught in larger
numbers this spring than usual at Bonn
bay Hook this early in the season, and
of finer quality.
Miss Ella Conner. milliner, of Clay
ton, has moved to Wilmington. The
store is being fixed up for William q.
Wright, of New Castle.
HARRY LINDLEY's COMPANY are
playing at the Opera House and drew
good house on Tuesday. The COM
pany is we'll worthy of patronage.
THE annual meeting of the Smyrna
Building and Loan Association will be
held next Tuesday evening. Two dl-
rectOrs for three years will be elected.
Miss NJ, L. ALLEN notifies the
ladies elsewhere, that she has secur-
ed the services of a first class dress
maker, and is ready to receive orders.
GARDENING is now the order of the
day. The pear and other trees are
coming i'll bloom and the singing of the
birds declare that spring is fairly upon
US.
THE session of the Delaware Confer
ence held in Philadelphia closed on
Monday night, Rev. S. Hammond re
turning to the Centennial Church in
in this town.
The annual school election will take
place next Saturday. The friends OF
education should turn out and elect
men who are devoted to the interests
of the schools.
FRANK H. ARTHURs who butchered
for the McGaw Brothers, and kept on
with the business after they discontin-
ued, it is stated has skipped, leaving
his creditors minus.
IF it be true that the last three days
of month determine the character Oi
its successor, then it is safe to say thai
we may positively count upon consid
cradle miscellaneous weather in April
SEE the Easter Greeting advertise
ment of z. e. Walls. There is some
thing in it besides a striking picture
the lower part is business pure anC
simple, as you will find by reading
it.
HERE is a new idea for those keep
ing cows fast milking gets more mill
from the cow than slow milking. BIZ
you must please the COW by giving he
a pleasant bite while milking and beinl
kind to her.
MORE shad have been caught il
Florida waters this year than in an,
one season previously known. Th
Florida shad fishing season is nov
over. The shad in the city market
now come from North Carolina.
WE are indebted to w. K. Conawa
NJ. d. for cards ofinvitation to the CON
mencement of Jefferson Medical Co
lege. After graduating DIR. COnawa
! will succeed DIR. James Richardson q
e Leipsic, the latter having moved
e st. Georges.
: PRESIDING ELDER FRANCE wi
y preach on next Sabbath. April 9th,
=. Bethel Church on Smyrna Ci
cult, at P. NJ, and at KentOn in Il
5 evening at u O'Clock. The time fl
}, holding the Quarterly COferences wi
q be announced on Sabbath.
r. THE Maine ice harvest is estimate
d as close to 100000 tons. We don
know how near this will come
"going round; but judging by the C
70 pacity of the average household r
= frIgeratOr, it looks as if that quaint
O of ice would last, in the colloquial pa
i lance of some parts of the cOuntr
!, ''quite a SPELL"
~ A MAN named Griff one day Ia
: week wagered another man nam
Morris a watch against a gun that
v. could eat 20 catfish and drink cup
in coffee at one mess. He succeeded W
ii in his wager until he had deVOured |
-. thirteenth fish, including four cups
~ coffee, when he came to a standst
" losing the bet He drank a half g
as lon of water, which was not include
n and on which he stalled, causing
- failure.
lie THERE is a new counterfeit ten-cC
- piece in circulation which so clos
" resembles the genuine coin that it {
" be easily passed off upon the uns
ng pecting. 1t differs from the usual col
he terfeit in that genuine silver plati
covers the German silver which for
the body of the coin. This gives it
ef "ring" very nearly like that of &C
d. money, and also does away with
Is, greasy feeling by which most count
.r. feits can be detected. The coin be
the date of 1887.