Smyrna times., 1890-04-23
Smvrna and Vicinity.
MILLINERs are in their glory.


plentiful in this town.
FLOWER gardens are receiving at
tention from the ladies.
How easy it is to discover improved
ways of running other peoples busi-
ness
''I HAVE an attachment for YOU" as
the sheriff said to the unfortunate de-
fendant.
MAINE claims only about half as
large crop of ice as last year. That
is long way ahead of Delaware.
Ex-EDITOR TAYLOR is giving his at
tentiOn to scientific trucking, and has
cauli6Ower and other plants in the
market.
DAMAsK reversible mattings, equal
in style, beauty and durability, to the
finest carpets. Splendid assortment at
7. B. Megear's. 4
SUNDAY, B. Frank Mcdaniel and
John Alker passed through this town
Oh bicycle ride to Dover and return
to Wilmington. The trip down was
made in hours. 81 minutes. The dis
tance was 484 miles.
T. B. MEGEAR has purchased coffee
roaster, capacity, so lbs, and put it at
work yesterday for the first time, with
entire satisfaction. He will roast cof-
fe etwice a week thus giving his Gus
toners the benefit of freshly roasted
coffee all the time.
THE Equitable Guaran tee & Trust
Co., of Wilmington, of which Mr..
OthO NOwland is Secretary and Treas
urer, makes very favorable invest
ments for owners of idle money.
Notice their card in this issue of the
TIMES, on our first page.
THOs. Mccoy, SR., has what is in
all appearance a petrifed potato that
was plOwed up on Monday with some
| potatoes that remained in the ground
all the winter. 1t has the shape, eyes
and general appearance of potato,
but is otherwise hard and heavy like a
stone.
DR.. CONAwAY, of Leipsic, writes us
in making my round of professional
| visits the other day l saw a chicken
having four distinct and we'll formed
legs. Brummel Ford, of this town, is
the pOssessOr. The man with the three
legged bird will now please take back
seat"
REPRESENTATIVE PENNINGTON sue
ceeded in getting So, 900 inserted in the
River and HarbOr bill for SMYRNA
river. Itshas yet to run the gauntlet
of passing both branches OF Congress
and the Presidents veto. The appro-
priatiOns of the whole bill amount to
$25,OOO,OOO.
JACOB DAVIS, a colored man about
20 years of age, who was stricken with
paralysis on Sunday week while max.
ing fire, died yesterday from the ef-
fects of the stroke. He bought last
| year from Thomas Helmsley a lot in
Wrapping" and erected for himself
a comfortable home on it.
Mrs. JOHN ANTHONY has sold her
dwelling that is so prettily located,
corner of South and Union streets. to
+. G. Walls, our young clothing mer-
chant, for $4,000, and Mr.. Walls has
taken possession of it this week. Mrs.
Anthony will make her home with her
| son, Levi, at the western limit of the
town.
COLD north winds, heavy frosts and
ice visited us Saturday, Sunday and
Monday mornings. The cherry, pear
and plum trees were in bloom. and
they will do well if good quantity of
the blossoms escaped blighting. What
peaches withstOod the March freeze
have succumbed to the later heavy
frOsts.
HENRY r. WALKER, we'll known in
this vicinity, residing near Middletown.
died on Sunday from a stroke of paral-
ysis, in the 18th year of his age. He
had been married SO years his widow
! survives him. Mrs. John Cosgrif of
this town is the only surviving one of
three children. The remains were in
TERED yesterday in Forest Cemetery,
near Middletown.
WHAT is the matter with the cheery.
ehattering clear noted black martin
that it has not put in an appearance.
1t usually comes along about the 10th
OF April, and yet half month has
nearly elapsed and our merry
friend is not here. Is it possible that a
bird so brave and full Of fight has been
whipped away by the English Spar
rows?
J. b. Scott. in former years connect
ed with the ship building at Smyrna
Landing ard later foreman of the Del
marvia phosphate works at Clayton, has
accepted a position with the Pusy &
Jones Company of Wilmington, in the
\ drafting department. We regret the
loss of Mr.. Scott from this community
1 he Is writer of more than ordinary
force. as his frequent contribution to
the TIMES have shown.
| THE Woodland Beach road over
which there has been O good deal of
| thought and deliberatiOn, as to the
best way in the consideration of econ
omy, Is at last being put in a state of
F repair, mainly after the plan of Levy
Courtman Jerman. The shells and
/ stopping of the Greek have both been
abandoned and The banks of the lower
side are being greatly strengthened to
to prevent the overflow of the tides.
THE Floral Concert on Nav 9Th bv
the Choral Society, will afford the
PEOPLE of Smyrna a rare opportunity
to hear some first class music. The
chorus con0ists of thirty well trained
and evenly balanced voices, while the
solo parts will he rendered by the best
talent Of both Wilmington and Smyrna.
The floral decorations will constitute a
feature that cannot fail 10 be pleasing.
and those having charge of the enter
tainment expect to make it the most
popular one of the season.
A FIRE broke out in the stack ward
of B. Frank David on Miss Ann Bew-
ley's farm in ThOroughfare Neck
about o'clock on Friday evening
before the men had returned from the
field, and destroyed all the outbuild-
ings, barn, stables. cribs, barricks,
With nearly all their contents. Mr..
Davic's loss was greatest in farm i'm
plements-reapers. movers, &C., about
500, on which there was no insurance.
Miss Bewley had aD insurance of ST.
700 on buildings in Farmors' Mutual,
of New Castle County. The FIRE can
not be accounted for unless from q
spark brought a half mile from the
adjoining farm, where they were burn
ing brush.
REV. II. X. STEPHENSON approached
a special sermon at Clayton to business
men and has another for the ladies.
Sunday at both Clayton aud Bethel
was the occasion of the administration
/ of the sacrament, unusually full tables