Smyrna times., 1890-05-07

ALL those who have withdrawn
from the Choral Society will please re-
turn their books promptly to the Treas
urer. l.. NJ. PRICE.
STRAWBERRY and Vanilla Ice Cream
and Orange Water Ice, at Stevenson's,
Main Street. The Strawberry Cream
is made from the fruit and is first class.
MRS. JOHN H. BEwLEY has a purple
magnolia bush in bloom, and attrac-
tive from its large petals. This bush
always bears some weeks behind others
of its species, and thus escaped the
freeze the first week in March which
blasted the early ones that would
otherwise have blOomed that month.
The members of the w. F. NJ. So
ciety, and the Young Ladies Mission
Circle are requested to meet in class
room No. on Thursday evening, Nav
8, at o'clock precisely. Il Uery full
attendance IS desired to arrange for
the district meeting, to be held in
Smyrna, May, 21st and 22nd.
L. ]. HOFFECKER, Sec.
Smyrna, May 9TH, 1890.
SPRING is here in earnest apparently.
and if there is anybody under the blue
canopy who is not glad. he must be
one of those fellows who is "fit for
treason, stratagems and spoils." 1t is
the joyous time Ofthe year, and there
is something wrong with the man or
woman who is not in full accord with
it. We know there is no boy or girl
who is not ready to throw up their
hats and shout.
AT a business meeting of the Society
of Christian EndeaVor last evening.
F rank Webb was elected treasurer to
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Charles E. Porter. A flower commit
tee of ladies was also appointed to pro-
vide flowers for the church service.
Thirty five dollars of the 800, as
sumed by this society at the church
reOpening Sunday week, has already
been obtained.
A RIPPLE of excitement was caused
at Cheswold Monday last by the horse
of Charles H. Hoffman of Leipsic be-
coming frightened and entangling him
self and Mr.. Hoffman in buckthorn
wire fence. The horse finally succeed
ed in breaking loose from the fence,
also the carriage, and escaped with a
few bad cuts, but it is thought not
serious. Mr.. Hoffman was also cut
about the hands and legs in the strug-
gle.
THE Christian Statesman thus illus
trates the liquor question Twenty
five snakes running through the
streets-that is free whiskey. Twenty
five snakes gathered into a box into
which twenty-five holes are made by
the authority of the court-that is low
license. Ten of the holes are closed,
and that is high license. Drive all the
snakes out to the next village-that is
local option. Kill all the snakes-that
is prohibition.
The war claims of the 5th and 9Th
Delaware Regiments, Volunteer In
fantry, who were mustered in the U.
S. Service for nine months service in
1862, and paid for six weeks service,
has been disallOwed by the Court of
Claims at Washington, D. c. These
claims went before the second Auditor
in 1887 and subsequently before Sec
Ond Comptroller, who referred them to
the Court of Claims, which gave the
adverse decisions of April 2Sth, 1890.
MAY-DAY seems to have become the
workingman's day. Both in Europe
and America this period has been set
apart as the time to let employers
know what they desire in the matter
of shorter hours and more pay, and
strange as it may seem, in this part of
the world, where the labOring man is
supposed to be much better off in the
matter of wages than in the old world,
there are more strikes here than there
according to the reports in the papers.
THE Dover hder in speaking of the
reOpening of the NJ. E. Church of this
town says:
Everybody is gratified at the result
of the days labor, and the greatest
happiness is doubtless felt by those
who made the most sacrifice to give.
1t is a notable fact that large share
OF the money was given by the men,
bers in moderate circumstances, while
some who were we'll able to give large
sums gave even less than the poorer
members.
]. B. FAIRIES has a young peach nur-
sery on his farm near town which he
considered worth $500. On passing
through h it day or two ago he found
the little black insect, the aphis, were
thick on the young trees and a further
examination showed that they were
literally eaten up, that is the bark was,
destroying the tree. 1t was also found
that the young shoots from the seed
planted last fall aud worth about as
much, had also been followed into the
ground and destroyed.
REV. C. c. ADAMS, the newly chosen
pastor of the Presbyterian Church,
will commence his regular pastorate
next Sunday. We congratulate the
congregation after such a long unset
tied condition in having a resident
minister who will be one of them.
identified with their every interest.
With handsome church, plucky So
ciety and minister who has youth,
and it is presumed, enthusiasm, there
is nothing to prevent this church from
filling an important mission in the