Smyrna times., 1890-03-19
SEvERAL people have commenced

THE school election comes off the .
irst week in April. :
A church wedding will take place in c
KentOn NJ. f. Church to- morrow c
night.
Go TO M. L. Aliens and get an ele- ]
CANT absolute stainless black hose for
% cents, extra quality.
REV. w. w. w. Wilson will preach
at Blackiston's M. E. Church next Sun
day 23d at 8 o'clock P. M.
CLARENCE PRETTYMAN has con-
tracted with E. L. Jones & Co., of
Dover, to heat his new home with hot
water.
A CIGARETTE epidemic has broken
out again among our boYs-boys of too
tender years to be engaged liz any such
habits.
THE choicest mules in the drove re-
main yet to be sold. Bear in mind |
you have but a short time to make
your selection.
IT is reported that the Polk & Lord |
phosphate factory at Odessa will be |
run in the future by the Peninsula |
Bone Company of this town.
YESTERDAY was a beautiful day,
with every indication of settled wealth
er; this morning ushered in a driving
easterly storm. Such is March.
The quail distributed by the Game
Protective Association hereabOuts seem
to be doing well. They will pay for
their fine success next November.
IT has only just been discovered
| that dish-water makes white hands,
although it has been used for hundreds
of years. A hint for young ladies'.
The Loyal Legion concluded their
meeting Monday evening with an
orange sociable, the youngsters getting
away with peach basket full of them.
BISHOP COLEMAN has started on his
Diocesan tour of confirmation, and
will be at Smyrna May 4th in the
morning, and at Clayton in the even
ing.
EIGHTEEN adults and six children
were baptized at the Clayton NJ. E.
Church Sunday. The gross receipts of
the festival at Ewell M. P. Church was
$9292.
REV. c. G. ADAMS, of the senior
class, Princeton Theological Seminary
N. j., will fill the pulpit of the Pres
byterian Church next Sunday, as q
candidate.
u. H. BoYCE will sell lot of horses
colts and farming implements in Leip
sic in front of the store of BOyce &
Harper, on Saturday 22d inst, at
I o'clock P. NJ.
THE Sunday School recently insti
tuted at Smyrna Landing took it
missionary collection on Sunday, anC
realized $1O.25-a very creditable col
9 lection indeed.
L. P. CAMPBELL, of Woodlan,
a Beach, has made several contracts fO
Sunday school excursions in June
>. The grounds, including the waite
Il front, are being put in readiness TO
warm weather use.
4 REV. Mr.. WILSON, pastor of the N
= E. Church of this town, on the author
ity of the Official Board at a meetin
held on Friday night, will invite tn
Il Wilmington Conference to hold its Sc!
1t sion of 1891 in Smyrna.
WIN. H. THOMPSON, who is hon
a from Ohio for a week or SOS sta,
a says they are having the same troubl
a now that we had last summer. TT
most of the lands along the westel
~ rivers have been flooded.
a AFARMERs meeting was held in Ke
ne ton Hall last Friday afternoon addTes
IT, ed by Hon. E. L. Martin from SeafOl
~ and the editor of the Farm and Hon
~ They advocated strongly the "Grang,
1; as a great advantage to farmers.
u THE complaint that has been ma,
at the pOstofice department again
-, the new postal cards is a just one
ial regards the quality of the paper. 1t
u thin, rough aud very much inferior
10 %, the old card. The ink runs so that
On is a difficult matter to make a dece
copy on them.
~ IN THE handsome bay mule and
Ia mate, the little gray beauty a
III CT mate, two, pairs handsome, bla
Gil mare mules, and NIP" and "Tuc
and the Smith mules are all gone.
ats don't wish to hurry you on the
nts mules, but it is we'll to make your
he lection before it's too late.
we we To MY PATRONS and the public
az With pleasure give notice that / hs
i j purchased of Titus J. Hobbs a lot
lay fine steers, stall fed, and have on s
ing at my shambles meat of the very b
for quality. All orders promptly FL
son and delivered. Satisfaction guar
ok, teed. T G. H. REGIsTEF
nls SOME of our citizens heard noise
Thursday like a distant explosi
,ral which they think was the test of
Ter dynamite guns on the Vesuvius
DOL Marcus Hook in the Delaware. 1t ,
vas the test of a new implement of ma
ge- warfare in using dynamite as a P
les, jectile, and was very satisfactC
E. Many people in Wilmington thou
ley, it was a powder mill explosion.
GEORGE WALKER, who is enga
for with his father in the lumber busin
the changes his residence this week fl
half Kenton to Wilmington. This is no
rti. go out of the business, but to go
en- it more largely, he at the larger pc
ade of demand and his father at the pC
Oes, of supply. They now have the out
han of dozen mills on the Peninsula,
I will doubtless become leading II
~ her firm of the Peninsula.
day THE Milford Chronicle says: 81
yere a fact that the gift basket" BUSH
ent, has injured the manufacture of pc
A. baskets in Delaware. Once the C
e. mission men were buyers from
per; basket factories; but now they are {
dof- ers on the market, and at competi
4, +. prices that are ruinOus. While
gift basket has been a good ii
IL. for the commission merchants. pC
tSo growers have not as yet received
;1ors ,n equivalent increase in prices bec'
@ nD5 oft.
who w, o. HOFFECKER of this town
the General Agent of the Washington
'ows Insurance Co. for Delaware and NJ
D, so land, and who also has a license
Dyed Pennsylvania, placed a policy on
pos life of Mr.. w. H. Wanamaker of
lhen adelphia, on Monday last for $50
, in Mr. Hoifecker has written several
icies of smaller amounts than
above and says his company, whi
ne1S ~ the best doing business, is stei
!. 80 ~ growing in popular favor everywi
ion Farmers Meeting Asked for Smy
IN u A netitiOn was circulated Veste