Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1890-09-10

treet, has a peach tree in his yard
hat furnished him three quart cans of
ruit on Monday.
REV. c. G. ADAMS, pastor of the Pres
'yterian Church of this town, was
married yesterday, the bride being
Hiss Ida McKenney, daughter REV. |
Dr.. McKenney, editor of the Presbyte-
ian, residing in Germantown, Pa.
They came to Smyrna to-day, and
will board for a week or two, while
for housekeeping the late
home of Supt. Handy.
THERE is great similarity in the
beach and tomato season in the meth
DDS of transportation. There are
Dads innumerable of the wagons and
learbOrns of the red fruit passing
through the streets each day, and it
Keeps large army of employees in
field and factory busy day after day.
An industry that will put $4,000 and
more in circulation in the space of
few weeks, must merit the highest
of the business portion
Of community. This is emphatically
a tomato year they were never finer.
DIR. DWIGHT, assisted by DR.. Jos
VanGasken performed the very deli
cate operation of tracheotOmy on Lola
Sllcox Hayden, four year old little
girl of Abram Hayden. residing in
ThOrOughfare Neck, on Thursday.
The child was suffering from a severe
attack of diphtheria and was in dan
ger of suffocating. The insertion of
the tube gave it relief and it lived
nearly three days after, finally dying
from heartfailure from the wasting of
the disease. 1t was Inferred at Friend
ship Cemetery on Monday afternoon.
James Potts, colored, who was ap.
pointed to the position of Messenger
in Washington several months since by
Senator Higgins, was ordered to re-
port in Smyrna last week, reaching
here on Thursday. AS it was under
stood his appointment was made to
help in certain factiOnal purposes, his
appearance on the eve of the primary
election naturally attracted attention
to the cOlOFed voters who have with
two or three exceptions not taken any
interest in the primary meetings. The
prominence given to the subject caused
some forty of them to go and cast a
vote, but it was apparent that the
voice from Washington was not heed
ed. James returned to Washington
Saturday night.
The Rev. Alfred T. Scott, of Will
mingtOn was in Smyrna last week in the
interest of a new religious paper he has
started called the Christian Companion.
He has published two or three other
similar little papers in former years
which sooner or later died because
they filled no particular field, there
being other distinctive religious papers
that did this. From time to time other
ministers with charges, in different 10.
calities have done the same thing.
Such papers do no harm if they do
not do much good, but if the express
siOns of the people are worth anything,
they think time used on such issues il
spent in the study and preparation OF
sermons for the instruction of people
from the sacred desk, both the people
and the preacher would be the gamers
UNDER the effect of the hot suns
and the absence of rain the past
week, the tomatoes ripened up faster
than was desired for the Gamers, caus,
ing rush, both by the growers and
the packers. John H. HOffecker could
keep up with his not having so many
acres, but Messrs McGaw & Bro. with
their 700 acres had the fruit piled in OF
them the last days of the week by tn,
thousands of baskets. To make mat
tiers worse by mishap in their ma
chinery they lost the better part of
day in their work. Saturday they
shipped seven carloads of fruit to Bal.
timOre and would have sent more i
they had had the cars. Monday the,
increased their force to some 300 per
sons and hope as near as possible t,
keep up with the fruit as it comes il
from the fields. They are running &
night force this week. They hay,
never before had the quantity desired
REV, W. w. w. WILSON in illustra
ting certain topic of his discourse
on Sunday noted the demoralizinl
effects of intoxicating drinks in produc
ing profanity and vulgarity, as mani
tested in a crowd of disorderly per
sons that passed under his window the
night before, among which he saiC
were boys not half grown. The Law
comes to the aid of parents and tn,
community in protecting boys from
two early contamination by wicked men
and in this line makes it a misdemean
or to sell liquor to minors. The cues
ton is, who is so fend-like as to thu
corrupt and deprave boys before they
are old enough to think of the conse
quences, and turn them out befor,
they are men, moral wrecks on soci
ETY.? Certainly there is no bar tender
in Smyrna who would so far forget hi
responsibility to himself, the com.
munity in which he lives and the lega
compact entered into in securing a
license, as to sell liquor to youths ovel
the public bar.
Primary Meeting.
The election Of delegates on Satur
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