Smyrna times., 1890-01-15
Smvrna and Vicinity

LIE 1all OF rain last year is stated al
1911 inches, or over six feet on the
level.
THIEVES stole the larger part of d
L. Spruance's poultry on Thursday
night.
The Fruit Growers Bank declared
yesterday semi-annual dividend Oi
4 per cent.
The fourth Quarterly Conference Of
the NJ. E. Church will be held to-mor.
row night after the prayer meeting.
NOWADAYS, when an overseer is
blamed for the bad condition of bis
roads he cannot lay it on "the frost
coming out"
THE Peninsular Bone Fertilizer Co..
have gotten out very pretty lithO-
graphed calendar, which they are dis
tFibuting to their patrons.
THE sale of B. F. c. RothweIl, which
was advertised in the TIMES, was very
largely attended on Wednesday, and
property sold well, the sales aggre-
eating $500.
NEXT Saturday afternoon at 2
o'clock is the date of the Trustees sale
of the dover lands of Ann Spruance.
widow of Enoch Spruance, advertised
in these columns.
THERE is in one of our gardens
| young shoots of the Sensation Clematis
two and three inches long, grown the
past week, and honeysuckle likewise.
six or eight inches.
NOTHING is certain but death and
taxes" is an old saying, but the town
ship collectors say it will have to be
amended this year, as taxes are unde-
cidedly uncertain.
THE Chautauqua Literary and Sci.
entllc Circle will meet at Miss Sue
Colts on this Wednesday, evening, at
half past seven o'clock.
Signed, SECRETARY.
THE Philadelphia Times Almanac
for the present year presents in a com
pact and attractive form a variety of
well-digested information respecting
| elections, politics, officials and other
subjects of general interest all of a
practical character, and made avaia-
bic for ready reference by full index.
The drop of the mercury from 65o
Monday morning to 80 yesterday was
relief from the unnaturallv warm
temperature and caused everybody to
brace up, in both spirit and feeling. A
tal1 OF another 1O' or more would prob
aoly loosen the hold of the malarial
grip"
THE farmers say the ground plows
hard this winter-the result of the
packing of the heavy rains in the fall
and the absence OF freezing since.
II there should be no freezing weather
the remainder of the winter to tighten
up the ground, the plowing will be
much harder in the spring than it
usually is.
The people in the lower part of New
Castle county especially those CONVEX
SAINT with the cOroner's jury investiga-
ton of the Barnard murder say that if
the reporters of the Wilmington dailies
or If they are afraid to tackle it, the re-
porters of some other city want a first
class sensation to write up, they can
get the material there.
AT the annual meeting on Thursday
Of the Stockholders of the Smvrna
Library Association, the following
officers were reelected: president, H.
G. Budd; vice president, Rev. G.. w.
Dame; cor. Sec, o. B. VOshell: rec.
Sec w. H. Janney treasurer. VIM
Z; Cqmmins; managers, w. A. Faries,
W. H. Baggs and Il. B. Taylor.
INTELLIGENCE was received bv the
relatives here on Monday of the death
OF John Woolford at his residence on
the Big ChOptank, twelve miles from
Cambridge, Md, aged 60 years. He
lived on fne estate and was a verv
worthy man. His widow was Miss
Mary E. Rees, daughter of John r.
Kees, and grew up near this town.
The funeral will take place to-day in
that vicinity.
A. b. Roe, of Greensborough, Md.
was in Smyrna yesterday in attend
ance on the election of bank directors.
Ihe farmers of the vicinity are at work
very much the same as spring. he saws.
and an early variety or two of peaches
are beginning to blossom, but not the
general crop. With such weather as
the past month he says it is a wonder
they are not: such temperature in
April would have had them all in
blossom.
J. ALLEN MOORE, connected with
Capt. T. D. Reed in the sale of the
Lister fertilizers, started out the first
OF last week for trip down through
Maryland and Virginia, returning
home on Saturday. He found the ey.
licences of opening spring everywhere.
In Virginia just beyond the MARYLAND
line, the peach orchards were opening
IN full bloom and the truckers were
to plant peas, potatoes, &c.
At place he stopped on Hampton
Roads the mosquitoes were so thick |
and bloodthirsty he couldn't sleep.
1t seemed as if he had taken a trip to |
the vicinity of the tropics.
THE w. C. T. U. of Delaware will
please accept our thanks for a copv of |
the report of the 10th annual session
Of their convention, held at Milford |
last October. The report shows that
there are 30 unions in this State in
good condition, and shows an increase1
n membership in the organization.
The report names Al places in the
state were liquors are sold. The
lniOn is doing good work in the state ]
and has a financial surplus in the
An effort is being made bv
,he National Association to raise a
in memory of Mrs. Lucv
Hayes, and Miss Annie Sutton has
been appointed treasurer of the fund
or Delaware.
Miss LOLA MAX KEYS who has been
,lerking in Philadelphia the past five
Dr. six years, returned home from
& Clothier's with what
proved rapid case of consumption.
and died on Thursday last at the res
dence of her father, Elijah Keys, three
weeks after her return, in her Goth
year. Mics Keys was a young woman
)t superior qualities, as was evinced
rot only by her department at home.
'ut by the regard in which she was
leld by her employers and her asso-
'iates. Her wages were kept up the
wO or three weeks she was sick there
before she came home as we'll as the
ine here, to retain her place, hopinp
or her restoration. A dozen or so of
Ter young associates from the store of
& Clothier came down on
saturday TO attend the funeral and