Smyrna times., 1890-04-09

JOSEPH HUNN's barber shop has been
papered by Jos. Stephen
son.
QUITE a member of the members of
G.. e. of this town attended the annual
in Wilmington on Monday.
The first quarterly Conference for |
Smyrna station will be held tomorrow
evening and lOvefeast Sunday morn
ing.
The chart at J. P. Hoffecker's drug
store will be opened to-day for sale of
tickets to the College Glee Club en-
tertainment.
OUR storekeepers are busy shelving
and displaying their spring goods and
putting their places of business in
spring dress, so to speak.
A FUGITIVE carp from T. B. Cour-
sey's fish pond was caught at James
Browns fishery on North Murderkill
River weighing sixteen pounds.
JOHN w. ATTIx, residing near
Brynzion Baptist Church, has the SYM
pdbhJ VI NO III luC lOS5, dllcT
a long illness, of his infant child.
A CITIZEN hereabOuts who observed
Lent with the utmost rigor, when the
tension was removed few to the other
extreme, and has been on a bender
ever since.
WHEN the census enumerators get
around and ask you the questions pre-
pared, you will think that either the
InquisitiOn has been revived or that
impertinence is now above par.
THE flowers that bloom in the early
spring and Easter usually come to-
gether. Spring styles of clothing also
take the place of winter garments. So
time flows onward and we with it.
The Norma Glee Club of Dover will
give a musical entertainment in
Wright's Hall, Clayton, tomorrow
evening April 10th. The proceeds for
the benefit of the Clayton Hose Com
pany.
EAsTER-DAY, Sunday, though ush-
cred in with both frost and ice at sun
rise, was as bright and sunny day as
could be desired. As the stove
had been needed all the week for com
fort, but few ladies cared to don the
real Easter outfit.
THE annual election for vestrymen
| of st. Peters Church on Monday re-
suited in the choice of the following:
Senior Warden, Geo. w. Cummins, Sr;
Junior Warden, Edward A. Evans;
Vestrymen, David ]. Cummins, w. H.
.Ianney, w. Polk Cummins, Edgar
Spruance, VIM. F. Dunn.
THE weather predictions in all the
papers from the Bureau at Washington
yesterday was for good weather, but
instead we had rainy day with those
big drops that characterized the rains
of last summer. 1t seems to be the
easiest thing in the world to rain and
rain as though it meant it.
THE dance to be given in the Opera
House tomorrow evening promises tC
be one of the most enjoyable of the
season, and will, no doubt, be largely
attended as it is one Of the last of the
season. Oglesby's orchestra, of Chester
has been engaged for the occasion and
dancing will commence promptly at
o'clock.
LARGE numbers of peach trees have
been pulled up this spring. You car
hardly pass by a farm but you Sc,
some portion of the orchard pulled VI
and the land being prepared for cult
vatiOn for other crops. But at th,
same time number of new orchard
have been put out, and there is still
demand for certain varieties not easil,
filed.
HERCULES ATKINS & Co, S25 Arcl
street, Philadelphia, whose card ap
pears in our advertising columns. i
favOrably known to our people as on
of the most reliable carpet dealers il
Philadelphia. The new carpeI tha
was selected for the Methodist Church
and which will be put down mex
week, was purchased at this hous
after thorough test of the market.
THE advertisement of the Goo
Enough" family Oil Can, which ar
pears in another column comes to u
very highly recommended and seem
to meet long felt want with ever
family using oil or gasoline.
, Readers Of TIMES should call upo
our local dealers and ask to be show
the new oil can. Take no other fc
, this is ''GOOd-Enough" for any one.
AT the quarterly Conference
Smyrna circuit held Monday, Rev. NJ
Stephenson reported the Bethel SUI
f day School 1919, average attendanC
! 100; Clayton 2O6 average attendenC
81 Severson, 81, average attendenC
so, total 502, with an average attenC
ance of 237, an increase of SO in th
, year. The church membership at ti
beginning of the year was 207, at pres
! ent 464, increase 257.
A VALUABLE horse belonging
I Samuel Roberts broke its leg in a sil
gular way on Monday morning. Tt
animal had been sent to the blacksmit
J for the purpose of being shod, and W,
exceedingly playful on the way thith,
prancing and jumping about, and fee
!, ing its oats generally. In going throug
b the same antics on the way home,
: threw too much strain on one of
:. legs, swapping it above the instep. D
= Lambdin set the limb, and with Il
= proper appliances expect to cure it an
: have it as well as usual