Smyrna times., 1890-04-23
sHAKEl shake the carpets.


SPRING housecleaning is. in full
bloom.
Soft hats for gentlemen are again in
style and demand.
It's queer how hard lazy man will
work to keep from working.
SOME of the farmers who have their
land in order are planting corn.
The more you know of some men
the better you will like your dog.
IT does not require a legal education
to go into the son-in-law business.
WE are having a good supply of
March dust. Farmers say they like
it.
A DROP of lemon-juice helps shad
roe, we are told. 1t also helps some
other table delicacies.
POTATOES taste much better now
than they did few months ago. They
have increased in our estimation with
the price.
LARGE and beautiful assortment of
mattings, 15 cents and upwards.
Fancy jointless, at 20 cents per yard.
T. B. Megear. 4
The TIMES Office is in debted to Rev.
W. w. W. Wilson for a copy of MIN
UTEs of the proceedings of viii.
mingtOn Conference.
IT looked like spring to see radishes
and onions in market yesterday. The
radishes were grown by Mrs. John H.
Hall, under glass.
The broom corps,-boys' soldier
company and Clyt Quartette, colored,
of this town, will give an entertainment
in Dover Friday evening.
r. H. MACKEY and 1. d Berry put
2772 buttons on the new cushions for
Nj. r. Church one day last week,
completing the job in ten hours.
JAS. D. WRIGHT, of Kenton, who
lost his pocket-book containing $40
and a note of $50 on Saturday, was
fortunate to get possession of it again
on Monday.
Mr.. CAMPBELL, proprietor of Wood
land Beach, has made arrangements
for several large excursions in the early
summer, one of them engaging meals
for 300 persons.
THE first asparagus in market was
that at Vickers' store on Thursday
from the patch of Mr.. Ransom. The
weather the remainder of the week
was too cold for rapid development
of this esculent.
The horse of George Hamilton took
fright on Monday in West Smyrna
while unloading some brick and tore
through the town without doing any
damage other than upsetting the cart
when near home.
The meeting in the Temperance
Reading room Sunday afternoon under
tAe auspices of the w. G. II. U. was
we'll attended. Select readings by
Misses Bet and Ella Smithers, and an
address by G. H. Register.
THE ladies of the w. G. T. U. want
a public fountain near the centre OF
the town and will furnish the fountain
if the town will furnish the water.
The matter will be brought before the
next meeting of the Commissioners.
The society of Young Peoples
Christian EndeavOr will resume their
services in the lecture room of the M.
E. Church the hour before the regular
church service next Sunday, the latter
from this date being in the auditorium.
WEhave just opened a large and beau.
ful assortment of Spring dress goods
and in fact all kinds of dry goods and
notions and ladies, misses and chill
dren's Spring and Summer shoes.
which will be sold cheap. Call early
and examine our stock. T. B. Megear.
MRS. MARY TRUAx and Mrs. Edgell
essayed to manage a dearborn alone on
Thursday last in driving to the ceme-
terry with some sod, but with different
result from what was intended. The
horse in passing the creamery stumbled
and fell, throwing both the ladies out
to the ground. Though tie wheels
passed over Mrs. Truax, she escaped
with only a cut head and sprained
ankle, but Mrs. Edgell had some severe
bruises and two broken ribs.
GEORGE BOYER, a we'll known farmer
who has resided all his life near
Bishops Corner, in the vicinity oil
CheswOld, died on Friday last, aged SO
years. He had been to Dover the day
before and was taken with cOngestive
chill after his return and died before
recovering from it. He maintained an
unusually active life for one so well
advanced in years, and managed his
affairs very much the same as forty
years ago. His remains were inferred
Monday in Odd Fellows Cemetery
He was the father of Henry D. Boyer
of this town.
The sbelling of the streets came to q
sudden halt after one days application.
The contract was made with Supt
Mills of the Delaware Division who
said he could furnish between now and
the middle of May some 10000 bushels
but one shipment, several carloads,
seems to have exhausted those avail.
able for this season. The streets were
prepared in the mean time for the
amount indicated above. Il may be a
mercy to the people if no more shells
can be obtained until next November
The smell brought out by the sun will
De awfully disagreeable, if not injurious
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The Good Templars' Lodge Room
will be draped in mourning for sixty
days and the Lodge will adjourn i'm.
mediately after calling to order to-
night, in honor of their deceased
Brother, Charles E. Porter. Also, the
Good Templars will hold a public mem
orial service in their lodge room
| Cooper building) next Tuesday even
ing at 7.45 O'Clock, April 29th, in
memory of their deceased brother.
Charles E. Porter. The Christian
EndeavOr Society and all friends are
cordially invited to attend.
By order of
SMYRNA LODGE No. 8, /. o. G. T.
Church ReOpening.
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