Smyrna times., 1893-05-24

ONN AOO0A Vi aIOlo WIZ Will contest
for the DemOrest Silver Medal next
Monday evening will dOub btless attract
u good audience of hearers.
AT the base ball game on Thursday,
our ladies were conspicuous for their
absence, and they like to see a legiti-
mate, well-played game too.
BY the summer schedule of the Del.
aware railroad there is a change in the
morning express, which leaves at 8.33
O'Clock, instead of 1928, as heretofore.
OUR people who so enjoyed the
DemOrest Silver Medal contest last
spring will be glad to learn that there
IS to be another contest in the Opera
House on Monday evening next.
j. w. JONES has received this week
a carload of LEAFS flour. He has put
the price down, selling LEAFS F. F. f.
grade, the best, at 65 cents sack.
The KirkwOOd grade sells for 55 cents.
The May crop of mosquitoes has
been unusually prolific the past sew
eral days, large, black fellows, much
more easy to handle than the sly, gray
ones of the fall, that breed about the
premises.
CARDS of invitation for Commence
ment exercises of GOldey's Commercial
College, june 9Th at 7.45 O'Clock, have
been issued. Annual address by Col.
Russell II. Conwell and an Address to
Graduates by Hon. Charles Emory
Smith, both of Philadelphia.
DR.. S. A. FRITTs, whose Office is
opposite the Smyrna House, has
opened branch Office at T. l.. Mason's
drug store, Clayton. The doctors two
years of hospital experience enable
him to successfully combat with the
797 diseases that are said to exist.
IN conversation with prominent
insurance agent in town we learn that
the use of gasoline stoves without a
permit from the Insurance companies,
vitiates the policy. In other words,
the insurance would be Valueless in
case of the loss of the property by fire.
TIE temperature took an upward
bound from the frost of Saturday
morning to decided summer weather,
eliminating at the end of a most windy
day in d good growing shower last
night, the mercury marking this
morning 560-a fall of some 300 from
the heat of yesterday.
IT is hardly necessary to call the at
tentiOn of the patrons Of music of our
community to the Organ Recital at the
Methodist church on Friday evening,
at 8 o'clock, as it is presumable they
will make it point to be there. The
instrumental performances of G. Virgil
Gordon will be iaterspersed with vocal
music.
J. W. CARsONs has leased a place at
Claiborne, the northern terminus of
the Eastern Shore railroad in Talbot
county, which is designed by the pur-
chasers to open popular
watering place. Mr.. Carson will have
charge Of the bathrooms and run some
minor amusemeBts, and will 60 down
next week to see about fitting the
place up.
PERSONS who ride over the road be.
tween Smyrna and Bishops Corner saw
they would not naturally select it if
they we're driving an ambulance with
a wounded person, that needed the
snOOthest of roads. There has been
complaint about the uneVenness of this
road for several years, which has had
the tendency TO drive persons in search
Of a market the other way.
SUNDAY was a day when Overcoats
and wraps could be discarded, and the
people were out at the churches in
their attractive new summer attire. in
force. The auditorium of the Method.
ist church was filled from the ebaneel
to the door, the Rev. Mr.. Stengle dis.
cOnrsing with more than usual warmth
Of the Day of PentecOst. Next Sun.
day being pear to Memorial Day. he
will preach in harmony with this idea.
The stranding of u dramatic troupe
here last week, or rather in Whining
ton before it got here, has been well
published through the Peninsula.
Some of the papers stated how they
were aided by hotel proprietor,
another by u minister who took pity on
them, OtboFs mixing them all up to.
gether. The last pGper referring to the
incident, a Laurel paper, has jt in this
way: "a travelling troupe was stPan-
ded at Smyrna last week. Not a sin
gle person was generous enough to
buy q ticket to see the show"
THE folling item was found in q neat
paper opened yesterday There are
great many very strange things in the
conduct OF men. ] want to tell you
about one particular one. It is that so
many will attend church Sunday after
Sunday and will never put 80 much as
one penny in the collection plates.
And yet these same people want car
peted church, comfortable peWs, warm
fires &C., without contributing toward
these things which cost money. Is IL
not stranger Such people evidently
intend to 60 to Heaven, if at all,
"without money and without price,"
By common consent this is eonsid-
cred peach year, and YET the peach
growers are not happy. This comes
from the dubious outlook, They all
agree up to the warm weather of the
past four days the trees did not have a
healthy look; In fact, ia many or
chards their look was very unhealthy.
Just the cause of this was not known,
some thought it was the result of the
cold winter weakening the vitality Of
the trees, others that the continued
cold weather of the FIRST three weeks
Of May had q frosty effect on both leaf
and fruit, and all think chat there is a
rapid advance of the peach blight,
Some farmers feel certain that some
Of their varieties at least are hurt,
how bad II 10 too soon 70 Judge.