Smyrna times., 1893-04-05

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!. The interference the revival has
o MADE the past month with dancing.
: has, it is said, quite disturbed some
people.
e J. G. HUMEs, will have a pub
; ilc sale OF stock, farming implements.
! &C, at Blackbird, on Thursday, April,
18th, 1898.
THE Violet Tea" at the Opera
House Friday evening, by the Kings
daughters, promises a pleasant social
occasion for our people.
Ibis is the season to do your own
Whlte- washing. For She best lime 90 to
FRANK Bailey. This is also the cheap.
est place TO purchase lumber, bricks,
1HE Hosiery factory which has been
running its machinery very actively
the past winter shut down Saturday
Tor the day, to clean boiler and repair
the engine. i'''''
MRS. REED, mother of Austin Reed
lVlng near the stand pipe, fell on
saturday and broke her leg near the
MP: She is nearly 80 years old, aud
suffers severely from the accident.
The last three days have been very
spnngllke. Yesterday reaching to
summer heat, but to-day the air is
lresh and cooler. A shower of rain
would be very much appreciat ed.
WHAT'S the matter with the mum
ner OF preachers in and near Smvrna
they can't form Preachers Associa-
tlon TO meet in this town, the first
Monday at least of each month q?
IHE parties who have gone to the
grove thus far in search of trailing
ar0atus evidently expected to get more
pleasure out of the walk than out of
the buds of the. unopened but sweet
scented flowers.
THE Kings Daughters will give a
Violet Tea," at the Opera House, Fri
day evening, April 7th. Tea will be
served to guests free of charge. Ice
cream, Strawberries and cake will be
for sale. There will be a special at
traction for children and entertain
ment for grown people. Admission, |
10 cents; children 5.
THE falling of Easter Day so early
THIS year, at the end of q cold winter,
Tapped well over into spring, gave but |
few natural flowers for its decoration.
and the collections at the churches had !
to be made up Of house plants, which.
however, presented some very fine
blooms. Only few of the daffodils
were out, and even a stray blossom of
the Trailing Arbutus was hard to find.
AT the business meeting of the
Christian Endeavor Society Of the M.
+. Church last evening, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
six months: President, Miss Emma
Weldon; Vice president, Miss Hester
Rutledge; Secretary, Miss Lida Lord;
Treasurer, Walton Busteed. With the
additions made to the society since the
revival, the membership exceeds now
over go.
WHY can't the heavy capitalists who
are going to give US an electric railway
to Bombay Hook (which will make the
many visitors there rejCice) do great
big thing and give US an electric line
from Wilmington down, via Delaware
City, Odessa, Smyrna, Dover, Milford,
Milton, etc2 What's to hinder
trolley road on this line mot forgetting
the one to Woodland Beach, being a
popular Investment?
WE give on our first page an article
taken from the Rural NeU Yorker on
the corrosive sublmate treatment of
potato scab that is worthy the atten-
ton of all potato planters. 1t was
handed us by Mr.. John G.. StOcklv.
who thinks its suggestions should be
acted upon by all our planters. and
remedies adopted to rid the seed of the
disease, the unfortunate feature of the
insect being that when once in the
soil it stays there to plague other crops.
THE Tuesday Club spent last evening
at the residence of |. N. Mills, Clayton, ,
coming in on a special train. The first p,
ladies prize was won by Miss Cora ,
Tsehudy, handsomely painted plate, :
and second by Mrs. Harvey Smith, cup :
ana saucer, same material. The first !
gent emanG prize was won by Hervey ,
Hall. silver key ring, and the second !
by Eugene Davis, Q smoking set of :
polished horns, priced for its unique. =
ness.
NEXT Sunday will be observed as q
Communion day at the Presbyterian a
church. The usual preparatory exer. b
clses will be held on Saturday after
noon, at O'Clock, after which a Ses-
sion will be held when the application
of candidates for membership will he
1t is expected a Roodlv
number will partake of the Lords SUP
per Sunday morning. At conRrega. I
-ioDal meeting held on Monday to 6Il v
he vacancy in the board of elders. r
h. Beck and G. B. Taylor were chosen B
>. ). REYNOLDS, inspector at the last C,
election, will hold special election at re
he Smyrna House on Friday between ci
he hours of 10 and o'clock, for the
purpose OF electing a representative to dl
Ill out the unexpired term of Minos NJ
!onoway, deceased. At meeting of m
he Democratic County Committee L
yesterday at Dover, DIR. VIM. X. Con- la
way, OF Leipsic, son of the deceased in
member, was selected for the candidate
md will OF course be elected without p
opposition. il is proper compliment dl
o the son. so
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The Pennsylvania Quarantine Com -,
have handed in their re. IN
'ort to Gov. Pattison. Three of the en-
our Commissioners-Henry Lofiman. "a
ienJamin Lee and Andrew Osborne IN
tier considering the three sites of Pea
'atch Island, fort DelSware). Reedv "a
sland and Bombay Hook Island. favor In
be latter for the station. The fourth
Commissioners, John Huggard, favors a Is
'ennssy ylvapia site, Tinicum Island. an
tut they havn't got Bombay Hook Is. tn
and ct, and are not likely TO divert ID
from being watering place. ~,
EVERY night in a certain sense for frc
le past month Including the State by
unday School Conventionl has been a he
rayer meeting night at the Method.
i church, but tomorrow night will EC
9 the first Of the conference wear of an
ne weekly prayer meetings. II. IN
8 regular attendance, will be the true fe,
est of faith and its depth and perma- so
ence-whether they were attracted IN frc
la nrOfraQfad uoacts.. -