Smyrna times., 1894-06-06

,e A FINE display of 5 cent Challis, is
O to be found in L. A. Cotton's window
g this week.
IN The w. G. II. U. will meet at the
ut residence of Mrs. 1. Pennewill at 4
re o'clock tomorrow. A full attendance
We is desired.
The Hosiery factory has been shut |
down for several days for repairs on the |
a. engine, the work being done at the new |
w Geo. w. Taylor machine shop.
be AN examination of the candidates
be desiring to enter Delaware College will
be held at Middletown, Del, on Tues.
u day, June 25th. Candidates should
,e. present themselves at the National
Hotel not later than $50 a. m.
hv The following paragraph has been
=. handed us Will all the ladies who
i.7 would like to take part in the beauti-
MS full work of "Flower Mission" bring as
in many small boquets as possible to the
lc- Temperance room on Friday morning
of June 9Th by o'clock?
40 A business meeting of the Christian
no. Endeavor Society will be held in the
Ia lecture room Immediately after prayer
INT meeting tomorrow evening. A good
of attendance is urged as a delegate to
the Cleveland Convention is to be ap
pointed at that meeting.
ner THE people in this part of the coun-
red try think they have had sufficiencv
zen of rain but they have been let off
bou easily in comparison with Orgon and
Washington States and British Colum
ose bia on Frazier river, where the loss by
re- inundatiOn is $4,O0O,00O and:1O0O lives
I'M lost And the rain still continues.
the
ned VIM. GEO. Hill shipped a refrger-
vo. atOr-car of strawberries from Clayton
on Saturday TO Boston. This was the
im- first effort with berries, but entirely
successful, opening in good condition
Monday morning and selling at from
or 10 to Is cents per quart, as to quality.
t ~ The additional cost this way was only
Sz'- a cent a quart.
900
nee WE acknowledge the receipt of an
lilv invitation to the 59th anniversary exer-
m cises of the Delta Phi Literary Society,
of Delaware College, Wednesday even
Is ing, June goth. The invitations are
also out for the Commencement Exer-
. cises of the same college in the morn,
ing of the same day, when ten gradu-
ates will receive their diplomas. One
of these is Walter P. COnaway, of neal
Cheswold.
bill
MRS. JOHN G. VOsHELL, of Salisbury
n to Md has placed on her husbands grave
in .the Odd Fellows cemetery, this
town, handsome monument. 1t rises
on to the height of about eight feet and i:
q solidly built. The stone is of the Red
Sweede variety, very common stone il
,ear Sweden. Mrs. Voshell is having a
wn stone fence put around the small lot
The work is being done by George L.
,oat Jones, of Wilmington, at cost of sew
o 81 eral hundred dollars.
ONE of our old farmers says there
over was not drop of water too much il
lave the late rains-that it forced out tn,
devastating insects but above all il
supplied what has been partial de
Sat ficiency for three years. The spring
Mrs. were low, and but for the heavy rain
.C. to raise them, there would have beeI
suffering this summer. The bright ant
,dou warmer days of Saturday, Sunday ant
I'" Monday put a new life into all vegeta
1uls I',as ton. The light, growing shower whicl
.eS fell here yesterday, was heavy raj
i throughout most of New Castle county
IN of
)Oms
4 il. A report has been in circulation tina
the body of an unknown person wa
found in Blackbird campmeeting wood
and buried without notifying COrOne
dlcts Rothwell to hold an inquest. Th
lzeu' true story comes out that the men o
that Mr.. Reynolds farm having been an
D. noyed heretofore by the Disappearance
of huckeberries from the swamp nes
ipsic by, had buried log and placed a foe
,errv and head board to it, to frighten super
and stitiOus pickers of the vicinity with th
th. idea of ghosts if they went after th
berries.
~ CORONER GEO. G. ROTHwELL, Nv
sn.' almost said our well.known citize
80 though residing in New Castle county
1;hoi just over the bOrder,) is a caIdidat
i''0'' for the Office he now holds by the al
pointmept of the Governor, the chOiC
on u for which will be decided by party vol
NJ OI ueAI OdtuTudy. hit. hOInWell mas Hllt
O 1000 the duties of the Office so far as "
they know without a word of complain
i'm. which is about all that may be elaine
for any Office. While the nominate
in these revolutionary times is n
-, NJ equivalent to an election, as former
T. - ~ Mr.. RothwelPs many friends here wi
1I. YuIo be pleased to see his wishes for Il
oSnoI ,IeN candidacy gratifed.
M,
at 8 IT gives us pleasure to state that Il
.Or. Rev. Thos. L. POulsOn, d. d. Ia res
dent of Smyrna when young ma
engaged with his father in the public
Gu az ton the Delaware Herald no
nuay ny stationed at Jamaica, Long Island, W
80 ~ be the orator at the cOmmenceme
anIGI Il exercises of our public school, Wedne
n day evening 9th inst. Aside from Il
= - fact that he has held for a number
Sei' years a prominent place as a publ
speaker, an interest attaches to b
IL coming on this occasion because
t'a sa1ls- went out from among us to enter Il
SSeliy broader field of life. Miss Nan Gu
ialiIy ingworth, of Chester, will also be pre-
uaIb' ent to take part in the vocal exercise