Smyrna times., 1894-04-11


LEONARD REvIs advertises cabbage,
tomato and other plants.
AN indiscreet friend is more to be
feared than an avOwed enemy.
DON'T forget the entertainment at
the Opera House Monday evening.
THE willows that dOnned cheerful |
green dress three weeks since, have |
had sickly look since.
SALEM NJ. P. Church, Blackbird |
Hundred, has been taken from Kenton |
circuit and replaced to Warwick.
BISHOP COLEMAN is announced to |
preach and hold confirmation services
at St. Peters Church, Sunday morning
next.
MRS. EMILY WARREN is making a
needed improvement in her dwelling
on Delaware street, by long veranda
in front.
APRIL, according to the old weather
saw, bOrrOws three days from March.
This year she has been borrowing
everything in sight.
The annual election of the Kings
Daughters will be held this evening at
the home of Mrs. J. W. Clifton. A full
attendance is requested. SEC.
The painters are welding their
brushes in the interior of many dwell
ing, while some of the exteriors give
pleasing proof of their skill.
The congregation of Raymond's
Church will have Festival and Oyster
Supper on Friday and Saturday even
ings next, 13 and 14th insts.
J. B. COUNsELMAN Co., have Just re-
ceived a new boiler 7O-horse-power. 1t
is being placed in position preparatory
to the tomato canning season.
OUR weather prophet down the
creek who hit it so well the past winter
is not surprised at this weather: he
says April always does act foolish.
SWEET potato seed shopld be bedded
this week. There is large supply of
seed and the price ranges from 25 to 80
cents per basket, according to quality.
The little folks will be sure toplease
you next Monday evening as water
FAIRIES. Come and see them. Admis.
sion 25c. Children under 13 years
10 cents.
THE Prohibitionists of Kent county
will hold a meeting in the Good
Templars Hall. Cooper Building, this
town, an Monday April 10th at two
o'clock p. NJ.
SOME persons, judging from the
fixed up" conditions of windows in
certain lines of gOOds, estimate that
there is something in the wind in mat
rimonial lines.
THE new building of VIM. A. FAIRIES
to be used for a furniture store and
undertakers shop, was raised last week,
and the outlines of the building as a
place of business is becoming apparent.
The millers do not object to the pre-
cipitatiOn of the past twenty-four hours
as the ponds have been running down:
the same could be said also Of the far.
mers, only they desired it in warm
showers instead of a mixture of hail
and snow.
The Wilmington EUery Eueninq says
of John Barber and Alex. Deakyne's
cure for peach yellows, that resident
of Odessa has offered the discoveries of
the new remedy$1O0 to save on a small
orchard from destruction by the peach
yellows.
The season for building and improv-
ing has come,and already the carpenter
with his tools and the painter with his
paint pot and brush can be seen scurrv
to and from their work. It is to he
hoped that they may find active em-
ployment the balance of the year.
HABIT has much to do with success
on the farm. Some farmers are Bour.
bons, who learn nothing, but adhere to
OLD methods, forgetting that the world
has progressed, and the agriculture
revolutiOnized, while they have fol.
lowed the same course marked ont for
them by their fathers in the decades
gone by.
The Yestrymen of the Episcopal
Church have elected the following
delegates and aIternates for their Con.
vention which comes off in this town
the first week in June. Delegates. d
J. Cummins and w. F. Dunn: Alter
mates, W. p. Cummins and VIM. II.
Janney.
THE blue feeling among the fruit
growers as the result of the freezing
weather of the past two weeks. had
deeper shade following the snow storm
OF yesterday and to-day, The peach
crop is considered gone, and it is feared
the plum, cherry and pear crops now
IN blossom have been likewise badly
damaged. The temperature for a good
part of two week, has been down to. or
near the freezing point.
AT the annual meeting Of the Stock.
holders of the Smyrna Building and
Loan Association, last evening, the fol.
loving officers were elected President
John II. Hoffecker; Vice-President,
VIM. T.. Hall; Secretary ,Jno. B. Cooper:
Treasurer, James p. Hohccker; Audi
tors, VIM. A. NYinford, Hervey p. Hall
and Harry Grieves; Directors, WIN. f.
Brown and Geo. w. Gordon. A new
series has been opened, now the 18th.
Subscriptions are ready to be received
by the secretary.
SAYS the Salem Sunbeam The rais.
ing of milk fer market seams IN he
oyerdOpe and several farmers are
changing to fattening calves. There Il
less trouble in this and the returns are
as large. Good calves weighing NOT
more than $50 pounds, are worth 9 cts
o pound. Some farmers make q mis-
take in making their calves weigh