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Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
Reply of T. B. COursev.
Correspondence to the Smyrna Times"
DEAR SIR:

Correspondence to the Smyrna Times"
DEAR SIR:
When | wrote the reply to the article
published in the Times under the head
line, els it HOnest?" | had no idea of
stirring up controversy. But | find
that the author of that article is out
again and makes a great to do over nv
being a miller, as though he made a
great discovery. L made no ATTEMPT
to disguise the fact that | am a miller.
Everybody that knows me knows that
L am miller, and ] am clad to be
classed with the men that +** may
please to call rOgues and robbers. NV
aim was to explain to *** and everyone
else that read his article that milling is
changed from what it was a hundred
years ago.
For fifty years before we had roller
mill We ground wheat for One-tenth of
the wheat, took no coarse flour and
much off that time, took no bran. But
with the advent of the roller mill the
whole business was changed. It is
utterly out of the question to pass the
wheat through two cleaning machines,
SIX or eight pairs of rolls, scalper, puri-
her, and four separate bolts and give
80 we do not propose to take one-tenth
OF the wheat and all the flour, coarse
and fine, and swear to the result. But
we say to the farmer when we are ready
for business that we are prepared to
take your wheat and give you flour in
exchange. We make no proposition to
grind for One-tenth of the wheat. You
can go to mill or the flour, feed and ex-
change store and make the exchange
the same as at the mill The customer
gets a certain amount of flour and
half a bushel of bran for a bushel Of
wheat. There is no coarse flour. 1t is
fine flour, bran and middlings.
If Mr.. *** paid the miller eight cents
bushel for grinding his wheat on burr
and the old style machinery, he was
entitled to all the products of his
wheat. But he should not class all
millers as robbers because one man did
not do justly by him. Mr.. *** is under
no obligation to patrOniZe q class of
robbers. He can sell his wheat at the
best market he can find and buy his
flour, coarse and fine, where he can
buy cheapest; and to all who think
mlllers are rOgues and robbers ! would
advise to do so.
If Mr.. *** continues to skulk behind
these as his signature | Will treat his
future offences with silent contempt.
In the above / think that | have ex-
planned to Mr.. *** why the law does not
govern roller mills as it did burr mills.
1t is not because the law is a hundred
years old, bUt because it is not apDL-
cablc to roller mills, which were not
dreamed Of by the law makers of that
day. Il. B. CoURsEY.
Spring Mus, Nor IG, 1895.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
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The Kings Da Enters will have a
'pOund sociable" at the residence of
Miss Clara BewleB this evening. The
needed.
What is callea vegetable sociable"
will be given on Friday evening at the
home OF Miss Emma Weldon. Each
member is tY take a friend and pack
age OF soma kind of an eatable, or pay
small h9e in lieu of either. The gifts
are TO 9e distributed to persons in
MfsI Stengle accompanied her hus-
pahd 20 Wilmington ON Saturday, both
reIur hing Monday afternoon. He
preached at Union Church at night,
h@v. L. E. Martindale OCCUPYING the
pulpit IN the morning. $1,000 was
Iahsed for Church improvements.
!, T.. ii. Primrose, special organizer of
I4e Improved Order of Heptasophs is in
harrington to organize a cOnclave of
That order.
Mrs. Virginia Hayden, of FieldsbOro,
has issued cards for the marriage of
her daughter, Emma, to William w.
Anderson on Wednesday afternoon,
December, 4th in Union NJ. f. Church,
at two o'clock.
Last Thursday evening a party was
given at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Marvel near Leipsic. A very pleasant
evening" was passed by their many
friends who indulged in games of vari-
GUS kinds. Those present were:
Misses Elva Dische, Wood Warren,
Lille FOrde, Ella Wheatman, Hattie
Lafferty, Nora Harper, Ethel Boggs,
Ruth Harrington, Aneita Marvel,
Susie Smith, Maggie Smith, Augusta
Slaughter and Lizzie CarrOw.
Edward Porter, until recently clerk
ing with his brother here, has secured
a position with the Gimble brothers,
Philadelphia.
Miss Lydia Porter, is visiting the
family of Rev. I. L. Price, Brooklyn,
N. Y.
Mrs. J. w. Staughton and son Chas.
StaughtOn of Philadelphia, are visiting
Mrs. A. ii. Smith
Edward H. Thomas, formerly of
Smyrna, is critically ill at his home in
New York.
Clarence B. Raymond, has gone to
Philadelphia, to attend tomorrow the
University Cornell foot ball contest
Miss Nettie Tschudy left to-day for
an extended visit to Philadelphia.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Fleming are
spending two weeks, taking in Balti-
more, Washington and other points of
interest
Miss Marian Shepherd, of Marydel,
is being entertained by Miss Edith
Beck.
Miss Lillian Harper, of Philadelphia,
is the guest of Miss Edith Collins.
Mrs. Laura Hopes, of Philadelphia,
and granddaughter, Miss Clingon.
were guests of Mrs. Speakman. al
Belmont" last week.
The ladies of the Junior Shakespeare
club have issued invitations for
musical to be held at the home of Miss
Edith Beck, Monday evening next
Mrs. w. J. Shearer, of Elizabeth, n.
j., is visiting her mother, Mrs. J. C.
Lassell.
Mrs. r. J. Wilson and daughter.
Miss Eleta Wilson, of Greensborough,
Md, are guests of Mrs J. Frank Den
ney, near town.
Misses Adelaide and Josephine Cooke
OF Philadelphia, will visit Smyrna to-
day to spend the Thanksgiving holiday
guests of Miss Sue r. Colt, and like
wise Misses Charlotte Cooke, Nav
BOughten and Sallie Hare, guests of
Mrs. VIM. ii. Baggs.
Jos. H. Messenger of Newark was in
town to day.
w. H. Cooper Jr of Delaware Col
lege is home for the Thanksgiving hoH-
day.
John Wilkinson, Jr., of Philadel-
phla, is visiting his father.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
An Informal Dance.

The second dance of the series was
given in the Opera House last evening.
and proved to be a most enjoyable af-
fair: Music was furnished by Steven
sons orchestra. Those present were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Postles, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Ed. Hoffecker, Mrs. J. R. Nc
Causland, Miss Lillian Harper, of
Philadelphia. Misses Ethel Cooper,
Elizabeth Denney, Nettie Tschudy,
Estelle Waters, Florence Hall, Ger
trude Smith, Hilda Wells, Margaret
Fell, Edith Collins, May FAIRIES. Hettie
Richards, Katherine Wilson.
Messrs. Charles Stoughten, of Phila-
delphia, DIR. Frank L. Grier, Charles
Howell LeFevre, r. d. Hoffecker, Jr.,
G. Davis Brown, Clarence B. Ray
mond, Hirons Denney, w. M. Busted.
Howard Jones, j. Harry HURT, Jr.,
and r. H. Denney.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

SMYRNA, like Milford, has an impOr-
tant outlet or business artery in its
river that is tributary of the Delaware
Bay. It has been from the days of our
earliest settlement an important COM
mercial avenue, and until the running
of the Delaware Railroad down the
Peninsula between thirty and forty
years ago, the only means of CONNER
cial intercourse with the outside world.
The trouble with all these tributaries
of the Delaware is the sand collecting
at the mouths of our creeks and rivers
by the drifting tides 1t has been
constant barrier to easy navigation,
amountiuG to a complete obstruction
at very low tide. The problem has
been how TO avoid these sand-bars.
The mou-. river has been tenn
porarI4y improved by dredging. En-
gineers have improved these difficulties
by a system Of dykes or jetties, in
many cases effectually.
This is not always the case, however,
as at the mouth Of the Christiana,
where the work Of the jetty was put
in on the wrong side, as seems TO have
been the case with the Mispillion. We
are told by those interested in Smyrna
River that there need be no such diff
Guilty, as would appear from the fol-
lowing candid statement from the
Chronicle, which in a certain sense is
instructive. This paper says:
'"The improvements % at the mouth
of the MispilliOn are at a standstill.
Those in charge of the work are at a
loss, so It seems, what to do next. The
work proposed has been completed as
far as the dikes are concerned, but
within twenty-four hours of their com
pletiOn a miniature storm came and
tore the dikes from their position and
left the rivers mouth in much worse
condition than it was before the work
was begun. Where there was ten feet
Of water before the work was begun
there is scarcely four feet now, and it
is impossible for vessels to get in or
out Of the river, except during a very
heavy tide. OF the many vessels trad
ing regularly in and out of the Mispil-
lion, some are now lying outside unable
70 get in. The work as it now stands
is q complete and total failure. Where
there was all the depth Of water needed
there is now not enough TO float the
smallest of our river craft The en-
gineers in charge can make all the ex-
PLANTATION they please and say what
they like in apology on justification,
any man with any Judgment at all
knows the Mispillion's mouth is ruined
TO all intents and purposes. The work
done up to the present moment had
1nuch better never been done at all.
There is indeed something under the
surface. This is the second appropri-
ation that has been exhausted here
without any practical benefit being
derived y
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
LEIPSIC.
Preparing FOs the Christmas Entertainment
Fine Pork About TOwn-LOcal and
Personal.
Special Correspondence to the Times

Special Correspondence to the Times
LEIPsIC, Nov. 25.-The members of both
churches are preparing for their Christmas
entertainments. At the NJ. j.. Church w.
L. Hutson and Walter Maclary were ap-
pointed as a committee of designs. Mrs.
Jones and Miss Bertha Ford were appointed
as a committee to select proper pieces of
music, and to drill the children in singing
The members were all appointed as a com
mittee on decorations.
The trappers are catching number of
muskrats.
W. II. Rawley has moved all of his hav.
He has a number of stacks to press and
ship to market.
During the stormy day last week, one of
our sportsmen, Andrew Slaughter. killed
nineteen nice large ducks.
Last Saturday there were about thirty
hogs killed averaging about two to three
hundred pounds each. Nearly all the citi-
zens raise their own pork, not because it is
cheaper, but they find it much easier Co
have from five TO six hundred pounds of
pork raised of their own than il is to have
the ready money to purchase the same
quantity.
Personal Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Rawlev.
OF Clayton, visited friends here last Satur-
day. Miss Audrey Stout, who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. Fleming, has re-
turned home. w. III. Marvel went to At
lantlc City last week TO attend his brother
marriage. He and his wife were at Dover
on Sunday, where they expected 10 again
see the bride and groom. .--Rev. Mr.
Prettyman preached very interesting SER
mon here on Sunday. He preached To the
members of the M. f. Church in the
absence OF Rev. Mr.. Wright
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
CHESWOLD.
Meeting of the Farmers Institute Thanks.
giving Sermon to the Jr. o. U. A. NJ.
Local and Personal
Special Correspondence to the Times

| Special Correspondence 10 the Times
CHEswoLD, Nov. 25 The Farmers and
Merchants National Building and Loan As
sOclatlon of Delaware has established a
branch Office in Cheswold
W. +. Collins has Just added another de
| ended Improvement to his store building,
which SO much enhances the appearance
that a stranger would imagine himself on
Chestnut street
Harmony Council, Jr, O. U. A. NJ. will
attend Divine worship in a body on Thanks
giving morning, in Cheswold NJ f. Church
at 10 O'Clock. The choir is preparing some
| special music for the occasion Rev. J. W
Eogle, the pastor, will deliver the address.
The public Is cordially invitated
The prOtracted meeting as referred to
| last week, promises much success. The
meetings are well attended. Marked inter
est Is being manifested not only by the
| church but by the unsaved as we'll Several
persons have alread professed conversion
and Others are asking for the prayers of the
church.
Our merchants all seem to be doing a
thriving business.
W. F. Collins and W. Cannon Buckson.
both delivered interesting temperance adj
dresses before the Sunday School on last
Sunday morning, it being Temperance Day.
The house was well filed and they had the
entire attention of the audience. The
Cheswold people are somewhat proud of
their local talent
On last Saturday one of Henry Georges
apostles was in town with his Single Tax
theory, but received no audience
The Farmers Institute of Kent County.
will meet in Cheswold on Monday, Dec. Q,
at ? p. m, and will be addressed by Hon.
H. +. VanDeman. for many years L. S.
PomOlogist. Mr.. VanDeman will also speak
at Magnolia, Frederica, and FELTON, Meet
lngs to discuss peach yellOws will be held in
FELTON, Dec. 4th, at Milford Dec 5th, and at
Brdgeville These meetings will be attend
ed by Prof. A. G.. Gully, of Connecticut.
Personal Mr. and Mrs, "a S. Cudnev.
formerly of this place but now of Corinth,
n. Y, visited friends here last week.-W.
w. Jarvis and family, of Babylon, N. Y,
have moved to their little farm near town.
- Miss Lille Moore spent last week with
her her sister, Mrs. DIR. G.. w. Pleasenton,
of Milford.-Miss Katie II. BOggs is spend
ing this week in Philadelphia Miss Ethel
Emerson, daughter of Mr. Fred Emer-
son, the genial railroad conductor. is
just recovering from a severe attack of
scarlet fever. DR.. Smith, her attending
physician, is one of the most successful
scarlet fever doctors in the State. Lulu.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

THERE were So, 900, 600 of gold ship
ped for Europe Saturday making ST.
900, 900 for the week, and reducing the
reserve to $50, 300, ,251. The prospect is
that other shipments will soon be made
and it is supposed that another issue
of bonds must be made in order to
supply the demand.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

THE DcldWdredn comes to us this
week in a new form, changed from a
folio of four to a quarto of eight pages.
The DcIawGrcan has always beld a
commanding place in Delaware jour
nalism, and Brother Salisbury seems
determined to keep it mechanically,
likewise, in the front ranks of typo
graphical progress.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

The Fifty-fourth Congress, which
meets in Washington Monday, will
contain an unusually large proportion
of men who have never had any Con-
gressional experience. OF the 1856
members 167 are new men, or almost
AZ per cent. of the total membership.
This circumstance would be likely to
cause serious embarrassment if there
were a contest over the Speakership.
But to all intents and purposes this
was settled a year ago, and Mr.. Reed
has had plenty Of time to gain informa-
ton regarding the new members that
aid him in assigning them to places.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

The wife Of Mr.. Leonard Wells, Of
East Brnnhed, Mass, had been suffer-
ing from neuralgia for two days, not
belng able to sleep or hardly keep still.
when Mr.. Holden, the merchant there
sent her bottle Of Chamberlain's Pain
Balm, and asked that she give II n
thorough trial. On meeting Mr.. Wells
the next day he was told that she was
oil right, the pain had left her within
two hours, and that the bottle of Pain
Balm was worth So il il could moi he
had for less. For sale at go cents pef
bottle by Clifton 4 Raymond, Smyrna.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
A MisapprehensiOn.

In an article, with reference 10 the
Manuel which have had published,
the Clayton CaU says, ,-'Prof. lie
Fever early recognized the importance
Of having some system for the teachers
to work by, as hereto fore there was no
regular plan, every teacher having her
own system" The teachers all use
very good methods in teaching, and
their system has always been very
good, TheE have worked together for
the good Of tis ,schoOls-and the very
course Of study, that Is outlined in
my Manuel is the Rne that they have
always followed, with. but o few ex-
ceptions. The Manuelwas printed in
order that this course could be brought
in better form before the people, the
Directors, the Principally and the
teachers. / hope that what Won have
always had viii be moro apIM Meeiated
than It hes been heretofore.
CHAs. HI LEFrvER.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

DEBs, the labor agitatO-, has been
released from Jail after serving his six
months term, and was an object of in
terest to large number of people in
Chicago Friday evening, where he de-
livered an address on Liberty" 1t
is worth noting that Debs says he is
glad to have been through the expert
ence just ended, and that it has "dOne
him good"
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
KENTON.

Special correspondence 10 the SMYRNA rimes
, hBNToNi. Nov. 26,-The Epworth
League will hold an entertainment in
IN 1ne M. H. Church Thanksgiving night.
The evening will be made as aftraclive
as possible. ALI are cordiallv inv;tad
TO attend.
Prof. Alexander gave an entertain.
ment ~ the Hall last Tuesdaysnight.
Owing to such low prices. there has
been but little corn ahipped from tb;s
station this fall.
The Single Takers gave ouite n
lengthy lecture in the Hall last nioht
j, p, Walker and wife left tbis n m
to spend few days with his sister IN
Bridgeville.
Mrs. Il. II. Walker and little dauoh-
ter, Marie Novel;. left Kenton iast
Wednesday for a visit To Mr.. and Mrs.
George Walker, Wilmington. They
were joined Saturday by Mr.. Walker
They viii ali return together after havs
ing spent Thanksgiving IN the city,
X. $.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
New Catalogue Of the Public School.

Mr.. Charles Howell LeFevre. the
newly elected principal of our SMYRNA
Public School has issued n neat thirty
page catalogue giving comprehensively
the rules and regulations and course Of
study and the graduates Of the school.
1t is happy hit and proves without
doubt the enterprise and push Of our
new principal. The idea is an entirely
new one for this town and something
that should be appreciated by every
citizen taxpayer as well as the almuni
and under graduates. The manual as
be states in the preface "has been pub
llshed in order to provide the means
for more effective and helpful school
supervision by the Directors and the
Principal to enable parents to UNDER
stand fully what the schools are
aiming to accomplish for their child
rem and thereby TO enlist their intelli-
gent corporation and to be guide
to the teachers pointing out thesucces-
sive steps along the line of progress
and development. The manual Is fnll
OF information giving a short history
from the time the old No, and No. 5
were consolidated in 1888 and the cree
ton OF our handsome school building.
including those who have held promi.
nent places as directors and the princi-
pals who have served us. The frontis-
piece OF the manual is n half tone picture
OF the school building. The printing
was done at the TINES Office,
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

The leading question that will con-
front the New York Legislature when
it meets will be that Of Excise-the
conditions of liquor selling. 1t is al
ready claiming the serious attention Of
the members-elect, and at a dinner
given by Mr.. Andrews in New York
city, last week, one of the guests said:
eve were all of one mind that the
Republican party in this city and State
did not owe anything to the New York
saloOnkeepers, and we were also of the
opinion that legislation was needed to
Improve the status of the liquor trade
)ron. this city. What this legislation
.osv = 70 be is a matter for future con-
andon, but there was no difference
"a asaoorliOn that there was too many
= -. shops in New York and that
l.q9snres should be adopted for materi
loply reducing the present number,
(which is now over eight thousand.
q Especially we thought that the ''mOr-
gues, as they are called, where alleged
whiskey that will kill on sight, is sold
for five cents a drink, ought to be
wiped out of existence. These dens
are almost without exception meeting
places for Tammany Hall and breed
crime and vice of every description as
well as disease and pestilence. No
self-respecting workingman would be
seen entering one of them.
''How best to rid the people ef this
low sort of grog-sellers who usually
maintain petty gambling with dice,
craps, etc, and attract the most besOt-
ted and abandoned of the criminal and
semi-criminal classes in a great city,
was one of the questions discussed.
Experience in other cities and States
have shown that q largely decreased
liquor license has the desired effect,
and has proved beneficial to the health
and morals of the community. A gen
eral expression of views on this point
was had, and the feeling was practically
unanimous in favor of raising the IL
censes for the sales of liquor to 1000
annually"
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

Five shares of stock Of the Fruit
Growers Bank, property of the late
Eliza A, Smithers, sold at public sale
to-day for 1922 share-Samuel B.
Richardson purchaser.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
TEACHERS INSTITUTE

A week from to-day will commence
the session OF the Kent County Teach
ers Institute in Smyrna. More ex-
pense has attended this than any
previous session of the Institute in
obtaining instructors for the Day and
enjoyment for the Evening entertain
ments, and Prof. G. G. Tindal, the Su-
perlntendent, will well deserve the
thanks of the teachers and our towns
people as well for his unstinted labor
and expense in securing the best talent
IN all the departments, to make the
Institute success. That it will be no
one can doubt
The session will open Wednesday
morning, December 4th. The teachers
will be up largely on the train of that
morning, and proceed to the Opera
House after dispensing to their tenn
porary homes. The order of exercises
will be briefly, as follows for the three
days of the meeting.
WEDNESDAY.
In addition to the routine work of
the Institute as conducted by Superin-
tendent Tindal, will be the address of
George NJ. Phillips, Principal of West
Chester State Normal School, and
Supt. Il. NJ. McNeal, of Harrisburg,
Superintendent of Dauphin county.
At night, Hon. H. w. J. Ham, one
of the best humorists of the South.
wall lecture on ''The Snollygoster in
Politics.
THURSDAY.
In the morning the Institute will be
addressed by Byron w. King, Manager
and Instructor Of Kings School of
OratOry, Plttsburg, Pa, and in the
afternoon by Mrs. Emma V. Thomas,
Principal of Levering School, of Phila-
delphia. Her subject will be her "Trip
TO Alaska, that has elected no little
interest wherever delivered
The other addresses in the afternoon
VIII be by Miss Lillian Wallace, Super
vlslng Principal of school Twenty
third and Federal street, PHILADELPHIA;
and by DR.. a. n. Raub, President of
Delaware College.
DR.. George Thomas Dowling. of
Boston, will have the platform at night
with an ample field for the charming
and unique in his subject Bringing
up parent in the way he should 90. .
Or. Dowllng is one the noted lecturers
OF New England, with the power to
amuse, instruct or stir the most OBJ
durate hearer. The lecture of this as
well as that of the preceding evening
will be preceded by a rendition of
music by male quartet of Smyrna
FRIDAY
This day will have two attractions in
the way of instructors. That for the
morning will be by A. f. Winship.
editor Of IHe JOlundl Of Educati0u.
Boston. The afternoon address will
be by Henry Houck, Dep. State Su-
perlntendent of Pennsylvania. Mr..
Houck's address will be of character
to interest commissioners and patrons
as well as teachers, and as many as
possible of these from the county
should make it a point to be present.
The evening entertainment will be
by the celebrated New York Philhar-
monlc Club, consisting of seven mem
bers. 1t stands in the forefront of
musical attainment, and those who do
not near them this time NAV never
have the chance again.
The terms for a course ticket. ST 90:
general admission for the two first
nights, 25 cents; Reserved seats. 3jcts.
Friday night, 35 and so cents
There is no charge for admission to the
day sessions.
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27
Fresh Cows for Sale.

-Four fine Fresh Cows for sale. with
calves 10y their side. Price of Cow and
Calf 6 to weeks old $50 to sos
EDW. A. EVANS.
ll2t4 CheswOld, Del
Smyrna times., 1895-11-27

The Dover Machine Works has received
orders from Baltimore for dies, and that
concern is doing considerable work in steam
and hot water heating.