Smyrna times., 1897-04-28
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

action shall be taken.
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Ice Cream at Carr's. 3w
Call on Frank Bailey for a first class
paving brick. 4
Sweet potato roots for planting are
very abundant in market.
Asparagus is now one of the edibles
that Spring adOrns the table with.
A small fife and drum corps of boys
are practicing for music on Decoration
Day.
And last in the fruit line comes the
delicate apple blossoms, now in full ar
ray of beauty and fragrance.
The absence of rain and mud last
week brought the bikers out in force.
The same conditions apply to this
week.
The Ladies Benevolent Society will
meet at the residence, of Mrs. Lydia
Mcdowell, Tuesday evening May 4th,
1897. SEC.
H. and R. H. Denney have received
a new roller for their well-known mills
and are preparing to increase their
output.
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished
cabinets, mantelles etc. Here every
Wednesday. &
The Kings Daughters will hold their
regular meeting on Thursday evening
April Goth, at 7.9O O'Clock, at the home,
Of Mrs. Samuel J. Reynolds. SEC.
The last Bulletin of the Delaware
College experiment station is on Com
batting Anthrax in Delaware by DIR. A.
7. Neale. 1t contains important infOr-
nation.
Bay Trout fishing on the Delaware
has commenced in earnest at Bombay
Hook, kits Hammock, Bowers Beach
and on down the coast. Some very
fine ones were in town on Saturday.
The holes in our streets are being
graded and filled in with oyster shells.
Since his election street Supervisor
Chas. H. Jones has been giving the
streets his first attention.
Saturday and Sunday were blooming
days. Sunday the mercury was well
up to 80 degrees, and the development
of the shade trees was wonderful.
Summer has marked it's coming on
every hand.
A bill passed the Delaware Legisla-
ture Monday, divorcing Mrs. Annie
Klee from her husband, James S.
Klee, and restoring her original name,
Annie Rawley. She is residing in
ThOroughfare Neck.
Harry Slaughter, has purchased of
John Startling, administrator of James
Startling, deceased, the entire stock
and farming implements of the latter,
and succeeds him on the farm of
James P. HOfecker, near town.
Your are making a mistake if you
have Dental work to be done and are
putting it off, and equally as great
one If you do not know the exact con-
dition of your teeth. Call at DIR. Grier's
Dental office and have your teeth ex-
ahmed free OF charge. 2w
The warm weather of the past week
has developed the strawberry bios
SONS into long white rows Indicating
that the ripe, red fruit will be along in
about a month. 1t will be well for
growers needing checks, to soon be
taking the printer into confidence.
April and May are the months when
the owners of property can adorn and
beautify it by free use of paint and
whitewash. Indeed, these not only
improve the looks, but preserve the
material upon which they are spread; !;
at the same time they purify the at
mosphere.
What lovely Spring fabrics at J.
Edw. DeFord's. Why go to the city
when his counters are loaded down
with such beautiful designs? The
very poetry Of Spring is told in their
loveliness. And this is not all. The
advertisement will point you to many
facts of interest.
A movement is being made to stop
the Sunday loafing around the depot
Citizens in that part Of the town have
been complaining for sometime at the
language and boisterons conduct used
and they now feel that they have stood
it long enough. This should be a
timely warning To the bova hafora an,