Smyrna times., 1898-04-27

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evening, April 2Sth, at 7.30. SEC'Y.
The new school bill passed the house
last Wednesday and is likely to be
adopted by the Senate this week.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society will
meet at the home of the president on
Monday evening, May 2nd, at 7.3O.
You can talk to more people for less
expenditure of money, time and labor,
through the newspaper than in any
other way.
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished
Wednesday. Il
Shad was never more toothsome and
cheap than now. The matter of few
little bones getting in your mouth is
of small account.
J. P. Hudson has the best pump for
the least money. An elegant bargain
for you. Also builders lime and hair
at popular prices.
The Duck Greek road, especially the
hill half way between this town and
that place, has been greatly improved
by topping of oyster shells.
The steamer G. F. Brady will make
two trips a week during the month of
May, owing to interference caused by
| the mined water about Fort Delaware.
The builder of the organ in Asbury
NJ. E. church, G. S. Haskell, is now at
work cleaning and tuning this excel
lent instrument. 1t will be finished
by Sunday.
Lovers of arbutus are alarmed at the
possibility that in a few years this
| lovely flower may be entirely gone
from our woods through the wanton
destruction of the plants by careless
gatherers.
In a call for 125, 900 volunteers, Del
aware's quota, according to population
is estimated at BAL men. There is no
| doubt, however, that she will furnish
many more, should the demand war
rant.
Saturday was essentially ''fish day., :"
the warm weather causing a good run
in the rivers. Shad ranged from 10 to
20 cents each, and more than the usual
quantity were disposed of after dark,
at very low prices.
Cosgriff & Beck are rushing out tile
as fast as the weather will permit.
The advance in the prices of grain is
making an extra demand upon them
for porous drain tile, and the prospects
are for busy season.
The Town Council advertises else
where for bids for work on streets,
hauling coal and shells, &c. All bids
must be before the council at their ad-
jOurned meeting tonight. Here is a
nice chance to be the town hauler.
The dam of the Central Roller Mills,
W. Lee Springs, proprietor, gave way
last Wednesday night, causing a wash
out of the gates and consequently q
suspension of work at the mills. Mr..
Springs hopes to be ready in the
course of a month and he makes an
announcement elsewhere to this effect
Have you ever tried a suit of clothes
G from Louis Berney & Co., Whining
ton? If you have not you are missing
one of the best assortments of stock
q this season. You will find the 81. b
t & Co.'S" stand in the old Hamburger
q store, 222 Market street You will bt
surprised at the prices they are offered
you there.
g VIM. N. Ransom has had the dis
{ tinctiOn among our farmers of alwayi
being up with his work and the first Il
plant his crops. Though labOrinl
l under great disability, this spring il
v no exception, for his corn crop was il
4 the main planted last week. Mr.
Ransom has been shut in his home
since last August, the past month con
{ fined to his bed, but he is now con
n nent recovery.
: Cummings, the photographer is offer
e ing a special inducement to you If yol
g will cut this advertisement out of las
weeks issue of theSmyrna TIMES anC
present it to him to-day, next Wednes
day and the Wednesday following
The advertisement will be accepted a.
T one dollar as part payment on a dOzeI
/ photographs at $500. This is
J. splendid offer for you. Mr.. Cumming
a is an up-to-date photographer. Hi
work has stood the test and when ht
! makes bargain to yOn it means some
y thing. Note the offer he makes.
. L. o. Waller has been making som,
neat improvements in his jewelry stor
u the past week He has scrubbed ant
It vanished the floor and re-painted al
II the woodwork. His Office and optica
department has undergone like i'm
. prOvement, feature being beautiful
1t new drugget for the floor. He ha
e also arranged his electric light with
II new reflector to adapt it to his purpose
= in eye work. The new arrangement
~ of things has made it much more invit
ing for his patrons. In addition to tn
1t above he is to have new solid plate
e glass window front,
. Nathaniel B. Carey who tore down th
B tomb stone at the grave of his first wifi
|. in the Odd Fellows cemetery Las
IF Thanksgiving Day, and who was pros
eeuted by the Trustees of this GENE
. terry for malicious trespass, plead guilt
q Monday at the Kent County Court an,
7. was let on with repr1mand. Ihl
v States Attorney found ON consultinl
: with the Chief Justice that if it cam
Ie before the court there would be IL
70 other alternative but to send him t
n Jail, and this the Trustees did not wan
M to do, as they thought he had bee
= punished enough in the trouble @
V mind he has passed through in the pas
( few months.
, This community like all others, Ina
> been greatly stirred by the event
i growing out of the Cuban war. TIL
le daily papers that come by each ma
at are eagerly sought and sometimes g,
citing reports come between times
These reports not verified by facts
T. helped make the rush Sunday morn
Q, ing up to the depot for the Sunda
le papers. They were so numerous, an
4 Of all classes and conditions, that th
y news boys were bewildered in straigh
le ening out their papers. Monday th
D. stars and stripes were displayed in di
r ferent parts of the town, and the fee
- ing of patriotism runs high. The wa
- fever, as far as enlistment is concerne
ae has not yet assumed decisive form
Il Ralph Boyle, son of ChTistophe
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