Smyrna times., 1898-03-30
Get your strawberry crates from
Frank Bailey.

A girl doesn't love every man she is
willing to go to 25-cent show with.
The Steamer Elizabeth Van Solver
having been thoroughly overhauled
and repainted will run three trips each |
week in April.
Middletown will be connected with |
the telephone system in the lower part
of the State, stock to form a company
having been subscribed.
Two communications intended for
this issue are necessarily deferred un-
til next week, because of the press of
advertisements on our time and space.
Fishing for shad became quite lively
on the Delaware last week, and a good
supply of them reached this town, but
they havn't got down yet to what is
called popular prices"
Subscribers to newspapers should
not allow nOn-subscribers to borrow
their papers. 1t is an injustice to pub
fishers who are thus defrauded out OF
many subscriptions. .-DetGUdredn.
War preparations at Forts Delaware
and Mott show no signs of abating.
Last week a 12-inch rifle arrived at
Fort Mott and the work of placing it
was begun at once. The big gun was
shipped from Sandy Hook.
The channel in front of Fort Della
ware is being dredged. This work has
been undertaken for two causes, in
order to afford better facilities for
! planting mines and anchorage for ships
! under protection of the batteries.
! 1t makes a great deal of difference
whether any injury you receive was of
external or 'internal' origin. A
fresh crop of colds is the immediate re-
suit of the damp and fOggy weather.
The most fierce war takers are those
who would no doubt be nOn-cOmbat-
ants if war became a reality.
While we had moderate rains last
week, only enough for farm lands
thew had terrible floods out in Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois, doing a vast
amount of damage in washing away
property and railroad beds. The pre-
cipitation up to Sunday was 81 inches
the greatest ever known in March.
We hope the men who have charg
of the road repairing in the cOuntr.
will take hold of the work soon.
road repaired in the spring is in bet
ter shape to withstand the summe
and fall rains than on one tina
! the work is done during hot weather
Experience has taught this fact an
sense impresses 1t.
When the sun crossed the line tn
wind was from the northwest, and aC
cording to the old rule that will be tn
| prevailing wind for six months. -SdIel
Sunbeam.
This "old rule" starts out badly
be considered reliable, for about ever
dav since the sun did cross the line, IL
prevailing wind has been from til
east.
: The Brady Steamboat Company wi
after April the first next change the
pier at Philadelphia from 8 north
pier 1S south, (Spruce street.) The
. new wharf has recently been rebuil
!, with nice office and waiting room, IL
u wharf having an additional advantag
of being equipped with adjustable sill
capable of being lowered or raised
ie have the wharf at all tides on lev
. with the boat.
Z Governor Tunnel has vetoed t
appropriation bill authorizing the e
penses for a commission of this Sta
= to act with New Jersey COMMISSIONS
- in arguing the disputes of the sturg
u u fishermen. Jersey fishermen thi
!" that the failure of this arbitration W
lead to serious difficulties during t
coming season and declare they W
~ fish west of the Channel IN the Ba
y no matter what the Delware authO
% ties say.
~ 1t is due the ladies of the Mite S
ciety to correct the figures of the c
penses they put on the NJ. E. Parse
"a n age as read in the pastor report
20 our last issue. A l got in the place
VI of the in the report, making it re
eu 800 when it should have been $700-
q very material difference. In maxi
A'' the correction, it gives us the opp
tunity to say again what has been of
N IN said before, that for business succ
- and results, this organization stan
IS without local rival.
-" Saturday night about or after m
night, a potato was thrown thrOU
-. one of the large glasses in DIR. Lar
lL Lo din's Office window. 1t was suppo
.Wne W to have been hurled by one man
'an another as loud and vile language '
N II used on the street by men presuma
~ ~ going home. This is point usuf
nc re- away from the beat of the policem
l. and so long as the men keep o.
o& until midnight to accommodate
- trade of such people, so long will t.
IN; IN disregard the prOprieties and dist
III others.
The Conference at Lewes adjourn
at noon on Monday and the preach
sn, returned to their homes that afternC
nd. Rev. G. A. Hill was sent to SmyI
Ill as was expected, and Rev. l.. w. /
A field likewise returns to Smyrna
rye cult. There was considerable dis
yer, pOintment on the part of the friend
A Rev. Adam Stengle, that he was
appointed to the Presiding Elders
ems of Wilmington or EastOn Distri
om- as was due from his long service in
ike ability and fitness for the pOsit
)ect From certain protestatiOns and
onl- mellOwness that characterized
closing paragraph of Presiding E
Adams report--that the distracted
we dition of six years ago, caused by
II sOnal domination had been healed
low that there was now peace and unity
b. accepted and believed in, but that
dow "Great Iron Wheel should ev
j of two men whose only claim over
others was that they represent a
sonality not a member of this col
ans ence, goes to show the disturbing
this mus of six years ago was only wal
)oks an opportunity to reassert itself
nci- tie, jesuitical, with an eye always
and werd in the direction of tenn
1oks power and dominancy.
Rev. Henry Clay Turner, of Gil
adj tree, Md; came up from the Co
ter's ence and occupied the pulpit of tn