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Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
MATRIMONIAL.

The wedding of William H. Cannon
and Miss Lizzie Curry will take place
at Greensboro to-day.
The wedding of c. Norman Robinson
and Miss Rosa Emma Collins takes
place near Greensboro to-day.
The wedding of William Ernest San
ders and Miss Nettie Jarrel took place
at Kennedyville Thursday.
The wedding of Hibbard Atwill
Paine and Miss Laura Estelle Beau
champ took place at Denton Wednes-
day.
Albert F. Polk, a member of the
Sussex bar, and Miss Martella Evans.
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James A.
Evans, were married Wednesday in
the Methodist Church by Rev. V. S.
Collins.
On the 22d ult., Miss Mollie Thomas
Drennen, a prominent member of
Elkton society, was united in marriage
to DR.. A. Douglas McConachie, of
Baltimore.
This evening Miss Argresta Blanche
Slaughter, will be married to Thomas
Wilder Hanson of near Rising Sun.
The wedding will take place at the
home of the brides parents, in st.
Jones Neck.
Miss Eta Alexander, of Rising Sun,
Del, and Edward Todd, of Milford,
were married at the brides parents on
Wednesday evening last.
A wedding was solemnized at the
home of the brides mother, Mrs.
Susan Beswick, of Milford Neck. on
Wednesday evening, at o'clock. the
contracting parties being Miss Sallie
May Beswick and John Fenwick Ham
mond, of Milford. Hon. Jonathan S.
Willis performed the ceremony.
Cards have been sent out by Mr.. and
Mrs. William A. Humes for the mar
riage of their daughter Bessie to Harry
Lowder Grier on January 18th, at
1880 o'clock, in the First Presbyter-
ian Church, of Milford.
A double wedding took place at the
home Of W. J. Kenney, near Laurel.
last Wednesday evening. The con-
parties were Miss Martha f.
kenney and William P. Bacon. and
Miss Maggie M. Kenney and Ernest
Z. Horsey. Rev. B. f. Jester per-
formed the ceremony.
The wedding of Romie Skiryen and |
Miss DAISY Usilton will take place at
Worton tomorrow.
The wedding of Nolan G.. Steele and
Miss Elevia F. Bradley will take place
1t Burrsville to-day.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

An effort is being made among the
colored people of Delaware to take ad-
vantage of the act enacted at the last
session Of the Legislature incorporat-
ing the Colored Settlement Company.
1t IS tract of land containing 12O acres
adloinin@the State College near Dover.
Th" object i- to adapt it to the purpo-
ses of a rural village, divided into plots
OF four or six acres. The property was
originally purchased by Henry c. Con
rad, Esq, of Wilmington. The object
IS to turn it into stock company. and
at a recent meeting the following Off
GERS were elected: President, Samuel
q. Elbert, of Wilmington; Vice-presi-
dent, Samuel L. COnwell, of Dover.
Second Vice-president, J. w. Aiken.
OF Lincoln; Secretary, William C.
Jason, of Dover; Treasurer. Henry G..
Conrad, of Wilmington. The Ladcr
says: From the present indications II
Will not be many months before this
tract of land will be divided up in
small plots and occupied by colored
people who will be engaged in all
branches OF business. The object of
the projectors is to establish an ideal
industrial village composed entirely of
colored people,"
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

The past year had it's scientific
events or discoveries as we'll as others
along the line of material progress
The four principal ones are stated to
be the following:
The development of a speed of thirty
fve knots by the British torpedo-boat
destroyer, Turbinia, the transmission
OF telegraph messages without wires 10
distance of ten or fifteen miles tba
bacillus of yellow fever and the testi-
mony which the buried citv of Nin,,,
offers regarding the existenceofa biob
state OF civilization in Mesopotamia
several thousand years before Christ.
Ihat which makes the Turbinia's
aehievement especially significant is
'nat II was rendered possible by the
use of a new type of submarine enSino
the steam turbine.
Roentgen rays, which WINS first die
eoseieu ABOUT two years ago, have re-
ceived new application TO the Froncl,
e1''o,n serVlce) during the last awelve
.-' n'ns' Chassagne's process of pho
Biography in colors. Of which sarse
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
MRS. MARaAREr w. crLRRrrn

Ihe announcement on Thursday
morning that Mrs. Margaret W. chi
breth had dropped dead at Middle
town the previous evening was indeed
a shock, as she was looked uDon 70 he
the possessOr of perfect health. She
died a few minutes after 9 o'clock
She was on her way home from ST
Anne's p. +. Church to the National
Hotel, where she has boarded since
August last, and expired at the resi-
dence of DIR. ThOs II. Gilpin. in abou+
twenty minutes after entering tbe
house with Mrs. Gilpin. Heart foil-
9re was the cause of her sudden
| demise.
Her sister, Mrs. w. E. Waters of
this town. and brother-in-law. Mr.
Joseph Burchenal, of Dover. were tel.
egraphed to by Dir. GilDin' Wednee-
day night, and they went to Middle
town the next morning. The remains
were brought to the residence of Mrs
Waters that afternoon and inferred at
St. Peters cemetery Monday morning
Rev. G. W. Dame oficiafin% S59o, 9,
was in the j6th year of her a@a
healthy and attractive in appeora9co
ana unusually cheerful and happy that
evening, as was noticed by those who
sat with her at the supper table.
She was the daughter of the late
Major John G. Black, was born and
grew up in Smyrna, where she has
lived the most of her life. Shortly
after the war she married DR.. Geo. s
Culbreth, of the u S. Navy, a vounr
man of more than usual promise. who
also grew up here, but was one of the
unfortunate crew, himself the snr-
geon, who was lost about twenty wears
ago off Cape Hatteras in the terrible
'Huron" disaster. NV
- The deceased leaves a single child.
Susan c., who some two Years o@o
became the wife of Carroll ii. SndIer
OF Chicago, but formerly of SudIers,
vile, Nd.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
MRS RAcurr. nr.tunn

Mrs. Mary J. Bewley received a tel
egram on Saturday morning from
Edwin A. Oliver, in Yonkers. N Y
that his mother had peacefully passed
away the evening before. 1t was moi
unexpected, for she was known to he
mill health for a year or more. and
especially so in the past few weeks,
UP to year or so ago she had been in
apparently robust health, but she had
passed the ''three score and ten" limit
being 73 years of age, but ten wears the
Junior of Mr.. Oliver, whose remark
able preservation enables him to be at
the head of daily paper the Yonkers
Statesman.
Mrs. Oliver was possessed of tboso
qualltles ana charms that go to make
companionable woman. and their lone,
married life was a most bannv ono
To Mr.. Oliver her removal is i1daed =
bereavement. In their several years
residence near SMYRNA. some tyant,,
years ago, they made MANY and fast
Irlehds, who have ever held them in
cherlshed memory. Mrs. divers eld-
9se T son married Helen, a daughter of
Jos. V. Hoffecker, now residing in
Wilmington. -
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
CHESWOLD.
SOME FACTS WORTH CONSIDERING
FILLING ICE HOUsES-LOCAL
AND PFRSONATc

IANA9 "OKIH CONSIDERING
FILLING ICE HOUSEs-LOCAL
AND PERSONALS.
Special Correspondence to the Times.
CHEswoLD, Jan. 3.-One of our citi-
zens in talking over the past and the
present as suggested in his mind NV
the new year among other things said
the bicycle craze has not struck us as
1t had some other places. Cheswold he
thought had its share of bicvcles hut
they are generally used for practical
and business purposes. And farther
sad he thought we were we'll supplied
with musical instruments. He had
counted in our little town - families
with % organs and pianos. He
thought this spoke well for us as every
boy and girl ought to learn music or
else someday they would find the pro-
cession had passed and they are left.
Mr.. y. L. Disch commenced filling
his ice-house to-day. 1t runs about A
inches in thickness.
Rev J. W. Fogle has announced
extra services commencing with Tues
day and ending Friday evening of this
week, each evening devoted to some
branch Of his church work. Epwortb
League Probations, Sunday School and
Temperance.
Personal: Mr.. and Mrs. Mvres. of
Northern Pennsylvania, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Barcus, Sr., on Tuesday
last week. Mrs Aubrey Vandever. Of
Clayton, was in town last Wednesday
visiting friends. Misses Blanche
johnson and Mary Johnson. Of
Smyrna, were guests last week Of
Misses Ethel Emerson and Ethel
Hardcastle. Ralph Savin, near Cbes-
void, made visit last week TO his
aunt Mrs. DR.. &. W. PIeasanton Of
Milford Miss Lille Ford. Of Dover
Is visiting friends in Cheswold. F. Mr.
VIII Thompson and family has moved
to one Of Mr.. J. H. Bishop farms.
Rrv
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
EaStOn District.

Presiding Elder Corkran is making
his third round of Easton District
We extract the following from the
Peninsula Methodist" in reference to
this part of the District:
The reports made to the Sd Quarter
ley Conference Of SMYRNA showed y
greatly improved financial condition
Ihe current expense account was S32j
ahead of the corresponding period of
last year, and the Sunday School
Christian Endeavor Society. the La
dies Aid and other societies of tbe
church which have been in debt for
years, have liberated themselves. The
church now has plain sailing financially.
Now for great revival to quicken the
membership and bring in the multi
tudes of unsaved. SMYRNA Circuit is
improving. The congregation of Jer-
man Chapel has Outgrown its quarters
and the Pastor feels much hampered
by the situation, which we trust tbe
future will adjust for the best. Bro.
Layheld IS very popular, and is put
ting splendid enthusiasm into his
work.
The work on Townsend charge is
moving up to better things. A much
needed new church will probably he
built at Blackbird in the Spring
Union has a more hopeful spirit. and
paid the Presiding Elder in full for The
year on the occasion of his 81 quar-
terly visit.
Bro. Hurst is a splendid fit at
Odessa, and 1 believe has STAYED the
eob tide financially and spiritually in
that church.
Middletown is up to date on ever
thing, except it should be on salary.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

The New York TribCac pithily re-
marks ''The Mediterranean was once
a French lake. 1t isn't anybody's lake
at present. But considering the con
troll Great Britian has of the Suez
Canal and the way in which she is
increasing her strength at Gibralter,
is apparently verging toward that
condition again. 1t does not mat
ter so much who occupies the bottle as
who drives in the stopper.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

tlonal reports were heard last spring,
did not justify the hopes which were
entertained in regard to it at that time.
Acetylene, too, has failed to make
headway in popular favor. The horse
less carriage, on the other hand, has
apparently come to stay; success has
attended the efforts to reduce the
weight Of storage batteries in proper
ton to the charge which they will
hold, and alternating currents show a
definite tendency to come into more
extensive use, both for power and
lighting.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

STATE EXPENSES The melubor- .f
the General Assembly who will a..-
in special session on January IT ...
now considering the financial affair +
the State. This is necessary OH ..-
count Of the expense of the late C.a.
stitutionaI Convention and other l.....
ters necessitated by the new Cou~t.-.
ton.
No one objects to the cost Of tie
new Constitution for the reason t.a.
all admitted that it was uece,... i.
The actual cost Of the convention
itself Is given roughly at 80, Ooo IT,
this must be added the cost of rp...1.
cling the State House to make ro..
for the additional membership Of tie
General Assembly under the new C.a.
stitution. This will be somewhere
about $4,000 more. An extra session
Of the General Assembly is also n,ce,-
sary IN order to make the laws of tia
State conform to theuew Constitution
IhlS Will add about $50, 600 to- tile
amount, making $4,000 in all. To
this must also be added the expense of
penSioning two judges and increasing
the bench. There are some who think
the amount necessary to lie expended
on account of the framing Of the Con.
stitution will be Sl0o.0 The major.
ity Of people think the new Con.
stitution will be cheap even at the
figures named.
1t is held that in a very few Wear,
thenew Constitution will pay back tie
people. Itrequires that county officers
shall receive fixed salaries instead Of
fees, and this will place thousands Of
dollars into the different county treas.
uries. Ia this way alone it will soon
pay off the 500, coo which the new doe.
ument was charged up against it. E.r
chdHgc
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
Ice and Skating.

The rattle of the wagons at sunrise
yesterday morning with the mercury
at 20 degrees sounded like ice gather
ing, which was really the purpose. Wg
u. Pierce, Geo. w. Turner, SMYRNA
Creamery and ID. J. Cummins run
nlng wagons to their houses through
the day with good ice some four inches
thick, but under rising thermometer.
The Ice conditions for ten days have
been peculiar. There was good skat-
ing Christmas week, both Tuesday and
Wednesday, with the mercury drop
ping at night to 90 degrees, and VIM.
Carr intended to get ice next day. but
Thursday and Friday both proved too
be warm, showery days, and SO it had
to be given up. The ice on the pond
did not entirely melt before the change
to colder weather of Saturday came,
that out on the pond forming bed for
the present good ice, but where it had
melted and especially around the edges
1t did not freeze though the mercury
dropped on Sunday morning to 13 de-
grees. 1t was this fact of "air boles''
that interferred with the skating this
week, and the thinness of the ice at the
edges, that prevented Mr.. Carr and
Others from getting ice. He is how
ever getting ice to-day.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

"GREATER New YORK." which came
into existence at midnight on Friday,
was celebrated with great ccIat that
evening. 1t is now the second city in
the world, standing next to London in
size. The uncertain feature is that the
enlarged government is under the aus
plces of Tammany Hall, which name
Is a synonym for the "spoils of office. -
Mayor Strong expressed the opinion
however, on going out of office, that
Mayor VanWick had the qualities, and
would make one of the best mayors
New York has ever had. So mote it
he
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

The Anti-Pelagic Sealing bill has
become a law, and hereafter no Amer
lean may engage in pelagic sealing nor
import any pelagic or other sealskin
into the United States. Russia and
Japan stand with the United States in
this effort to prevent the killing of
seals on the high seas, but England
refuses to go into treaty because
Canada objects, the latter wanting as
an offset to include other articles as
matters of trade that this country can
not Weld.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

NEXT Monday night the General As
sembly will hold caucus at Dover to
decide on the name of a reading clerk.
This is the only Office which the pres
ent body has to fill, all the other offices
holding over from the last session.
Next Tuesday the General Assembly
will go into adjourned session for the
purpose of making the laws of the
State conform to the new Constitution.
The body has very important work be-
fore it, and if the members go home
every night as they did last winter,
they may be in session long time.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

EASTWARD the cloud of warfare
takes way" A little while ago it was
in its old place in the Balkans mount
aims. Then it issued to the Hindoo
KOOsh. Now it is on the Yellow Sea
in China. Wonder how it will get
back again to the Balkans? 1t would
have to take long jump if it kept on
around the world. for it could have no
stopping place onthis continent, unles S
the Monroe doctrine" should become
so offensive to European nostrils that
they should join to sniff it out.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

Pillsbury, the great flour man, has
Withdrawn from active business pur-
suits with several millions to his credit
the larger part of which was made when
wheat was so low the past year. When
asked if this story was true he would
not say, but he acknowledged he had
done fairly we'll" We should think
so. Most of us would be satisfied if we
had made a tenth of that sum in ten
years, and would think we had not
only done ''fairly well, but excellent.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
Election Notice.

The Annual Meeting of the Policy
Holders of the Kent County Mutual
Insurance Company, will be held at
the office of the Company, in Dover,
on Wednesday, the Nineteenth day of
January, 1898, between the hours of
10 A. NJ. and | O'Clock p NJ, at which
time an election will be held for three
Directors to serve for three years, and
one Director to serve for one year.
: VIM. DENNEY. Secretarv
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
JAMES H. HOFFECKER.

James H. Hoffecker died last Tburs-
day evening at his residence. "Cier-
mont, on the Lancaster turnnika
near Wilmington. About six vaore
ago he was stricken with paralysis and
mas been rather feeble since that time
Mr.. Hotfecker was II years old He
served two terms in the General AS
sembly, one in the House and the
other IN the Senate His wife. who
was Miss Sarah Savin. and also GREW
up IN RaymOnd's Neck, and five sons
and two daughters survive him. The
children are: james H., Francis IT.
George r., Wilbur Fisk, J. Savin
Emma G. and Florence S. Hofecker
The second daughter, Annie. married
Dr. ii. 9. Snitcher, for some wears ro-
siding in Colorado. She died two or
three years ago.
A Wilmington paper in speaking of
nm said: "He was prominent NOT onIv
because of his old and honored ances,
try, but because of his own sterling
qualities. He was born near Smyrna
where his father lived for MANY wears
and came here about fifty years ago.
The funeral occurred on Monday
afternoon, the interment being in
wilmington and Brandywine ceme-
terry. The following ministers offl-
clated: DIR. Baker, Grace Church: DIR
heIIgwln, West Presbyterian Church
ana Dr. Murray, of St Andrews.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

THE comptroller of the currency in
the report of the National banks of
Delaware shows the loans and dis
counts to be S5,54G. 50; L. S. bonds to
secure circulation SSO5, ,OOO.O total re-
sources, 50, ,334, SIS. 90; individual de-
posits; 1920, ,4SO.69.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
A Great Surprise is in Store

for those who will go to-day and get pack
age of GRAIN-O. 1t takes the place of
coffee at about 4 the cost. Il is a food
drink, full of health, and can be given to
the children as well as the adult with great
benefit. 1t is made of pure grains and
looks and tastes like the finest grades of
one. A cup of Grain-O is better for the
system than tonic, because its benefit is
permanent. What coffee breaks down
Graln-O builds up. Ask your grocer for
Grain-O. 15c and 25c.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
Jerman Chapel Christmas Entertainment

Amid Christmas scenes and decora-
tons and before a large crowd of peo-
pie which packed the church to the
doors, the Jerman Chapel Sunday
School rendered their Christmas pro
gram Saturday evening 1t was doubt
less one of the best entertainment Of
Its kind the Sunday School has ever
given. At the close OF the program the
Sunday School was given a candy
treat. The pastor, L. w. Lavfeld
gave complimentary speech on the
dlllgent work of the officers and teach
ers of the school, and on behalf of the
teachers and scholars, presented the
organist, Miss Ethel Jones, with a
handsome oxford bible. The follow
ing IS the program rendered:
Singing -';All Hail the Power of Jesns
Name J" by the school and congregation.
Prayer by the pastor. L. w. Iavfield
Singing Glory to God, :" bv the school
Opening address by Roy smith
Recitation by Willie Carroll.
Singing "Chrlftmas Bells. " bv thescbool
OAiIlSlIlldS Greeting ~ ly
GOldey Morris. ~
Recitation Our Work" by May Rob
BINS, Elsie Shelton and Hilda Berry.
Singing Glory in the Highest" bv tbe
choir O9 'Ne
:, r Rie3citatiOn-''The New Toy" by James
Singing Toy Land by infant school
= Singh. Il9{ Christmas Cradle Song by
= Recitation-"What the Little Things
sad; by Beulah Ransom, Edith Tucker
and Nina Shelton.
Recitation, by Leah Cummins.
the school. -N-'iSie' "|
=, Recitation-"Church Reveries of a School
Girl" by Levenia Moran.
=. Duet, by Miss Rebecca Brinton and Miss
- IR4e3eit4ation-'Long Ago on Christmas" "
choir. "S 'ne
Singing, by Clara Green.
Mattiford. - i'i eiice
Singing Benediction
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
Valuable towo,,o

Especially valuable to women is Browns
IRON Bitters. Backache vanishes, headache
disappears, strength takes the place of
weakness, and the glow of health rcadily
comes to the pallid check when this Won.
uerial remedy IS taken. For sickly children
or .L owe oVe5worked men 1t has no equal No home
should he without this famous remedy
Browns Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05
MRS. JAMES WILLIAMS

At quarter past two O'Clock on
Thursday morning, Dec. 30, 1891. Mrs.
Ruth A. Williams, wife of Hon. James
Williams, Of Smyrna, Del. entered
INTO the rest that remaineth TO the
people OF G0d-for which she had been
longing and near whose bounds she
lald SO close during many months
Mrs. Williams was the third child Of
the late Mason and Sarah l.. Bailey. Of
kenton, Del, having been born at.
Duck Greek, April %, 1927, but spent
the early years Of her life at Kenton
On August %, 1850. she was married
to Mr.. James Williams, then livinu
near Mention. Here she continued TO
reside, rearing a family of five chill
dren, only two of whom are at present
living: Mrs. Wm. Polk Cummins. of
Smyrna, and Mr.. Nathaniel Williams
OF Mlddletown, Del. Very early in
life she became interested In the Epis-
copaL Church. and at length under the
rectorshlp of the Rev. Joshua MorselI
she formally united herself. tbrou0b
confirmation, to this church. to which
she ever proved herself a loval and
affectiOnate child, entering into tbe
work of the church with a worthy
fidelity and zeal, and was found always
doing her part amidst the yarious de-
mands OF charity upon her generositv
June 1870 her husband moved his
family to Smyrna, where she lived ont
the remainder Of her weil-spent life
and where, at the above date. She
passed out with the dying year,
In death-Gke sleep
a gentle waiting to immortal life"
at the present family residence on
Commerce street.
tor more than eighteen months she
has been in failing health and since
August she has been Frustrated bv n
complication Of diseases into an illness
SO desperate that almost any dav her
trends expected to see her breathe
her last If ''death is the crown Of
llte;' If ''our dying friends are pio-
4eers to smooth our rugged path to
death, certainly christian woman s
last days proved Of great value 20 her
sell and apreciOus heritage to those who
loved her best. Daring those weeks
OF waiting for the Masters summons
there sprang into full bloom out of the
WEAKNESS and pain to which she was
SUBJECTED certain character-fowers of
love so absolute, faith so clear. n
patience 50 enduring, peace so per
feet as to furnish the community with
a striking illustration of that Chris
tian attitude in which we ''stand still
and see the salvation of God. !" and TO
give her loved ones the right. ave. to
make it their duty henceforth to wear
her, beautiful image i'll their hearts 'all
undimmed
The sympathy of the whole commu-
nifty is extended to the bereaved fam
lily over the loss to them Of wife. sister
and mother. The funeral service took
place at the residence of the Hon,
James Williams on Monday afternoon
at O'Clock, and the interment at the
episcopal cemetery in Smyrna. Revs.
q. W. Dame and w. J. Wilkie. Off
clatlhS. q. w. ID.
Smyrna times., 1898-01-05

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Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50
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wishes to try it. Donot accept any
substitute.
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