Smyrna times., 1899-04-26
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Ice Cream at VIM. H. Carr's. T

Ice Cream at VIM. H. Carr's.
Best made Footwear, at Diamond
State Shoe Store, Commerce street.
Stevenson has Strawberry ice cream
made from Southern grown fruit. Try
it.
The great Pennsylvania Railroad
system was fifty-three years old last
Thursday.
Asparagus will be the next vegetable
in market, making its appearance this
Gold dollars, the coinage of which
ceased in 1890, now will sell as high as
S1.S0 apiece.
The subject of Rev. Mr.. Hills lee
ture tonight in the Pilgrims course
will be Vanity Fair and its Hubub. "
The Circle of Kings Daughters will |
meet at the home of Miss Laura Bell, |
Thursday evening, April 27th, at 7.3O |
o'clock. SEC'Y.
The Diamond State Shoe Store, adj |
joining the clothing store of John w. |
Tucker, put up a handsome canvass |
sign yesterday.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society will |
of r.,
DOwell, Monday evening, May 1st, at
half past seven. SEC'Y.
Go to Cummings, photographer
Post Office building, for finely finished
cabinets, mantelles etc. Here every
Wednesday.
To handle increasing business of the
Steamer Elizabeth Van Solver, two
large draft horses can be seen to the
wagons of that company.
There is a movement in favor of
Fourth of July celebration in Smyrna
this year. The Gen. Hancock Post
has taken the initiative.
A good many people who are now
bowling against the trusts will be de-
claring that they are good thing next
year. So says a certain Democratic
exchange.
Squire Cooper fined Eliza Daniels 6
cents for constantly insulting Abraham
WhOrtenbury when she saw him on
the streets, the fine and costs amount
ing to S2.04.
If you have saved your 1898 calen-
dars they will answer for the following
years: 1910, 1921, 1927, 1899, 1855 and
1866, as the days of the week will fall
on the same days as this year.
A down Peninsula exchange has
the following libel on the masculine
sex: "A woman in town says her hus-
band is so fond of an argument that he
won't eat anything that agrees with
him"
The Philadelphia & Smyrna Trans
pOrtatiOn Company are covering the
yard at Fleming's Landing with oyster
shells and putting up large wagon
shed for the use of their patrons. A
new passengers waiting room will also
be built. -
The Steamer Van Solver made a
special trip to Leipsic Saturday, car
rying 500 cases of tin, 200 crates of tin
cans and goods for the merchants.
bringing back 10 go up Monday, 1900
bushels of seed corn, 100 cases of
canned goods and $50 barrels of pulp.
AT the sale Saturday of the property
OF Frank Murray on lower Commerce
street, the purchaser was Timothy
Donovan Of Townsend, one of the
dwellings for 5000, and the other for
500. The sale was by Sheriff John
| b. Wharton.
The EastOn Shore papers speak of
shad and herring being plentiful in the
| Chesapeake as far as Elk river. Up
I'LL that time they were scarce in both the
Delaware and Chesapeake bays. Mr..
| Stokesbury, our fisherman, caught
about 1000, shad off Bombay Hook
island.
The steamer Elizabeth Van Solver
will run as follows the first week in
May:
Leave Smyrna Landing, Monday LIST.
at 10 noon; Wednesday 3, at IL noon
Friday 8, at 12 noon.
Leave Philadelphia, Tuesday 2, al
Up: m; Thursday A, at II a. m; Sat
urday 9, III a. m.
Full time table in next issue.
The Pennsylvania Experimental Sta.
ton has been developing corn Tor IL
years, reaching last year the enormous
yield of 1874 bushels from an acre
Some 10 bushels of this corn mas
through the agency of Rev. IL. w
Layfeld, been supplied to our farmer
for planting. The ground OF cours'
must be very rich, TO grow any approx
innate crop to this.
The SUSSEX Joltrndlhas the following
"Dr. Porter, the ventriloquist, is II
Smyrna, and in few days will intro
duce BODY to the girls of that town.
The same paper makes the following
announcement in another item: "Ih
} pastor, Rev. Adam Stengle, announces
that he would preach q course OF ser
mons Sunday evenings on Hlstorl
Characters Of the Bible and history Q
| their times. Tomorrow Sabbath
: evening he will preach on Adam, tn
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