Smyrna times., 1899-05-17

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AS much business is done by cheek
as by check.
The parlor will soon be superseded
by the porch.
Stevenson has Strawberry ice cream
made from Southern grown fruit. Try
it.
Paris Green, Powdered Hellebore
and London Purple, at Clifton Il
Raymond's- 2f
Right Goods, Right Prices, Right
Styles at Diamond State Shoe Store,
Commerce street. T
The Town of Smyrna has purchased
five thousand bushel of oyster shells
to come by way of Steamer Elizabeth
Van Solver.
The officials of Smyrna Circuit have
had the parsonage, occupied by Rev.
l.. w. Layfeld, connected with both
the water and sewer main.
The schedule of boats of the p. & S.
Transportation Co. for the daily line
during strawberry season makes an
absolute certainty of securing the early
markets. T3
An innovation to the Commencement
Week exercises this year, will be the
presence of Watkins Orchestra. Their
music is meeting with popular favor
everywhere.
Low rates, no dust, no jarring and
early markets, should induce all grow
ers of strawberries to ship by the P.
& S. Transportation Co. boats to
Philadelphia. %
The past has been the week of maple
seed shedding apparently in larger
quantities than usual, looking like
winged insects as they fiuttered in the
breeze from the trees to the ground.
They could be gathered up if desired,
by the. bushel in some places.
Get your strawberry checks or tags
printed at the SMYRNA TIMES office.
The price is reasonable, the work is
neat and your orders are filled
promptly. Don't wait, but give your
order in early. The TINES was never
better prepard to give yCu good SER
vice. e
l.. NJ. Price has the Improved
Aquatic Cream Separator for sale 1t
saves labor and all the cream Beats
the best creamery and costs less than
half as much. He also has Black
Death for sale, an effective destroyer
of potato bugs and other insects. q
1t may seem strange, but is a fact,
that we can send you the Farm
Journal five years if you will pay all
you owe for the TIMES aud one year
ahead-bOth papers for just the price
of ours. Whether you can reap the
advantages of this surprising offer de-
pends on how soon you come forward
with the cash.
Strawberries made their appearance
in market last week. They were not
grown here, however. but home grown
ones will doubtless be along next
week. The railroad began carrying
them on Saturday from way down the
line, and berry trains will be coming
freely up the Delaware road this week
for the city markets.
The Band of Hope is preparing for
an entertainment to be given in the
Opera House on Tuesday evening,
May Both. 1t will consist of choruses,
recitations, dialogues, an exhibition of
wax figures and topsy turvey. En-
courage the little folks by going to the
Opera House on the evening of May
3Oth, at T. 30 o'clock.
The Annual Meeting of the "Dela-
ware State Federation of Women's
Clubs" will be held in Georgetown,
May cath and 25th, 1899. All friends
desiring to attend may procure rail
road orders for reduced rates from
Mrs. F. F. Evans. Comfortable ac-
commOdations will be furnished at the
hotel for $1.25 per day during the
Federation time.
AT business meeting of the Amer
icus Club last Monday night, the an
nual election of officers teok place and
resulted as follows: b. n. Weldon.
president; Hirons Denney, vice-presi-
dent; and W. H. Brady, secretary and
treasurer. The retiring officers were:
II. G. Tschudy, president; Robert H.
Denney, vice-president; and Clarence
b. Raymond, secretary and treasurer.
The Guarantee Building and Loan
Association, of Wilmington, Del, is
represented in Smyrna by E. G.
Haskell, General Agent. "The Guar
antee" is a home institution with
general Office $50 Market street, Will
mington, whose monthly series are
open to Delaware investors, all invest
ments secured by Delaware bonds and
mortgages. In the past year fifteen
local branches have been organized
throughout the State.
There is new order this year in