Smyrna times., 1900-05-23

THE SMY
The best whitewashing lime for sale
by Cosgriff & Beck.
Standard Quart Strawberry Boxes
$l.75 per thousand. M. M. P. Scout.
=- 40
Cummings, the Wilmington photog-
rapher, is here every Wednesday.
Gallery, Post Office Building. Finest
class OF work at reasonable prices.
Brandywine M. E. Sunday School
Will go to Woodland Beach on their
annual excursion June 18th. Thew
Will go on the steamer Thomas Clyde.
Next Sunday, the 9th inst, will be
"Children's Day" at the PRESBYTERIAN
church, and the following Sunday,
June 3D., will be Children's Day at the
Methodist church.
Strawberries (from the South sold
here last week at 18 cents per box. OF
course they didn't disappear rapidly as
they will week or two hence, home
grown, at and cents quart.
|. In Congress Friday, Senator Ken
ney introduced a bill appropriating
$4,000 to purchase a painting called
"Rodney's Ride" by Wilmuth Gary,
to be hung in the Capitol Building at
Washington.
NOTICE. Notice is hereby given
that all Merchants and Manufactur-
ers' yearly licenses are due June /,
and all unpaid within 80 days there
after will be subject to a fine of % per
cent. as provided by aw.-RoBERr S.
Downs, Clerk of the Peace. *3
All members of the High School
Alumni Association are requested to
meet at the home of Miss Bertha
Smithers on Friday evening next,
May 25th, at 8 o'clock. The annual
election of officers will take place at
that time. SECRE TARY.
Get your strawberry checks or punch
cards printed at the TIMES office.
Workmanship, material and prices are
right. We make a speciality of all
kinds of job printing. Call or address
THE SMYRNA TIMES, Smyrna, Del
The New wharf for the Farmers &
Merchants Steamboat Company, al
Smyrna Landing, is nearing compile
tion. 1t is 100 feet long, aud is to have
on it warehouse, GA by 90 feet. 1t il
something they have greatly needed
The claim is made in the advertise
ment of the Elk's Carnival in our ad
vertising columns that it will be bigger
than 20 circuses or as large as tel
State fairs in one. 1t will be in Will
mington a week-from June 18th t.
June 23rd-and parade every day
There will be reduced rates on all line
of travel.
VIM. Wilds, Jr., who two or thre,
weeks ago opened an agency for Wana
maker & Brown in articles for men
wear, as stated in an advertisement
elsewhere, has considerably improve
the store he occupies opposite Frui
Growers National bank, by taking OF
the partition that divided it.
Sunday, the 18th, hot weather set
: and kept it up all the week, three day
rising into the ninties, until the fiji
; rain early Saturday morning. 1t wi
very dry, which with the heat had
parching effect on vegetation. Th
q rain put a new phase on everything
g While hayfelds are possibly bevon
, redemption, the strawberry grower
were greatly cheered by the good rail
fall,
q The Sentinel, in connection with e
q positions it has made says: "Rumo
+ are floating about now, touching tt
misappropriation of county fund
Tax collectors are in default, the coun
: has been kept out of the money, al
IS surety bonds are to be sued" If
o the existing evils of bad administr
IS tion in State and county affairs are
10 be eradicated, the next meeting of t.
n Legislature will need an extensio
1t will be big job.
7, Pay Up and Get Farm JOu
= nal tor Five Years.