Smyrna times., 1900-04-25
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

Ten tons of good Timothy Hay for
sale. G.. K. SNYDER.
The best whitewashing lime for sale
by Cosgriff & Beck.
Fresh Delaware Bay shad every day
at Weldon's Grocery store. 80
The best whitewashing lime for sale |
by Cosgriff & Beck
Leave your order at office of the |
Smyrna Transportation Co. for your
summer wood.
J. 3. Cooper's is the place to buy the |
best early seed potatoes, clover seed,
ano garden seeds of all kinds.
The Smyrna Transportation Co. Of |
fers frst-class wood, sawed and split,
at popular prices.
The Kings Daughters will meet
Thursday evening, April 26th, at 7.30
o'clock, at the home of Mrs. John P.
Hudson. SEC'Y.
The first meeting of the Official Board
of the NJ. E. Church, under the new
order of things will be held tomorrow
evening.
Cummings, the Wilmington photog-
rapher, is here every Wednesday.
Gallery, Post Office Building. Finest
class of work at reasonable prices.
Losr-Between Smyrna and Dover,
on Thursday night, April 19, Dress
Suit Case, containing lady's wearing
apparel. Suitable reward if returned
to TIMES office.
The warmth of this week has brought
out not only the humming insects and
songsters among the birds, but the
hum of industry is apparent in shop
and on the farm at every hand.
The town assessment aggregates
SLOTS, 900, which is $14,945 more than
the assement one year ago. The tax
rate will probably continue at 30 cents
en- the $100.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
bo DraabrfarioD Nburob uicbaS m
thank all those who contributed in any
way to the success of their entertain
ment in the Opera House Monday
night of last week.
The spring term of the Supreme
Court and Court of General Sessions
for Kent county, commenced on Mon
day at Dover. While the trial list is
large it is likely to be short term of
court. There are tbirty-eight cases
set for trial and ten arguments, five of
the latter being divorce cases.
Corn planting will commence this
week, but next week, (the first in May)
it will be on in earnest. Some who
were ready to plant last week, but
were kept back by the cloudy, damp
weather, the kind to make grass and
wheat grow, while not heavy enough
to interfere materially with the plow-
ing.
The subscriptions to the new series
of the Smyrna Building and Loan AS
sociation is nearly completed. Only
200 shares will be issued and it now
looks as if they will all be taken before
next meeting night, May 1st. This is
a marked improvement and shows that
our people are preferring to invest at
home rather than abroad.
We call the attention of our readers
to the advertisement of W. ?. Garratt
pianos and organs. 1t is an adver-
tisement that reads we'll and Mr.. Gar
ratt is a man who backs up what he
saws. We are please to know that his
business has been continually growing
in this State since he came to Smyrna.
The New Castle Presbytery which
met in this town last week had the
misfortune to strike rather bad spell
.ofweather, but in itself was in every way
a success. The body itself was digni-
fed in demeanor and the moderator,
while suave in his bearing, was master
of the situation when the time for a de-
cision had been reached. The fact that
every obligation of the church had
been met before their assembling, had
the same happifying effect on them as
on the congregation and they ex