Smyrna times., 1904-11-02
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
short Items OF General Interest Gathered
During the Week.
W. F. Keith will pay the highest
cash price for black walnut kernels.
Grown and bridge work a speciality.
Du Comegys, dentist, Smyrna, Del.
Go to Keith's for pound of Bells
chocolates, best on the market.
Wanted-A First.class wheelwright.
Good opening for right man. Apply,
W, Times office.
Oysters by the pint, quart or gallon.
Also, stews, panned or fried, at Ste
venson's, Main street.
The Smyrna Benevolent Society will |
meet at the home of the President, !
Monday evening, November 7th at 7.3O
o'clock. Secretary
In keeping with the Halloween cell
ebratlon W. G. Roe decorated one of
the windows of his store on Main
street with an exhibit that showed
considerable taste and enterprise.
During the session of Kent County
Court last week, Luther Howell was
found guilty of the charge of pointing
a pistol at Clarence Gears, ofthis town
and was sentenced to pay fine of 500
and costs.
Samuel Armstrong has been hand
ling peaches from boy and is still
handling them. He planted Harri
sons peach trees, grown at Berlin,
Md, more than fifteen years ago and
can show you peaches from Harrison's
trees to-day. Will you try some of
the best stock grown near home and
from natural seedlings?
The Smyrna Temperance Alliance
will hold an important meeting at
Eagle Hall Friday evening at which
all members are urged to be present
At this meeting the committees re-
Gently appointed to await upon the
legislative candidates and candidates
for Governor will make their final re-
port.
'Old Farmer Hopkins" one of the
brightest rural dramas ever written,
will be produced at the Opera House
Thursday evening: NOV. 10th, by the
well-known Frank S. Davidson Com
pany. Special machinery, mechanical
effects. specialities of high order. and
full orchestra, all go to make the
new "Old' Farmer Hopkins" the great
success it undoubtedly is.
The large department store of Hall
& Meager lis teeming with interest
these busy autumn days and their Fall
oCOA IL bhOAA a0NOA oAoO
ment elsewhere indicates that they are
ready to interest their patrons in dress
goods, tailor-made suits, coats, furi
and shoes. Read of their large stock
of choice selected styles and extraordi
mary values. One must see their line
to fully appreciate it and this progress
sive firm is ever ready to satisfy thu
the wants of all who come to thei
stores.
According to a government report
the corn crop this year will be the Sec
Ond largest in the history of thl
country. The estimate places the croE
at 2, 463, 724, 900 bushels. With splen
did corn crop and a wheat crop tina
was satisfactory, together with fai
prices prevailing, the farmers. of thl
land can see their way clear to pa
their debts and putting a little ava.
for rainy day. And the farmers ar
pot the only ones benefited, for tn
material prosperity of the who'll
eountry so largely depends upon it
grain yield that nearly every industry
Is affected by the annual returns of tn
Fields.
VIM. Fisher district deputy Gran
Master, of Dover, installed the follow
ing officers of Morning Star Lodge
Eo.6, I. o. o. T. as follows: N. G.
Prof. John P. Burdette; V. g., Gil
BERT S. FAIRIES; r. s, Frank P. M
Cawley; P. s., George M. Stevenson
tFeasurer, Joseph Wright, R. s. to \
O.. William @. M. Mcdowell; L.
ID N. F., Charles V. Sudler; warder
Isaac d. Berry, Conductor, E. N
Fowler; o. G.. Andrew d. Cole; 1. g