Smyrna times., 1906-05-09

lce:-By calling at our office you can
make favorable arrangements for your
seasons supply of ice. Smyrna Mfg. |
& Trans. Co.
The first quarterly conference of
Smyrna Circuit will be held Friday |
afternoon at the Circuit Parsonage at |
2 O'Clock, Presiding Elder Koons pre-
siding.
THE Coal STRIKE is OVER and we
are prepared to put in your coal for
the month of May, So. go for frst-class,
clean coal, 224O pounds. Smyrna
Trans. and Mfg Co.
WANTED:-Dis Managers to
post signs, advertise and distribute
samples, Salary $500 weekly, $500
a day for expenses. State age and
present employment. Ideal Shear Co.,
80 Randolph ST., Chicago.
Thomas H. Wilson has for sale at his
large agricultural implement store the
Eagle Steel Lawn Swing. Just the
thing for comfort and recreation for
these spring and summer days. Go
and see them and you will want one.
The Dover Field Club came to
Smyrna again on Saturday aud this
time won from the Smyrna "Ravens, "
10 to 8. 1t was close game and was
witnessed by good crowd. 1t was
the first game played on the new dia-
mond-in the trolley lot. The battery
for Smyrna, Dickerson and Turner;
for Dover. Rash and Downs.
If you are superstitious about the
number 13 you had better give us your
quarter dollars, for on each one are 13
stars, 13 letters in the scroll of the
eagles beak, 13 leaves on the olive
branch, 13 arrow heads and 13 letters
in the words ''quarter dollar" Now
its not safe to keep them, so just bring
them in and get credit on your sub
scription for the full amount
Baseball enthusiasts of Dover are
somewhat elated over the report that
Director Waller, together with League
Treasurer James f. Alice, Jr, and
League Secretary F. NJ. Casson, of the
new lower Delaware League, have Sc
cured the services of David w. Zear-
foss, the celebrated baseball catcher,
formerly with New York Nationals,
later with st. Louis and more recently
with Kansas City, where he now is.
1t is understood that enough funds
have been raised to secure the services
of this "heady" baseball player and
fine catcher and hitter to serve on the
Dover League team this season.
Prof. X. Morimoto the Japanese
orator who lectured at the Opera
House, Friday under the auspices o.
the Smyrna High School. pleased al
appreciative audience. His lecture
"The Far East and the Far West,
was admirably illustrated and very
educational in its character. The
school realized about $500 after al
expenses were paid which will be ap
piled to the piano fund. A feature o
the lecture entertainment was tn,
High School Chorus which rendered
selection which was happily applauded
The outlook at the present time TO
a great fruit crop on the Peninsula
the best that it has been for years an
the question of obtaining a sufficien
supply of ice for the preservation of To
fruit when shipping it to distant point
is one that is causing no little anxiet
to the bnyers and shippers of fruit.
a sufficient supply of Ice can be oil
tanned, no matter how large the fru
crop may be, it should be marketed {
fair profit; but if there is shortag
in the ice supply it will cause loss {
many thousand of dollars to the fru
growers and people of the Peninsula
Prof. Il. i. Crsss, in conjunctio
with the trustees of the Wilmingto
Conference Academy of Dover, has 81
cured reliable subscriptions, many
which haye already been paid, suf
cient to wipe out the entire ;ndebte
ness of the academy by the close of Il
fiscal year in June next. 1t is the pu
pose of the trustees to pay the last dc
lars indebtedness by June 18th, Il
day of the commencement this yea
when there will be burning of BON
and mortgages amounting to $37, 90
The graduating class of the acaden
this year will be the largest in its hi
!, aky and many visitors are expects