Smyrna times., 1935-05-23

Sunday carriage traVel very nedVy.
A new bulk window has been put
in the store of Mrs. Lizzie Collins,
the past week
Crabs are appearing in market
along with the finny representa-
tives of the sea.
The ice cream dealers have
found "a long felt want" in the
weather of the past week.
The music CT the law mower was
the necessary result of the rains
and warmer weather of the past
week.
1t is announced that E. Harry
Beck and Miss Ella Graham, Of
this town, will be married this ev-
ening.
The demand for Paris green is
likely to be active this season as
the potato bugs have come in re
newed force.
The English sparrows have been
very troublesome to some Of our
gardeners in their raid on peas and
cabbage plants.
Joseph B. FAIRIES is building q
berry house, wagon house and de-
partment for berry pickers, on his
farm near Brenford.
The Smyrna Cornet Band have
added picolo, clarionet and drum
major to their number, making it
now seventeen members.
Charles Z. Moore, the successor
to Col. Douglass as fruit and grain
shipper at Clayton, is getting ''har-
messed" to his new business.
DEATHS
Taylor-In Dover, May 14th,
Mrs. Wilhelmina Taylor, widow of
the late A. J. Taylor, aged Al
years.
B. v. Weldon has been reap
pointed collector of the Town taxes
and parties paying the same before
the 9th inst, will have a rebate of
five per cent.
Two social picnics were held in
Belmont Grove on Saturday, one a
company of larger school misses
and the other juvenile members of
the Band of Hope.
The annual Episcopal Convention
of this Diocese will be held in this
town, commencing this day two
weeks. 1t will be attended by fifty
or more ministers, Bishop Lee, pre-
siding.
Jacob Leinberger is determined
to be up with the times. He has
put in his shambles q Ridgway re-
frigerator big enough to hold a
beef, a sheep, and lamb at the
same time.
Two new Railroad station-houses
are being built, one at Green
Spring and the other at Blackbird.
The houses will be built of wood,
Gothic style, and viii be neat and
convenient.
The best evidence that more at
tention is given to taste and ap-
pearance il the annual increase of
painting, Joseph z. Carter, one of
our painters, alone having nine
painters in his employ.
There were too many shad in
market on Saturday considering
the other fish in the day. for the
temperature Of the Gay, and late in
the evening one party sold at as
low as six for quarter.
Mrs. DR.. Butler, returned mis-
sonary from India, and Mrs. E. B.
Stevens, secretary of the w. F. M.
S., will deliver addresses in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, to-
morrow Thursday evening.
MARRIAGES
David-James- At the Smyrna
NhAb POI sOAld5tI ILL., Dy
the Rev. John France, John A.
David and Miss Josephine James,
both OF New Castle County, Del.
The entertainment Of the mem
bers Of the Band of Hope to be
given in the Town Hall on Friday
evening promise to be one of va
riety and excellence and the indica-
tions are that it will be largely at
tended.
In 1879 the wheat crop averaged
ten bushels person and 700 bush
els per mile Of railroad this year,
estimating it one-fifth short. the
crop will average six bushels a per-
son and 1913 bushels per mile of
railroad
The corner stone of the new M
+. Church, at Colts, Md, will be
laid on June 4th, at p. m, (D.V.)