Smyrna times., 1938-02-24

c. H. Jones singing school has
increased to nearly thirty in num-
ber.
Chief Templar Hermon Roe
went to Dover this afternoon to
address a Temperance meeting.
Friday Governor Biggs appoint
ed John H. Bewley of Smyrna, a
trustee of Delaware College, vice
John r. Nicholson, resigned.
A full attendance of the Loyal
Temperance Legion is desired on
next Monday night, as there will
be a reception of new members.
Samuel G. Stinson is building
by 16 feet, five rooms, corner
Frazier and Pearl streets-on a
part of the Cummins land laid off
anto building lots a year ago.
Railroad fares on the branch or
lateral roads of the Delaware r. R.
it is nnounceod, will be raised
March 1st to four cents a mile
The charges on freight are also to
be raised.
Will Wright, who recently re
tained his majority, has left J. w.
Jones. He went with Mr.. Jones
when a small boy, nine years ago. |
He has taken the position of clerk !
on the steamer Tygert.
Shad from Southern waters are
in the Philadelphia markets. Flor
ida shad sell wholesale at 40 and |
so cents, and those from the North |
and South Carolinas at from IS /
cents to a 81, as they run.
The school children revere the
name Of Washington a good deal
more to-day than in the past, be
cause for the first time in a num-
Der of years, they are given Wash
ington's Birthdy for a holiday.
Mrs. S. E. Richards went to
Frankford yesterday to attend the
funeral Of her mother, Mrs. Hettie
Lynch, who died at the residence
of her daughter, Mrs. A. Q. Town
send in Philadelphia, last Satur-
day.
Mrs. Mahon, wife Of Patrick .
Mahon, residing near Delaney's .
Chapel, dropped dead on Saturday
morning while sitting at the
breakfast table Death is suppos-
ed to have resulted from heart dis
ease.
Cards are out announcing the
marriage Of Miss Mary M. Roth
well, daughter Of Gideon z. Roth
well. near this town. nd John NJ.
Gayton, of Mount Union, Pa, on
Wednesday next, 29th inst, at
1890 o'clock
The meeting Of the Trustees Of
Delaware College held yesterday
at Newark, was to devise ways
and means to spend the $4,000
which the Government gives an
nually for experimental agricul-
tural education.
Joseph Brinton, who has been
doing business in this town in con
nection with his father, ]. G. Brin-
ton, has made arrangements 70
take the stove and tin store in
Millington, Md, as the successor
of William Green, deceased.
The big ice house at Lake Como
is being enclosed, leaving a space
of two feet which is filled in with
bent hay. This expense is gone to
protect it from the sun and heat
thus saving the ice inside from
what would otherwise melt it.
Thomas B. Megear who has been
on the Cummins corner for sever
al years. will change his place Of
business, w. M. Bell, the owner.
intending to fit up the rooms now
occupied by the Misses Megear On
Main street, for a store for him.
The festival held by the ladies of
the Presbyterian Church at the
Opera House last week was sue
cessful beyond their expectations,
ano proved Doth pleasure and a
profit. The receipts for the two
evenings were $251, expenses $50,
leaving a net result for their treas
ury S171.
Spring trousers it is said are to
have a welted seam of the same
material down the side, and will
be just as wide as they are now.
This is interesting information but
it would gladden. the soul of the
average young man to learn that
the price was not to have a welted
seam fastened ON to it.
GRAIN
New Long Berry Red Wheat 5 .95
New FIIltz wheat .......... 80 /