Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-05-12


added to the water list.
A new baseball club, mostly old
players, is being organized 10
Smyrna this week.
William A. Cummins had a horse
badly injured on Sunday by run
ming into a barbed wire fence.
S. @. Stinson has his new house,
at the extension of Frazier and
Pearl streets, completed and is oc-
cupying it.
George w. Reed, formerly in
charge of the railroad freight de-
livery, but laid off a year ago be-
cause of i'll health, is back again
at his old post.
Last Sunday was the first in
May, a perfect May day, that call
out persons of all classes, day
neither too hot or too cold, but
suitable to all alike.
McGraw & Brothers who have
contracted for nearly 200 acres of
tomatoes in this vicinity, have also
contracted for $50 acres of corn at
S11 per ton, at Locust Grove, Kent
County, Md.
Col. George w. Cummins is hav-
ing large windows and other i'm
provements made to his store
house late in the occupancy of T.
B. Megear, known as Cummins
Corner, in the center Of the town.
The charter of the Citizens
Hose Company, No. 1, handsome
piece of penmanship % by %
inches, by Mr.Diefenderfer of Phil
adelphia, is enclosed in a gilt frame
and on exhibition in the post Office
window.
The colored cornet band that
made such good music, but dis
banded over a year ago, has been
re-orgarized again under the lead
ership Of Hiram Johnson, and will
soon be ready to come out again,
Hiram says, as good as ever.
The shad fishermen left the
Bombay Hook fishing grounds last
week because of the appearance of
''mossbackers" in large numbers,
the latter getting entangled in
their nets exasperatingly. Our
fish dealers now go to Port Penn
for their supplies.
A number of our young people
will doubtless take advantage of
the extra train to take them out
to the festival at Clayton and re-
turn on Friday evening. Straw
berries and ice cream the first Of
May with good time" thrown in,
offers strong temptation.
The Trustees Of Delaware Col
lege met yesterday in Newark TO
accept the $4,000 appropriated by
the government. Prof. George d.
Purington, Of Missouri, was elect
ed director Of the agricultural de-
partment. There were several
other applicants. The meeting was
entirely harmonious.
The transfer Of Rev. w. H.
Hutchins from Greensboro, Nd, TO
Hilton, n. f., will probably call
Rev. f. 2. White, Of Smyrna Cir
cult, to succeed him, and Mr.. White
be followed by Rev. S. NJ. Morgan,
Of Townsend. This change would
have been carried out this week
but for the difficulty of getting at
once a young theological student
to take the Townsend appoint
ment
Mark Twain gave the following
advise to a young author: Yes,
fish makes brain. Judging from
your previous articles, you need a
couple Of whales-not the largest,
but good, middle sized whales"
Once let the belief become general
that fish makes brain, and the de-
mand for fish would become an ex-
tinct animal. No, its a great mis-
take. Neither fish nor any other
food can supply the great natural
deficiency of cerebral tissue which
afflicts the modern man.
John G. Bailey, who has made a
number of improvements to his
property while at the same time
giving considerable employment to
mechanics, is finishing up with
new Office more than double the
size of the former one, which will
have more conveniences every
way, including a private room. In
the work on the dwelling, in addi-
ton to that heretofore spoken of,
the finish in the brock work and
moulding called for some very ex-
cellent mechanical skill by Messrs.
Bell & White.
Joseph Smithers is making i'm
portant changes in his residence
corner Of Commerce and Pearl
Streets. The roof is to be replac-
ed by new high pitched project