Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-05-22

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New Post Office at Wilmington,
found the work too hard, and were
replaced by force of colored men.
The citizens of Middletown are
asking the General Assembly for
authority to borrow $4,000 for the
purchase of an electric light plant.
The contract with the present COM
lpany will soon expire.
Joseph Wolcott, of Harrington,
died on Thursday of pneumonia,
aged 65 years. Mr.. Wolcott was
the brother, of James Wolcott,
Esq, of Dover, and for five years
has been a sufferer from paralysis.
The button factory at Dover now
has ten persons employed, and as
the machinery is completed and
placed in position, there will be
other workers added, until there
are at least twenty-five employed.
Twenty thousand bags of beet
root sugar all below the 16 Dutch
STANDARD, and therefore entitled to
entry, free of duty, got wet on the
way to Philadelphia, and it was
thereby raised above the standard,
and made liable to duty.
The catch of sturgeon off the
mouth of the Mispillion River has
been unusually large this season.
| In the State of Delaware accord
ing to the American Newspaper Di-
rectory for 1890 there were SO pap
ers of all sorts, and the average
circulation of these is 1858 copies,
3S times 1.263 gives us 47,994. OF
the SO papers, five of them are
dailies, published in the City of
Wilmington.
| The granting of twelve divorces
in one afternoon, by our Legisla-
ture, would seem to prove that our
laws need very much emending and
improving upon that subject. This
closes out the entire business of
divorces for the session, as well it
may do, for all previous records
have been beaten.
Governor Reynolds has appointed
John E. Pennypacker, of Whining
ton, a notary public. He has also
appointed Harvey B. Vandegrift Of
Wilmington, as railroad detective.
George S. Grues, of Milford, is
negotiating with parties for the
purchase of a creamery, to be run
in connection with the ice plant
now in course of construction at
Haven Mill Pond.
superintendent Hindall will meet
the teachers of the County every
Saturday in Dover.
Four thousand bushels Of oyster
shells will improve Milford's
streets.
The Delaware and Chincoteague
Canal has been completed.
Delmar Farmers have formed
branch Farmers Alliance.
/! Dover had a very heavy rainfall
on Thursday night, and the sewers
were overlooked.
The Electric Plant Movement
will soon reach Smyrna, if it does
MT get switched off like the ice
plant, at the last turn in the road.
Joe E. Carriers workmen have
papered the parsonage at Kenton
this week Mr.. Carter is expected
home from Charleston, w. Va, this
week.
Look out for the currant worm
on your currant and gooseberry
bushes. They have come and will
eat the bushes up befoe you are
aware of it.
The meetings of the Loyal Legion
have been disturbed for two weeks,
by some one coming up to the door
and blowing smoke through the
keyhole. They ought to catch that
Jim" and puff him well.
Peter Loose, who bought and re-
sided on the Cherker Farm, near
Kenton for the past thirteen years,
died on Friday last, aged 80 years.
The remains were taken to Monroe,
Mich, for interment.
Says city paper: "The time to
get out of the wild cat" schemes
is at once. If you get the promis-
ed money, you are robbing someone
else. If you don't get the money
someone is robbing you"
The sturgeon fishermen who
commenced way down the bay
have steadily moved up, and are
now off Bombay Hook.
The welcome shower on Thurs
day night, that only laid the dust
here, was a very heavy shower al
: Dover. Another freak of the
weather was a snowstorm on Sat.
urday in the upper New England
, States, the mercury falling to the
: freezing point.
Says an exchange: "The New
Postage Tariff will fall with con,
siderable weight on publishers out
side of weeklies. On newspapers
excepting weeklies) without re-
gard to weight of frequency of is