Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-02-20

March.
Joseph E. Carter received Mon
day large lot of new styles OF
spring.
Next Sunday will be big Mission
ary2 Day in the M. E. Sunday
scAol.
f'he Benevolent Society will meet
February oath, at the residence OF
MrS T. B. Megear.
The warm weather of this week
has brought out the maple bios
SONS and greened the willow trees.
Joshua Bell, colored, is having
a d elling erected on Lincoln st.
in the vicinity of Centennial
Church.
TIE horse of Edward Streets,
which was injured by a broken
shaft in running away, as noted in
our last issue, has died.
William F. Buchanan left today
for Philadelphia to purchase goods
for a new store, in the old stand,
known as Clements Corner"
Messrs. McGaw & Bro. give
notice in another column that they
are ready to make contracts with
the farmers for growing tomatoes.
Says Philadelphia paper:
'fMuskrats make good eating,
game dealers say, but they must
be shot in the head, otherwise they
taste musky.
Elmer Hoffecker has three show
beeves for sale at his meat stand
near the post-ofice. They We're
bought of Frank Denney, and took
the premium at the late Dover
Fair.
James Morris, who has been re-
siding in Chester, has moved back
and taken the house on Commerce
street, four doors below the four
corners, for a dwelling and shoe
shop.
The trustees of Bethel A. NJ. E.
Church have during the winter,
erected substantial close board
fence that encloses both the school
and grave yard ON the line Of their
property.
Hon. James Williams who has
been carrying on his farm near
Kenton, which he left last summer
to move to this town, will sell his
stock and personal property at ven
due on Thursday of next week.
The entertainment of the Loyal
Legion will come off Friday night
week at the Opera House. Water
FAIRIES" and Flags of the Nations
will be the two chief features Of
attraction, for which the children
are now being drilled.
Valentine Day" was not forgot
ten Saturday though there were
more of the comic than the love
missives. The youngsters took adj
vantage of the bright moonlight
night to pull the doorbells, deliver
the caracatures at the door, ano
run.
William H Marvel who bought
the Leipsic Creamery a few weeks
since, and leaves the Redmar
+ - oil ~
Monday, to take charge of it, has
contracted with the Knickerbockel
Ice Company Of Philadelphia for
large quantity of ice-from 80 t.
200 tons.
A voluntary church choir o.
eight to twelve members is a pref
ty fair criterion of the attendance
of the congregation in public wor
ship, and thus the per cent. o.
people who are off visiting, sick, o.
away from the worship, from ont
cause or another can be pretty ac
cruately gagged.
Prof. L. Irving Handy, of New
ark, will deliver decture in Har
mony Lodge Room, No. 10, A. F
and A. NJ. on Thursday evening
February 10Th at o'clock. Al
the members of the Lodge and al
Masons in the town and vicinit,
are requested to be present.
George M. Stevenson, Sec'y
The Schubert Male Quartette, o
Chicago, will be at the Oper,
House on Tuesday night the Bird
Of March. They come under th'
auspices Of the Christian Endeavo
Society, and have the endorsement
of the bishops of the Methods
church and leading ministers o
other denominations.
This latitude has been in a stew
since Sunday morning, from the al
most summer heat, the heav1
rains of Monday and yesterda,
rather intensifying than cooling it
On Monday the mercury got up in
to the sixties, and yesterday dit
not stop short of 70, the peopl,