Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-05-08

Go to the polls next week and
vote for a convention.
If politicians hope to rule they
must not defy public opinion.
Everybody wants good roads, but
nobody wants to pay for them.
C. H. Register has picked ripe
Strawberries from his garden.
The report of our National Bank
show that there is on deposit, SUBJ
ject to check, 5000, 900.
The sermon at the M. E. Church
on Sunday evening was 81 minutes
long. And tie weather. it was hot.
The output of the Smyrna
Creamery for the past month was
1871 pounds of butter, and 1892
quarts of milk.
The ladies of the NJ E. Mite So
ciety have put new rug on the
6ining-room Of the parsonage and
papered it also.
A. Lee Cllmmins sold at auction
on Saturday night, his household
effects which he does not wish to
carry with him.
Theodore Carrow, overseer at
Woodlawn, had a young duck
Matched on Sunday that has four
separate and distinct legs
The Public Schools assisted by
the corps Of teachers, will hold a
strawberry festival, at the Opera
House next Wednesday evening.
The Good Templars" are all re-
quested to be in attendance at the
meeting Of the lodge tonight at s
o'clock sharp. Business of import
ance.
George w. Taylor, of Philadel-
phia, is down to replace the engine
of the hosiery mill with a new one
The other one has never worked
satisfactorily.
E. c. Recap of Bambay Hook
lost in this town on Monday, q
purse containing SIS. The finder
will be suitably rewarded by re
turning it to the owner.
The season of roses is near al
hand, the pink dailies having al
ready bloomed out. 1t is noticeable
that the buds on the bushes are not
so numerous this spring as usual.
Mrs. Eliza Maclary who died il
Philadelphia, was brocght down il
the cars on Saturday and conveyed
to the family burying ground a
Leipsic. She was in her 83rd year
Our peach growers it is presum
ed will find baskets cheap this year
Our manufacturers sold to H. D
Boyer last week a considerable 10
for IL cents basket, or $3.50 {
hundred.
Mr.. McElwee, of the Smyrni
House, wishes us to say that an,
one having coal ashes, tin cans, an
other refuse to dump, can do so il
his yard, where there is plac
that he wished to fill up.
The several whistles of our in
dustries give quite a business as
pect as they note the work hours
The most musical is the doubl
whistle of the Hosiery Mill -
tenor and contralto, as it were.
Last week with it's snow squall
and biting winds, was not a goo
one for May parties. Prudentis
people have learned to wait unit
the middle of the month befor
taking an all days airing in tn
shade of the woods.
$500, which our board of trad
paid for single column advertise
ment in the New York World fl
one issue, is dumbfounding to tho:
people who think that $500 {
$500 is larpe sum to pay a loo
paper for advertising. 1t is none
that makes the mare go.
A very large number of colort
people attended the funeral of He
Ty Dulaney at Lockwood's Chap
west of Kenton, one day last wee
He was better known to our Peep
as the charcoal burner which
frequently brought to this town f
sale. He was 70 years old.
Mr.. Speakman killed a gre
snake very slim and nearly tv
feet long in Belmont Grove la
week where it was resting in &
top of bush. 1t is known as Il
snake DOCTOR" from its reputati'
of doctoring other sick or disable
snakes. 1t is rarely seen now.
"A week ago it was freezin
Monday the mercury was aga
climbing up to the nineties and We
terday morning down aagin
nearly so degrees, fall of betwet
30 and 40 degrees. There is OF
other change that would be acceI