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

Some people talk by the yard,
and think by the inch.
This should be a big ice-cream
season. Ice and sugar are cheaper
than last week.
Several Of our grape growers
have commenced spraying with the
Bordeaux Mixture.
w. G.. Pierce has sold the stock
of mules bought in Kentucky in
March, all but single pair.
The Delaware is the best shad in
the world. So says the U. s. shad
commission, and we believe it.
During the winter the hen may
be rather dilatory, but she is sure
to come to the schatch when the
garden has been planted. :.
The music accompanying the lee
ture of Rev. E. X. Tullidge, on
Monday night will be by the or
chestra gotten up by G. b. Taylor.
Never in the memory of the old
inhabitant has the outlook for a
fruit crop been better in Kent
County. The entire farm has been
vertible flower garden.
The quick putting of the steam
from the exhaust at the Hosiery
Mill from tireless little engine
imparts a stirring businesslike
aspec to Commece Street.
After tomorrow the special taxes
which have heretofore been col
lected from dealers in cigars and
tobacco and the manufacturers in,
will cease, the law having been re-
pealed by the Congress.
Messrs. Buchanan and Collins
have secured a horse and wagon
for the delivery of goods to Gus
toners. They have found it nee
essary to do this on account of
their increasing business.
G. Burk Cooper, young Negro
who decamped about a month ago,
when he learned the officers were
after him, for a felonious assault
attempted on a young colored girl
a week or two previous, was ar
rested in Wilmington on Thursday,
had hearing here before Esquire
Cooper on Friday, and carried to
Dover Jail on Saturday. His case
will come up in court this week.
Quite an appreciate number of
the pupils at the Smyrna School
have laid aside their text books,
some to work and some to play.
Mr.. Yocum desires US to say again
that no scholar leaving school be-
fore the end of the term will be
promoted to q higher grade with
out passing a thorough examina-
ton upon the work that was COW
cred by his class during the time
that he was absent.
Michael Riley has bought of E.
Beck the store house now occupied
by j. w. Jones on Nam Street in
GLIDING two large stables in the
rear, for $4,000. 1t IS the purpose
of Mr.. Riley to open there shortly d
butchers shambles. Mr.. Jones has
leased for a term Of five years the
store room known as "Cummins'
Corner" property of the late
George Cummins, to which place he
will move next week his flour and
feed store.
The colored people who live down
the Neck, always noisy when
they are going out Of town on Sat
urday night, were more so last Sat
urday night than usual, 50 much SO
that the officers had to take them
in hand. The leader was Jim
Barrett, an old offender, who resist
ed Policemen Grant and Cummins,
and his clothes were nearly torn off
him. by the time that he was land
ed in the lookup. He had hear
ing on Monday morning and the
fines, including those of resisting
an officer, were $500. One Of the
gang, Harry Williams, coming to
see what was the fate of Barrett,
was recognized, arrested and fined
ANOTHER DONNOHOE BILL
Yesterday while waiting for the
5.45 train at the Dover depot sew
eral persons Hutchins
Officer Grant and others, saw lit
tie 11-year-old boy puffinfi away al
a cigar, and commenced joking him
about the new law that would stop
all of that with the boys. The lit
tie boy after listening to them
awhile said, II was talking TO one
Of the Legislaturemen yesterday