Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-01-09
Be sure to date your letters 1891.

Be sure to date your letters 1891
Rev. ]. A. B. Wilson will preach
in the NJ. E. Church tonight.
The Steamer Ella is remaining
in harbor at present on account of
the ice.
The thermometer has registered
about 20 degrees the past three or
four mornings.
Lewis Hamilton has killed three
pigs weighing respectively 1854, 374
and 402 pounds.
Beefsteak run through a sausage
cutter is a new idea, but not bad
one for poor teeth.
The man who itches for political
Office is often scratched at the eau
Gus if not at the polls.
Lent and Easter come early this
year. Lent comes Feb. IL, and
Easter comes on March %.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the Smyrna Library Association is
called for tomorrow evening.
r. M. Cooper commenced ship
ping his crop of sweet potatoes
this week. They go to Chester.
S. Brady Cooper, of Cheswold,
has been rendered and accepted the
position as Railroad Agent, at Hen
derson, Md, on the D. & C. road.
The removal of snow from our
pavements has been rather tardily
done in some instances. In fact,
in a number of cases the snow was
not removed at all.
Services are being held every
evening this week at the Presbyter-
ian Church, and Tuesday, Thurs
day and Saturday afternoons, it be-
ing the Week of Prayer.
To fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Joshua T. Jerman,
as Levy Court Commissioner of
Duck Creek Hundred, Gov. Biggs
appointed last week ]. M. Voshell,
of this town.
The regular meeting of the Board
of Trade will meet tonight at z
o'clock at the office of Esq. H. G..
Budd. A full attendance is re-
quested as business of Importance
is to be transacted.
Thursday, New Years Day, was
the annual moving day from Dover
down, and the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland. The day was exceed
ingly disagreeable, it being dull
and foggy and much rain.
r. NJ. Cooper and Thomas D.
Garrison, living near Cheswold,
filled their ice houses the first part
of last week with ice between two
and three inches thick. It was
easily gathered from the "Hoffeck-
er Mill pond from which the wat
er escaped.
J. w. Everick who bought Bay
View, on the Light House road Of
Mr.. Wenrick and moved his family
there from Burlington, n. j., some
time ago purposes making stock
farm of it. He owns besides farms
on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland
and Virginia, and the Joseph L.
Lavender farm near Clayton.
Elizabeth Johnson, widow Of
Mitchell Johnson, died on Saturday
aged 6S years. The Johnson fam
lily are better known as the occu-
pants of Jim Town" for the past
several generations, until the days
Of railroads, the place. and family
being conspicuously known to visit
ors to the town from the western
districts.
The difficulty which Messrs. Lew
is and Price have recently unex-
pectedly found themselves in, is in
the way Of satisfactory adjust
ment. An extension has been
granted by their creditors, by
which they expect to settle up the
business by the LIST of March and
be able to pay dollar for dollar of
their Indebtedness.
At the office of the United States
Commissioner for the improvement
Of rivers and harbors Monday, bids
were received for the removal Of
the schooner Mary A. Rhodes in
Smyrna River. The bids were as
follows: Frank G. Somers, Cam
den, n. J., S485; Charles U. John
son, Lewes, Del, S1,490; 3. G..
Bailey, Philadelphia, S447.
Mr. William r. Collins, at Ches-
void has made public an announce
.ment that he will deed two lots to
any party or parties who will es-
tablish a cannery or some other
approved industry at that place to
give employment to and advance
the interests of the town. Some
Of the citizens stand ready to aid