Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1941-04-24

in full swing.
Harvey Stewart will have fresh
tomatoes for sale tomorrow.
Leonard Revis advertises tomato,
cabbage, and other plants for sale.
The Guy Bros. Minstrels are bill
ed for the Opera House tomorrow
night.
House-cleaning is all the rage
with the women and gardening
with the men.
Wednesday was our warmest day
so far. The thermometer register
ed SO degrees.
Trees, the buds of which were
scarcely noticeable last week, are
now casting a shade.
The Epworth League of Bethel
Society, Smyrna Circuit, now meets
weekly at Cheswold.
The sailing days of the steamer
Ella, have been changed from We'd
nesdays to Thursdays.
&C riff and Jerman finished
their first kiln of tile last week and
are burning it this week.
William Campbell caught shad
at Woodland Beach on Monday
that weighed IL pounds.
Presiding Elder Smith will hold
his first Quarterly Conference in
this town tomorrow evening.
Wheat has grown in the past ten
days, five or six inches. The most
of the fields look very thrifty.
E. G. Walls has given his dwell
ing on the corner of South and
Union Streets a new coat Of paint.
The Ladies Benevolent Society
will meet at the residence of Mrs.
T. B. Megear, Tuesday, April 18th.
John Inman has been granted a
pension by the Government of S12
per month and back pay since last
June.
Col. John Wainwright, of Will
mington, advertises his agency to
secure pensions under the new pen
sion law.
The peach, pear and cherry trees
came out the past week in full
bloom and present a beautiful APP
pearance.
I. N. Mills, late superintendent of
the Delaware Division, was pre-
sented with gold watch by the
employees of the Division on Mon
day.
The main has been tapped this
week to introduce water into the
Hosiery Mill and the store of the
Buchanan and Collins, half a
square below.
Five hundred barrels of shad
were sent from Delaware in one
day last week to New York, after
supplying Philadelphia and other
places on the river.
We are indebted to Rev. w. w.
Wilson for a copy of the last min
utes of the Conference. 1t is larg-
er than usual and contains great
deal Of information.
Thirty-four members of the Har-
nnony Lodge, No. 10, of this town,
went to Dover last evening, in a
special train, guests of Union
Lodge No. 7, 1. o. o. F.
Ann Jane Demby, colored wo-
man, of an old Smyrna family, died
at the residence of her brother,
Capt. Perry DENNY, on Sunday at
the advanced age of 104 years.
The horse stolen from the stable
at "WoodlaWn," referred to in our
last issue was found hitched to a
tree near Cheswold on Thursday,
Surprising the thief had gone North
search was made in that direction.
E. @. Crow, Commission, was in
town on last week, but while here
took a ride out to some of his old
peach shippers and found them in
good spirits with trees opening into
a blooming prospect of a fine fruit
crop.
William Boyer on the State Road
commenced planting corn on Fri
day, 18th. Some of his neighbors
think that he is little previous
but he says that the best crop he
ever raised was planted on the 18th
Of April.
Messrs. Bitter and Luesher have
been busy in the past week in get
ting up their line shafting and put
ting their knitting machinery in
place, while the engine and boiler
were being mechanically located
yesterday.
William Carr has a blooming
peach tree in his yard that looks
like flame of fire in its thick
clusters of double blossoms and has
attracted great deal of attention
1t also bears fruit in addition tc