Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-21

line wet weather OI The past
week has given fine season for
transplanting sweetpotato, cabbage
and other plants.
Some of the young ladies wore
roses from their yards Sunday,
thus indicating that summer, with
it's array of blooms, is near.
Next Monday, 23rd, will be the
last trip of the steamer Ella this
month-being laid up the rest of
the month for summer repairs.
The feathered songsters COM
mence their melodies now at 4
o'clock in the morning. They will
add another half hour to this by
time the sun reaches the summer
solstice.
A short life is predicted for the
gaudy streamers on the young lad
les hats. Let them stream; they
are lively and pleasant to look at,
and if they really are beau catch
ers" their existence will not have
been in vain.
Burglars entered the Bingham
Hotel at Clayton on Sunday night
and stole about $25 worth of
liquors and cigars. The same
thieves attempted to enter the dry
goods store of w. S. Reynolds, but
they did not succeed.
Harry Stephenson, son of Joseph
Stephenson, farming near Duck
Creek, had the misfortune TO have
a leg broken below the knee in fell
ing a tree on Wednesday. DR..
Dwight set the broken limb, and
the patient is doing well.
The st. Paul M. E. Church of
Clayton, celebrated the third ami
versary of the Inauguration of the
Epworth League on Sunday even
ing. Many were kept away by the
severe storm of the evening, but
the interesting programme of the
evening was gone through with.
The shad fishermen at Bombay
Hook went up the river last week
to Delaware City and beyond and
the sturgeon fishermen, who COM
menced down the bay have moved
up, and make their headquarters
at the mouth of Smyrna river. The
sturgeon fishermen have been the
more successful of the two.
The weather report from the Ma
tional Bureau on Sunday was that
in the corn and wheat belt the
weather looked more promising.
The temperature was above the
freezing point that day throughout
the country for the first time, this
spring In addition to the cold,
many thousands of acres in the
west and south have been under
water
The sociable under the auspices
of the Mite Society at the Method
list parsonage which came off on
Friday evening last, was enjoyed
by a number of the congregation.
The young folks amused them
selves in various ways. The visit
ors as they entered deposited an Of
fering in the basket, the sum ag-
gregating $44.42, which was want
ed for purchasing carpet.
The Delaware College Baseball
team visited Smyrna on Saturday
morning, en- route from Chester
town to Dover, and three of them
Marvel, Ross, and Stevens, made a
short call at the sanctum of the
Times. They were feeling good at
their victory over Washington Col
lege, 10 to 2, and hoped for the
same luck with the Academy boys
but were prevented from palying
by the rain.
The trout that are taking the
place of shad, are coming about as
large as this most desirable fish
and are more costly. The paying
of % or 80 cents for single bay
trout, when the former price was
from 10 to Is cents a dozen, seems
amazing to the trout eater, ant
they go slow, but no one ever saw
them come to market so uniformly
large before. Warmer weather
may make decided change in {
few days.
1t is stated that when one of the
elocutionists on Monday evening
rushed on the stage with the open
ing sentence of her piece, with tn,
cry of fire, fire." fire." it was 81
realistic that a member of the fir,
company rushed from his seat fo
the fire bell, finding his mistak,
however, by the time he reached
the door. The fire referred to wa
the fire of alcohol. The speake
sounded the alarm the same, ant
for moment a nervous tremo
struck a number of persons.
THE WESTERN BOOM PRICKEI
The Western boom has abou
reached its end, and numbers o.