Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1942-05-07


creasing almost daily.
w. E. C. Bell has opened cigar
and tobacco store on Commerce
street.
Street sprinkling is now in order.
It is only a day or two between
mud and dust.
George M. Stevenson has built
an annex to his ice cream shed for
the storage of freezers.
The train came first to Clayton,
and then reached Union Station at
z o'clock in Baltimore.
Henry Moore, an old man resid-
ing near Kenton, fell Wednesday
night and broke his hip joint.
DR.. Hill, it is said, held a large
insurance policy 100000 in one
company and $4,000 in another
company.
This is the planting corn week
with the farmers. More would have
been at it than are, had they not
been belated by the rains.
The lecture of Rev. Robert w.
Todd has been postponed from Sat
urday night of last week to Satur-
day night next. He will also preach
i'm the M. E. Church next Sunday.
The May moon full on the 18th.
On the evening of that day there
will be partial eclipse, visible in
this latitude, and the moon will rise
with a portion of its face hidden.
The first of May found the trees
leafless in the woods, but on the
warmer weather that marks the
advent of May there has been a
wonderful development of bud and
leaf.
The removal of the accumulated
dirt from the stoned part of Com
merce street and the raising of the
fiagstone crossings is an evidence
of improvement on the part of the
commissioners.
The little shower of Monday ev-
ening brought us the first lightning
and thunder of the heated term. If
this should be sample of what is
to follow it will be very quieting to
tha paryac pf emma panr1a
Farm work is now demanding all
the attention of the tillers of the
soil, and until the harvest is over
there will not be much relaxation.
While the farmer is busy with the
stock and lands the good wife is
looking after the chickens, dairy,
etc.
The prospect for an average
wheat crop in the county is a fair
one. Fallow wheat is looking well
all over the country, while wheat
seeded to follow corn is not so
promising. 1t seems to be back
ward, though in most places there
is a prospect for a good crop.
kits Hammock usually gets the
first catch at Bay Trout, that come
along at planting corn time, but
Bombay Hook slipped up on the
Hammock this year and landed the
first of these favorite fish. The first
catch was on Saturday and some
fine ones were in market Monday
A box to receive benevolent con-
tributions for the Russian sufferers
has been placed in the post office
where it will be found during the
week, On Sundays it will be
placed in the vestibule of the M. E
Church. Here is chance for those
desiring to help the starving Rus.
slams.
At Delaney's some eight miles
from Smyrna, a new church is be.
ing erected, to take the place Of
"Old Delaney's" now associated
with the Sassafras and Massey.
circuits, of which Rev. Fred E. Nc
Kensey is pastor. On Sunday, MAY
9Th a cornerstone will be laid. Rev
w. w. Wilson, of this town, vii
preach at Delaney's in the morning
at 10 o'clock, and in the Afternoon
he and the Rev. G. w. Bounds, pas
tor of the Second M. E. Church O.
Dover, will deliver addresses, a
which time the stone will be laiC
according to the ritual of the M. E
Church.
There is more than one lesson tt
be learned by the colored people o
this vicinity in the Wilmington muir
der of DR.. Hill. One of them is thu
habit of coming to town on Satur
day nights indulging in intoxicant
of some kind and going home at
late hour in noisy, boisterous an
profane crowds. There is some
thing very similar in the way thes
men in going home from Millingtol
met and killed DR.. Hill, and tn
manner in which frequently OF
summer nights they have gone on
of this town. If these men, VIII
will doubtless sacrifice their live
by this deed, had gone to town, me
their friends, purchased such art
al