Smyrna times., 1879-08-20
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.


pears.
AN excursion Bethel M. Church) win be made
from this place TO ChestertoWn on Sunday August /
3Oth TO camp meeting.
DANIEL FORD. one of our reliable farmers residing |
in Shows Neck" is on three or four weeks visit to
some friends at Danvers. ILL.,
OUR real estate agent A. P. Griffith sold for Dr. VIM
Cummns farm i'll Kent county, Md, containing III
acres, to Samuel Pugh of Pennsylvania for $1,000.
AN examination for first grade certificates will be
held in this town by Prof. Groves Friday and an
examination for second and third grade Saturday
CAPT. A. Scout and James ]. Turner both shipped
grapes TO the city market week ago, the Telegraph
variety of the latter realizing cents per ID. in New
York
A LARGE load of Bartlett pears from one of Col.
Geo. W. Cummins' farms, passed through town this
morning on the way to Richardson & Robbins can
merry, Dover.
BY advertisement it will be seen that train will
leave this place every Wednesday evening for the
next several weeks for Bombay Hook to convey those
who wish to attend the hop at Millington's hotel
THE yellow sweet potato has been in market pretty
freely the past week and VIM. NJ Winford had them
for sale the day noted the red variety being
in market in our last ISSUE They are selling for so cts
per basket.
WIN. DENNEY HAZEL, one of our Commerce Street
merchants has bought out J. NJ. Beaston. merchant
1st We wish Mr. II. well in his new field and regret
his departure from our midst.
AT the closing exercises of the National School of
EOcution and Oratory at the Academy of Fine Arts
Philadelphia, last week. Miss NJ. Anna Ofley was one
of the three judges of the contestants for the prizes
| On Monday morning by reason of the washing of
| the embankment by the rain and the pressure of
large collection OF rock; temporary wharf % feet
in length, at the Phosphate Factory of j. E. Tygert
d Co. gave way preciptang about so tons of Plaster
| rock in the creek.
| THE evaporators the farms of MesSrs. John
Anthony, 1. L. Lapham and N. T. Underwood showed
their desrability yesterday by being the means of
utilizing the ripe fruit whipped off by the storm the
farmers of the neighborhoOd finding ready market
| for their damaged fruit at 25 cts per basket.
WALTER F. C. GoLT accompanied by friend re-
turned yesterday from visit to Rehoboth and reports
| the storm there on Monday both grand and fearful
The wind came right down the coast and laShed the
sea into . tempest The hotel Proprietors report
| Monday the most inelement day they have ever had
| during the summer season.
THE peach crop promises to be so plentiful this
year that the Delaware farmers talking seriously
of getting up destructive frost on about Angus
15th-FIck. The programme of our funny paragraph
ist has been somewhat varied: instead of a frost
storm has been fully destructive in lessenng thu
| crop as the farmers desired.
THINGS are lively at the basket factory The de
mand is greater than the supply, notwithstanding h
factory is turning out 5000 baskets per day The sup
| ply down the country is exhausted and Dove
dealer was in town early this morning and Offeret
two cents in advance to sell again. and the price ha
advanced from $50 to $50 per thousand.
| WESLEY BAYNARD formerly of this town land VIII
| has been ON visit home the past week) had been
conductor on the Atlantic City Narrow Guage Raj
| road and only resigned his place few days befoT
the collision there last week in which five person
were killed and number wounded. He resigne
his place because of the careless manner it was col
, Quoted
} WARREN HARPER, formerly of Dover, as will
| seen by advertisement, has a farmers machine1
| warehouse in Wilmington where implements of ever
kind kept in full supply. He calls especial atel
ton to the Oliver Chilled plow the Hegerstown grail
s seed and fertilizer drill the La Dow jointed dis
| harrow the Victor double-huller clover machin
S Studabaker wagon, Morant Key guano, seeds, &c.
We record in our mortuary list two deaths. both G
q Saturday and near the same hour. Mrs. Caroline
Daniel after years of great pain and patient suferin
n and John NJ. Wright. one of our young industriou
thrifty farmers, after brief illness. The remains
Mrs. Daniel inferred yesterday afternoon at
n Episcopal cemetery attended by number of symp
thising friends, and Mr.. Wright likewise to-day
+: Bethel NJ E. Church.