Smyrna times., 1879-09-10
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Two citizens of Seaford have opened nm
oyster saloon in E. Wards building. =
n THE closing hop of the season at Collins
Beach Will be given tomorrow night
THE Pierrepo,at, after Saturday will NOT
make regular trips, as will be seen by adver-
The President of the Delaware and Chesa-
peak Railway gives notice of special meeting
October 1st. Q
on Monday 45 tons of his Diamond Crown
Super-Phosphate.
| OUR merchants are getting in trim for the
fall trade. The cool bracing air of the past
two days has done it.
john WANAMAKER and Strawbridge &
Cl0thier open the fall trade to-day with mag
nliicent advertisements.
THIS is the centennial year of Methodism in
Smyrna and some of our older Methodsts are
deslrous that it should be properly celebrated.
AN excursion will be given by the colored
society of the Centennial M. Z. Church of
this town to Baltimore on Friday next Fare,
$1.25.
A THIEF or thieves got into the vineyard of
| John M. Voshell on Saturday or Sunday
night and stole from the vines about 20 baskets
of grapes.
The cemetery adjoining the Bethel NJ. f.
church in the manner in which it is kept is
not surpassed by any anywhere, and equaled
by but few.
By advertisement elsewhere it will be seen
that Capt. E. b. Taggart will offer the property
at Collins Beach at public sale on Thursday
September 18th.
Mrs. SARAH ENGLISH, of this town, has a
pumpkin of last years growth as perfect as
when gathered last fall. 1t was kept in a cup
board in the kitchen.
A P. GRIFFITH, real estate agent, has sold
farm in Kenton Hundred for Edward F.
Jones, containing 70 acres, to Thomas Shaw, of
Pennsylvania, for 81 500, cash.
MEssRs. E. & E. H. BECK s. Co. have
placed cashier and book keepers box in the
centre of their store for the passing of money,
as is the custom in the large city stores.
WITHIN the last ten days Mr. f. r. Sipple
has secured orders for as much as nine vessel
loads of Star Bone Phosphate, six loads of
which have already been shipped and delivered
by him.
THE bonds issued to meet the debt incurred
IN the erection of the Town Hall, $1,000
have matured and new bonds to the amount
OF $1,000 have been re-issued, $4,000 of the
debt having been liquidated.
BISHOP SCOTT in meeting one of our preach
ers recently, in inquiring after the church the
first question was brother how do your
members attend their classes ?' remarking that
this was the best test of the health and vitality
of the church.
SwEETPoTAToEs are selling at 80 cents per
basket, tomatoes Is cents, pears (Dutchess5 so
cents, white potatoes 80 cts. and apples during
the peach season, were in so little demand as
to be dull sale at 10 cts. They will undoubtedly
advance after this week.
FINE peaches are going into the New York
market from New Jersey and the Hudson
river country in New York State and depres-
sing the market for tho Delaware fruit, not
withstanding Sam. Townsends swares that
peaches will not grow North of the Delaware
line.
OUR churches are filling up now the dis
slpatlng days of campmeetings, sc. have
closed, and the weather less sultry. They
have not needed pulpit ability any of the while
~ Oh AAASCuIlhO W going, IOr no lack
can be complained of in our churches in this
particular.
MEssRs. HARDCAsTLE & CLAYTON, whom
we announced last week as having bought the
store of A. II. Hobbs, did not remain the
tempting offer to Mr.. Hobbs to repurchase the
store whice he accepted and resumed forth
with with good subsequent run of business.
j. KENsEY JOHN's farm, containing I58
acres, near the '' Big Oak" was sold on Satur-
day the 9Th by Mr.. Butler and J. Keiser real
estate agents, (the former of Dover and the
latter of Smyrna) to David Trumpeller of
Canada for $4,000. The stock, farming uten-
sils and crops included. Mr.. Johns retires to
Baltimore.
CONSIDERABLE dissatisfaction has been man.
ltested in the way the remains of the man
killed on the railroad last week were disposed
OF by the Coroner, and the citizens Of Clayton
intend, we hear, to have the body removed
from the shallow hole in the ditch bank.
between this town and Clayton, to the church
yard mt that place.
JOHN r. DICKSON, well known retired
farmer of Brenford aged 81 years, recently
walked from that place TO this town, a adstance
OF four miles, in so minutes and returned the
same day in the same length of time. This
community can turn out as many hearty old
people as any other but Mr. Dickson stands
without peer for youthful vivacity.
WILLIAM MORRIS, one of our industrious
laborers who has been making living by
hauling, was suddenly bereft of his business on
Sunday week by the Sunday excursion train on
The Kent County Railroad killing his team |
He had a job of several days hauling
near the Tilghman tract, and remaining over
Sunday, turned his team out for rest and |
pasture with the result from the Sunday train |
rs above stated.
SOME of our teamsters passing through the |
own (those having a team of three we refer |
,o) have dangerous habit of driving without |
! check rein, or any other guide but the voice |
Several accidents have been barely escaped by |
iuch teams on days when our streets are |
.hronged.; Such mode will do in a 40 acre |
ield. but is hardly the thing for narrow streets |
illed with various vehicles.
Il DOVER paper, two or three weeks ago
noted the fact that one of the banks of that
place had received the large amount of Sl5.OOO
n foreign checks in one day. The National
Bank of Smyrna has received as high as
S26, Az. SO and the Fruit Growers Bank S24-
,62. al in q. single day, and for the past three
weeks the daily amounts received have ranged
between fifteen and twenty thousand in each
If the banks.
MIDDLETowN FAIR.-The Sixth Annual