Smyrna times., 1879-06-18
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

THE public schools viii vaeatc the last of next week
or the Summer.
Mr.. WILLIAM CULLENY merchant of this town. has
moved to Seaford with his family.
THE new omnibus to run to Collins Beach is in
readiness for the opening of the season
THE best new potatoes in market were grown in the
garden of VIM. H. Carr-nearly the size of turkey |
eggs.
THE finest field of corn (S5 acresl in this vicinity
perhaps the Hundred, is that of W. Nathaniel Ran
som, on the farm of Mrs. Martha A. Cummins.
SUPERINTENDENT GROVES. DR.. E. Morris Cloak and |
r. ID. Hohecker left for Newark this morning to |
attend the commencement at Delaware College.
STRAWBERRIES and raspberries Joined hands this
year the one finishing up and the other coming in
on Saturday. The former sold for six the latter IS
cents per quart.
BY special notice of the Kent County Mutual In.
suranee Company elsewhere it will be seen that
special permit must be had by persons insured to use
the steam threshers.
THE pupils of public school No. 3 Herman Roe,
principal, will picnic in Backbrd Campmeetlng
woods on Friday next Goth inst The friends OF the
school are invited.
BUFFALO BILL" came to town one day last week
with load of bone from Kansas. His big head and
horns attracts considerable attention at the side OF
Tygerts office door.
THE basket factory is getting its machinery in order
and will commence the last of this week with full
force. They expect to put into the market about o
half million baskets.
REV. a. RITTENHoUsE stopped over in Smyrna on
Monday on his return home from Dover, where he
had been to preach the Conference Academy Bacc0-
laureate sermon on Sunday.
THE first returning scholar the vacation season
is Cadet William Stayton of the Naval Academy at
AnnaOOliS His vacation lasts four months He has
just returned from six months cruise
items of interest from this section that would interest
the general reader, and lights down a single one
which is paraphraSed with gratuitous and ill-nian
nered 1ns1nuetlonS.
JACOB B. FENNIMoRE. of Odessa, has contracted with
Capt Taggar to fill up the big breach washed out by
the October gale at Collins Beach and has had mud
machine and gang of wOrkmen at work for week
past. The contract price was $500.
| THE Bryant Literary Society at its last meeting
elected the following officers for the ensuing term
and adjourned until the middle of September, viz
Kate F. Bell: Secretary Miss Annie Doughten
Treasurer .. b. Noshell.
| MRS STEVENS. of Wilmington, delivered very in.
| terestng address at the NJ. Church on Monday
evening in the interest of the Ladies Foreign Mis-
slonary Society The principal part OF the address was
| tensely interesting to her hearers.
IT is a constant running fight between the Sprinklc
and the dust and when the latter has high wind t
aid it, has the better of the contest. From morning
until night hewagOn discovering it down in par
or another of the streets but the hot sun icks it up
fast that the application has to be frequent and OF
repeated.
HAY harvest became general the first of this wee
and the farmers could not have been blest wit
better weather for gathering it. Owing to the drough
in May the crop will be much lighter than last veal
hut of SuDpriOr oualitV Wheat is also riDQnin
finely and the crop especially in quality promises
| be very fine one.
Mrs. J. HENRY JEFFERSON has q very thrifty an
prolific Marecbal Mel Rose that attracts the attentiO
of the ladies. 1t grows in the open air and is no
seven or eight years old. 1t is a handsome rose bI
its floral value is enhanced from the fact of its gre
difficulty to propagate, but very few being able
= | succeed in raising it.