Smyrna times., 1880-06-23
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Now for the oat harvest.

NOW lOE tue OtlG hdlNSot'
GAMALIEL GARRISON, near HefIecker's
Mill, has peaches nearly ready for market.
EARLY ROSE potatoes, grown by Mr.. s.
B. briggs were in market on Thursday last
18th inst.
JAS G.. FARsoN, at Brenford Station, ad-
vertises peach baskets, and Boyer q Farson
grain and fruit.
THE combined figures of deposits of
money subject to check in our two banks
amount to $l4G, G,GS5.e0.
The most remarkable thing of the pres
ent harvest is that there has not been a
single accident to report.
The Ladies Benevolent Society will meet
tomorrow evening at o'clock at the resi-
dcnce of Mrs. VIM. Nelson.
Tickets for the Sunday School Excur-
sion of the NJ. L. Church on July 7th arc
for sale at several Of the stores.
DEwBERRIEs and IIuckleberries were both
IN market on Saturday. The crop of each,
especially the buckle, promises to be large.
AT the conference of the A. NJ. Z. Church,
recently held at Norristown, Pa, Rev. J.
Wilkshelms was returned to this place for
another year.
A FISHING excursion is the order of the
day for the Pedagogues of the town next
Saturday. Of course they so to Bombay
Hook.
THE Odessa Base Ball club came down
on Saturday for game with a picked nine
of Smyrna. The score stood, Smyrna 10,
Odessa l3.
THE Conference Worker in its locals says,
" Bombay Hook Campmeeting is the latest
sensation" Will the editor please explain
what he is driving at?
THE disposition with many wheat grow
ers is to get their wheat into market a,
soon as possible. They are perplexed al
the unfixedness Of price.
THE Centennial Church will have a churcl
camp and corner stone laying next Satur
day and Sunday. The corner stone wa
not laid when the church was built.
OK the 11th inst. John Truax sold t.
Harry II. Hackett building lot Of acr
at Brcnford, and he in turn sold it las
week to Jas. G. Farson Of the same plac
for 500.
} THE warm weather has made terribl
5 depletion of the public schools, and
would be difficult to keep them goin
longer for want of pupils. They will clos
next week.
THE colored people Of Smyrna and vicir
ity will hold a Fourth of July celebratio
r on Monday July 5th, procession forming i
L Smyrna and proceeding to Horace Sprl
ance's woods.
A. P. GRIFFITH, our real estate broke
{ has sold dwelling house at Smyrna Lane
ing for the Smyrna Building and Loan A
! sociation, for $500 cash, to VI. A. Haley, {
l Milwaukee, Wis.
FRANCIS MCMCLKIN a commission me
chant Of New York noted for several yea
for getting high priceS, advertises his bus
}, ness card in another column. Attention
: called to his references.
NATHANIEL FARsoN brought to our ofIic
this morning two good sized squashe
which he says were pushed ahead of a
k others because he fertilized them with I'll
@ diamond Crown Nitro Phosphate"
Y PETER HARDCAsTLE, on the Mcdaniel far
o near Morton, seeded 100 bushels of viii
! wheat of superior variety last fall ar
those who have seen it think the yield w
e be the heaviest of any in that section.
A GRIsr of five bushels of new wheat w
e ground at Hoffecker's Mill yesterday, .:
J. inst. 1t ground nicely for new wheat al
IS made a yield exceeding a barrel. Nc
. wheat -four is rarely in the market befo
. the first of July.
:. The Democrats, friends of Mr.. Bayard a
- so much interested in the balloting at CT
~ cinnati that they have prepared lar
ID bulletin board to note the different ballo
r. Should Mr. Bayard be successful, his frien
- here intend to illuminate
a The property of the Kerkleys at Leips
- was sold Monday at sheriff sale, amounted
over $1,000. The Bank bought the re
"a dences of Jas. Kirkly and Thomas Kirk
jr., that of the former selling for $l9i
Mrs. Jas. Kirkly bought the store hou
n. wharf and granary.
c The Harmony" Band want two inst
IT, ments they have replaced with new ones
ad they may ali be alike, and they intend
hold moonlight festival in the grove
nc No. school on Friday and Saturday ev,
IN ings next to accomplish this purpose, a
he ask the patronage Of our citizens.
%. A NOTE from Collins Beach wishes us
he state "out of justice to the place. and
oa the benefit of the friends of the old reso
that contrary to reports and advertiseme
Is that the CLYDE stops at Collins Beach on
lis down trip as formerly, leaving her ?
ty sengers there until her return 'homewa
IN A PROLIFIC Cow.-A coIored man, OBJ
ee johnson, living with Geo. Reed Loaal
he one Of our yeung farmers, has half Aid
ney COW which year ago gave birth to t
:" calves. few days since the same C
ee had triplets, all three heifers and Fl
or healthy calves. This is one ahead of G
re. rett Foxwell on the Eastern Shore.
lie OwING to the great demand for cloth
he from the Boston One Price Clothing Hol
n my agent will remain in Smyrna ur
= Monday next June 28th, when he will pt
Ut lively leave. V. E. HoLMEs,
be 2l3 Market street, Wilmington,