Smyrna times., 1880-05-26
DON'T forget Pinafore tonight.

dressed by Mr.. Herman Roe.
THE proposed Robert Raikes centennia
services does not seem to arouse any gener
al interest i'll our Sunday schools, but one O
our churches, the Centennial" Rev. Geo
III. Waters pastor, giving it the recognition
recommended. The entire day at thi:
church will be given to the memorial servi
oes ending with q sermon in the evening by
Rev. J. A. Brindle. At the Asbury NJ. T.
Sunday School the regular lessons will be
substituted by addresses and hymns com
memorative Of the great Sunday School
founder.
PINAFORE TO NIGHT.-It is scarcely ne
cessary to call attention to the entertain.
ment at the Town Hall-two operas in one
Pinafors" and "Trial by jury" either Of
which ought to be sufficient to draw o full
house, The best evidence that the people
arc interested is the demand for tickets, q
considerably number of the reserve seats
being sold for several days. This amateur
company has been spoken of in the high
est terms everywhere as artists of superior
talent and our citizens who attend will no
doubt have an entertainment of rare en-.
joyment.
STRAwBERRY.-The number of strawberry
cars that went over the Delaware II. r.
yesterday was 81, as follows: to New York
2S, Philadelphia Is, Boston 4, Wilmington
l and Chester /. The previous shipments
were no cars. We learn from the agency
Of VIM. G. Hill they sold in New York yes
terday from 10 TO l5 cts. They brought
last week from Is to Is cts The berries
shipped to Boston both Monday and Tues.
! day were detained by burnt bridge be.
tween New York and that city. The com
mission men say that if they had arrived
on time they would have sold for 2j to 80
cts. per box.
Mr.. A. LEE CUMMINs is having large
/ cupola extended above the roof of his
! factory which answers the purpose of
heightening the elevator and ventilating
the building. lie is also adding an annex
! 60 by As feet to give more room for the
work. The sales for the Diamond Crown
Nitro Phosphate have been far beyond his
expectations, his stock manufactured for
the Spring crops being exhausted some ten
days before the demand ceased. As will
be seen in our advertising columns, he
proposes to make the standard of his
wheat phosphate still higher. and as soon
as the necessary changes in building, &C.,
are made he will commence a vigorous
prosecution of the manufacture of phos.
phate for the fall campaign.
The STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL under the an.
spices Of the NJ. E. Sunday School on Friday
and Saturday last was entirely successful.
| all the arrangements working in complete
harmony. 1t was happy thought having
1t under the trees; the swinging Chinese
lanterns, bright reflectors, richly ladened
| tables with their attractive lady we .ers, all
making season Of more than usual free.
dom and enjoyment. The preparations
were all closed out On Saturday the long
wished for showers came, causing disper.
sion, the evening entertainment being held
IN unoccupied store rooms. They had de.
termined to close at 10 o'clock for exam.
pies sake, and fortunately the circum.
stances entirely suited their resolution, the
cream and cake, &c., being exhausted
DEATH OF Dir. SMITH-Dr. VIM. T. Smith.
former resident of our town, but for the.
| past twenty years or more n resident of
Salisbury, Md, died in that town Yesterday,
and IS lamented by the community there
and his numerous relatives and friends in
this vicinity. DR.. Smith studied dentistry
IN this town, but in making a selection for
future home chose Salisbury, where he
has since resided, esteemed as useful citi.
zen and an active man in all church and
municipal affairs that were for the public
| good. lie was first stricken down in
December from what was thought nervous
| prostration, but his aiilictions have since
been decided by his physicians to be from
an internal cancer. lie was about 81 years
ofage. The funeral services will take place
| tomorrow.
| NON DEVELOPMENT OF Our RESOURCES
! 1t seems strange that with such fine fruit
country as ours and the abundance of
labor that can be commanded. in any enter.
prise, that this town has not been almost
! an entrepot OF fruit evapo~atiug or pre-.
! serving. wherever it has been iudiciously
| entered into 1T has been found both profita.
Ole to the proprietor and the community,
and capital has been derelct in dutv in
neglectlng so important an enterprise in
our town. Milford is boa5tingof its houses
| all tull and demand for more than can he
had, and this squirt has been mainly since
! the erection OF its canneries and numerous
| evaporators. Of the latter we have none
IN the community and of the former only
one, run for brief season each year. If
we DO not develop our own resources and
other towns do, we can expect nothing else
tnan they Will outstrip us. Our conserya.
i've capital may yet put us in the condition
OF the man who was washed overheard
with heavy bag of gold in his pocket.
| A MIDDLE ALLEY FARM.-At the ex.
treme end of the Middle Alley road
! Wild's Corners tho farm of A. Price
! Griffith, one of the best farms on the road
and comprising POO acres. This is n mart of
a large tract OF several hundred acres once
| belonging to DR.. Jas. Jones of Revolution.
airy fame, who was Surgeon of General
Washington's Army at Valley Force. and
/ who at the close of the war returned 10 his
native place and died some fifty wears aro
on this farm. He was a strict Baptist of
the old school, was the founder and stated
minister at Brinzion Church until his death
about 1880 If not directly he was soon
succeeded by the late Peter Meredith who
( retained the pastorate O number of wears
and was, we think, succeeded by the pres.
ent incumbent, Elder Rittenhouse. Atthe
death OF DR.. Jones the farm in question
passed INTO the hands of the late Daniel
/ Megear by inheritance This wife being the
daughter OF said DR.. Jones) who resided
mere twenty-five years, after which it was
purchased by the late Jos. G.. Griffith whose
wl1e was also an heir of the Jones estate.
| While noting these historical incidents il
may not be out of place to state that the
"Wild's Corner" named above took its
designation from the Wilds family, numer.
GUS then and now in this section, the father
OF Mrs. Griffith, Major John Wilds, who
enlisted In this town as private and ulti.
mately arose to the command of the Della.
ware troops in the war of 1912, residing in
the near neighborhood. Mr.. Griffith was
an amateur fruit grower and perhaps the
! pioneer in introducing in this section the
cultivation Of the peach, pear and straw.
berry as market crop. An orchard of
peach trees, and we think the first embra.
cling several acres in this community. which
he set out in lS43 remained in tact as a
bearer until years ago Ia fact we noted at
the tlms) being 81 years old when removed.
Whether from the fact that the early trees
had more vitality or to the superior adapta.
bility OF the ground we do not know, but
these treos were much larger than the
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