Smyrna times., 1881-05-11
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Tie campaign of the lawn mower has COM
menced.
THE town authorities are having the streets
put in good order.
The thermometer is again making its way
no to the nineties.
ENocH TURNER had in market yesterday
rock fish weighing so TBS.
THE money on deposit in our two banks
subject to check amounts to 1927, 905.52.
ANDREW CUMMINs has been getting names
with view of starting the street sprinkler.
THE apple blossoms are making the air of
the orchards redolent with their rich perfume.
FARMERS and traders can get trout at the
lower fishery, on Bombay Hook, Jacob Gosse
proprietor.
Mrs. JOHN ANTHONY has over 200 savory
young broilers that will soon be ready for the
stake.
ASPARAGUS has been unusually scarce for
week, but perhaps VennOrs heat-term will
bring it.
The demand for Mrs. p Spruance's flowers
and plants have been so great as to necesitate
a large resupply.
The rain falls have been very meagre for
month and few good showers would be
highly beneficial.
THE May crop of mosquitoes have come
from winters fast with whetted bills and I'M
ceremOniOus demands.
THE entertainment of the "White Rose
Minstrels' on Thursday evening was we'll at
tended, clearing them some $45
THE stockholders of the Delaware & Chesa-
peak Railway will hold their annual election
in Easton next Wednesday, the 18th inst.
THE Bobolinks are en- route for the nesting
fields of the North where they Summer but
| usually condescend to favor us with week or
two of their presence and song.
THE firm of G. w, & S. Taylor of this
town, have just filled an order for 100 of the
New Departure cultivators of their own
manufacture for Baltimore firm.
THE notable demand in the dry goods de-
partment of j. B. Cooper's store the past week
has been for carpets. In the past ten days
he has filled quite number of orders,
A NEW Life Insurance mania has broken
out on the Peninsula on the cooperative and
| secret order plan and several different Orders
are laying seige to the unprotected towns.
THE Depot at Morton was entered by bur-
| glars on Saturday evening and every package
and place opened where anything was likely
to be found, but the thieves had their labor for
| their pains.
WHEN the new potato plants came through
| the ground last week they found the Colorado
beetle sitting along the rows awaiting their
coming. This plague of the farmer seems to
have come to stay.
The Collins Beach hotel and pavilion are
under going their Spring renovation and the
announcement is made by the proprietor, l..
c. Greves that the Beach this year is to be
conducted on strictly temperance principles.
J.E. WILLIAMS has thrifty young Apricot
tree only one year from the transplanting well
filled with fruit the size of marbles. This fruit
is exceedingly uncertain of mild winters but
the Apricot yield this season promises to be
good.
JOHN WINTER has added to his facilities
for business one of Packers new ice cream
freezers with which he can make 40 quarts OF
ice cream in 30 minutes and will thus be q
great accommodation to those needing speedy
supplies.
OATS, which quarter of a century and more
ago was much more common than wheat, is
now almost numbered among the lost crops
! ~
rounding this town there is this season scarcely
80 acres all told.
THE bright moonlight nights have enticed
to the promenade grounds not only the young
pedestrians, but also the Lyric Quartette
whose music harmOnizes beautifully with the
shimmering moon beams that pour down
through the verdant naples.
A LARGE number of persons avalled them.
selves of the privilege of saving 8 per cent or
their school tax by paying the same before the
10th. 1t is rather hard on the collector pei
cent, none of this being any grist for his mill
The amount aggregates over $1,000.
HOTEL IMPROvEMENT.-Jeffers & Collin,
OF the Smyrna House are preparing to build ar
addition to the hotel of twenty-five by thirty
feet for billiard and bar room and expect t
turn tho old bar room into a sitting room
The bar in the basement will be dispensed
with
The members of the A. NJ. f. Conference
which meets in this town to-day, came largely
yesterday and attracted considerable attention
as they marched through the town down Il
the distributing centre. They were we'll dress
, ed, Intelligent in looks and altogether made
good appearance.
, BROKE HIS ARM.-On Monday afternoo,
while Andrew Sisco was adjusting slip lad
der preparatory to finishing new TIN roof OF
the NJ. p Church at Clayton the rope broke
? the descending ladder catching his arm anC
, breaking both bones of the left forearm. DIR
Ashcraft reduced the fracture.
; BUSINESS ENLARGEMENT-G. w. IS. Tay
Tor have purchased the wheelright and black
smith shops of VIM. A. FAIRIES g. Bro, ad
f joining them: These shops are being removes
\ to the rear Of the lot for the purpose of erect
!, ing where they stand large brick ware-hous
l for their agricultural machinery.
PRELUDE.-The pastor Of the NJ. Z. Churc'
n prelude lectures to his Sunday evening SCI
n mons, in which the blackboard is used. tn
Sunday School lesson is the subject, the OF
e ject being to keep the whole congregation n
s with the Sunday School, and posted in tn
q, main points of the lesson.
# THE Little Greek Landing M. f. Churc
# has declined to be assigned to Leipsic and 4,
up for itself The reason for not staying O
Leipsic Circuit as arranged by the Conferenc,
}, is desire to have morning preaching. The
p were asked to have their preaching in tn
- afternoon and declined. The Rev. Mr.. M,
y Faden is to be the pastor.
? SERIOUSLY HURT.-Ono day last week Ge
" Clark, the miller in Wright new steam gri
n mill at Kenton, was caught in the driving be
n and was seriously, it was thought at first fatall
% injured. Drs Temple and Cooper were boi
soon on the spot and rendered timely assistan,
III and he Is now doing well with no more seriol
r injuries than dislocated ankle, cut head an
i broken nose.
m The meeting Of the colored conference WI
Re necessarily an event with those families tn
! had the pleasure or duty of entertaining ther
- and feeling a pride in doing their best, b
az purchases In the way of carpets, furnitur
queensWare, &c, the per cent. of which 90