Smyrna times., 1881-08-24
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

SMYRNA and Vicinity.
CAPT Scout, an "old Sault," predicts |
rain before tomorrow night.
IT takes an old miller to remember two
such summers as last year and this for low
water.
A CALADIUM leaf i'll one of our private
yards measures 43 inches in length by 81
in breadth.
WHEAT threshing is still being pushed
forward as fast as the machines can
hustle the sheaves through.
ATTENTION is called to the adv. of the
property of Rachel Wilson, dec, to be
sold in Middletown next Wednesday.
ATTENTION is called to the advertise
ments of r. M. johnson, Geo. VanWinkle
and Palmer Heating, Esq, Real Estate.
PROF. GROVES will have an examina-
ton of teachers for second and third grade
certificates, next Saturday 9th inst.
FODDER saving will be two or three
weeks in advance of the usual time this
year. In fact a small quantity has already
been saved.
WHAT becomes of our young men on
Sundays? is considered pertinent ques-
ton for those interested in them to take
into consideration.
THE comet made it's appearance on Sat
urday night, viz: to the naked eye, but
comets have become so common that it
did not attract much attention.
| THE people who complain the loudest
about the preachers taking a vacation, are
the ones who delight in light shower or
a warm Sunday for an excuse to stay home
from church.
WEDNESDAY is the 'big day" at Wood
land Beach. Last Wednesday, it is said,
! that $50 carriages were in their yards.
They come as far as our neighboring State
of Maryland.
THE cool weather of last week that
drove people from the sea shore gave
place on Sunday to another warm wave
from Manitoba that sent the murcury up
among the nineties.
THE display of exhibits at the coming
State Fair will be without a doubt the
best and largest ever witnessed on the
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enter them by nail at once.
WIN. II. THOMPSON, of this Town, made
q wager last week with +. R. Cochran oi
Middletowp of new hat that before the
first of June next wheat will sell at $2and
corn 81 per bushel IN the Philadelphia
market.
AFTER considerable labor they hayc
| IaI 80. 1xykrtr,o, ho axaaI of ha rno1
that leads to Woodland Beach and it is now
pronounced in good travelling condition
This road has been deal of annoyance
trouble and expense TO the Islanders.
JOHN H. HoFgEcKER started his can.
ming factory yesterday on tomatoes. His
facilities have been very much improved
by the addition of q 50-horse power boilel
with other appurtenances. Among the
items is q new smoke stack nearly fifty
feet high.
ROBERT HILL has shipped 300 crates O.
Bartlett pears from his fFBig-oak" farm tC
New York. His crop altogether will make
about 1000 baskets. Geo. w. Cummini
sold his crop of Bartletts, several hundred
baskets, to J, NJ. Chambers of Dover fol
81 per basket
THE Fourth Annual Fair of the State
Agricultural Society of Delaware, to bC
in Dover from Sept. 26th to Oct. 1st, prom
ises to be grand affair. No entry fee is re
quired for exhibits, while the premit.m
offered are larger than those offered by
any other society on the Peninsula,
, THE slight sprinkle here on Sunda,
night developed into good growing rail-
in Dover Hundred and down and owe
, into Maryland. The people down beloy
can smile on their green corniields and b
| THANKFUL that they do not live in Littl
Creek, Duck Creek or Kenton Hundreds
: TIE party at Collins Beach on las
| Thursday evening is said to have been on
, of the largest that has gathered at tina
|. place, having representatives from Della
ware, Pennsylvania and Maryland VIII
: seemed to appreciate fully the occasion
: A large party Is expected tQ-llorrow even
ing from Chester.
! A RIDE down the Peninsula shows
very active enterprise in the business O
canning, especially tomatoeF. There
J scarcely town on the railroad line tina
> has not now got It's cannerE. Unfortu
nately the tomato crop thrliatens to b
short in consequence of the prevailing DIR
a weather, which must affect the gcners
G result.