Smyrna times., 1881-08-03


several days. Her daughters Misses Fam l
ME and Jennie Stevens are spending
week or two with Mrs. Jas. w. Anthony.
We were in error i'll chasing r. M. Rosin
as graduate of the Millersville Normal
School. 1t should have been Hyatt's Nil
itary Academy Chester.
Charles B. Clements returned last week
from Leadville, Colorado, after an absence
of over two and Il half years. He will
spend several months here perhaps in re-
cruiting his health, which has been some
what impaired.
Col. George w. Cummins is sick at his
home, Woodlawn," from an attack of
malarial fever
Rev. VIM b. Gordon has been selected
to make one of the addresses before the
Teachers Association at Rehoboth.
Rev. Z. Stubbs was in town this week
on a visit to his mother who was indis-
posed, but is better.
Robert Denney has returned from a
visit to Long Branch.
Joseph VanWinkle left to-day for Phila- !
delphia to take situation i'll the Drug |
Store of S. p. Wright.
The following citizens compose party
for Il trip up the Hudson River to West
Point and Newburg: Walter o. Hottecker,
Herbert d. Alice, VIM. A. WinfOrd, Theo.
f. Johnson, Luther Hoffecker and VIM. 7.
Johnson.
Joseph IL. Primrose, of Wilmington,
was in town yesterday prospecting for
business location.
Rev. J. d. Rigg has entered Oh his Yaca-
ton and is visiting Oakland and other
camps. Mrs. Rigg has gone to Chester.
Mrs Rev. T. E. Martindale and daugh-
ters have gone to Ocean Grove to spend
several weeks.
Rev. Mr.. Lucas and wife and Miss Mag
gle A. Stevenson are visiting near Pres
ton, Md.
Luther Hoflccker and sister Alice are
spending IL week or more at Cape May.
Misses Lizzie and Sallie Mcdowell are
on visit to Wilmington.
A. Lee Cummins is at Ocean City.
MINOR MENTION.-The early crop of
potatoes Ia good One) is matured and in
; the main gathered. Now let there be
: ''war to the knife" with Paris Green on
the bugs while the vines of the late crop
are small, and much can be done to exter-
inmate them.-If you want to get a
thing tangled up and confused put it in
. hands of daily paper itemizer. A case
in point was our little shark story last
week. The Philadelphia Times had the
shark in the boat and our three fishermen
ready to jump out seven miles from the
shore, while the Erery Erening located
the incident in the creek. The average
paragrapher reads too carelessly to bt
= concerned about facts.-During the alb
l. sence of the pastor the pulpit of the NJ
20 +. Church will be filled by the local breth
Y. ren. As they usually give usa sugar sticl
,, or slice of lemon, the services will alway
N have something relishing, and good flavor
IA ing is the demand of hot weather.-Th
" remark was sometime ago made of a Ger
u tain man, that if she had not been a ricl
4. man he would have been good man." TIL
NJ counterpart of this is true of some other
ge that if they had not got down so low the
N would have had more incentive to b
er good.-The comet has folded its tail an
pe silently stolen away.-Thc "dOg days
bo when the Cicada Qocust) sings and tn
RS grasshopper takes elastic springs, is upo
of us. 1t is generally stickey weather, 4
he least the flies so regard it, and is tn
nj season when malaria is the most insidiou
H. i'll infusing its poison i'll our system
bo Ncnnor predicts a moist August like thi
M Of II. He also predicted frequent rair
mr. for the last week of July, but they wei
nd rather scarce this side the mountains
off 1t is rather strange to treat the peach as
AN curiosity but such is the fact. Captai
40 Tschudy had one on Monday that OccI
nv pied the twig to itself, beauty, that WI
;ro passed around land by) and admired, unit
bo ifithad had grain of vanityit would hay
TO got quite 'stuck up" We do not kno
70 where it stopped, with some appreciativ
of person of course. Though Hale's ear
raj it was as large and as luscious looking as
,en Moore's Favorite. The tree stands in h
nal garden and matured five or six of a Ill
md grade prophecy for Augu
YES turns out right it will be good mon
MS for setting out strawberry plants and tn
we q crop secured for next season. In Il
damp weather of few days past quite
good deal of celery has been planted
'uit The Lyric" is on the song path, but tn
an wait until the young people are usual
in done swinging on the yard gates. t
the young ladies, for it is they of course
ties whom the compliment is intended, SON
sue times get caught, but the song of t
m Nightingale can be just as sweet if it
ary peeped at from behind the window ba
as The Summer has not been an unco
ens Portable one by any means, and but
two the dry weather and concern for the GRO
va the two thirds of it that has passed cor
ter be remarked as Ofmuch less discomfortth
we'll usnal.-The city cousins have not
last found out that there are no peaches. I
o a arrivals fully equal the departures.
new seems that those who return take n ms
low cious pleasure in perpetrating the jol
,nly The fashion of the age is changing
anne regard TO individuals, as well as the otl
ion conventionalities of life. The person N
crit, who retires from the paths of life VIII,
: his others tread, contributing to neither til
ldy. wants or necessities as individuals or
the aggregated community, have nothing
now outward respect and when they die leu