Smyrna times., 1882-09-06
Smyrna and Vicinity.


Smyrna and Vicinity.
Now is the busy time with the house
wife in canning and preserving.
WANTED-A boy to serve the TINES
Of Wednesday afternoons. Apply at
this Office.
LARGE quantities of grapes are going
to market, Capt. A. Scout & Son ship
ping ton to-day.
The Smyrna Conclace of Heptasophs
have changed their hour of meeting
from to o'clock P. NJ.
TIE steamer Tygert carried 10000
baskets of peaches to Philadelphia in
addition to the usual freight and pas
sengers.
THE time for the picking and spicing
of fruit has come, and the economical
housewife may be seen going through
her husbands vest pocket for cloves.
DURING the past week lot of land
prospectors have been here from the
North, enjoying the free rides of the
agents and getting a good mess of
peaches.
E. II. BECK real estate agent, sold Il
farm belonging to A. J. FOrtner, near
Slaughter's Station, containg 2O2 acres
to p. w. Best, of Clarion county, Pa,
for $4,000.
HOWARD & LEWEs' combination will
give an entertainment at the Town
Hall, on Monday and Tuesday even
ings next. 1t is said to be good
troop and promises first class enter
tainment of the kind.
COMPLAINTS are being made at the
quality of the gas used by consumers
the past week, and it now transpires
that it was this cause, quality or guam
tity, that prevented the lighting of the
street lamps on Sunday evening.
PETITIONS have been circulated ask
ing for q new road to cross the farms
between the two roads from Belmont
and the Big Oak, respectively to Bren-
ford, the entrance from the latter being
through the farm occupied by Vim
Baker.
Tia Milford Chronicle remarks after
publishing the item about certain Of
our young ladies giving a helping hand
in pairing peaches when there was {
scarcity of labor at the canning factory
that Smyrna is the place to find {
frugal, industrious wife" Fact.
AFTER the present week the steamer
will make three trips Il week betweeI
Lewes and New York, leaving Lewei
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, oil
arrival of train, leaving Harrington a
11.50 A. NJ, leaving pier 26 (Old No
81 foot of Beach Street, North River
New York, at 400 p. NJ, until furthe
notice,
WE were led into an error by tn
announcement on a bill saying tina
Wednesday last was the last day of eX
cursiOns. Two more as per advertise
ment, are to be made over the Ken
county railroad and steamer THOmO
Uyde-to-day and next Wednesday
These are likely to prove the mos
pleasant of the season.
KENTON has felt the pulsation of tn
peach current as strongly as the Othe
towns. 1t had to import labor to helI
j. NJ. Arthurs has cannery with
capacity of 5000 cans daily, and Joh
H. Graham has two Williams evapori
tors, using between 300 and 4OG basket
daily. In the height of the season til
shipments have been ten and twelN
cars day.
EDWARD STREETS died at his res
dence i'll the " Middle Alley" on SUI
: day, after an illness of several weel
) from throat affection, aged 68. II
r wife died last December. Mr.. S. in h
} early life was bricklayer followir
3 the business in this town, but bougl
S the farm on which he died some TWEEN
Q years ago and gave his attention ther
s after to agriculture.
OUR evaporating men are finding
|, considerable difference between Il
. yield of fruit after going through Il
6 dryer this season and two years ag
. This is doubtless owing to the Augu
rains. The yield this year is betwe
two and three pounds per basket, VIII
q two years ago it was between four al
five. The usual average is from thr
II to three and a-half pounds per bask
- THE Board of Health in an offici
notice i'll another column, calls t
u attention of our citizens to a mat
rs that very much concerns them. o
le physicians say that the vapors from {
ls caying vegetable matter, especially
these September suns, is very injuriC
{" to health, and for the next seve
to weeks this matter should be careful
IS. guarded i'll the interest of the pub
X welfare.
lie OUR lamp-lighters and the railro
te reversed the order of things on Sund
in The street lamps were needed on 81
- day night as a necessity, if going
-. church was q duty, but their darkn
s" was complete though the moon did
tn rise until near midnight. On the OF
nd hand the Delaware railroad ran
oa Sunday excursion to RehOboth VIII
90 90 was not a work of necessity, and in
i'll charter granted it by the Legislat
Ise the running of trains over it on Sunt
fQ was O0pA ACooiy PAOAiADAeSN' hAo -
,to day business is getting terribly mix
lbs A HARD CAsE.-Our farmers are
m the only ones suffering for bask
ro- (caused by the trees bearing one qu
of ter more fruit than they had provi'
- for), for the complaint comes all al
els the line. A. number have been una
Zen to ship portion of their fruit beca
ent of the failure of the railroad to ret
in0 their baskets and the inability to obi
e them of the dealers. A Towns
I'M correspondent thus states the case
ed, "They cannot procure baskets at
The price and thousands of baskets in
or neighborhood will have to go to
X ground. Fifteen to twenty teams v
nus out here waiting for their emp
as Baskets ctlnnot be had for twelve &C
,m- the price now demanded by b
in basket monopolies. Will the ps
growers of Delaware always subm
pa this monopoly which when bas
q become scarce puts the price up al
are four or five cents2"