Smyrna times., 1882-06-28
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
THE scarcity of harvest labor is COM
planned Of
The. favorite variety of wheat this
year seems to be the California Red.
THE cabbage worm has already COM
menced its Obstructive work on young |
cabbage.
THE Benevolent Society will meet at
Mrs. e. J. Colts, on Thursday evening
at 7.30 p. NJ.
w. FRANK JEFFERSON will run the
ice-cream pavilion at Woodland Beach
this season.
WIN. I. BECK has opened an ice
cream saloon, Rice's manufacture of
Middletown.
THE preparations for the harvest has
made our machine shops busy places
the past week.
AS HAPPY as school girl" is an
expression that applies to the vacation
period with emphasis.
l.. c. MCCOY has the contract for
putting on the tin roof of Arthur's new
cannery at KentOn, 5000 feet.
THE regular trip of the steamer Maid
of Kent, from Leipsic to Philadelphia,
Monday next, will be omitted.
JOHN RAwLEY, down the Neck, cut
twelve tons of clover hay from fOur
acres, last week, or three tons to the
acre.
STRAWBERRIES and raspbe rries were
both in Market on Saturday the day
the first took it's departure the other
made its advent.
THE favorable weather for the wheat
has given it a splendid grain, large,
plump and heayy-just the kind that
delights millers.
A. P. Griffith real estate broker has
sold the farm of 80 acres, near Smyrna,
belonging to Tschudy & Cats to T. j.
Munday, of n. j., for $4,000.
The wheat field of VIM. Polk Cum
Minis shocks heavier than any thus far
cut. Those who worked in it estimate
| the yield at 80 bushels per acre.
A SELECT party of from 60 to IS
persons from Salem, n. j., will be at
Woodland Beach, tomorrow Thurs
day. evening, for supper and hop.
THE papers are cautioning the har-
vesters against drinking too much
often than too large draughts at one
time.
MEssRs. Jones & Hardcastle are in
the market with $4,000 peach baskets
and 500 peach ladders to equip Oul
peach growers with for the picking
season.
THE record Of our Smyrna girls al
the school commencements this year i!
highly creditable. In each institution
where they have advanced to gradua
ton, they have taken the first honors
LARGE posters are out announcing
the preparations for observing the 4tl
at Collins Beach, consisting of all kinds
) of games and amusements, winding W
with a display Of fireworks in the even
ing.
} SUNDAY was an intensely hot day
especially for June, the thermomete
E reaching 1902, and at o'clock in tn
evening stood at 9S0. The churches a
a consequence, were sparsely attende'
! in the evening.
THE corn fields are now progressin
finely but some of them are not We
thinned. This has been caused by tn
: days of valuable time wasted in fight
ing the army worm. The farmers hay
:. never had a greater pest.
e THE majority Of corn fields through
out the country are surrounded with
ditch to keep out the army worn
The time of the farmers consumed i
: this kind of labor was ten times nor
: than what they destroyed.
i CAPTAIN SCoUr has picked this Sc;
5 son 5000 quarts of Strawberries frol
: an acre of ground. John C. Stockll
: 1890 quarts from about half acre an
= Jacob Lepberger, from a piece
= ground he thinks pc larger, A, 400 quart
). DIR. WIN. A. DoDD, Of Slaughter
has purchased the works Of Kento
Mill, which he proposes to place in h
/ saw-mill, so that farmers win soon |
II able to have their gFist ground Withol
?. having to drive eight or ten miles,
/, heretofore.
THE 9oVel sight was witnessed We
terday Of seeing q young man who Go
Z not black his boots at hOge shining vi
j. two pairs in front ofthe Smyrna Uous
" He was bantered to the task BY i'Di
n mond Dick" with an offer of so cts
: and he promptly accepted and got ii
ic money.
IT THERE will be q strawberry and ic
i cream festival held in the new canniI
- house at Leipsic, Tuesday and We
is Desday evenings, June 9th and 2St
r. Extensive arrangements have be,
al made aud deligAtful time is expecte
Proceeds for the benefit of Ray monC
y Church.
T. THE following officers of Harmon
az Lodge, Ne. 13, a.. j.. A. NJ, was
= stalled, last week:
N Master, B. V. Weldon.
;h Senior Warden G.. A. Wick.
ID Junior Warden Samuel Taylor.
Treasurer, Thomas 81 Megear,
Secretary, w A. FAIRIES.
es Senior DEACON, Adams Mabood.
" Junior Deacon. Charles Smith,
REaEmBER that Il. S. Phelps is wi
. Wanamakef & Brown, 9th and Marx