Smyrna times., 1883-05-23
TsCHUDY & Cats are building an
addition to their basket factory.


TsCHUDY & Cats are building an
addition to their basket factory.
ABEL S. RIGGS will be able on Mon
lay to supply bricks from his newly
ournt kiln.
THE children of the NJ. e. Sunday
school are requested to meet on Sun
lay morning to practice new music for
'Childrens Day.
DIR. J. NJ. SMITH is erecting an Office
at MoortoD to be occupied by the Cooper
who will use it in connection
with their business.
JOHN P. COLLINS, of Thoroughfare |
Neck, sold J. E. Williams to-day a beef |
as good as ever brought to
market at this season of the year.
CAPT. FRIEsToN MAILMAN is burn
ing for Henry G. Spruance at the lime
kiln, Smyrna Landing, between $4,000
and 10000 bushels of oyster shells.
THE new clip of wool has been COM
ing in pretty lively the past week or
two. Messrs. Hardcastle & Jones ship
ped on Monday to the city nearly 5000
pounds.
JOHN A. WRIGHT moulded last week
in the Clayton brick yard $500 bricks
in four hours and his younger brother
Horace the same number in four and
a quarter hours.
The Biographer Illustrated is the
title of ga PACED pamphlet or maya
zine that is to be published monthly at
$3.50 per year by r. w. Shoppell, %
Park Row, n. Y. The May number
has sketch of 35 persons with their
portraits.
THE Odd Fellows will hold their
Festival on next Wednesday evening
at the Town Hall, the proceeds to be
applied to the erection of the Tower
Clock. 1t should be we'll patronized, as
q town clock is something in which all
our citizens are interested.
DAVID BoGGs a well-known and sue
cessful farmer living ON the State road
below Moorton died on Sunday morn
ing after a lingering illness, aged 70
years. He was leading member of
Bethel NJ. f. Church and highly es-
teemed in his neighborhOod.
THE cellars of both the audience
room and chapel and foundations other
wise of the new Presbyterian Church
have been dug, and when the major
part of the stone has been forwarded
from the quarries, the masons will coma
mence the erection of the walls.
SALE OF PROPERTY Mrs. Ellen
Cummins, Executrix of DR.. VIM. Cum
minis lately deceased, has sold farm
in erich Neck containing 137 acres
to Robt. L. Cummins for $500, and
the farm near Central Mills" 18O
acres to John c. Bailey for $4,000.
WHILE they have been having out
West cyclones, rain, hail, snow and
weather too wet to plant their crops
our strawberry and hay crops especially
are liable to be cut very short if more
rain is not had soon. The shower o
Monday night is hardly tenth of wha'
is needed.
WE have received from Abraham
Alice formerly Of this place but from
his early manhood q resident of tn
West) q copy of large and finel!
illustrated pamphlet entitled "a Re
connoisance of the Great Northwest.
Mr.. Alice is Passenger Agent of tn
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railway.
) MORNING STAR LODGE, No. 6, 1. @
n L e q, -, n
use of the first floor of their Hall t
the Presbyterian congregation, whic
, they have accepted and will use as
D Sabbath School room. The week.
lecture will also be held there o
Wednesday evening of each week dul
ing the interim of building the ne'
!, Church.
The Smyrna House under its me-
management got underway last wee
y and with the least possible friction, th
n new proprietor E. Thomas Clayto
q having been connected with the hOus
; for some years and for the last sever;
months virtually at its head. The POI
ID ularity of the house will doubtless |
IS maintained. p. p. Collins, a formt
IL proprietor, will assist Mr. Clayton.
y Col. GEO. w. CUMAIINs is having Il
n entire pavement around the stO
house occupied by T. B. Megear al
Ia the offices of ]. E. Tygert & Co., r
= placed by a new one. Much of the o
y pavement, (about the third part ne
le the house, was composed of the san
le brick used by his father, John CuI
+ minis, Esq, in laying the pavement
1920. The central portions have be-
'e of course renewed whenever needle
he The new pavement will be elevat
N several inches.
% WIRE FENCEs.-The use of galVa
lie lied barbed wire by our farmers is ra
r. idly on the increase, as is manifest
NJ by its sale at our hardware stores al
from observation in travelling throu
nc highways, our merchants now order
ul time a dozen packages where tn
ut formerly ordered only one. Ten yeS
of ago when its manufacture first co
or menced the entire sale in the count
u was only 10000 pounds while now it
as 600, 100000 pounds in season. T
it, growing scarcity of timber for fenci
he must lead to an increased demand
II wire fences in some of its varied forI
We CONTRACT AwARDEp.-The contri
up for building the public school bui
80 ing, which is to be located on SoI
A''O street was awarded yesterday by I
'ut Board of Directors to ]. w. FerreC
a Bro, of Yorklin, Delaware, eight mi
ere above Wilmington. The bids were
los ]. w. Ferree & Bro. ..$14,l
Robert Pyle........................... 15,
Lewes III. Peekey..................... IT.,
'se II. IL. Jemison.................. 10,
red The work will commence within
ing few days. The contractor proposes
ew have the house finished in time
,av occupancy in the Fall.
nd. A NARROW EsCAPE..-Mrs. VIM.
to Hall made narrow escape on Sal
,bo day from what might have been a v
serious affair. In destroying SC
Ses, waste paper in the garden that
kes been gathered up in housekeeping,
the some means her dress was ignited,
,tes first knowledge she had of dan
- being the fire that had run up her b
anu and caught to her bonnet. The sill
om- tion was alarming, but instead of bG
rial over come with fright as is too o.
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