Smyrna times., 1883-06-20

half miles from bnlS Town Is having
new dwelling erected on it 80 feet front
back so feet. The house is
attractive in design and will be
an ornament to the road.
ANY one looking over the well filed
columns of the TIMES must
be impressed with the fact that business
is active, manufacturing brisk, and all
persons desiring employment can find
it here at good wages. 1t may be said
Smyrna has boom in manufacturing,
building and general prosperity.
The strawberries shipped by Express
to Boston this year have paid better
than elsewhere though the freight and
amounted to about cents |
per quart. The express companies |
facilities were limited to one miscella-
neous freight car Last year they had
the facilities of additional fruit cars.
THE Young Peoples Benevolent Asso-
citation, which was organized the past
Spring adjourned on the 9th inst, to
reopen on the first Friday in October
at the residence of Rev. ]. d. Rigg. !
The society has donated a small |
amount of their funds to the "Band of
Hope" the balance having been pre-
sented to the Ladies Benevolent Socie-
ty for their distribution.
SUNDAY morning was the Quarterly
Communion occasion at the NJ. h.
Church the service occupying the
whole time after the opening exercises.
The congregation was large, the COM
fob
the services solemn and impressive.
Revs. J. d. Rigg, ]. T. Umsted, Jas. l..
Houston and j. V. Smith took part in
the administration of the service.
WALTER o. HoFFECKER, Walter r.
Massey, Olin L. Hough and Thos. S.
Start were an improvised quartette for
a serenade on Monday night whose
music Aoated away" grandly on the
midnight air. The three last were men,
bers of organized quartetts that we had
two and three years ago but whose
members are now mostly scattered to
distant places. These partial reunions
are enjoyable all around.
ADMISSION will be free to the educa-
tiOnal meeting at the Town Hall on
next Friday evening; but it will be far
more interesting than many pay enter
tainments. Prof. T. N. Williams is
both witty and eloquent. All of the
speakers announced are entertaining
and instructive. Every citizen, every
father, every philaHthropist is interest
ed in the matter of popular education.
The whole question will be handled by
the various speakers. Come and bring
your wives and daughters.
THE STRAWBERRY CROP is marketed,
the most of our growers finishing on
Friday while others have run over into
this week. r. M. Cooper, near Moor
ton, puts his yield and returns both as
about the same as last year, John G..
Stockly, of this town, is better pleased
with both, but there are others again
who say they were one quarter short.
At the first of June it looked as if the
drought would cut the crop at least
one half short, but timely showers came
to their relief The Peninsula has sent
over 1920 car loads to the city markets.
THE PROSPECTIVE WHEAT CROP
The condition of the wheat crop is not
so easy to get at as usual. The unex-
ampled crop of last year that exceeded
the average yield by from % to 33 pei
cent is continually in the way. Some
say their yield (leaving out last year,
will be an average, others, that it is
one quarter below, and in few Others
cut by the fly the yield will be still
less. Taking the adverse circumstance!
of an early Fall, late Spring, fly anG
| Il xxyao fbo,. tb q a,.0Ya io GOOD
and with fair prices there is everything
to encourage the farmer. The weathel
of the past week has been just th'
kind needed in forming the grain.
Office of the Board of Health, |
Smyrna, June 6, 1888.
To the Board of Commissioners of tn
Town of Smyrna:
The Board of Health, in making thi
, their annual report, congratulate tn
citizens of the Town upon the entir
absence, since their last annual report
: of all epidemics, or contagious disease
e of serious character. Their expense
v have been nOthing-they are pleased t
r repOrt-and they are gratified to lear
r that the entire cost of the supple
: furnished, through this Board, to tn
smallpox sufferers of last year, hs
been repaid into the treasury of th
n Town, by the Trustees of the Poor {
G this County.
/, By order of the Board.
= WIN. AsHCRAFT, Pre't.
]. c. SToCKLY, Sec'y,
a COLLINS BEAoH.-We noted the ia,
: last week that VIM. ]. Campbell ha
e contracted for the building of bride
= over the break between his house an
the fast land. This had nothing to {
with cutting off the innowing tide thi
Is covered so many acres of land. III
l. citizens interested subscribed the nece
y sary amount, somewhere about 81 so
,e and contracted with ]. B. Fennimor
of Odessa, to put in "horse shoe
, stopping and he commenced the wol
* on Monday. The cut is now 95 fee
10 The road from where it strikes Il
X * marsh to the hotel is just a-half mil
az which Mr.. Campbell intends to raj
W. and widen and make dry and entire
v free from mud. A grove $50 var
"a before reaching the hotel has groy
n sufficiently for use, which Mr. O. /
- tends for schools, &C., that wish to
,b away from the hotel. In refurnishi
the house he has added another parl
intended for the use of ladies.
I'M Personal.
i'll DIR p 6 Hitchens of Philadelnhia "