Smyrna times., 1883-07-11
Smyrna and Vicinity.

SII1yI11d d1AOL ASAhACy'
A CORPS of workmeu for the new 1
school house came to-day.
The hot weather last week blighted :
q good many blackberries. /
SOME of the school boys are taking
vacation in the basket factory.
DON'T forget the Cape May excur-
sion next Wednesday morning.
ONE of the latest novelties with the /;
ladies is head bathing, to make their
hair fluffy.
A NUMBER of the farmers in the
neighberhoed of Clayton will spend to-
morrow at Fraland.
BLACKCAP raspberries have about
played out, but red still endure, and
will for week or two.
II. S. ANTHONY is credited with the
best strawberry yield per acre of any of
our large berry growers.
ALEXANDER FAIRIES, of this town
enioyed new corn and new tomatoes of
his own growing, yesterday.
The basket factory of H. G. Mus
tard, & Co., turned out two days last
week 5000 baskets each day.
FRANK E. PosTLEs, of Greenwood,
Del, has accepted position with the
Peninsular Bone Fertilizer Company.
OWING to Mrs. Carter, the librarian,
being out of town last night the
Smyrna Library will be open this even
ing.
JOHN B. LEWIS gathered ripe toma-
toes from his vines on Saturday, about |
a dozen, and expects to have some in
market this week.
THE demand for cooling drinks was
heavy on Saturday and the soda water !
fountains were exhausted at an early |
hour in the evening.
REV. FATHER BRADFORD, who ex-
pected to hold services at st. POlycarp
Church, last Sunday, was taken sick
and not able to come.
ALFRED E. FOWLER has been doing
quite a good little business the past
week in specializing in trade dollars,
buying them at So and 80 cents.
GREEN apple pies were among the
table luxuries last week and a good
many baskets and crates of apples are
finding their way to the city markets.
THE ladies of the Benevolent Society
return their thanks to the Young PeO-
ple's Christian Benevolent Society for
: their liberal donation which was great
ly appreciated.
3 The wheat crops already threshed
!, are turning out i'll this vicinity from Is
to Is bushels per acre, where last year
the same farms yielded from 20 to 80
bushels to the acre.
q SOME of our farmers that have
), threshed their wheat, are shipping it
y by the steamer Tygert, which enables
them to get the full benefit of the
, Philadelphia market.
= THE Board of School Directors have
had an offer we learn of 81 per cent. for
e the bonds ($15,0OO) to be issued for
II building the new school house. No
a action has yet been taken.
L. CHI. Roe, who has been upholster-
,, ing for several weeks in a room under
a the Town Hall has gone to Easton,
m Md, to accept O position with Mason
Brothers, carriage builders.
le THE masons now have the stone
ts walls of the new Presbyterian church
up to the top of the entrance doors
u The rising edifice attracts a great deal
ID of attention and admiration.
" MARY, wife of James McCloskey
died Sunday evening after short ill
ness of brain fever. She first com
nt planned at the breakfast table of mo-
: feeling entirely well, and by midnigh
~ was a corpse.
at THE Kent County, Smyrna & Della
Il ware Bay Railroad in connection witt
the steamer Clyde will run excursion
OF to Cape May every Wednesday, unit
he further notice. For furthur particu
81 lars see advertisement.
OF THE Philadelphia & Smyrna Trans
IN pOrtation Company, have purchased {
of ]. E. Tygert & Co., and of ]. E. Tygert
be administrator of the estate of Henr
w, Tygert, the steamer j. E. Tiger
va and all her furniture and equipment
in for $24,650.
GREEN apples in July are demon
ns mated "pain promoters to boys whe
he in plentiful supply, but we think theI
0p- is a general disposition to take tn
roc risk with most urchins when the
o know there is a Jamaica ginger bott
ON in the house.
J, S, HUNTINGTON is having I'll
grist mill on the State road, four mil
below this town, carried through
lol- general renovation, including o ne
rrv roof and new Notwithstanding tn
will add very greatly to its appea
Vet ance and value.
Hr-
ila- BROTHER HOffecker, of the Smyrl
TINES, is taking p vacation. Lucl
man.-DeLGlCarel
be- Yes, we left one evening Rt fl
'ro- o'clock and returned the next mOrpjI
cir after breakfast. Can Brother Fel
lty. beat that on a Summers rest?
will THE murcury for six excruciat
nge days ending with sunday evening, p'
sill sisted iD climbing up into the nineti
lose III eOihc plhCCA NpaIly IOO SCOECnl
heir by day and sweltering by night, /
, to relief came with the needed rain q
usi- the thermometer fell in few hol
it as between twenty and thirty degrees.
,uld
q a LETTERS of administration we
abIv granted on the 9th inst, to Col. G.
nee H. Raymond, of this town, on {
hese estate Of Samuel Griffin, deceas
re- late of Smyrna, and on the 9th in
,ueh letters were granted upon the est
lind of Orlando NJ. Putnam, deceased,
most most of East Dover Hundred, to Judith
laye Putnam,
OUR peach spectators and grow
.h are q little apart in regard to price;
'e ~ latter are wanting 50 and 40 cents
,a n.S basket, while the former don't Wapt
~ Gu pay but from % to 30 cents per basil
.Sa iop Chas. E. FARRELL, of Tuckahoe Ne
: .ne Nd, has sold his prospective croI
o.s.L az 35 cents, delivered in Baltimore at
os expense.
" ac- THE rain on Sunday night was
axes only one of the most timely, but n
a in copious, and yet it was only sup
Paud cial, not wetting potatoes to the 70