Smyrna times., 1883-06-06

SUMMER.
HARD to beat-earpets.
THE heated term-house cleaning.
The peaches have commenced their
June shedding.
THE check stamp nuisance must go
with this month.
REsUMING their old drunks-the
Saturday night darks.
THIS week is the first good growing
weather of the season.
THE public schools of both Kenton
and SeVerson's had picnic's on Satur-
day.
THE steamer Maid of Kent will make
three trips q week on and after next
Monday, 18th inst.
THE best early peas in market were
brought to the store of L. b. Megear
by Mrs. Jos. Kennedy.
JOSEPH B. FAIRIES has remOdeled
and enlarged the house occupied by
Berrian Grant on South street.
OUR town subscribers who may be
accidentally missed by the carrier, will
please give notice at the office.
THE railroad surveyors are back
again finishing the line of the loop or
curve commenced several weeks since.
THIS is the season that vexes the
soul of the good housewife, when the
domestic" goes rusticating in the berry
patch.
J. w. JONES is having a sprinkler
built at the Messrs. TaylOrs and eX-
poets to have it Mt work on our streets
on Monday.
REV. w. B. GORDON will preach in
MiddletoWn Sunday morning his place
ut st. Peters being supplied by Rev.
DIR. Tullidge.
Mrs. SAMUEL REYNOLDS AZ year old
rosebush has been greatly admired the
past week both for its age and its lux
uriant roses.
DIR. Z. NJ. CLOAK apd wife were
greatly bereaved last week in the loss
after a short illness, of their only child
a bright little boy.
THE Wilmington papers exhibit con
siderable enterprise in rehashihg ou
locals about a week behind time, afte
reaching them second handed.
THE express freight on strawberrie
this year to Boston from our station
$500 per hundred pounds. Last yea
it was $1.75 per hundred pounds.
THE committee of the NJ. L. Sunda
School appointed for the purpose hav
made arrangements to go to WOodlan
Beach by rail about the Goth inst.
THE TIMES expects to be in its ne
quarters next week-a story above i
present room-where it will have on
of the largest and most complete prin
ing offices in the State.
GENTLEMEN enamored with flowe
can have a complete satisfaction in I'll
ladies Summer bonnets at Churc
Admiration of flowers as a product
nature, is never out of order.
THE Misses FAIRIES on Methodi
street have probably the largest varie
of roses in any collection in tow
Unfortunately, the handsome yard
only partially visible from the streI
F. S. HARPER, of Still Pond, NJ,
Director of the Fruit Growers Bank
this town, tells us they had hea'
rain Sunday in addition to one we
before, in fact in his section they ha
had no drought.
FIVE young negroes were befO
Esquire Colt ON Monday morning
disOrderly conduct at a Festival
Centennial Church, and after heari
were fined, which with the cost amour
ed to $500 each.
JOSEPH r. JEFFERSON, in addition
his heavy loss-sOme $3,000-by
last week, had the misfortune to spP;
his ankle so badly as to entirely III
it for use, and he can get about oil
by the aid of crutches.
THE wheat harvest is approach
rapidly and yet we hear not a w
about reapers, cord-binders, &C., Il
have heretofore been such an article
barter. Are our farmers all suppl
and Smyrna out of the field?
JOHN B. CooPER's new dwell
which has been going up after a n
model and in the most substan
manner, is making sure progress
ward completion and is already '
defined enough, to attract considers
attention.
ROBERT DENNEY, of Duck Gre
has twenty acre field of grass, in
rear of the Episcopal cemetery, tha
waist high and as thick as it can sta
1t has been pronounced by some fl
ers who have seen it, the best field
grass they ever saw. 1t il of Gle
and timothy.
THE shower of Sunday night CAV
the first relief we had had for we
from the clouds Ofdust driven day q
day by the high winds up and d,
our streets and in the stores and hoU
When Providence sprinkles it is {
well, but we were kept this time v
ing a mOnstrous while.
THE first trip of the new exT
train went up on Monday, the br;
train leaving this town at 8 o'cl
The number that went up in il wa
large but this arose from the fat
the indefinite knowledge regardin
the advertising as usual being sim
neous with the moving of the train
AS the harvest approaches the
pect of good wheat crop is not
hatteriBg. The late seeding last
the cold backward spring and
ravages Of the fly have all been ag
il, and the yield as now seen, mus
one third short of that OF last yeal
in many fields the yield will not es
five bushels to the acre.
TIE members and friends Of B
I A M. +. church, Commerce s
have set apart Sabbath, July 18th
the purpose of striving 10 ext
themselves from the embslrrassme
debt that encumbers them. The
spectfully ask for the c,,-operatl
all benevolent persons to assist
in accomplishing this much d.
object.