Smyrna times., 1884-04-16

E. LOWER, residing near BrenfOrd,
expects to commence planting his field
of corn next Monday, if the rains will
let up.
LEWIS & PRICE made their first
phosphate on Monday and desire that
the farmers shall come and inspect it
for themselves.
FROM the present outlook the people
of Leipsic and vicinity will have no
steamboat this season. The Maid Of
Kent has been fitted up for another
route.
The big root of the .ycamore in the
Peterson lot was blown to pieces yes
terday. 1t required seven blasts of
powder, using nine and a-half pounds
altogether.
CAPT. A. l.. SMITH resumes his place
on the Tygert to-day after being away
two weeks from sickness. Win. H. |
Dawson filled the Office of captain dur /
ing the time.
THE "Wasps," Of this town, and the .
"Bumble-bees," of Dover, CROSSED bats /
on Saturday afternoon in this town, i'll
which the former were defeated by a
score of 93 to 10.
MRS. G. NJ. COLLINS has opened her
new store on Market street with full
line of silks, satin and YelYeteens at
! New York prices. Also full line of
notions, trimmings, &c.
! WE give on our first page an article
ON "yellOws in peach trees that must
interest our peach growers, as anything
on that subject, representing, as it does,
such moneyed interests, would he like
ly to.
FROM all parts of the Peninsula the
news is that the fruit crop of all kinds
never promised better. Here we are
at the middle of April with the petals
only of the earliest peach blossoms
opening.
SEVERAL of our leading citizens
went to Dover this morning to wait on
the Levy Court in reference to the
much desired extension of Commerce
} street through West Smyrna to the
John Anthony road.
THEY'VE got poetical tax gatherer
down in old Queen Anne, Md. He ap-
peals in prose, then in poetry to pay
: up" Let us know Col. John G. Whit
tier Watson what luck. Our Delaware
collectors will be glad to find a solu-
. ton.
? If the money spent in our pool and
: bar rooms by labOring people were in
e vested in Building and Loan stock
f many of them in time might have &
5 comfortable home, whereas, if they e
e on, there will be nothing to show fol
= their labor.
e Ten shares of the capital stock o
. the National Bank of Smyrna changed
e hands last week at $40 per share, thu
a par of which is $50. After paying
J. dividend of three per cent for the las
lr six months 5000 was added to tn
- surplus fund.
WE are informed that VIM. J. Camp
bell intends replacing the bridge a
m Collins Beach which was washed ava
"A last Fall, and that the purpose is
- have it done by the Middle of June o
= shortly thereafter. In this event tn
y boat will stop at the river pier.
1g The owners of property on the roa
be to Duck Creek-Or, as the Duck Cree
d. people are wont to call it, Duck Cree
IL avenue-are setting out large number
Ia- of silver maple trees along the wal
- and as soon as they grow it will be
~ beautiful, shady, strOlliDg ground.
en- BUSINESS houses that have stood IL
in storms for more than a century al
ON rather rare. McAllisteris, 728 Ches
ort nut street, Philadelphia, was establis
IA ed in 1888 and consequently is II
- years old. Read their advertisemei
~ of speetacles, eye glasses, thermom
A'e ters, &C., in another column.
,iIl A foot bridge was erected over u
de- stream at the broken gates of the mi
pond on Saturday which served goC
purpose for those going that way (sa
ing the distance around the milll B
ing sides favOring on Sunday a large nuI
fer Der who have been deferred from thG
md favorite walk to Belmont Park.
'e' ~ What shall we name it, a Dictio
airy of Baptismal names for children
hth is the title of an interesting little bO
on of 46 pages, containing 1000 nam
Who and their meaning and the cOuntr
Om- from which they originated. Ii can
ling had Of John G. Stockwell, % A
lhia street, New York, Mt a cost OF % cen
aru 1.-THE Guild of Dramatic and Musi
Art" is the name of dramatic com
free nation which will play, at the To-
De Hall, ON Friday evening, drama
,,or a. titled Buffalo Bill's Last Sho
ces. Mr.. Frank Newman, leading me
aen- dramatic star will take the promin
part supported by ten others v
and form the troupe.
the
e on CHICKEN thieves Thursday nj
fthe made a raid on the hen house of D
ates- Lydia Coveriale aud killed and carr
? 29, ms of several fowls. From there d
: 81 To- ~ proceeded to the quiet rOost of
" Thomas Reese and served II likew
Following this lhoy reached the
house of Mrs. Samuel Richards
here considerably lightened the roOst th
% III FARMERs in Thoroughfare, w
itres, Hall and Dutch Neeks are becon
in all rather serious about their plowing
S are other farm work. Owing to the
rafic tinued rain fall many were preveI
elves from seeding oats, and the grour
most filed with water so that it canno
IA 4, plowed for the corn crop. The inc
-. 90 tions are that corn planting will
continued till near the first OF Jun,
;sno The Republican of Wilmington
.r nm. IL can do job work so cheap that Il
-. fies competition. We say to our fri
- In this vicinity before you take
upo" trouble and expense of going to
parent mington, just drop into this ofSce
meant learn ourprices. A chrome givsn
ss and Nesoark Ledger.
'rgan- Persons in want of good and c
lsiness work If they will drop into the Il
manu- Office win be satisfied without :
a cost further, even for chrome, gratis.
to the Two lightning rods with five p
arther were put on the new public s.
mills building yesterday. IL is strange
points. commissioners viii Subject the bli
RI are to such risks The ssaepIe of th
!, : en-, Il. Church In Milford had one, I
~ sa WAS struck t,ciee by lightning ap
gwen day of last week III the Sanie
~ ana should be observed by the el
richest huid here, our beautiful new bni
!. has would indeed be subject to fers
lime in geance from the descending bolts
smother Vulcan.
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