Smyrna times., 1885-07-01
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

MUCH of the wheat on the State road !
Dover was cut last week.
WILL - please return Farm
Ballads to Mrs. Douglass? fI
WE have in hand two interesting
communications that will appear in our
next issue.
GEO. II. JONES, on Peter S. Collins
farm, down the Neck, has a showing
for good crop of peaches.
THE hay fields of Geo. w. Cummins
and Theodore Mannon are thought to
take the lead of those east of the town.
FINE line spectacles and eye glasses.
Smith, Jeweler. I
A NEW street has been laid off from
Methodist Street to GlenwoOd Avenue,
and the building lots have been staked
off.
The scrub Smyrna nine will 60 to
Middletown on the Fourth to play a
game of base ball with the MiddletOwn
nine.
THE whistle of the Bombay Hook
train gives the track thither business
air it does not enjoy out Of the heated
term.
WATCHES carefully and promptly re-
paired Smith, Jeweler.
THE raspberry crop that would 9th
erwise have been of short duration,
promises with the rain Of Sunday to be
very fine.
HARRY l.. COLLINS left yesterday
for Rehoboth, where he will have
charge of the telegraphing at the Doug
lass House.
THE Fourth promises to be big day
/ at Woodland Beach. BY advertise
/ ment it will be seen that the railroad
makes four trips down on that day.
GOLD and silver watches. You
should call. Bottom prices. Smith,
Jeweler.
THE Sunday school of the Episcopal
Church will picnic ut Woodland Beach
tomorrow. They will board the train
at 8 o'clock, returning in the evening
at 6.
THE rain though a good one and OF
incalculable value to to the crops was
not sufficient for fallOw plOwing, at
least so a farmer found it on Monday
morning.
THE contractors who engaged to
blow up the sunken brig Deering, of
Collins Beach, have completed theil
job Itrequired 500 pounds Of dyna
mite to do it.
Much of the wheat on stiff land!
will not do to harvest before the last
of this week or the first of next. ThC
cold waves have retarded the ripenins
and given us July harvest.
THE boys are lamenting that the!
have to go to the mill pond or some
where on the outskirts ON the Fourth t.
/ fire off their shooting crackers. Their
T is not the same limit on tOrpedOes.
THE Lessee's Excursion to Cape May
| which occurs on the Sth inst, mex
Wednesday, will give our people fin
opportunity for a day Of pleasure il
shifting the sea breeze, bathing, &c.
Go TO Smiths for all silver an
plated ware, best goods, low prices an
D engraving done free. Smith, COmmerC
: street, near POstOilice.
The gunuers OF this town and vi
cinity are making arrangements for
raid on wOodcock that frequent yer
low, wet grounds. The law in relation
to them-the period of prOtectiOn-ex
: pired last night.
: ONE of our citizens known for max
S ing important discoveries has found on
r way to keep fish from smelling i
y warm weather. When asked for tt
; remedy his answer simply is, "cl
their noses Off"
= Ir is a rare thing that our farme
! cannot take the Fourth of July as
i, holiday after harvest, frequently wit
+ the wheat stacked, but this year ii
# patriotism of many will find an e
- preston in the wheat field.
o ONE Of our citizens is bound on ce
)r tainty of having his ice-cream on Il
l. 4th this year. He has had n gallo
" engaged ever since the anniversary
n year ago when he failed from being t.
Of tardy in putting in his order.
y THE promotions in the different
" partments of the school announced Il
= week to take place at the beginning
:, the September term, have been mo
., than usually acquiesccd in by the p
+ pills as satisfactory grading.
at PETER :. COLLINS, who has been
:" a visit to his son John NJ. Collins, nc
Red Lion, brought home with him sol
- specimens of the work of the cica
"V among the peach limbs in depositil
IN their eggs and cutting the twigs.
ID IT is expected that quite numt
a of peOple-GOOd Templars and OthC
nd will go down to the grand temp
Id ance picnic, on Saturday, in the Ca
ror den oampmeeting woods. The rou
~ trip tickets from here will be 55 cen
- THE estimates of B. F. c. Rothwe
- field of big wheat now being harvest
en- is 80 bushels and beyond, one iudI
nd ment going as high as 40 bushels I
NO acre. Some of the up-cOunty farm,
or are unwilling to believe it of Blackb
hundred.
- DIR. f. NJ. CLOAK, of this town, a
= ,'O VIM. J. Ferris, of New Castle, b,
ior druggists, are engaged in playing
,he game of chess by postal card. A mC
les is thus transmitted each day by m
&c and it will probably take a month
finish the game.
,ev WHEAT harvest commenced "
some Of our farmers last Saturday and
Monday with quite number At
lsy time the reaping of the wheat is g
I'VE eral. The most of the grain will
o,,, cut this week through some of
~" later crops will run over into next.
of THE garden of ]. B. Cooper ha
strange visitor in the shape Of wa
lor snake. Why his snakeship left
fe- cooling waters of the stream
DO the town is a mystery, but in S
bo,, cases they are never likely to
ny back with on account of their adv
en- ture.
THE handsomest specimen of wi
was we have seen this year was left at
lose Office on Saturday by w. G. KnC
set who lives on the Eugene Hanson f
.ol,, near Townsend. It is known as
California Red. The length of
hgs head is inches and the grains st
IN five abreast.
ton S.vrrr Apusrpovo 1;yi,o
de- the farm of DIR. Ashcraft, near
nolia, has the promise of better
. of peaches than last year, the loves
innate being $1,000 baskets, althou
ma neighbOr says the crop will run 5
end baskets better than that. His cor
: 70 also very good.
Drm-