Smyrna times., 1885-10-14

Philadelphia, win marry lady of
Camden, N. j., to-day.
THE Little Diamond" Cultivator
was ON exhibition at the Elktnm Fair
and attracted much attention from the
farmers Of Cecil county.
THE walls of the new brick school
house at Kenton, have got beyond the
first floor. VIM. 3. Pretlyman, of
of Dover, is the contractor.
The Smyrna Cornet Band has been
engaged To make the music for pOliti-
cal meeting at Denton, in Caroline
county, Md, next Tuesday.
JOHN NJ. VosHELL has bought of
Hardcastle & Jones, lot on Glenwood
avenue lO5 feeet front upon which
stands two evapOrator buildings, for
$780,
THERE are II number of applicants
| for the position of Engineer of the
water works who are on the anxious
seat waiting the decision of the Town
Commissioners.
A, H. Coon & Co. have contracted
with G. f. Grlfen5urg, of Clayton, for
$4,000 strctchcrs, $1,000 salmon brick.
and cement and lime for making NOR
tar, and VIM. p. Wright for bricks for
the well.
SOME beautiful strawberries of Fall
| growth have been passing around, and
as they are choice mOrsels from their
! u Of GY,,l 4,
to the ladies, who know how to appro-
pirate good things.
JOHN H. HoFFECKER received ut his
cannery on Thursday from Kennedy
vile, Md, over half u car load of Bill
yeus October peaches which were evap-
GRATED, making the best yield of any
variety used this Summer.
THE heavy storm of wind and rain
that commenced on Monday evening
and ragged with fury all night came up
| the coast, having originated in the gulf,
and was the heaviest in Florida, where
| the rain fell was immense.
! SATURDAY was not only beautiful
| day but an especially beautiful day for
chestnutting, and the school boys and
| girls improved the time in the diligent
manner that might be expected when
nuts were substituted for lessons.
THE Royal Lyceum Comedy Com
/ pany will appear in this town on Mon
day, October, Goth, and continue for
one week. They will play "The shad-
Ows of a city" and other dramas, the
star artist being Miss Lillian West
brooke.
JOHN ANTHONY, who bought the
John f. Tygert house at the corner of
South and Union streets, prior to NOV
ing in is carrying it through course
OF improvements, including an addi-
tional room, cellar heaters, &c The
improvements will cost about 81 600.
J. V. SMITH has erected in front of
his jewelry store substantial
post from which hangs the sign of a
large watch. He also procured and
put in place last week a new and
large regulator for keeping correct
time, that is one of the handsomest in
the State.
AMONG the chestnutters on Satur-
day was : bakers's dozen of sixteen
or seventeeen-year-old misses who
were the guests of Miss May Arm
strong, near town, for the day, to
whom the wagon ride and the nut
ting was an occasion of more than
usual delight.
f. II. BECK, real estate broker, has
sold the farm, belonging to VIM. M.
Bell, near Blackstone Cross Roads
containing about 140 acres, to John
Pratt, near MillingtOn, for $3.50. Mr..
Beck also sold the James w. Anthony
farm, to RObt. Rawley, containing 120
acres, for Sl6,500.
JAMES VANWINKLE, who sold his
dwelling on Methodist street a week or
so ago to the Misses Knots, has pur-
chased lot near the depot of the Nc
DOwell heirs, for 1880, and intends to
erect on it a dwelling similar in style
to that Of Geo. ID. Collins, adjoining
the Presbyterian Church.
The two young men who were en-
Geavoring to secure John b. Cough TO
lecture in this town, found his time al
ready engaged continuously until next
February, which delay, coupled with
the terms on which he could be secured,
$3.50 per night, has caused them to defer
the project for the present.
GEO. w. & s. TAYLOR have lust got
OUTLINES Office print-a beautifully
illustrated catalogue of 20 pages heavy
paper descriptive of their Little Dia.
Il
Departure hand cultivatOr. They are
running large force of men whose
time will be required for the next six
= months to get out the 500 now in pro.
r cess.
Mrs. BENZ. ID. BURROWS, of Kentor
= hundred, has bought of John NJ
Y Noshell the dwelling now occupied by
/. EnOch Turner, at the corner Of Mali
street and GlenwOOd Avenue, with the
lot on which the drying house stands
D and an adjoining lot on the avenue. fol
j. $500. 1t is the purpose of Mr.. Bur
f ris TO move to town with his family in
the Spring.
$ DEPUTY Charles II. Davis, of vii
It mington, Del, is in Smyrna for th,
= purpose of organizing the Ancien
a Order of United Workmen, the bes
= order in the world, numbering at thi
u date over $4,000 members. II Is on,
a of the best orders for young men, so 9,
y and join and you will never regret Il
K II secures for your family at dealt
5, $1,000. Call on J. II. Primrose VIII
r will be glad to give you any informa
n tiOn. n
r, WE stated last week as we were in
a formed, that some very fine ounce
y grown by Charles B. Jerman, OF Cam
III den, and sent to friend Ia this town
ne were grown by Mr.. j., from trees gra
to ted on apple stock. He cOrrects Il O
p follows
Y; Mr.. EDITOR:-A misstatement wa
" made IN your paper last week in cor
lie ton with my name. Please correct i
lg The large ounces you described wei
e of the variety called apple or orang
g. but they were not produced on graf
on inserted in apple stocks. The tree
fic that bore them were entirely quinc
root Stem and hrauah y II