Smyrna times., 1886-07-14
Smyrna and Vicinity.

MEAD MudJ w lllldlu walker has 10
say about boots, shoes, slippers, re-
pairing, &c.
EDWARD STREETS, near Clayton, lost
valuable four year old horse last
week by distemper.
The Fruit Growers National Bank
of this town has declared a semi-annual
dividend of four per cent.
AT .he meeting of the Clayton Saw
ings and Loan Association, yesterday,
money sold at so cents premium.
SUPERINTENDENT SIsCo took the
Landing Sunday School to Woodland
Beach on Thursday last, on picnic.
AsYMNIETRY is word coined to
define out of symmetry, such as one
leg or an arm shorter than the other.
THE steamer j. z. Tygert on and
after Monday, August 9th, will make
daily trips from Rothwell's Landing
to Philadelphia.
THE typos of the TIMES Office ac-
knowledge from w. S. Smith, of West
Smyrna, the gift Of basket of very
nice eating apples.
The neighborhood of Kenton boasts
some fine fields of corn, as it did also
of wheat. There are some first-class
farms in this section.
If the raspberry and blackberry
crops were as good in prices as they
are in production, the growers would
have a good thing of it this year.
Mrs. DOsCH gives notice that she
will supply persons wanting bread for
breakfast, at their doors, by leaving
orders at her store the night before.
" Is there anything more excruciat-
ing than the music of a japanese tom
tom orchestral" asks Il writer. Did
you ever hear the music of an Ameri-
can tOm-tOm cat?
OWEN FORD found two four-leaf and
two five-leaf heads of clover one dav
last week. If they bring luck. as is
claimed for them, Mr.. Ford should be
OverstOcked with it.
IT will be gratifying news to the
boys to learn that there are very favor
able indications for large crops of their
favOrite nuts this Fall-chestnuts
hickOrynuts and Walnuts.
WE give on our first page two COM
municatiOns, that, though long cannot
be accused of sighting their subjects,
and for this reason claim the attention
of the thoughtful reader.
The very early peaches have rotted
so as to be source of aggravatiOn
rather than profit te the growers
Even the Hale's Early set to rOtting
before they commenced to ripen.
THE Monday evening mail did not
reach here until about ten O'Clock
because of the Brandywine bridge be,
ing made impossible for a couple oi
hours by vessel running into it.
THE Jersey papers say failure ol
the watermelon and citrOn crops is
looked for by the truckers as the heart
worm is causing great destruction OF
plants. We hope it is not the same
way on this side of the bay.
CLAYTON LODGE of Good Templars
gave banquet in their hall on Friday
evening and ice cream, cake and
speeches were served abundantly. A
gOOdly number of the members OF
Smyrna Lodge were present.
THE Smyrna depot is receiving a
new coat of paint. The dwelling OF
Jesse Hyatt on Commerce street has
been greatly improved by new paint
ing as have also the stores of Mrs
Richards and Mr.. Palmer, on Market
street,
THERE will be an entertainment
given in the Temperance Reading
Room, Friday evening, June 10Th. com
mencing at 7.45 O'Clock. Will have
both vocal and instrumental music
readings and speaking. The public is
most cordially invited. SEC'Y.
HARDCAsTLE & JONES are puttino
their evap0ratOr in order at CLAYTON
with the expectation of using it some
during the peach season. Several new
evaporatOrs are being put up in Kent
county, Md, where the bulk of the
crop this year will be grown.
WHAT is most needed this Summer
IS mosquito exterminator: at least 50
think the visitors to our State contip.
uOus to the marshes. If one of our
boys could succeed in such an inven.
ton, he wouldn't have to make bask.
cts nor hoe " taters any mo-.
THE cool wave that tempered the
heated air for the past three DAYS was
gratefully received by man and beast
but hardly so good for the growing
corn as the hot weather of the Drevious
week. Corn has made a rapid ad.
vancement since the coming in Of July
THE car that for some years has run
between Smyrna and Clayton has fol
some time been inadequate to the
travel, and last week a new and much
better passenger coach and baggage
car was substituted for it. The new
car has a dozen more sittings than the
old one.
ST. PETERS Sunday School will
picnic ut Woodland Beach on Thursday
tomorrow. They will 90 in wag-
ons as they cannot get passage by
rall. The wagons leave the chapel fol
the Beach about z A. NJ, and we hone
that the children will have a pleasant
day and enjoy themselves.
Mrs. NJ. II. CARTER, of this town
on Saturday received a letter from
relatives in England that was a nor.
tion of the mail that went to the bot.
tom of the Atlantic with the ill-fated
steamer Oregon, off Fire Island, March
l4th. The letter was under water
nearly four months and perfectly legi
ble
THE young clover in the fields o.
wheat stubble looks uncOmmOnlv lux.
uriant this season. For two or three
years past the young clover has been
killed in a number of fields by the
drought, entailing a loss Of $50 with
some farmers for seed sown, to say
nothing of the hay crop of the subse
quent year. Everything promises
now well-set grass fields for next years
haying and grazing.
OAT harvest commenced on Monday
The yield promises to be the largest
per acre that we have had for some
years, though the acreage is not large
Thirty and forty years ago corn ano
oats were the leading crops, but the
introduction Of commercial fertilizer.
has made great change ia this respect
putting wheat ahead, and If the pres
ent low price of corn continues The
acreage OF wheat promises to exceed
that OF all the other cereals combined