Smyrna times., 1886-06-16

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OUR streets are constantly being
torn up by the many persons who are
introducing water into their residences
and thus digging them up, but it will
be we'll to keep them levelled and
graded as fast as possible. There are
some places that could be greatly
helped by the attention of the street
supervisor.
YESTERDAY afternoon during the
temporary absence of Herman Roe
and family boy who is known for his
proclivity for bird stealing stealthily
entered the premises and stole from
the cage a highly priced canary bird.
Mr.. Roe went to the home of the boy
who could not be found but who re-
turned the bird to its home when he
found Mr.. Roe had gone to the magis-
trates Office.
IT is as we expected when we said in
speaking of who would take the lead
in raising the largest strawberries, that
it would be unsafe to award a victory
to anyone until Frank Collins had
been heard from. His came in late,
(being on heavier sOil), but they come
in ahead, two boxes from him having
one q and the other II berries, being
five less than Mr.. Leinberger's crack
box, which contained % berries. No
such berries as these of Mr.. Collins
have ever been sent to market before.
THE butter question is always a
troublesome one in the month of June
to our merchants but rarely so much
so as this season. They do not know
what to do with it, as they have more
on hand all the time than there is any
demand for, and yet they do not like
to refuse it from their good customers.
The result has been that they have
been glad to find customers at 10 cents
per pound. The harvest season usu-
ally relieves the pressure and this is
near at hand.
A Challenge. +
NEXT Sunday will be the occasion of
the second Quarterly meeting of the
Methodist societies for this section.
Presiding Elder France will preach at
Union Church, AppOquinimink Circuit,
on Sunday morning, and at Central,
Smyrna Circuit, in the afternoon. The
Quarterly Lovefeast for this town will
be held Thursday-even-
ing, and the Quarterly Conference on
Friday evening. The Quarterly Con-
ference for the Circuit will be held at
Central Church, Saturday morning.
Mrs. ANN JENNA FOxwELL has
commenced a dwelling on her lot re-
Gently purchased adjoining the new
house of Dr. Z. NJ. Cloak .lalso in
course of erectiOn) out on the West
End" 1t will have a front of 36 feet,
| and will be in size and style of archi-
| lecture like the VanWinkle house up
near the depot. 1t is matter of re-
gret to those who desire a new order
Of things in building homes and espec-
tally to Dr. Cloak whose view up the
street is entirely cut off, that the foun-
dation was not laid further back from
the front.
ELMER q. TAYLOR brought back
with him from North Carolina, whittier
he went to set up berry box machine,
heretofore noted, a specimen of the
rare plant known as the Venus fly.trap,
which has been planted in the garden
of Geo. w. Taylor, to which it has at
tracted a number of Visitors. The pc
culiarity of this plant, as the name
suggests, is that as soon as a fly alights
on it, it instantly closes and squeezes
it to death. When all movement
| ceases it opens to receive another. II
is in certain sense considered carniv-
erous, as it is supposed to feed upon
the soft, digestible parts of the insects
/ it catches.
A Challenge. T
THE editors of the ChestertOwn
Transcript, Smyrna Record and Middle
! town Transcript have been having q
friendly quarrel over which town has
the prettiest girls-each paper claim
ing this distinction for his town.
We cannot comprehend clearly why
the editor of the Chestertown paper
has so much to say about it, ANYWAY.
as he IS, in the language of the girls,
" an old married man." but to the edi-
tors of the other two papers it was a
! pertinent question, as each was in hunt
OF wife, but to our mind the Smyrna
Record man has much the better of the
argument by choosing wife from his
own town girls, while the Middletown
Transcript man hied him off to New
Jersey to bear away his bride
A TRAVEL on any of our railroad
lines or a ride through the country
this Spring has shown an unusual
quantity of lime on the way to, or be-
ing hauled or spread over our farm
lands. Nothing perhaps indicates
more substantial agricultural thrift
than the use of lime-though not a
fertilizer as manure and phosphate
but simply a chemicical agent that
brings the best results on the action of
the soil and thus mechanically upon
the crops. Our readers have not
failed TO notice the advertisement of
the Charles Warner Company, of Will
mington, who arc selling throughout
the country large quantities of their
several arieties-Hughes, Lancaster
county, Rockland and Sharpless lime
Our farmers who have not already
bought would do well to consult theiI
agent, Chas. f. Moore, at Clayton.