Smyrna times., 1886-07-21
Smyrna and Vicinity.


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Smyrna and Vicinity.
NEXT Wednesday will be Farmers
Day at Fraland Beach.
STRAW hats are worn bias after a
sail in Captain Walkers yacht Mary
ARn.
a SPECIAL excursion train will run
over the Delaware railroad tomorrow
to RehObOth.
A Boys description of his drink of
soda water: cit tastes as if your
foot was asleep"
THE amount of water pumped and
used through the water-works in June
was 1884 gallons.
Now IS the time to set out celery.
An unusual number of fine plants have
been bedded for this purpose.
THE farmers will be glad to get
their threshing done and have little
Off time Then for the picnic.
THE annual picnic of the Grangers of
this State will commence at Rehoboth
to-day and continue until Friday.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society will
meet at Mrs. w. w. Tschudy's.
Tuesday evening, July 9th, at eight
O'Clock.
JOS. HUM procured Il new outfit of
furniture from Philadelphia for his
new barber shop and opened on Fri
day last.
THE steamer Tggert is now making
three trips week and will continue to
do so until the 9th of August when she
will make daily trips.
THE excursion from Dover to Toll
chester Beach will stop at Clayton to-
morrow. Persons wishing to go can get
tickets of J. H. Primrose.
SOME of the farmers who had their
wheat crops measured and sold before
they were threshed, have. to 90 back in
their arithmetic to subtraction.
GEO. HEINoLD is having an addition
erected to his dwelling 16 by 18 feet on
the farm which he purchased and NOV
ed to last Spring in Blackbird Hundred.
THE Smyrna Record classifies a GER
tain class of journals as independent
small "'i'9 y sheets, and the Morning
Ne'cS tells it that that is the list it be.
longs to.
ONE of Smyrna's fair daughters
residing on Market street went to
sleep while making bread one dav re.
Gently. 1t is pardOnable, however. as
1t was a case of kneaded rest.
ST. PETERS orchestra has added a
large bass viOl, making the total num-
Der OF pieces in the orchestra eight
three violins, two cornets, one violon-
cello, one bass viol and an organ.
Mrs. ANN NJ. PRICE received to-
day from the Kent County Mutual In
surance Company 1888, the amount of
her insurance on Outbuildings at
Prices Corner, burned on the 10th
inst.
ONE Of the excursionists from Phila-
delphia to Woodland Beach last
Thursday got beyond her depth while
oathlng, and might have drowned but
for the timely aid of John H. Bishop
of MOOrton.
ANYONE wishing their pianos or
organs tuned in iirst-class order NAV
leave their orders with A. P. Griffith.
as r. 7. Potter, from Wilmington
VIII be in town from Thursday to Sat
urday Of this week.
A. ID. HALVEsTON, of Blackb bird hum
dred, brought ssme nice, large. riDe
tomatoes to town on Monday, the first
OF home growth in market. Leonard
Revis, of Duck Creek, had them last
week for his own use.
The Philadelphia and smvrna
transportation Company are now
Keeping supply of coal for thresh-
ING. purposes in torn in addition to
their large stock Of all kinds at the
yard at Rothwell's Landing.
The very early varieties Of peaches
have proved almost a total loss to the
growers because of the rotting caused
by the wet weather. And what adds
more to the annoyance is, that these
trees were better set with fruit than
the standard varieties
A LOT of our town people by fam
lies embracing some thirty or more
persons were booked for Fraland Beach
to-day, and had their fried chicken and
ginger-pop all ready, but the steady
rain of the morning put an estoppel on
the anticipated pleasure.
WIN. r. SMITH, on the "Surgen "
farm had yield Of between Is and 10
bushels per acre from 40 acres. The
fallOw field turned out over 20 bushels
per acre. John W. Colt, on the Fox
well farm in the Alley" had an
average Of % bushels from 25 acres.
THE Stevens thresher, the largest
dOuble-belted machine of that firm. be-
longing to Alexander G. Cummins. on
Monday afternoon threshed at the
rate of 1900 bushels per day on the
Brick-stOre farm. At that time the
field was turning out about 35 bushels
per acre. An extra feeder goes with
this machine.
The wheat threshing that COM
menced so busily last week was stopped
at noon on Tuesday and there was no
more fair weather or the wheat was
not fit for threshing all the rest of the
week. Monday, however, the skies
/ were again fair, the air pleasantly
Iresh, but the heavy rain of TODAY
Will again cause the loss of the lar
ger part of the week.
DURING the thunderstorm ON We'd
nesday the electrical disturbance was
very marked, striking several places in
this vicinity, and from all parts of the
Peninsula there are accounts ofdamaoe
by lightning from the storms Of the day.
/ "A Tenant hnDon ~. ftta.F & m.
Attix in Kenton Hundred was struck
sne lightning striking the chimney, GO
lng 1nr0ngh the house and passing out
side, killing dozen OF more chickens.
fortunately, the family was not at
/ home nj the time