Smyrna times., 1886-07-07
Smyrna and Vicinitv.A

day sessions show that the Sunday
school picnic is fully ripe.
J. f. CARTER has been giving the
Masseys A. NJ. +. Church near Green
Spring a new coat Of paint.
The Centennial church will COM
mence a Church Camp on Thursday of
next week holding ten days.
CULTIVATED blackberries made their
appearance in the market Monday,
the first coming from Belmont.
The abundance of the raspberry
crop has made it more Improbable
than usual in the city markets.
THE weather bureau reports u warm
wave on the way. Yesterday the
thermometer in Milwaukee registered
81.
THE Morning NelCs quotes the
Smyrna Record as having 'gone to meet
the Harrington Enterprise" on the Re-
form questions.
The steamer Tygert on Monday car
ried the first peaches of the season also
some very fine pears from the farm of
G. w. Cummins.
THE wheat market is issOmewhat better
due to drought in the West and the
yield not coming up to the estimation
made before harvest.
A PATENT ironing board is the latest
novelty in the interest Of the ladies.
The agent is located for a week or so
in the Ward building.
AT the last meeting Of the Clayton
Fruit Exchange the names Of JOS. L.
Cavender and w. p. Cummins was
added to the local board.
MANY persons took advantage of
the holiday excursion rates offered by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
from July 2nd to July 9Th.
GREEN apples made their appear
ance in market last week. The green
apple always suggests the small boy
and the Jamaica ginger bottle.
SEE advertisement of c. w. Willum-
sen wherein he gives notice of reduc-
ton of % per cent. on Summer clothing
purchased from this date for cash.
ST. RErER's Sunday School will
picnic at Woodland Beach OH Thursday
next, 18th inst. They will 90 in wag-
ons as they cannot get a passage by
rail.
SOME Of the sweet girl graduates had
so much name on the Commencement
programme that their neighbors and
friends had to inquire who they were
any how.
THE first water melons of the season
were put in the market on Saturday
/ by w. F. Clement, and went off readily
at so cents a melon. They were from
the South.
TICKETS for the excursion tomorrow
can be procured by those not already
supplied at the stores of. =. HOfIecker,
DIR. f. NJ. Cloak, J. w. Denney and
Miss S. 3. Collins.
THE company of visitors to Wood
land Beach on Sunday the 4th by boat
and carriage was very large, 1900 to
1900 people; a sober; orderly and well
disposed crowd, we are told.
OUR streets are receiving their
annual cleaning and leVeling up, a
more important work this year than
usual because of the inequalities caused
by so much digging to put in the water
pipes.
THE Milford Chronicle was little
previous in sending the excursion of
our schools to RehObOth last Thursday.
They 90 tomorrow, one week later.
and inaugurate the excursion season
for that place.
THE Morning NelCs is wrong in giving
the number of graduates of our high
school at four. The pupils named
were those who took the first honors
for scholarship, the graduating class
numbering eleven.
Mrs. c. f. PETERSON shipped sew
eral crates Of peaches to market YES.
terday-the Amsden June variety
The wet weather of last week has So
rotted the peaches Of the early varie.
ties that in some orchards they will
not be worth picking at all.
On Monday between twenty and
thirty members Of Smyrna Lodge No
., /. o. G. T., went to Camden woods
to attend the Good Templars' reunion
and express themselves well pleased
with their trip. Addresses were made
by Messrs. Cooper, Brown, Franklin
and others. Music was also one of the
features Of the day.
MOsT all Of the wheat was cut by
the middle Of last week but there werI
some crops belated, two Of them dowr
the Neck" not being finished unit
Monday of this week. The fields gen
orally shock up we'll Quite n number
OF the farmers feel they have been in
juFed by the worm that cut the head of
before ripening thus letting it drop K
the ground.
THERE is greater want Of uniformi
ty in the fields Of growing corn thar
usual. Thus, John J. Jones near town
has field large enough TO "lay bv'
with one more working, while ther,
are many others not yet foot high
This is especially 70 on the line Of III,
railroad in New Castle county, wher,
the corn Is not only small but yer,
grassey, the result doubtless in boti
cases Of the cool, wet weather.
, THE Smyrna TIMES and Record seen
to be determined to be ut outs will
each other no matter who the editor
may be. They are now engaged in ,
) lengthy controversy as TO the constit
nent parts Of sodawater; aud wha
. they know-or what they don't know
about It is being beautifully exem
plihed. MiddletOl0a TFnnscriDi
The Transcript is wrong at least a
Q far as the TIMES is concerned. w,
f nave been engaged in no controversv
{ we had but q single paragraph. in
Tended for bit Of newspaper pieasan
Try however it may have been under
stoodl, such as is often INDUCED in h,
! the profession, intended neither fo
controversy nor to provoke contro
3 Nersy There are other subjects o
!. more interest to US and We think on
l. reaqers, than marble dust aud earboni
acid gas. and the latter were immed
ately, metaphorically speaking, tosse
g out the window.