Smyrna times., 1888-07-25

WIN. B. COLLINS advertises building
hardware, farm tools and cutlery at
reduced rates for cash.
THE stackyards of straw after the
wheat threshing, are not as large down
the Neck this year as usual.
SOME wag. says that if you want to
see family skeletons you have only to
60 to the bathing beach.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society will
meet at Mrs. J. Cosgriff. Tuesday even
ing, July 3lst, at o'clock.
ALEX. FAIRIES picked some very fine
tomatoes of the Turner Hybred variety
from his garden last Friday.
ROBERT DENNEY has field of corn
between this town and Duck Creek
that is beautiful to look upon.
NEXT to campmeetings pic-nics at
the bay-side will claim the attention of
the country people this month and
next.
ROBERT PHILLIPS, one of our basket
makers, made 1900 peach baskets last
week. In doing this he drove 1O4, 400
nails.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Smyrna
Athletic Association will he held at ].
w. Jones store this evening at s
o'clock.
w. Il. MASSEY takes the lead on to-
matoes. He brought to Clements
store nineteen quart boxes on Monday.
very fine ones that sold for Is cents a
quart.
Mrs. ANN WOOD, administrators of
the late William Wood advertises two
desirable farms at public sale, situated
in Blackbird Hundred north of this
town.
THE young ladies and gentlemen at
tending the Normal School of Messrs.
Handy and Lake now number fifsv-
three, all apparently assiduously i'm
proving the time.
JOHN PURNELL, who worked on
Thursday as usual, died suddenly that
night of something like an epileptic
tit, to which he was addicted, as also
the use of ardent spirits.
SALEM, n. J., papers are quoting
coal at $500 a ton, and the papers
everywhere are speaking oft being at a
low figure, and advising consumers to
lay in a stock now for winter use.
THE River and Harbor bill in which
IS an appropriation of $4,000 for
dredging Duck Greek, has passed both
Houses of Congress and is now in the
hands Of President Cleveland whose
signature or veto will decide its fate.
WM. NJ. BOYER tried the experiment
last fall of seeding a field of wheat
both ways across it. He was entirely
satisfied with it, the yield being sever
al bushels al acre more than on the
adjoining land where the drill ran only
one way.
HENRY G. CONRAD, ESQ, has accept
ed the position of distributor for the
Fruit Growers Bureau of Information
and Distribution. He will begin work on
August lst, and will finish about Sep
tember 18th. His Office and headoual-
ters will be at Clayton.
Do NOT ship your peaches too
green. One of our young growers
picked a load of Amsden June in this
condition for fear they would rot. and
got returns for twelve cents a basket.
when for fairly ripened fruit he might
have got Is or 80 cents basket.
QUITE a number of the young people
remained up on Sunday night to see
the eclipse of the moon. 1t was their
night out anyway, so the astronomical
study did not cost much of sacrifice.
The disk of the moon was covered bv
midnight and remained so an hour
and a half.
QUITE a number of people rode
down to the Camden camp on SUNDAY.
but the number was small in compari-
son to former years. Twenty-Five and
thirty years ago our people used to
tent there By the dozen, and on Sun
day a large part Of the population
would be gone.
TROUT fishing in the bay off Bombay
Hook is said to be getting superb.
They are large, fine fellows, and seize
the hook with an energy that delights
the fishermen. Two men went ont
from Woodland Beach one day the
past week with two crabs for bait. and
returned with twenty-five pounds OF
fish.
THE steamer John e. Tygert will
run as follows:
AUGUST.
R0GtlCeWs PhHadelDbfa
Wednesday l. at PM Thursday :. ,t'ti az p noon
Monday e. &c. Taesdayy 1T9sa5dlay + + " Pm
Beginning August Sth, the steamer
will make daily trips.
JOHN II. HOFFECKER is having his
drying house moved to greater dis
tance from his cannery, both to give
room and lessen the insurance risk on
the latter The can makers have been
busy for some weeks in preparing for
canning peaches, which will commence
about the middle Of August or shortly
after.
IT is probable that there was never
more wheat threshed from the straw in
any one week in this county than last.
and with the same amount of satisfac-
ton. The weather was cool, q full davis
labor could be put in, and che steamers
were pushed to their greatest capacity.
There will be very little wheat in the
sheaf by the first of August.
OUR cotemporary over the wav has
followed too cOnfdingly the papers
published in other parts of the PENN
sula in the statement that Rev. VIM
S. Robinson, of this town, will occupv
a tent at Penrose Camp during it's con-
tinuance." The Reverned Gentleman
has never had such an idea, nor has
he been asked to take any part In the
camp at all, yet this statement has
been running the rounds of the papers
for the past three weeks and has at
last got in the home paper as ore Of
the positive statements in regard to
the camp.
VIM. G. CAHOoN, son Of the late
Ihos. X. CahoOn who went down 10
Virginia near Norfolk some twenty.
live years ago and married and ssttIed
there, came on last week to visit his
sister, Mrs. Bernard Sweeney. between
this town and Clayton. On Friday
night be was taken suddenly III, result
ing IN congestion Of the brain the doc
tors said, from which he died on satur-
day. The cause of tho sickness was
not known unless it was from eating
crabs for supper which also more or
less affected the rest Of the family who
partook Of them. He was 81 years ola
ana leaves a wife and six children.