Smyrna times., 1888-06-20


WITH this issue the TIMES enters on
its "a volume.
The Green Spring school will stop
Friday with picnic in the " HoOgie"
woods.
THE Misses FAIRIES on Mount Vernon
street are having bay window put in
their dwelling.
SALEM NJ. P. CHURCH in Blackbird
Hundred will hold festival running
over the three last nights of this week.
OUR schools will soon have their
Summer vacation. Joy for the teach
ers and pupils. Trouble for parents
and guardians.
A GREAT many persons who were
waiting for rain to put out their to-
mato plants for the canning contract,
were served by the rains of Saturday.
REV. GEO. w. DAME who went in
Sunday week on a high tide" OF
favor as the new rector of St. Peters,
was greeted again on Sunday by large
audiences.
CHILDREN's DAY for Severson's
Church, which was postponed from
Sunday week because of the dedication
of the new church at Clayton, will
come off next Sunday.
OUR neighbor over the way seems to
be catching it from his editorial con-
freres all along the line, but it is pas
time he seems to enjoy, and what is
more, he hits back with equal energy.
THE wheat fields of the " Alley " are
almost without exception very fine and
promise a good yield This is also a fine
peach section, and the "Alley will
| doubtless be in the front row with this
crop.
A MEETING of the Smyrna Athletic
Association will be held tomorrow
evening in the room of the Hose Com
pany to complete their organization,
and the members are requested to be
present with their dues.
THE Record has been sarcastic, pun
gent, direct in its thrusts at the Della
lUdredn, and because the latter won't
further controvert" with it, in its
last issue it called the DeIaUGrean a
"she." That was the unkindest cut OF
all,
WE acknowledge the receipt of very
handsome invitation cards to College
Commencements from President T. n
Williams, of Washington College, anC
A. w. Cummins, of Lafayette, anC
Chas w. Newman, of St. Johns
College.
ALL persons indebted to B. V. Wei
don, collector, for school tax for Smyrna
public schools for 1888, and all bach
taxes, are hereby notified that sale
taxes must be paid on or before July 1st
1888, or he will be compelled to cOllec
by law.
t B. V. WELDON, Collector.
GEO. NJ. STEVENSON has new an,
attractive sign at his ice cream saloon
, painted by John G. Mannering. MI
Stevenson has the Smyrna Oper
, House orchestra to make music Mon
day and Thursday evenings, and pei
haps through the season may tax
= another night.
WE are now on the third week {
the strawberries with berries both fin
: in size and good in quality, and rasI
J berries ripening to Immediately SUE
ceed them. Peas have been abundan
: and cabbage, potatoes and beats ar
! coming in for the table. We are entel
ing on the season of plenty for fruit
, and vegetables.
: EVERYTHING is said have a use an
,. one has been found for the dscarde
= Ailanthus tree. The GeOrgetOW
r Journal says that when the larg
), trees were standing at the old LaytO
i homestead thousands of rose bus
n would sometimes be found lying dea
:, upon the ground beneath their foliag
JAS. E. CATS on the farm of He
. man P. HAZEL & Bro, on the stat
road five miles north of Smyrna has
field of corn that attracts attentiC
g from its mathematical correctness
signing out and crossing. The row
are so straight and the hills so accu
IS ate, that if necessary, it could be cult
waited diagOnally.
ie THE Home School" of Prof. r,
closed on Friday with special and a
Of prOpriate services, giving him a tv
y and half months vacation. If the
is anything in his candidacy for Co
gress on the Prohibition ticket, as su
70 gested by an exchange, he will hay
70 ample time to work up his boom. Pre-
Roe would fight an aggressive Cal
n- paign from the stump.
W SUPERINTENDENT HANDY, who I
n, turned yesterday from Princess Ann
Md, says they had only few drops
n rain there on Saturday. They ha7
n had no rain there for about thr
's weeks, and some of the people thil
this little hard for a Prohibiti
county. We also see in this come
IN tion some of the papers expressing a
re prehension about the effect on t
IN blackberry crop, now nearly rea,
there for the market.
ID THE following is the time-card of t
r. | steamer VlJ0erf for JulV.