Smyrna times., 1888-05-16
Smyrna and Vicinity.
DECORATION DAY will soon be here

smyrna and Vicinity.
DECORATION DAY will soon be here.
SPRING chickens have been in mar
ket.
THE straw hat may be late but it gets
there all the same.
THE Opera House Orchestra will be |
at the Opera House this evening
SOME of the farmers in the low lands
have not yet finished planting corn.
ROSES plucked from the garden were
worn by some of our young ladies Sum
| day.
THE tile and brick makers are find
ing this an excellent May for working
up their material.
THE fine prospect for peaches and
berries insures an early starting of the
basket factories in force.
THE~proprietor of the Beckett car
riage shops is putting in water for the
use of the establishment.
WATCHES scarcely bigger than ten
cent peices are now put in ladies' brace
lets, purses and card-cases.
A. HUDSON has bought a pasture
lot % acres on the southern limit of the
town of John II. Bewley for $3.50.
THE wheat fields are looking very
hOurishing, and the rain of Friday gave
a new impetus to the grass crops.
THERE is said to be big difference
with some of our would be fast horses
f before, and after they get on the track.
REV. GEO. S. SwEzEY will preach
next Sunday in the Presbyterian
pulpit for three months.
The rain of Friday and Saturday
assured a good strawberry crop, al
least for the early picking, which will
I be on in about two weeks.
THE birds are singing in the trees
n and all the world is glad; the flowers
d bloom in every breeze, and house
G cleaning goes on like mad.
r A REDUCTION of six per cent. ol
/ Town taxes will be allowed on take
- paid the collector, ]. w. Jones, iron
= = May 21s to the 25th, inclusive.
= f. BECK is having the new stor
= room soon to be occupied by o. D
% Hill and the store of E. G. Walls ad
re joining set in front with a new an
s. more elevated pavement.
le THE sea trout coming to market, ar
of running unusually large and fine th
O. year. Some of them are as large a
shad, and one was caught down tn
d bay which weighed fourteen pounds.
m The newly organized NJ G. L., wi
meet this evening at o'clock sharp, i
the Reading Room. All members al
is requested to be present. By order
ay SECRETARY.
u THE friends of VIM. E. Baker wh
ed visit Philadelphia in search of clothir
is will not fail to notice his card in tn
mi issue and give him call. He repr
~ sents Smyrna and vicinity at Oak Ha,
~ OUR fruit shippers who stand b
,er tween the growers and cOmmissiC
70 men of New York, discount very larg
- ly the statements made by Mr.. Polk
'ne the late meeting of Information al
Distribution.
THE thunder shower, accOmpani
-. by hail, on Monday night was follow
es' by so low a temperature yesterday
ties to cause a general rekindling
ln- the ires-the coldest we have had
,ia during the whole month.
AS MRS. LAURA HALL came down frC
ian Wilmington last week to Superinte
the the placing Of handsome tomb sto
a., over the grave of her lamented h
''J' band, Edwin r. Hall, who died her
are year ago and was buried in the o
I'm Fellows Cemetery.
Seu If accounts are to be relied on, th
on are good peach prospects in New
lion sey, on the Hudson, in Michigan,
In West and in California. The regu
r;ot, shippers, Bureau of Distribution, c
ners and evaporatoTs will all be tai
O'u- to the utmost Of their ability to disp
eral Of such a crop.
THE cold north wind and low Il
Vn0 perature yesterday, the thermome
bhe ranging between 470 and 54o dur
ten the day caused a general apprehens
y Of among the fruit growers that It wo
- sink to the frost line during the mis-
'i"i- and it was quite a relief to find inst
rob rain and a south wind.
ID.
,yto JOHN p. r. POLK stated at the Pc
meeting in Dover last week that
nhs Bureau Of Information and Distribu
has would be able to handle 10000
ds Of baskets of peaches this year, which
lived about the number Of bearing Pc
,- trees on the Peninsula. New 4
AePe city is expected to take 100 car loae
ugnt day, paying the Distribution comp
lliar- the 3 per cent. usually allowed !
faot agents, and that from 800 TO 400 sn
- er cities and towns will be looked
n''7 and arrangements made 70 supply
/ sue ! dailywants.