Smyrna times., 1888-07-04
Smyrna and Vicinity.

GRABBING parties are now in order
COPIOUs rains last week helped the
corn.
CAMP MEETINGS will soon be on
hand.
The BAND OF HOPE picniced in Bel
mont grove, on Saturday.
RED handkerchiefs will cease to
flourish after November.
THERE are a great many young
patridges and rabbits this season.
The merchants are busy getting out
their semi annual bills.-So are the
editors.
THE Fourth of July being a legal
holiday, the banks will be closed on
that day.
FARMERS have mostly got their
wheat in good shape-and a heavy
crop it is.
LET the citizens see to it that their
homes and places of business are dec
grated tomorrow.
WHAT'S the matter with the wheat
crop?
The wheat crop is all right
The Smyrna Record entered upon its
sixth volume on Saturday. Long may
our brother chip stand at the helm.
ONE of our owners of fast horses is
said to be still looking for an extra
quality brand of condition powders.
FROM excessive heat to positively
cool weather characterized last week.
Friday OvercOats and fires were com
Portable.
VIM. P. SMITHERs does not throw
out a challenge, but perhaps he could,
for the best square Of garden corn in
the town.
THE tune of the closing hymn at one
of our churches on Sunday was verv
suggestive of, Go tell aunt Susan, the
old gray goose is dead"
IF THERE isn't large hospitality to.
morrow, for the public houses will be
taxed beyond their capacity, some
people will go hungry or have to feed
on ginger bread.
WE have just found out that there
are twenty-six miles of sweat-tubes in
the body of the average man, they
were all in full operation every day
during the hot weather.
THE rains of Thursday last were
worth millions to the farmers. They
came just when they were needed, ex-
cept to the wheat cutter, and vegeta-
tiOn took on a new lease fife.
THE Centennial church people will
have picnic on their church grounds
tomorrow. An excursion bv rail
from Chestertown and intermediate
places will help swell the multitude.
THERE is one thing that the most
bitter partizan, let us be thankful, can
not appropriate to himself-the Stars
and Stripes-that will be so freely
flung to the breeze tomorrow. Long
may it wave.
HARRY G. BLENDT, of Blackbird
Hundred was severely kicked in the
stomach by horse on Friday, and for
some hours his life was considered in
danger, but at last accounts he was
improving favorably.
THE captain of the Dover nine of
little base ball players, like many 9th
ers who come in contact with the big
world before their time, is readily ac-
quiring its language of expletives. It
is said he can swear equal to a basket
mill boy.
THE baseball craze seems to have
gotten hold of the young ladies with
as much force as the men. Some of
them have limited very loudly, we un-
derstand, that they would rather 90
to the base ball match than have two
plates of ice cream.
IT isn't often that one is too cold in
church on July day, but such was
the case on Sunday. For there to be a
longing for shawls and Overcoats for a
sunny midsummer day would seem
strange, even in a church ventilated
according to the almanac.
The coming campaign ought to be
one Of argument and not of abuse.
The candidates are men of respecta-
bility, and against whom little or moth
ing can be said Let it be fought on
principles, and let the party win that
can show what is best for Americans.
IT is late date, but tomato plants
were in demand by a number of farm
ers altar the rains last week. Setting
tomato plants for canneFy purposes has
been seriously interfered with by the
protracted drOuth, and unless the frost
next fall is late, many patches will not
have an opportunity to ripen the fruit.
WHEAT, hay and oat harvest will
scarcely be ended before the peach is
upon the farmers. The season will
likely open earlier than usual this
year. In the extreme lower end OF
the Peninsula fruit will be ready for
shipment in two weeks and by the lat.
ter part Of July there will be shipments
from sections south Of Milford.
THE Germania Dramatic Clubs ex
cursion of Wilmington to Bombay
Hook on the steamer ThOmGs A. CLYDE
took about 500 persons Thursday
They did not 60 to Bombay Hook
however, for the river was so rough
that landing was an impossibility. An
attempt was made to land at Angus
tine Pier, but this, too, was unsuccess
full. When the boat turned, one sid'
dipped into the water. There was 1
good deal Of "yorking."
ONE of our larger school boys wh'
was out boating on Monday with som'
girls of tender but interesting age
gave them a striking lesson Of how t
play duckey under the water" ~
was standing erect in the boat, whel
by a sudden movement Of the girls
presumably not concerted) he wa
thrown backward, and disappeared
under the water. He didn't mind thll
SO much, for he is a good swimmer ane
was soon to tho shore, but he didn.
enjoy going home through the baci
streets in his wet cloths eqd leRyipi
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