Smyrna times., 1889-08-07

THE pavement in front of G. A.
Vick's barber shop is being elevated
nd relaid.
IT costs less, your fruit carries better
nd sells at higher figure when ship
,ed by boat.
APPLES like all other fruit this year
ire inferior in quality, and less a5un-
liant in market.
THE weather this morning really
OOks as if it wanted to be good, if it
could recover from its dissipation.
Col. GEO. w. CUMNINs shipped by
the steamer Ella to-day 80 baskets of |
pears and 128 baskets of peaches.
PEACHES are soft and do not carry |
well this season. The shortest, coolest |
and best route is by water. See time |
table Steamer Ella.
WALTER SHELTON has developed |
into q good umbrella mender. His
work can be tested by leaving orders
at Hirnheimer's store.
A CAR and a half of peaches were
from Brenford on Monday.
The most of the peaches of this section
are in the vicinity of BrenfOrd.
THE Good Templars in re-occupying
their former quarters in the Odd Fell
lows Hall this evening, will conclude
the meeting with an entertainment.
The yearly meeting of the Old
School Baptists was held at BrynziOn
church on Sunday, but the attendance
was hardly so large as usual. Elders
Rittenhouse and POstles conducted the
services.
J. V. SMITH who announced last
week an improvement in his health and
wanted fifty watches to repair, has an
ingenious contrivance which he has
connected with a lathe to fan and keep
him cool while at work.
A hand organ will do once and
awhile, but two at the same time is
little eXtraVagant, as was the case on
Saturday. One was a very good one
the other was very poor but it had a
monkey and that attracted the chill
dren and the pennies.
ONE of our farmers thus states it {:
"the farmers this year can't raise any
thing, what they raise they can't save,
and what they save they can't sell"
Our agricultural friend must remember
that there is no record of such a year
in this century, and not likely to be an
other.
A LARGE monument has been placed
this week over the grave of Noble 7.
IorN11 in Clan II iC
of dark granite, polished face and very
substantial in appearance. The sub
base has some neat chisel work, above
which rises a shaft nineteen feet high,
making an attractive feature for the
| location.
Mr.. ORRELL on J. B. FAIRIES farm
near BrenfOrd shipped thirty baskets
of Mountain Rose peaches to New
York in crates which sold on Saturday
for $40 or at rate of nearly $500 pei
basket. twenty-five baskets Monday
sold for $69.50 and 25 yesterday for $50
and between three and four baskets o
little Troths sold for $1O.5O.
A SMYRNA nine of home player:
went to Camden yesterday for a game
with the club of that place, the Smyrna
club being the winners on a score of Z
to 6. The clubs were to be composed
only of home players, but CamdeI
had three hired players from the ole
nine. Willumsen and Wharton wer,
the battery for Smyrna.
SOMETHING more about Planet Phos
phosphate. l have used Planet PhOs
| Vhnfn q Ion oruidn nf r,hnrv,hnkoe, Lok
me more money, but Planet gets therr
all the same. 1t beats any phosphat
l ever used. 1t gives me more wheat
more straw and more grass for les
money than any other.
Yours, WIN. E. RIGGS, JR.
PEACHES sold yesterday in New
York from 20 cents to $1.65 per basket
Philadelphia 65 cents to $125. Eighty
seven cars went over the road Monday
a less number yesterday. About sc
cars have gone to market to dat,
With better weather peaches woul
, carry better and sell better. Bartlett
pears are bringing from $1.25 to ST.
r per crate. The cars are going lin o
time.
EVERY person, no matter what b
D future calling may be, should have
! practical, business education, and I'll
! Wilmington Commercial College an
School of Shorthand and Type-Writin
= a most hOurishing institution locate
at Wilmington, Del, affords unusu
facilities at low rate. Their elegal
d new catalogue will be mailed free {
e application. See advertisement in n
1 other column.
= READ what Mr.. Ennis has to 81
o about Planet Phosphate: I used Plan
Phosphate on my wheat last fall, 2
pounds per acre, and harvested
!: bushels per acre on an average of
Il acres. l think this very good for tE
e season. / also have the finest field
e clover where used Planet on sta
e ground that l ever raised. I thereto
e expect to use Planet as long as it mai
e tains its present standard.
GEO. E. ENNIS.
g A NEW JERSEY account of the Weat
e. er shows that the effect on the crops
al very much the same there as here,
IS the following paragraph will show:
et Grapes, on account of the excessi
le wet weather, are decaying; so is t
le sweet potato crop, and the sproutil
er water melons have been torn from t
vines by the heavy rain drops and {
,e casiOnal hailstOnes. Many other Gro
IL are being destroyed in a like mann
NJ Milk producers, too, are complaint
3. They say the rain has rendered [
le pasture very poor, and the grass CT
ul tains no milk-prOducing properties
u IN THE session of the New Cas-
~ county Levy Court yesterday reso
ton was offered by Geo. G. Rothw
iii and passed directing the collection
in $256.86 from the treasurer OF K
er county, that being the one half expeI
it ed on the county line bridges at Du
n Creek and Fleming's Landing.
al ROthwell announced that two bids
W. the repairing of Collins Beach 70
he built by the National Dredging ca
lr- pany, had been received. o
W. amounting to $2,125, was from ALI
tie Stevens, of Odessa, and the 9th
he amounting to 81 $50, was from Rot
n. Huggins, of DeakyneYille
.;u opinion that the bids were excess
=, was expressed, and after a pFOtFaC
~ discussion Mr.. ROthwell was Feques
ly to notify the officers of the dredg
,o9 ~ company to attend the next meet
s3 sss A Subject to Think About