Smyrna times., 1889-07-31
E. H. BECK advertises a desirable
DroDartv near town tDWu

Z. II. BECK advertises a desirable |
near town town.
THE Good Templars will return to
the Odd Fellows Hall after this week.
A SUMNER hotel friendship usually
ends with the season. 1t gets cold
with the season, as it were.
Mrs. HENRY CURREY was severely
injured by fall in her yard last night,
as it is feared, sustained a fracture OF
the arm.
Now A "Brick Trust" is being organ
lied. Capital $15,000,00O. We have
not heard that Riggs and Wright have
entered it yet.
The St. Paul's Sunday School of
Clayton which was to 60 to Wood
land Beach to-day has been postponed
on account of the weather.
AN effort is being made to mend the
marsh road to Woodland Beach with
brush, covered with hay and dirt. The
crossing yesterday was improved.
A FEW peaches were shipped from
CLAYTON on Monday. On the same
day forty-one car loads from below
passed over the road, The farmers
had to wade through water knee deep,
another account says waist deep to
pick many of these peaches.
IF THESE are dog days they are much
pleasanter than the article that in
former years went by that name. They
lack that "demnition, hot, unpleasant"
feeling that usually characterize the
period when the dog star Sirius is sup
posed to reign. Perhaps it may be a
little early to crow, and the muggy,
sticky, dsagreeable kind may come
along after all, and be more intense in
their unpleasantness ON account of
the lateness. But let us enjoy these
while they last, and not anticipate.
The bad comes soon enough.
THE Middletown Transcript says
"The subject of personals in paper is
becoming one of the most difficult
problems an editor has to solve. If we
omit mention, by some we are thought
to be slow. If we speak of some, we
are taken to task for insertion of their
names. Now in both cases we are in
nOcent of any intention to offend,
and the only way we can avoid
trouble will be to suggest that
any one not desiring newspaper
mention in the personal items will be
omitted on stating their wishes"
A FARMER of the vicinity of Blacks.
tons Cross Roads found himself minus
of a twenty dollar gold piece last week
He does not know how this happened
unless he inadvertently passed it out
for a silver dollar in making change
! Whenever you strike big money YOU
/ generally find it in the hand of farm
er. But no matter in whose hands il
is, there is something uncomfortable in
losing it. If anybody has the beauti
ful coin and wants to return it to the
owner, as should be done, the proper
direction will be given by inquiring al
this Office.
THE rain of Saturday was the gen
tlest of the season viz: it fell like rains
of former times and not like those o
this year as if poured out of a bucket
But it was not so a hundred miles dowr
the Peninsula. 1t struck Worceste
county Thursday and Friday on it,
way up, and was the worst ofthe many
very bad ones they have been having
from the early Spring. The vicinity o
Snow Hill seems to have been visited
with the greatest violence, and tha
town was shut out by washouts from
the outside world for two or three DAYS
At a mill pond crossing twenty-five
feet OF track was washed away. Th,
dispatch says that Purnelis mil
was entirely swept away will
other bridges and dams and the POGO
mOke river Overran its banks. Tn
dispatch says further that with thi
last storm is swept away the remnan
of hope for the growing crops in WOr
cester. Some farmers on high lam
may raise half a crop while many Wi
raise none.