Smyrna times., 1889-07-31
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
THE small fruits are about done for.
WHERE, Oh where, are the peaches?
THERE are something's that silence
alone can answer.
THE pleasantest thing connected
with labor is drawing the pay for it.
THE proper" young girl carries a
dozen chatelaines dangling from her
belt.
In about four weeks the fried oyster,
wearing the bronzed hue of health, will
be both esteemed and cOtempOrary.
AN umbrella dealer remarked with
ghoulish glee during the late rain, that
there is no watering place like home.
WILLARD G. PIERCE has got out a
circular of pointed testimonials as an
entering wedge for the fall phosphate
campaign.
They have hotel and cottage accom-
modatiOns at the seaside resorts for
many more people than those who will
visit there this season.
A SExTETTE composed of Smyrna's
best colored singers will give a concert
i'll Hamtown NJ. E. Church, Middle
town, tomorrow evening.
GREEN CORN and tomatoes come
along about the same time, and will be
luxuriated on the rest of the season.
Both promise to be abundant this year.
The extra inducement of a prize
medal for the largest fish story will, no
doubt, have the effect of enlarging the
fish or increasing the imagination of
the story-teller.
UNsLACKED lime placed in cellars
and other moist places is one of the
best precautions against disease. It
neutralizes dampness and is good any
where about the house.
Mrs. J. B. COOPER had two beautiful
blooms from a Night Blooming Cereus
on Wednesday night last The plants
of the Misses Savin, the Misses FAIRIES
and Mrs. E. Beck also bloomed during
the week.
The Camden camp commences to-
day. 1t and the PenrOse camp, but a
few miles apart will both be in session
next Sunday. 1t can be pretty safely
promised that they will not be troubled
with dust.
BENZ. DAVID. one of the best known
and oldest farmers of Thoroughfare
Neck, died at his residence near Collins
Beach on Saturday last, aged "a years.
His wife, who was a sister of the late
Robert DericksOn, and FIVE children
survive him.
THE street committee of the Town
Commissioners are having the holes in
the roads and cutters cleaned of grass,
&c. In doing this they are meeting
long felt want, if we might judge by
the frequent complaints made, especial
| ly by our neighbOr over the wav. II
certainly looks better to see some OF
the washes filled up.
AND now a certain insect, a new
species of worm has attacked the tough
oak leaves with great voraciousness
AT least such is the case weare told with
a thirty acre woods of David Reese in
the Alley. The leaves are so skeleton
lied as to make them look almost bear
of foliage, casting little more shade
than in the frost season.
ROBINS FAREWELL" Caprice fol
Piano by Fisher, in the key of 8 fats is
a composition of superior merit it is
musicianly and most eXcellently adap
ted for parlOr playing or teaching pur.
poses, since it is carefully marked and
fingered. Just the piece for younp
pianists who have had As terms les.
sons. Price 90 cents. Ign. Fisher
Publisher, Toledo, Ohio.
MARY WILLIAMS, of Media, Pa.
could equal if not excel some of thu
cOlOred women sometimes heard on OuI
streets. She was hauled up before the
Squire for irOfanity, and she let fly
sixtyhve of them, the Squire putting
on fine each time. When she ex,
hausted her stock the fines haC
run up to $40 which she could moi
pay, and had to go to Jail.
In 1916 it took just one bushel o
corn to buy 1 pound of nails, now
bushel of corn will buy 10 pounds O
nails. Then it required "a bushels o
barley to buy ! yard of brOadcloth
now the same amount of barley will
pay for 20 yards of broadcloth. It thel
required one bushel of wheat to pay 70
yard Of calico, now bushel of whea
will buy 20 yards Of calicO.-Er
THE statement is made in a PENN
sula paper that pastor in one of tn,
lower counties has traded an oil,
church bell with McShane, of Balti
more, for one of his best new ones
They got IA cents per pound for tn
old one and payed 10 cents per poun
for the new bell. Here is a way for u
to get rid of some of our steambOa
bells and have church bells ia thei
places to call wOrshippers together o
Sundays.
How WOULD we get along withOU
the bay trout? The housekeepers an
often put to it for something for suppe
: "a change from the ordinary Diet
are coming it over in their minds, 10
the fisherman's horn is heard, and th
question solved. This is not an every
day occurrence, but it Is often euOug
to vary the supper diet. The trOI
: that come now are caught with th
hook, and much finer in quality tina
those caught in the seiDes earlier In ii
season.
ONE of our citizens says that q lad
resident of this town goes to churc
just four times during the year,-tt
t beginning Of each of the seasons, whe
q the new dresses make their debut. =
further said (nO names givenl that h'
name is on the church record. Iii
!, matter Of remark how many there a
t who hold their church vows with u
s utmost Indifference when they want
4 take late morning nap, it is warn
they want to gossip over the gardS
Y wall or there is promise Of sprink
Of rain.