Smyrna times., 1889-10-09
Smvrna and Vicinity.

'0IL1 I11d d11O vicinity.
The Fair at Elkton this week closes
the list hereabOuts this season.
Now is the time to lay in coal
The price remains the same and the
roads are reasonably good.
THE man who stayed from church
because il was too warm, will now re-
main at home because it is too cold.
APROPOs of the season it is well to
know that a solution of salt and vine
gar will clean the blackened isinglass
of the stove.
JOHN Wick bagged twenty-five flick
ers on Monday, and does not know
how many more he would have got
had not his ammunition given out.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Ladies'
Benevolent Society will be held at Mrs.
L. b. Megears' Friday evening, at 7
O'Clock. A full attendance is desired.
MEMBERS of the 5th and 9th Della
ware Regiments who have claims for
services therein, will find an article on
our first page pertaining to the settle
ment.
THE ox-rOast tomorrow at the base
ball ground will doubtless call together
large number of hungry spectators.
The intellectual part of the day will
come off at night in the Opera House
in speeches and music.
DR.. COLLINS is having a new coat of
paint put on the dwelling occupied by
DR.. E. 5. Dwight, also the office and
SbarDer shop of Jos. HUM adjoining.
VIM. B. Collins is having his dwelling
newly painted. VIM. G. Mitchell is
having his residence on lower Main
street re-weatherboarded, putting it on
over that already there.
THE following persons from this sec.
ton were awarded premiums at the
fair at Dover last week: Misses Minnie
Clement, K. l.. Storm, Lizzie Mellow
ell and Sue r. Colt, each several in
painting and pencil work; Mrs. w. F.
Clement, Miss Mamie Register, and
A. l.. Hudson, Jr., horse. It would
seem that with one exception none of
the men from this part of the county
placed any thing on exhibition. There
was, however, d fine exhibit of farm
products.
A CITIZEN who is engaged in agri-
culture in part, remarked a day or two
ago that after all the surest success
was in farming. The man who keeps
up with his work-always ready to
meet the moods of nature in planting.
and harvesting, will come out ahead
The men he says who fail do not do
r n or
son moves them, and then are ready to
drop their work, however much it NAV
be pressing to go to the beach, a fair
or any other frOlic, such men throw
away their opportunities: and then Law
it to the business.
The farmers wives have no reason
10 be dissatisfied with the snrinO
chicken business as aided by the incu.
bators of H. S. Anthony and Jos. d.
Carter, (whO bought the place of Mr.
Anthony near town. who entered the
market some two weeks ago with an
offer for incubator eggs of two or three
cents dozen above the market Drice
In few days eggs jumped up from
sixteen to twenty-four cents q dozen.
in our stores, which was above the
price in the city market and consider
ably above that in the country towns.
Mr. Anthony says he will have the ne
eessary eggs for his incubatOrs all the
same, no matter what the figures they
may reach.
WE were the recipient last week
from a we'll known resident of Green's
borough, Md, Andrew B. Roe, of a
peach basket full of tomatoes, which
we do not hesitate to pronounce the
finest that were ever in the town.
Twenty-Five tomatoes filed the basket
weighing 81 pounds, the heaviest one
OF the lot tipping the beam at two
pounds and seven ounces. A note on
the card stated that they were "grown
from Listers Fertilizer" brand which
has been advertised in the TIMES and
evidently highly esteemed by Mr.. Roe.
He has been experimenting for several
years in propagating them from the
seed in order to reach large smooth
variety, and has done it this year in
"Roe's FavOrite."
ONE or two of the visitors from other
states to the State Fair, took a run up
from Dover to see the new house which
Henry s. Anthony has had construct
ed this summer for the artificial raising
of chickens on large scale. When
contemplating devoting himself en-
tirely to this enterprise, he visited
some of the leading hatcheries in New
Jersey, making close observations
which combined with his own expert
ence Of several years enabled him to
form a system of his own, which after
investigation by his visitor, whoi is very
conyersant with the business and a con-
tributor to the agricultural journals,
said that Mr.. Anthony's is the best sys-
tenn for artificial heating and the best
ARRANGED house be had ever seen.