Smyrna times., 1889-06-12
Smyrna and Vicinity.
NEW moon tomorrow.
JOHN Fox advertises for a stro,, h o,.-,

NEW moon tomorrow.
JOHN Fox advertises for a stray horse
IT has taken large quantities of paris
green to fight the potato bugs this
season.
ORDERS for Ice Cream promptly at
tended to at short notice by Ghas. G.
BOehmler. z
THE shipment of strawberries to the
cities over the Delaware road amounts
to over 1000 cars.
THOs. E. BAILEY handed Mr.. Jan
ney yesterday $3.50 as Kenton's con-
tribution to the JohnstOwn sufferers.
A. E. FOWLER dug a single hill of
potatoes in his garden yesterday and
got ten therefrom, enough for dinner
for his family.
JUNE is the month for sending bulls
to the city markets for beef and bolog-
ma, and the steamer Ella is we'll freight
ed with them every trip.
THE several days of high southern
winds and warm weather was brought
to a close by copiOus showers of rain
last night and this morning.
COMPLAINT comes from some quar-
ters, that what is called the 'scabu is
in the wheat, and in other quarters
that a green louise is eating the life out
of the heads.
w. +. q J. K: CLEMENTS, at Clayton,
advertise the Walter A. Wood mower
and reaper, Stevens engine and thresh-
ing machinery and all the needed
farm machinery.
SOME forty or fifty of the members
OF Harmony Lodge went TO Whining
ton last evening to attend Masonic
banquet, given by the Corinthian
Lodge of that city.
THE trustees of the NJ. E. Church at
Kenton, have purchased of r. p.
Bailey lot on which they expect soon
to erect a parsonage. The financial
condition of the Church was never bet
ter than at present.
THE getting up a base ball team for
this season, which seemed abandoned
several weeks ago, has been revived.
ana the prospect now is that money
Will be forthcoming to secure a strong
battery for Smyrna.
THE damage to the road to Wood
land Beach has been repaired so as to
make 1t safe travelling. A mud
machine is expected to come this week
and repair the breaches made in the
banks by the hightides.
THE steamer Richard Stockton, came
down to Bay Head on Sunday with
l4OO excursionists. The hotel there
is not yet occupied, and Frank Collins.
near by, was besiged by people for
things both to eat and drink, without
being able to help them.
Il. T. CAMPBELL, the proprietor of
Woodland Beach, has fixed on We'd
nesday the 26th inst for the formal
opening, when he will have every thing
ready, and Oglesby will be on hand ia
make music. The Thos. CLYDE will
commence making her regular trips on
that day.
THE Kentucky RenOvating Company
came to Smyrna last week With some
i've wagons and a corps of men. and
have been rOping in the feather beds
ever since. They have been at Har-
rington a good part of the spring. and
renovated about 200O beds in that part
Of the county.
POSTMASTER BEwLEY has Just fin
lshed his canvass of Kent County. n
things political can be judged bv the
reception and endorsement he re-
ceived, he can form a pretty accurate
Judgment whom Gov. Biggs will
appoint Recorder next March as the
successor Of Mr.. Spruance.
THE ladies of the w. G. II. U. in the
observance of Monday as ."FloweI
Mission Day." met in their room in
the morning and made about fiftv
bouquets and distributed them in the
afternoon to the sick and others the
ZINES Office being the recipient of one
Of these beautiful offerings.
The piling for the railroad pier al
Bombay Book has all been driven and
the caps and flooring are being put ON
A similar pier is being built on the
Jersey side of the river at Bayside. fo,
the transport to ply between. The
construction train between Smyrna anC
the Hook is kept busy daily.
Mrs. SOPHIE DoscH, who preceded
Mr.. Boehmler in the bakery business
here, and who left here with the esteem
OF everyone, has lost her third and LAST
daughter since she returned to Pbila.
delphia. This daughter. Emma. mar
ried Fritz Maser during their residence
here. The death occurred on Monday
The strawberry crop is down to it's
last pickings. The growers saw for !
year OF such full crops, it is the most
Improbable of any that have preceded
1t. The market was most of the time
glutted, and not half the money ba,
been realized that was expected. The
raspberry will follow immediately
after, and unless the weather becomes
too dry, will also be large crop.
ONE day last week a large bee
which John p Collins was sbipDinO +,
Philadelphia on the steamer Emma. ool
united and took plunge in the river
near the iron bridge. It came up ono,
only ana disappeared from sight. It il
thought it got its nose full of mud II
It's headlong plunge downward. II
was found the next day, having fioatef
in the northwest branch to the lons
bridge. Mr.. Collins shipped on Mon.
day a beef weighing 1900 pounds. one
OF the largest that has gone from this
section.
DEvoE, the weather prophet, is on
again. The following are his predic
tlons which we give for the benefit y
the curious: After the 9TH Of June th,
mercury will run up, and from the 1Otl
TO the 10th we will have very mupov
sultry weather with frequent sbowers
and between the 10Th and 18th tber,
will be a great change, and the mos
violent storm of the season will prevail
along the Middle Atlantic coast; it vii
not extend far inland, and as far az
can calculate it will form near Wash
ington, D. c., on tho 10th and strix,
Philadelphia on the 18th with easterl,
gales and heavy rains. There will bs
violent gales along the coast from Del
aware TO the State Of Massachusetts
ana from the 18th to the 26th it will s.
very cold and overcoats will he Il
1e,,4,aho, and on the 28th the murour,
W. t.4 = rapidly. and June will ),
ous "''n heavy thunder showers. p