Smyrna times., 1890-06-18

SMYRNA ana 1cI1llJN.
GoNE-Strawberry short cake.
THE picnic season is now on us.
THE sun "crOsses the line Saturday. |
THERE will be five Sundays in this
month.
CENSUS enumerators may have to
wait until August for their pay.
WITHIN ten days the price of sugar
has gone up about So per barrel.
GEORGE HEINoLD cleared $1O2,
from less than a half acre of straw
berries.
HAVE you got your pension yet
The 'Sardines' have had their first
inning.
STRAWBERRIES held on till Monday
last, raspberries catching up with them
in market.
The "Home School," Herman Roe,
principal, closed last week for the
heated term.
a WOMAN is never so fond Of cats
that she does not occasionally let one
out Of the bag.
WHEN you find Il good looking dog
without a master, there is something
the matter with him.
THE drowning season is here as the
large number of boys who resort TO the
mill ponds will testify.
The Fitzpatrick Family of Bell
Ringers and ImpersonatOrs will be at
the Opera House tonight.
ONE lady Of this town told the emu
meratOrs she couldn't speak English,
she only spoke our own language.
FRIENDSHIP CHURCH, Thoroughfare
Neck, is to have a new coat OF paint
inside and out, during the summer.
LINwooD SIsCo has gone into the
creamery to learn the business Frank
Startling left Saturday for Baltimore.
The vine clad porches of several of
our citizens are now radiant in their
purple and green of the Jackmani
clematis.
Mrs. Richard Marin near Green
Spring lost nearly fifty young turkeys
a week ago by the night visit Of mink
or weasel.
TaE days this week reach their great
est length. When people want to see
day break now, they have to get up
about o'clock.
A LINGERING lover is very much
like the article offered by the auction
eer. He's always going" for sometime
before he's gone"
The peculiar rattle of the mower
and the wheat reaper on the way from
the shops to the fields has been fam
iliar sound the past week.
The creamery has a Canada thistle
growing near it that should bC
squelched at once. 1t is as dangerOu;
to the farmer as a mad dog.
THE widow of Jas. c. Lassell was
paid last week the sum of $1,000 by the
Rochester Relief Association, tn,
amount of his insurance in said com
pany.
The "Children's Band" an auxil
iary of the WOman's Missionary work
under Mrs. Wilson. wife of the pastor
numbers between fifty and sixty mem
bers.
The rain on Thursday that fell S,
heavily north of the canal, did no
wet the ground more than inch or twt
about here, and that wasn't so good 70
the "taters."
THE little boy who stands over tn
fountain at the Fruit Growers Banl
guiding the stream of water, har
a bronze umbrella placed over hin
yesterday for protection.
ROBERT HILL had a net yield G
about 10 cents quart on 1000 quart
of strawberries. The yield was onl,
about a third of a crop, but the goo
prices probably made up the difference
A SEvIL offers for sale eight elegan
building lots at Clayton, situated on
sixty-fOOt street. The lots are 5Oxl5
feet and will be offered until July Is
at the small sum of one hundred an
twenty-five dollars each. T
ONE of our contemporaries takes
- clever portion of its local space in a
- article on "GeJ,ing the Peaches Bei
, Flavor" An article such year &
this is malapropos. 1t had better g,
the peach first, before it makes an
effort to get the "best flavor"
THE top of the lantern and railing
i the Light House, mouth Of Smyrr
Y River, has been changed to black
: color. Heretofore the top has bee
, red and the railing white. This is
change IN conformity to a gener
order of the Light House Board.
o REV. G. w. DAME was called
Danville Va, last week by the deaf
G pathy of his friends in his deep aiIli
a tion. There was no service at Il
4 Episcopal Church on Sunday in cons
= quence. He returned home Mondi
y night.
y A COMMISSION of gentleman who
u duty il was to divide the "Suttor
property near Woodland Beach, d
so last week by giving Mrs. SUITE
widow of Thos. L. 80 acres Of Il
10 land and 200 acres OF marsh, and M
IA Brinkley, 80 acres Of upland al
!, buildings and the balance of t
marsh.
N THE SMYRNA TINES enters with q
issue on its 36th volume. The purpc
of its proprietor is now as it has be
u from the first issue TO make each numt
is an epitome of the weekly events Of t
IN town and vicinity, State and Peninsu
- and il is gratifying to know that nj
No withstanding the depression of
nc times. new names are continually
er ing added to the subscription list.
'9' THE currant crop will be eXceedil
or ly small this year, a matter OF 80
concern to the jelly makers. This
ne resulted from the depredations OF
in currant worm that come along W
ed the other immense crops OF destruct
gi- insects. It is thought that the a0sei
ed of peaches, pears and most otl
re fruits on which the curculio prey Q
ia propagate themselves, will result IN
lot very light crop of these pestlterous
81 sects another year because there
or. 40 little in which for them TO pro