Smyrna times., 1891-06-17

JAS. l.. WOLCOTT, Esq, and Sheriff
Cole, OF Dover were in Smyrna on Sat
urday interested in the sale of the Pat
tersOn property, but which sale how
ever did not take place because of an
infOrmality in the announcement.
The friends of Herman Roe, who is
cow travelling in Europe, are favored
with an interesting letter from his pen
on, our first page, giving his Observa-
tons in Edinburg, which will doubt
~ be read with great deal of
pleasure. -
ABE GIBBS, whose death was refer
red 20 in our last issueA-being drowned
at the Tygerf- Allen phosphate works,
Philadelphia--wa brouQht down here
for interment on Friday. he was a
reliable, iadnstrious. highly respected
man, and his funeral was largely at
tended from the Centennial Church
LEWES HAMILTON, whose short ILL
ness was referred to in our last issue,
died in a very peculiar way-from
lock. k.jaw-thOugh he had received no
wound or visible injury. Lock Jaw
without some serious injury or wound
Is not often met with in the lifetime of
q physician, though it is recorded in
the medical books.
THESE are stirring days with the
agents fer the sale Of wheat reapers
and mowers, and number of them
have been carried ont Of town the past
week or ten days. There is also simi.
lar movement with the farmers in tax
ing their machine to the shops to have
repairs preparatory to harvest.
REV. G. C. ADAMS is preaching q
series of illustrated sermons this month
at each evening service. Rev. w. w.
w. Wilson will preach three discourses
ia the interest of young people on the
following Sunday evenings having for
his subject. Tact, Judgment, Push.
The discourse next Sunday evening
will be in the first Of these-Tact.
PENSION money is getting to be q
big source of revenue. It brings with
unerring certainty into a number of
families a good supply of money,
and in very limited amounts. This
money tpds an ootlet in different di.
rcctlops pak lnuirbctlY, perhaps, no
one oihneh 9f oasilless has as much
Interest 81 / s the sslOon
THE members Of the senior olasa Of
the High School have finished theIr
allotted work and are spending the
short time that remains before Com.
meneement in preparing their Rradua-
ting essays. Their absence has made
it possible for the High School to hold
but one session daily, thus permitting
the principal to spend the afternoon 10
the other departments of the school.
The senior class of the Smyrna High
School have issued invitations to the
Commencement exercises in the Opera
House, next Wednesday evening, June
24th. The graduates are, Bertha
Smithers, Katharine G. Kennedy, VIM.
A. Riggs. The address Of the evening
will be by Rev. Thomas Myers, d. d.
-: Baltimore, who preached in this
town the Sunday of the Conference,
and so pleased his hearers,
The Philadelphia papers are COM
planning Of strawberry rash" that has
attacked some Of the consumers Of the
luscious fruit In that city. While the
eaters in that city have the trash f"
our growers in the country have the
cash. The farmer who can pocket
$500 or 5000 from two or three acres
OF ground needn't concern himself
much how they are getting along at
the other end Of the line, where the
doctors are plenty.
The neighbOrhood of the Seven
HickOTies was startled last Sunday by
the sudden death Of Mrs. Daniel Loose.
Mrs. Loose bad been poorly only few
days with no serious Indications until |
the last hour Of life. She was about |
~ years Of age and leat three children. |
the youngest aged two years. She was |
Intelligent, refined and much respected.
Mr.. Loose and wife came to Delaware |
from Michigan about l6 years ago,
a FAVORABLE GOVERNMENT CROP |
REPORT SENDS PRIGIss FROM THEIR |
LOFTY PERcH.-The June crop report, |
Issued late on Wednesday by statlsti.
clan Dodge from the Bureau of Agri-
was most favorable, indica-
ting as it did total crop Of 55O, ,O00, 600
bushels Of winter aud spring wheat the
largest in the history Of the country.
IL placed the condition Of winter wheat
at 96.6; spring wheat, 926; oats, g5.
IN marked contrast with this showing
was the condition Of crops abroad.
Persistent cold weather has dwarfed
the grain crops of Holland and Bel
GUM, ia the Austrian Empire a small
Ter product than thai 81 lapt years is
expected; prospects in italy aye rot
improving with the advance of The
season, and the conditions are growing
worse In Spain, while the heaviest
wheat producing regions of Russia
laye been suffering from drought the
asst half Of May. The bears used these
eporis with effect aud both corn and
wheat opened lower.