Smyrna times., 1892-08-03

wishes Tor his success.
The Middletown Ne,U Era in its
Townsend Notes, has the following
item: AT meeting of the school
board last Friday evening, it was de-
cided that two male teachers should
have charge of the school. Mr.. Her
man Roe, of Smyrna, will act as prin-
cipal and Mr.. James Lattomus as as
sistant."
Mr.. Roe is now visiting Scranton.
Pa, and we do not know whether this
action is In harmony with his purposes
or not.
The dry weather of July and indeed
the most of the time since planting.
did not give very promising outlook
for the packer of vegetables, but the
heavy rainfall of Sunday supplement-
ing the light fall that came with the
storm that broke the hot spell on Fri
DAY night, has put a new aspect on
things. Tomatoes and corn have
taken new lease of life, and except
the very early, may yet turn out a
good yield. 1t was a matter of great
concern to proprietor and labOrer,
alike.
A SPRIGHTLY young lady, of Phila-
delphia writes to friend from Paris :.
by mixing great deal of English
with considerable German and a grain
OF French, we have managed to make
ourselves pretty well understood. So
we ventured into French restaurant
for lunch the other day. We thought
we asked for roast beef, potatoes,
chicken salad and ice cream, and were
somewhat amazed to find chiccorv and
onions and apple sauce before US.
Since then we have used our French
rather sparingly. Sill
COLLINS Beach Hotel is occupied by
some eighty persons, including the
children, who fill the house about to
its capacity. They are mostly from
the vicinity of Townsend, and pay 81
each per week for the use of the house,
providing otherwise for themselves.
There are besides persons from this
vicinity-GeO. Reed Lohand and fam
lily, VIM. Geo. Truax, Miss Kirby and
children of Thomas Kirby, Miss Sallie
Patterson and others. Next Monday
the families of the Messrs. Hudson and
others of Mt. Vernon street, will 20 to
this place for the week.
TODAY Is Temperance Day at the
Camden camp, "a clear, bright, eniova-
BILE day. About % persons have gone
down from Smyrna, mostly members
of the w. g. Z. U. Prominent parts
will be taken in the exercises by Mrs.
Kate Smithers and Mrs. Il. H. Mat
lack, and l.. NJ. Price will appear sew
eral times in duets and solos. In ad.
ditiOn to the set addresses by promi-
nent divines, recitations will be made
by Misses May FAIRIES and Katie Beck
EFT (of our Demorest Medal Contest)
which will not be the least ENJOYABLE
feature Of the day.
REV. W. E. ENGLAND, of Seaford,
one of the best known Peninsula
preachers, now on the retired list filled
the Methodist Pulpit on Sunday, morn
ing and evening. The congregation
on going to the church did not know
who would preach, sut felt amply re-
paid, though the weather was warm.
for the going. Some of the younger
members of the Conference might learn
of him with great profit. We will
publish the sermon as taken down by
short hand writer, on the first page
of our next issue.
Rev. A. I. Melvin, of Chestertown, is
announced to preach next Sunday.
WE hear of no sunstrokes in this
vicinity as the result of the long hot
spell though there were a number of
persons more or less affected by the
continuous heat and some of them had
to lay by. Perhaps our people could
not have been caught at better time
to take things moderately or even
cease work for a day or two, as the
past week. There was no peach croD
to gather, but few were attempting to
thTesh, having stacked their wheat. the
corn, II 1t had not been laid by was too
dry to till, and lastly, the canning fac
tories werenot i'll operation, the products
not yet having matured. 1t was hard
on the operatives in the knitting fac.
tory, and required great deal of cour-
age to endure it, but it was done with
the exception of one afternoon-that
hot Tuesday-when the mercury
reached 98' in the shade and was over
lOO' in the factory. Such weather
hardly comes once in a score of years.
and is not likely to return again this.
The spell of tOrrd weather that set
IN on the 18th ult., and continued to
increase for eleven or twelve days, the
mercury in most places reaching to
1OO' and beyond, stands almost without
precedent for its intensity We are
used to hot spells every summer of two
or three days, but not for ten days or
two weeks on a stretch. The summer
that the late spell is compared with is
mostly that of 1876-the Centennial
year-but even here this year takes
the lead in intensity, the breeziless
nights being as exhaustive as the days,
as sleep was almost an impOssibility.
In city, country, seaside or mountain
height, the same wall came for cool.
ing breeze, and when it came in the
gust of Friday night it was only a par.
tial lowering of the temperature. but il
was enough that the backbone of the
heated term had been broken"-and
the blistering furnace-like heat had
been sOftened by a shade of moisture.
John b. Cooper, who has been keeping
an account of the weather fora number
Of years says he has record of but
One day only 80 hot as Tuesday of last
week, and that was in 1877. But eyery-
body rejOices that the worst is over and
mat the brown pasture fields and vel
lowing corn have resumed their nor
NAL green color.
A VERY enjoyable party left Monday
evening for a social pastime at Wood.
and Beach. At the out-start the
weather looked very threatening and
many wondered at the imprudency but
It turned out to be most pleasant
evening. Although the serenity of the
beautiful moon was disturbed by the
1oating clouds, an hours glimpse at
queen Luna's grandeur was quite
after 80 much disagreeable
Early in the evening most
ot the party enjoyed a pleasant sail on
The vhitereapped bay after which the
call announced the time for
supper. Like all previous beach par.
lies, dancing and strolling was the
principal feature. Those present were:
Mr.. Frank Postles and wife, Mr.. Har-
yey Speakman and wife, Misses Edith
Norton, Hokendauqua, Pa, Estelle
Boyd, Philadelphia, Claire Cooper and
Bertha Bailey, Kenton, Berthe Hand. |
Washington and Addie Davis. NE