Smyrna times., 1892-08-10

r. BECK is carrying his store through
a course of painting.
The society of ladies is the school o.
politeness.-MOuntfOrt.
f. G. Walls announces a big reduc-
ton in summer clothing.
SOME of this summers city cousin
visitors have been real sweet.
The recent rains have produced a
very vigorous crop of crab grass.
MRS. CONNER, on lower Main Street
has a chicken that has eleven toes.
JOHN Wick has taken Gus Seitz in
partnership with him in the barber
business.
The Smyrna creamery made 3,258
pounds of Lutter from S0,975 pounds
of milk in July.
DOGS have killed 100 chickens and
ten turkeys belonging to James T.
TruaX, in SeVersOn's Neck.
THE Misses Savin have enlarged
their porch on the Market street side
to give it double the size for outdoor
sitting.
WE are visited again this week with
another torrid condition of the
weather, sending the mercury up into
the nineties.
WATERMELONS are coming to town,
but in limited quantities. Like most
all other products of the farm this year,
they are scarce and high.
A. LEE CUMMINs will have as his
office in the phosphate business, the
office used so many years by the late
Col. Geo. W. Cummins.
The pavement of DR.. T. ]. Lambdin,
corner Union and Commerce streets,
has been taken up and will be re-laid
with view to better shedding of the
water.
JOHN B. COOPER has supply of
scarlet clover seed. Scarlet clover takes
the lead this summer in interest with
the farmer, of all other farm products.
Now is the time to sow it.
REV. THOs. B. COOPER, of Salem, Md.
will preach at Bethel NJ. f. Church
next Sunday, August 14th, at 10 A. NJ,
Rev. Il. K. Stephenson having been
granted a vacation of two weeks.
THE cOlOred Camp announced for
Mudge's Woods, west of Clayton, will
commence the last of this week and
hold over two Sundays,-14tha and 2lst.
Special seats will be reserved for white
people who visit the ground.
THE loss on the buildings of Peter
S. Collins farm, (caused by lightning
on Sunday week. was $533, insured in
the Kent County Mutual. The loss of
Geo. T. Jones, personal property, was
adjusted by the same company at $l47.
Young men and women quickly pre-
pared to earn their own living by at.
tending GOldey Wil'n COml College
and School of Shorthand and Type
writing. Read adv. and send for hand
some catalogue.
IT is useless to try to do business
now without judiciOus advertising and
plenty of it. And yet some otherwise
smart and intelligent people attempt
to do so in these days of push and
sharp competition.
A NEW road is being laid out from
Eear where West street, in Clayton,
intersects the road leading to Duck
Creek to the stone bridge on the road
! from Clayton to Masseys. The road
will be about three-quarters of a mile
long.
THE fatality among children in the
heat OF summer is usually from cholera
infantum, and Notwithstanding the
great heat of the past month but three
or four deaths have occurred from it in
this locality, the deaths among the lit.
tie children being mostly from other
diseases.
The last excursion of the season to
Cape May over the b. & d. B. r. R.,
and steamer Excelsior, will be run on
Monday, August %. Train will leave
Clayton at 8.45 a. m., Smyrna, 8.55 a.
IN. Fare, $1.00 round trip. Tickets
on sale in Smyrna with Beck & Hazell.
The Board of Health has had fewer
complaints of nuisances this wear than
usual. These have been the past week
or so, and in relation to cess-pools and
pig pens, which the Board hopes will
be speedily remedied without their
having to take action in the case.
MIR. ALLARAND, chairman of the
Committee on Agriculture, has arrang.
ed for a painting Sx12 feet of model
peach orchard, to be exhibited at the
opening of the Worlds Fair. The
| ReybOld orchard at Woodland Beach
will doubtless be the one reproduced by
the painting.
REV. Mr.. MELVIN, who had been
announced to fill the NJ. F. Pulpit of
this town, on Sunday was prevented
coming, and DIR. Simms, a local preacher
of Wilmington, was secured in his
place. He occupied the pulpit morn
ing and night, and was listened to with
attention and interest by his audience.
The Summer School of Mr.. Yocum
| closed its session at Dover Friday.
There have been about forty present
at different times. The pupils ex-
pressed themselves well pleased with
the course of instruction and re-
| quested that such a school be kept
open each summer.
ONLY the EXTREMIST and most hope
less of pessimists could find fault with
the weather at this time. Whether at
home, at seaside or on the mountain
top, humanity is deeply indebted to
the weather clerk for these delightful
August days. The farmer is doubly
indebted when he takes into account
his field crOps.s
The season of bay parties still con-
tinues. A company of nearly thirty
chartered the train on Monday even
ing, and large hack load also went to
Woodland Beach on Monday. A large
number of carriages from the districts
to the west, passed through town this
morning, many of them before the
town people were up.
ONE of our farmers read in the
paper that the wheat crop of the
world will be 125,000OOO bushels short.
n nd hot h. r