Smyrna times., 1892-06-01

Smyrna and Vicinity. h
FINE shoes in variety. Prettyman's %
BOAT to hire. 1Oc an hour. Apply e
]. II. Cotton.
The beautiful and fragrant magnOlias
'e blooming in the branches. 6
The Banks and schools took holiday !
a Monday, and seemed to enjoy it.
THE rosebug, so annoying to women
hO have roses, is on its annual visit.
SOME of the streets have been
realty improved by the work of the
rect cleaners.
WE enter to-day the month of
Oses," leafy June, the first calendar
lOnth of the summer.
SUNDAY was a charming day, and
he young lady who hadn't from one
o half dozen roses in her cOrsage,
vas not considered a dweller in the
and of poesy.
PLOw shoes, $1.OO at Prettyman's.
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WHAT is the matter with the weather
ince Saturday in sunshine and
warmth? 1t looks as if the belated
armers would get to finish planting
,orn this week.
WE expect, before long, to see the |
names of those attending church on a
sunday to be published.--SdLem Sum
beam. Here is a lively suggestion for
the Clayton Call.
IT is said there are about eighty diff
ferent styles and shapes of head-gear
for ladies this season, and about fifty
styles and shapes of head-gear for gen
tlemen. Oh, the pleasure and worry
of selection.
The warm weather of this week is
bringing strawberries along. One
store alone has sold 200 quarts in the
past two days. They sold Monday at
10 cents, yesterday at 10 cents, and
will soon drop to five and six cents
quart.
PRETTYMAN's for shoes or oxfords
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IT seems like a queer thing to pur-
loin, but the announcement was made
on Sunday that some one had made
way with the keys of the NJ. E. Sun
day School library. The keys of the
doors Of approach to it have since
been taken
HAVE you your strawberry checks {?
The delicious fruit, considered the
best by many, not because it is the
first, is beginning to come to market,
and in a few days the hearvest will be
general. The berry starts out a fine
size, and if the rains do not ''go back
on them" we may expect a full and
long continued crop.
The Smyrna base ball club went to
Dover Monday for a game with the
club of that town, but Dover was vic
toriOus by a score of Is to 10. The
following composed the Smyrna Club
Will Stevens, W. c. Collins, John
Phillips, Jack Stevens, R. E. Long
VIM. Mcdowell, Walter Stevens
Jackity Wick, James Wright.
NEXT Sunday will be observed a
Children's Day at the Methods
Church of this town. The children o
the Sunday School will be the chic
entertainers at both the morning ant
evening services. "The "Children'
Day" services will also be held at Sew
ersOn's Church, on the circuit, on tn
afternoon of that day. Bethel Churc
will observe Sunday, the 18th.
BEST SOC baby shoe at Prettyman'
MRS. RINGGOLD, living on DelawaT
street, has some pretty flowers on hC
side porch. Among them was a choiC
g lily, which bad boy gathered up la
: week and threw down on the siC
walk, breaking pot and all, seemingl
Just for the purpose of doing damag
q Such annOyances are ten times wOr
! than the loss, and these desperate
should be made to suffer for the
bad conduct.
THE stocking factory stopped {
Monday after running an hour or tv
II to give the operatives an OppOrtuni
e to 90 to Dover to participate in Il
+ Decoration services, there being
% demonstration here. In fact, there a
# very few soldiers graves here; if &
A. number who went from this secti
"a compared with those from other plac,
a they must have been very lucky
10 escaping the casualties of war.
IN DIR. SHoRTLIDGE, Fish Comm
IN siOner, of Wilmington, sent down
e. Wm. NJ. Bell, last week eight cans
Sc Young shad-4OO, ,O00-which he EN-
. tied in the head waters of Smyrna riv
,r- They seemed to be in excellent COM
N ton, very few dead ones in the lot, a
:, If they return to the waters VIII
- grown, from whence they started,
Nc act may be verifying the scriptu
IT. maxim Of "casting bread upon
W. waters" &c.
sr- For some time Chas. H. Register /
he been missing small sums of mOI
he from the money drawer of his sha
We bles,-25, so, 20 cents &c. Last niJ
an a trap was set and about 20 o'clock
be thief was caught while counting
,at money by the light thrown from
window of the Fruit Growers Bal
g. He proved to be a cOlored boy nan
no Johnson, 13 or IA years of age, "
'ur had been living with Mr.. Register t
err years He either slipped the
ere from the door or from Mr.. Regist,
sep pants pocket. the latter thinking it
lost. and acknowledged he had b
var stealing money for three months.
ot course he has changed homes since
THERE are handsome roses in a pl
ore Der Of our yards and gardens, but, I
all bably the largest collection is that
of Mrs J. Henry jefferson, on N
ay- street. A visit to il cannot help
on please any lover of the beautiful.
was large open space at the rear of
hns house is given entirely to them, ex'
.oa the fine grass plot that adorns the
- tire, and they are now in full bloom
'nA' all shades and varieties OF color.
haps the highest compliment
DEL could be paid her collection-betW
one one and two hundFed-is the fact
rest. florists have sent to her for cutti
The There Is one rose, a runner, haVini
ord. it hundreds of blooms, that reaGhe
or the roof of the house, and street
Tho over a space twenty feet In width.
bears the name, Rene Marie Henri