Smyrna times., 1894-08-08
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
THE pear orchard at "Woodlawn"
has fine showing of fruit.
The days are over an hour shorter
and will now decline in length fas st.
The plaintive wall of the Katydid is
heard in the tree tops-six weeks before
frost.
GEO. REED LOFLAND shipped 81 gal
lon-baskets of peaches on Friday. They
sold for $12.
THE hot, dry weather has shortened
the crop of all vegetables and raised
the price of some.
VEGETABLES are backward, but the
tomatoes will ketchup. Corn and
melons are now the go.
STEvENsoN's celebrated Ice Cream,
25 cents a quart. The best in tOlOn.
Packed 80 cents a quart. I
The Messrs. Ford down the neck
are credited with the most promising
tomato patches of the vicinity.
THERE are only two Industries that
are booming here just now: Making
ice-cream and playing base ball.
L. E. ANTHONY has q full grown
peach orchard near town without
sign of yellows in it. 1t is rare ex-
ception.
THE cannery at CheswOld has started
up on corn, with few tomatoes com
ing in. The Brenford cannery will not
be run this year.
THE shipment of grapes will begin
this week, in fact John B. Cooper had
grapes on sale Saturday from the gar
den of VIM. H. Thompson.
Do YOU travel? Are you a shopper /?
The "Rand-M McNally Railway Guide
and Handbook" contains all pertinent
information. Ask your News-dealer.
JOHN L. EVANS, Ia former Smyrna
boy) now at the head of a banking
firms in Wilmington, advertises for
the purchase of grain and provisions,
stocks, bonds &c.
WEDNESDAY is Beach Day." and
the travel thither this morning has
been heavy. Between it and camp
meeting the country for miles will be
pretty we'll emptied.
B. F. JACOBS has led in early toma.
toes, supplying our town with from
eight to twelve baskets daily for &
week or two, sending "a to the city
market on Monday.
WHAT would our people do (espe
cially the lady shoppers) if they had tC
reach Philadelphia by means of th'
slow old stage line, instead of the swift
and comfortable railroad train?
The mud rain" that farmers s,
much prize the FIRST part of August
came last week as such to only few
sections. A general heavy rain woul'
be appreciated for maturing the corr
crop.
A YOUNG lady in town went into
drug store the other day and aske'
how much five cents worth of quinn
pills cost. Seeing her mistake sh
could hardly wait for her purchas
before she FASTENED a retrert.
WE wish subscribers receiving thei
8 paper by mail would observe the fg
ures at the end of their name. Their
are a number who either by letter o
in person ought to communicate wit
US. These figures show every wee
just how they stand.
THE country teams with wearie
horses which drive up to the publ
fountain, to be fooled, are quite HI
,, merous. The drivers turn away i
some instances scratching their head
and absorbed in thought trying t
solve the problem-what are fountain
for anyway, if not to give water?
July has gone, aud we are now i
the last month of Summer. Schot
days will soon be here, and the touris
from across the water and the seasid
and mountains are thinking of turniu
their steps homeward, and wonderin
I if September will bring them any bus
ness worth the journey. Meanwhi
:, Senators and congressman are DRAWN
over one hundred dollars a week eaC
: in salaries.
) SAYS an exchange: Down in De
. aware when young lady NEE
a chappie wearing a ring she turns
r around three times. This she repea
q until she has turned twenty-four ring
Than she turns the wedding ring
4 some recently married lady, and Il
A first gentleman she shakes hands wit
! afterwards will be her future husban
r If not, the rings have not been turnt
n just right.
It THE hot spell has been broken, al
g the rains of last week put an end to
s long and rather disastrous drougt
is Now that the campmeetings are fair
s under way. plenty of rain may be e
o pected, and though it may prove rath
= hard on those who enjoy these seaso
!. of religions worship iE the woods, 4
r disappointment and Inconvenience W
Y more than Offset by the great go
As that will follow many copious shove
le upon the parched and baked earth.
g.
s. 0UR oldest farmers QnnuOt ranoenoh +