Smyrna times., 1894-06-13

MARK SCOUT had early potatoes in
larket last week. L
DAVID STEVENSON started last week
IN beets from garden. G.
KEEP cooled! Buy thin coat and +,
rest at Edw. g. Walls. I h
VIM. E. HALL & Son call attention
o several special articles on sale.
B. V. WELDON has been eating /
potatoes from his patch for a week or v
,wo.
B. F. JACOBS has half acre or more
n Alfalfa. which gave him three now
ngs last year.
DR.. J. S. COBB, of Clayton, has
bought lot with view of building a
dwelling there.
THE best line of gauze and balbrig-
gan underwear. Any quality you
want, at Edw. G. Walls.
The fight with the cut worms has
about ended but great was the destruc-
ton of tomato and other plants.
SUGAR beets may be planted up to the
middle of June or little later. Their
roots make excellent food for cows in
winter.
IN another column we publish the
analyses of phosphates of State Chemist
DR.. T. R. Wolf. 1t is a matter of spec
ial interest to dealers and users of COM
mercial fertilizers.
THE preachers meeting closed last
Monday night until cooler weather
The subject under consideration was,
"The Bible we Preach" given by w. o.
Hurst of Clayton.
early Ohio" is the name of potato
in marketlgrOwn by w. o. Hoffecker,
dug first on Friday. They are of good |
size, and claimed to be ten days earlier |
than the Early Rose.
THE Prohibitionists will be first in
the field this year, holding their State
convention at Dover tomorrow. The
two other parties are going to be some
two months later this year.
ROBERT SULLIVAN has erected a
dwelling house on East Street and
Jonathan A. Brown (carpenter) COM
menced building a house for Aron
Gibbs yesterday on the same street.
T. ]. LAWRENCE is finishing for the
B. NJ. S. K. splendid Photograph of
their club. The likenesses are all plain
and distinct and the finish is neat and
effective. There are eighteen in the
group.
HoT weather comforts. Soft neg
| lige shirts, all prices. Laundried
neglige shirts, with collars and cuffs
attached or detached, 75c, 81 90, 81. .25,
$3.50, $500. Any kind you want; at
Edw. G. Walls. T
A wire fence 116 rods-638 yards
was put Friday for John M. Jerman,
on the Underwood" farm, Kenton, by
Messrs. Lewes & Wheatman. 1t is
pronounced the prettiest stretch of
fence in that section.
The store house of John H. Taylor,
in Kenton, was destroyed by fire We'd
nesday night. The stock of goods and
building were entirely consumed. Loss,
81 200, The origin of the fire is un-
known. The goods were insured in
the Kent Mutual.
G. B. DALEY has recently received
a new loom from Iowa that answers
his purpose splendidly in making
Smyrna chenille rugs. warranted to bt
superior to those that come from
Smyrna, Asia Minor, and at much less
+. price. He is also manufacturing ham
!, mOcks, rag carpets etc.
The commercial possibilities of light
q ming are not often reckoned, but they
will be discussed, it is said, IN the Jul,
l Harper's Magazine, in a popular arti
e Gle called ''The Storage Battery of tn
s Air" The writer is Mr.. Alexande
i McAdie of the United States Weathe
= Bureau at Washington.
ONE Of our farmers, afraid to hol,
u longer, sold his potatoes several week
d ago for so cents per bushel, yet if b
d had held on till last week the sam
potatoes he says would have realize
him $1.50 per bushel. The loss to hir
Il was just 5000 for not having the prope
l. fOreknowledge in working out deman
% and supply.
,e WHEN Bishop Butler utter th
motto: "God doubtless could hav
made better berry than the straw
n berry but doubtless he never did," th
or great prelate of Bristol and Durhal
v. expressed a sentiment that every on
O. can now appreciate when the lucioU
= fruit is about to leave us.
A. LEE CUMNINs has his headquar
~ ers for ice at the store of ]. W. Jone
es He put in last week a neat and SUI
le stantial ice box, in which to keep il
Tt as matter of convenience to meet th
=, demands of those who want it in sma
~ quantities out of the regular hours
n supply from the wagon. Ice can
lg had from here at any hour of the da
It.
WHAT Congress has done"-the Ii
tie book with only blank leaves-is b
= ing used extensively as an advertiser
medium. 1t is a new wrinkle in adve
tising, and new features of this kir
G. are always popular while they al
fresh. There is no printing on it e
We cept the title page and the card on Il
back descriptive of the man who issu
it.
y" THE weather forecaster of the Ne
York Sun announced in Monday
paper that freezing weather had at Ia
ses disappeared from the United States
tx. This is queer announcement to NAL
in June, but up to the present tir
there has not been a week that freezi