Smyrna times., 1896-06-03

Cummings the photographer is here
very Wednesday. First class work
nd prompt attention. j
VIM. E. Riggs Jr., Clerk of the Or
hans Court, Dover, died at noon to-
ay. He will be buried here on FIJI
ay afternoon.
There is naturally much Indignation
mong the Single Tax men here at the |
of VIM. HOran and u. L.
stephens at Dover. They are to have
hearing before the Chancellor to-
morrow.
The Smyrna Landing Church had its
Jhildrens Day Sunday; st. Paul
Church, Clayton, will have theirs Sun
Law evening, Bethesda M. 2. Church
will have theirs next Sunday morning
md Downs Chapel in the afternoon.
On Tuesday morning June 9th the
members of the w. G. I. U. will meet
N their room to arrange boquets for
according to their custom,
and they will be glad to have others
with them in the ministry, by gifts OF
flowers, which they will please send to
the room by eight o'clock A. NJ.
The axeman cut down some of our
best shade trees three years ago to
make way for the electric wire, and
now the same executioner is cutting
out the new growth that has made
since. One of the unsOlved questions
is, what right has the electric wire to
dispute the prior possession OF the
shade tree?
At the executors sale of the James
estate to-day, six shares of the Fruit
Growers National Bank went off at
S138. per share, 40 shares at $137. so per
share; fifteen shares of the National
Bank of Dover sold at $3.50 each; eight
shares of the Philadelphia and
Smyrna Transportation company sold
for $12.50 Fer share.
A stranger who was spending Sun
day in our town, attended the MethO-
dist church at night and was very
much interested in Pastor Stengle' Is
sermon on storms, suggested by the
st. Louis disaster, from a text, Psalms
evil, %: "FOr He cOmmandeth and rails
eth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the
waves thereof" He regretted that he
hadn't better sitting in the church
as he sat near a bench of chattering
silly girls who seemed to have no re
card for the place or the interest O.
those about them, and though eager t.
catch all that was said, had difficult.
in following the preacher, from tn
distracting circumstances about him.
Whether considered fad or not, tn
cyclers are predominant this year
They are with us by day and by night
and when they whirl round a cOrne
like swarm of firefies at night, ther
is something the opposite of plOsines
with the speed in which they hoi
away. The Single Takers, who by til
way catch on to the newest thing
going and can ''come to time" oftenC
than any other class of politician
reached here yesterday on wheels
with Single Tax knapsacks on the
backs. Some people go hiking sin
plv for the pleasure, but the Sing
Taxer always couples with 1t Il
higher idea of utility.
The usual Saturday night Single II
haranguer was at the old stand, Con
merce below Main on Saturday nigh
and he was considered to be q goo
talker. His principal theme was t
''unearned increment, OF the lncrea
in communal values. When he W
talking of the ''unearned incremen
his listeners were entirely quiet al
( looked as if they understood the que
= ton as well as the cost of keeping
/. pig q month. When he got on mono
olies. low wages, the land grabbC
&c, the audience was more demOnstl
: tive, but when he called out, ''wh
n will you men rise to your privile
: and look to your interest, and W
= answered son election day." the {
) max of political argument to a lal
number was evidently reached.
u u Our ladies who take pride in tn
e roses, and they are not q few, are 81
" sick" over the depredations of
e rose bugs. 1t would not be so bad
u the bugs had a depraved taste {
sought only the inferior roses,
. like the ladies, the more delicate 9
2,I choice they are, the more these pc
> imbed themselves in and ruin thu
y while still in the budding state. Th
seems to be no remedy but to kill tn,
Is and this seems to afford but little
lief other than the satisfaction it gi'
for they are in this country by
VS. millions. That other pest, the Ii
ee slug that skeletoniZes the leaves,
ly readily be killed by a sprinkllns
I'll hellebOre.
N. Sunday was a threatening day n
especially in the afternoon.
I'm railfall in town was insignificant, bI
let | several neighbOrhoOds it was q
on heavy: this was especially so IN
ere section between this town and Ken
Nil 1t cleared off before night, and n
us day morning the Thermometer re
tered "a degrees. The weather in
main since the berry picking {
ian menced has been cool, and with
rains, that of Thursday being he
has been entirely in favor of
al, growers. One of them said if
I.- ICn had the ordering of it, the wea
uI ta could not have been better. TIL,
.CoI the plants are not so thick in the
Ing as most seasons from the dry wet
ney of last year, the fertilization this
10 has been unusually perfect and
are very few imperfect berries.
unless hot weather should set in,
at picking will be longer than usual. !
orn- the Peninsula they are winding
ser ser what has proved a season of
II tIe prices.
aek' aek A farm district that has kept up
'0n' the times is that from the Cloal
Bailey, mill on by the "Seven II
ries, ;" to the road leading to j
( of Cross Roads. Among these ar
avOr farms Of VIM. r. Smith, Cat the
; of mill) John l., Boyd, Thos. E. B
ing, S. M. Taylor, the large tract kno7
are the "Gerker farm" Thomas SHAY
gate The Gerker farm, known twenty
rna- ago for its great peach production
A kp Of all these tracts deprecated il
peaPance. In the same time non
coma mn faster than the prODeI