Smyrna times., 1897-09-15

Wm. H.. Davis, OF OlayJou, auVer-
tises for fat cattle.
Fowler & Leese lost valuable horse {
yesterday from lung fever.
LosT.-Gold Scarf Pin. Letter G.
A suitable reward if returned to TIMES
office. T
Two new pianos the past week or so
have been additions to the homes of
Commerce street families.
W. d. Venn, of Clayton, has estab-
lished an agency for his Maryland
biscuits with Thomas Jefferson
VIM. H. Greenwell, of KentOn,
sports O new beef wagon, CONSPICUOUS
for its light color and good business
design.
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished |
cabinets, mantelles etc. Here every |
Wednesday. t
Mathew V. Ford, of Serversons Neck |
leads off in seeding wheat The gen.
eral sowing time will not be for two
or three weeks yet.
Cosgriff & Beck are prepared for an
active coal trade. They deal exclu
sively in Lehigh coal and give 224O
pounds to the ton. See advertisement.
There are many kinds of coal, but
what you want is good Coal. A. E.
Jardine will handle the same coal as
asst year, and everyone knows it to be
the best on the market. II
Mrs. M. J. Bewley has rendered her
resignation as lady superintendent of
the NJ. E. Sunday School. She has
been connected with Sunday School
work nearly all her life and for over
thirty years, lady superintendent.
John H. Hoffecker received a carload
of tomatoes last week from Bridgeville,
for use at his cannery. They were
found to be inferior to those grown in
this locality. Yesterday two more cars
were shipped to him from Seaford.
J. B. COunselman & Co., received
last week, three car loads of peaches,
over 1900 baskets, shipped from Kent
county, Md. Only aboutfOur hundred
of these were pared, the rest simply
canned for pie peaches. The short
tomato receipt does not occupy any
thing like their full time.
The Delaware State Fair opened yes
terday in full blast with the fattering
prospect of being one of the best held
in years. To-mOrraw, Thursday, will
be the ''big day." 1t will doubtless
receive generous consideration from
our citizens. Ten or twelve years ago
it used to be attended by hundreds
of this locality.
Cantaloupes, from an excess of water
while growing, or something, have not
been good this year, and not in de-
mand. A grower, who has shipped
some 800 half barrels to the city mar
ket, says he does not believe ten of
them were fit to eat. He stopped ship
ping before the patch was exhausted.
Messrs. Anthony and Lapham, how
ever, have a variety that the others
p haven't, that are good and sell well.
None of them get to this town.
Joshua Viney, eOlOred, was arrested
apd brought before Alderman Baggs
} on Monday morning for being drunk
and disOrderly and disturbing the
citizens of lower Commerce street on
! Sunday evening. The alderman I'M
posed a fine of $1.OO and costs, which
Viney paid before being released 1t
d came out afterwards that Viney had
been disturbing the religious worship
at the Bethel Camp. Had Alderman
Baggs known this, the fine would have
= been much heavier.
h The colOred excursion from Chester
, town, Sunday caused Alfred Tilghman
I to have one of the most profitable as
we'll as the busiest days of the season.
He had from eight to ten wheels which
Q he hired out and these at intervals OF
= an hour, two hours and three hours, kept
4 him pretty busy. The demand conse-
+. quently increased the rate of rental and
8 on some wheels, Mr., Tilghman was Of
9 fered as high as one dollar an hour fol
them. His machines were all returned
in good order, except one, which had
n the handle-bars broken. Mr.. Thigh
q man forced the dusky rider to pay foi
the break by locking him in the store
. until some Of his friends came and
q paid for him the cost of the damages
n done.
At the second Quarterly Conference
of Asbury M. E. Church, this town
"a on Friday evening, as new business
" " looking to ministerial supply for the
next conference year, a committee wa'
:, .. appointed to confer with the Presiding
/" Elder, consisting of Jos. Smithers
John H. Hoffecker and VIM. H. Baggs
who will report at the next meeting o
the conference. Amy statement O
~ what occurs at such meetings, even i
not exaggerated and false impressions
~ given, is no more a matter of detail tC
4, the public than the domestic affairs o
= a family.
I. EastOn District Epworth League
will meet in Clayton the 14th and 15tl
IS of October, about 14O delegates. Tn,
ID first meeting of the District Leagu,
es was organized in the Methodist churcl
o. of this town, and the Convention viii
.. make pilgrimage here on the after
<, noon of the 15th--coming in on the
% o'clock train and returning on tn
Il. 5.22 train. Rev. A. Stengle will max
the address of welcome.
Clayton M. f. Church, which needle,
u. 4 L