Smyrna times., 1897-09-01

Tablets, pencils etc., for school use,
at Clifton & Raymond's pharmacy. Il
The Ladies Benevolent Society will
meet at the residence of Mrs. Lydia
Mcdowell, Tuesday evening, Sept. z.
SECRETARY.
September promises to be a good
month and De Voc, the weather
prophet, says we will not have an equi-
noctial storm even, as that came in
July.
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished
cabinets, mantelles etc. Here every
Wednesday. Il
Culture Recognition" will be Pas
tor Layfield's subject at Jerman Chapel
next Sabbath evening-open air SER
vice at $50 o'clock. All are well
come.
Engineer Hearn, had strawberries
one day last week-two quarts-sent
him by relation from Laurel. He says
they were as good as those of the early
summer.
When buying coal quality is inn
portant thing to look after, we sellthe
best. Quantity should also be consid
cred, we give 224O lbs. to the ton.
Brady Steamboat Company.
Edward Beck, in addition to paint
ing, ,papering and putting electric lights
in his store, has had his large dwell
ing house on upper Main St. also thor
oughly painted inside and out.
The summer visitatiOns are getting
in their concluding days" We have
had q great many visitors, but haven't
about as many of our people gone else
where, as others have come here?
The Rev. Thos. L, POulson, d. D.,
of New York, formerly of the Whining
ton Conference, will conduct the
prayer meeting in the Asbury NJ. E.
church this evening, at 7.3O o'clock.
Among other products which N. F.
| Wilds has had cultivated at Sunny
side" is cantaloupes-ten or twelve
acres. The shipment on Monday to
New York from this patch was SO half
barrels.
VIM. Nj. Lewis has contracted with
Abel Numbers, of Blackbird Hundred,
to put in driven well, wind mill tank,
ETC., to connect with the house. He
put in drive well and force pump for
H. F. Hepburn last week.
Aresident of the Landing believes in
steamboats,. He says they add to bus.
mess or draw business, for there are
more people come and more produce
shipped from this there season thar
was ever the case before. But then
this has been fruitful season.
Saturday was virtually ''melOn day,
that is, watermelons had reached theil
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team came loaded with them. Water
melons and cantaloupes are thus the
luxury of the season, but from this dat,
as cool nights come, they will diminish
in numbers.
Mrs. NJ. H. Carter is the fOrtunat,
pOsessOr of the scrapbOok, or rathe
scrapbOoks, of the late Mrs. Sarah P
Mason. The articles she wrote and
published, are in the main, cut out anC
pasted therin, and are valuable, asid
from their literary merit, for the in
formation in reference to the fOrma
tion of our local institutions.
Before you buy your coal call a
Office of P. and S. Trans. Co.
A few cents saved in buying coal a
= cut prices mag be lost in quality.
: We must sell at profit to live an,
} give value received. No business ma
can afford to encourage selling at cost
T
, The camps of the whites arefollowe
closely by the colored people-runnin
to the middle of September. On Sun
day a number took an early start fo
the camp near Marydel, where Rev.
l X. Adams has been having a stirrin
meeting, and others went to Mt. Zio
church in ServersOn's Neck. Next sur
1 day, church camps will be held &
Bethel A. NJ. f. church, this town, an
l at Massey's Chapel and BlancO, out i
the country, each holding over tw
! Sundays.
Two telegraph poles on the unuse
line between Clayton and Smyrn
u Landing, were struck and shattered
the thunder storm Wednesday nigh
Two buildings we're struck the sam
night near Port Penn, but the lai
o heavy rains hereabouts went but Ii
l. tie ways down the county. The thur
= der and lightning storms have bee
. late this summer, but they have mad
: up in severity. Almost every gust hi
. caused loss of life or property. Mo-
:" day night there was another thund,
. gust and long drawn-Out rain.
= RAG WEED.-A gentlemen from Cel
treville asks the ediors of the Count
= Gentleman the following questions:
"What is best means of extermin
ting rag weed? live in a COUNT
where it grows as nothing else will
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