Smyrna times., 1897-05-12

A new kiln of tile was fired at the
lie yard Monday.
Call on Frank Bailey for first class
paving brick.
The fine rain this morning was very
,efreshing to the growing crops.
The High School Bicycle Club made
a fine showing in their recent turn out.
The Kings Daughters will meet on
Thursday evening, May 10, at 7.3O
o'clock, at the home of Mrs. Levi An
thony. SECRETARY.
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished
cabinets, mantelles etc. Here every
Wednesday. i
Frank Reiman has an apiary of nearly
400 swarms and expects to extract 3d.
900 pounds of honey this season. This
will be 5000 more than last year.
The ladies of ST. Peters Guild will
hold a strawberry festival at the chapel
tomorrow, Thursday evening, begin
ming at 7.3O o'clock. Music will be
feature of the evening.
VIM. A. FAIRIES and DR.. j. r. Nc
Causland exchanged dwellings Mon
day. Mr.. FAIRIES is making an i'm
to the north side of his new
home, upper story. by changing the |
bay window to double one.
Strawberries will soon be with us.
A large ripe one was picked from a
garden patch yesterday, and John r.
j Jefferson had six quarts of the Mi
chael's Early variety in market yester
day. They sold for Is cts per quart.
All the water has been let out of
Denney's Mill Pond, Duck Greek, for
the purpose of constructing a new set
of gates. This is a very timely act as
the old one was getting very unsafe.
The bed of the pond presents a very
curious appearance.
The regular meeting of the circle of
Kings Daughters will be held Thurs
day evening at 7.9O at the home of
Mrs. Levi Anthony. Members are re-
quested to assemble at Mrs. J. A. HOf
fscker's o'clock. If the weather is
inclement, the meeting will be held at
the home of Miss Clara J. Bewley.
SEC.
The Christian Endeavor Societies of
Dover are making preparations for the
Kent and Sussex County Union to be
held there June 3rd. Some of the very
best talent is being engaged, and all
effort is being made to make it the
most attractive and most helpful Union
ever held. 1t is desired that every
Society in the two Counties be rep
resented with good delegation.
On Friday afternoon at o'clock,
the steamer Elizabeth Van Solver will
run an excursion to Philadelphia for
the purpose of giving those who avail
themselves of their low rate to witness
the dedication of the Washington
Monument, at FairmOunt park. The
Van Solver will leave Philadelphia at
10 o'clock Saturday night, after the
celebration is over. Fare round trip,
rs cents.
Mr.. Harry NJ. Ross, residing on the
HAZEL farm near Millington lost 9
valuable three year old colt last week
The colt with two others was attached
to harrow. The boy driving then
through carlesness, let them run away
The harrow overthrew the colt on it
inficting four very painful wounds ont
on his stomach and three on his side
one tooth going through between hi
ribs. He had been offered $75 dollar
for him before he had bride on.
There is considerable difference il
, the old and new method of corn plant
ing. Formerly "crosser" with tw
horses a drOpper and two cOverers, wit
, hoes, would put in about eight acres
day, sometimes by pushing getting a
, acre or two more. With the ne7
machinery that marks out, drops an
covers the corn, a man and two horse
y can get over twenty acres a day, an
. John Price, overseer for W. o. Ho.
: fecker, says he planted % acres in
n single day.
Chas. H. Boyer, last fall while ST
pervisOr of our streets, hauled out t
. his manure pile some half rotted pot
= toes. He found on digging into it la
week that they had not only live
through the winter but had con
menced growing with the early sprin
" and had thrown out young tube
> from the size of birds eggs to that
guinea eggs, pan full of which we
L brought to this office. The inferen,
l0 is that potatoes planted in the ia
with lot of litter or coarse manur
l. would make a crop a week or tv
y" earlier.
20 The alarm of fire on Friday afte
d noon that created quite little stir f
III a time because of the long ringing
IN the fire bell, was occasioned by bla
ne in the gable end of the old Cavend
~ workshop, on the property of John
Hoffecker, in close proximity to /
OF stable. 1t was fortunately seen almC
as as soon as it broke out, between t
or boards, and extinguished by buckt
rd Of water before the hose company g
ee to the ground. The building caug
ye from a piece of paper which W
he whirled in through q broken pane