Smyrna times., 1898-05-04


summer. The next meeting will be
held the first Tuesday in September.
Due notice will be given,
L. L. COOPER,
First Sergeant.
The personal property of Geo. W.
Sipple, recently a dentist in this town,
will be sold on Saturday, at the Office
of A. l.. Hudson, Sr. The property
consists chiefly OF household goods,
nearly new. The sale will come off at
2 o'clock sharp. B. V. Weldon, auc-
tiOneer.
The price of canned goods having
advanced, the prospect for tomato
growing is very encouraging. There
will no doubt be a large acreage this
season. Prices will be good and this
is encouraging to both the grower and
the Gamer. The outlook for a large
pack is more promising than it has
been for years.
A farmer who dropped in our office
yesterday tells us the peaches are not
so badly hurt but what there is a pros
pect of fair crop, and the pears, he
thinks, are not hurt at all The Bart
let's" and duchess" in this locality
and especially toward the bay, prom
ise a good yield The early varieties
of apples show no damage at this time.
Strawberries are coming along nicely.
We received this morning the fol-
lowing from Prof. Wesley Webb, sec
retary of the horticultural Society:
Reports from the county vice-presi-
dents of the Peninsula Horticultural
Society show that there is yet a pros
pect of a fair crop of peaches in Kent
county, Del, and in Kent county,
Nd. Talbot and Caroline counties
have not reported. Apples, pears and
small fruits promise a full crop, ex-
cept Kietfer pears, which are injured
to some extent in certain localities.
The storehouse on the "Hill'' near
the depot, for some time in the tenure
of Miss MOllie Peekey, was torn down
with a view to important
changes. The property belongs to Mr..
Michael Blendt, living in Blackbird
Hundred. The house or suitable por-
ton of, will be utilized elsewhere, and
In its place is to be erected structure
that Is to answer for both a store and a
dwelling, and will be quite an i'm
to this part of the town.
Curtis Smith is doing the work.
The Presbyterian Manse has received
the finishing touches the past week by
having placed around the front and
side porches a neat railing. This adds
very much the to hOmelike appearance
Of the edifice. We venture to say there
are few manses in the Presbyterv.
which are more comfortable and cOzey
than the one in this town. It's loca-
tlon, corner of Benson and Commerce
streets, almost directly opposite the
makes it convenient and cen
tral to the membership.
The pipe organ of Asbury NJ. E.
church, which, with the motor, under
went a complete Overhauling last week
by the workman who helped put it to-
5ether nine years ago, was a pleasure
70 the choir and Organist, as well as
.he audience, on Sunday. No one en-
Ioyed the needed change more than the
and with the fine pulpit de-
lveries and good executions that come
rom the collective musical association
1f the organ loft, it is not to be won
leHed at, that the auditorium is we'll
illed morning and night, and Sunday
after Sunday.
Among the flags hoisted last week
was that on the dwelling of John c.
Garner, In a part of the town not so
much frequented as other sections.
but 1t has the last year or two devel-
Oped more than other parts ofthe town
the Western end of Frazier street
comfortable new houses belonging to
the occupants. Mr.. Gamers home.
which he moved into sometime previous
TO the annual moving time, is the onlv
construction of its kind, built in the
style of the Swiss cottage, having
eight rooms, with a ballustrade at the
top where the roofs point up. Mr..
Garner is a veteran of the late war, and
It IS from flagstaff in this ballustrade
that he floats "old glory" daily.
The last week as we'll as the first
week of April, was decidedly wintry.
The elimination in its wintry aspect
was on Thursday-the northeast wind
blowing a gale, the temperature down
TO within two degrees of freezing.
hail commencing to fail shortly after
and continuing until six
o'clock and then driving snow until
well on IN the afternoon, pedestrians
having an inch or more of slush to
walk through. 1t looked decidedly
out OF season to see white fields and
roof tops, while the bushes and trees
were half clad in their summer attire
OF green. 1t is a condition of things
rarely ever experienced so late in
April. 1t was enough to scarce the
'soler boys" at camp Tunnel.
70 many of our readers it may be
news to learn that a tooth once ex-
tracted can be replaced in it's socket
and made comfortable and servieeable.
by this operation, called re-planta-
ton, badly abscessed or diseased teeth
can be saved. DIR. Magitat, of Paris.
France, became famous and wealthy
Tor his work in this line, and with our
most prominent American dentists it
is considered the latest triumph of
modern dentistry. We are pleased to
say that DIR. J. Allen Johnson, of our
town, successfully performed this op-
Grafton for Master Paul Layfeld, thus
saving his patient from disfigurement
and the loss of one of his anterior
teeth. 1t is a satisfaction to know
that Smyrna keeps abreast of tae times.
The effect of the wintry weather last
week on the fruit crop is not yet fully
determined. 1t was cold almost the
whole week, with hail and snow, and
during the latter, almost down to
freezing point, but fortunately no
frost, when it finally cleared up. The
snow that fell on Thursday and re-
NAMED on the ground until the next
day, had no blighting effect, the dam
age being from the hail that preceded
It, driven by a fierce northeast wind
Tor several hours. Strawberries seem
not to have been injured, and the dam
age to the fruit seems to have been
rom the hail, the latter bruising or
picking the tender plums, cherries.
gooseberries, &c. Many apple trees
were yet in bloom, and it will be a
week or two before the damage on
peaches, apples, &C., can be ascer-