Smyrna times., 1898-06-15

ying wheat harvest, which will likely
Ce with us in a week.
June is the ideal month, but it is i'm
lOrtant that there be enough moisture
% make the vegetables grow, as sun
shine to make hay for the barracks.
William Tiller, colored, had a hear
nc Yesterday before Alderman Col
ins, for disOrderly conduct, and got
off with cost of 49, 90.
The fishing is good down the bay
and a number of our fishermen are
planning a trip by steam Barge Anna
and Mary.
Wheat has made great improvement |
the past two weeks, and the present
prospect is that the yield in this cOun-
try will be much larger than was ex-
pected month ago by our farmers.
The Church Aid of German Chapel
will hold a cream and fruit festival
Friday and Saturday evenings in the
cOmmodious tent used for gospel meet
ings, adjoining the Chapel. Your pa
trOnage solicited.
Yesterday was Flag Day." the an
niversary of the adoption of the flag by
Congress on June IA, 1776, and it is
safe to say that never before in the
country's history were so many flags
displayed at one time as tiOated to the
breeze all over the country.
Summer and west wind have come
at last, Sunday being the first really
warm day throughout. There is some
thing really enjoyable in the freedom
of summer, though it may have its dis
comforts of heat and drought
Berries shipped on steamer Brady on
Tuesday, the 7th, not being in time for
early market on account of the steamer
being disabled, no freight was charged.
Shippers will see that they are not
charged by the commission men. j
VIM. Edwin FAIRIES, who had made
arrangements to take a place in the
Hardware store of his father here, be
fore the death of the latter, has sold
his Drug Store in Odessa, to Elwood A
Test, of Philadelphia, who succeeded
him last week.
The catch of trout this present sea
son has been much smaller in quan
tity than in former years, and some o
the larger seines have been laid aside
The trout fish, like the sturgeon, i
fast disappearing and the time is no
far distant when they will be thin
of the past.
We thought that Robert Denne
having new potatoes from his patch th
| last Sunday in May put HIM ahead {
all others, but John W. Ford went hil
one better, having his first the day bC
fore, Saturday. 1t is just to say th'
. Mr.. Ford got his seed potatoes fro
7 Mr.. Denney, and they are presum
bly, the same variety. Mr.. Ford e,
poets to have potatoes ripe and fu
grown, in market to-day or tomorrow
u The marriage Of DIR. Samuel A. B
, chanan, formerly of Smyrna, to Mi
Edith Adelaide Blunden, took place
the home of the brides parents, NJ
I. and Mrs. S. Osborne Blunden,
'e Brooklyn, n. Y, on Wednesday eve
~ ing last, at 8 o'clock. Chas. A. Hes
I; zig, of ElktOn, was present at the CT
"a emony and acted as best man. L
and Mrs. Buchanan will reside in Phi
adelphia.
0, Strawberries are about over in IL
of section, but in ThOrOugfare Neck a
IN in heavy lands adjacent to Fleming
Landing, the crop is later in ripeniI
We propose to continue the Daily Ii
re and give all the same accommodate
ch The only change will be in schedule
Y. Str. Elizabeth Van Solver from Phi
n delphia. Will leave Thursday at 2.
ed NJ. and Saturday at 8 PA
A. E. JARDINE, Sec
l., Scott NJ. E. Sunday School of "
n: mington, picniced at Woodland Bea
oil Yesterday. This was the ThOs. Clyd
y. first trip to Woodland and it brouI
We over five hundred passengers. I
M, mined waters of Fort Delaware Sc
ID. to scare many excursiOnists from t
ing the trip. EpwOrth u. E. Sunt
School will picnic there on Friday.
'oi The work of the summer anglers
-. ~ begun. Yesterday, F. E. POstles
5 Ed. Hoffecker, Harry Tschudy, Har
IL Speakman, and HirOns Denney t
IA IN an early ride to Woodland Beach
'no thence to St. John Light. and succe
u" ed in pulling in over forty la
nIe trout. These were brought home
'A' distributed last night. To-day,
80 seph Smithers, and w. A. Elem
lrS .arY rode down to try their luck.
his The Board of Health organized
his evening by electing DIR. G. o. Swim
, of President, and G. H. Register SCI
on tary. The other members of the Be-
tor are A. L. Hudson, Sr., W. A. SteN
and j. Henry Jefferson. POlicel
Garner will cooperate with the Bo
the the same as last year. They have isS
ont an important notice, which app
lsa- elsewhere.
till On Saturday some farmers were
ere ing to get some information about
,cks school law, but such was the met
lsi- of the Legislature in recommitti
ven bill after it had passed or in a syS
of Legislative see-sawing between
two Houses, that left them with an
Of definite knowledge what was rC
222 law. They seemed to be certain Ol
nee thing however, that the annual sc
the election came off in June just v
one every farmer was needed at home
tom. his crops, and against the selectiO
tees such a time, there was unanir
We protest.
ther
the The shower that visited us on 81
day morning, that promised to enC
dry spell, only with the heat tina
stu in Sunday, Intensified it. In I
year oughfare Neck, where the berries
the later, the shower was heavier and
this have helped them, but elsewhere
ges, both the heat and drought, the st
ngs, berry crop is virtually ended. I'll
N of cutting week off the crop to boil
ege. grower and the lines of transp
that ton.
and --
Vark Heretofore three "days of 81
have been allowed on notes due q
bank, but by an act of the last L
says: lature, this was abolished, as th'
veto lowing provision will show:
: the "Section 1. That on and afte
bal first day of July, 1898, no days of
, last shall be allowed on notes, draft
oters ceptances and bills of exchange 1
allan drawn or accepted by any pers
$ are corporation, but the same shall be
hing and payable without days of grace
!, the The State Bankers Association
d for sent ont n large number of con