Smyrna times., 1898-06-22

glory, the grandeur and the greatness
of the country.
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
The days are now at their full
length.
W. n. Ransom has a field of corn
waist high.
Flour has fallen about one fifth in
sympathy with wheat.
belmont" Park has never looked
more attractive than it has the past
month.
Geo. NJ. Stevenson had an order for
ice cream the other day all the way
from Virginia.
The Sunday School of st. Peters |
church is holding morning sessions
commencing at 10 o'clock.
The city market this year failed to
profit the strawberry shipper, and there
has been many disappointments.
Sampson and Dewey are the names
of the two setter puppies owned by
Messrs. Ralph and Reynolds Steven
son.
Following a warm spell the weather
has been cool for a week. The ther-
mometer registered 50 degrees this
morning.
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished
cabinets. mantelles etc. Here every
Wednesday. 7
Jacob Stein has cheap window adj
juster that secures the sash at any
place desired, and effectually prevents
the rattling of windows.
A considerable acreage of tomatoes
has been contracted for, and the mea-
| gre rains has proved a disappointment
in the setting out of plants.
The first quarterly conference of
| this year will be held at Asbury NJ. E.
church Friday evening. That for the
Circuit was held Monday afternoon at
the Parsonage.
The festival held under large tent
at Jerman Chapel last Friday and Sat
urday evenings, was a decided sue
cess, and the ladies who had it in
charge cleared $23.
While the strawberry is generally
"done WITH" the low and heavier
ground of ThOrOughfare Neck is still
producing them, and shipments will be
made by the boats each trip this week.
A fishing party of some fifty persons
left the Landing this morning at 7.30
O'Clock, on the steamer Van Solver
They were bound for the fishing
grounds at Ship John Light, or the
Cross Ledges.
w. L. Ryan, veterinarian, was called
| to "WOodlawn" Monday, to see sicl
, COW. 1t was found to be a ease of ny
drophobia, and the animal was shot
He had first to mount hay rick to ge
r out of the way of the vicious animal
During the summer months, tn
Methodist Sunday School will NEE
from $50 o'clock until 1920 O'cloc
every Sunday morning before church
= instead of afternoons. This plan Wi
! be in operation from July 1st to Sep
tember.
: The Presbyterian Christian Endeav
Y or Society and the regular congrega
= ton will unite in a twilight serviC
during the summer months, gOin
e into effect July the 3rd and last a
r hour, from 7.30 o'clock until $50.
= The Presbyterian Sunday Scho,
has chartered the steamer Brady fC
3 Tuesday, the 5th of July, for a picn
e on the Delaware Bay, view of Fo
Delaware, etc. The tickets will
so cents for the excursion. The plat
of landing has not yet been fixed on.
e The analyses of DIR. Wolf, of Del
d ware College, State Chemist, is pu
s, lished elsewhere in this paper.
1r study of it will show the farmer Il
N ingredients and commercial value
all the phosphates on the market.
r VIM. NJ. Lewis has found this bu
TX season. In addition to a large sale
is carriages and various articles of far
10 machinery, he has sold 33 Deeril
wheat binders and 90 mowers, and c
poets to sell several more before t
Is season is over.
ty A feature of Saturday afternoon W
re H. d. BOyer's parade of McCormi
d. reapers, 25 in number, headed by
IA Excelsior Band. 1t of course attract
h considerable attention. A treat
an cake and ice cream followed after t
he parade.
liz
it The gate at the Belmont Drivi
on Park has been locked, and bicycli
be who found that place a favorite res
are deprived of the privilege of ST
nat around the track. Some OverstepT
OF the bounds of privilege, and we mie
boo say decency, and owing to compla
my made, the management were Oblie
ed. to close the grounds to all.
On One hundred and two fine trC
er. were caught by six of our amat
go fishermen last Thursday. The pa
900 was composed of Messrs. G. b. r
be mond, John Egan, Harry Tschu
the Robert II. Denney, George Leese &
liz. DIR. J. Allen johnson. Mr.. Tschl
can caught a fine specimen, weigh
nn- eight pounds.
ars
'ate Geo. M. Stevenson, as caterer
oah have his hands full next week. He
aey caterer to the Senior Glass BanaI
iol- Tuesday evening ;the Alumni RECEIPT
lhg Wednesday evening, and the Twenti
al Century Club Inaugural Receipt
OF Friday evening. Mr.. Stevenso
the splendid system of serving is winn
for him popularity.
war J. B. Lewis is making the bri
-; and "big gates" that is to take
'ssl place of the present one at the Smy
A mill pond, which has been there
Bal teen years. The water will be let
4 in of the pond next week, and durinl
construction, teams will have to