Smyrna times., 1898-10-19

H. b. Grleves Is making a great i'm
provement to his dwelling by the erec-
tiOn of a porch spanning the whole
front of his house.
John Peeker has lost five hogs, all
he had, from the ''hog cholera" and a
number of others have lost one or more
hogs in this vicinity.
The J. B. Counselman & Co., and
John H. Hoffecker tomato canning
factories will likely shut down this
week. The Osborn factory near the
depot quit work week ago.
The ladies of the Dramatic Commit
tee of the Goth Century Club wish to
extend most sincere thanks to the
members of Stevenson's orchestra for
their generous contribution of music
last evening.
Geo. D. Collins has bought of Mr.
Geo. W. Bradford the house on South
street in tenure of J. Edwin Hoffecker
for $4,000. The purchase was made
through the agency of Cosgriff & Beck.
10000 soldiers in line. One of the
finest pageants in history, at the Peace
Jubilee, to come off October the 9th.
This opportunity is afforded you for
20 cents the round trip via steamer
G. f. Brady. 4
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished
cabinets, mantelles etc. Here every
Wednesday. Parties wanting Photo
graphs for Christmas had better give
orders now.
Mrs. VIM. Denney Hazell has had
blooming through the Fall, number
of Dahlias, rich with their beauty and
fullness of bloom. Mrs. John B.
Cooper has been equally successful in
raising Dahlias from the seed, the
most of persons propagating them from
tubers.
The agents of P. J. Hannifan & Co.,
publishers, are making a canvass of the
State for q new Commercial, Railroad
and County Map and Gazetteer of
Maryland and Delaware and Business
Directory of the Representative
Houses. We think this a fine work
and deserves to be patronized.
The young people of Raymond's
Neck church will hold an oyster sup
per. In addition to the supper, there
will be ice cream and cake sold at the
church next Friday and Saturday
evenings, 21st and 22nd of October.
Proceeds will go on pastors salary.
All are cordially invited to attend.
Our fellow-townsman, John B.
Cooper, according to the published ac-
count of the tabulated figures last
week, of the election of '96, had a ma
iority of 406 votes in the county for
the Constitutional Convention -
the highest of any of the candidates
but was not allowed to serve.
The "Blind Staggers" is essentially
a late summer disease among horses,
leaving before frost comes. It most
always proves fatal, but DR.. Lambdin
cured three out of eight cases that
came under his care, four of those that
! died being in moribund state when
he first saw them.
In the drug store window of Chal-
lenger and Son OF New Castle, there is
displayed a picture of the head of
Smyrna Creek from the brush CT E. /.
Rogers. It does credit to the local ar
tist. 1t represents two fshermen's cab
ms near a peach orchard. The latter
is in full bloom. In the distance can
be seen farm house, the former house
| Of Williopo noaEuno
W. G.. Hill advertises for large guam
| titles of wheat. Farmers will remem.
Der that last season when wheat was
| damaged and almost unsaleable he was
high prices. He should certainly now
get all he wants, especially as he fre.
quently pays more than market anC
spot cash. T3
STURGEON. The sturgeon fishing il
the Connecticut River has just CLOSED
and is said to have been the best in the
history of the industry there. ThC
| fishermen have abandoned fishing fol
all other kinds of fish, and have takeI
so many sturgeon that it is declared
1t will only be year or two before the
sturgeon in the river will be termi
mated. The fish seem to have left the
| Delaware this year, and perhaps moth
ing but artificial propagation, as in the
case Of shad, will make our river the
bonanza that it formerly was to sturg
con fishermen.
PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND.-State Treas
urer W. M. Ross has made the appro
priation of school funds as follows
New Castle county, $52, ,512.57; Ken
county, $33, 421 "a; Sussex county, S46
3O6.32. The text books purchased il
the different counties is as follows
New Castle county, $1,725.37; Ken
county 50, 546, 10; Sussex county, SO,
995. 68. Net amount due each count,
after deducting for text books: New
Castle county, $50, $3.50; Kent count,
$50, S75. Is; Sussex county, S42, $40. 81
OF the school fund each single distric
in Kent county gets $231.6S; Suss e,
county, $206.6S.
SEED CoRN.-An exchange says: TIL
yield of corn is dependant in no small
degree on the quality of the seed. Th
Michigan station advises that this b
selected before the corn is cut, having
regard to the size and character of tn
type of the ear. When the season
especially favorable for thorough
maturing the ears, enough, seed t
last at least two years should b
gathered, completely dried out befor
frost and stored in warm dry place
A difference of II per cent. in the yiel
of dry matter on two adjacent acres wa
noted in favor of the crop grown fror
we'll ripened seed over the yield fror
seed grown in wet, cold season.
Saturday brought a decided chang
in the weather, fires and wollens neC
essary for comfort. Sunday mornin
the Thermometer registered from 40 de
grees to AZ, and Monday morning fror
38 to 40 degrees, and though frost wa
| generally reported from the country
the beans and tomato vines have no
, shown much effect. They have bee
} having it cold and breezy out Wesi
with a considerable fall of Snow yes
terday and Monday. The free, east
erly wind yesterday, indicated that W
were on the outskirt of heavy storr
down the coast.