Smyrna times., 1898-06-22

our flag on foreign seas
and lands.
The Ladies' of Raymonds Church
Con Leipsic road) will hold festival
Friday and Saturday evenings next,
June "a and 25, on church lawn.
invited.
July 4th, special excursion to Wash
ington Park by Steamer G. +. Brady
which has been chartered for the oc-
casion. See large bills for further par
ticulars. ~
New potatoes appeared in market
last week. The tubers are small in
size because of the dry weather of the
past three or four weeks. The CRATE
full showers of Sunday was not sutfi-
cient to go to the roots.
The note of preparation for the cele
bratiOn of the 4th of July is heard |
off Cuba and the Philippines, but such |
celebrations don't go this year in
Smyrna.
The Steamer Elizabeth Van Solver
will leave balance of June, as follows
Smyrna Landing Philadelphia
Wednesdays, at 4 noon Tuesday II, ats Pm
Friday a. Pm Thursday o., pm
Monday 27,', | PM Saturday 25,"
Wednesdays" l " Tuesday 2s, l
Thursday 3d."
There will be a meeting of the
Smyrna High School Alumni Associa-
ton at the home of Miss Edythe Beck,
| Thursday evening, at half-past eight.
All graduates of the school are invited
to be present.
Woodland Beach, L. p. Campbell,
! proprietor, will open next Wednesday,
June 29th, for the season of '9S. Its
particular advantages are set forth in
an advertisement elsewhere.
The Steamer G.. F. Brady will not
make her regular trip from Smyrna on
the Fourth of July or the return trip
from Philadelphia on the 5th, owing
to the 4th being holiday.
The raspberry has taken the place of
the strawberry in our market. The
latter crop, from being two heavy at
first and from drought and hot suns at
the last, was not satisfactory one to
the shippers.
Never were so many we'll dressed
people seen upon our streets as now.
The result of the low prices prevailing
for suits for both sexes. The War
Loan will be apt to increase prices
somewhat.
Persons doing business with the
Banks will do we'll to remember two
things-after the 1st of July, "Days
of Grace" are dispensed with, and all
checks and negotiable notes must have
a stamp on them.
The lumber from a saw mill neal
BlancO loaded on nearly dozen teams,
passed through the town on Saturday,
, on the way to SeversOns Neck to re-
place the buildings on the farm Oc-
cupied by d. n. BOggs, recently
burned.
DIR. T. J. Lambdin is having placed
" in front of his residence, corner o
Commerce and Union streets, an ex
e tension of the porch with neat ballu
y trade front. In addition to this addeC
comfort he will give his residence
4 coat of paint.
; The Smyrna Public Schools will clos
this week for the summer vacation
The annual list of promotions whic
has heretofore been our custom to pub
lish will not be printed any more, a
e under the present Shearer's System G
: Grading, promotions are made an
ID time during the year.
The last meeting for the summer c
VI the Circle of Kings Daughters, will b
y held at Belmont Hall, the home {
10 Mrs. Peterson -Speakman, Thursda
II evening June 23rd. All members al
De most cordially requested to be preseI
70 and meet at the home of the PresideI
at Z o'clock, sharp. If the weath'
should be stormy the meeting will
q held the following evening. sEC'Y.
"a John Logan residing in Dutch Nee
ne was arrested by Policeman Garner {
OI Saturday afternoon for being drur
and disOrderly. He was soon enclose
in one of the cells of the lookup an
~ obliged to stay there until MOndi
Vi morning before his case could be hear
III Alderman Collins took his case
" hand, and finding him guilty, impose
* * a fine with costs of $3.75.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel M. TaylC
,os near, KentOn, have the sympathy
Oh their friends in the loss of their secOl
he son, Willie, who died at an early no
cd Monday morning, in his fifteen
NJ year. He had nearly recovered fro
he an attack of measles, and his relap
was the result of going out too 500
He was a promising boy, and the pc
NO pie of the neighbOrhoOd feel that tn
sts have sustained loss with his paren
ort The interment will be this afternoo
1in at the Odd Fellows cemetery, Il
,ed town.
ght
int The estimates of the wheat acrea
yed and condition furnished in the Ju
report of the Federal Department
Agriculture are calculated by expe
out to foreshadow a production larger th
eur that of any previous year. The es
rty mate of Statistician Brown, of the N
ay- York Produce Exchange, is that
dy, yield will aggregate 637, 300, 900 bui
md els. The greatest previous crop v
ldy in 1891, when the final official rep
ing made the yield GIL, 780,0 bushe
The increase in acreage this season
the logical outcome OF the big dema
will and the good prices realized for
will crop of 1897.
let,
ion Rev. J. L. Estlin preached a strC
ieth sermon last Sunday evening, taxi
ion, his text from Samuel, 14-6; "AndJo
ms than said to the young man that b
ling his armor, Come, and let us go o
into the garrison of these uncircr
cised: 1t may be that the Lord :
doe work for us; for there is no restrS
TIE to the Lord to save by many or by fe'
,rna He took as his subject characters, 81
, fif- young men for action as Hobson,
ont young naval officer of % years '
? its made such daring venture only a
90 weeks ago in the battle off Santi
,ver. De Cuba; Decatur, the young her
i off "a years who made his name famou
the war of Tripoli; Gushing, the yoI
naval officer of Civil War fame, whC
near the age Of 21 years, showed cons
rday nous bravery in the service of
rner Union, DIR. Estlin showed from IL
our three characters some excellent p
k-up ciples for the young Americans of
hing. day to emulate.
and
e Of People who know the high Or
sting charged by Adams Express for /
bundles are not surprised that
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