Smyrna times., 1900-05-09
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Short Items OF General Interest Gathered
During the Week.
The best whitewashing lime for sale
by Cosgriff & Beck.
E. G. FAIRIES calls attention to his
screen doors and Copenhagen ware.
Mr.. E. Lower, near Brenford, COM
menced cultivating his corn this morn
ing.
The Kings Daughters will meet
Thursday evening, May 10th, at
o'clock, at the home of Miss Annie
Hough. Sec'y.
J. E. Carter is the Smyrna represen-
tative of R. A. Brice & Son, Fruit and
Produce Commission merchants, 32S
North Front street, Philadelphia.
Tue ornamental gate that leads into
the main entrance at Odd Fellows
cemetery has been strengthened and
improved by the addition of large yell
low pine posts.
The young ladies and gentlemen of
Brenford will give an entertainment in
the school house, on Friday, May II,
consisting of dialogues, recitations,
solos, etc. Admission, Is cts.
NJ. NJ. P. Scout has a strawberry
patch attractive several days ago for
its rich bed of blooms. Mr.. Scout
finds a dressing of nitrate of soda
superior fertilizer for strawberries.
Mt. Friendship and Byrd's Chapel
will have "crazy quilt Exhibition"
on Saturday, May Goth, for the bene-
fit of the camp woods, near Clayton.
1t is to be an all-day affair.
All members of the Union Castle,
No. II, K. of G. E., are most earnestly
requested to be present at our next
meeting night, Monday May 14th, to
discuss the question pertaining to a
funeral benefit association.
The story that has got into some of
the papers about the renewal of the
steamboat war" is misleading. Mr.
Jardine says it makes no difference to
him where telephone" Office is located
so long as the company conducts it
secretly, by officers of its own.
The young ladies and gentlemen of
Brenford will give an entertainment in
the school house on Friday, May II,
consisting of dialogues, recitations,
solos, etc. Admission, Is cts.
The Ladies Home Journal, pub
lished by the Curtis Publishing Co.,
of Philadelphia, for May, is replett
with articles, cuts and designs that
cannot bnt be interesting to all the
| ladies'. In fact it is par excellence
their paper.
NOTICE. Notice is hereby giver
that all Merchants and Manufactur
ers' yearly licenses are due June l
and all unpaid within 80 days there
after will be subject to fine of 25 pc
cent. as provided by law.-RoBERT 5
Downs, Clerk of the Peace.
An entertainment will be given a
Raymond's School House, near Ray
mond's Church, Friday evening
| May 18th, at o'clock. Recitation
and music by the children. The pub
| lie is invited to attend. Come an
enjoy pleasant evening. Admission
4 Is cents for adults, and 10 cents TO
1 children.
Il The mercury fell most to the fros
4 point nearly every morning the pas
4 week, in fact some say there wa
4 frost in the country, but no damag
1 was done. There is always concer
4 when the mercury drops down to th
4 torties. This is the time of the yet
most dangerous to the fruit crop;
4 freak of the weather for a single nigf
mas often wiped out the peach crop Il
year.
1t is stated that Carter and n
4 orother-in-law, Timmons, were I'll
4 only ones in the Bribery Gases who s
Il cured their $52 in each case. The
nled their claim al ten daYs and Sc