Smyrna times., 1901-09-25
CHESWOLD.
Condition of The ket-lmprOvemeut to
GarrisOn's MiIl--Sale of ShOats-LOCaI
and Personal Mention.


Special Correspondence to the TINES.
CHEswoLD, Sept. 23.-Peaches are
thing of the past for this year. The
good prices obtained for them how
ever, we hear will stimulate many
land owners to more faith in them and
many acres will go out in peach trees
in this locality this fall. Since Thurs
day of last week, tomatoes have
doomed in price and to-day (Monday)
reached 80 cents per basket. Three
buyers were pitted against each other
in lively style.
New corn is selling in our market for
30 cents per bushel basket on the ear.
Sweet potatoes are worth 4G cents per
peach basket.
Abbott & Co., of Milford, Del, have
finished extensive repairs putting in
forebay, &C., at the ''Garrison's Mills"
and Mr.. G. B. Massey, the proprietor,
applied water power once more to his
machinery last Thursday.
The Delaware Railroad Company has
made great improvement around and
fronting Cheswold station by remov-
ing the wooden platforms and replac-
ing them with solid smooth surface
of concrete.
At the public sale of W. H. Becker's
property last Thursday, the people
went almost wild over four shoats
which would weigh probably 12O to $50
pounds on foot and sold from $40 to
$14. His best horse also sold for S13O.
1t was cash sale.
Mrs. Martha j. Ford was last week
adJudged by jury of 10 men incapable
of caring for herself and was carried to
Farnhurst. She is an invilid with
come means and will pay her way at
this institution.
Our Cheswold W. G. 7. U. has cleo
ted Mrs. Robt. Roe delegate at lar ge
to represent them at the State conven-
tion which meets at Dover Oct. 16, II,
IS. A large number of our unions
will doubtless attend these sessions.
In the absence of Pastor Roe last
Sunday morning who was serving the
people at Brenford, Rev. G. X. Illick
preached at Cheswold one of his most
popular discourses, taking for his sub
iect ''The higher ife," based on text
found in Acts 10Th chapter and part of
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favorable comment as we'll as some dis
cussion by few who differed from the
views expressed. At night Pastor Roe
was III his pulpit to deliver one of the
best temperance sermons of recent
date here from the text, ''Look .
upon the wine when it giveth its color
for in the.end it biteth like serpent
and stingeth like an adder" The line
of thought was the drink habit as de-
stroyer of mans mental, moral anG
physical nature and lastly our respon-
sibility. The discourse was more i'm
pressive because of the absence of ex-
travigant and oyerdrawn pictures so
much INDUCED in by temperance
speakers.
PersonaIs.-Mr. and Mrs. Bean anC
daughter of Montgomery county, Pa
are visitors at Rev. @. X. Illick near
Cheswold. Mrs. Hannah Shahan il
visiting her son Fred in Philadelphia
Mrs. E. F. Jones is visiting friends
at Linwood, Pa.-Miss Lizzie Clark ot
Downs Chapel, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. W. s. Cantwell. Mrs. P. L.
Barcus was at Willow Grove last Sun.
day attending the funeral of John Bel
of that wn,-Mrs. Robert Roe made
flying trip to Philadelphia last Mon
day.-State Councillor, Geo. H. Dicl
of Smyrna, visited our Jr. o. U. A. M
order last Monday evening. REX.