Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1938-06-23

mic in the "Hoogie', woods.
The Misses FAIRIES on Mount
Vernon street are having a bay
window put in their dwelling.
Thomas Lavender has the limbs
of several peach trees propped up
already, from overloaded fruit.
Salem M. p. Church in Blackbird
Hundred will hold a festival run
ming over the three last nights of
this week.
Woodland Beach takes the lead
in snakes: a cowsucker was killed
there last week that measured
eleven feet in length.
Our schools will soon have their
summer vacation. Joy for the
teachers and pupils. Trouble for
parents and guardians.
"A great many persons who were
waiting for rain to put out their
tomatoes for the canning contract,
were served by the rains of Satur-
day.
There will be a trotting contest
at the Poplar Grove track, on Fri
day. Horses will be entered from
Middletown, Dover, Smyrna and
elsewhere.
Rev. George w. Dame who went
in Sunday week on a high tide"
of favor as the new rector of st.
Peters, was greeted again on Sun
day by large audiences.
The pupils Of our High School
are now going through the deIec-
table exercise of the annual exam
ination. The other departments
follow in immediate succession,
closing in week.
B. F. C. Rothwelps wheat field
which was in the lead of his neigh
borhood in the spring, has main
tanned it throughout. The prospect
for large crop of wheat in this
section is excellent.
The wheat fields of the ALLEY
are almost without exception very
fine and promise good yield. This
is also a fine peach section, and the
ALLEY viii doubtless be in the
front row with this crop.
G. A. Focht, of Pennsylvania,
has bought out Phillips, the barber,
at Clayton where he proposes to
locate and prosecute the business. /
Clayton in its growing condition
ought to be a good place for bar
Der.
Edward Beck is building on Mt. |
Vernon street near Pearl a resi-
dence for his son Charles. the cell I
lar for which was dug last week.
IT is to be on the cottage order /
with front of 220 feet, running
back "a feet.
The estimate Of Messrs. J. G. e
III NJ. Farson, at Brenford, of the
peach crop at that station is, POL
900 baskets. with a possibility of it I
reaching from $4,000 to $4,000 4
more if all stay on the trees that I
are there now. The drop seems to I
be about over.
George M. Stevenson has a new
and attractive sign at his ice
cream saloon, painted by John G.
Mannering. Mr.. Stevenson has the /
Smyrna Opera House orchestra to \
make music Monday and Thursday
evenings, and perhaps through the
season may take other nights.
Everything i said to have a use
and one has been found for the dis
carded Ailanthus tree. The George |
town Journal says that when the
large trees were standing at the |
old Layton homestead thousands |
of rose bugs would sometimes be
found lying dead upon the ground /
beneath their foliage.
We are now on the third week
of the strawberries with berries |
both fine In size and good in quail
ity, and raspberries ripening to |
immediately succeed them. Peas |
have been abundant and cabbage,
beets potatoes are coming in for
the table. We are entering on the |
season Of plenty for fruits and veg
etables.
James E. Cats no the farm Of
Herman p. Hazel e. Brother, on
the State road five miles north Of
Smyrna has a field Of corn that at
tracts attention from its mathe-
NAUTICAL correctness in signing out 4
and crossing. The rows are SO
straight and the hills so accurate, |
that if necessary, it could be cult
waited diagonally.
The Home school" of Professor
Roe closed on Friday with special |
and appropriate services, giving
him two and half months vaca-
ton. If there is any thing in his
candidacy for Congress on the Pro- /