Smyrna times., 1876-12-13
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.


THE NJ. E. Sunday School of this town is
rehearsing for a concert to be held in the
Church on Christmas night.
THE Pierrepomt is ice bound in Philadel.
phia, but she will start on her trips at once
if the weather will permit.
THE Rev. John G. Bawn, of Philadelphia,
will officiate in ST. Peters Church, ID. w
on next Lords day morning and evening.
REV. P. CooMBE having finished his can
vass for local option in Smyrna, lectures in
Leipsic tonight and tomorrow night, and
in Little Creek Landing on Friday night.
THEODORE CARRow, at Woodlawn," (Col
G. w. Cumminss) killed hog last week
weighing over 500 tbs.-l5 months old.
Smyrna has no very heavy weights this
year.
REV. Mr.. SrUBBs preached in Leipsic on
Sunday night and gave his popular lecture,
"The Royal Road to Success in the Ches-
terville NJ. F. Church, Kent county, Nd, on
Monday night.
REMEMBER the festival for the Mission
School, MRS. Jerman's) at the Chapel this
evening-W Wednesday. The object is to
purchase clothing for some of the needy
children. 1t will be worth attending.
FRANK, son of VIVA. NJ. Bell, Cashier
Bank of Smyrna, expects to leave here this
week for San Francisco, where he proposes
to learn carpentering and architecture.
This is plucky in Frank, but his friends
hate to see boy of such pluck leave town.
The following ladies of this town are a
committee to circulate local option petitions
among the people, viz: Mrs. S. P. Mason,
Mrs. Jos. E. Williams and Mrs. j. w. Den
ney, and Misses Mary Spearman, Annie
Baggs, Mary E. Cavender and Allie Smith.
Rev. JOS T. WRIGHT, until recently
rector of st. Peters Church. here, moved
away, with his family, yesterday. He is in
Wilmington for the present, we believe.
His friends here gave him and his estima-
BILE wife some very substantial tokens of
their regard before they left.
THE usual subscription ball, given by a
number of the young men of this town
every winter, is to come off at the town
hall on Thursday evening, Dec. 2Sth. The
committee on invitations, Thos. Jefferson
and Geo. Smith, have issued a handsome
Invite to the ladies. The price of gentle
mems tickets is one dollar.
The terrible winds of Friday and Satur
day gave this town such busting as it has
not had for a long time before. People
could hardly hold their eyes open nor keeI
| their limbs still. 1t sent the thermometel
| down to within five or six degrees of zero anC
the dust up to the very clouds, making j
good weather, however, for pork and ic'
| harVesters.
| ACCORDING to the calculations of tn,
auditors, both the loan associations of thi
town will run out in one more payment
that is, the original series of the Smyrn
will run out, the Diamond State will rul
out altogether As the former issues nev
stock every year it is on the "perpetua
plain so called. 1t adopted this sera
plan two years ago. They have been run
ming nine years and nine months. W
propose to say more about them, however
when they settle up.
Two of our young men, W. Polk Cum
minis (son of D. J.) and Walter 0. Ho
fecker (son Of John II. are going to farm
ing in the Spring. They take their father
farms in Cedar Lane, near town. This is
new departure for our town "boys," an
one that causes favorable comment. Her
tofore the tendency of our young mel
both in country and town, has been
shirk rather than to seek farm life; but
is to be hoped that this move is an indic
} tion that the current is setting the otht
way, and that our great leading industry
bidding for the best talent and enterpri!
We find in our midst.
JAS TRUAx, one of our promineI
farmers, living at Rothwell's Landing, nei
town, came near losing his life last We
nesday evening. He fell through ii
hatchway of the stable loft, the back of h
head striking the edge of the hatchflo
, in passing through. 1t was thought at fir
that he could not live, but DR.. Collins W
, sent for and he is recovering. The back
: his neck received the heavy concession, al
the blow was so severe that it caused pa
! tial paralysis of the muscles of the face, b
he is gradually regaining control of the
again. Some one left lot of calves on Il
, wharf to be shipped by the Pierepont b
i as the boat was not up the animals we
: likely to stay there all night without foo
|, Their bleating worked on Mr.. T.'s syl
: pathies and he went up in the loft in t
dark to get some fodder for them.
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