Smyrna times., 1878-11-27
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
ARE you prepared to give thanks?

ARE you prepared to give thanks?
BARREL holds $50 fair-sized apples.
ALMANAcs for 1879 are beginning to make
their appearance.
HoT buckwheat cakes are the morning
glories of the season.
Our youngsters are beginning to count
how many weeks to Christmas.
CHICKENS sold in Philadelphia last week
as low as ten cents per pound.
THE Centennial Church (colored) will
have another "grand rally on Sunday
next.
THE Ladies Benevolent Society will meet
at Mrs. w. w. Tschudy's on Friday evening
at o'clock.
WASTE no time in crying over what you
did not do, lest you fail to accomplish what
you may yet do.
BE quick to believe good of your neigh.
bors. So may you while still on earth enjoy
the society Of angels.
The revivals at Serveson's and Central
chapels, Smyrna Circuit, are still progress
ing with undiminished interest.
J. THEY who find fault with, and predict
failure of every public enterprise, are to
civilization, what original sin is to humanity
THE stores, as is the custom, will he
closed tomorrow and business generally
suspended. But won't. the boys have gooC
time soaring the birds?
WE are indebted to Mrs Mary A. Kim
my, now at Saltwater, Mimi, for copies o
the Saltwater and st. Pau's newspapers
Her visit will be prolonged until January
THE prevalence of east winds for severa
days last week caused unusual high tide
taking advantage of which a number of tn
stranded oyster boats at Mahon's River ant
along the coast were gotten off.
RoBBED.-The shoe and harness shop o
Messrs. Weldon & FAIRIES, on COmmerc
ST., was broken into by forcing a wa
through the cellar on Saturday evening
and about $50 worth of boots taken.
The busiest individual in town this weel
has been j. w. Jones, produce dealer II
has shipped since Monday about 100
pounds of poultry to the city market
Messrs. Farrell and Startling have also mad
large shipments.
In an invoice of new goods last week, b
T. B. Megear, was the single item of to-
of buckwheat -four. That looks as if tn
people were not forgetting the inner MAI
, and it is very difficult to say buckwhea
without coupling sausage with 1t.
TEACHERS IHsTITUTE.-Prof. Groves give
notice in another column of the Teacher
: Institute for this county, to eheld at Dove
Dec. Ilth, 18th, 18th and 18th. In add
ton to the usual topics of interest in tn
{, sessions of the Institute, VIM. S. SchofelC
8 ESQ.,, and Rev. Enoch Stubbs of Philade
e phia have been engaged for evening ad
: dresses.
! BUSINESS NorICEs.-Daniel Bratton al
J. vertses three farms for sale. 5. l.. Kah
If his entire stock of clothing, turnishln
"a goods, hats, &C., at reduced figures. Il.
e Moore and q. B. Archer portable seal
II tank for slaughtering hogs. The officers
h. the Smyrna Library have special motto
re for its patrons. John II. Bewley and Wilso
g T. Cavender houses for rent.
g SHINE EN- UP SIR2-During lull in bus
oi ness on Saturday afternoon at Fowler
oi store, a conversation sprung up on blackin
u boots which led to a banter about whf
"a each would do it for the other-starting
NJ 10 and getting down to 3 cts. Finally tt
e nhosphate yender declared that he wou
DC Hack the boots for the farmer for 10 cts
out on the corner; and having thus said, b
was held 10 it and Thompson showed hlr
N self to the admiring crowd the champic
ie boot blacker, as he is phosphate seller,
.e the Peninsula, by the "shined up boo
:. that farmer Truax 1--WE will call him IKE
~ ~ to avoid confounding him with other
wore to church on Sunday morning.