Smyrna times., 1880-02-25
SMYRNA AND VICINITY
CEoCUsEs are in bloom.
Town Election next Monday


Town Election next Monday.
Two or three Of our men arc talking
Leadville. 3
THE ice crsp for this latitude is about
dispaired of.
The farmers are beginning to inquire
about seed potatoes.
DR.. and Mrs. f. NJ. Cloak returned from,
their bridal trip on Monday evening.
MONDAY next will be moving day in this
vicinity, Quite a number of changes will
take place.
VENNOR who Prophesyed a snow storm
and very cold weather this week has proved
false prophet.
The Ladies Benevolent Society will a, t
tomorrow Thursday evening at the resi-.
dencc of Mrs. J. b. Cooper.
Four days more and spring will be on us
according to the almanac, but the real
Spring is probably month OIL.
The military fever which has caused the
formation of companies in several other
towns in our State has not yet reached
Smyrna.
Mr.. HATToN an evangelist of the Quaker
denomination will preach in the Lecture
room Of the NJ. +. Church tomorrow
Thursday evening.
One Of the latest articles of speculation
is scrap iron caused by the advance of pig
iron. Persons are buying it up at } to
cent per pound for shipment.
JoHN TRUAX and son Peter +. left last
week for Oxford, Nd, where they expect
to engage in the canning of oysters and
manufacturing Of phosphatss.
S. L. Kahn, former well.known cloth
Ter OF cur town, is for the present connec.
ted with the house Of LouchheiHl Brothers
of Philadelphia as travelling salesman.
The active work of the farmers begins
next week, the Glands" setting in for the
seasons work on Monday next. The wages
will be little different from last year.
THERE is one man at least in town salts
fed. The distemper has got among the
dogs and the indications are that there will
be a considerable fatality among the CANNES
AT the recent revival services held at
Centennial NJ. Z. Church, this town, forty
two persons professsd conversion, thirty of
whom united with the church on proba.
ton.
The vsndue crop this year has been ex-
ceedingly short in this locality-not one.
fourth that of former years. 1t would
seem that the most of the farmers after all
have secured places.
THERE will be change in the time table
Of the steamer j. Z. Tn7cn next week
She will leave here on Monday at l o'clock
and on Wednesday at 5. For further par
ticulars see time table next week.
THE U. S. Signal Service Department
commenced last week to send daily weather
reports to all prominent points on the Del
aware Railroad. The reports are tee-
graphed early every morning and are
posted up in the stations.
THE Levy Court was in session all last
week. The days assigned to the various
Hundreds have been gone through with,
the result being about seven hundred
added to the assessment list, two hundred
and fifty Of these being white men.
HERCULES ATKIN, 1913 Market st., Phia
delphia, offers to our citizens visiting Phil.
adslphia large, we'll selected and rs cheap
an assortment of carpets as can be found
Mr.. Atkin is man of character who can
be relied on and such are the men whsm
purchasers like to deal with.
A SERIES Of Lectures on the Crusades will
be begun in the Chapel of St. Peters
Church this Wednesday evening at 7l5, p.
NJ, by the Rector, Rev. w. B. Gordon The
citizens Of Smyrna and vicinity are cor
daily invited to attend The seats in the
Chapel are free to all at the services held
in it.
Our young people not booked UP in that
romantic period of Medieval history EN-.
oraciag the crusades against the Saracenes,
will find much to interest them in the
series of carefully prepared lectures which
the Rev. Mr.. Gordon intends giving at ST.
Peters. Tho course commences this even.
ing.
SUNDAY was "feld day at Bethel N.
E. Church in the matrimonial line, no less
than four brides and gTooms in attendance
and there were still two or three couple in
the direction of the CHG oak" who did
not put in an appearance. Th2ir cases
should be seen after, and if they do not
show themselves the next fair day, a court
martial by the remaining young folks would
be entirely justiiable.
A. N. PURDY, Of Palmyra, n. Y, sends
postpaid and free to all applicants his val.
liable 24'page catalogue of fruits and flow
ers, giving kinds, descriptions, mode of
planting, &c. He also sends free a spsci.
men copy Of the Fruit Recorder and Cot.
tage Gardener" monthly at 81 per year,
devoted to fruits-it speaks for itself;
while % cents will get mis- 64-page "Smali
Fruit Instruction. work pronounced by
all who have seen it, the most concise and
practical of any yet printed. Persons
sending to him now will get the Catalogue,
and the "Fruit Recorder" for 1880, and the
"Small Fruit Instructor" all postpaid, for
one dollar He accepts postage stamps for
odd change.
An ESTERPRIsING FIRM.-The firm of
Messrs. Geo. w. & S. Taylor have been
running steadily with increased work and
now give employment to twenty hands.
During the winter they have put in large
machine for punching iron and also trip
hammer, both costly articles, and too sx.
PsnsiVe for use only in large manufactur.
ing establishments. In addition to the
heavy mill work they have been and are
now turning out large numbers of the
. New Departure cUltivator, which with
them is specially and growing constantly
in popularity. They have opened con.
siderable trade for this article in Western
Maryland. For the Spring trade they are
offering the Oliver and Wizard chilled plows,
which are recognized everywhere as Of
superior merit.
PERsoNAL.-Gov. Hall, of Frederick, was
in town on Saturday. OF course he was
given warm hand by all who met him.