Smyrna times., 1880-11-24
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.

SIM xhNA AND VICINITY
The creek is tightly frozen over above
Landing.
LEiPsIC schools or rather teachers took
prominent part at the late Institute.
MEssRs. BoGGs & JEFFERSON at Morton
have shipped so bushels of chestnuts this
fall.
HoGKILLING commenced last week and
has been rapidly accelerated by the cold
weather of this week.
The congregation at Bethel NJ. E. Church
are making arrangements to procure an
organ to accompany their singing.
NAv1GAroRs of our Creek say that the
tide is always lower in very cold and very
warm weather than at other times.
The curve of the track of the Branch
road at the Clayton Depot has been con.
tracted and relaid so as to make an easier
approach of the cars to the platform.
FROM the indications of house building
in another local item, we can readily pre-
sumo on busy season for our house car.
penters as soon as the weather will permit.
REV. GEO. II. WATERS, delivered in Dover
last night, his lecture, the Seven Churches
of ASIA" and will deliver the same in
Philadelphia and Salem, N. j., next week.
In digging the cellar for his new house,
A. P. Griffith obtained two wagon loads of
stones suitable for building purposes-an
unusual thing in the substratum of our
land.
The boys were skating over the mill
pond yesterday, circumstance that did
not occur all last winter. A few days of
such weather andice will be thick enough to
gather.
A LARGE number Of the turnips and the
most of the cabbage has been caught out
by the hard weather. 1t was unthoughted
in ''old probabilities" ill not giving proper
warning.
The remark in the thoughtful lecture of
Rev. Mr.. Milby on Thursday evening that
"School teaching like preaching was a
Divine calling but an internal trade" was
not understood by many until explained.
A CONSIDERABLE quantity of peach trees
ferent farmers to find the ground frozen
several inches deep. They are hoping for
an opening before a regular setting in of
winter.
! IT is fashionable to have birds as pets
and for company, the canary predomina-
ting, but S. F. Phelps has instead a large
''booby,owl" obtained from Delmar which
| attracts considerable attention from his
store window.
The Delaware Railroad has gone into
the "reunion" business-lowering the fare
to two.thirds to those who wish to take a
ride to dine on that day with relative OF
friend. This is Yankee notion but not
the worst one.
REV. WIN. B. GORDON will commence O
series of lectures this evening at St. Peters
at the conclusion of the prayer meeting
on the "Gospels and their authors" The
course will comprise five lectures, on each
Wednesday evening, two being devoted tc
! st. John.
| S. w. HALL, at what we suppose will
be called Halls Landing, near Leipsic, ha.
one building raised and another under way
| iOL MS HOW CduuSIys IL 10 Sdlu lIldI MT
II. contemplates spending about 5000 in
buildings and other necessary appurtenan
ces to the business.
ISAAC TRUAX has recently had erected OF
his farm near town where he resides, new
stable 32x2l feet which will accommodate
head Of horses, also wagon shed anC
tool house 55xl4 feet, and other improve
ments, Mr.. Truax intends enlarging hi
dwelling in the Spring, and making othe
improvements.
THE most abundant thing and yet tn
most difficult for most people to get i
money. The banks generally have NOR
money in their vaults than they can fnt
customers for, and in our advertising col
umns it will be seen that Messrs Elliott
johnson & Co., offer 100000 to loan Oh
mortgage at per cent.
ADvERTIsERs.-H. II. huntington, hous
for rent.
Your attention is called to the " Novelt
Store in our business locals"
Herkness, at his Bazaar, 200 sleighs.
|, Richards L. Naudain, Berkshire pigs
Adams & Bro, Wilmington, the larget
collection Of Christmas goods and fame
articles in the State.
t CLEMENT REED, who will be an applicar
for the position Of Sergeantat-Arms of tn
House at Dover, uses cane that was pal
}. of flag staff when Gen. jackson ran fc
J. president in 1928. cold Hickory" thong
g OF very coarse grain was of very stron
{ stuff, and his memory will remain gree
8 when men Of finer instincts and moi
, ability are forgotten.
YEAR or so ago we chronicled the unu
ual event of birth of triplets to a fami
living in tenant house on the farm
Franklin j. Smith, near Hoffecker's Mi
u Last week the same thing occurred
y another family named Clark, living in Il
a same house, and it won't take many yea
), for yearly reputation of this thing, f
them to begin to blame the house. I'll
. childreni two born Friday and the THU
IS Saturday, have all since died.
SALE OF REAL EsTATE.-The property
VIM. W, Manlove, of Dover, as advertise
d was offered for sale last Thursday. Nos.
y and 2, the "hip.roof house." did not sell.
q No. 3, building lot so feet front and |
: feet deep, adjoining the residence of Nj
IS Susan Bell, to Miss Sarah Wilson for $25
IS No. 4, two acre lot on Methodist st.
It Ezekiel V. Cooper for $3.50.
# No. 5, one and a.half acres in " IrishtowI
to VIM. W. Tschudy for $3l5.
y DURING the Advent Season, commenciI
- on Sunday next, there will be delivered
. 81. Peters Church, at 1890 A. NJ, by L
o Rector, a series of special sermons on Il
al "Coming of our Lord" Subject of ]
1t Sermon, 1.-THE Law of Preparation" 2
The Principle of Preparation" Sd. "T
Temper ofPreparation." 4th. 1.-THE Ener
70 Of Preparation" The public generally, al