Smyrna times., 1882-09-27
Smvrna and Vicinity.

WIN. H. THOMPSON has received his
stock of Gents Furnishing Goods, etc.,
read the advertisement.
On TUESDAY next before another
issue of this paper, what is termed
the Little Election will take place.
The employees of the TIMES office
were presented ON Monday with two
large and delicious cantaloupes by
David l.. Spruance.
AT THE Republican meeting held in
! this town on Saturday last, Jonathan B.
Evans was nominated for Inspector,
and William G. Truax for Assessor.
BECKETT & MACKEY, of this town,
have on exhibition at Dover, 6 of their
fine carriages. j. B. Evans & Co., have
also an Esterly Self Binder on exhibi-
bition.
AN examination of teachers for sec
ond and third grade certificates will
take place at both Smyrna and Har-
ringtOn, on Saturday next, at 81 o.
clock, A. NJ.
GEO. w. & S. Taylor, of this town,
have just received carload of steel
which they propose to convert into
cultivatOr teeth for their next years
trade at once.
The steamer Maid of Kent will make
two trips week, on and after October
4th, leaving Leipsic, Wednesdays and
Fridays, leaving Philadelphia on the
return trips, Mondays and Thursdays.
EDWARD JOHNSON a notorious negro
was sent to Jail by Esquire Budd, for
nOn-payment of$10 fine and cost, on the
charge was drunkenness, using profane
and indecent language on the streets.
He has been frequently arrested and is
Il general nuisance.
JOHN TRUAX who left here two years
ago and went to Oxford, Md, to engage
in the oyster packing business and the
manufacture of bricks, died on Satur-
day last, after short illness of pneu-
mOnia. He was brought to this town
on Monday, for interment in Bethel
NJ. f. cemetery, near MoOrton.
JAMES LURTY, IL youth employed at
the cannery of John II. Hoffecker, met
with a severe accident on Friday last,
by being struck in the head with a
hosting crane while loaded. His fore
head was cut to the bone, and the at
tending physician thinks that there is
a slight fracture of the scull, but it is
not dangerous.
WE ARE often called upon to chroni-
Gle the death of elderly persons, but
seldom that of one in the early morn
ing of life as that of Miss MOllie Pratt,
who died on Wednesday afternoon last,
after rapid decline. By her bright
ness and cheerfulness of manner she
had endeared herself to her friends who
will not cease to miss the sunny dispO-
sition and bright face as it came in and
out among them.
THE following persons have been
elected by the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union of Smyrna, to attend the
Annual State Convention to be held in
Dover, the Sd, and 4th, of October.
Delegates-Mrs. Swinney, Mrs. l..
P. Rigg, Mrs. r. E. HOugh, Mrs. Frank
Wells, Miss Allie Smith.
Alternates-NIissS Sue Colt, Miss Bett
Smithers, Mrs. NJ. H. Carter Mrs. NJ
J. Bewley, Mrs Sallie Baggs.
THE evaporatOrs in this section have
so far as we can learn, all closed for
the season and are now busy packing
their product for shipment. One of
our firms has had about 600 pounds to
: mould, he does not however, expect
this to be a total loss. Our canning
factory will finish on peaches to-day,
0n1 will thn11 ft1r offonfinV, fo
tomatoes, corn and apples. Our far
mers having either of these products to
sell have market here at home, as
: will be seen by advertisement else
where.
2 ELKToN FAIR.-During the continu-
/ ance of the exhibition of the Cecil
. county Agricultural Society, the p. w
4 & B. railroad company will extend the
: usual accommodations in the way o.
. those desiring to attend the Fair
i These excursion tickets will be on sale
e at Chester, Wilmington and intermedi.
p, ate stations to Edgewood; at point!
I on the Newark & Delaware City rail
Il road, and at stations on the Delaware
y Division contiguous to Cecil county
t and will include an admission to thu
+ grounds.
e WE ARE gratiied when we have al
It opportunity to note the prosperity o
d young men from Delaware in far of
C Western sections of the country. A!
1t in the case of w. +. Baggs, son of ou
y worthy Postmaster, who some year
n ago left here and made his home il
o North Western Montana. He has beel
: for two years past the chief book
2. keeper and financial manager of
6 large agricultural, carriage and freight
n ing establishment, doing a business {
10 a hundred thousand dollars or NOR
4 annually. A few weeks ago he wa
n sent as a delegate to the Teritoria
lie Republican Convention. This speak
re we'll for one of our boys.
Sc PERsONAL.-R. ID. Hoffecker, editC
le of the TIMES, is visiting friends i
d Newark, n. j., and Yonkers, n. Y.
s. Miss Lizzie Savin has returned HON
1T form Philadelphia, to spend the VIII
a ter.
f. G.. Budd, of Nashville, Tenn
delegate to the Sovereign Grand Lodg
or /. o. 0. F., which met at BaltimOl
er last week, visited his brother, Hem
in G.. Budd, Esq, of this town.
of The following are the visitors of Il
IT past week:
m Rudolph Risdon and wife, PhiladC
It, phia.
I'M Miss Eva Zebly, Miss Bell ALE
at Eugene Start, Wilmington.
Ter Miss Fannie Messick, Edward Do
he ley, Atlantic City.
he HAL Parsons, HoOsick Falls, n. Y.
on Jesse B. Anthony and wife, Tro
of NY.
we Jerome C. Trask and wife, Jefferso
IN Ohio.
all Miss Mary Barlow, BustleborO, /
nd Miss Annie Matthews, Camden.
up Jos. Reynolds, Harrington.
nd
rth THE greatest rain fall known in O
ce. town for many years, began on Thu
ere day last and continued without int
mission until Saturday evening. 1t
said by some of our oldest citizens Il
en- : the. volume of water, which fell
.iay Saturday, exceeded anything here