Smyrna times., 1883-12-19
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

THE days are now at their shortest.
NEARLY time to set out Christmas
trees.
THE best fertilizer for Christmas trees
is cash.
WHEN the weather is cold, stoves
must be coaled.
A HEAVY rain fall to-day--the first
for several weeks.
IT'S almost time for children to un-
load their savings banks.
The travel on the Delaware Rail-
road is very large at this time.
WIN. H. CARR will open his new
store tomorrow evening with fresh
stock of goods.
Miss JAMIE G.. SAVAGE, of New
York, will read in the Town Hall,
Christmas night.
EVERY cloud has it's silver lining.
The boy who has the mumps can stay
away from school.
OUR dealers are displaying unusually
handsome and cheap Christmas and
New Years cards.
OUR readers in want of carriages will
not forget the important sale of Beckett
& Mackey on Saturday next.
THE Kent County Railroad is doing
a heavy freight business at this time,
the heaviest item being grain.
THE bricklayers and plasterers had
their first enforced rest on Saturday,
since the beginning of Winter.
BETHEL SUNDAY SCHOOL, on the
Circuit, is preparing a Christmas tree
entertainment for next Tuesday even
ing.
A SMYRNA man who purchased q
bible recently, intimated to the mer-
chant that it might be charged to
prophet and laws.
The sweetpotatoes of David Keene,
who raised large lot on his farm near
Blackbird, are the dryest and best we
have had this year.
E. w. Mcdowell and VIM. A.
FAIRIES & Bro, have specially complete
stock of goods, embracing picture
frames, brackets, &C.,
IT would be hard for taste to devise
and arrange a better show of silver
and other wares than is displayed in
the window of J. V. Smith.
The entertainment OF the Episcopal
Sunday School, on Christmas night
will consist of singing &c, closing with
gifts from large and well-loaded tree.
IT is not strange that the windows
of Miss S. B. Collins attract the atten-
ton of so many ladies, while they con-
tain such fine display of beautiful
things.
THE new additional heater in the
NJ. +. Church removes all possible eX-
cuse to those persons who have re-
manned away for fear of low temper
allure.
THE members of the NJ. E. Sunday
School are to have a pleasant social
season on Christmas evening, the chic
event being the distributions from a
Christmas tree.
Mr.. Stowe, living on the farm o.
John p. Hudson, has q cleaner which
with six men yesterday he killed ana
cleaned for w. o. Hoifecker nine large
hogs in three hours.
The display of gentlemen's furnish
ing goods in the windows of VIM. II
Thompson and John f. Phillips ough
to attract the attention of numerOu
Christmas purchasers.
TITUS HOBBS has procured 80 heaC
of cattle from the lower Peninsula tina
he intends to turn into improved stool
for the beef market with the aid O
of rich Dutch Neck corn.
THE boys had their first shedding an
snowballing on Monday morning. !
was only little and soon gone, bu
highly enjoyed as the first sport of tn
season given by Old Boreas.
THE ladies connected with Severson
Church during the Fall raised sufficien
funds to paint the church, and as 500
as convenient it will be given q hand
some new suit inside and out.
ABOUT forty of our citizens went t
Middletown last night to witness til
Oratorio of Queen Esther, and had
, pleasant evening. The large Hall Wa
, filled with interested spectators.
, A MAN out at Clayton in good healt
| lived last week on an expenditure {
ten cents. Did not learn his bill (
fare, but suspect he is expecting to el
joy the holidays with his friends.
) THE lessee of the hotel at Kenton
succeed Mr.. Guesford is Terrence Ca
! vim, we'll known in this town. He HI
been clerk at the European Hotel
Wilmington the past year or two.
THE residents of Delaware stree
: below South, where there is so mu,
activity now in building new house
intend asking of the Town CommissiO
# ers the establishment of street lam
J. E. HENDRICKsoN, of the firm of
|, f. Hendrickson & Co., of PHILADELPHIA
e whose advertisement has appear
stately in our columns, has been ele'
q ed President of the Philadelphia Pr
> duce Exchange.
y The oratorio of Esther as render
IS in Middletown was not a pricelC
luxury, inasmuch as three of the lea
n ing characters were named Price.
4 This, however, did not increase t
price of admission.
~ HARVEY FAIRIES, son of VIM.
FAIRIES, got the first cent in Carr's NJ
store this morning, and he nailed it
q for good luck, as he did the first c.
when he began business in his old sta
le some ten years ago.
ID The steamer Tygert will not max
re oath and 25th. The "bOys" want
stay home and enjoy the holiday W
b. the rest of the people that are feasti
~ on turkey and mince pies.
THE show window in the dry goo
IT, department of J. b. Cooper's store
"a eel the dressing, perhaps, of any p
al vious year, and the rich display
ar goods attracts the attention of the 6
% tlemen as we'll as the ladies.
REV. Mr.. VANBURKALow has b,
A. holding quite successful protrac
; meeting at Serverson's Church
past several weeks which has result
N, in from twenty to thirty conversion
nd number of them heads of families.
The double holiday number of Fra
Leslie'5 Illustrated Newspaper is
ng striking number for its wealth of il
trations and Christmas reading.
w. has 80 pages of matter and not an
is interesting page in the whole NUM-
CARRIE KAHN. a little daughter