Smyrna times., 1883-01-31
Smvrna and Vicinitv.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
TWELVE youths, the same number as
the proceeding Sunday, joined the NJ.
E. church on probation, Sunday morn
ing. N.
The report of the Secretary shows a
deficiency in the receipts of the Mid
dletown Fair of $288.S6. The receipts
were $4,579.S5; disbursements, $4,S6S.-
II. )
THE Ladies' Mite Society of the M.
E. Church have been improving the
property by granting, paper
ing and the introduction of a new
heater.
THE hop at the Town Hall on Thurs
day night under the auspices of the
Smyrna String Band, was attended by
80 couples who found in the occasion
a pleasant evening.
REV. WIN. B. GORDON, rector of st.
Peters Church can be found during
the month of February at the residence
of Mrs. Mary J. Davis after that at
the Delaware House.
The literary entertainment of the
society of Heptasophs which was to
have come off this evening at their
place of meeting, Odd Fellows Hall,
has been postponed for week.
THE bill authorizing our School
Commissioners to borrow $4,000 to
erect a new school house was intro
duced in the Legislature, Friday,
and will doubtless soon become a law.
STEPHEN WALKER, of Kenton in
tends adding basket factory to his
steam saw mill at Shorts Corner three
miles west of Kenton. The work of
erecting the mill will commence shortly.
SUCH closing of navigation on our
creeks and rivers is not SO continued,
on an average, once in ten years. 1t is
not probable that wooden crafts will
be able to venture out before Spring.
BECKETT & MACKEY our enterprising
carriage manufacturers on Main street
have opened an agency for the sale of
their carriages at Dover, Howell Buck
ingham of that town having them in
charge.
LAND SALE.-A. P. Griffith, real
estate broker has sold the farm of 40
acres, located at Buchanan's Corner,
New Castle county, Del, belonging to
o. w. Henning, of New York, to VIM.
Wood, of near Smyrna for $2,1 100.
BY advertisement it will be seen
that VIM. H. Thompson has taken, in
connection with his present business
the agency for the phosphates of G. w
Kennard & Co." Massey's Standard
and Monarch"
IT is said very good paper can bt
made of salt meadow hay.-Erchange
If this be so, what better place for {
paper mill could be found than Smyrna
Landing with its navigable waters anC
hundreds of tons of marsh grass jus
below? ..t
A BEAUTIFUL rainbow spanned thu
West at sunrise this morning. Wehop'
it was "bow of promise" of brighter
weather, for with the exception o
yesterday, the whole week past ha
been given to rain, snow or cloud!
weather.
Mr.. BUssH, advance agent 70
Abbey's New York Company (tb
same that played East Lynn here som
time ago) was here ON the 9th inst
posting bills for an entertainment tn
last of this week. Tickets for sale a
| C1Oakis Druo Stnra
ACCORDING to the reports from tn
borean regions of the Northwestern
states and territories, the initial poin
, of our weather changes, the successio
of cold waves are giving way to warn
er ones, and we may therefore expet
February to enter with milder weathe
, MISSES Nan Hoffecker, Jennie Wi
son, Carrie G.. Beck and Minnie j
Reed have been appointed by the paste
of the M. E. Church of this town
D call upon those members of the col
| gregation who were absent on Sabbat
last, to receive their annual offerir
to the missionary cause.
n The house of Joseph Wright, c
+ Cummins street, near Union, which
has been using for some years as ca
; penter shop, he is changing into tv
l. dwellings and expects to have the
e ready fer occupancy the first of Marc
q The two houses have two rooms on
= floor 12x14 feet with a cellar under Il
u building.
IA REV. J. ID. RIGG, pastor, announcC
on Sunday that the yearly Conferen
J. collections had all been taken, Il
G. assessments met and some of them c
.e ceeded. The missionary collection W
n mainly lifted ON Sunday and the int
cations are that a larger amount W
, be reported to the Conference th
last year.
The frozen condition of the bay
. rather its tributaries has made oystC
t. a scarce article in market for the D;
ul two or three weeks. While chicke
IN sell at 16 and turkeys at Is cents I
~ pound, there should be no obstructi
- IN the oyster supply with the peol
y who want q more palatable dish til
" hog and hOminy." -'.
.e EDWARD w. LAPHAM went to Phi
lie delphia last week and bought els
ut tons of hay, 16O bales, for immedi
ds use in the place of that destroyed
wv fire. He had to get it the most spec
" way because of the icy roads 6
M difficulty in hauling. Mr.. Lapham
n poets to commence the replacing
re- the burnt buildings as soon as
he weather will permit.
THE BALTIMORE SUN.-We pub
,ut in another column the prospectus
~ the Baltimore Sun for 1888. The
~ cellence and reliability of this sterl
u.s. paper are SO we'll known that it
in quires no words of commendation Fl
| a us. To those desiring a reliable
,o;l paper whose columns are always ch
~ full of news, and whose market rep
ner are always accurate and full, we
as with confidence recommend the Su
- SENATOR CAvENDER's bill for
en- encouragement of immigration,
on, recommitted at his request for the
lew pose of having the appropriation
IN creased. The bill as amended, incr
d. ing the appropriation from $500
DuU 81 300 for the first year and $500 th
uch after, passed the Senate yester
uld without a dissenting voice. and