Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1883-10-10
Smyrna and Vicinity.
WE are still without frost.
BEAUTIFUL October days.
THESE are chestnuttin0 days.

BEAUTIFUL October days.
THESE are chestnutting days.
SHERRY cobblers will not mend shoes.
Teachers should not forget the ex-
animation at Dover on Friday and Sat
urday.
AN Italian string band visited our
town yesterday with some of its excel
lent street music.
A NUMBER of our citizens attended
the Germantown Bi-Centennial, in
Philadelphia, yesterday.
WIN. ]. CAMPBELL, at Collins Beach,
has pen of 80 fine hogs, that run from
80 to 300 pounds in weight.
A MEETING of the young men of the |
town is called for tonight, at the Town |
Hall, to organize reading room.
EDWARD BECK is building an addi- |
ton to his horse shed Is by 80 feet, for |
further business accommodations.
THE rear part of the dwelling of
Gamaliel Garrison, on the Dover road,
has had an additional story put ON it.
DIR. HENRY JOHNSON homeopathic,
of Crumpton, Md, has been in this
town prospecting with view to lOcat
ing.
A. P. GRIFFITH is giving his dwelling
new coat of paint outside and in.
He is using the celebrated Asbestos
paint,
RICHARD S. MARIN has purchased of
the Thomas heirs their farm, located at
Thomas Corner, Blackbird Hundred,
for 81 1000.
JOHN HUTTON, of the western Dis
trict," Kenton Hundred, has raised,
this year, a stalk of corn that has on it
seven ears of corn.
THE Canadian weather prophet,
Vennor, and Jerry GOldsbOrOugh both
agree i'll prophecying wet weather for
October and November.
THE age of Mrs. Ann Van Pelt was
incorrectly given us in our publication
last week. 1t should have been So
years, 7 months and 10 days.
THOSE who judge the weather by the
moon say the position of the present
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comparatively warm weather.
SAMUEL WARREN, the owner, is hav-
ing erected on the site of the property
burned down at Blackbird year ago
last Winter, a new store and dwelling.
THE roof of the new school house
has been slated except the rotunda.
The floors are being laid and the plas-
: terers are expected to commence work
next week.
Miss S. B. COLLINS has ordered a
full stock of ready made cloaks and
t wraps for ladies and children. This is
n a branch of merchandise our town has
long needed.
THE wet condition of the soil pre-.
e vented drilling wheat except in high
/, lands, last week, but this week whea
d seeding is being pushed vigorously il
: all directions.
, OUR evaporated fruit is finding it
y way to the Philadelphia and New
:, York markets; the most of it is goinI
a by the Philadelphia & Smyrna Trans
~ portatiOn line.
y J. FRANK RUTH, who did the bricl
d work on the new school house, will
u leave next week for West Virginia
" prospecting with a view of locatin
and manufacturing brick and contract
ing.
n "THE ball is up!" The first hop {
- the season will take place tomorrow
- evening at the Town Hall, by a seleC
~ party of the young people of Smyrna
IL Music by Messrs. Primrose and Stever
We son.
- AT the Middletown Fair a speci;
premium was offered to the lady visitC
n' who should have the most awards
ne This was granted to Mrs. p. Spruanc
I'd of this town, her premiums numberin
if thirty and amounting to $3.50.
~ THE new bridge built oyer Paw-pa
'u' creek land New Castle County alway
Die builds substantial structures with an
ut. pie stone abutments) near Salem NJ.
ms Church, Blackbird Hundred, has bee
Us, completed. The cost was 500.
ol- VIM ID. HUDSON, near town, is NAL
far ing himself fish pond on the farm
re- which he is residing, late the Hora
nd Spruance property. The dwellil
house is being carried through cour
of of painting and papering by John w
nd kinson, Jr.
BAD OUR coal dealers are doing go
Ons business now; people are laying in thu
zoo Winter supply of coal. The Philad
- phia & Smyrna Transportation Conn
ny are using six teams hauling CO
en' and can't fill the orders quite as fast
the the people demand it.
IA TEE steam tug Wilson, of Philad
- phia, was towing barge of phosph;
VI material to the factory of the Peninl
aiu' lar Bone Fertilizer Company, on SAT-
ear. day last, and when near the factory bro
sses her main shaft, and had to be tow
sion back to Philadelphia for repairs.
: SEVERAL eases of diptheria are
ported from the neighborhood
War Blackstone Cross Roads. Two dea
in a have occurred, Benz. +. Graham a
a ON Charles H. Dulin each losing a child
"a the disease, and several others are
~ The public school has been closed.
YER THE woods are now putting on IL
oral most beautiful tints. This is especit
,bo so of the maple, the gum, the sur
and ivy while the "sere and vel
Two leaf" Of the poplar, hickory, sassaf
pup &c., give variety to the beautiful d
arge which Nature assumes before disrob
COM
lica- Miss M. Il. JANvIER and Mrs. s..
lver- RAYMOND, having concluded to disC
-. tinue their school here, will sell Il
furniture, musical instruments, &c
anu public sale, ON Saturday afternoon n
nat at three o'clock. Our citizens will
the it to their interest to attend this s
uent-
what ]. FRANK RUTH has bought of
= no. Lee Cummins, several building lot
NJ West Smyrna, for which he paid
Hc' Whether he will build ON them SOC
sgiti- not yet decided.
prise VanGasken & Cats have contra
the to build q dwelling for Benz. Turnt
some West Smyrna, this Fall.
BY advertisement i'm another coll
y ,H it will be seen that A. Swartz, of p
S"'uT delphia, merchant tailor, has dec
"ers to settle among us in the prosecu
pro- of his business and has rented
mo- house of DIR. Daniel, lately occupie
TIMES Mrs. Cutlery. He will give his al
rat it ton to making, repairing, securing
only Our Town Commissioners shout
nue." to it that the inequalities ON Ms
own street are remedied. The paven
ion of on some properties are half foot
expect err than those on the one john
red by with sharp, abrupt termination.
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