Smyrna times., 1883-11-07
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

mem.
JOHN E. PHILLIPS has received, dur
ing the past week, a new stock of ready
made clothing.
WE have in hand communication
from can Irishman that will appear
in our next issue.
PASSING focks of wild geese to the
southwark indicate the near approach |
of colder weather.
MosT time for the church committees
to announce the usual oyster supper
and other delicacies.
A NEW stock of Cloaks, Dolmans and |
Blankets has been received at COtton's |
store the past week.
The beautiful Oratorio of Queen
Esther will be repeated on Friday
evening Do not fail to see it.
THE usual Thanksgiving supper and
festival of the Mite Society will come
off at the Town Hall on the Doth inst.
The Records course of lectures, will
next Wednesday evening,
with II. H.. Ragan's Illuminated Tours.
BETHEL A. NJ. Z. Church, of this
town will hold a concert and jug-break
ing tomorrow night for the benefit of
their day school.
J. G.. EVERETT, operator at passenger
station, Clayton, has been transferred
to Dispatches office. He is succeeded
by VIM. Barcus, of Morton.
THE weather the past week has been
good for husking corn, and we hear of
several of our farmers who have already
finished and housed their corn.
EUGENE CROW has sold his crop of
corn on the cob at As cents bushel, to
weigh ~ pounds to the bushel and be
delivered ON the cars at Brenford.
AN exchange says: can active mat
rimOnial market just before Winter
is sure sign of a very cold Winter"
Does it mean matrimony in the Winter
of life?
ANOTHER pair of twin calves, this
time Silas ThOmpson's, near Salem NJ.
2. Church. This year seems especially
prolific for calves, in some cases run
ming up to triplets.
A MOTHER HUBBARD dress, says an
exchange, is one of those things that
gather at the neck and go where they
please. The principal requirement is
to gather at the neck.
A. SCHWARTZ, who opened Merchant
Tailoring room, OA Commerce street
Just below Hirnheimer's store, has
closed out and accepted a position with
L. NJ. Fowler, where he can now be
found.
YESTERDAY the horse of L. NJ. Price
while standing hitched in town, caught
the bride in the hook of the post tearing
from his head, which causing the
horse to run away, badly breaking the
carriage.
Most of our people saw the Oratorio
on Monday and Tuesday evenings last,
but some possibly did not. A chance
will be given all who have not and
those who want to go again, OH Friday
evening.
LOVERS of the sweet-breads from the
hog, should be careful that those that
they eat are from healthy animals. A
whole family in Cincinnati, is reported
as having been attacked by trichina
from eating this choice bit from {
porker.
THERE are many persons, who, il
looking into a newspaper, read nothing
but locals, marriages and deaths, bu
who utterly fail to read the outside 0
the paper where may be found the mos
interesting and useful reading of thu
entire sheet.
THE fields are green and the tree
are not yet bare of their leaves, but i
is time to be thinking of Christmas
which will be here almost before on
expects. 1t will take but few week
to transform all this outdoor beaut,
into ice and snow and chilliness.
IT was entirely fitting and appropri
ate that bright new paper should adorl
the walls of the Town Hall for so beau
tiful and spectacular a presentation a
the interesting historic drama of tn
Jewish Queen in a luxurious Persia
court, and a compliment long needle
to the intelligent audiences that hav
, from time TO time met there.
EDGAR r. SIPPLE appointed Los
e Freight Agent on the Delaware Raj
i road, headquarters at Clayton, SUI
r ceeds VIM. f. TOuchton. MIR. Sippl
moved his family from here to DelawaI
! City, the first part of the summer, bI
5 will, wnen he can get house, retur
5 to Smyrna, which will please the
S friends here.
s The advocates of enlarging the Tow
e Hall have strong argument in the e:
: periences of the past two nights, whe
y people by the hI,nuICd were unable
gain admittance for want of room.
was especially rough, and had smaC
f of inhospitality, for those persons wi
r rode a distance of ten or twelve mile
e to see an entertainment of our ov
1t citizens, to be turned away.
J. NOTICE TO CERTAIN PARENTS
q SMYRNA" On account of the trespa
r and depredations committed on Il
N New School House property on Ia
Sabbath-day-by your Boys" If "
will see, or have an interview with &
y" Contractor at an early day touchil
s. the matter, you will save yourself e
Id pense and modification, otherwise, I
It's lalO lUilL take its course CONTRACTOR.
~ SMYRNA, DEL, Nov. Z, 1888.
" FRANK BAILEY took a bicycle ride
Dover on Saturday making the distan,
%, IL miles--in one hour and five minut
lie His return was more leisurly, includi
n observations and all, two hours.
,r- Three other cyclists took the ne
ne day, Sunday, for pleasure ride, taxi
lie in Kenton, Millington, Massey's, Gre
in Spring, Blackbird, Middletown u
in Odessa, making in the roundabout W
~ about 40 miles.
to On Sunday number of boys W,
,ut into the new school building fir
The which they were excluded by placs
Ike warning them against trespass, as "
No asby temporary distractions, and WI
re they were playing with u hoist
~" machine a piece of scantling was thro
OF on the slate roof breaking over
peices of slate and breaking the no
ge, ing machine. The consequences
les stated in the card of the contraC
md elsewhere,