Smyrna times., 1885-10-07
Smyrna and Vicinity.

SWEET potatoes were mainly dug
and housed last week.
THE State Fair at Philadelphia is at
tracing number of country visitors.
WIN. H. CARR, of this town, has pur-
chased house and lot in Oxford, Md.
PICKLES, it is thought, will be higher
this Winter as the cucumber crop is a
failure in the West.
The report of the Fruit Grow ers'
National Bank shows $2O8. .2l6.lI on
deposit subject to check.
UNDER the head of "Snow in the
Ali" Johnson Bros. have "a word to
say about Winter boots.
OCTOBER brings with it all that
cooler weather implies heavier cloth
ing, stoves, blankets, &c.
PASTOR QUIGG announced revival
services at the NJ. f. Church for to-
morrow and Friday evenings.
THE WOman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet at Mrs. w. G.. Fair
banks, Tuesday, Oct 18th, at 3 O'Clock
p. M.
The Dude nine, of this town, will
play II return game with the Confer
ence Academy nine, at Dover, next
Saturday.
DIR. WAKANTANK the Indian doctor
sold over $50 worth of medicine while
in this town, composed Of roots, barks,
berries, etc.
QUITE a number of the Masonic fra
ternity are in Wilmington to-day and
tomorrow attending the 18th Annual
Communication.
READ the advertisements of Miss S. B.
Collins, in this issue, and you will find
that she can accommodate you with
what you want.
Miss NJ. f. SAvIN is in the city pur-
chasing her fall and winter stock of
millinery goods which she will have
open tomorrow evening. IT
Two of our young men are trying to
make arrangements to secure John B.
Cough to deliver his temperance lee
ture here in the Town Hall.
A NUMBER of young men of the
town have rented the room recently
occupied by J. G. BrintOn as an ice
cream saloon, for a reading room.
The Kent County Jubilee Singers
will give u concert at Clayton on next
Monday evening for the benefit Of
the Golden Eagle Society, of that town.
WILMER B. SMITH put in his iewelry
store last week a regulator, a hand
some clock, made to order, which is
designed for a correct regulator of
time.
THE public sale Of carriages at the
Smyrna Carriage Works, will take
place on the 18th instead of the 10th
inst. For particulars see advertise
ment.
DAVID ROBINSON and Mary Downs,
both cOlored, have just completed each
a twO-stOry frame dwellings on Chest
nut street and the first named is now
IN the occupancy of his.
The ice cream season probably
wound up on Saturday night. Mr.
Carr not expecting to keep his saloon
open longer unless the weather should
get unexpectedly warm.
JEREMIAH GARNER, near Kenton.
threshed from three pecks of sowing
and off not quite an acre of land, fortv.
one bushels of rye. The only fertilizer
used was stable manure and shell lime.
Mrs NJ. E. LORD attributes her sue.
cess in business to the fact that she
has always made it a rule to have
everything ready for her customers at
the time promised. See advertisement.
Poor Jumbo will not be at Dover
next Tuesday, but the rest of the
Biggest show on earth" will be there.
and doubtless a large crowd to see the
immense exhibit of Barnum's attrac-
tiOns.
The ladies may soon gather forest
leaves in some variety It is best to
get the supply pretty soon on account
OF their liability to deteriority. The
ferns are also in good state for preser-
vatiOn.
CHAs. SMITH has purchased of
Hardcastle & Jones lot on GlenwOod
Avenue, 81 by 100 feet, and a small
building on the said lot, formerly used
as packing house for the evaDorator
for the sum of 800.
Miss CLARA FAIRIES had a night
blooming cereus which bloomed ont
on Sunday night, or rather Monday
morning after midnight, and remained
in bloom all day Monday. It was an
unusually fine specimen of this plant.
WIN. F. CLEMENT is in Philadelpbia
purchasing his Fall stock of dry goods.
notions, groceries, boots, shoes. &c
winch Will be on sale in day or two
he Will be pleased to supply all needs
OF the above articles with the newest
and cheapest styles of goods. T
J. II. PRIMROSE & Co. real estate
brokers, have sold dwelling house On
Methodist street, belonging to James
/. VanWinkle, TO Misses Mary and
Amanda Knots, formerly of Whining
ton, for 81 400 cash. They will occupv
the house sometime this Fall.
ANDREW SIsCO has grown this Sum-
mer in his garden lot of what he calls
marrow beans, one of which that was
shown us, was about three feet LONG
and some three inches thick. When
young, that is, about one foot long
they are used for frying like the egg
plant. %
GEORGE WHITLOCK, one of the oldest
citizens Of Clayton, died suddenly at
~ O'Clock NJ. to-day, aged 80 years.
We have not heard the particulars. ex-
cept that he was we'll early this morn
ing, towards noon was suddenly taken
sick with vomiting and grew worse
until he expired.
THE people of Smyrna Landing and
residing on the creek complain Of the
stencil Of dead hogs that are thrown in
it and that go down on one tide and
are brought back by another. It is a
bad use to make of so valuable a ma
terial as fifteen or twenty dollar fat
pOrker, but it must be set down to
the charge Of what is called the hog
cholera.
DEPUTY Charles II. Davis, of Will
mingtOn, Del, is in Smyrna for the
purpose of organizing the Ancient
Order of United Workmen, the best
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