Smyrna times., 1886-01-13

Pond, one of the most punctual direc-
ors of the Fruit Growers Bank was I
hus prevented from attending the an
lual election yesterday. The train I
got through this morning after receiv-
ng help from the Delaware Division. !
A GENTLEMAN in Smyrna recently
that man had better be
sure of a pocket full of cash before he
invited Smyrna girl to a saloon for
as she will think moth
ing of eating seven plates of ice cream
on q cold December night, and then
think you are mean if she is not pre-
vailed upon to have mOre.-EGstOR
Gazette.
ONE of our old bachelors has pocket
book that he has had in active use for
over twenty years and still carries, and
what is more, piece of court plaster
put in it to use as needed, has been
carried nearly as long. If he had mar
ried in early life as he ought to have
done, he would have needed half
dozen in that time. If all people We're
this careful half the stores would have
to shut up.
A BAND of gypsies passed this town
with several wagons and some extra
horses Just before the late storm and |
encamped down on the Raymond's |
Neck road. A gypsy can stand good |
deal of cold weather without flinching, |
but their poor horses must have Jared |
badly with nothing but the bleak and |
cOmfOrtless woods and their blankets |
to protect them in such a pitiless storm
as that of Saturday and Sunday.
IT has frequently been more difficult
to get a little Job of repairs done than
to build new house, because the lat
ter is a long job that the carpenter will
not break away from. Great incOnve-
nience has thus frequently been caused
| for weeks for needed repairs. Samuel
G. StinsOn, good mechanic, gives no.
tice in our advertising columns that he
is at the service of those who are in
need of such work for carpenter.
A HOSE COMPANY was organized on
| Wednesday night last with the follow
ing officers: President Sam'l Taylor;
Vice President, c. F. Lippincott; Sec
retary, II. S. Anthony; Chief, B. V.
| Weldon. A committee was appointed
to draft a constitution and bylaws
and another to wait on the Town Com
missioners, when they adjourned until
Monday night next to hear the reports
of the committees and complete the or
ganizatiOn.
WALTER 0. HOFFECKER gives no.
tiCe in our advertising columns that he
has taken the agency of the Fire AssO-
citation, of Philadelphia, and represents
some of the strongest companies of this
country and of England. Also he is
prepared to do surveying in all its de-
partments promptly and efficiently.
Mr.. H. has been assisting his father for
several years in this department, aud
during the past season has surveyed a
, number of farms.
, PHYSICIANS say that the health o.
the community is exceptionally good
They further testify that this has been
: true for the last six or eight months
r Strange to tell, instead of being thank
2 ful for this state of affairs, not a few
people are making themselves more o
less miserable about the unseasOnabl,
:, weather, as they are pleased to style it
= and the sickness that it has and will
. cause. 1t is, however, not the frs
time that these same persons didn'
e know good thing when they had
}. and it won't be the last.
AR'NT the beef men OVERRIDING it
The best cuts have been selling for tn
Il past two or three years for Is cent
) per pound. A few weeks ago it fell t
e scents. The announcement last wee
7. that Williams was selling at IA cent
u per pound caused Palmer and Wilso
J. to drop to 124 cents. If the latte
n figures are not too low, the first named
9. one-third more, was certainly much
high. Let them find the point of fa
y profit and stick to it. "Cut" rate
D. that always fuctuate, are not the be-
re for either buyer or seller.
FOUR ofthe eight rooms of the publ
= school had to be dismissed again o
~ Monday morning, the thermometer
~ ~ some of the rooms registering 42
- Yesterday all the departments stuck
out but one or two, but had it bee
windy with the present low rate
Mt temperature, every room would ha1
r. been vacated 1t is not necessary Fl
be us to say more than we have alreaC
= Sdlug CAOCpO bhctD phAChbS dAO WCdA
sending their children there thrOus
49, the cold to no purpose, and as a su
"a remedy the public mind is turning d
~ ~ cidely towards steam.
is THE snow and hail that fell on F
to day night and Saturday to the dep
of three or four inches has served I
II young folks the long desired OppOrt
,,sk skrvf f,. rlo do nirlr
Of The cold weather kept it more Ii
th sand than the smooth hard bottom d
,es sired, but being the first, it has be
made good use of, especially the ];
two days. There has been some f;
Ier driving, but Main street has hard
ID been the race course that it sometin
rn- has presented. In the country t
IN sleighing has been interferred with
asC the deep snow banks in bleak places
The cold snap which set in on +
IN day night has given the desired ice
vi IN housing in ample quantities. 1t
ne ne said that ice has never made faster
lII lTI this locality, giving us in less than tn
Oiu days ice five inches thick. The We
of ice gathering commenced on No
I'VE day and has been going on indus
to Ously ever since. William ii. ga
me VIM. A. FAIRIES & Bro, Jefferson
an Clayton, Mrs. Dosch & Son, Chas. Smi
etic Jacob Leinberger, and some priv
citizens have already got a cOnsid
-, - able quantity housed, The ice is n
from six to seven inches thick.
OF The Kempa Family did not hav
40 large house on Friday night, o
rch about one hundred persons, redu
day by more than One-half what it wO
have been by the furious storm
,old wind snow and hail, but what '
was lacking in numbers was made NJ
fire. enthusiasm. Everybody seemed
all lighted, and encOrcs were repeated
der ill the lady viOlinists were fatigu
, in The best appreciation was shown
the fact that they were engaged by
managers of the new hose comp
Il. before leaving the Hall, to 9
nrst another concert here on Tuesday Mi
loes the 18th inst.
ap- -
iar Smyrna Library.
rob At theannual meeting of the Smy
Library on Thursday evening last