Smyrna times., 1886-09-29
NEW Fall goods at Miss S. B. Col

New Fall goods at Miss S. B. Col
Inns. T
MRS. HESTER A. MITCHELL, for a
long time a resident of this town, died
on Friday night last at the residence of
her son in Crumpton, aged 67 years.
J. H. PRIMROSE & Co., real estate
brokers, have sold to John Jones a
farm near Blackbird Station, contain
ing ia acres, belonging to the Union
Bank of Delaware, at New Castle.
Price private.
AT the primary meeting held on Sat-
urday to elect delegates to the County
Convention of the Reform party, Isaac
Truax was put in nominated for Asses
sor and ]. w. Denney for Inspector, to
be voted for at the general election in
November.
THE Stoeckle House, the new hotel
at Clayton, opened last week under the
superintendency of Michael Riley. 1t
is substantial building with all the
modern appliances for hotel keeping,
and has twenty-four sleeping rooms.
Eight or ten of the railroad employees
at the Superintendent's Office changed
their boarding place from the Delaware
House, of this town, to the new hotel
on Monday. We shall miss them in
their daily patrol to and from the
depot.
THERE was family gathering at
the residence of Mrs. John M. Voshell
in honor of her mothers Mrs. Frances
A. Cavender) 65th birthday, one day
last week. Mrs. C.'s children and their
families were all present. Among the
presents was handsome wicker rock
ing chair. Among those present be-
sides the family were Mrs. w.
III. Money, Rev. J. B. Quigg and wife,
Rev. J. G. Lassell and wife, Mrs. Lizzie
Reynolds, Misses Belle and Annie
Wood, Miss Lizzie Hall, John and
Harvey Spruance and o. B. Voshell
and wife. Mrs. C.-who now enjoys
better health than she has for years
bids fair to be an octogenarian that
she may, was the sincere wish of all the
company.
ONE of the pupils of the Smyrna
Home School, Herman Roe principal,
of this town, Miss Eola Ennis, daugh-
ter of A. Ennis, of ThOrOughfare Neck,
met with a very serious and painful
accident Saturday week, involving the
loss of an eye. Her mother was cut
ting grapes with pair of scissors from
the upper part of a trellis and called
to her daughter to take the scissors,
The latter, who had been STOPPING, in
turning up her face, caught the full
force of the scissors, which had been
handed point downward, in her eve,
opening the ball and letting the LIQUID
out. Miss Ennis is a bright and hand
some school girl of fourteen Summers
and much sympathy is felt for her and
her parents in this painful misfortune
THE Capital, of Washington, gives
the following notice of the wedding Ot
n. Watkins, for some years a resident
of this town and foreman in the
TIMES office:
Among the pleasant events of the
week was the marriage on Tuesday
evening last, at the brides residence
of Mr.. N. Watkins, of the Treasury
branch, G. ?. o., and Miss Mary A.
Foley, who for many years has been an
attache of the same office. There
were assembled at 7.3O P. NJ, numer-
GUS friends, when Rev. Father Noonan
Of ST. AlOysius, performed the marital
ceremony, after which fine COLLATION.
was enjoyed by the well-wishers of the
bridal pair. At $50 they left the city
for a tour embracing the scenes O,
other days, also Niagara and the ever
beautiful Hudson"
JOSEPH KENNEDY, residing neal
BrynziOn Baptist Church, is seriously
afflicted with something like rupturec
blood vessels in his legs and one day
last week had to be carried in from the
field, being found there in a help
less condition. After a day or two al
lowed for recuperation he went to
work hauling phosphate when he
should have been in bed, thereby ag
gravating the ailment by too much in.
dustry, Mr.. Kennedy being a stirring
farmer and persisting in working
when at times it would have been bet
ter for him to have been in the shade
The trouble is not entirely new, having
its origin from an injury received in
the army when battling for his country
in the late Civil War. Arrangements
are being made to have him taken t.
the Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia.