Smyrna times., 1886-11-24
SEE what Wanamaker & Brown

OLA11ON AOuSO VI 0OOu 4Olu pldIS
added four new members Monday
night.
w. FRANK JEFFERSON, the present
proprietor, has re-rented the Delaware
House.
READ what John w. Diefendorf has
to say about overcoats, &C., at the Will
mington Clothing House.
Two OF our blacksmiths-Wm. G.
Fairbanks and Thos. H. Godfrey-have
gone to Wilmington to pursue their
business.
THE Ladies' Benevolent Society will
meet at Mrs. W. W. Tschudy's, Tues
day evening, November 8Oth, at
seven o'clock.
PRoTRACTED meetings are being
held by Rev. Mr.. White. at KentOn,
Conway at Friendship and McFaul, at
Raymond's Church.
On Monday the steamer Tggert car
ried up about tons of poultry. There
being no boat to-day, the next trip
from this town will be on Friday, at 10
A. NJ.
The new front erected on the estab-
lishment of Geo. w. & S. Taylor,
which elevates the middle smartly
above the extremes, gives it a much
more attractive appearance.
AMONG the entertainments for to-
morrow evening that for the cOlOred
folks will be what is designated Z" A
Grand Literary Concert" at Bethel A.
M. r. Church-the programme being
filed up mostly with music and recita-
tions.
The Band of Hope had 12S Juveniles
in attendance on Saturday afternoon.
They had to move out of the room in
which they had been assembling into o
larger one. 1t is under the manage
ment of Misses Grace Quigg, Clara
Wilson and Lizzie Beck.
JOHN CLARK, we'll known cOlOred
man, residing near Mt. Friendship
Church, in KentOn Hundred, died on
the 18th inst, aged sc years. He has
sustained an unblemished reputation
throughout a long life, was useful to
his church as a local preacher, and died
with the respect of all who knew him.
F. J. CARTER started out yesterday
in a new departure in a business way
in dealing IN kerosene and headlight
oils from his wagon. He purposes
making regular rounds just the same as
milk wagons do, making it thus more
handy than to carry a greasy can to
the store. He will run it, continuing
his "Oyster Bay" business and sold
SO gallons the first day.
JOHN H. and Walter o. Hofecker
had a touch of a genuine Western
blizzard in its binding snow, while
returning from Missouri last week. 1t
struck them as they were leaving Chi
cagO and its effects were felt until they
reached Buffalo. In addition to the
bOundless prairie and a specimen of
the Great Lakes" as seen from Chi
cagO, Detroit and Buffalo, they also had
view of Niagara Falls in its Winter
dress of ice, said by tourists to far sur
pass the Summer view.
ROBERT GAss, who has been farm
ing near this town, has moved his fam
lily to Philadelphia, where he has Sc
! cured a position for his future employ
Mr.. Gass is well-known to our readers
as a contributor to the TIMES in the
past of articles of more than usual ex-
cellence. He has been siGgularly un-
fortunate since farming from failure of
crops, death of horses and poultry, and
to cap the climax two or three weeks
ago some ruthless brute shot his flock
of turkeys which he had been depend
ing upon to pay his
THOs. HOLIDAY, a colored man
who kept a cobbler's shop in the upper
part of the town and who left here on
Saturday, was found dead alongside
the railroad track at Dover yesterday
morning by a train hand. Coroner
Thos. II. Wright, of this town, held an
inquest yesterday, the first case since
his induction into the office. 1t is not
known whether Holiday was struck by
train and killed, or whether he was
knocked in the head by foe there
was no evidence to prove anything, the
only thing found beside the man him.
self being small bar of iron. Holli-
day left here to avoid paying his rent
and was altogether rather bad char
acter.
REvs. SMITH, Roe and Lassell, oil
this town, attended the Local Preach.
er's Association held in MiddletOwn on
Saturday and Sunday. Some twelve
or fifteen members were present, and
the discussions were. characterized as
spirited and interesting The Sunday
morning sermon was preached by Dan
lel Green, of Newport and the evening
sermon by J. c. Lassell. The Sunday
school was addressed in the afternoon
by Herman Roe, Thomas Mallalieu anC
J. V. Smith. John NJ. Clark, of Down:
Chapel, one of the oldest members. anC
most regular in attendance, but now il
lnhrm health, was made the recipient
as a token of regard of a purse of SIS
The various exercises of the AssOcia
ton were attended and enjoyed by the
members of the Church.
The farmers complain of the low
price of corn and not without ius
cause, but all the articles to be pur
chased are also low, as thus stated b,
an exchange:
Perhaps there never has been tim
when the prices on breadstuffs, wearing an
parel and other articles were so cheau
What we buy can be gotten at the bottom
ngure, and every man and woman Ought t.
live and dress we'll Every man who i
willing to work can afford the luxury O
two or three suits of clothes, because the,
are so cheap. There is one item that bu
little reduction is ever made, and that
interest on money. Money seems to b
plentiful, because whatever paper we reat
there are lots of cash offered only on frs
mortgage, and at six per cent. We thinl
1t about time for interest to take a tumbl
OF two or three cents We intend to bull
an othce, when money can be gotten for
and 3 per cent"
DIR. J. G, DIRICKsoN, Of Berlin, Md
whose wife heired from her mother
t Mrs. NJ. A. Cummins, the farm on tn
/ south of the town, bordering SOut
/ street from Delaware westward, dc
! cided to have the part contiguous t
f the above streets surved and laid off i
: building lots, and streets opened. ]
! was intended to have it done thre
weeks sagO and has been DELAYED only fc
, the return of John H. and Walter c
, Hohecker who are now surveying il
/ The land intended for this purpos
r comprises some ten acres of ground i
most desirable location for buildin
. up new homes. The streets to be ex
j tended are Pearl and Union rur
ming south, and Frazier, running pal
allel with South, westward. The traC
has been put into the hands of A. /
; Griffith, real estate agent, to whom pei