Smyrna times., 1888-10-31
Smyrna and Vicinity.
This evening will be halloween.

Smyrna ana vicinity.
THIS evening will be halloween.
D. J. CUMMINs is topping his dwell.
ing with a new tin roof.
DRESSED turkeys and ducks have
made their appearance in market.
THE Creamery Association are look.
ing out for a new location for their es-
tablishment next year.
THE Clayton NJ. E. Church is put
ting in heater and laying off their
grounds around the church.
Miss MARY E. SAvIN went to the
city this morning to lay in a stock of
millinery adapted to the season.
MOsT of the bets are "bluffs." This
is not bluff election, however. 1t is
the vote that counts, not the bet.
PILGRIM CASTLE No. 7, K. of G. E..
OF Clayton, have changed their meet
ing night from Monday to Tuesday.
THE Town Commissioners have five
or six carts at work filling up the
much complained of holes in the streets.
VIM. E. HALL and VIM. NJ. Lewis
are each giving their dwellings a new
dressing OfDaint in the new style of the
art.
Go TO the festival of the Benevolent
Society tonight at the Opera House.
The ladies need funds, and they ask
your help.
THE sealed proposals for the dredg-
ing Of Duck Creek will be opened at
the U. S. Engineers Office in Whining
ton on the 10th prox.
AGAIN we say, vote early on the 9Th
of November. Take your neighbor
with you, if you can, but rather than
be late go without him.
JOHN p. COLLINS has put a new barn
in place of the one burnt a month or
so ago on the farm occupied by his son
in ThOroughfare Neck.
MARY CoKER, of Camden has con-
tracted with carpenter Black of Dover
70 Oulld her seven room dwelling on
Mason street in this town.
GRAND MASTER, John NJ. Whitford
and Grand Warden Cove G. Nailor. of
Wilmington visited Morning Star
Lodge on Friday evening last.
CHAs. H. REGISTER has received no
response from the parties challenged to
discuss the prohibition question with
him and Rev. J. A. B. Wilson.
THE quietest Presidential contest
that we have had, within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant, will soon
close, and good men will be elected.
Who?
REV. b. b. WHITE will preach a SER
mon to the societies of the Golden
Eagle of Clayton and Smyrna in the
M. E. Church at Clayton next Sunday
morning.
WE have received a barbed-wire
communication directed to "Good Bow
Taylor, and his attempt to preach con-
sistency," but withhold it for personal
considerations.
HENRY KEEN, one of the we'll known
and respected farmers of Thoroughfare
Neck died at his residence at Walkers
Sc5pol House on Monday in the 79th
year of his age.
THE Republicans of Duck Creek
Hundred have completed the ticket for
next tuesday by the nominations of
John E. Phillips for Inspector and
Theodore Mannon for Assessor.
The speakers announced for the
Blackbird Democratic mass meeting
last evening were Charles H. McWhor-
ter, Willard Salisbury and w. I.
Lyman, Esq, and Herman Bessey.
ONE of the attractions at the Festi-
val OF the Benevolent Society this even-
ing will be the presentation of a drama
by local talent Music will be fur
nished by the Opera House Orchestra.
The San Francisco MinstreIs will be
at the Opera House on Thursday even
ing Nov. 10Th. They come under the
auspices of the Athletic Association.
They will thus have a strong support
at their back.
RoBT. L. CUMMINs has his new
dwelling corner of Main and North |
streets raised and weatherboarded. !
The front is a half octagon, and in de-
sign the house will be different from
any on the street.
THE dwelling Of Chas. A. Beck on
Mount Vernon street which has been
IN course Of erection for several months !
is finished and he has moved his family !
thereto. 1t makes him a neat and |
comfortable home.
The new and costly machinery
which Robert Denney has put in his
mill at Duck Creek for manufacturing
four on the roller process is adjusted
to its place, and the first -four on it
will be made to-day.
JOHN P. COLLINS lost his family
horse few days ago at the age of 28 !
years. 1t had gone with him on manv |
a ride, and together they have made |
many a visit to fFiends-almost a gem
Grafton of association, and of course
had high regard for each other.
JUsTIs & DAVIDSON. proprietors of
%Ino % Boston One-price Clothing House,
Zlo Market st. Wilmington, call atten. |
tlOn to their large stock Of clothing. |
and ask call from people from This |
vicinity visiting Wilmington, Their
advertisement will be found on our
AiSb page.
A LARGE band Of Gypsies who were
encamped between this town and Claw
ton pulled up stakes yesterday. They
accuse some one Of stealing a horse
from them on Saturday night. while
they IN turn are charged with keepino
trained dogs that kill stray poultry and
carry to their camp.
ELISHA STILL who recentlv recov-
cred $1,000 back pension has purchased
OF Mrs. Jordan her dwelling on Fra1ier
street and Mrs. Jordan will bniId
new house on the lot she bought some
Time ago on the same street. Mr..
still has also bought a dwelling from
Mrs. katharine Douglass on the same
street and a lot on which to erect
another house.
JOSEPH r. WELLS, son Of Frank
Welis who learned the printing busi-
ness five years ago in the Record Office
ana has been working Ia Philadelphia
the past two or three years, left last
week for the West as q volunteer in
the regular army for Eve years. This
Will make two soldier boys from smyrna
M tie West in Uncle SANS army fight
ing the Indians. Harry Douglass hayr
ing gone into Che army two years pGo.