Smyrna times., 1889-01-02
SMYRNA and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
HOSE COMPANY's festival January
9th, 10th and 11th.
PROF. HERMAN ROE's night school
will be resumed this week.
THE Springlike weather, which COM
menced before Christmas, still con-
tinues. 1t really looks like April.
REV. E. E. WHITE commenced a
protracted meeting at Clayton on Sun
day night, with indications of good re-
suits.
THE Christmas Cake at George NJ.
StevensOn's Confectionery was awarded
60 Mrs. Presley Ford, her number
being 81.
A LARGE flock of blackbirds passed
over the town this morning. They
evidently hav'nt felt any of the pinch
ings of winter yet.
THE steamer J. E. Tggert will make
but one trip to Philadelphia this week.
After that two trips a week will be
made during the rest of the winter.
THE last week has been a busy one
with the fire insurance men. This es-
pecially applies to the Kent County
Mutual, whose pay day is the first day
of the year
THE President of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union asks the
mem0 0ers to meet at the Reading Room
FRIDAY afternoon, at 2.3O o'clock.
Special business. SECRETARY.
WANAMAKER & Brown are out in a
new advertisement in which they show
the great reductions they make to un-
load their immense stock of men and
youths clothing.
IN game of base ball last week be-
tween the Blackbird and Tavloris
Bridge mines the former won bv score
of Is to IL. The winning battery was
Wlllumsen and COverdale of this town.
THE subject of the lecture to be de-
Iivered next Sunday evening, at St.
POlycarp's Church, Mt. Vernon St.
will be " The Catholic Christ, and the
Non-CathOlic Christ" To commence
at 7.3O o'clock. All are invited.
THERE were twenty-eight applicants
for the position of Sergeant alarms of
the House, just two to each member of
the majority. There were ten Others
ready to put in an application had
there been any show for them.
MONDAY was the last wash dav for
1888 and OF course. the washerwomen
say, 1t was rainy. 1t would be a mat
ter of interest, if they could enumerate
them, to know just how many rainv
wash days there were in the past year.
AUBREY VANDEvER and James G.
Longfellow, of Clayton, are forming a
class in typewritlng and short hand.
Several have Joined the class already
and a few more can be accommodated
on application to either OF these gen.
tlemen.
The dwelling-house of the late Mrs.
Faries on Mt. Vernon street, has been
removed to North street, opposite the
new creamery. John Cosgriff. who
purchased the land on which this house
stood, will at once begin the erection
OF a neat and cOmmodiOus cottage.
The persons who smashed a pane of
glass in the large show window of Her
man Hirnheimer have not vet been ar
rested though they are suspected. It.
was done about two o'clock on Christ
mas morning, a man further down the
the street hearing the crash. Several
valuable articles were taken.
CORN growers are sad at heart over
the prospect for prices. The West is
prepared to market an UNUSUALLY Iaroe
crop, if government reports are to be
credited, and the price is only 3SI to
~ cents per bushel, and February de-
ilVery promises to raise the market
only TWO cents per bushel. This means
about 36 to 393 cents in home markets.
A wATCHNIGHT meeting was held in
the Methodist Church on Monday
night, FROM 1850 until the advent Of
the new year. The attendance was
larger than for several years and the
religious interest more manifest.
The devotees Of TespsichOre had a
mop at the Opera House at the same
time, which was likewise more largely
aOtOuu6u buau usual.
The free distribution of calenders Is
not so great as in some former wears.
The large ones the insurance comma
MES used to get out cost thousands of
dollars, and this expenditure makes a
big hole in the profits, and leaves but
little for distribution among the stock
holders. They have discovered that
the same amount of advertising done
IN the newspapers yielded far better
returns than expensive calenders.
Ihey cave too firm a hold on the com
munity to go out of fashion, but they
VIII not be distributed so lavishly as in
previous times.
BURR OAKS" was given on Friday
night at the Opera House to a smaller
audience than the strength Of the com
pany justified. 10 was a combination
OF tragedy and comedy having its ori-
gin IN the late war. Tragedy calls for
q higher grade of acting than is reached
by the troups usually TRAVELLING
through the country, and in this re.
spect " Burr Oaks" excels for its fine
acting. 1t may have been natural
as ptting the characters who vocifera-
Yea IL, put there was too much profan-
lty TO nse before an audience of ladies
ana children. There is neither wit
nor sense IN the use of vulgar curse
word, such as may be heard any day Ia
q certain class Of society, but somehow
nearly everybody feels that is where
ene laugh comes in when an expression
not no, usea IN refined society slips out on
tne stage, The stage is very educating
70 young, people, and offensive Lam
guage could and should be eliminated
rom our country entertainments.