Smyrna times., 1889-10-30
Smyrna and Vicinity

Thanksgiving festivities.
THE lovers of the luscious pumpkin
pie can now indulge in them.
The session of court has called a
good many people to Dover this week,
FALL styles are now receiving due
attention among the feminine portion
Ofthe community.
ITO FRIvvLE" is a new society verb.
1t means to fritter away the time in
shopping without buying.
The trotting match on the the Poplar
Grove Park Friday course was inter
fered with by the weather.
PLANTS for winter culture are grad
ually taking their positions on the win
dow sllls OF many residences.
TIE great scarcity of apples is sup
| piled by impOrtatiOns from the north,
retailing at 20 and so cents per basket.
BUCKwHEAT and sausage are nc<v
coming in fashion as a breakfast diet
and generally considered not hard to
take.
! MCDONALD ENCAMPMENT, No. 2. of
this town, has ordered through The M.
c. Lilly & Co., full set of regalia of a
beautiful design.
As THE first snow storm fell on the
23d of the month some people predict
that there will be twenty-three snow
storms this winter.
d. T. REEDER, residing near Black
bird, will have public sale of stock
and farming implements on the 18th
OF November at 10 o'clock AN.
THE Festival of the Ladies Benevo-
lent Society previously announced for
tonight, has been postponed one week
"Wednesday evening, Nov. 9th.
THE tides were unusually high last
week along the marshes, overhowing
the causeways in some cases to a
greater depth than the heavy storms OF
| some weeks ago.
ABEL S. RIGGS sold a lot of brick
making implements on Saturday with
the view Of quitting the business. This
has been bad drying and consequent
ly bad brick-making year.
THE attention of our farmers is
called to the advertisement ofP. Emer-
sou, Of Wyoming, who offers a large
stock of fruit trees. He is making a
speciality this fall of pear trees.
SOME eight or ten of the young men
of Dover, came to Smyrna on Sunday
evening. On their way here, two of
them ran into a carriage opposite
'WOOdlawn," broke their carriage and
had to foot it through the mud to this
town.
GOVERNOR JACKSON, of MARYLAND.
finds, for example, that two railroads
that have about fifty miles only of
mileage in Delaware, pay that state
taxes to an amount exceeding the
whole amount the state of MARYLAND
receives from all the hundreds of
miles of railroads in its border.
SUNDAY was in marked contrast to
the previous Sunday. Sunday week
was a day Of marked brightness. but
last Sunday was a day of thick moist
ure and dashes of rain the larger part
OF the day very much like the weather
so depiOred last summer. The wear
seems to be disposed to keep up the
excessive moisture throughout.
ACCORDING to the DeIawarean thew
only had 'spurt Of snow" about three
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon last
IN Dover, whereas, here it showed
from about 10 o'clock in the morning
until night, part of the time inter
mingled with rain. In PHILADELPHIA.
and other places to the north, thew
found it showing :when awaking in
the morning.
WE are indebted to Hon. John B.
Pennington for a copy of the Third
Annual Report of the Commissioner of
Labor. it pertains to strikes and
lOckouts-their cause and remedv-
and deals largely in statistics gathered
by the commissioner from careful
research. Prof. Groves, formerly
of this town, is one of the assistants of
Commissioner Wright.
A GENERAL complaint comes up and
has for months at the condition of the
railroad crossing near Glenwood Gem
etery, by those who approach the town
from the north side. The complaint is
at the jar and jolt in getting over the
iron rails-racking the wagons and
tossing their cOntents-especiallv of
fruit carried in baskets. The farmers
say can easily and should be remedied.
What is needed is a filling in between
the rails with plank such as is in use
at important railroad crossings. an
easy and inexpensive thing for the
railroad to have done. 1t is due the
travelling public.
CHARLEY SWIGGETT. a well known
cOlOred man died in this town on
Thursday last of consumption, the last
disease that ten years ago it was
thought him possible to have. He was
employed by the Messrs. Tygert as
hack and wagon driver to the landing
Of the steamer, John E. Tygert, and
was as strong as he was good natured
de could pick up barrel ofsugar and
lift it from the wagon to the sidewalk
with as much apparent ease as some
persons could a basket of potatoes.
Lake most strong men he presumed on
and abused his strength and health.
ana thus died like such men very often
do, at a comparatively early age, 55
years.
The Philadelphia Press of Monday.
IN noting the business relations of the
country. says "Breadstuffs, as a whole
.-. .--. "ee. Nuder influences which.
As we have becI pointing out for two
months, made any rise improbable
Wheat lost a cent in New York on the
November delivery, corn rose a cent
mi oats remained stationary, but the
general tone of the market was down
ward. Wheat has now lost Al cents a
bnshel, or nearly per cent. in New
York since the first of this month.
Provisions slightly advanced in spite
OF the large production due to large
corn crops IN succession, an advance
probably caused by free exports in SEN
tember. Cotton was stationary. but
print-clOths advanced.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Sentinel
writing from Walkers School House.
Blackbird hundred, says "The neigh
bOrhOod was alarmed last Friday To
know that Mrs. MOlie Perry had left
her husband, Mr.. Joseph Perry. She
took two hundred dollars. leaving
Tor parts unknown, and left two chill.
dren with her husband.
Constable Reed, of Blackbird. ar
rested Joshua Haman and his brother
last Monday, for stealing corn of Mr..
J. Foraker, Saturday night. The par
ties plead guilty and offered to paw for
the stolen property. Much has been
missed in the neighborhood since these
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