Smyrna times., 1889-10-16

DAVID STEWART advertises a fine
driver and excellent saddle horse for
sale.
Mrs. S. B. REYNOLDS went to the
city this morning for some fall pur-
chases.
w. T. HUTsoN, of the Leipsic can
merry was here last week in search of
pumpkins to can.
The funeral of Mrs. Abel ]. Porter
on Friday called together a large
family of connections.
THE whistles of the canning factories
are silent this week, and will remain
so until another summer.
The heavy storm of the past three
days did a good deal of damage on the
shore, especially the coast of New
England.
The first consignment of new corn
reached Philadelphia on Monday. It
was rated No. in quality, and sold
for 80 cents per bushel.
THE Ladies' Benevolent Society will
hold at the Opera House Oct. 3Oth, an
Observation-Disclosures, supper, &C.,
for the benefit of the society.
THE National Dredging COMPANY
will sell at public sale near Collins
Beach on Thursday of next week, six
teen pair of young oxen, ten other
cattle and two horses.
NJ. MEGARY s. Son, of Wilmington.
adVertises an immense stock of carpets
OF all the newest styles and grades.
We commend our people visiting Will
mington to this large establishment.
GEO. NJ. STEVENSON is the only one
of our confectioners who is now fur
nishing ice cream, and he purposes
keeping on all through the winter. In
fact, he is the only one who has
steadily kept it through summer and
winter.
GEO. L. THOMPSON reports a yield of
$50 bushels of corn this year from
seven acres, two acres of which were
considerably damaged by heavy rains.
But for this the yield might have been
nearer 60 than so bushels, the amount
obtained.
Miss NELLIE GILMoRE's company,
an exceptionally good one, composed
in part of the Ada Gilman. company
which played in Smyrna three wears
ago, will be in Smyrna shortly, and
among other things play "Ten Nights
in a Bar-room."
THE game laws of the State impose
fine of Sl,00 for killing an insectiv-
erOus bird. This includes the flicker,
robin, and in fact all birds except
hawks, owls, crows and English spar
rows. Our young gunner5 had better
make note of this.
THE cOnundrum that is puzzling
Biddle Miffiin is, why if the secretary
of the school board in placing the in
surance with foreign agent was so
anxious to save five dollars, he was
not more anxious to save fifteen dol
lars by doing the same with a home
agent.
The corner stone of Mt. Friendship
Mission at Clayton will be laid next
Sunday, October Goth, at 2.3O O'Clock
by the pastor Rev 1. D. Jones and
Presiding Elder Hood The special
object of this building is for public and
Sunday school, the roll numbering al
ready AZ pupils.
A PARAGRAPH in a paper saws: "The
dllatOriness of an undertaken was the
cause of the burial of a lady at night
on Saturday in Harrington" The
question is, why should funerals or un-
dertakers if they are the cause, be so
slow any way. That is hardly a proper
respect that endangers the life of the
living.
JOHN B. GOFF, who has been run
ming the Smyrna Creamery very sue
'cessfully for the past year leaves after
to-day for Wilmington, where he pur-
poses engaging in the produce busi-
ness. W. w. Wright (our WHY who
has been in the creamery several
weeks past under instruction, will re-
main in charge of the same.
Two young cOlored meu were taken
from the audience at the Opera House
on Thursday evening for being noisy
and unmannerly, and put in the lock-
up. This was the only thing of the
kind all day, and resulted from having
visited the bar. They were released
the next morning after paying the fine
and costs. One of them was from
Washington and he had $50 to 90
home on after paying his cost of 81.
THE plant of the Little Diamond
Cultivator of G. w. & S. Taylor Co., has
virtually been bargained for by a man
ufacturing firm in New Jersey and all
that is necessary to complete its trans
fer to another State is the completion
of the papers, and there is also a firm
IN Pennsylvania anxious to have the
plant to manufacture on a royalty, but
we hesitate to announce the full par
ticulars in hope that an effort now
being made will prove successful in re-
tanning it in our town. This is all we
can say to-day.
IHE Chautauqua Literary and Scien-
tho Circle will resume its regular meet
ings on Friday evening, October 18th.
Members of tho circle and all who
desire to join it are requested to meet
IN the Bible class room of the M. E.
Church at 40 o'clock sharp. Lesson
for the week: History of Rome" pages
lI-2l; Political Economy" CHAPTERS
Is inclusive: How to fudge a pic-
ture, chapter I. In the ChaHtauouan
The Politics that made and unmade
Rome;" THE Study of the Seasons"
Sunday reading for October 6lh.
The Baltimore Journal of Commerce.
IN review of the wheat outlook. saws
the foreign product IS far below the
requirements and that the bulk of the
shortage must necessarily fall upon
the United States. This country will
be called upon, it says, to the extent of
at least 100000 quarters to flll the
European NAV. although we pro-
duced 4S0,0OO.OOO bushels this wear. the
journal says, 'a considerable portion
Is not suitable for shipment, and with
stocks depleted as they were at the
beginning of the crop year, a demand
such as the present situation suggests
must result in a range of values con-
siderably higher than the present
level"
Personal.