Smyrna times., 1889-10-02
STATE Fair at Dover this week.

STATE Fair at Dover this week.
HALLOWEEN will soon be with us.
NUTS will be fairly plentiful, but
apples will be scarce.
THE Baltimore & Delaware Bay
railroad has new time table.
THE Band of Hope will meet on
Saturday afternoon at 9 o'clock.
WIN. A. FARES as administrator. will
sell the personal effects of the late
James H. Hall on Saturday.
IT is stated that Thomas Jefferson's g
commission as postmaster for Smyrna
was ordered yesterday by the Pres
ident.
THREE good restaurants have been
fitted up to feed the thirty thousand
people who will attend the State Fair
this week.
q. G. FAIRIES has handsome Mikado
tomato in his window, grown in his
garden, which weighs one pound and
six ounces.
REV. MIR. DAME will have a chill
dren's service in St. Peters Church the
last Sunday in each month, commenc-
ing at o'clock P. NJ.
Mrs. MARY c. COLLINS has taken
the room in the Johnson Building.
formerly used by the Americus Club
and occupied it yesterday for dress
making.
THOMAS WRENCH, of Bombay Hook,
supplies our market with wild ducks,
which his trusty breech loader brings
down in sufficient numbers to make it
profitable.
l.. W. ALLIBONE, who stood next
to Supt. Mills on the Delaware Divis-
ion, it is stated is to be transferred to
to the Tyrone Division of the Pennsyl-
vania system.
THE gross receipts of the festival of
the NJ. z. Church of Clayton last week
was $4S.03; the ladies of the M. E.
Church of the same town will hold a
festival on the evenings of October 9th
and 10th.
THE special train during the Fair
will leave Wilmington at $40. On
Friday a special train will leave Will
mingtOn at 1901 and Clayton at los.
Returning will leave the Fair ground
at 5.15 P. NJ.
THE members of the Chautauqua
Literary and Scientific Circle are re-
| quested to meet at the Methodist Epis.
! cOpal Church on Friday evening next
at 7.3O O'Clock, to re-Organize for the
autumn rnd winter.
THE Young Peoples Society Of
Christian Endeavor will give an oyster
supper in the Opera House, Wednes-
day evening, October 8.
A special meeting of the society will
be held Friday evening at $50. A full
! attendance is desired.
Mrs. LYDIA A. COTTON was paid
| last week the sum of $3.50 on a life
insurance on the death of her husband
James H. Cotton, The insurance was
taken out in the Mutual Life Insurance
OF New York over twenty-three years
ago, shortly before their marriage.
THE newest thing among our ladies
seems to be horseback riding, and from
two to four ladies can be seen out most
every fair day. There are few more
attractive objects than lady equestri
ans, and we are glad to see this Gus.
tom of former generation revived.
DANIEL FORD, JR., had his carriage
broken on Sunday evening while
coming to town, by his horse running
into hedge, caused by barking dog
and Peter F. Truax had his carriage
nearly demolished on Monday by hi:
horse, which was hitched near the
depot, struggling to break loose.
HERMAN RoE's evening busines.
class will meet at his rooms for organi
zation next Monday evening at s
O'Clock. This is a good topportunitN
for young men and women to take 8
short course which may be of grea
benefit to them. The studies will b,
book. keeping, shorthand, arithmetic
penmanship, reading, spelling, sc.
THE sportmen have been having fin,
sport the past few days in bringing
down f1ickers or yellow hammers,
woods bird as large as a partridge
They seem to be unusually numerOu!
about the black gum trees, the berries
of which they feed upon and are very
scarce this year, and hence the tree.
that have them are greatly sought after
One of our gunners killed twenty-fv,
on Monday, and others came back will
their game bags we'll filled. George T
Thompson says two or three hundred
have been killed at the back of hi
farm.