Smyrna times., 1889-11-06
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his morning to buy her winter goods.
HIRNHEIMER gives notice that he is
closing out large stock of goods at his
store.
GEO. H. NIvER, the Temperance lee
turer, will speak at Leipsic tomorrow
night.
Mrs. S. B. REYNOLDS is giving her
store and dwelling attached a new
dressing of paint.
THE sere and yellow leaf has quit
rustling, and has consigned itself to
an innOcuous desuetude.
A FLOCK of wild geese, twenty-three
in number, passed over the town yes
terday evening on their way south.
THE thermometer dropped to 800
last night-the point where freezing
begins. The bright skies of to-day are
refreshing.
CHARLES FAIRIES, residing near Duck |
Creek, has bought lot of E. II. Beck |
in West Smyrna, and is making ar
rangements to build a dwelling on it |
at once.
Mrs. WIN. PERRY, of ThOroughfare |
Neck, who was reported by the news
paper writers, to have deserted her hus- |
band, was gone only few days, hav-
ing returned home last week.
For decided colors, in which vermil.
lion forms leading part. the large resi-
dence of VIM. G. Mitchell for shOwiness
in its new dressing, takes down any
dwelling on lower Main street.
DAHLIAs have stood the weather
until the present unscathed, and but
ter-beans have retained their greenness
until to-day. 1t looks and feels now,
more like the approach of winter.
ROBERT SCOUT, for some years the
blacksmith for the Taylor Brothers,
has opened blacksmith shop at the
Beckett carriage works for horseshoe
ing and other work for the general
public.
THE DAIRY MAIDS RECEPTION
The Ladies' Mite Society of the NJ E.
Church will give an entertainment of
new, lively aud charming description
on Thanksgiving night in the Opera
House.
THE wheat fields recently seeded,
are lOUking well Notwithstanding the
great prevalence of cloudy and wet
weather the past two or more weeks.
This is especially so of the low grounds
of the Necks.
The sportsmen are abroad in the
land, and Notwithstanding the fact that
! the farmers have forbid cunning on
their premises, the notices, are, in most
cases ignored, and the gunners go
where they please.
THE walls of the extension of the
Methodist church were finished yes.
terday and the enclosure will be COM
pleted in day or two. There will be
nothing then in the way of going on
with the necessary work.
THE brush of the painter has made a
radical change in the appearance of the
Smyrna House. From dark earth color,
in its dress of green and white it has
been so TRANSFORMED in appearance as
to look like the first bloom of Spring.
"THE Homeopathic Medical Society
of Delaware and Peninsula" will meet
at ElktOn, Nd, next Thursday, Nov
14th. Business of special importance
will be brought before the Society
Drs. Swinney and Moore expect tc
attend the meeting.
SAYS the GreensborOugh Free Pres
The Philadelphia and Smyrna Trans
pOrtatiOn Company announce the No
vember schedule of their steamer Ella
This line has become noted for the
rapid and satisfactory manner in which
freight is carried and is winning ;
large per cent. of Philadelphia ship
ments.
GEO. NJ. STEvENsON's family or pc
dog had fit on Saturday and was dis
patched at once. A dog answering
the description of his was one of thost
which the dog supposed to be mat
| that passed through our streets at al
early hour one morning month ago
was seen to attack. Mr.. S. didn't fee
, like running any risks in his family.
= COMPLAINT is made that a set O
boys that have heretofore been com
r planned of as partaking of the hoOdlun
/ properties, meet around the mill pom
and other places and engage in card
playing. OF course they are not see
in church or Sunday-school unles
, something extraordinary is going OIL
They are doubtless the same fellow
who fred bullets into the new glide
. links suspended from the main gate
= way entrance into the Odd Fellow
Cemetery.
ACCORDING to its time honored Gu
y tom, the Presbyterian Sunday SchoC
4 will hold anniversary exercises o
q Thanksgiving night Nov. %. Prepl
!. ratiOns are making for an interestin
programme, in which the children wi
largely participate. There will be
short address and considerable mus
in which an orchestra will render va
N liable assistance. The completed plaI
Ia for the evening will be announce
'e later, but the committee hope to NAL
re the evening a social success as we'll
re a service of song and thanksgiving.
r. I, JONATHAN JESTER died at the res
Z dence of his son-in-law, Peter Mace
on Saturday last, aged 80 years lac
ing one month. He has been all /
Mt life a resident of Blackbird Hundre
IN and was the oldest man in the Hu
y, dred and the oldest member of Erie
iy ship church, having joined it six
ld years ago. His first recollection
de Smyrna was when it was called Du
N, Creek Cross ROads-the name bell
be changed in 1906. His remains we
inferred at Friendship Church, Tho
id Oughfare Neck, yesterday morning.
ial GEO. CARTER while spending Il
IN week in Smyrna with his friends D
ng paratOry to going on his new positi
be with the Farm and Home, of Wilmi1
mt ton, read in TOusey's record of stal
me values, that a certain 5-cent COnfed
Bile ate stamp issued during the war
lst the postal service in limited numb
'u- by J. D. Riddell of the postal depa
1t ment, and very rare, was now quot
his as worth $780, He remembered Il
when a young typo in the TIMES off
his he had collected hundreds of stamps
He all kinds and from whatever sour
me attainable. 1t occurred to him that
wn might possibly have the stamp in I
inn collection which he and his brot
He Will had. which on oVerhauling
icb closed to be the fact, TOusey ,
,84 written to and if the value Is as
vas ported, it will be lucky find.
The HALLOWEEN was observed on ThU
de- day night by the boys in this to
,y's with more than usual abandon, as
md apparently the case in the other tON
lie | thrOuOhOut the pOuntrv WhU