Smyrna times., 1890-01-29
SMYRNA and Vicinity

SMYRNA and Vicinity.
THE pastor of Bethel A. NJ. E. church
commenced a prOtracted meeting on
Sunday night.
The man who complained of having
gone" feeling can appreciate the
feelings of one who is in the third day
ofthe grippe"
WHAT more delightful weather could
be asked than we are bavino-cIear
dry, just cool enough to be comfort
able like a section dropped out OF
April.
A NEW household article has an
peared. 1t is an automatic egg-boiler
which tells when each egg is cooked
according to the best style or tasts OF
the client.
The Indians who came here TO re-
main all last week giving shows and
selling medicine, left on Friday for
MiddletOwn. They did not feel them
selves properly appreciated.
ONE of our young clerks is contem-
plating a trip to Europe next summer
on the invitation of the New York
Wortd, which offered this privilege to
the one who should guess the closest
to the time that Nellie BIv would trot
around the globe. He thinks he came
about the closest.
THE announcement is made of the
marriage on Tuesday evening next at
the residence of ]. Frank Dennev in
white Hall Neck, of Miss Clara DEN
ney, one of our we'll known youn0
ladles, and Chas. B. Wharton, a younS
farmer living near Magnolia. Mr.
Wharton is brother of Mrs. w. IT
Thompson, Of this town.
CLARENCE PRETTYMAN's new house
on South street is assuming propor.
tlons, the roofing and sheathing being
on. 1t Will attract attention for beinS
what 1t was intended-modeled differ
ent from any other house in town. A.
distinguishing feature will be a tower
on the northwest corner, and a very
different front from any other.
DIR. VAUGHAN who commenced the
practice Of medicine here a wear AGO
and seemed to be working into a fair
practice, has bought out the drug store
of DR.. Pierson in Middletown, and
also succeeds him in the practice of
medicine. DR.. Pierson is in faiIino
health, and purposes spending the re-.
malnder OF the winter in Florida.
NEWTON F. DIGGINs, who has been
Geeachlng the Deakyneville school in
Ihoroughfare Neck the past two wears.
died last night from pneumonia. He
nrst mad the grippe, and went out too
soon, causing a relapse resulting in
pneumonia. He is represented as a
promising young man of superior quail
tiles, and the people of the Neck feel
greatly bereaved at his untimelv death
de came from the vicinity of Church
Hill, Md, and will be carried there for
lnterment
HORSEBACK riders seem to have been
unfortunate this week, though better
roads could scarcely be asked for. In
to the mishap of Harry
Ischudy, noted in another item. Miss
Nan Wood and Miss May Cavender
were each thrown from their horses
while horseback riding, but fortunately
sustaining no serious injury, A son Of |
Z; Lower while returning home from
sschool on Monday. was also thrown |
rom his horse down the embankment |
It the mill pond, and was cut about |
he forehead.
Miss SUSAN r. GRIFFIN. formerly
,f this town, died in Middletown on
Monday in the 45 year of her age. She |
vas a daughtcl of the late SamueI /
jrlfin, and lived in and near this
own until the past two or three years.
when the larger part of her time has
'een spent in Middletown. Her re.
mains will be brought down on the 10
'clOck train tomorrow TO CLAYTON.
md met by the friends there, will pro-
eed to the family burial ground at
3rynziOn Baptist church near Kenton.
or interment.
IHE two or three nights of last week
'hen the temperature fell to points
'etWeen 2O' ana 30' made ice on some
Il the smaller ponds, though the mill
,onds were mainly unfrozen. The
'erslmmon pond, that always tiehtens
p among the first, was sufficiently
trong to bear the boys a few hours on
aturday morning, the first time thew
ave had skates on this winter. II
vas, however, Of short duration. for the
warm, south wind that sprung up soon
ut the ice in what the bows call
kittley bender" state, and too brittle
Dr. safety. Sunday was again like the
'arm spring days that have charac-
srized the winter.
HARRY TsCHUDY after school on
londay saddled a horse for a ride
fhen turning a corner at the An |
lony farm, the horse in a high state
speed, did it so suddenly as to throw
i'm of and through a barbed wire
nee, the upper strand severely CASH
lg his cheek, and the lower one tax
lg a piece out of his leg. He. how
yer, mounted again and in going
round the corner at the "ClOak" farm :
as thrown of again, the horse COM I
ig on home without him. George I
eese Immediately mounted the ami.
al to hunt for Harry, and he hadn't /
)ne far before he was thrown off at j
le side by the turning of the saddle :
the animals sudden way in whirl- 2
& q corner. Harry was picked up | 1
lady who was coming to town 1
ID brought home much to the relief A
MS family. The gashes Of the wire Il
ere ere sewed up by DR.. Dwight and he L
VI soon be himself again. The horse I,
ed, is one that the cowboys had who 4
o ago. !,