Smyrna times., 1890-12-31
INSURE your property with E. H.

JSNA PASPOANJ WIN 41s II
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CLOSING out everything in line ol
toys, dolls, games, &C., at BEGINNERS.
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The signal service does not estimate
snOwfalls except in the way of precipi.
tation, which includes melted snow
and rain and the depth ofsnow is placed
at ten times theIprecipitation. A given
quantity of water, it is assumed, in.
creases ten times in volume when it is
sent down upon the earth in the form
of snow.
The first regular annual meeting oi
the Board of Trade" of Smyrna, will
be held on Monday evening next, al
the Office of Alderman H. G.. Budd, al
o'clock. A full attendance of all the
members is requested, as business ot
special importance will be brought be.
fore the meeting. All who are interes-
ted in the welfare of the town, though
not members of the board, are most
cordially invited to be present and
give US their names.
The young people who were wishing
for white Christmas" thought they
had it or part of it at least, in the
sDOw that covered the ground on Fri
day morning to the depth OftOur inches
but the heavy rain that fell in the sub
sequent hours largely dissipated these
hopes. The two inches of frozen slush
did however afford the more venturous
with some sleighing on Saturday, and
an occasional sleigh has been seen on
the days since. Thirty or more miles
to the north in the hilly country there
was less rain, with subsequently good
sleighing.
The severe storm on Thursday night
and Friday that broke the fine weather
was very severe in the Middle and
Eastern States. SnOwfalls of eight
inches are reported from Boston and
New York, with wind velocities of 80
to AZ miles per hour. The snowfall
in Western Maryland is the heaviest
in fifty years, In Virginia the block
ade is so near complete as to
almost stop business. Great damage
was done to the resorts on the New
Jersey coast. In New York City the
storm was so thick as to almost stop
railroad and steamboat traffic.
THE invitation of Mr.. Yocum, Prin-
cipal of the Public Schools to visit the
Assembly room of the school last week
to examine the written work of the
scholars and bring such books as they
had to donate, was fairly well respon-
ded to on Saturday evening. Consid-
ering the condition of the walking the
number of people present and the
amount of books contributed, was very
encouraging to the principal as the
neucleus for library. By the way,
the new scientific charts and maps
which the Commissioners have re-
Gently purchased for the school were
very much admired by the visitors.
Two young men were coming from
Dover to this town on Sunday evening
and when they got to the Garrison
mill 10 the dam had broken and a
river of water was passing through the
place over which they had expected
to travel. They weFs within four
miles of their destination having come
two thirds of the way, but they could
not fulfill their mission without retrac-
ing their steps part Of the way and
going around either by central mill
in KentOn Hundred or by Leipsic, to
the east. which was further than going
back home. On most any other busi-
ness men in such circumstances would
have given it up and gone back, but
not so on the business on which they
were bent: they had set out for Smyr-
ma broken dams or not, and made it by
one or the other of these routes and
lost nothing by the venture, for what
so challenges admiration as the man
who surmounts difficulties in the pur-
suit of a great object?