Smyrna times., 1890-12-31

count of the ice.
WATCH-NIGHT services will be held
at the Methodist Chur,h tonight,
commencing at eleven O'ClOck.
PERHAPS one of the best pleased
dealers with Christmas aid its results
was L. o. Waller, our new jeweller.
IT is more from carelessness about
the truth than from Intentional lying
that there is 80 much fasehOOd in the
world.
WANAMAKER & brown call atten-
tiOn to large lot of clothing at low
prices, see also announcement of Chas.
w. Sisco.
IT is stated that there will be less
changes among farmers the coming
spring than usual. There is much less
demand for renting farms.
We have received from Post Master
General John Wanamaker a copy of
his Annual Report of the Mail Service
of the United States.
WE have received from Lee & Shep-
pard of Boston, q collection of twelve
beautifully tinted pictures illustrating
the months of the year.
CAPT. FLEMING, of Leipsic recently
killed hog, 8 months and ten days
old that weighed S75 pounds. How's
that for rapid growthP
PURCHASING confectionery for the
Holidays, it will pay you to call at
Behmler's and try a pound of his
home made mixtures, 4
W. o. HoFFECKER, agent of the
Kent County Mutual, is busy receiving
premiums on insurance policies. The
old policies expire at noon tomorrow.
Mr. Stokesbury caught yesterday in
the Garrison mill pond where the water
had run out by the recent break, a
German scale carp weighing Il pounds. |
The personal property of B. F. c.
ROthwell at Collins Beach sold at
Sheriff sale on Monday. J. s. Nc
Clary's property was also sold yester-
day.
PROF. Theodore Aseherfeld has rented
the house of H. Hirnheimer, on lower
Commerce street, and will move his
family here from Havre-de.G Grace in
the spring.
The announcement is made that T.
L. Mason and Miss Mollie Weldon,
two well known young people of our
town, will be married Thursday of
next week.
The season for public sale is near at
hand. The prices for printing vendue
bills at the TIMES Office will be: whole
sheets, $500; half sheets, $3.50; quar-
ter sheets, $15O.
Mrs. A. s. CUDNEY of Cheswold
went out in the yard on Monday morn
ing to empty pan of ashes, slipped
and fell and broke two ribs. The frac-
ture was dressed by DR.. J. NJ. Smith.
If our stOrekeepers didn't have
plenty of business this Christmas it GER
'ainly wasn't the fault of the weather,
for it was just cold enough, just sunny
enough and altogether just beautiful
enough to suit the taste of Jew or
Gentle.
A COPY Of the Annual report of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
has been left on OuF table by Miss
Annie W. Sutton. 1t is a pamphlet of
seventy-five pages, and contains a full
account Of the order in our state in all
its departments.
The boys had strong wish graft
fed by skating on the mill pond yes
terday. The owners of ice houses
would like to see two or three inches
more added to it so they could 90 to
work, but the Frost King has not yet
exercised his regal authority.
VIM. TURNER had his throat cut
quite badly last Wednesday evening,
in front Of Huns barber shop by a
crowd Of drunken colored men. He
had started to his home in spruance
city and was attacked with the above
result. Two Of the c0lored men were
arrested and one sent 10 Dover Jail.
The following officers of Mizpah
Lodge, No. 16, A. o. u. w, have been
elected for the ensuing term: Master
Workman, A. N. McGaw; Foreman, E.
Q. FAIRIES; Overseer, E. M. Fowler; FL
nancier, Clarence Prettyman; Record
er, Geo. N. Stevenson, Receiver, o. B.
Voshell; Guide, Jas, E. Carter; Inside
watchi J. Harvey speakman, Outside
watch, M. F. Reed. o. B. VosheIl will
represent this lodge in the grand lodge
which meets in Wilmington.