Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-09-30
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
CHOICEtimOthy seed at J. B. CoOper's.
THE Bickford & Huffman drill at w.
F. & J. r. Clements, Clayton, Del.
HARRY LINDLEY has the Opera
House the first four nights of this week.
A regular communication of Har-
mOny Lodge, A. F. A. NJ, will be held
tomorrow evening.
The Benevolent Society will hold
their annual festival and entertain
ment, in the Opera House, Oct, 20.
MRS. l.. A. COTTON announces lad
les Blazers and Hats and Children's
Coats.
JOHN B. COOPER is the agent for
Radam's Microbe Killer, d remedy that
has had popular run in Dover.
VIM. N. RANSOM has grown an apple
this year which weighs 26t ounces,
and measures Is inches around it.
MARK SCOUT has erected a building
on his property at Smyrna Landing
Asks to be used as granary, stable
and carriage house.
POSTMASTER Satterfeld examined
the post offices of Smyrna and Clayton
Monday, and found them in a satisfac-
tory condition.
The merry go-around, which was at
Woodland Beach all the summer, and
at the Dover Fair last week, has been
carried to Norfolk, Va.
THE Centennial Church will have an
OK roast at the Hall adjoining the
church, October 18th, and want the
people to come and help eat it.
WIN. FELL, late proprietor of the
Delaware House in this town, has Ia
ken a hotel at Allentown, Pa. Mr..
Fell is natural born hotel keeper.
OVER 200 tickets have already been
sold for the lecture of Prof. Handy in
the Presbyterian Church next Tuesday
evening-"Patrick Henry, Orator and
Statesman"
MRS. LUCY WASHINGTON of Port
Jervis, N. Y, prominent temperance
worker, will have charge of the services
at the Methodist church next Sunday
morning and evening,
MEssRs. Megear & Son have been on
to New York and laid in a large stock of
fall and winter goods, which are nov
being placed on the shelves to meet
all the demands of the public.
A PLANT in the window of Geo. M.
Stevenson, opening six beautiful
blooms of the Night Blooming Cereus
at one time, attracted the attention of
a good many ladies last evening. This
is the second time it has blOomed this
year.
FODDER saving has been a tug this
year. A few warm days are expected
during the cutting off corn season but
this year it has been hot all the way
through. In some fields where the
corn was heavy, the hands suspended
Saturday afternoon from sheer ex-
haustiOn.
REPORTS from all over the country
say quail and rabbit are more numer-
O..a ,han for several years. 1t was
feared that The long continued heavy
rains Of last spring and summer had
ItOWned them out. The favorable re-
ports to the contrary maketh the heart
of ye sporting men glad.
AN election of officers took place in
Morning Star Lodge, ]. o. o. f., last
Friday evening, with the following re-
suit: N. g., W.T.. Brown V. O., G.
@. Swinney, M. D.. R. s., w. W.
Wright; p. s., Geo. NJ. Stevenson
Treas, Jos. Wright, and trustees, Abel
s. FAIRIES, Charles w. SiscO, and E. G.
Walls.
THE Tschudy basket mill suspended
work last week. Il has been . prof
table season since it started up four or
hve months ago, and large sharer in
the profits have been the basket max
ers who worked hard and pOeketed q
good deal of money. It is a matter of
regret that this mill cannot find some.
thing to keep its engine going and fur
nish employment the larger part OF the
year.
The HUNTING SEAsoN.-The hunt
ing season comes on apace, says an ex-
change, when the average citizen will
spend half day borrowing some hunt
ing dogs and day in following them
after birds and rabbits, and come home
at night with his face and hands pow
der burnt. and with about two squir-
rels aud an English sparrow, and
spend the rest Of the winter lying
about what good tins be had and
how much game he killed.
The lecture to be given by Prof. L.
l. Handy on Patrick Henry" 10 the
Presbyterian Church, October 9th, IS
one of the best ever given In Smyrna.
Prof. g. M. d. Eckles, Principal Of
Cumberland Valley State Normal
School, Shippensburg, Pa, says: "The
lecture on Patrick Henry. by Prof. l..
/. Handy, Is an eloquent tribute to one
Of Americas noblest orators and states
men. The lecture abounds in passages
Of most enjoyable humor aud Ia des-
criptlons Of deepest feeling.