Smyrna times., 1891-12-30

happy New Year.
THE week of prayer commences
next Sunday at the Presbyterian
Church.
IT is said that the new silver half
dollar will be handsomer coin than
the old one. If they are only more
plentiful.
New resolutions are now in order,
and it will be we'll to recall how the
old ones have been kept before MAX
ing new ones.
WHILE we had murky weather dur
ing the holidays London had fog for
a week so dense that the people could
not see six feet ahead.
DON'T forget the ladies lunch room
on Saturday of this week. Chicken
salad, fried oysters, mince pies &c.
Cars ice cream parlOrs.
THE next meeting of the Kent county
Pomona Grange will be held in the
hall of Trophy Grange at FELTON,, on
Thursday, January 9TH, 1892.
THE Grippe has struck in on our
citizens the past week much stronger,
and a number of them are suffering
from it, some of them disabled.
HERMAN ROE will deliver lecture
Here we are Again, the Old and the
New" at Fair View Hall, north of
Newark, Thursday evening, Jan. 7th.
A MAN who ran a newspaper with
out offending any one, has just pub
lished a recipe for making an omelet
without breaking eggs. They say it is
rather taseless, hOwever.-ET.
THE fact that a green Christmas
makes fat grave yard" is being real
lied all over the country this yeal
whereve" the grass is green. The deatl
rate beats all previous records.
THE mystery of the identity of the
man found in the canal at Delaware
City, has been solved. 1t proves to b.
Noah Benson, a negro, but the question
is, who killed and put him there?
Now is the time to see that ever
man that expects to vote at the mex
election in this State is properl,
assessed. All persons not assessed b,
January LIST will have to go befOr
the Levy Court personally to get o.
the assessment list.
ON Monday afternoon Jan. 4th tn
Woman's Christian Temperance Unto
will hold their monthly Bible readin
in the temperance room at half pas
two o'clock. AS a greeting of the Ne,
Year, a special invitation is extende
to mothers. SECRETARY.
The people of the vicinity of Wa
ker's schOol-house renewed their pol
ular literary society with great int
est. Emory Marvel, Jr., now a studeI
in Delaware College, who was, "
think, the originator three winters az
has been spending the past wee
among his early literary cO-labOrers.
24-10 inches, was the rainfall {
Thursday, mainly between u and 2;
o'clOck-the heaviest for about Gig
| months. This with the murky wealth
Friday and Saturday, made it a Chri;
3 mas to be remembered for its mas
ness. 1t served however to make Il
home pleasures the more enjoyable.
!. If emigration continues as it is dol
4 now, with the natural increase amOl
our own people, it will not be lO
before America will contain more pc
y pie than Europe, While there is roc
J. for all, we should like to have sol
/. choice in the kind that come he
e There are some desirable, and sol
v very much the other way.
SUCCESSFUL Christmas entertai
q ments were held by St. Paul NJ.
:; Church, the Ewell NJ. P. Church a
d Triuity Episcopal Church at Clayt,
g Geo. c. Heinhold had number
l. Christmas presents stolen from
carriage in the yard of the Binght
House.-R. II. Darrah found wal
y that had been lost by Miss Annie JOi
y and returned it to the owner
McCOnaughy of Philadelphia, is Wis
y ing his father.-Wm. M. Todd
IL opened -four and feed store oppOs
the pOst-Oftice.
ne Mr.. AND MRS. HARRY F. Dixie v
n have been here twice before, were
le lected for the Christmas night div
%: sion at the Opera House. 1t is no III
ID thing for two persons to assume
place of whole troupe, but they
it most successfully, if we may ju,
IS. by the manifested applause. n
OF Dixie is very attractive, at times
As witching, and could not robe hersel
~ any costume that she did not II
ne pretty. Mr.. Dixie took his characI
well, the uglier las in La MascOtte)
better, and was a splendid counterI
us to his better-half throughout. He
Ior giving more attention now to mt
ng and would like to bring an opera C
an pany here at some future date.
Try WIN. STEVENS, a well known farT
IDS died at his residence in the Alley IL
miles west of Clayton, on Sunday e.
ing, in his 68th year. Mr.. Stevens
in his usual health and ate his Chi
de. mas dinner in Smyrna on Friday '
&C. Mrs. Ann Davis, his wife's mot
OF His death proceeded from some h
ers trouble. He lived nearly all his Iii
Dis. the vicinity where he died, bein
'on good and successful farmer, and
elr pected wherever known for his
nm rightness and honesty. He leave
ia widow and one son, VIM. A. Stew
by his first wife. He had been a n
her of years a member ofthe MethC
zen Church of this town. His rem
Ier- were hnried in the Odd Fellows Co
y" terry here this afternoon.