Smyrna times., 1892-12-28

happy time 1t is to get the little bills
liquidated.
ELMER HOFFECKER wishes to notify
his customers that he will have at his
meat market on Saturday, fine deer
from West Virginia, and persons wish.
ing venisOn will please leave their
orders.
THERE is no necessity for those who
intend to swear off at New Years
waiting until New Years arrives to
commence the swearing off process.
There is nothing like getting used to a
thing.
THESE are the shortest days of the
year, and the sun is only on duty in
this latitude hours and Is minutes.
But all days have too much shortening
in them for the school boys and girls
on vacation.
SOME fishermen who had been Op.
Grating at Bombay Hook, returned to
their home in the city Friday. the
weather having become too cold for
them. Up to week ago December
was unusually open.
WHILE we may get some good things
from Europe, cholera and grip cannot
be counted among them. They are
among the undesirable that take hard
lighting and the strictest kind of quar-.
antine to keep from landing.
WITH the same ice 25 years ago we
have had this week, there would have
been four times as many enjoying it.
This is especially applicable to the
girls. The skating craze, like all
other crazes, has had its day.
THERE was but one occupant of the
lookup during Christmas, and he a
white man of the town. There was
some drinking about the saloons but
no disorder, the weather being too
cold for congregating out of doors.
WILFRD CLARKE, thepopular Young
comedian, will play a return engage
ment at the Opera House, Thursday.
Dec. %. My Wife's Husband" will
be the attraction and every lady at.
tending will be presented with hand
some souvenir.
The mistletOe is not a thing to be
kicked about-remember this, little
irley-girleys. By the way, if the
wholesale stripping of it is kept up, in
some cases cutting off the whole limb
there will soon be few sprigs for them
to be caught under.
They have on exhibition and Cor
sale at the Transportation Office. a
portable safety heater, that is sold at a
low price and is adapted, with the aid
of any ordinary hand lamp, to which
it can be readily adjusted, for warming
bedrooms or other domestic use.
1T was noted in the papers last week
that man named Lyman, up in New
Castle county, in endeavoring to catch
a turkey up tree, fell, breaking his
right wrist and spraining his left, but
the question that most interested some
readers was, did he catch the turkey ?
The average hOusekeeper ALWAYS
dislikes to pay his coal bill. He feels
that he has nothing to show tor his
money but ashes, for which he often
has to expend more money to get rid
of, but the housewife, when she finds
her stove filed with slags and clinkers.
says ,'railey."
The TIMES notes with considerable
satisfaction that holiday shoppers an
peared to patrOnize the local mer-
chants-the men who advertisements
than ever. There is less of the visits
to neighbOring cities, and more of an
apparent determination to spend money
at home. And we are glad of it.
The January number of DemOrest's |
Family Magazine is before US. It. is a
work of art, the illustrations being |
very hne, and attractive in all its de- |
partments. 1t is truly a work for the |
family, and the more ladies in the fam
Ily the better. Price, 81 per wear: in
club with the TIMES, both for $500
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the Presbyterian Church will hold a
public missionary exercise at the chanel |
Tonight. There will also be given a
5reat:tO the Sunday School. The pub
nc are cordially invited co be present.
There will be a few extra slides for
Friday nights prayer meeting.
Two THIRDS Of the incoming legisla-
ature will be composed of farmers.
The advocates of good roads will have
IN opportunity afforded them to get
legislation now, for if the far
ner is not interested in good roads.
We don't know who is. Now. gentle.
men, bring Your batteries to bear on
,he agriculturists.
THESE are the busy days with tie
rlre Insurance Agents. The prem
ums OF the Kent County Mutual have
20 De paid between this and Monday.
which with the other companies reD.
resented by the agent, w. o. Hoffecker.
Will pretty severely tax his time for
Ieveral weeks to come.
ANOTHER of the excellent Rifts
brought by Old Kriss was an ice eron
not a stunted one like the past sew
,ral winters, but a crystal one of full
II will be worth several
thousand dollars to our citizens. be-
Iides the comfort it will afford when
he long days return.
WHILE it may not be possible for
very man to get as rich as Jaw
3ould, 1t is within the power of all to +
ret competence if they will apply the
anne rules of industry, thrift and tenn
'erance. The great trouble with most
men is that they spend more than they
arm, and never get together the little
urplus that starts The wheel of for.
une.
Monday, January 2, is the day reg
Ilarly appointed for the Bible Read.
ng of the Woman's Christian Tenn.
eranee Union but, coming as it does,
be very beginning of the New Year,
hey have decided TO hold a consecra-
IOp meeting, to which egery woman I
most earnestly invited. Afterpoon /
2.3O. SEc'Y.
N. F. WILDs received from Mr.. B. .
/. Comegys, of Philadelphia, four vol. t
mes, Beginning Life, e,""How to get !
u, Talks with Boys and Girls" and Z
Old Stories with New Lessons" Mr..
the author, has given the t
Doks to the Smyrna Library Associa- B
on. They are particularly instrue- a
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