Smyrna times., 1892-08-31


Delaware road on Monday, making
293 up to that date.
Miss MARY WALKER has had a new
wide pavement laid in front of her two
houses on Main street.
GEO. w. TILGHMAN is carrying about
a lame foot from log falling on it at
his mill one day last week.
AUBREY VANDEvER is erecting 21
story house on lot purchased of l. N.
Mills, West street, Clayton.
The city papers note to-day a con-
siderable fall in the price of peaches,
on account of the cholera scare.
A MAN grumbles because he is Door.
When he gets rich he grumbles louder
because he has to pay taxes on his
property. -
THE steamer Ella omitted her trip
to-day, but will go up as per
time table, tomorrow, Thursday, Sep
tember 1st.
THE congregation of Bethel A. NJ. f.
Church will be joined at the Church
Camp next Sunday by an excursion
from ChestertOwn.
A home camp meeting will be held
in the grove adjoining Union NJ. E.
Church, beginning Sept. 11th, 1892.
j. d. Reese, pastor.
A MEETING of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union, will be held
at the home of Mrs. Il. Hough, Mon
day evening, Sept 5th.
MEssRs. Wanamaker & Brown, Oak
Hall, 9th and Market streets, Phiadel.
phia, lead the fall advertisers in their
clothing announcement.
TOMATOES came in pretty lively yes
terday to the canning factories. There
is not enough yet to keep the process
sing IN continuous operation.
THE farmers have had almost eyerv
day especially Wednesdays, but
Thursday, Sept. 8th, is set down for
their particular day at Woodland
Beacn.
OUR canning factories have been
making preliminary runs the past
week, to test machinery as we'll as
to relieve the market of an overstock
of tomatoes.
UANOGONEE stora nall 6lIod ,,:4L
goods is good advertisement, but il
does not reach far enough. The
newspaper supplies the people with
the information.
A SHED at the Industrial Works"
caught fire presumably from q spark
from the engine, one morning last
week, but was extinguished by
buckets of water without giving alarm.
IN biting, a mosquito uses his at
tenor, his clypens, his hypophernyx.
his labium epipharnyx, his labium, his
mandibles, and his maxillor. Yet peo-
pie will kick every time a mosquito
punctures their skin.
GEO. D. ARMSTRONG, of Thorough
fare Neck, gives notice of the manu-.
facture of oak baskets. Besides those
for farm use, he takes orders for fac
tories. having supplied Baker Bros. and
Z. Watkins of Odessa, and others.
The introduction of horse racing at
Vineland Fair says the Salem Sunbeam,
made the exhibition a complete failure,
and the stockholders will lose heavily.
The church people refused to attend or
send exhibitions to the fair.
ANTHRAX has caused the death of a
number of COWS aud horses at Newport,
abont three miles from Wilmington.
Several men are also in danger of losing
their lives. Scores of cattle are still
affected. A larger account is given
elsewhere.
MEssRs. Mccoy & Brown give no.
tice in our advertising columns that
they have a large and well,selected
stock of wOrsteds, and cheViot suitings
and trOuserings, which they are ready
to supply customers on short notice.
Call and see their stock.
AN adjourned meeting of the Wom-
ans Foreign Missionary Society will
be held Thursday evening, September
lst, at the close of the prayer meeting.
All members are requested to be pres
ent, as business of Importance will be
considered. SECRETARY.
Smyrna, Aug. 81, 1892.
Miss Mollie Thompson, who has
been spending two or three weeks in
Pennsylvania has returned home and
given notice elsewhere that she is pre-
pared to give lessons on the piano and
organ. We commend her to the at
tention of our young people wishing
musical instruction.
THE worst thing about a straw ride
is that it brings together the sort of
people wtos only idea of amusement
is to blow horns and howl. Then these
people marry each other and their
children are naturally as big a nuisance
as the parents. The straw ride must
CO." says the New York Herald.
ONE OF the novel, special attractions
for the Elkton Fair, is Wichita Jacks
Wild West. This is thoroughly real.
istic exhibition of life on the border
country, illustrating the habits and
pursuits of the cowboy and the Indian,
and appeals to the interest of young
and old, The manager of the show
has spent four years ia the Indian
Territory, and vouches for the general
accuracy of the exhibition.
The Democrats will meet and or.
ganize club tomorrow night In the
Johnson Building, over the store of
Mccoy & Brown. The call embraces
"all persons opposed to the force bill
McKinleyism, the general usurpation
Of the Republican party, and all that
are in favor of free ballot and an hon
est count, reduction of the tariff, etc.