Smyrna times., 1892-12-28

JOHN II. HOFFECKER shipped the
last of his tomatoes last week, except a
few left for domestic use-tO Wilkes.
barre, Pa. There has been rise in
the price OF canned tomatoes recently.
and these who sold early in the season
as most Of the packers did, missed it.
THIS has been eminently a season of
gifts. Gifts to the different members
OF the family, numbering 20, 30, 40. |
could be counted; then came more
costly ones, including watches, purses.
OF sums ranging up to $25, and one
father, not to be outdone, gave his son
a horse.
THE watch that was competed for by |
the contributors to the Centennial |
Church fund, was won by John Haw- |
klns, the amount collected by him be. !
ing $26.3O. The nearest competitor. |
and who it was mostly thought would |
be the winner, was Mrs. Thomas. the |
wife of the pastor, her amount being
$24.O5.
AS Expressman Reynolds was COM |
IN from Clayton Christmas Eve. in the |
Branch train, two negroes who had |
been drinking, got into scrimmage, |
and one of them was knocked or fell !
against handsomely framed picture
he was carrying, mashing it to pieces
The likeness itself fortunately was not |
damaged, and the Express COMPANY /
paid for the reframing at McDOwelPs. |
SOME gentlemen who were discuss.
ing local enterprises the other day. in
speaking of the steamer Ella. counted
up II families that in one capacity or
another were sustained in connection
with its traffic, to say nothing of the
irregular work that from time to time.
furnished employment to others. 1t is
the enterprises which give employment
and labor to support families, that
helps and sustains community.
I THOSE persons who put of purcha s.
ing their Christmas poultry until Sat
urday evening, mostly had to 60 with
out or eat with a neighbOr, for the
market was early entirely emptied
Our dealers. however, did not DO as
they did in Wilmington, go up to 25
cents pound all around, but closed
out at the market price of the dav. Is
cents for turkeys and u for ducks.
geese and chickens.
The price Of eggs, p cents at home
and cents each in the CITY. might
have been more but for the oDen win.
ter which closed so tightly week ago.
the hens in a certain sense mistakInG
it for spring and doing their dutv ac
cOrdingly. That this was So was
shown in the fact that one dealer alone
took in 100 dozen on Saturdav-as
much as would be taken in on a Satur
day in April.
A question has been given us for
some OF the school children to answer.
VIZ : 1t dealer buys ten pound tur.
Key from man for $1.O0 (which was 4
cents below the market price, because
IL Is not yellow down to the fetlockl:
1t was returned and the turkey
afterwards sold to another man for
eleven-pound turkey, at 10 cents Der
pound; what was the dealers profit ?
Another proposition as to profit and
loss, was where lady sold her tnr-
Keys for IA cents and got only 12, but
IL could not be ciphered out, be-
cause the number of pounds were not
given. -
A DAILY paper under the Orbit of
Progress" has the following. Chemists
now turn scrap iron into ink, old bones
into lucifer matches, the shayinps of
the blacksmith's shop into Prussian
blue, fusel oil into oil of apples and
pears, the DRAWINGS of COW houses into
fashionable perfumery, beggar's rags
into new pilot coats, cesspool filth into
ammonia, and tar waste into aniline
dyes and saccharine. In Paris they
first utilize rats to clear the flesh from
the bones of carcasses, then kill the
rats, use up the fur for trimmin0s {
their skins for gloves. their thigh bones {
for tOothpicks and their tendons and d
bones for gelatine wrappers.
FROM one bank alone-tbe Frnit J
Grower's-there was last week. over
SIO,OOO drawn to pay for the poultry
Tor the Christmas market. How much
was drawn from other sources and |
paid for in store bills, we do not know |
nut 1t amounted to a considerable sum {
The product OfpOultry aud eggs brings I
IN more ready money on some farms 3
than do either the wheat or corn croD q
In the days of the fathers, turkeys sold 4
for less than a dollar each, and a Dair
OF ducks for rs cents. We hear of one Q
farmer who had to buy his Christmas .
turkey, because dogs got into and .
Eliled his whole flock of young turkeys a
thirty in number, that would have
been worth to him over $50 P
The steamer Ella had a hard time
10 getting up the creek on Friday
night, ice and wind requiring a toll of
hve hours. The following is given as
the experience of the Clio: The -
steamer Clio, plying between Odessa Il
and Philadelphia, came to Delaware 4
City,. several days age, knowing
il to be impossible to get up the creek 7
TO her destination, on the home ward
trip. Sunday morning Mr.. Parker
came with a hack from Odessa and
conveyed the cargo and passengers
overland. The total shipment consis-
Ted OF two passengers, one stuffed boo.
die dog and q demuOhns, ranging in
size from one to three gallons.
THERE was considerable cOmplaint
after the snow that fell a week AGO
which largely melted and became
slush, that it was not cleaned off in
many places, freezing on the pave.
ment that night, and remaining in the
steady cold since, menace and a dan.
ger to pedestrians. There is an ordi.
nance regulating this. 1t becomes the
duty of Alderman Budd when com.
plants are lodged With him, to direct
Policeman Grant TO notify the owner
OF the property to abate the nuisance
within a specified time after the snow
fhil. and If it is not done a fine of so
cents Is liable to be imposed, but the
cost will be a considerable per cent
heavier than the fine. Those who re.
move distractions to proper and safe
walking, feel that those who do not do
this, ia justice and consideration Of
their fellow citizen, should be made to
d0 it, as ordained by town ordinance. pl
The entertainment at the o pera
House Monday night by Prof. s. T.
Ford, the elocutionist, was enioyed bv ~
an audience of something less than ~
byVO hundred npraOna The D.ae...-- ~