Smyrna times., 1892-11-30
Smyrna and Vicinity.

smyrna ana vicinity.
SEE w. F. Dunn's announcement Of
Christmas goods.
Z. BECK, Geo. Nj. Stevenson, H. G.
Budd and Thos. ]. Lambdin advertise
houses for rent.
CHRISTMAS is less than a month off
1t falls this year on Sunday, and every.
one can enjoy a holiday.
The fodder and strawstacks of G.
w. Pryor, near Duck Creek, were un-
aceountably burned on Friday.
The "Kings Daughters" will hold a
bazaar in the johnson building to.mor.
row and the two subsequent nights.
S. G. STINsON has been engaged to
proceed at once to place a belfry and
bell on Jerman chapel, the money
therefore alaeady In haud.
The Publications since the election
gave the Excelsior Band of our town.
several engagements not anticipated,
the last being at Marydel, on Saturday
night.
The dress of Colonial colors-yellow
ground, green shutters and white
trimming-which VIM. NJ. Bell has
given his dwelling in repainting, has
been very much admired.
A GRAND entertainment-Tab
from Queen Esther-will be given in
the NJ. E. Church at Kenton, ON Wed.
nesday and Thursday evenings. Dec.
9TH and 8th. Admission Is and 25
cents.
The number in this issue completes
the interesting itinerary of Miss Louisa
A. Cummins through Europe, the sew
eral papers of which have doubtless
been perused with interest by our
readers.
WHEN you see your friend coming
with a fountain pen in one hand and "A
big roll of paper in the other, don't
button up your pocket. He doesn't
want subscription. He's only irving
to get an Office. And there are lots of
him.
WINTER seems TO have come earlier
than usual, and if signs betoken any
thing, we are not going to have the
green Christmas the people Of this lat
ltude have been favored with for the
past three or four years.
THOS. +. JEFFERSON, who was cleo
ted Assessor of Duck Creek Hundred
at the late election and qualified at
the meeting of the Levy Court week
= fNun has l..
ties. This is general assessment year.
Mr.. FRANK REIMAN wishes to pro.
neunce to the people of Smyrna and |
vicinity that they should order their !
bananas at least two weeks before |
Christmas, sOtthat all may be supplied.
Candies, oranges and apples, however,
he will have an abundant supply. +
THE farm of the late Jonathan Ste
Phenson in Black bird Hundred. near
this town, 125 acres, was sold on Sat.
urday last by j. Harry Hoh'ecker, Jr..
Esq, Trustee, to John c. Bailey. for
$4,000. If this farm had been sold
after Mr. Stephenson's death. several
years ago, it would have brought
$4,000.
LAST week was one of cold. northwest
winds throughout, threatening snow
the latter part of it, and this week m
TO day 1t has been high northeast
winds, attended part of the time with
rain. To-day finishes the last of the
Fall months, until the middle of No.
Vember, an autumn of more than usual
charming weather.
The man who insisted on having a
good Thanksgiving dinner before the
comet should strike the earth was
quite as philosophical as the couDle
dewn South who declined to get mar.
RED, though the wedding day had
beed fixed, because there was only
three days thereafter before the earth
would be struck aud DESTROYED. and it
was no use.
We are always pleased at the success
OF Peninsula boy in any field of hon.
ora6le endeavor. We learn that Prof.
>. L. Ford last Wednesday night gave
an entertainment in the Star Course in
fremont Temple, Boston, to an aud.
ience of 5000. Prof. Ford will be at
our Opera House the night after Christ
mas.-COnference Herald.
The editor of the Conference Herald.
has interested himself in our local
preaching. If Bro. Todd wants to
hear good sermon and will take the
trouble to do so, let him ride up from
Dover next Sunday evening, when
Rev. w. H. Thomas will preach bv
request of white people at Centennial
Church, sermon at 7.30-special seats
reserved for the latter.
PASTOR Wilson, of the Methodist ,
Church, preached to a good sized aud. (
lenee on Sunday evening on the comet ,
the expectation that the pyrotech.
MIC display of shooting stars Of Wed.
nesday evening would be resumed at
half past nine or ten O'Clock that aven.
ing. The overcast sky however. pre-
vented this being visible, if it did cccur
Inc sermon was an interesting resume !
Of calamites of one kind and anotber
Inat nave visited the earth, and the
possibilities that we are always, by the
elements beyond our control, subject
the speculatiOps of philos-
'phers as to the heavenly Visitants-
'ome, that they are only gases that l
'annOt penetrate our atmosphere ?
while the fact remains that aerolites
10 Iall upon the earths surface a
masses of iron, the lesson of the b
ext being that whether the earth il
destroyed by a collision with other
lery comets or planets, or continues o
Is circuit unmOleEted for 5000 600 of c
'ears and then falls into the sun. the :
act OF the prophecy remains that the \
world is to be destroyed by are, and j
ne proper way is to be all the time 0
eady for it. !
Clayton Items. d
W. d. Hudson shipped several crates !
J Japanese PersimmOns to Philadel- :,
mia Monday. :, >
John A. HeinhOld has presented
'hawnee Tribe with two large hornets :,
nnF 4. Il.