Smyrna times., 1892-09-21

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GEO. w. STONE, bank examiner, is
our banks to-day.
AT this time, especially, it is the part
If wisdom to be temperatein all things.
THE place to get tanned used to be at
he school house now it is at the sea-
'ide.
WIN. F. DUNN invites attention to
MS stock of fancy stationery and tab
cts.
E. G. WALLS advertises a perfect
fitting hat, and new stock of Fall
Clothing.
A PIG roast and novelty concert will
come off in Centennial Hall October
ith and 5th.
Lamartine wrote: "A woman's
strength is most potent when rObed
in gentleness."
Miss EMMA SPRUANCE opened her
School for the little
folks last week.
SINCE July 1st the salary of post
master Jefferson has been increased |
from $l400 to $500.
EVERY housekeeper in the land is
sure to look on the advance iG the |
price of coal as a burning shame.
THE horn has blown. Straw hats
o nd hifo ho re- oolIoA IN VNTh0v
ever you see a white hat hit it.
NEW corn from the fields made its
in market last week. J.
w. Jones has it on sale, SO cents.
BECK & HAZELL have sold the house
and z acres of land at Smyrna Land
ing belonging to B. F. Redman, to Jas.
G. Farson, for $1,000.
REFS BROTHERS have laid in their
stock of Fall goods: they have a large
supply, and claim to sell the best
goods for the least money.
HAPPY and content is a bride with
"The Rochester" :" she lives in the
light of the morning To learn more,
aCrite Rochester Lamp Co., New York.
THE whistle at the basket mill no
longer calls the hands to work. In
fact the aggregate of work hours has
been meagre in comparison with last
year.
J. w. EvERICH, at Bay View, on the
road to the light House, intending to
change his residence, advertises his
household goods at private and public
sale.
NEW line of gloves, kid, cashmere
and silk at Cotton's.
Yesterdays shipment of peaches
from the Peninsula via Delaware rail-
road numbered one carload, which was
consigned to Philadelphia; total ship
ments this season, 42I carloads.
SUNDAY and Monday were warm
days, the mercury creeping up on the
the latter day to 8O', but brisk north
wind that came up in the night had
driven it down 90 by morning.
H. D. BOYER has sold for $2,4OO,
the double dwelling on Delaware
street, the part occupied by w.
o. HOffecker, to J. Harvey Speakman, ,
and that by J. E. Hotfecker, to VIM.
B. Megear.
TOMATOES are coming in some better
this week. At the Hofecker cannery
about 5000 baskets came in yesterday
and the day before. The yield is only
about One-half what it was last year,
but the fruit is solid and fine.
THE welcome showers that fell last
Wednesday morning was not followed
up by others, and it is nearly as dry as
ever. The effect was however appar-
ent on vegetation, and others will doubt
less be along in time for wheat seeding
THE fifteenth annual exhibition O
the Delaware State Fair opened Mon
day, at Dover and continues through
out the week. The managers are an
ticipating a successful exhibition. Thr
number of exhibits is larger than evel
before, the list of horses in the trial
of speed is the best that has ever beer
placed before the public by the associa
tion.
THE Indian Hero" is to be presen
ted at the Opera House Frida,
evening by Richard Anderson and hi;
company. They will show at onl,
two places in the State, Smyrna an
NTiddletown. The play is a vivid pic
ture of life on the frontier, every seen
closing with string climax. Ticket
on sale at HOffecker's Drug Store
Admission % cents, reserved seats, 3
cents.
THE Grand Lodge of Good Templar
) of Delaware will meet in this town Ol
Wednesday and Thursday, 5th and St.
I of October. The delegates, twenty t
thirty in number, will hold day session
in COOper's Hall for private busines,
and public meetings will be held a
night. The speakers for the latter wi
be announced later.
} ALBERT SLAUGHTER Grand Secretary
? Patriotism should be fostered i
every way in the public schools, an
Governor Russell's recommendation
that "My Country, 'Tis of Thee
should be sung in every school on tn
anniversary of the discovery of Amer
I ica by Columbus is a fitting supple
ment to the request of President Hal
rison that the National flag shoul
! float over every school-house.
: MOUsQUETAIRE kid gloves dresse
and undressed $1.00, at Cotton's. T
How cleverly Nature balances he
expressions In August the heat wa
? intense and exhausting, and tn
i breezes which should have moderate
it were like vaporous exhalations fror
u a boiling caldrOn; but the floral di
y play was marked by an infinite varet
y of delicate tints-the whole range {
Q aniline dyes, so to speak. Now. hov
!, ever, in this perfect SeptembC
weather, the sun yields only a genia
. warmth, and the air is cool and r
/ freshing, willie suburban gardens al
;: brilliant and intense" with the pos
u tive reds and yellOws of the fall flower
y BETHEL A. NJ. E. Church has had
i change in pastors. Rev. ]. T. Har
Q mond asking to be relieved, and is
= be succeeded by Rev. Geo. w. Dortis
u of the New England Conference. Re
Hammond will be given anoth
= charge by the Bishop. This change
this time of the year is a surprise
II all concerned. The late pastor is