Smyrna times., 1893-04-12

store-Clement's corner. See adver
e tlsement next week.
B. V. WELDON will sell ten head
of cattle, horse and machinery and
farm products at the Smyrna House at
O'Clock next Saturday.
PRETTYMAN advertises an $4,000
}. stock, and DongOla Button Boots at
from 81. 90 to $4.00 per pair, Oxford Ties
at from.75 cents to 500 per pair.
; THIS is the season to do your own
i white-washing. For the best tlime 90 to
Frank Bailey. This is also the cheaD.
est place to purchase lumber, bricks,
etc.
MRS. L. r. CHANCE announces to
D purchasers that she has Just received A
f full line of spring and summer goods.
which they are invited to call and ex-
= anime.
f OUR painters and paper hangers
have entered on what they hope to be
busy season. Carpenters and masons
have not quite got over their winter
lethargy.
The idea of trOlly roads in the coun
/ try for the purpose of carrying farm
t produce to market, to many is thing
of the near future. Look out for a bill
in the Legislature.
The two weeks or more of dust from
the brisk winds was brought to a close
by the light rains of Friday, but not
until it had brought out the hose
sprinklers generally.
EPHRAIM LOWER, near Brenford
sold three horses last week to vii.
mingtOn parties for S4S5. Mr.. Lower
gives his stock the best of care. and
sold these because he was oyerstoeked.
Do not forget the postponed meet
ing of the Young Mems Christian AS.
sociation, this evening at the Odd Eel
lows Hall. The reports of the COM
mitties will be heard preparatory to
organization.
The machinery dealers are making a
run of wire fencing material, Bower &
Co. at their store, and Lewis & Wheat
man on the property of DIR. ]. r. Nc
Causland, on the opposite side of the
street from their store.
Jos. E. CARTER has put a new dress
ing OF paint on the dwellings of H. d.
Boyer and Jas c. Robinson. Heisalso
TO paint large dwelling on Stephen
walkers farm at Dinah's corner, and |
also on his house in Kenton.
Do not forget the Band of Hope
Entertainment at the Opera House |
this evening. A lady who knows the |
merits OF this in comparison with the
popular ones that have preceded it.
says this is the best ofall.
EDGAR SPRUANCE has at the rear of
his residence( the old Enoch Spruance
property large yard or plot of
ground that has not been broken by
plow or spade for oyer 100 years, being
all this time continuously in grass.
The Violet Tea" of the Kings
Daughters at the Opera House on Fri
day evening was fairly well attended
AS part of the entertainment the visi.
tors were given music from guitars and
mandolins, and ct proper intervals.
oharades and tableaux, The suDDlv Of
refreshments were gotten through with
by the closing hour.
DIR. WIN. K. CONoWAY, voted for {
Friday to succeed his father lately de-
ceased. IN the Legislature, received Ga
out of % Of the votes cast here. the odd
vote being cast for Albert T. Hoffecker
OF CheswOld, who was on the minority {
ticket last fall. The vote polled for
DIR. Conoway in the county was 400
there being % for other parties. The /
vote OF the county year ago was ,371. :
The entertainment to nipbt at thu r
Opera House will consist of the Band !
OF Hope IN full chorus, the Bobolink
song, the Empire drill, and 1.-The
OF Mother Goose" in 3 acts
and D scenes. The price of admission,
20 cents, would indicate that the ladies 2
who have it in charge think they have
good thing worth the money: child 8
rem under IA years, 10 cents. Go. il
AT the annual meeting of the b
smyrna Building and Loan Associa. b
-ion last night, the following officers v
were elected o
President, John H. Hoifecker, Vice I
president, VIM. E. Hall. Sectiv. Jno e
y. Cooper, Treas. Jas. p. EofTecker il
Directors, Geo. M. Stevenson. WA. p Il
Legg. Auditors, John A. Hoffecker b
Geo. W: Gordon, w. A. Winford. Il
IHE high price Of clover seed tbis
sPtlnk onght to cause our farmers To q
return to growing their own seed a
some hfteen years ago enough seed
were grown in this vicinity one season
10 ship 1000 bushels away after sunnIv' | D.
ing the home demand for aeedin0 p
about the same time tbe h
ate John r. Logan sold John "a a
C)oper eighty bushels of Timothy seed ~
which he he had grown on his farm q
SUNDAY developed into day of the tc
most delightful temperature after tbo q
morning showers had passed awav y
The churches were we'll attended. en-. y, ~
Decialiy the latter part Of the day, the
weather being just adapted 10 the don.
ling of their outfits. The ladies In II
resh attire looked very charming and o
wanted to take in "a breath" "
If the sweet aud refreshing atmos. :
)here. Perhaps some OF the boys" =
we're actuated by the same natural de- 5.
ire for health exercise, but some of !.
hem we're flashed out in garbs that -
vsre quite sporty. y
TIE weather for April has been un- VI
Usually fine for farm work, the chief v
eature Of which was getting the fall -
ow turned for the corn crop. The :,
aims have however been very light. =,
hardly enough to soften the ground q
efficiently FOR plowing. The rain -
all here last week was very different :,
rom that in the South and West. The ~
Philadelphia Ledger of Saturday said :, :,
The cause Of the scant shipments Of :. -
vegetables, fruits and the like from the y y
'outh is attributed to the heavy rains IL
which many of the States have exper- y
enced for the last few days. So heavy -
we're they that advices by telegraph Eo J"
'rodnce men in that city stated that in
many places the berry patches are COM
'letely under water, and in Others the M
iolence with which the rain fell either On
gashed away the soil from tho roots Of hc
be plants or tore the unriped berries dr
rom their stems. sll