Smyrna times., 1893-01-04
Smyrna and Vicinity.

THIS weather has melted the coal
pile the past two weeks.
How many bushels of wheat does it
take to buy ton of coal? ?
THE TIMES wishes you and yours a
prosperous and happy New Year.
THE holiday visitors mostly left for
their homes yesterday and Monday
IT was the cOldest Christmas holiday
for twenty years, take it all the way
through.
The ice oG the ponds greatly deter
iorated under the warm air and rain
of Sunday.
THE cold wave that struck us last
night sent the murcury down to 160
this morning.
THERE will be So Sundays this year,
the first aud last days of the year fall
ing on Sunday.
THE Delaware Commissioners, de-
| spite the protest, have recommended
Bombay Hook for the Quarantine.
THE Presbyterian Church is observ-
ing the Week of Prayer this week,
meetings being held every evening.
MAY 1898 prove that there's luck in
odd numbers, and that the most wor-
thy applicants for office will be the
successful ones.
ABOUT 40 couples from distant points
attended the dance at the Opera House
on Monday evening. L. broke up
about o'clock.
b. F. MIDDLETON, near KentOn, will
have public sale January Oath, aud
Geo d. Armstrong, near TaylOr's
Bridge, February 18th.
THE Christian EndeaVor Society
wishes to express thanks to Mr.. w. o.
Hotfecker and all who so kindly assis-
ted them with the music on Dec. 26.h
THE Festival that the Trustees IF
Bethel A. NJ. +. Church held through
the holiday week to increase the
church funds, will be extended through
this week.
The beautiful moonlight nights of
the past week have been taken advan-
tage of by skating parties. Skating by
moonlight is rare sport and one that
we seldom enjoy here.
WE advise everybody to subscribe
for a good local newspaper the coming
year. If the TIMES does not suit you,
get one that does, but don't worry
your neighbOr for the local paper.
MEssRs. Beck & HAZEL have sold
the Burrows House, corner of Main
and Railroad Avenue, purchased some
months since by Samuel W. Hall, to
Joshua Boyd, of Leipsic, for $3.50.
THE Local Preachers of this confer
| ence will have charge of KentOn from
Friday till Sunday evening, in holding
one of their Associations. 1t will
doubtless be an interesting event to
the citizens.
PERSONS having magazines or period
icals of any kind that they are no lon
ger using, have a standing request for
their donation to the library of the
public school. They may be turned
TO good account here.
The new Brussels carpet purchased
of Strawbridge d Clothier, which was
put down last week on the Sunday
School room at the NJ. E. Church with
the handsome wall painting, gives
some idea how the room will appear
when the new seats get in.
TWO of our staid citizens who have
been chewing tobacco for forty or fifty
years, agreed yesterday to quit. viz:
and now they are watching each other
with gnGwing interest.
WE stated last week that IA families
were in one capacity or other, sustain
ed by the traffic of the steamer Ella.
This meant men, men who are the
head or provider of the family, but we
are told this is not enough. Those
having a more accurate knowledge of
the boat, say there are 10 instead of IA
men who have regular work through
and by the boat.
MATTHEW FORD, Overseer of the
road leading down the Neck, by
Smyrna Landing, is in process of
greatly improving its travel by oyster
shelling the sand hill Just below the
phosphate factory at RothWell's Land.
ing. During the past week two car
loads of shells, 1900 bushels, have been
dumped on the sandy part, which will
give them q hard road where has been
heretofore a sand bed, very trying to
teams.
ONE of the best magazines of this
period is the COsHOp OLitan. Its super.
ior in the character of its illustrations
and its literary excellence compares
favorably with any. 1t deals with the
current events of the day social, politi-
cal and religious, and contains argu.
ments written by some of our most
able writers. The January number at
hand maintains the high reputation it
has made.
JOHN p. HUDSON has sold his farm
half mile west of Clayton, 145 acres, to
J. G. Bowers for $4,000. Mr. Hudson
bought this farm Of Mr.. Bowers a
dozen years ago or more, Mr.. Bo Ters
two or three years after moving to
Kansas, where he resided until the pres
ent. The last five years were not
profitable out there, and he returned
east for a permanent home. He took
possession the next day.
The melting weather Cf Sunday and
Monday had the appearance of soon
opening navigation on the Delaware
but the colder weather of Yesterday
materially checked disintegration. The
ice that had broken up in most places
lodged at the bends IN our creek and
thus far have made an impossible bar
rier To- navigation. The steamer Ella
has considerable freight awaiting trans
POrtation, aud hopes to get out to NOR.
row or as soon thereafter as uOssihle
THE policy hulders of the Kent
County Mutual Insurance ComDanv
are paying their premiums with more
prOmptuess and less complaint this
year than usual, there being but few
not liquidated the first of this week
w. o. HolIecker reports the companv
in ilourishing condition, and saws that
deducting the dropped policies, the
increase in the three years he has had