Smyrna times., 1893-01-25
Smyrna and Vicinity.

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Smyrna and Vicinity.
G. OSBORN & RRo., have a notice t,
our farmers in another column.
WE don't care when it was so colo
Defere, If it only won't get so colo
again.
A LAWYER is the only person whC
gets rich by minding other peoples
business.
A new stock of cut glass, chinawart
and lamps, at Ashcraft & CliftOnt
pharmacy. #
WIN. DENEY HAZEL sold last week
the stock of goods he brought with him
from CeciltOn, to f. Beck.
REPRESENTATIVES, Sevil has intro.
duced bill in the Legislature for q
new road in Kenton hundred.
The Clayton Creamery for Decem-
Der received AZ ,329 lbs. of milk and
paid $1.26 per hundred pounds.
The hungry hawks are playing
havoc, it is said, with the partridees
that have escaped the gunners and the
weather.
SOME of our citizens have, and a
number more will attend the Moody
and Sankey meetings in Wilmington
this and next week.
ii. ID. BOYER is tearing out the front
of his store to put in two large win.
dows, one bulk, that will virtually
give him glass front.
THE South has felt the cold weather
as intensely as we have, and early
truck has been killed as far south as
Georgia. This ought to help our
truckers next season.
THERE are now four notary publics
in Smyrna, and application has been
made to the Legislature through Rep
resentative Hall, to establish a fifth
one for a real estate firm.
NEXT Sunday will be preparatory
day for missions at the NJ F.. Church.
a missionary from Corea preaching
at night, the collection not being lifted
till the first Sunday in February.
THE season of vendues is approach
ing. From present indications the
number will not be so large as some
seasons, and they were lucky in not
dating them for the late cold weather
of January.
The busiest men last week were the
Messrs. SiscO, father aud son, plumb.
ers. Nor is their work with frozen
and bursted pipes over with yet in the
way OF repairs. While others were
gliding through the streets to music of
silver bells, or watching the movements
of the racers, they were busy trying to
unloose the imprisoned waters. or
adjusting pipes, faucets, etc, in their
workshops.
The Committee on Invitation, John
A. Hotfecker, Geo. M Stevenson and
VIM. II. Baggs, have issued cards of
invitation to the supper and IIth an.
niVersary of Smyrna Conclave, No. As.
Improved Order eff Heptasophs, at the
Opera House tomorrow evening, at
$50 O'Clock. Included in the invita-
tions are the wives Of the members and
a number Ofinvited guests. The mem
bers of the conclave are requested to
meet in their hall at 7.3O sharp.
ONE OF our citizens expresses the
opinion that dime novels-the stories
OF daring adventures portraying the
deeds of the most depraVed classes of
frontier life, and other bad literature.
Is read and having perniciOus effect
on our boys. He says they nearly all
read such demOralizing stuff. nor can
'ney be got interested in anything
else. Our public library is full of good
books, fiction, if that must be the
choice, and there is no excuse for this.
There must be great deal of culpa-
0Ility on the part of parents.
A dwelling occupied by q colored
family near Clayton, Gu the road to
this town, was burned about 73O
clock, last evening. The fire orig.
mated in some straw in the loft. and If
water had been handy, instead of hav.
ing to be brought from the Barnard
sweeney" property on the opposite
'ide oft the road, it might have been
EASILY extlnguished. Loss, about $780,
no insurance. No one seems to have
had a title to the house, but Hudson
md Moore lose the lumber which was
n it. The ground belongs to Jacob
Bryan.
'S3 STARTS out well for the farmers.
'Orn 49 cents bushel, wheat rs cents
md the fifth Quarter-poultrv. eggs
tc.,-way up in the scale. rs cents a
'ushel for wheat is not much, it is true.
Iut 1t is better than it was in the fall
The low price of wheat the past year
exceptional, and should be so /
reated. Until year ago, the books
II the transportation Office show that
he average price paid for wheat for
he four preceding years was S1.OO per
,ushel.
STATE SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. |
The executive committee of the state |
sunday school Association, comDosed
# John H. HOfOcker, of Smvrna.
aubrey Vandevsr, of Clayton; Charles
Cantwell, Joseph Pyle, Charles
Baird, Edgar A. Finley, w. K. Crosby
nd H. S. GOldey, Wilmington, met in
It. Paul's NJ, E. Church FRIDAY to
make arrangements for the next an.
usl convention, which will be held
n Smyrna in March. Messrs. Cant
veil, Baird, Crasby and Goldey were
ppOinted a committee on programme
nd Messrs Cantwell and Vandever a
ommittee on transportation.
JERRY GoLDsBOROUGH, (who hasn't
cen heard from lately says we are
have another wintry spell about the
9TH, aud then winter will be over. as
ompared to what we have had. He
1oks, however, for a wet, disagreeable
pring. jerry is believer in things
eing ordered Alright. The turtles.
'ogs, &c, usually burrow in the mud
nd water of shallow streams and
onds: This year they were dry and
nus driven to deeper water and shell
ar to hibernate, he thinks was the
leana Of saving their lives, for with
le long, severe weather we have had
1A froaf would bava v,anot.o.oI A. - 4