Smyrna times., 1893-01-18
Smyrna and Vicinity.

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water pipes.
How does this strike YOU for an old
fashioned winter?
ARE the farmers seeing after the
partridges, rab bits and other game ?
| PERSONS are complaining at the
/ quantity of ashss dumped in the street
since the snow fall
ZERO weather is always alarming to
the peach men, and we have had little
else now for ii week or more
THE cold snap, down to zero the past
week, made work for the plummers.
Many water pipes had to be thawed
out.
THERE was with the snowfall last
week general observance of the ordi-
nance in clearing the snow from the
sidewalks.
The milk men had no enviOus ewes
cast at them the past week. They
certainly earned double the money
they received.
The past month has not been too
cold to get married, if we may Judge
of the long list elsewhere. They are
numbered by the score.
THE rich men say it is difficult to
make good investments. The news
paper men have the same trouble, but
theirs is to get the wherewith to invest.
/ LAST week it looked as if a thief had
b zen at the coal pile. Every house.
keeper is ready to swear that in no
other way could the coal have got so
low.
THERE will be u struggle next sum-
mer between the dealers in natural and
artificial ice. But perhaps they will
combine and the consumer will not
know which is the cheaper.
The Philadelphia Times Almanac for
1893 has been received at this Office
As a complete and convenient compen-
dunn of information, general and po-
litical, and particularly the latter, the
Times almanac holds a high place in
this country.
The mechanic in the pleasant work
shop, comfortably heated, has had the
advantage over the outdoor workman.
this month. Fresh sir is very health
ful and appetizing, but few want it in
such doses as has been administered
all this month.
NOTHING so excites the female mind
as wedding. This is right because it
IS natural, and every one is Interested
in the couple who launch out fearlesslv.
yea joyously on an unknown sea. An
other marriage will soon create a Hut-
ter among the young folks.
WILLIAM WALLACE died at the resi-
dence of his brother, Benjamin Wal.
lace, at Brenford on Monday after a
long illness OF consumption, aged 30
years. He was well thought of in his
neighbOrhOod. The interment will take
place to-day at Bethel NJ. +. Church.
MEssRs, Goggenheimer, We'll & Co.
havS our thanks for fine calendar for
1898. These gentlemen carry on
lllhograPhing and printing business in
Baltimore, and if the work on their
calendar is a sample of what they can
do, persons desiring their services will
be sure of good job
By an overnight in setting the type
and also in correcting proof the figures
in the sale of the Stephenson farm
were incorrect. The item written said
that this farm which JOnn C. Bailey
bought month or so ago at public sale
for S4,5OO, was sold last week to Wal.
ter 7. Massey, for $4,000
The question of sewerage is the next
one to engage the attention of our peo.
plea matter of the economy OF health.
1t will cost some $4,000. The Legis-
lature will be asked to pass a bill al
lowing the citizens to determine the
matter by ballot. The purity of our
drinking water is the real matter at is.
sue, and it is an important one.
JOSEPH J. HUMEs has rented the
house that has been used as a parson-
age at Blackbird, TO carry on the
butcher business. An unOccuDied
tenament house OF the farm of s. B
0inn was burned down on Mon.
day night. ----- Abram Hayden. Of
FieldsborO, who has been in for
sometime, is thought to be beyond
recovery.
SOME NEW YEAR DATEs.-Lent be-
gins February 10, and ends with Eas.
ter Sunday, April 2; WashingtOn's
Birthday, February %, is on Wednes-
day; Inauguration of the President,
Saturday. March 4; st. Patrick's Day,
March II, on Friday; Fourth of July,
on Tuesday; Labor Day, Monday,
September 4; Christmas, December 25,
on Monday.
LEVI SYLVESTER, as ianitor of the
Public SchsOl building, has fully tested
the quality of the steam heating an.
paratus and his ability to run It, the |
rooms being vacated at no time ia all |
this cold weather for want Of sufficient |
temperature but a part Of Monday |
morning, when the mercury fell sew
degrees below zero. This is very diff.
ferent from the lost days of previous
anu iullu WlnlefS.
THE zero weather of the past week
was not without its biting effect in a
number OF cases, IN nipped fngers,
toes, ears, etc. Mr.. Armstrong, of the |
Delaware House, is feeling it very
perceptibly where the frosty air affect
cd his face, which was rhe more sus-
ceptible to the cutting cir, because he
had been shaved but an hour or 80
before entering the sleigh behind
fast traveller. We are SO upaccustom-
ed to such weather as ni,t 10 think of
the necessary precautions,