Smyrna times., 1894-11-07
Smyrna and Vicinity.

Smyrna and Vicinity.
IT isn't knowledge that makes some
len concelted, but the want of it.
The tickets for the three counties
pill be found on our fourth pages.
RUN down the business of any place,
md you will soon have no business to
un down.
HALLOWEEN passed off here un-
Usually quiet. The chief fun was in
hrowing corn.
CHILDRENs' coats, sizes, to 5 years,
with caps to match, at L. A. Cotton's.
Bottom prices. i
E. c. FAIRIES has a powder and shot
notice in his advertisement that inter
.sts spOTtsmen.
THE ladies of Smyrna Landing M. E.
Church will hold Festival on Friday
md Saturday evenings next.
The first white frost of the season
appeared this morning, the mecerY be-
ng down to 800, the ice point.
CONSULT the advertisement of Geo.
W. Taylor before putting in your
electric light and other fixtures.
KEEP a sharp lookout for thieves and
burglars. The long nights have come,
and these fellows do their work in the
dark.
SOME small boys think it manly to
swagger and blnster and abuse their
whereas they only show
their own littleness.
MUsH- AND MILK parties are the lat
est social fad in New York. Nothing |
more inexpensive and democratic
would please our ladies.
THE great agony is over. There
certainly must be a manifest relief
throughout the country at the loosen.
ing of the immense tension.
Mrs. L. A. COTTON shows a hand
some window this week dressed out in
infants coat and caps, with a bright
background Of fine silks. 1t has been
much admired.
The voters generally we think in
tended to cast ballot for a cOnven-
tiOn, bat large number of them did
not think of it yesterday when in the
voting booth.
GEO. w. TURNER had his new sham
bles (the store lately occupied by E. c.
FAIRIES adjoining his present one)
wainscoated, with other improve
ments before entering it on Monday.
THE men who voted for what is
called the bottle law" at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature, if their object
was to increase drunkenness among
young men, must take a great deal of
comfort in the act.
THE numerous predictions of an
early fall have failed to be verified.
This is November 7th and no killing
frost has fallen until last night. Last
spring was the earliest known and this
is the latest fall on record.
THE Kings Daughters Bazaar will
he held at the Opera Rouse on Wednes-
day next. l4th inst. At o'clock the
doors will be opened for the sale of
fancy articles; supper from to 10
o'clock. The public is cordially in
vted to attend. A good supper will
be served for 25 cents.
THE four mule team that came down
from Odessa Saturday might have been
representative one as far as the
animals that drew it were concerned
for they were we'll deported, but il
would hardly be fair for those inside
the wagon to be classified as represen-
tatives of that gOOdly burg. They were
however not the only ones that nigh
who left worse than they came.
SEVERAL men took a stroll on Sun
day afternoon, and in coming around
by the head of the mill pond found 81
white men and boys and severa
negroes playing cards. 1t is alst
stated that a gambling den was in full
operation in this town yesterday, anC
during the afternoon several men VIII,
sold their votes lost the money in thi
place playing poker. This evil is don
so in secret that but few of the bette
class of people know anything about it
The gXnning season opened Thurs
day, lst day of November, with
warm, beautiful day, and remaine
thus for the week. 1t was natural t,
suppose that partridges and rabbit
J would, from the exceptionally goo
weather, as we'll as being unsuspectin
from danger before it was right o.
them, suffer greatly from the hands G
sportsmen and perhaps they did, bu
hardly with the slaughter that Nigh
have been expected. We hear of on
man killing as high as seventeen bird
Thursday, and another nearly as man
/ the next day The depletion of gam
: can, however, be judged when fou
, men bagged % rabbits.
DEMOREsT Magazine begins a me-
volume with this number, and is a
ideal family magazine. 1t contains a
4 oil picture, full page gravure, tw
D pages of portraits and 1873 other illu
, trations. The Queen of Korea" is
highly interesting sketch of an orienti
queen, whose life is specially worthy
p note at this time, and gives much il
y formation concerning the historic PEI
i. pie, this Koreans. Margaret Bislan
e begins a serial, Our Working Sisters
j. which cannot fail to please its reader
: Various short stories, together with Il
e Household, Sanitarian and FashiC
l. departments fill its IS pages with goC
# family literature. Single copies, 20
Z Subscription price, per year, 50.
The Election Yesterday.
q The election yesterday was one
n more than usual earnestness but at u
+ same time of more than usual freedO
i from claohing We did not hear of {
angry word or an improper act,
~. f,rltttps gOps The mon infaraSfad