Smyrna times., 1894-02-28

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pass its halfway mark and be on the
home stretch.
POTATOES are higher in price per
bushel than wheat, and the never were
poorer in quality.
B. A. & H. P. HAZEL advertise else.
where pair OF fine mules, years old
and fine yearling colts.
WHEN you write proper names of
persons, place or things be careful to
write them plainly and distinctly.
If you are in need of clothing, over
coats or pantaloOns, now is the time
to buy them cheap, at Edw. G.. Walls.*
GEO. w. GORDON exhibited his pa
triOtism as usual on Washington's |
birthday, by suspending good sized |
flag. --
Mrs. Maggie Johnson, of Thorough
fare Neck, lost an old family horse last |
week that had got to the advanced age |
of 33 years.
The citizens of KantOn will be en-
tertained by "Ye Deestrick Skule of We
Oden Times'On the evening of Thurs
day March 18th.
LET every voter be at the polls Mon
day and cast an honest vote, not fer
mere personality, but for the highest
and best interest of our town.
No 8 seems to be the lucky number
in all the DemOrest Contests here, at
least it has been the winning figure, it
is said, in each of the four efforts.
"STICK to the old stand" as quoted
from a customer, is the cOmmendation
of Mrs Smith in an advertisement else
where to those persons intending to get
ice.
THE Ames Iron Works engine ar
rived yesterday and as all the Westing-
house apparatus is here the adj
ditional plant is expected to be ready
soon.
w. G. Pierce aud John Armstrong
who went to Kentucky some few weeks
ago to get lot of mules, brought with
them yesterday 80 head which they ex-
pect to put on sale.
JOHN DALLON, aged Al years, who
sufiocated by gas at his cousins 250
South 9th Street Philadelphia Sunday
blowing instead of turning it off, was a
| resident of the Neck. He was in
search of employment.
The machinery of the canning fac
tory of J. B. COunselman & Co., has ar
rived and is now being put in the new
two story building just completed. Mr..
j. B. COunselman came up yesterday
and in short time they expect to be
making cans for the seasons use. They
have ordered so tons of tin which they
expect to make into cans.
IN the midst of blooming enterprises
and business ventures that has oharac,
terized Smyrna the past several months,
is to be and 10 cent stOre-a con-
centrated place of cheap and useful
things. 1t is to be opened by Mrs John
w. Tucker, on Market street.-the
house formerly occupied by plummer
Jones.
IT was only young, bouyant hearts
that ventured ont in the snow storm OF
Sunday evening where there was a
young lady in the case, except the few
impelled by duty to await on the
Sanctuary. Rev. Mr.. Stengle had q
congregation Of thirty, counting the
sexton twice, which was speaking vel
for their faithfulness.
FEBRUARY has given US a number o
what are called nasty little SHOWS,
that is, 9n inch or two of snow to be
E cleaned off or tramped under foot but
the last beat them all in its disagree
ableness. The worst feature of thes,
2 frequent SHOWS is, the effect on tn,
public roads. 1t keeps them sloppy
cut-up, or generally bad.
The real estate of the late T. +
I Brayman farm and two dwellings wer,
sOldat public sale by the administrator
: in Kenton on the 18th inst. The farm
vi /
ings, 1895, were purchased by William
H. Greenwell, and the other dwelling
$500, by Mrs. VIM. Greenwell and he
S sister, Miss Ella V. Brayman. Tn
!; aggregate was $2,795.
n GEO. VANWINKLE, who had bee
: clerking In Philadelphia for some year
died at the residence Of his father her,
James Wrinkle, on Thursday morr
d ing, aged 80 years. He had been Il
# bad health for several years, the in
mediate Gauss of death being col
q sumption. The remains were interre
If in GlenwOod cemetery Saturday afte
- noon. He leaves a widow.
ALLAN A. DEHONEY, agent for tn
n manufacture of cOttolene, is in town I
l. introduce it, and left samples
- crackers, cakes and crullers at this o
p hce. COttOlene, from what we ca
9r learn of it, is superior to lard in cool
n ing, especially when health is col
sidered, and for this reason is rapid
u working its way to the front. It ma
If be seen at the store of Fowler & Lees
,e OUR annual Municipal Eleotic
comes off next Monday. A "voter"
er another column covers the ground vel
re thOughtfully as to the spirit that shou
= control in the choice ofCommissioner
The figures that show the responsible
IN ity OF the Office, should ba proof again
In jObbery from any and all sides, and
the Taxpayers do not have this
" mind in choosing their candidates. tn,
of can have only themselves to blame
~ to the result.
th The Kentucky Citizen of Saturd,
ut has the following local item: ~. w.
- j. NJ. Mutsell sold to w, @. Pierce.
W Smyrna, Delaware 30 head of 3-yea
w old mules, mostly mares, at a fan,
,rt price. They were selected after lool
ing several counties over, and N
ss Pierce considered these the best
an had seen. He has been purchasiI
GO mules from this section for seve
90 years"
n
nd The William Lea & Sons Co., of W
he mington, Del, manufacturers Of lie,
celebrated -four and corn products. wi
es had the misfortune recently to lose o.
lst OF their most important mills, by fl
90 have succeeded in getting all of the
other mills in good running order al
le- are now supplying orders with tbs
td- accustomed promptness. Statemeu
nd 20 tne contrary have been circulate