Smyrna times., 1895-09-04

SOME cases of hay fever are sneezing
around.
REEDBIRDs are here, but the shooters
| grumble over their success.
The season for play is over and the
time for work has come.
THE summer girl has had a good
time. The summer boy ditto.
FISHERMEN are looking for good
sport and large catch in September.
OUR merchants who advertise an
nounce big bargains, to make room for
fall stock.
SEPTEMBER promises to be as warm
as royal August, with longer nights to
swelter in.
The stock of store goods of ]. H.
Jefferson is being sold at public sale
this week.
The fall of the leaf is already per-
ceptible and soon the melancholy days
will be with us.
The season at Woodland Bench is
coming to a close. The boat makes
her last trip Sunday.
The advertisement of Clarence
Prettyman-bOots and shoes-win an
pear in our next issue.
CLIFTON & RAYMOND's assortment
OF school supplies is the best in town.
See their 3 cent tablet for ink. Il
The grape has been one of the most
disappointing crops of the year. They
are now scarcely netting one cent "a
pound.
in former years peaches used to sell
IN the local market by the basket. This
year they are sold mainly by the quart
3 cents.
BICYCLERs pretty generally obey the
ordinance requiring them to expose
lights at night and to not wheel on the
sidewalks.
The colOred people organized last
week Grand Army Post here with "a
charter members, designated the Gen.
Benz F. Butter Post.
THE people who have been awav
summering are coming back to home
duties, refreshed and enlivened. and
their pocketbooks depleted.
The Counselman canning factory is
having an average output of 10000
cans per day. One hundred and tiftv
peelers and packers are employed.
MEssRs Megear & Son call especial
attention to their closing out sale.
They quote specially low prices for Ger.
tain goods until Sep goth.
PROF. w. l.. Scotch, the popular
principal of the Leipsic public Schools
has returned from his summer vacation
and opened the schools, Monday, for
another season.
A business meeting of the Christian
Endeavor society of the NJ. E. Church.
VIII be held in the lecture room at 7 90
O'Clock tonight. Election of officers
will take place.
ONE of our gallant gents called on his
lady love the other evening and said
Il can't stay but half an hour" She
replied: TOO bad, dear, you won't
have time to bid me good night"
Gus JOHNS, the barber, who has been
holding forth in the room below DR.
DWights office, mas sold out Jacob
Stem, formerly with Joseph B. HUM.
Mr.. stein set in Monday morning.
lHE transportation Company is re-
celvlng large cargoes of coal for winter
supply. 1t is an interesting sight to
see the barges come up the creek. and !
the unloading of same in the large coal |
bins.
a business meeting of the w. C.. T. |
y. will be held at the Temperance |
Room Monday, September 9Th. at Q 30 |
o clock. A full attendance is requested |
this being the time for the election of |
officers for ensuing year. SEC'Y.
THREE conversions at Jerman Chapel |
on Monday evening is evidence that |
The summer ends and the fall begins |
with a good degree ofreligious interest.
1t was a simple class. meeting. and
they were all heads of families.
DAVID STUBBs will sell at public sale
at the residence of the Martha Stubbs. |
corner of Mt. Vernon and Pearl streets.
on to-marrOw, Thursday afternoon, at
2 O'Clock, lot of household goods. etc.
The house will be for rent, with i'm.
nc edlate possession.
1T has been about nine years since
an earthquake visited this section
previous to that of Sunday morning
lelLher being disturbing, but the seis-
mic disturbance of nine wears AGO
would have been more decided had il
been IN the quiet part of the day instead
Of the afternoon.
SATURDAY gave us the promise Of n
.hunder shower, but only a few drops of
ain fell The a ahsanoa e. ,...l r !