Smyrna times., 1896-12-23

pect their place as Judges to determine
law and its execution.
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Many street crossings are still dirty.
We are now in the shortest days of
the year.
Christmas turkeys are abundant in
market.
So we won't have green Christmas,
after all.
The bango is to be the fashionable
fad this winter.
Poeket-Books at Clifton & Ray
mOnd's Pharmacy.
DIR. F. L. Grier, Dentist, Prettyman
Building, Smyrna Del.
Girls, you have eight more days in
which to pop the question.
The TIMES wishes its readers a
| Merry Christmas and O happy New
Year.
The girl with Gainsborough hat is
nuisance in a crowd of Christmas
| shoppers.
WANTED.-2 lb chickens and under
alive 10cents per lb. Green & Bro,
| Odessa, Del.
Agent for the sale of Radamn's Mi
crObe Killer, the best medicine for al,
diseases J. B. Cooper. If
1t would be well for a better obser-
vance of the ordinance requiring the
throwing off of snow in front of proper
ties.
Go to Cummings, photographer,
Post Office building, for finely finished
cabinets, mantelles etc. Here every
Wednesday. Z
The wheat grower ought to be happy.
While everything else is going down
in price, this commodity has almost
reached dollar bushel
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the public sale of the personal
property of the late Stephen Walker at
KentOn on Thursday, Jan. 7th.
, The scarcest thing in market this
week has been butter. Monday after
noon there was not pound of country
or creamery butter to be had at any of
the stores. 1t looks as if there had
been lots of cake made for the holidays.
The Philadelphia Record is first in
the field with its 1897 almanac, and it
is in all respects fully on par with its
) admirable predecessors. A page and
!. a half devoted to Delaware data makes
the almanac of special interest and
! value in this State.
S The suit of Mrs Mary E. G. Voshell
3 versus Thomas Cavender, involving
the payment of mortgage for $500,
began in the New Castle County Su-
5 periOr Court Monday and was con-
s cluded yesterday with verdict for the
n defendant, her brother.
I Owing to the large crop and low price
of corn, the Philadelphia and Smyrna
: Transportation Company have reduced
g the rate on sheiled corn to three (3)
cents a bushel and will furnish sacks
@ to be used for handling.
e While not extremely cold, it has been
y cold enough from the melting snow to
II make ice (the murcury dropping to
It near 20 degrees of nights and several
b people have slipped and fallen on the
IT streets, though fortunately with no
J. serious results.
Walter O. Hoffecker, agent for the
Neut County Mutual Insurance Com
p. pauy, has the list for 1897 in hand, anC
is now ready to receive the premiums
in He and his corps of assistants have
lt been busy all the week waiting on pol
b. icy holders.
E. Walkers School House will be thu
2 scene of a grand Christmas entertain
TO ment tomorrow night, at p. NJ, con
te sisting of literary exercises by tn,
Sc scholars, followed by Santa Claus viii
is his Christmas candy and toys for tn
We good girls and boys.
ey The seven inches of snow that fell
ee week ago and which still fingers, woul
n have made good sleighing last wee
e. mad it been without rain in the begin
d. ming and had it been colder the frs
day or two As it was there was jim
We gle of bells the first several hours,
Ia. fact that did not occur all last winter
m Our windows aboutt town are lookin
very pretty with Christmas gifts an
10 preparations made for a much heavie
in trade than has been experienced thu
ere far. 1t is to be hoped that to-morro'
he Christmas Eve will bring Q heavy il
hux of buyers TO our town and bool
'ed realized in all trade circles,
me Mrs. LOttie BrOcksOn's first reguls
the meeting with the Teachers Union Wa
not held on Friday night in the PYesbl
"a terian Chapel. As the Sunday SebO
'I0 lessons for the next quarter will all |
TO in the Acts of the Apostles, the Normi
hat Drill was upon the New Testamen
rse Many expressions of approval Of Mr.
80 Brockson's work have been made sine
JUG and it is to be hoped that the Union
gnt permanent organization.
lts) There is astonishment and indign
II ton expressed at the statement th
a., durSng the two weeks stay of the
~ dian Medicine Company here, Il
Opera House was occupied by t
indians as 0 FRosrding or lodgil
mt house, and on 6h6 last Sunday u
oes place was kept open apA E9mewhat
ties an ovation kept mp thrOugbost thc do
no. just how much of lodging house v
! at made Of it we do not know, but
one criticism runs in the direction that
ms * Enwise and unsafe to let such yalr
ted bic property risk the hazards OF su
and occupancy.