Smyrna times., 1896-04-15

ney was elecIeu treasurer anu w ILL., L.
Dunn secretary.
Did you ever examine the work
turned out at Cummings photograph
gallery? His work is becoming more
popular every day. Mr.. Cummings
will be here every Wednesday despite
the impression gotten out that he in
tends closing soon. He has opened a
permanent gallery in Smyrna and the
public will find him there every |
Wednesday.
Carey Frazier, a we'll known farmer
who has been residing on the ''Spru-
ance farm" three or four miles east of
the town a number of years, died on
Thursday last after a steady declen-
sion in health for several years of
cataarh of the stomach, aged 81 years,
8 months. B fore the decline in health
he had taken considerable interest in
public affairs, and for a number of
years with family of growing child
ren, his home had been centre of
social influence. His funeral Sunday
afternoon was largely attended. In
addition to Sunday and the day being
fine one, the procession of carriages
was very large, and for the same rea-
son great many walked out from the
town to the Odd Fellows Cemetery.
There were perhaps 800 people in at
tendance. In addition to the usual
ceremony by Rev. w. R. MOwbray,
the Odd Fellows, who were present in
a body, followed with the rites of the
order. Besides the widow his surviv-
ing children are James Fl. Frazier,
Carey Frazier Jr, Mrs. JohnP. Jones,
Mrs. Reuben Ford. Mrs. Elisha Vo-
shell and Mrs Howard Jones.
A gentleman who has attended the
Glyndon camps near Baltimore where
they have yearly medal contests and
other temperance entertainments, says
that the speaking of the contestants
i'll our Opera House Monday evening
was of higher average of excellence
than similar contest he heard there.
1t hardly needs a comparison with an
other place to know when a thing is
near perfection, and is the highest
mede of praise that can be awarded
young declaimers. The fact that it
took the judges full half hour to de-
eide, with the expressed wish that
there had been five other medals in
stead of one to award, shows the diff
Guilty in reaching decision. The facts
go to show that with any three judges
taken prOmiscuOusly from the audience
there might have been a. variation Of
the decision with the same conditions
before them. While all the speakers
were roundly applauded the prolonged
applause which called for a recognition
from the speakers, was with Miss Mai'
FAIRIES and Miss Leila Reynolds, be.
cause they had that in their manner
which stirred the blood and warmed
the heart, as well as elOquence in pos,
and grace in delivery. With com
mittee who would take Henry Cla,
rather than Edward Everett as a mode
of oratory, The decision might hav
been differ ent.
In a private note from Rev, D1
John A. Roche, of New York, VIII
spent his boyhood days in Smyrn
> and was pastor of the M. E. Churc
here fOrty-six years ago, he says: ''I
Z (THE SMYRNA TnIEs) CONSTANT
e keeps before me so many names an
e events and histories that so reproduC
= the past of grateful memory, and S
= tensify the present, that cannot te
q o you my obligation to you. Th
sketches of the great men of Delawal
that the TIMES has brought to m
e home prove of real interest-John N
{. Clayton and Nathaniel B. Smithel
3, and others, were read by me wit
le eagerness, and cut out as histories
-e men to be honored. In your issue
d April 1st, 1896, 1 have read with deligl
II the graphic letter of Roland W. Bel
IN on Tyre, SidOn and Beirut Sue
rs descriptions of places and use of fac
d should interest inquiring and INTEL
id gent minds and make facts of the pa
it and the present exert their power {
1r the human thought. have written
is letter to the father of Mr.. Bell, cor
N plimenting him for the talent and SIX
le of such son."