Smyrna times., 1896-08-26
SMYRNA AND VICINITY!

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SMYRNA AND VICINITY!
Summer colds have set in with the
cooler weather.
DIR. F. l.. Grier, Dentist, Prettyman
Building, Smyrna Del. Il
Monday was the first rainy Monday
to interfere with the washerwomen for
some months.
1t does not take long for bicyclist
to find out that &" sundries" and repairs
cost as does the wheel.
Already some people are putting in
coal, renovating heaters, and otherwise |
preparing for cold weather.
Attention is called to the advertise
ment of the personal property of the
late Samuel Cacy, Kent Co., Md.
Mrs Mary A. Collins has taken out
letters of administration on the estate
of her late husband, Franklin Collins.
We are indebted to Geo. Heinold Jr.
for large cantaleupe-size of small
watermelon-buto of every good quality.
A beautiful rainbow near sundOwn
Monday evening spanned the east, as
the orb of day peeped from under its
cover.
The Ladies' Benevolent Society will
meet at the residence of Mrs Lydia
Mcdowell, Tuesday evening, Septem-
ber /, 1896.
David Stevenson, our stone cutter,
is erecting a handsome monument of
Westernly granite for the Lapham
family, near Smyrna.
The property of Nehemiah Moore,
on west Mt. Vernon street, has been
sold through Cosgriff, Beck & Hazell
to Anthony Kiss, for 5000.
Watermelons have been of unusual
quantity and good size this year.
Robert Denney pulled one from his
patch last week that weighed AZ lbs.
The store house of Michael Blendt,
on West Commerce St., in tenure of
,, Lewis Peeky, has been sold through
Cosgriff, Beck and HAZEL to L. NJ.
r HirOns for $500.
: A free balloon ascension and thrilling
/, parachute jump will be given il
g Smyrna tomorrow, Thursday, August
/ 81, from the show grounds, at and
P. NJ, in connection with Sparks
q Aliens Circus.
j The trustees of Morning Star Lodge
S No. 16, 1. o. o. F., are contemplating
9 the putting in of a faucet for the us
: of their cemetery. 1t will be cOnnecte'
II with the main as soon as the award
given to the lowest bidder, which vii
be received this week.
/ A Hungarian dance" was the al
y traction at the Bohemian village, q
IL Smyrna Landing, Sunday night. Wit
le an accordeon for music and the har
le ground as their "ball room floor,
Is they danced and carried on as thOug
III Sunday was day unknown.
Is There was a partial eclipse of til
nt moon early Sunday morning, visibl
ed from Boston to San Francisco.
IN began at 10. 80 o'clock and was at i
ce full height at 334 in the morning.
nd was beautiful night, but few in tn
e. town waited up to see it.
he John Peterson, of Philadelphia, Sc
lis of the late Alexander Peterson, di'
'e- on Friday at the residence of his siste
9re Mrs. John G. Corbit, in Odessa. II
mt remains were brought to Smyrna {
I'VE Monday and inferred in the Peters,
ga family lot in Odd Fellows Cemeter
iy, He leaves no family, his wife and eh
rn dren having died before him.
i'll
as. The Ebenezer camp ground, abo
two miles this side of Townsend, W
-, the scene of bloody battle Sund
- among 100 or more negroes. Al Pom
90 of Middletown, is not expected to Ii
- Joseph Henry, of near Townsend,
80 shot through the right arm, No ARE
"a "a have been made and no one will furni
Vne any information which would lead
- arrests.
nus Vacation days are nearly ended, {
use public school opening next Tuesd
the first day of September. 1t will
l"'- one of the pleasing evidences of
end Of the long holiday incident to
les leS, summer season, and settling down
of business, to see the school child
far trouping through the streets ag
that with we'll filled satchels of books
no af meet their preceptors in the halls
education.
ort-
rage (commaHicated.)
the SMYRNA, DEL, Aug, "a, 1885,
and Editor Smyrna Times:-We de-
lbil- through the columns of your paper
erve EXPRESS our Wsrmest thanks to
'eeh friends and neighbors for the kind1
,oon and sympathy shown us during
80 80 death of our beloved husband and
ato 9o ther, and also to the X. G. E.
~. Kings Daughtersf for their kindness
'-am III sympathy and to Smyrna Lodge,