Smyrna times., 1897-09-01

LILO noluS are dlA SApOh5 AhSoO"N Va
the usual brown that September brings |
us.
A good many people have found this |
a very nice summer for staying at |
home,
Money cannot give happiness, but |
everybody is anxious to try the expert
ment.
Jerman's Chapel is making prepar-
atoms to give a lawn festival Friday
and Saturday evenings.
W. d. Venn, of Clayton, has estab-
lished an agency for his Maryland
biscuits with Thomas Jefferson II
The P. w. & B. Railroad are looking
for the person who released the brake
from the passenger coach last Thurs
day.
There are many people who seem
never to be happy unless they are mis-
erable or cause other people to be mis-
erable.
John Wanamaker has chartered the
the Thomas Clyde and will bring his
Sunday School to Woodland Beach
next Monday for days outing.
This is the season of phosphate, and
Testers claims again the attention of
the farmers. Ithas wonderful produc-
ing qualities. Ask Cosgriff & Beck
about it.
A cyclometer measurement of the
two roads to Woodland Beach makes
the distance from this town by the
Bradley farm 81 miles, and that of the
new road by Ford's, 8 miles.
B. A. and H. P. HAZEL, of this town,
sold on Monday to a party in New
Jersey, thirty head of fine heifers and
cows. They will be shipped to Penns-
grove on Friday by the steamer Van
Solver.
The Johnson's Cornet Band of this
town, with a large contingent of col
ored people will join masonic excur-
sion from Wilmington to Atlantic City
tomorrow. The colored boys are prac-
tising and intend to make a good
showing with the other bands.
There will be ''Big Meeting" Man
ship NJ. E. Church, near Cheswold,
commencing on Sunday Sept. 10th.
Meeting will also be held on the follow
ing Tuesday and Thursday nights
There will be good preaching and
ever body is welcome to all the ser
vices.
Napoleon B. Deakyne, who went
from ThOrOughfare Neck to New Cas-
tie to live fifteen years ago, died in
that place on Monday, after alingering
illness, aged SO years. He was a
brother of Mrs. J. w. Denney, of this
town. Three daughters and three sons
survive him, one of them Lieut.. Her
bert Deakyne. The remains will be
brought down on the morning train to-
morrow, to Blackbird, for interment
at Friendship Church.
August is the month of pleasure, that
is, pleasure by excursions or travel on
cars, and we commence to-day the be.
ginning of the fall months. The larg
est excursion of the season from Will
mingtOn and intermediate stations tC
RehobOth and Ocean City, was run OF
Thursday. The train consisted of 81
cars and was run in three sections
Nine cars were taken to RehOboth ani
twenty-seven to Ocean City. The on,
on August 18th took 200 people.
Sunday closed what may be termeC
the churches vacation. A writer thu
says of it: "After this the services will
be held as is the usual custom, anC
each congregation will look forward t.
the pastor occupying his pulpit as o
old. And the re-Opening as it were o
the conflict against the evils abroad il
the land with an energy, it is hope'
that will lead to the throwing down o
the strong holds of satan and tn
triumphing of right against wrong tina
may exceed the results of the past"
The Second Quarterly Meeting of thi
Conference year will be held in tn
Asbury NJ. Z. church next Sabbath
The Presiding Elder, Rev. w. F
Corkran, d. D., will conduct the Low
Feast at $50 A. NJ. and preach at 1875
The Quarterly Conference will b
held on Friday evening, Sept. 10th, 9
7.3O o'clock. The following Sunday
the 18th inst. he will preach at tFriend
ship at 1890 o'clock, Blackiston's at
P. NJ, and Hartley at 7.30 P. N. Th
Quarterly Conference for Smyrna Gin
cult will be held in the afternoon {
the 18th at the parsonage.
The Prettyman Bros, have receive
the machinery for their hosiery factory
The ribbers and knitters are all fin
looking machines Of the latest improve
patents. They also received their cy
= clone dryer, all of which are being pU
in place as fast as they arrive. AS 500
as the new boiler and engine are put
place the hosiery department under IL
= charge Of J. e. Phillips, Jr., will start u
and the buzz of that factory will ind
cate a healthy and thrifty business
D More help is needed and what splei
, did opportunity for families of girls I
l move to our midst.
: The wheat market last week 10
much of its buoyancy. For SON
: weeks up to Monday week there hl
s been almost steady rise since ha
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