Smyrna times., 1899-09-06

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NJ. E. Church will meet Monday night.
The Quarterly Conference of Clayton
Circuit, NJ. p Church, will be held in
Downs Chapel, next Sunday at 4p. m.
The Blackbird Methodist Episcopal
Church will be dedicated on Sunday |
the 18th inst, with appropriate exer-
cises.
There will be preaching at Downs
Chapel next Sunday at 3 p. m, by the !
pastor, Rev. J. E. Nicholson, COM
muniOn; Sunday School p. m.
''NutwOod," the fine trotting horse
belonging to Mr.. Reuben Warren of |
the Stoeckle House, has been sold to
DIR. B. d. Evans of Morris Plains, n. |
J., for $25O.OO.
An ice cream festival, in the interest |
of Ewell's Sunday School, will be held |
in YOung's store room on next Friday |
and Saturday nights. Public patron
age is cordially solicited.
The Street Committee of the Clayton |
Town Council are looking after the
drainage of the town, and during the |
past week the cutters of many proper
ties have been raised to grade and put |
in shape.
The pulpit of st. Paul NJ. E.
Church was filled last Sunday night
by Presiding Elder W. F. Corkran.
His sermon is highly spoken of by
members of the congregation who
heard him.
Dayid Boggs of near town, has five
peach trees in full bearing from wich
he expects to secure 10 baskets. This
lucious fruit is very rare in this vicin-
ity and Mr.. Boggs is envied by many
peach growers.
While working with a threshing
machine on the ''Pratt Farm" near
town the past week, Sewell Guy caught
his hand in the machinery, and lascer-
ated it so badly, that DIR. J. S. Cobb
had to take eight stitches in the wound
before it would heal
Blanco A. NJ. E. Church Camp will
begin next Sunday and continue two
weeks. Meeting two nights in the
week, Tuesday and Thursday Rev.
J. H. Holden, Rev. P. Daker, and Rev.
J. E. Cook, of Smyrna, will assist in
the Sunday and week night services.
W. F. & ]. R. Clements are we'll
pleased with the favor with which the
Buckye Drill is taking with the farm
ers, and they are selling them, with the
prospect of many more sales before the
season is over. Read the opinion of
those who have used them, in their ad-
vertisement elsewhere.
Rev. J. E. Nicholson, pastor of
Ewell's NJ P. Church, will preach
next Sunday on the following subjects:
1890 a. m, ''The Builders En-
couraged'; 7.3O p. M, ''Lost and
Found" a revival service. Sunday
School 2 p. m. Revival services each
night next week except on Monday
and Saturday.
The 18th Anniversary of st. Paul NJ
E. Church will be celebrated On
Sunday the 18th with appropriate ex-
ercises. 1t is the intention of the COM
mittee who have the matter in charge
to have program of special interest,
and the members and all those who
have been connected with the school
in the past are invited to be present.
The Public Schools opened yester-
day morning on their fall and winter
term. Prof. W. L. GOoding and all
his able corps of assistants were at
there station, and tine attendance of the
scholars made a good showing, despite
the fact that the canning factory and
other outside interests were keeping
some away. The school term opened
under unfavorable conditions and there
is promise of good work being done
through the year.
Ran a Nail in His FOOt.-John Harri-
son, foreman of Perkins Tomato Can
merry, met with painful accident last
Friday by having nail driven through
his foot. He was on pile of crates,
and jumping down on the floor his foot
came in contact with a nail that was
sticking up, and the force of his weight
drove the nail so deep, that it was nee
essarry for DR.. J. s. Cobb to extricate
it and dress the the wound.