Smyrna times., 1900-01-10
SMYRNA AND VICINITY.
Short Items OF General Interest Gathered
During the Week.

Cash distributor of first grade coal.
W. A. Winford.
w. A. Winford will sell you No.
coal cheap for cash
Acontinued steady cold winter means |
a peach crop next summer.
Our police have gotten through the
holidays with fewer arrests than
nsual.
Steamer Geo. F. Brady resumed her
regular trips on Monday. Will go ac
cording to schedule unless prevented
by ice.
The laugh is on the goosebone man,
who predicted that what winter we
would have would be in the latter
part.
Cummings, the Wilmington phOtOg-
rapher, is here every Wednesday.
Gallery, Post Office Building. Finest
class of work at reasonable prices.
An unusual quantity of corn has been
shipped to market the last month, as a
result of the good roads. The returns
ought to make money more abundant.
Farmers in need of stock and farm
utensils may find much to interest
them in the advertisement of Jos. H.
Primrose, W. H. Cacey and Isaac
Sinex.
The business of w. o. Hoffecker,
Insurance agent, shows decided in
crease the past over former years, i'll
both the Kent County Mutual and
Stock companies.
Str. z. Van Solver arrived at Smyrna
Landing from Leipsic on Tuesday,
with full cargo of corn and canned
goods, which will be transferred to
Str. Brady to-day for shipment to
Philadelphia.
Chas. H. Station, occupant of the
Hirnheimer store, whose goods were
sold at Constable sale on Saturday,
has gone to Philadelphia, and J. S.
Hopes, who had a shoe store in the
Prettyman Building, has returned to
Wilmington.
The Baltimore Sun Almanac for 1900
came to hand on Saturday as a supple
ment of the Justly celebrated Baltimore
Daily Sun. 1t has 178 pages of infor-
nation, including the almanac part.
that is of especial interest to Maryland
krs and people of this Peninsula.
Whatever may be the future of this
peculiar winter, persons having ice
houses must feel peculiar pleasure in
knowing that whatever may happen,
they are we'll stocked with pure and
thick ice. One confectioner filled
three houses for MS own use.
An exchange last week said: The
paper trust and the type trust have ad
vanced prices so high that country
newspapers are having hard time O
it to make both ends meet. The coun
try editor cannot, very well, advance
of q.
he has to stand the increase on the ray
material himself.
A writer in Review of Reviews give
this advise: eff you have farm keeI
it; if not, get one; for the time ma.
come when the population of thi
country will be largely divided int
monopolists, dependents and farmers
and the farmer will be the most inde
pendent of all men, and will be th
saving power of our institutions.
The COW kicked the bucket over an
spilled the milk, and if you do not ge
the Farm Journal for five years jus
by paying up what you owe us for th
TIMES and year ahead, you will b
like that COW. The Farm Journal an
THE SMYRNA TIMES make a splendi
combination and should be in ever
farmers home.
On Friday evening a gentlemen wh
had an umbrella (there was only a ligl
rain failing) went to the manse of I'll
Presbyterian church to see the pasto
He was in the house less than ten mil
utes. but when he and pastor Estli
came to the door, the umbrella thI
had been left on the porch was gon