Smyrna times., 1940-10-24

The cabbage crop is very large
Did the Mckinley bill cause the III.
crease?
The ladies of the Kenton M. E
Church will hold a festival this
evening.
The platform and board walk at
the depot has been replaced with
new one.
John Wilkinson had his chicken
house relieved one night last week
of dozen chickens.
The Ladies Benevolent Society
will meet October %, 1890, at the
residence of Mrs. T. B. Megear.
Ralph Pybus, residing near Clay
ton, picked three quarts of straw
berries from his patch last week.
Three car loads of oyster shells
came yesterday, and are being de-
posted on lower Commerce Street.
The chestnut crop has been
gathered, some of it two weeks
ago, and all without speck of
frost.
Rev. Mr.. Wilson commenced a
revival service at the chapel at
Smyrna Landing last evening, re-
sulting in two conversions. The
ElIol
Miss Sallie Stephenson, of Smyr-
ma, and Mrs. M. M. Kelly, of Will
mington, have purchased from
Mrs. Lizzie Stephenson her millin-
cry store at 6O4 King street, Will
mington.
Tomorrow evening the colored
people will have the Opera House
an doubtless big time star con-
cert, addresses, promenade, festi-
val &c. 1t is in charge of a COM
mittee of 100.
Frost for the first time showed
this morning on dry substances,
but the precipitation was too great
for effective on vegetation. The
22nd of October is remarkably late
for the visitation.
John Peekey secured a good fat
opossum in the garden of Mr.. Shell
ton on Union Street at noon to-
day that had by some means taken
IlH In
as he swung it along to his home.
There are indications of reviv-
al of the roller skating craze, and
the number of urchins who can be
seen shooting along the pavements
with rollers, under their feet, like
winged Mercuries, grows larger
daily.
Mr.. Stevenson the ice cream
maker, Leinberger and Hoffecker,
meat dealers, and the hotels are
getting ice from the city (manu-
factured) at S. per ton, against
SIG what they had formerly been
paying.
Halloween will soon be around
again. Mischievous boys need not
remove porches, gates, signs, &C.,
to remind US that it is the 31st Of
October. We will know it by the
approach Of tax-paying and cleo
tion time.
Mrs. Sarah "a. Lovegrove. resid-
ing On the Light House road has
plum tree having on it two or
three dozen plums more than half
grown. and other branches Of the
tree are still bearing blossoms.
She has apple trees that are like
wise in blossom.
There has been a little rivalry
between Charles H. Register, ]. F.
Clements, Daniel Turner and John
Young as to which would have the
largest garden pumpkin, Mr..
Young's leading at 80 pounds. II
is now in the window of Mr.. Reg
ister's shambles.
James Wiley, young man liv-
ing in Dutch Neck, fell from a tree
on Saturday last distance Of
thirty or forty feet. His collar
bone was fractured and he sustain
ed some internal injury. DR.. Con-
away, Of Leipsic, attended him, and
he is doing well.
The Wilmington Sunday Star in
noting the suspension of the Smyr-
ma Record says: Smyrna has had
for years a most excellent local
journal in the Times, and as the
community Is scarcely large
enough to support two newspap-
ers the Record had to go.
The Loyal Legion reopened last
Monday by electing the following
officers: President, Nellie FAIRIES;
Vice President Howard Jones; Sec
retary, Adela Beck; Treasurer,
Annie Stevenson and Organist,
Edith Beck. The meeting then ad-
journed, after having very pleas
ant time.
The colored barbecue Thursday
for the benefit of Mt Friendship