Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-11-23
IN TOWN AND OUT.
A head wind-a sneeze.
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IN TOWN AND OUT.
r A head wind-a sneeze.
Fall fashionS-bad colds.
n Time on the jump-leap year.
Rabbits are very plenty this fall.
This year has fifty-three Sundays.
Those who sup with the Devil should
have long spoon.
Greenbacks taken on subscription at
this Office.
Coal is worth as much. as potatoes in
Cincinnati.
ii New Year will come on the first day
of January this year.
t If coffee goes up much more it will
cease to go down in many households.
Small waists are going out of style.
Large wastes are still fashionable.
Spelling schools will soon be inau-
gurated in the country districts.
, Heap high your wood-piles for winter
is coming.
Copies of the REPUBLICAN can be had
at the Post-office. Price cents.
Where are the 'lasses always in de-
mand? At tafy-pullings.
4 The divinities who shape our ends, are
the halter and shoemaker.
, II you want to buy cheap goods, con-
lsult our advertising columns.
Gate-post propping is declining as
the nights grow cold.
i A Texas paper publishes marriage
notices under the head of "LOst."
There ,cill be Thanksgiving Sermon
delivered in Benton, at l0ls O'Clock, by
Rev. l. Cutler.
The young lady singer who thought
to make her voice clearer by straining
it made grave mistake.
There is young man in town so
bright that his mother has to use
smoked glass in looking at him. =
When you come in to pay your tax,
be sure and call and pay your subscrip-
ton to the REPUBLICAN.
| Congress meets the first Monday in
l. )ecember-One week from next Mon
day.
Store away the black diamonds for
cold weather is near, and cheerful fires
will be In demand.
Cold nights have put an end to gate
sparkling. If she doesn't ask you to
come now you had better quit.
Sam. Marx is going to open variety
store i'm Cleveland. Success go with
him.
Holiday advertising will soon be in
order. Watch the papers to see who
offers the greatest Inducements.
Wouldn't it be better to have the
street lamps lit little earlier on dark
and stormy nights?
"Theophilanthropocosmopolitanari-l
anism" is the latest religio-socio-polit-
ical sensation in Geargia.
New Lisbon has dozen girls to mar
ry by the first of January. How many |
has Millersburg?
Theodore Woodruff and Victoria Til
ton are nominated for President and
Vice-President by a confused Western
editor.
A Cleveland merchant, on being asked
how large an advertisement he wanted
in the Herald, replied that he might put
in "about three pints of type"
What does the Mirror mean when it
says: "Trains will run regularly be-
tween Medina and Cleveland from ex- \,
posure?" It
The Monroe boys beat the Millers-
burg boys badly at game of Base Ball
last Friday. Better stay at home boys,
if you can't do better than that.
Now comes the time of year for pat
ent right swindlers, with their promis-
sorry note game. Let our farmer friends
be on their guard against such.
Be careful not to trust the person
who comes and tells you what so and
so says about you. 1t is an old saying
that they who fetch will also carry. |,
With the first of January, fast ap-
preaching, comes leap year. Old bach
elors, beware of the fascinatlons of the
fair damsels.
The fashion for overcoats this yeari
will be about the same rs last, especial
ly with those who are obliged to wear
their last winters overcOat.
The Canton Repository d Republican
has closed its fourth year of publica-
ton. This paper is one of our best ex-
changes.
Wooster proposes to reap some bene-
fit from the Lake Shore & Tuscarawasl
Railroad by constructing a branch to
Seville.
"Not enough wood left in the towns
to make coffins for the dead" is the
heading of an account of the late fires
in the West.
Partridges are said to be increasing in
number since the law for their protec-
ton was passed. In fact, you may find
part ridges and part valleys right in
and around town.
The Williams College Reriep opposes
the admission of girls into college, but
says that if they are determined to come,
the students will "welcome them with
open arms"
Send in the local items. We want a
correspondent from every township in
the county. Send in the fact, just as
they occur and we will fix them up for
publication, if necessary.
The smallpox has made its appear
ance in the eastern portion of the State.
1t would be well enough to timely guard
against this loathsome disease by vac
cinatiun.
Democratic poultry is getting scarcer
every day, and is particularly quiet Just
now. Possibly thoughts of the ap-
preaching Thanksgiving make the roost-
ers sad.
The Union Register says that "Thanks-
giving is fast approaching and no one
has yet given us gobbler." We hope
he may have something on that day to
be thankful for.
The Unde7oriter for October, a very
good authority on insurance matters,
estimates the losses of insurance COM
panies by the Chicago fire at one hund-
red millions of dollars.
An old lady from rural district as
tonished clerk in one of our stores the
other day, by inquiring if he had any
"yaller developments such as they did
up letters in?''
When ladpfainted at party lately, :
a gentleman thought he could resusci-
tate her by biting her ear. She recoy-
cred promptly. He is going around
with pOultice on his eye II