The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-10-30

PlStt 4 Co.'S Big oysters the best IN the mar
ket. can be had at MASON g cos.
WOOD WANTED,
PERSONS desiring to pay their sub
scription to the Press in wood will
confer favor by sending it along at
once.
WEATHER wintry.
Snow covers the ground.
THE Opera House is now lighted
with gas.
LOCAL news of interest is one OF
the scarcest things in the market.
THE business of fattening turlies
for Thanksgiving has commenced.
THERE are many farmers who have
not yet harvested their potatoes.
THE Court of Common Pleas COM
menced its session on Monday, Judge
Glidden on the bench.
The new street lights were put in
operation on Tuesday evening and
worked well.
THE walls. of the new Episcopal
Church,on Cedar street, are completed
ready for the roof.
Go to Smith, Woodruff & Co.'S for
Sheet Music. They have the finest
assortment-to to be found in the county.
THE season of parties and festivals
has arrived, and our people are inn
proving their opportunities.
Mr.. G. M. PHILLIPS, of Fairbauli,
Mimi, has been visiting his parents in
this place, and returned West on Sat-
urday last.
WE understand that Mr.. Andrew
Poe expects to have his new hotel fin
ished and ready for occupancy by the
first of December.
WE are pleased to learn that q gorge
Weimer, of Akron, who has been
quite i'll for some days past with lung
fever is recovering.
WE publish this week the first of a
series of interesting letters promised
us from our Quaker City correspond
ent.
Mr.. AND Mrs. WILLIS STRICKLAND
and son returned home on Wednes-
day of last week from visit to the
West,and are much pleased and profit
ed by their journey.
CIDER APPLES are selling in this vi
cinity at % cents per busheI. Last
year they brought but 8 and 10 cenrs
per bushel. Some folks will haye to
go without their -vinegar.
IF you are in want of Sheet Music
call at Smith, Woodruff Sc Co.'S and
get one of theis catalogues in which
you can hardly fail to find what you
want,
II is seldom that we haye rougher
and more disagreeable weather at
this season of the year than that with
which we were visited on Tuesday.
1t was a foretaste of rough, chilly,
cheerless. winter.
WE publish in this issue an abstract
of the votes given in the State for
Governor at the October election
complete except two counties. 1t will
be valuable for reference. Preserve
this number.
The KentBulLetin says the butchers
of that city are on a strike, and con-
sequently prices are considerably re-
duced. There are some people in this
"neck of woods" who would be glad
to enjoy such consequence.
LEG BROKEN. - On Tuesday last
while Mrs. Dennis c. Day was en-
gagged in sweeping off the back steps
at house temporarily occupied by
the family on Prospect street, she
slipped and fell, fracturing her limb
just below the knee.
GEO. 81. SoMERvILLE, student from
this village, in Dickinson College, at
Carlisle, Pa, has our thanks for copy
of the 'Dickensonian," a paper pub
lished by the BellesLetters and Union
Philosophical Societies of that insti-
tutlon.
THE Railroad shops at Kent have
reduced the days labor from ten to
eight hours, and the working force in
the boiler department has been re-
duced by the suspension of forty men,
machinists and others.
The Portage Co. Teachers Associa-
ton held its session at MaRtua on
Saturday. There was fair attend
anee, and the meeting is said to have
been very pleasant and profitable
one.
We are a little late in publishing
the official abstract of the vote in this
county at the late election, but we
were unable to obtain it for insertion
last week. 1t will be found valuable
for future reference. We publish the
table complete.
w. WILL1AMsoN, Deputy, organized
Grange ofthe Patrons of Husbandry
in Green township. Trumbull county,
Ohio, October Is, 1873.
Master-R. R. Bsscom.
Secretary-Charles Boon.