The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-06-17
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.


Saturday was a thin day in Eaton.
What has become of the Grist Mill
men?
Still in order-tax paying and pay
ing your subscription.
The Masons will have a big time
here on the oath.
1t was cool on Sunday morning.
Fires were not uncomfortable.
The liniment vendors enlivened the
dizziness of Eaton on Saturday last.
Shaking hands and button-holing
is brisk around Eaton.
Limburger cheese will stink a pota-
to bug to death and annihilate skunk.
Our ladies display some very hand
some toilets these days.
Is the northern School House build
ing "rickety" and unsafe? Who will
answer?
If there is anything on earth that
beats four aces it is a kind and anna
BILE wife.
Charity begins at home. Yes, and
with some it never gets beyond the
front door.
A henpecked husband says a lady's
pridal-day is that on which she has
taken the reign.
1t will take all the water in Seven
mile to fill the hole the city dads are
digging in front of the Court House.
There is nothing that will complete
ly cure laziness, but a second wife
has been known 10 hurry it some.
Wild cherries promise to be plen-
tiful. This will be good news forlov-
ers of bounce.
Piscatorial parties are numerous
these days, and are favored with the
usual amount of "fishermen's luck"
The 4th of July will be along short
ly. What are you going to do about
il?
Always go a good ways to avoid a
sneaking dog. They are the meanest
of the canine C
A game of Quoits can be had any
time by leaving your order at Jeffer-
sons.
No man can become thoroughly ac-
quainted with his family history un-
til he runs for Office. Fact.
This is splendid weather for hydro
prodic machines, of which there is
n number in Eaton. Muzzle 'cm.
The Ring have selected their candi-
late for Auditor. The slate is now
complete. What do they want a Con-
vention for?
The Eaton Band were out "spiel-
ing" again on Saturday evening last.
They're rattlers, and make bully good
music.
# we canthave no manufactures
in Eaton, let us make it {. watering
place. We have the facilities to do
this to perfection.
The air is redolent with the per-
fume of flowers, and vocal with the
hum of the mosquitoe and the bull
frog.
An Iowa court has decided that it
is not legal for a farmer to hitch his
wife up with a mule, no matter how
anxious he is to plow.
The Saratoga chap who married a
girl last summer, having fallenin love
with her beautiful complexion, says
now that it was a "skin game"
Cucumbers, peas, beans strawber-
ries, soda water, ice cream, collie, and
lots of other summer luxuries are now
plenty III our Hlarhct.
The paint brush is still 1ourishing
indoors and out, and some rough
looking houses begin to look as neat
as a new pin.
Let all the visitors 10 our town du-
ring Court, the Grand Jury included,
not fail to visit the "spice vaults" in
the Court House square. Their sweet
incense smells TO heaven.
Court is now in session, having op-
ened on Monday. Very little bust
ness of general importance has been
transacted, andth attendance of spec
tators is slim.
Our friend, W. II. L. RAMSEY, of
Camden, dropped in on Monday last,
and left with US some" spiritual COM
fort, which we pronounce to be ofthe
first quality.
Improvements are still going on
around the south school house lot.
What a pity we can't have our schools
in IL fine large building, up to the
times and the age we live in.
We saw a fellow treated to a ten
cent cigar in one of our Drug Stores
the other day, and after a little while
slipped back and exchanged it "three
for a dimel"
Fifteen candidates for Treasurer
and eight for Auditor, and two town
ships to hear from! How will the
Ring satisfy all these Sacrificing"
patriots.
The mosquito has again declared
war against suffering humanity. The
evening atmosphere is full of them,
and much bloodshed and profanity is
the consequence.
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