The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-10-14
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.


Chesnuts.
Indian Summer.
The wheat looks well.
The Fairs are all over.
The quail crop is short.
Wild Turkeys are coming.
The fall styles are budding.
Do you owe for your paper?
The sour crout season rapidly ap-
proacheth.
Almanacs for 1876 have made their
appearance.
Men who never do wrong seldom
do any thing.
Pumpkins are large and plentiful
splendid for pies.
Flies are becoming tame as the
weather grows cold.
Daylight is losing time and oil bills
begin to lengthen.
Summer and roses, straw hats and
iced drinks FAREWELL
Jack frost throws his white mantle
over everything each night.
Wanted-a good steady boy to
learn the Printing business.
"The Autumn days have come, the
saddest of the year."
A corn-extractor that has never
been paten.ed-The crow.
The leaves have a whitening ten
dency and are falling.
The crop of hickory nuts, walnuts,
&C., is quite large this season.
The Treasurer will take your taxes
II time, until December 10th.
Dig your corn and shuck your cab
bage while the weather is good.
There will be no more "sun" strokes,
although some "sons" may strikei
The fan has ceased to bangle at the
side of the FORMULATING female.
Babies are described as coupons at
tachcd to the bonds of matrimony.
The alligator that swallowed a cor
set is dead. 1t stayed on his stomach.
The ~epizootic is raging in the large
cities. 1t will soon be in the small
ones.
Star spangled stockings are an
nounccd as the fashion for Centennial
year.
The week after an election is gen.
orally the most barren of any of the
year.
The ladies temperance organization
meets every Friday afternoon in the
NJ. e. Church.
The harvest is past, the summer is
ended, and now isa good time to pay
your subscription.
While the Preble County Fair pro-
we'd a success this year, many in the
State were failures.
When a young man is continually
filling himself up with "corn juice"
people call it Sowing wild oats"
II is said by those who claim to
know that the yield of corn this year
is much greater than it has been for
years.
We shall continue to take "rag mo
ney" on subscription and "back pay"
10 difference about the result of the
election.
One of the easiest and best ways to
expand the chest is to have a good
large heart in it. 1t saves the cost of
gymnastics.
Cholera is still wrestling with the
hogs in the north part of this county,
and they are dropping of by the doz-
zen.
The average length of a farmers
life is sixty five years, while that of a
printer is thirty-three, hence the ne
cessity of paying for your paper
promptly.
"a tale of the grasshoppers," is the
heading to an article now going the
rounds of the press. It's a lie. Grass
hoppers haven't any tails.
We propose to ''whack off" some of
of our subscribers out of the State
now. We can't afford to pay postage
and send the paperto boot.
Any man hat owes us on our sub
scription or job-work, and sends the
amount in @rag money!" is assured
there will be no insult about it.
The INTER-OcEAN wants to know
if a panier is not a waist basket.
Very likely, but there's no use of rais-
Ing a hustle about 1t.
A couple of hours spent in the Wis
iting of our public schools will be
profitable to the visitor, pleasing to
Superintendent and teachers, and en-
c%ouraging to pupils.
If our paper appears uninteresting
this week, don't complain. Who
could write locals or editorials while
anxiously waiting for the result of a
great and important election?
The editor who expects to receive
much charity o gratitude will soon
find out his mistake; but he should
go and say and do what he conscien-
tiously thinks right without regard to