The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-09-16
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Moonlight nights.
Roasting ears are scarce.
Put on your heavy undergarments.
Ten States elect Governors this
fall.
"Pull backs" looked well after the
show Thursday.
The peanut trade amounted to $l4
on show day.
MURPHY set last Friday morning
for the first frost.
The time for the exit of the fly is
drawing ear
The Commissioners have decided
on a town clock.
Fresh oysters in the market. jeff
erson is dishing them up.
"Pull backs" were unpopular on
the day of the circus.
The corn crop is about ready to de-
fly the frost.
Get your ~overcoats out of Soak
You'll soon need 'em.
Who was at the circus on Thursday
afternoon? That's the question.
Pic-nics and excursions are now
numbered with the things ofthe past.
Our candidate for representative
was at the show and lost his beaver.
Notwithstanding the hard times
the wages of sin have not been reduc-
cd.
Commercial travellers are again a.
round, making arrangements for the
fall trade.
A great many went from here to
the picnic at Camden on Saturday
last.
The meeting at Brewers School
House on last Friday night was well
attended.
The ice cream and soda water bust
ness is on the wane, owing to the cool
ness of the weather.
The farmers in this locality are now
engaged at their fall seeding. Corn
cutting will be next in order.
The matrimonial market is dull,
with few takers. Can't be the weather.
It's cool enough. What's wrong?
The weather appears to have set
tied, but from the looks of our books
quite a number of delinquents have
not.
Two of the chimneys on the Court
House were blown down on Thursday
last and the roof considerably dam
aged.
Owing to a press of "copy," our
correspondents letter relative to the
great Military Picnic at Camden is
unavoidably crowded out.
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Somebody says hat 'large cars de-
note broad, comprehensive views and
modes of thought" What magnifi-
cent ideas a jackass must havel
The Fair Grounds were engaged
for Moxy Morton's meeting, but the
CITY Hall made it look the more re-
spectacle.
Moxa was so disappointed at the
slimness of the crowd that came to
Eaton to hear him, that he absolutely
refused at first to go to the Hall and
address them.
A member of the Republican Cen
trail Committee confidentially re-
marked last Friday morning that, he
thought the City Hall would hold the
crowd. He was right.
We learn with regret that a disease
called the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has bro
ken out in some parts of the south. 1t
is contagious.
A young man who knows all about
it states that his experience has taught
him that a firt is a fool who delights
in fooling fools, and the fool who is
fooled by such a fool is the foolishest
kind of a fool.
It has come at last, and just at q
time when the country is least pre-
pared for 1.-THE intelligence thai
hoopskirts will be in style next year
1t will find many Drawbacks at the
start.
1t is said that HARKRIDER, of the
Germantown PRESS, with several 9TH
er country boys, IA in Eaton on the
day of the circus blow over, looking
up the lost "barbcr pools!" We dom
believe it, though.
Nine persons took dinner with Dan
PAYNE, on the day of the Military
Picnic in Camden, the aggregate
ages of which was 7O6 years. The
oldest of whom was uncle BILLY CAS-
TER, he being n~inety-three.
An extra train will run to Cincin
natl during the Exposition, leaving
Eaton at 7 :59, a. M, and returning ar
rive at Eaton at u 40, a. m. Thu
enabling visitors to spend the eve
ming at the Exposition.
They do say that two of our youn'
ladies who were at the show Of
Thursday last, broke for a neibhbor
ing house during the storm and mad
the gentlemen take them home in
carriage, and now utterly deny tina
they we're at the show.