The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1875-05-06
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Vegetation is a little slow.

Picnic season is the next,
Tax-payiug time is again drawing
nigh.
Subscribe for the DEMOCRAT and try
tia year.
Our court has adjourned but the
Brooklyn court goes on.
Saturday was a blue day in Eaton
for business.
To let: Several rooms in our coun-
ty prison. Board furnished free by
our County Commissioners.
The plaintive, insinuating note Of
the lightning rod man is now heard
in the land. r l8lE III
The backward spring has done two
good things. 1t has kept back crusa-
ders and base ball nonsense. a5
We saw no May-day parties going
out last Saturday to gather flowers.
The clouds wept drops of rain. GU.
Last Sunday was a cold, clustering
d.. day, better suited for October than
second of May. ''-'
The daily papers are still filled with
the Beechcr-Tilton scandal. We're
sick and tired of it.
Sheriff Townsend transplanted FL
more Thomas from u county prison
to the Ohio Penitentiary for life, on
Thursday last.
The String Band gave a splendid
musical entertainment in front of Jul
domicile on Friday night last. Thank
you, boys, we like it.
Windows and woodwork of Eaton
dwellings are just receiving the ami
mated renovating attention of our To-
cal housewives.
What rugged boys this town can
boast of. Why, lots of them net ten
years old, can swear as much as a
mau, and without the least fatigue.
1t is said that a Kansas man who
handled a good deal of the grasshop-
per fund never had a horse. or watch
or diamond pin until this winter.
Why are country girls checks like
French calico? Because they are
warranted TO wash aud retain their
color.
Forposterity. The ground covered
with snow on the I'd day of May.
Murphy says this is the last one. Muir
ply steps down and ont now.
Some men have not sense enough
TO take a joke, yet they are always
ready TO get them off on others. They
arc thin skinned gentlemen, and thin
skulled, too.
We can only endure the changable
weather by thinking how nice it will
be TO have good roads and nice times
by aud by, say about the first ofAu9-
ust.
a friend at our elbow remarks, that
the chances are good for the popula-
ton of our town being largely in
creased this summer, from different
causes. Jest C.
A little peppermint is better thar
brandy when there is any trouble
with your "inwardness," but it won
do for a case of "jim jams" We've
tried it.
From present indications the Doty
House will be closed for a time. Nor
ris Doty will remove the furniture te
Union City, Ind, and Geo. Lockwood
goes into a private dwelling.
If correspondents knew that anony'
NOUS articles, intended for publica'
tiou. are not even read in a newspa'
per office, there would be considera'
Die time and white paper saved.
The fourth ofJuly comes on Sun
day this year, which makes it good
for the boys, as they-can commence
Saturday and have Sunday to. "tapei
off,
In Coshocton county the girls rid,
horses "hair-pin style" ifyou know
how that is.-EENToN DEMOCRAT.
Never heard it called by that nam
before. How is it Fisher?
One thousand one hundred and fit
ty-nine divorces were granted b.
Ohio Courts last year, which ought t
cause love sick SWANS to shudder a
the thought of going into the business
DENNIS has leveled down the build
ing dirt in the Court House yard, ant
helped the appearances around tn
cold farm residence" very muchly
Our Court House yard never looked
better.
After reading the Beeeher trial,
-ornglsayia4he csnntry lately de
clared she could eve say "so-so" tt
the old cow again as long as she wa
a milk maid-no, not if the COW prov
ed ever so frisky. Correct.
Centennial Tea Parties is the lates
amusement given by the ladies for tn
advancement of tine Church ant
christian religion. Eaton ladies vii
please take notice.
One of our young ladies received
BILLET DEUX the other evening an
after reading it, put it into her prett
mouth and chewed it up, saying, "tha
was the way to get all the good GU
ofit!" :
Movers are beginning to pas
through town, travelling in a wester
ly direction. Ifthe grasshoppers max
a raid in that section again, many c