The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-02
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

~OAL DEL ANlMhNls
Shut that door!
Butter will stand alone now.
Did you bet on "blue jeans?"
Lingering at the gate is over.
Oyster suppers are now in order.
Now is the time for "mintz pize."
Next will be the s9beautiful snow"
The festive rabbit can't be shooted
yet.
The Wheeze and Hayler Club is out
of tune.
For a~nic-tales go to Jack Holder
man.
The Centennial closes on the 10th
inst.
Hogs are coming to market in good
condition. +.
Those who relish pumpkin pie are
happy now.
Don't forget to go and hear B. B. at
the city Hall.
The trees have been lesfing. They
have all left!
The corn around here is getting its
ear pulled.
Coal oil and quinine r still "up"
in price and demand.
A good winter companion-THE
DEMOCRAT. Subscribe.
The cider mills have been doing a
"crushing" business.
Have you tried RossMAN & HAM
BIDGE's new bread and cake baker?
Now we are ready to receive "back
pay" that is due us. Gentlemen, drop
in.
Good winter apples are selling in
this place at from Is to 40 cents per
bushel.
The Treasurer is now ready to give
you a receipt for your taxes. See his
notice.
Centennial tourists are now return
ing almost daily, with wonderfully
large ideas.
Blue jeans for Democrats, and blue
faces for the Radicals is about the
shape matters are in at present.
We are indebted to the string band
for a very fine and pleasant serenade
on Wednesday night of last week.
The pocket of a young lady's dress
nowadays resembles a flour sack,
and has the capacity of an omnibus.
Rafting matches will soon occupy
the attention of the people in the ru-
raj districts-and in the town dis
tricts, too.
Democratic newspapers have taken
premiums on poultry, and the display
of roosters has been elegant. Wait
until next week.
This country has a glorious fires
school, but the observing parent notes
that there is always a lofty price de-
manded for school books.
When a woman passes another on
the street she don't say "shoot the
hat but she looks at it with a look
that almost makes the air smoke.
Mr.. J. j. ROBINSON has our thanks
for a treat ofripe %persimmons gath
cred from his own premises. They
were something rae in this "neck OF
woods"
That Bully Boy, BANNING, who
licked Gov. Hayes and then licked
the Governors old law partner, will
make the radical fur fly at the city
Hall tonight, CThursday.)
We are slowly, but surely, ap-
preaching Thanksgiving time, when
a man must know how to carve a
fowl, or get ready to take a baked
turkey on lis lap.
This is the time of year when the
average loafer refuses a dollar and a
quarter a day for husking corn, and
then draws his seat carer the stove
and growls about hard times.
But two brief months ago and the
ice man could command a bow from
our most aristocratic citizen. To-day
he sits neglected and shivering upon
his box, a bIue-nosed victim of hui
man instability.
We heard of a young lady who re.
sides in Eaton, who ties her striped
hose around her neck on going tc
bed, to cure the sore throat, the mex
morning her lily-white neck resem'
bled the American flag. 1t was 81
striped.
After this week we will have more
space to,devote to miscellaneous mat
tiers, General and Local news, &c.
which viii make the DEMOCRAT NOR
interesting to all readers. Send u
your name and so cents and read i
during the winter months.
About this time Of the year yol
may hear the average school-boy de
batting with himself whether his dut.
to himself and-his country can best b,
discharged by going to school or
hickorynutting, with the odds of tn
argument in favor of the hickorynuts
The "New Orleans Troubadours
gave two of their splendid entertain
ments in this place last week, and
say that they cannot be excelled i