The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-05-18
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
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Sunday.
Our schools win close in about two
weeks.
Court won't amount to much this
session.
Monday was calculated to make a
fellow look for his linen.
The Treasurer is ready to hear the
solver jingle" for taxes.
Butter is plenty and rich from spas
lures green,s at 20 cents per pound.
At the teachers examination on the
18th inst, there were twenty-five ap-
plicants.
There are many beautiful flower
gardens and windows to be G e in
this place.
Farmers have been busy in plant
ing eoru the past week and the town
was quiet
One hundred and three tickets were
sold al this place for the excursion
train of last Sunday.
Who all, his censure is
profitless; who praises all, his praise
is worthless.
A child with two faces was born
recently in Alabama He'd make a
good politician.
Notwithstanding the decline of
wages in this place, living expenses
are as high as ever
Dio Lewis is around again. He
now advises people not to eat potato-
peeIings just before going to bed.
Many families are improving their
properties by adding a little white
wash and paint to the fences
Decorations day comes on Tuesday
this year, we have heard nothing said
about observing it in Eaton.
aCedar Springs New Paris, this
county, is beginning to attract consid-
cradle attention, both at home and
abroad.
This town is we'll blessed with
butchers. There are onlyeight places
where they seem happy to "meatp
their friends.
The city Council have fixed the
sewer on the corner of N ain and Bar
ron streets, SO that in the future the
water will not bank mp.
Straw berries have made their APP
pearancc. They are a little too much
sinctured with sjingling silver" for a
poor man TO indulge in.
There win be a meeting of the Pre-
Bile County Agricultural Board at
Council Chamber, on Saturday, May
9th. at 9kz o'clock A. NJ.
Prof. G. n. RossErER, of Marietta
College, will deliver the Baccalaure-
ale address at the Eaton High School
commencement, May 18th, 1876.
When an editor says @money want
cd at his office" you can rest assured
that he is i'm dead earnest. Likewise
dead broke. Which is our fix, dead
sure
If the poor would only forget their
politics long enough to help each 9th
er for a few months, till honest men
could be elected to Office, how much
better they would all be.
An old lady was asked the other
day if she intended going to the Cen
t%enniaI, when she replied: "No, Pye
been to several of them and never en-
joyed myself very much, and won't
go to this onep
An economical man can put one of
the new silver twenty cent pieces into
church contribution box, and ten to
one the recording angel will credit
him with twenty-five cents worth of
charity.
CHAs. S. SMART, State Commission
or of Common Schools, has our thanks
for a copy Of the tw~enty-second an
nual report of Ohio Common Schools.
We may at u leisure take some ex-
tracts from it.
III nan would register all his op-
inions upon love, politics, religion,
learning, &c, belonging to his youth,
and so on to old age, what a bundle
of Inconsistencies and contradictions
would appear at last.
The space assigned to the DEMO
CHAT in tie .Tentennial Newspaper
Exhibition, is numbered 1896. Per
sons visiting there from this county
al see their paper and the news FROM
home by finding the above number.
1t looks bad to see a dog preceding
his master down the street, and calm
~ turn into the first saloon he ap-
proaehes. 1t shows there is some
thing wrong, something lacking, a
deplorable tendency on The part OF
the dog.
The people of Preble county should
not forget our Fourth of July Centen-
NAL Celebration, and make prepare
tions to have the biggest and grandesi
time we ever had in Eaton. You
know not many of us will live to SET
another of the same kind.
What a wonderful thing love is to
woman! How it helps her to know
that some one is always fond of her
and rejoices when she rejoiees, ant
sorrows when she grieyes; to be SURF