The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-03
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Money wanted.
Snow on Monday.
Flour $40 q barrel.
Mushrooms are ripe.
Get your blue ribbon.
Next will be the ice wagon.
Whooping cough is around.
Will we have a new post-ofice?
The "Murphy wave" is in Eaton.
No girl in Eaton wears over No. 3.
Ice cream saloons are almost ready
to bloom.
Everything bordering on yellow is
fashionable.
District Court will open here on
Tuesday next.
"Blue ribbon" clubs are forming
everywhere.
Only a few peach trees are in bloom
around here.
1t costs $50 to have a circus in Cam
den-20 in Eaton.
Eaton will be skipped by all cir
cuses this season.
Ice-frst of May-put. that down
in your calender.
Boys, don't go fishing on Sunday ;
let the men do that.
Sunday was too cool for summer
fabrics to be worn out.
Numerous improvements are in pro-
gress throughout our city.
Wheat in Eaton is now worth $1.S5.
Almost double in six weeks.
FILBERT and AYERS will occupy
the old Rhea and Kelly corner.
John Neal has a genuine French
imported horse at his stables.
Oyercoats were comfortable in this
region Sunday and Monday last.
The warm weather gives comfort to
farmers, builders and working men.
When is a ship like a scarf pin ?
When it is on the bosom of a SWELL.
Farmers and grain men who had
: wheat and corr on hand look happy.
The lightning bugs will soon COM
mence to show the lanterns they carry.
Wheat, oats and corn have taken a
sudden leap in prices. No use of it
yet
We are much obliged to the boys
for that splendid serenade on last
Friday night.
Let some man rise up who can in
vent a way of disposing of fellows
hat in church.
The ground was covered with snow
six miles west of Eaton on Monday
morning last.
The sound of hammers, saws, jack
planes and trowels are now as unceas-
ing as the flow of rivers.
The price of milk has been reduced
here owing 10 SO much rain. The
milk men have conscience.
All kinds of barber work greatly
reduced, at John Billinsby's, over
Waldo Lakes drug store.
The trees and shrubs have donned
a full dress of green, and all nature is
animated and exhilerant.
Let the street law be strictly en-
forced now that the piles OF rubbish
and trash have been removed.
There was a heavy hail storm north
west of Eaton on Saturday evening
last. No particular damage done:
Those who persist in eating young
onions should be muzzled. Will the
city fathers take hold ofthis matter:
Our town presents a dull appear,
ance now. This is owing to the rural
gentlemen attending strictly to bust
ness.
Eggs are retailing at ten cents pei
dozen now. There's not much en-
couragement to faithful hens at this
price.
"Sweet fields arrayed in living
green" That is the way the wheat
fields in this county look at the pres
ent time.
The wave OH which many a pool
fellow has been carried away is the
wave of a cambria handkerchief-oI
a striped stocking.
Cap. WILSON can be found at No
. LAG north Barron street, ready to
serve everybody with the purest and
best samples. Try 'em.
hOU \ OOluSo Aoo AO"O'SN
Der Shop to the first floor in Michael
Filbert's new brick on Cherry street
opposite Register" office.
"Many good persons lie in the
church-yard." And many people who
profess to be good don't wait to get
into a church-yard to lie.
1t takes a long purse to reach fresf
strawberries, asparagus, green pea
and pine apples about this season o
the year. Printers must give then
the go-by.
Grant is out. The April snow
have come and gone, and yet GU
Postmaster holds to his mutton. Haye
demands civil service reform, still GU
P. M. don't 60 with Grant as he prom