The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

christian Association OF EATON, en-
gagged in a cock fight in the lower
part of town on Friday morning last.
We supposed the association taught
different morals.
We acknowledge from II. B. VAN
AUsDAL, the receipt ola bucket of the
freshest and sweetest bivalves we have
tasted this season, direct from the oys-
ter beds of the shores of Maryland.
"Fair count at w. A. E1DsoN's
grocery. Queens-ware, Glassware,
Books, Statinery, Sc, all sold at liv-
ing prices. Call and see Beatty with
out fear of being "bull-dozed."
The spring style of vests will be cut
so short and the trowsers will be cut
so high in the neck that our best
young men will be able to button
their collars directly OH their waist
bands.
Keep the money moving. Don't
salt it away. Pay your debts as fast
as you cam. Have patience with one
another. Buy your goods of home
merchants and thus encourage home
enterprise.
No gentleman will make light re-
marks about a lady-it is evidence of
a low, debased mind. Whenever you
are tempted to do so, think of your
own mother, wife,. daughter or sister
then shut up!
A Baltimore inventor is ruined. He
invented q kind OF fair cushion for wo-
mems bustle's put all his money into
their manufacture, and now a change
in fashion has left the stock valueless
on his hands.
An aged man in Liberty, Ind,
wooed a girl of sixteen in vain as long
as he stuck to sentiment; but when
he got down to business and offered
to give her a deed of a farm, she con-
sented without hesitation.
The next rooster fight under the
supervision of the Y. NJ. G. A, of
Eaton, will take place west of town,
on the quiet banks of Seven Mile.
Tickets of admission 10 cents for old
roosters-young ones, half price.
There are a class of fellows in this
city, both young and old, who toll
not, neither do they saw wood, and
yet they drink more beer and wear
better clothes than those who work
six days of every week. The question
is, how do theydo it?
The ladies ofthe Universalist Church
will give a concert and festival in city
Hall, on Saturday evening next. The
exercises will consist of music, read
ing, r~ecitations and tableaux. Rev.
Mrs. Crosby will be present and take
part in the exercises. Admission only
10 cents.
There will be a grand Stereopticon
exhibition given at the city Hall, on
Friday evening next, for the benefit of
the Presbyterian Church. Admit
lance % cents-children under u
years Is cents. Doors open at ~
o'clock. Tickets for sale at Brook
ms and Michaels' Drug stores.
Mrs. R. GROUSE wishes to inform
her friends that she is now engaged
in the Millinery business with Miss
R. A. GRAY. at the old stand, Barron
street, Eaton, o., under the firm name
of GRAY s. GROUSE, where they in
tend to keep the best styles of goods
and do the best work.
The constant lesson taught to bust
ness men is advertise. If you have
anything to sell-advertise. If you
want people to know what you are
doing-advertise. But, if you want
to keep your goods on hand, sell no.
thing, see nobody, and at last make
the acquaintance ofthe Sheriff-don't.
A nineteen-year-old girl was whip
ped by a school master in Allamakce,
Iowa, and she thereupon sued him
for breach Of promise, alleging that
they had for a year been matrimoni-
ally engaged. Served the fool right.
why didn't he wait, and he could
have wallopped the spin back" off her
without a prosecution.
JOSEPH NATION, an old citizen of
our place, was called to the farm Of
Mr.. Chapalier about two miles west
of Eaton on Friday last, to look at
some sick cattle, and on arriving there
was seized with heart disease and i'm
mediately expired. He was about 81
years of age and a respected, peacea-
BILE and quiet citizen.
The boss boss man was in Eaton on
Saturday last, and filled the city Hall
with a crowd anxious to hear him tell
what he didn't know about q boss.
He proved he could tame a refractory
mule of an animal in a minute. Joe
Bradley, the mule boss of the Nation
al Swindling Board, should have been
in his charge a few days.
An ode to spring is wanted by an
exchange to run somewhat thusly:
Spring, Oh S pring! Thou beautiful thing,
Bring, Oh bring! us loves OF FRRING,
Bright eyes and misses, tulips and kisses-
None but q born poet need apply
one that can constitute verses that
rhyme at both ends and in the mid
die of each line. Other than this will
be charged for at the rate of three
dollars per line.
The space below is to be filled with
the IN es of the gladiators in the