The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-02-01
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Is it spring?
Cold and bleak.
Daylight increaseth muchly.
Sugar birds sang on Sunday.
Get your sugar camps ready.
No ice cream signs visible yet.
Sugar camps opened on Monday.
Business amt as brisk as it ort.to.
The goose bone sign is not reliable
Visit the schools that your children
attend.
Keep your eye on the G. II. to.
morrow.
Saturday night DRINKS are hume.
rous.
Time is money-lots of wealthy
people about here.
Comfortable quarters-twenty-fve
cent pieces.
No more leap ye&r until 1891. Bad
on the old gals.
Tho ease that nobody cares to take
disease.
Valentines day, this year, is also
the first day in Lent.
Sunday was like n M~ay-day, and
our churches were crammed.
AS words can never be recalled,
speak only such words as you never
wish to recall.
The manageable girls in Eaton are
in favor of a "fair count" A few of
the widows wouldn't mind it.
Aschild thus defines gossip
when nobody don't do nothing, and
somebody goes and tells of it."
NATTY STEPHENS has our thanks
for the bucket of splendid buttermilk
from his "Rocky Run" Dairy.
Occasionally some postmaster re-
ports a dead beat whose name has dis
graced our subscription book.
The hottest day during the past five
years, was July s, 1874, and the cold
ost January 18th of the same year.
The funeral of Mr.. Foster Black
was very large. He was beloved and
honored by all who knew him.
John Lander has new hams in mar
ket. Ham and eggs. All, we can't
afford it, unless the hens go to work.
Last Saturday reminded us of a
show day in Eaton. The weather
was fine and everybody was in town.
"Balance ALL" is NOW the call among
the book-keepers. Won't some ofour
delinquents help us to balance ours?
When a woman slips and falls on
the hard pavement she says, 30 my!'
When a man slips he says, "Ol-W
The fine weather we have enjoyed
for several days was no doubt the re-
suit of the Presidential compromise
bill. @ssz.z
Egasare25 cents a dozen in Eaton.
It is about time the hens were going
TO work and correcting this imposi-
ton.
We receive communications occas-
ionally without signatures-we can
not notice them-theY go to the waste
basket.
Don't let your cows u around tie
streets,-night or day. They mar the
beauty and destroy the usefulness of
the side walks. Muzzle 'em.
FRANK and ALBERT DEEM will be
in Eaton in a few days with a lot of
splendid horses for sale. Call and see
them at their stable in the rear OF the
Eagle Hotel.
There is not.a Democrat that reads
our paper but what could procure us
oxEgsw-sabscriber- Will you all do
it? It would almost double our cir
euiation.
Sponge your windows with alcohol
and no ice will form on them. fell
low whose breath was strong with al
cohol, made the discovery-so says
an exchange.
We will be obliged to the clergy
men of town and county if they will
promptly report all marriages and
deaths occurring in their respective
fields of labor.
Jos. A. PoTTERF returned from CAL
ifornia on Saturday last, after a jour-
ney in that golden State of six
months. Joe thinks Preble county
will suit him just as well.
The down freight train on this road
was thrown off the track en- last Fri
day morning, doing considerable DAM
age but fortunately injuring no one.
1t was caused by a broken rail.
1t is said that sewing machine oil
is now manufactured out of dogs
heads. From the number of worth
less ours about Eaton an establish
ment of this kind might be opened
with profit.
We wish our marshal would name
an early date for cremating some of
our worthless CANNES. No difficulty
need be feared as to where OF how a
suitable furnace could be procured.
Well furnish the fuel.
System is a great thing; but the
advertiser who deemed it essential to
preserve an alphabetical order over
did the matter, thus: "Bibles, black
balls and butter; testaments, tar and
+, treacle; Cody books and gimlets, for
sale here"
While he was sitting on the wood
hoy and chewing the bitter end of re-