The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-09-06
LOCAL DEPARTMENT,
Corn is on its ears.

WCAL DEPAkIME NI,
Corn is on its ears.
This is "fair" month.
Don't forget to Register.
Murphyism still moves.
County Fair this month.
Last week was a hot one.
Trade is improving a little.
The schools opened lively.
Picnic season will now close.
Frost on Monday morning last.
Amt the days growing shorter?
Fall blowing has opened briskly.
The tobacco crop will be splendid
Ice cream will soon step to the rear
Dry your corn now for winter use.
Nov the school bell is heard in the
land.
The circus is now exhibiting-no IL
cense.
Give tramps no quarters-not even
anickel.
Wheat buyers are on the look for
farmers.
Summer wear was not much in de-
mand last Sunday.
1t is said the reign of striped hos
iery is nearly over.
How about that big horse race du-
ring the fair?
Sickness is on the increase and doc
tors, on the go.
The oscar and yellow leaf" season
is close upon us.
Fashionable ladies have an eruption
of buttons on their dresses.
1t is a great deal easier to read a
paper and find fault with it than it is
to make it.
A great many hogs in the eastern
part of the county r dying with the
cholera.
Ladies' kid gloves all colors so cts.
a pair at the Eaton cheap store next
to post Office.
Peaches at $500 per bushel are en-
tirely too high for the average man to
reach. We pass.
Never before has fashion been so
fantastic, ornate, beribboned and be-
lowered as at present.
The law, prohibiting the killing of
quail for two years, expires on the
LIST of November next.
Shoe strings 4, 5, 6 and Z cents a
dozen pair, at the Eaton cheap store
next to post Office.
This is fly time for county newspa-
pcrs. They have to fly around to get
greenbacks TO run the machinery.
Ladies' and misses Isle thread
gloves 10, u and Is cents, at the Ea-
ton cheap store next to post Office.
The harvest is over, the summer
has about wiggled out, and still we
r waiting for the good time COM
ing.
Political matters will occupy much
of our local space for a few weeks.
We hope our friends will bear with
us for the time.
We don't return rejected manu-
scripts. The gentleman who is de-
manding il of us should save a copy
of his productions hereafter.
There is considerable difference be-
tween Wisdom and Wind, but some
people can't distinguish it. Especi-
ally politicians.
Thank goodness the time is draw
ing near when the frosts will send
flies, 'skeeters and other pestiferous
insects to "bug-heaven."
The grandest mistake that many OF
u young men are making nowadays
is in starting ont in life with the ex-
pectation of steering clear of hard Ia
Dor.
Vegetables are in profusion. There
is an incoming of melons in abund-
ance. Seasonable fruits are plenty
and cheap, excepting the luscious
peach, which comes up little short
and expensive.
1t is reported that a man by the
name of George Henry, living near
Sugar Valley, had his arm torn off on
Monday last while feeding a thresh-
ing machine, and is in a very danger.
GUS condition.
The number of quails this season il
reported to be very large. Old sports.
men say they have never seer sc
many focks. The law prohibiting
the shooting of quails last year hai
evidently had the effect intended.
Every well-regulated family ought
to take the DEMOCRAT. A family il
this county without this paperis miss
ing n of the great enjoyments O
life. We don't see how anybody car
prosper, or enjoy good health withou
it.