The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-22
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
The roads are bad now.

New onions have arrove.
Get your Councilmen ready.
Who'll be the School Board?
Spring fashions are blooming.
Trot out your spring candidates.
@All-fools-day" comes on Sunday.
The new color in kids is blue green.
The Commissioners Report is in
order.
"Making assignments" is again
fashionable.
Send in your Township tickets if
you want them printed.
Six candidates for the post-ofice
and only one township in.
The scandel mongers had a rich
feast in our Court last week.
""Bock beer" is the next day looked
for in our calender.
Civil service rules may result in
some Mailing around Eaton.
Blue ribbon will be the style this
summer-its better than blue glass.
G. Fl. is bound to have a fair count
on his six weeks of mean weather.
We had several installments of the
ebeautiful stuff" during the last week.
You can crack your Easter eggs
two weeks earlier than usual this year.
We had rain, hail snow, and thun-
der on Friday last. This is March
weather.
Have P. Ms. a right to use sub
scribers' papers that are sent through
the office?
Who have the one hundred books
that are missing from the Eaton
School Library?
1t blue glass will bring out anything
it should be tried on the Commission
ers report.
Proposals for withdrawing the
roof of our "showy""cremation box"
would be in order.
All books marked "Ohio School
Library should be returned to the
Board of Education.
1t is said that a glance from a blue
glass eye will curt love sickness of
long standing.
A political case of 7x5 hung a jury
four days in our Court. Joe Bradley
has plenty of presentations.
The Prosecuting Attorney is neg
Iecting his sworn duty in regard to
the Commissioners report.
Wouldn't blue glass in our church
es cure feeble sermon and strengthen
q weakly contribution box?
A New York lecturer asks: "What
shall we Eat?" Dried apples and
milk make a very filling diet forhard
times.
If, according to the old adage, "the
first days of March are to govern the
mouths of April and May" we may
look for "squally" weather.
The Eaton Schools will have yaca-
ton next week. The closing exercis-
es of the second term will take place
Friday, March 23d.
The house cleaning season, when
the head of the household eats his
meals in the back yard with the dog,
is nearly upon US.
1t is a bad sign to see a young man
with his hat off making a bow to one
of our shade trees. 1t is a sigtais
eye sight is dim!
DAHL WEIKEL, of Eaton, had his
pocket-book gobbled UP at the Day
ton post-ofice last week. They are
light fingered over there.
We4don't know a man in this COM
munity who is homeless but we
know, and so do their wives, that
some are home less than others.
There has been considerable grum-
bling about the weather, and some of
the disappointed ones assert that any
ground hog caught ought to be killed
with IMMUNITY.
The head of the household, if he
will take pains to poke his nose into
the cellar, will now find potatoes and
cabbages that cry aloud to be thrown
into his neighbors yard.
A medical journal says an orange
sucked before breakfast will cure the
appetite for whisky. We know about
two hundred and fifty subjects in Ea-
ton that should suck oranges.
at is better to find out one of our
faults than ten of our neighbors.'
True, but we are always more solicit
tous about the welfare of our neigh
bors than ourselves.
Hats with blue glass crowns are the
latest invention. 1t is said they will
cure the "jim.jams." There are sew
eral chaps around here that ought to
have 'em Immediately.
On high mountainous elevations
the thunder is almost silent, and the
lightning harmless. Let a man raise
himself heavenward if he would es-
cape the evil that surrounds him.
If each Democrat that is a reader of
our paper would send us ONE new
subscriber, we would have all the cir
culation we desire. How many will
do It? Let us hear from you, friends.
The machine shop of Robinson &
Co. was broken into on last Friday