The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-05-10
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Green grass and blossoms.

Green grass and blossoms.
Nary dust since May set in.
aspiring pants" Let FER pant.
Eaton Schools close May oath.
Too much rain for corn planters.
The murphy wave" is needed in
Eaton.
Spring has had her lap full of win
ter lately.
David Haywood died on Monday
evening last.
Get your trotters ready for our
next Fair.
Never speak, but when you have
something to say.
Never laugh at your own wit, leave
that to other company.
A frost last Friday morning cooked
the garden sass.
Soda fountains have a hard strug-
gle for the front.
The "Murphies" don't sprout very
well in Eaton.
The apple crop will be light around
here this season.
Numerous improvements are in
progress throughout Eaton.
o for a breaker full of the warm
South and q dish Office
aEvery dog has his day." but Tho
mas Cat takes the night.
Sunday wasn't a good day for spring
bonnets and new sun shades.
Calicoes are so cheap now that even
the women are rushing into print.
Quinine has advanced to Sc an
ounce. Chills the same old price.
Onward and upward is the farmers
product. 1t seems like old wartimes.
Dress makers, milliners, carpenters
and farmers, all busy now with spring
work.
'Tis strange but true-our post
master continues to hold Office under
a"rebel."
Parents, send your children to Sab
bath Sehool-it is a good place for
them.
Correspondents should furnish their
names. This is the secondtime we've
mentioned this fact.
Get your mouth ready for straw
bcrries-and your pocket book too
if you want them.
The long-laid-away linen duster is
struggling to the front and claiming
to be counted in.
Cucumbers are in market. Drug
gists and physicians smile on them
and pass them by.
From our exchanges all over the
State we learn that the wheat pros
pect never was better.
Ifa single glass of beer is recon-
mended as a tonic, ought two glasses
to be considered as Tue-tonic?
Cook & MILLER have removed their
Grain house in the brick building
south east of the Depot.
"Facts are stubborn things" A
mother-in-law and a mule must be
facts, for it's no use to dispute 'em.
Names for a couple of the new
spring bonnets-"omelette Uranium
decorator" and "sunflower headgear.'"
J. e. LESLIE, Scenic Artist, of Gin
cinnati, is in town painting new
scenery for the Eaton Dramatic Club.
The latest novelty out isa telephone
cigar. You can smoke it in Eaton
and smell it in Camden. Price $50 to
Camdenites.
Mr.. NEAL promised that at the end
of Gen. Grants administration he
would give up the p~ost-office. Time
Mr.. Neal.
AYERS & FILBERT have opened a
splendid stock of groceries at the old
Rhea & Kelly corner. Call and see
them.
District Court convened in Eaton
on Tuesday morning last, Judges D.
L. MEEKER, H. ELLIOTT and NJ. BAR
Low on the Bench. e
DR.. j. B. BRooK1Ns had a very Sc
we're and dangerous attack of heart
disease on Sunday night last. Glad
to say he is Oh the mend.
1t is astonishing how quickly bak-
ers' loaves shrink when the price of
flour rises ever the slightest-when
it falls they are not SO sensitive.
Waldo Lake has q superior quality
of pure Port Wine for sale at his
Drug Store. We sampled" the arti-
Gle and know whereof we speak.
Flour $40 barrel, potatoes $1,0O
per bushel, labor scarce and wages
low, makes the heart of the honest
laborer exceedingly sad.
Farmers, beware. of cloth and wire
clothes line peddlers. They are on
the war path seeking whom they may
"suck in" Sign no paper of any kind
for them.
The young spring chicken will soon
gaze his last upon the bright sun, and
the mild tones of the preacher will BIZ
heard in words of praise in regard tc
its tender carcass
Remember that the Eaton Cornet
Band will accompany the Excursion
train to the Soldiers Home to-day