The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-08-16
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

WCAL DEPAklMENI.
Scatter lime.
Pick squirrels.
Katy-dids sing.
Rain is needed.
Bishop and business.
Hot as Helen Blazes.
This makes fat men sweat.
The school bell will soon be heard
again.
S~oft-heads are superior to dead.
heads.
Candidates for Office are on their
good behavior now.
The population of Eaton is increas-
ing in the NATURAL way.
People will speak of1S77, as the
year of the great strike.
Iced-buttermilk is the latest drink,
and it's not bad to take.
Apple dumplings and peach cob
blers are the luxuries now.
With a telephone and a wife, a man
ought to hear all that's going on.
The principal excitement last week
was the shooting gallery.
L. G. Gould has gone to Denver,
Colorado, to spend a short time.
Pick out your big pumpkins, fat
cattle and fine sheep for the Fair.
The next Council will have to go
the whole hog or none. It's root hog
or die.
The new drop curtain for the Hall
is finished. 1t would be a credit to
any city.
The DEMOCRAT will be interesting
during the campaign, you bet. Sub
scribe.
The Camden Dramatic Society play
ed "East Lynne well, considering
the facilities.
Cut your weed before the seeds
ripen and are blown ITO the four winds
ofheaven."
The Dramatic Club are rehearsing
"under the gaslight" and "ticket OF
leave man.
If you want to meeta fat girl these
days look for her on the shady side
ofthe street.
Prof. L. D. Brown, Sup't of our
Public Schools, is back again from
his summer vacation.
Cap. Wilson is having a "run" on
his Holland Herring, but claims he
can stand it.
Mrs. Lee Trees, of Anderson, Ind,
was here last week, n q visit to the
familyofG. W. Churchill.
Our young friend Martin E. Fisher,
left for Jacksonville, Fla, last Mon
day morning.
Hear, ye! Your neighbor told us
: to ask you to subscribe for the DEMO
Graf. He don't like TO lend his.
We notiae in a recent exchange an
article headed: "Cotton and good
feeling.n We don't think SO.
Remember the election of Council
men. Let good men be elected who
will "sign and stick and sing"
Laboring-men will not ego Vest
this fall. They will vote against
West, Contraction and Starvationl
We notice by the Richmond INDIE
PENDENT that the hotel at Cedar
Springs is well filed with guests.
There is a time for everything, it is
said. Well, this is the time to pay
your subscription, as sure as you live
Under careful nurseing, young
friend Mr.. Hornaday, is rapidly re-
covering from his recent attack Of
fever.
The County Treasurer has gone to
Wansheka Springs, for a hydraulic
ram, and has put an old he Murphy
in his place.
When a young lady is caught Quit
a shower sans umbrella, what does
she most anxiously look for? A rain
beau, of course.
The Murphy choir went up to
Florence last Friday night to assist il
organizing the movement there
There we're SO converts.
Any circus wishing to secure the
services of a tirst-class Equestrian,
would do well to write to "Unclt
John"-this building.
A good many folks are talking a.
bout going West this fall. Well ex'
euse them now iftheyIn agree to stay
until the middle of October.
Both parties demand "the dollar O
the daddies.n Even the girls of thu
period like the sentiment. 1t is not
new issue with them, however.
Jackson "a. Gilmore is improving
in health. He does not expect to re
turn from Colorado until next year
His brother, Glenn, will remain will
him.
The ARoANUM VISITOR is a "roora
rooster" of a country paper. 1t
country correspondents are rich, rart
and racy. Eaton REGISTER should
take pattern.
We hear that ]. n. Musselman {
Co. will put up a grain depot on tn
Ctrao4 nroparfy W. nro nloJ IN m,