The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-04-19
LOCaL ITEMS.

Drummers plenty.
House cleaning brisk.
Spades are now trumps.
Peanut vendors are thawed out.
Turn your carpet t'other side up.
Dyspeptics should drink from blue
glass.
The fly will soon begin to put its
=. down.
Fashionable funerals are costly
undertakings.
Pen up your swine and muzzle
your dogs.
Everybody has been "under the
weather. lately.
Some dinged fool now predicts a
dry summer.
Our streets were a perfect jam last
Saturday evening.
Dainty little parasols are to take
the place of the sensible SUI umbrel-
Ia.
The Commissioners Report is as
clear as midland hat of the Ex-
aminers clearer.
The seven Sunday rain adage is a
failure this year. Last Sunday vas
a beautiful day.
Big "ish stories" are now in or
der. "Uncle Robin" is ahead as
far as heard from.
Eaton has seven butchers and eight
physicians, but which do the most
killing we can't tell.
Farmers blowing with o%vercoats
on was a common thing in this lati-
tude last week.
If we can't have a new P. NJ. let
us have anew p~ost-office. Anything
for a change.
Sugar Valley, in this county, is
blessed with two p~ost-offces. Eaton
could accommodate a couple more.
Our local columns are occupied
this week with the long-winded
white-washing of the Commissioners
Report.
Don Cameron had to 60 out be.
cause Key came in. It wouldn't do
to have Cabinet made up of Don
Keys.
Our postmaster has not resigned
yet, although Grants administration
came to an end in the early part of
March.
Our city fathers have resolved TO
economic in Jul Corporation expen-
ditures the coming year. Sensible
conclusion.
Local news, strictly speaking, is
below par. Everybody seems intent,
just at present, in seeing hoy quiet
they can keep.
Even if a boy is always ~whistling
81 want to be an angel" it is just as
we'll to keep the preserves on the top
shelf of the pantry.
One reason why babies should not
be carried to church is that thew
generally convert the sanctuary into
a bawl room.
Mr.. ABRAHAM HICKMAN has our
thanks for a sample jar of maple mo-
~lasses, the best specimen we have
tasted this season.
The ambitious gentlemen who are
waiting for the post-ofice must moi
lose patience or hope. There is ar
end to all things:
In the spring the organ grinder
!, turns his crank with many an air
in the spring the cats grow kinder
+ and there's music everywhere.
Girls, don't be afraid to work
, Ruth cleaned in the harvest field ant
got just as good a Boaz as any cir
in that section of country.
The fishing season has come, ant
it will be good recreation for the mel
and boys while the women folks ar
enjoying the pleasures of hous'
cleaning.
There is a petition circulating 70
: the removal of the p~ost-ofice. w
t wonder if the people want to get tn
office away from a lot of fellows VIII
are after it?
' The Examiners condemn the Com
missioners' Report in three columns
and then wind up by taking it al
= back in three lines! The expense Q
L which is $72!
Times are so hard we hope Their
will not be several thousand dollar
:, spent putting in canals in town thi
year. If anything is to be cut dow
let it be useless expenditure of pull
lie moneys.
A petition is in circulation pray
ing for the remodeling of our "show
; city Hail." Nothing that our ne
y Council could do would be more
l. their credit and good sense than t