The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-09
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Vegetables are plenty.
Flowers in full bloom.


Vegetables are plenty.
Flowers in full bloom. ~
Paint your homes now. @
Let us celebrate the 4th.
Our town needs cleaning.
The messels are in Eaton.
Wool Is cents per pound.
New potatoes have arrove.
N The boys now want Q circus.
Sheep sheariug has been brisk.
Potato bugs are on the war path.
Hogs are roofing around yeti Ring
'em. ssR
Eaton is as quiet and serene as a
May day.
Cedar Spripgsg water at Lakes
Drug Store.
Strawberries in tnarket-too costly
for printers. .5es
,. !. Robinson has onr thanks for
late California papers. 40
Our merchants are making big dis
plays of spring goods. :
Some of our farmers think the
wheat is growing too fast.
First of May parties were postpon-
ed on account Of the weather.
1t didn't rain on Easter Sunday,
bat it has rainsd nearly eyery day
since.
A new barber shop on Barron
street, twosdoors north Of the eagle
Hotel"
A strawberry festival would be
now IN order for the benefit of relig-
ion.
Give your boys employment, or the
devil viii find something for them to
do. "a
Fellows who pirate most abeut the
rights Of labor are the last who cure
to do an honestday's work.
Better a dinner with green pea soup
where love is, than cold bologna sau-
sage and hatred Herewith.
Men should moi think too much of
themselves, and yet a man should be
careful not to forget himself.
Cap. wilson willhave a fine lot of
fresh. maekerel and shad next Satur-
day morning. Don't forget.
sEternal vigilance" is the price of
liberty, but for $3.50 you can get the
DEMOCRAT for a whole year.
Less than three cents perweek will
furnish Won with your home paper.
Cheap, isn't it? A mere nothing.
An ftinerant corn doctor was in
town last week. He removed sever
al corns and got badly @corned" him
self before he left town. +.
If any of our readers want to die
now IS a good time. MI. Darrah pro-
posesto plant y~ousoat Of sight very
cheap. See HIS card.
The Eourt House yard presents q
beautiful appearance. The grass is
lpxuriant and the shade trees are
growing finely.
John T. Deem has several good
building lots in Eaton that he win ex-
change for cash, horses or buggies.
A good chance for bargains.
There will be picnic at the Fair
Grounds on Saturday, May 18th inst.
ACQUISITION only % cents. Everybody
Is invited and a good fine expected.
Decoration day will be the next le-
gal holiday. Wonder if the @usual
ceremonies will constitute the rites
OF observance to the soldier dead in
Eaton? as.
sThis is the maiden all forlorn,"
who often wishes she had meier been
born, and turned up her nose in petu-
lent scorn at the girl who last seasons
hat had worn.
Rye has been out in head for sew
eral days past. The wheat crop is
fully three weeks in advance of last
crop, and already shows signs of the
formation of heads.
There will be a big shooting match
in Eaton in q week or so, in which
Hamilton, Dayton, Oxford, Rich
mond, Greenville, and other noted
towns will contest for the prizes.
The street cleaners commenced
work last Monday morning, and un-
der the supervision of Street Com
missioner Shields, we will soon have
the cieanest town in The State.
One of our ministers complained
last Sabbath of counterfeit money be-
ing dropped into the collection box.
It oughn't be done. The Lord won't
receive that kind of cash on account.
Somebody went into Date Kelly's
grain bin last Thursday night and
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scooped up about ten bushels OF
wheat, nearly all he had. Date fur
nishes meat and wheat to the hungry.
The spring styles for gentlemen are
upon US, and the shirt collar and hat
come SO near meeting, that a fellows
ears look as uncomfortable as a squash
that is trying to grow on both sides
of the fence.
A Pauldlng county Justice of the
Peace kept q notice posted up in his
court room: HNo argerin aloud in
this corte rune, eekseps by the law
ers and they must anger to the pint OF