The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-05-30
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

WCAh WERAkI MEN1.
Warm now.
Shoot the flies.
Pay your taxes.
Decoration day.
Corn is growing.
Locusts in bloom.
Send US the news.
Arrest the tramps.
Get out your linen.
Well have a circus.
Cherries have come.
Buy your harvester.
Prepare for the fair.
Picnic season at hand.
Butter is getting stronger.
Strawberries by. the bushel.
Frog concerts every evening.
Give us a dish of turtle soup.
The patent gate man is still here.
Hang yourself rather than starve.
Is the Board of Health organized I
Eaton Schools will close 9th of June,
Harvest will commence next week.
The County Infirmary is prosper
ing.
Pen up the bovines and muzzle the
dogs.
Strawberries point which way the
money goes.
Judge Hume held Court in Eaton
last Saturday.
Remind us of all the errors in our
paper, but don't praise it.
No dog fight this week. "Sic transit
gloria mundi."
Now is the time to improve, labor
is down and SO is material.
Evil-doers had better steer clear OF
Eaton. Mike Ryan is Marshal.
Detective Frank Mitchell, of Gin
cinnati, was in Eaton last Saturday,
The original and genuine Tennes-
seeans will be here next Tuesday eve-
ming.
The church suffers more from the
inconsistent lives ofits members than
from any other cause.
If every fool could hold his tongue,
what a solemn set ofowlsthere would
be in the world.
Ice cream and strawberry social at
the UniversaIist Church, next Satur-
day evening. Let all go.
Miss o. L. Alderman read a paper
before the Butler County Teachers
Association last Saturday.
For want of something else to say
we might urge our citizens to prepare
for Fourth Of July celebration.
Preble county has been given a
guard for the Ohio Psnitentiary-
Frank Smith. He is on duty.
Statistics prove that editors are the
most moral men in the community
they always do write.
You can't make a horse drink, but
the fellows in this neighborho?d are
not troubled with that kind of obsti-
macy.
A circus went through Eaton on
wheels on Tuesday morning. This
place gets the go-by of such christian
amusements.
Cap. Wilson gets up the biggest
lunches of any house outside of Gin
cinnati. Johnny Monfort puts the
Cincinnati touch TO them.
Neal Dow says it pays to be tenn
perate. That's as you look at it. II
don't pay. the man who sells the whis-
ky.
A billy-cock hat has its merits, but,
if you wish to be dressed in the best
style, for walking, buy a stove pipe, if
you can afford the expense.
If you can't make a living at your
legitimate trade, get a printing press
and go into'the business. Any dang
fool can succeed among type.
AS a general thing very few women
ever served an apprenticeship at the
blacksmith trade, but most of them
can "shoo' a hen to perfection.
1t is not intended that children
should crowd the city Hall on the oc.
casion of DR.. Hancock's annual adj
dress, Sabbath evening next. t.
1t is wise, if your head is SO shaped
that it will bear the revelation, &c
have your hair filed in summer, and
every morning plunge it in water.
And now the American citizen Wis.
its the Public Schools to talk of "the
old log school house" and to tell the
boys that some of them may be Pre-
sident.
what shall we do with our educa'
tion?" is the subject of DR.. Johr
Hancock's address to the graduating
class of the Eaton High School, mex
Sunday evening, in the Town Hall.
When any of our friends want 9
nice dish of ice cream and strawber
ries, and a pleasant and nice place t.
enjoy them, cal. at Miss Nettie ant
Mary Harbaugh's, northeast corne
of Barron and Somers streets.
The Presbyterian choir Of Green
vile quit singing because the Elder
of the church said they must qui