The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-08-22
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Court, Saturday.
Summer is waning.
Fall styles are coming.
The crops all look splendid.
The school master is abroad,
We have a rag picker in Eaton.
Mind your p's and as this week.
Farmers are plowing for wheat.
Examination of teachers, Saturday
The "sulphur color" is fashionable.
Democratic Convention, Saturday,
Autumn and county fairs r COM
ing.
Don't forget to give US a call on
Saturday.
Hay fever patients have commenced
swearing.
Hats are still worn on the back Of
the neck.
Wear a "boutouniere" on the lef,
sleeve.
1t is always the best plan to buy Of
men who advertise.
We haven't heard a man complain
this year at the scarcity of fruit.
The Martin family have left here
for winter quarters in the south.
We call attention to notice Of stray
COW in another column.
Camp Meeting begins near New
Madison to-day and lasts ten days.
Go in, boys, recollect that school
opens one week from next Monday.
Wen bet, the atmosphere last Sum
day could have been dished ont in
Jumps.
Our town was full of people on last
Saturday and business among our
merchants was lively.
The threshing machine is now heard
throughout the country, and the far
mel rejoiceth.
Only a few short weeks are left for
our people to work for the success of
the coming county fair.
Take your ear of green orn at both
ends, in both hands, and fear neither
man nor collie.
The boys who called on their "girls"
last Sunday night, preferred sitting
on the door steps.
A Dubuque girl made a dress COM
plete for IS cents. She has eleven
proposals" already.
Nj. and Mrs. Albert McNeal have
the sympathy of the community in
the loss of their little daughter.
The Eaton Band "spruced up and
attended the Druly picnic last week.
The boys can still make good music.
Keep it up.
An exchange heads its marriage no.
tees with the following poetry:
ssTwo toads with but a single hop,
Two cats that new as one"
A couple of young skids gave
themselves away by trying to fight in
the Court House park on Sunday af-
ternoon.
We know young men who sport in
the best of clothes and get their living
out of the hard earned wages oftheir
sisters. Shamel
In France a party of editors have
been hunting wild boars. Happy
country? Here the editors are hunt
ed by tame bores.
The latest styles of bonnets, when
properly adjusted with veil and rib
bons, resembles a fi~rst-class case of
bandaging.
Now stealthily from patch to patch
Proceeds the youthful felon,
And many a luckless farmer man
Bemoans the watermelon.
A man named Maddux has built a
mansion on Sevenmile which has cost
him Is cents, but he owes 5 cents for
lumber. Go and look at it.
When a carpctbagger begins libel
ing our best citizens, he should re-
ceiye the grand bounce. Camden
HERALD please copy.
Does your head swim? Do your
ears buzz? Do your eyes water? You
need rest. Go and hang on your
country relatives for two weeks.
What do the Normalites think OF
the Kindergarten 2" It is a popular
subject in the different Institutes now
being held.
Rev. W. B. DeRoy having been
called to the pastorate of the Baptist
church will commence his labors next
Sabbath morning.
There will be picnic at William
SprowIs grove, 2 miles south Of
WheatvilIe, on Saturday next The
managers assu a happy time.
Blest is the man who never drinks,
Or smokes, OF chews, or swears,
Who spends his evenings with his wife
And never goes on tears.
The Trustees of the S. O. Insane
Asylum have gone on a visit to east
ern Asylums, with a view of instruct
ing them in the aOhio idee" on that
subject.
John Lockwood pulled up and went
to Richmond to see Barnum's elephant
last week. If there is an elephant
comes within 100 miles of Eaton