The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-12-26
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Eaton is lively now.
Bring on your egg-nogg.
Sleigh bells are jingling.
Bring out your 70 almanac.
Crime is abroad in the land.
No green Christmas this year.
Remember you will be in 1879 in a
few days.
A hotel bill may we'll be called inn
debtedness.
A doctors fee-can you call them
ill-gotten gains.
Quail shooting winds up next Tues
day, S1st.
This is the season for railroad
wrecks.
Preble county isifully represented
in the Columbus D. P.
Our next regular term of Court will
convene in March.
Candies, wholesale and retail, at
Eidson's Cash Grocery.
Butter is improving-it is getting
stronger.
Last Saturday was the shortest day
of the year.
Wheat, corn, oats, about the same
as last week.
Vaces, fancy cups and toys at Ed
sons Cash emporium.
The Daily ENQUIRER is now deliv-
cred in Eaton by a carrier.
About eight inches of "the beauti-
fur' mantles the earth around here.
Eidson's cash store is the place for
toy and gift books.
Miss Ruth Van Ausdal, of Glendale
Seminary, is at home for the holidays.
Thermometers stood at fourteen de-
grees below zero in Eaton on Tuesday
morning.
Benz. Hubbard, Esq, has made ar
engagements to put away a big pile of
ice this winter.
AS soon as the holidays are over
wen get up a revival in Eaton. 1t is
needed.
a short horse is soon curried, but
a mule, short or long, will kick you
into the next township.
Bibles and albums lower than ever
offered before, at the cash place of w.
A.. Edison.
Cap. Wilson has u thanks for a
bucket of his select tub oysters for
our dinner last Sunday.
Our town was pretty full of people
last Saturday and so were some ofthc
boys full.
W. A. Edison has the largest stock
of sweet holiday fxins we ever seen
in Eaton.
Rabbits, quail and poultry, never
were so plenty and cheap in Eaton as
this winter.
The price of skates will be about
the same as last year, and drowning
full as cheap.
Even a clothes line becomes In
steady when it has too many sheets
in the wind.
An immense stock of all kinds of
candies, low for cash, at w. A. Ed
sons.
Female boot blacks are taking their
place among the workers of the coun-
try.
BY the fireside at home is where the
young men of our town should be of
evenings and not running the streets.
W. A. Edison of the Cash Grocery,
has struck the bottom in prices in all
kinds of goods in his line.
ARusty" Huffman is home from
"Kaintuck," to enjoy his Christmas
with the boys and see how egg-nogg
is manufactured.
"What is good for a cold? ?" asks a
subscriber. Winter is about the best
thing we know of; a good winter full
of snow drifts.
DR.. F. M. Michael dropped his "saw
bones" at Bellcview Medical College,
N. Y, and.Ecame home to spend his
Christmas.
The difference between ladies and
ducks, if there is an difference, is that
ladies are often dressed to kill, while
ducks are killed to dress.
John Lander has a large stock of
Christmas goods and has marked
them down to living figures. Go and
see him.
We think it would be advisable for
the Marshal to take in the post-ofice
about the time the evening mail comes
in.
DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup is recon-
mended by all druggists as being a
purely vegetable and reliable prepar-
alton for Babies. Price % cents.
Mary Lander has a full line of mil
linery goods, flowers, feathers, rib
bons, notions, and is selling them
cheaper than ever.
Now that the leaf turning time is
again approaching what will those
poor wretches do who turned the last
leaf in their book IL year ago.
The common opinion is that we
should take good ARE of children at
all seasons of the year, bat it is well
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