The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-06-13


Was it appropriate to produce the
"last rose of summer" amid such a
%profusion of flowers on Commence
ment" evening?
David Barnet and wife were stoned
by some young scoundrels in the
streets of Camden last week. Neither
were seriously injured.
The book store of J.. 81. Bostick &
Co., in Richmond, was closed on Fri
day last by the U. S. Marshal on a
Judgment of the q. S. Court.
It's about time now for the local
stump speaker to begin posting him
self upon questions of finance and get
ready to fight the war over again.
The school exercises were attended
by many visitors from our neighbor-
ing villages, and all went away highly
pleased and complimenting its sue
cess.
M. Ryan, Marshal, deserves favora-
BILE mention for the good order pre-
served at commencement, and the
people high praise for quiet, courte-
Gus attention.
Some of our piscatorial friends un-
able to wait till the 18th inst, invad-
AEA
ed Indiana last week and brought
home several bass and catfish from
Whitewater.
Mr.. Jacob Weis, the city engineer,
had the Opera House in first-class OF
der on the evening of the school ex-
ercises. Mr.. Weis understands his
biz to a T.
There.was a man in town last week
who would have made sold cholera"
turn pale, had he been around. He
ate four cucumbers and a quart of
strawberries in front of one of our
fruit stands. He said "garden sass
never hurt him.
In one day, within the past fort
night, fourteen young men of the vii
Ilage of cambridge, Pike county, were
arrested upon the afidavits of four
teen young ladies, ranging in years
from fifteen upward, and charged
with ~bastardy.
Mr.. John Robinson, a Twin town,
ship democratic boy, now a citizen of
ISidney, Ohio, was in Eaton last week
in company with Gen. LeFever.
4Jack" has made his mark in Shelby,
land is one of their most honored and
respected citizens.
The School Board last week re-
elected L. D.. Brown Superintendent
of the Schools for the ensuing year.
The corps of teachers remain as be-
fore, except that J.. B. Munger and
Charles Moore take the places of
Misses Skidmore and Palmer.
It seems to US that the streets of
our town are not proper places for
the exhibition of steam agricultural
implements. Such q case came near
resulting seriously last Saturday. The
damages which might be recovered
for a broken limb would make the
proceeds of a seasons sales look sick.
Tho rules of a. ladies' club in War
saw, Poland, declare that no member
shall give more than $26 for a morn
ing dress, $50 for an evening dress, or
S. for a bonnet, and that at each quar-
terly meeting each member shall
truthfuliy declare that she owes nei-
Their a milliner's o a dressmaker's
bill.
Rube. Bulger s. Co, at their place
of business, three doors east of the
Union House, on Main street, are now
prepared to give warm or cold baths
at all hours during the week, and I'M
till II o'clock on Sunday mornings,
together with a clean shave, shampoo,
hair cut &c. Drop in.
MI. L. D. Brown, the Superintend-
ent Of our schools, and Miss Alder
man, the Principal Of our High
School, deserve high praise for the
manner in which the commencement
exercises were managed and for the
complete success ofthe exercises. The
moulding power of strong and well
trained minds was evident through
out.
The West Alexandria correspond
ent of the Camden HERALD attended
PROF. Hancock's lecture at this place,
and is at pains to lecture the citizens
of Eaton on their behavior. The fact
is that the order ON that occasion was
remarkably good and the audience as
refined as could be assembled any
where. The whole trouble is that the
S. Aleck, who was SO much disturb
ed, was never in such a good looking
crowd before, and we have it from
those who sat near him, that he was
continually turning and twisting in
his seat to look at those about him,
and when the lecture was owe he i'm
agined the reason he didn't know
anything about it, was; because ofhis
good looking e-ighbors-AnditWas
Twenty-Five yards brown muslins for
$1.G0 at the Mammoth.
1t is more fun, says an exchange, to
watch a man read a puff of himself
than it is to see a fat man slip upon
an orange peel. The narrow-minded
man reads it over seven or eight times
and then goes around to the different
places in town where the paper is
taken and steals what copies he can.