The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-05-01
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Summer at last.

The ice wagons are brisk.
Corn is selling at % cents.
This is mushroom season.
Bring in your fish stories.
Oysters are out Of season.
Picnic time win soon be here.
Early fruit trees are blooming.
Turn the carpet 'tother side up.
Stewart had a "soft thing of it.
The b~are-footed boy is now around.
Grain shipments are very light now.
Don't you fish now. It is an ofense.
The Middletown boys got .faxmilled'
out.
Murphyism will begin to spring up
now.
Are there no female pedestrians in Ea-
ton?
Street corner loafng is in full force
now.
The old Flax Mil didn't sell last Sat
urday.
The Middletown boys went home shorn
OF their "locks."
The snake story season will soon be
here.
Decoration day is the next legal holi-
day.
Wild flowers dot the bOnny banks and
hillsidss.
Spring chickens. spring lambs and
young mulss.
A scandal mosger is a public nuisance
that should be abaSed.
j.. j. Robinson has our thanks for late
California papers.
The sprinkler has entered upon its
summer campaign.
Cowards are generally great blow
hards.
1t will soon be time to complain Of the
cheated term"
oircuses all skip Eaton. Why is it
thusly?
Ice is being delivered at % cents per
hundred pounds. Cheap luxury.
We understand the Saw Dust" church
has changed proprietors.
The next walk will be a heavy weight
Several have already entered.
Blessed is the man that can stretch a
carpet to suit a woman.
Patronize the business men Of your
own town, if you desire prosperity
The festive bull-frog now warbleth his
croak on evening breezes.
Two Archery clubs have been organic
ed in Eaton. Next.
Who is to be our new Prosecuting At
torney? That is assquestion now
Miss Mary Lander keepsall the new
est styles in millinery
White-washers and paper-hangers are
in demand
Boys and girls you can go and gather
wild flowers now.
Sturm has a belt to present to the mex
champion walkist in Eaton.
It will soon be time to sit in your rus.
tic chairs by the family shade tree.
Six cakes good toilet soap for &c.,, al
the Eaton Cheap Store, next to 2. O.
Ne more fishing now until the 18th o.
June. The penalty is heavy against it
The soda fountain man is cleaning uF
the old machine for the coming campaign,
We had a fine and much needed show
er Of rain on Sunday afternoon and night
There viii be no more services in the
"saw Dust'' church for a fewweeks. L
needs repairing.
Ladies and children's hose &C. per pan
and upward, to close out, at the Eaton
Cheap Store, next to P. o.
The Council met on Monday evening
last, passed a few bills and adjourned
No other business of importance.
The season of spring fever is at hand
With some people it lasts all through
summer, fall and winter.
A moral lesson has never been deducet
from the fact that fish always bite bette
on Sunday than on any other day.
A box of u sheets good note paper ant
u envelopes for only SC. at the Eato1
Cheap Store, next to p 0.
Don't forget McCord's excursion mex
Sunday to the Dedication Of the Orphans
Home at Richmond, Ind. Half fare.
Time for the girls to get their croque
sets and beaux in readiness for the sum
mer campaign.
If you do not wish to pay tax on you.
dog, the better plan would be to kill
before the Assessor comes around.
Garnet braid pins, "the latest" 1Oc
and 15c. each, at the Eaton cheap Store
next to post-ofice.
Some of the Deacons of the 'Sav
Dust church are not entirely satisfied
with the results OF the revival.
ssshadow" Acton surprised the mos
sanguine. His pluck and endurance
should now be put to a better use.
Ladies' Isle thread gloves 10 to zoe
a pair, worth from 20 to 4Oc,, at the Ea
ton Cheap Store, next to post-otfice.
If the Middletown walkists had use
more pure milk they would have stood tn
racket longer and better.
Henry Hickman got an egg the othe
day measuring 33sinches in length an
656 inches around. Who can beatit t?
The Troy SENTINEL says that Mr.. Sec
by, a tree man, lost his speech while OF
on the road last week. That's singular
II is now time TO make contracts to l.