The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-02
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Oats IL cents.
Corn % cents.
Wheat 80 cents.

The beautiful" still clings to us. )
Hot stoves have been in demand.
What did you get in your stocking
Have you "swore Of. young man
Hogs from 1925 to s2.45 per hun
bred.
Tobacco G., z, s and 10 cents pei
pound.
The game law has expired. Look
out.
Cobbiers will be cheap next sum-
mer.
Best sleigh riding we have had in
ten years.
The ice men of Eaton have garner.
ed their harvest.
Salaries aud taxes must be paid, il
il takes the last dollar.
The ice put up here will average
eight inches.
Judge Meeker held Court in Eaton
on Saturday last.
Cold weather and our Town Clock
don't run well together.
Hogs still como in for shipment,
and prices are still very low.
Don't bet, don't fret, don't get wet.
and you'll have no regret.
Prayer for the poor is very well.
but a good beefsteak is better.
five are 10 be afflicted with corpu-
lency, let il attack our pocket-book
A man calls a puppy after him by
whistIing. but a girl has only TO wink
at ono.
Prepare, young man, to make a
brand-new set of resolutions and buy
a fifteen-cent diary for 1879.
Many people would gladly resume
The ,paymcnt of debts, iftlicy had the
means to do SO.
Women measure their dresses by
the finger, and. this is also the way
men measure their drinks.
"Hope deferred makcth The heart
sick," is a provcrb sadlysrealized by
the publisher who sendeth out bills.
The next important event in the
history of This country after resump-
lion, will ethc coming ofthe Ground
Hog.
Ctcm Gilmore, Clarence Reynolds
aud Clarence Miller, students at the
Wooster College, are all home for the
holidays.
w are glad 10 learn that our old
friend Rob't Davidson, of Lexington
Twin township, is recovering from
his late unfortunate accident.
Our friend AL. Hubbard, pleasant.
ly entertained a few of his "unbeliev.
ing" friends at his home, on Thurs.
day evening last.
Jurors in Ohio, under the law a:
amended last winter, nov get 50 pei
day, and five cents per milo from theil
place Of residence 10 the county seat
Leaves. have had their lime to fall
but if pork gets much lower we are
afraid some Of our subscribers vii
want lis TO take some on subscription
account.
Ola Saturday the piously inclined
r thinking up what TO wear to
church tomorrow, while the ungod'
~ man buys powder aud shot f r.
gmmiug expedition.
Give your son a good education
and settled purpose in life, and whci
he is d man he will not be content e
sit back of a grocery stove and cracl
his finger joints.
There arc len shades. OF red tlll
eason in woman's toggery and 81.
shades of blue about the husband ant
father, who foots the dry goods ant
millinery bills.
When a bridegroom finds all til,
clothes he owns in the world hun!
one over the other on a hook behInt
the pantry, he realizes for the frs
time that the honeymoon is over.
Now is the winter of our swee
content; for overcoats the impecuni
Gus do not care a cent and the dea
women who have new winter suits Il
wear regard tie weather as HEAVIER
sent.
Three cents a week laid away will
pay for the DEMOCRAT at the end o
the year! Where is the Democrat il
Preble county who can't do it? l
there are any, send them in and the,
can have it for nothing.
A cats eyes are said TO be largest a
midnight. We never made an exam
i%nation, but we are positive that it
voice is about seventeen times large
at that hour than at any other perio'
during the twenty-four.
For years College Corner has bee
the only unregenerate part of Israe
township, and now the tidal IA O
religion has struck that community
Ill persons having joined the NJ. L
Church during the past three week.
The newest fashion of ladies' hat
is just out. 1t is a two-story hen
nest, an owls eyebrow on one sid
and q squirrels tail on the other, an
is worn on a projection of seawee
about six inches in the ear of tn
head.
Some ladies have already discover