The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-01-22

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f. III. STILES.
The weather is not an ice thing.
The roads are one vast sea of mud
Easter will fall on the 2Sth of March
The boys are playing marbles ol
the streets.
The buds of the soft naples arr
swelling.
A large invoice of Brackets just re
ceiyed at F. II. STILES.
All that is wanting to complete the
evidence that spring has come is The
presence of the grind organ.
Lent will begin on Wednesday,
February 1lth, two weeks from next
Wednesday.
When the roads get good again, II
that time ever comes, there are some
hopes there will be revival OF busi-
ness.
The ice dealers are becoming des-
pOndent, fearing the crop will be a to.
tai failure.
Mrs. M. A. Woodbridge, President
of the Woman's National Temperance
Union OF Ohio, addressed a large
meeting at the Methodist Church in
Ashtabula on Saturday evening.
A correspondent writes us from Suf-
field, that the junior" Band, of that
place, have just received set of new
instruments worth about $500. and are
improving rapidly.
On Saturday last Mr.. o. 8. Buzzell
sold his two-year old HambletoniaD
colt to Peter Ii. Bean. 1t is one OF
The finest colts ever raised in North
ern Ohio.
Our old friend VIM. l.. Russell, liv-
ing about two miles west OF town, has
been confied to his house for several
weeks past with q severe attack of in
rheumatism.
The Cleveland Herald states that on
line Cleveland & Pittsburgh
Company issued an order in
;reasing the salaries of employees re.
:eiving less than $50 a month fifteen
per cent, and OF those receiving more
,en per cent.
Next Sunday the Rev. A. j. Brock
ways subject will be: "When the
Church of God ceased to be un-Catho-
ic and became Catholic; )" or "the true
is liberal, and all true Christ
ans are Catholic"
Somebody perpetrated huge joke
IN the Ravenna Press and Rep-Dem.
That bear story reached them, and
hey took it in.-(Kent Bulletin.
Barely possible.
A Rsvenna woman sneeZed her jaw
out of place lately, and the married
men of that place have been buying
'nuf ever since.-[Kent Bulletin.
That's whopper, brother Minich.
Tis worse than the story of the boys
md the bears. It's not SO.
DIR. VIM. Bowen, one of the oldest
md most prominent physicians in
Northern Ohio, died at his home in
Akron, on Thursday morning last, of
,uremic poison, in the seventy-fifth
year of his age.
Gen. Jabez w. Fitch has been ap-
pointed by Governor Foster Trustee
of the Northern Ohio Lunatic Asulum
Ind his nomination has been unani-
nously confirmed by the Sc nate.
Mrs. Charlott M. EIdridge, wife OF
). G. Eldridge, Esq, an old and res
,cctcd resident of Shalersvilie, died
It the family resident in that town OF
lcart disease, on Tuesday morning,
lged fifty-five years.
There will be preaching i'm the Uni
7ersalist Church each evening this
week. Rev. Z. Morris, of Kent, will
Issist the pastor and remain over next
Sunday. Rev. Rexford, President of
3uchtel College, will preach Wednes-
lay evening.
S. r Freeman has purchased of the
leirs Of his fathers estate the proper
y on the corner of Main and Pros
,ect streets, cast OF T.. a. Pitkin's
and designs to erect thereon
n the spring a building for business
purposes.
John Denier's Humpty-Dumpty
roupe drew a $40 audience at the
Opera House last Friday night. 1t
lad dorg with it that was pronounce
ID of decidedly red complexion. b., t
hat is the kind of animal that seems
o draw best in this locality.
The citizens of Portage county will
lave an opportunity to hear Mrs.
1sry A. Livermore, the foremost wo-
nan of the age, at the Opera House,
Saturday evening, February
9Th. The expectation Of hearing this
lifted woman has already assumed
much interest, and many have en-.
aged tickets.
Mr.. Evan Hughs made us q call on
to request US to state that he
Q not the author of our correspond
nee from Edinburg signed Evan,
. many are led to suppose, from the
act of his being the only person of
hat name in the township. We cheer
ully comply with his request, and
would say that we hope our cores
.o,1aufo Oauorollv will ovoid poroou.