The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-24
JOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Potatoes are too high.
Disinfect your premises.
There's a comet coming.
Good weather for laziness.
We still take subscriptions.
Harvest has opened in earnest.
The circus made a poor entree.
Tax-paying time is about gone.
Court has let up until next week.
We had a full town last Saturday.
Fish bone, cheap, at J. Rhea & Sons.
The 4th will be c~elebratedin Eaton on
the Sd.
Thermometers run high now with an
upward tendency.
The best way to raise raspberries is
with spoon.
Peaches were not all killed. There
will be a fair crop.
Harvest hands are in demand at 50
and $3.50 per day.
We have a new sprinkler, and a boss
one, too.
All kinds of canned fruit, cheap, at J.
Rhea & Sons.
Judge Gilmore, wife and son, j: h,
were in Eaton during this week.
There will be lively times in Preble
county during the campaign.
Fire crackers are already appearing to
tempt the small boy to grow patriotic.
When did we ever have peaches and
watermelons in Eaton in June before?
Challenge tomatoes 1Oc. per can at J..
Rhea & Sons.
W~atermelons and peaches were on
hand expressly for the Republican Con-
yention-
The campaign will 500 open, and it
will be red hot. Now is the time to sub
scribe for the DEMOCRAT.
The dandies have a new playthingEa
perfumed cane. Who will be the frstto
introduce it here?
This is the season of the-yeaLhcn
-Spitadespoushtte-h he shot and all other
kind muzzled.
There is a vast difference between a
weakly local paper and a local weekly
paper.
Orators are already at work on Fourth
of July speeches beginning: s"This call
is so unexpscted,n etc.
n1n|1EEHE
We have looked at some specimens of
new wheats The grain is plump and
good.
The Democratic National Convention
and harvest have made Eaton very quiet
thizweek.
Canary seed 1Oc. per pound, at Rhea
4 Sons.
The circus last Saturday in Eaton,
didn't pan out very much. 1t needed
more printers ink.
Early rising IS a healthy business, es
z.auu hannL oaIt nn-
a bender and is thirsty.
1t is now time for the man and BROTH
err. to ask of the Republican party in
this county-a little sop.
William Shealor died in Richmond,
Ind on Saturday last, and was buried
here on Monday.
jackson township has a young man
who is becoming hunp-backed in carry
ing all her political business.
When one barber shaves another bar
Der he does not talk. Sometimes we
wish we were a barber.
The slaughter CT ''patriotsn last Satur-
day, was more distressing than any bat
tie during the southern rebellion!
Bro. GAuNcE OF the Xenia News, was
married last week. 1t makes no differ
ence now, he's bald-headed already
Small politicians should never get an
CRY. A cat on a fence with her back up
cannot pass herself off for a camel.
Be careful of your eating, drinking and
working during hot weather, and you
may live to see another summer.
Hon. Solomon Seheu, wife, son and
niece, Miss Lottie Wandel, of Buffalo, n.
Y, are visiting John Lander and family.
The Republicans at their Convention,
prepared a place on the rtage of the Hall
for the Press. That was very clever and
thoughtful.
No matter how low down a man gets
in the world, there are two things he can
always get, somehow or other-good adj
vice and bad whisky.
Farmers were in town last week hunt
ing harvest hands, but noneo Of the worth
less, lazy, idle fellows loafng around
would engage.
The candidates nominated last Satur-
days slipped out of town without cutting
their watermelons. Dan Peters and Say
Ter ought to have done it,
The proprietor of a Louisville bone
factory announces that persons leaving
their bones with him can have them
ground at short notice.
Frank G. Thompson, Esa., had a Sc
rious attack of vertigo, about noo on
Sunday last, but we are glad to say has
entirely recovered from its effects.
Hemp seed 1Oc. per pound, at Rhea
& Sons.
1t is only the female mosquito that
bites, but when a man gets a chance to
belt n with a towel, he's going to do il
without stopping to inquire as to its gen.
der.
Isaac Monosmith has still on hand a
number ono article of GOOD pure bourbon