The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1880-06-10


Thursday, June 10. 1880
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Jennie Junei
Swimming time, boys.
Get us a new subscriber.
Young squirrels are plenty.
Now is the time to pay taxes.
New potatoes $3.50 per bushel.
The drowning season is at hand.
How about a 4th of July racket?
Drink moderately in hot weather.
The boys are happy now-no school.
Time to have your head s~andpapered'
This will be known as the windy sum-
mer.
You AN lie about the thermometer
now.
A good many reapers are being sold in
Eaton.
Farmers are getting ready for the
"fwheat by and by"
This is the week the County Commits
sioners are In session.
Court in session, Judge JAS. A. Gn-
MORE ON the Bench.
Our Superintendent and school marms
have all vacated the town.
- There was no Council meeting last
Monday evening. No quorum.
Grasshoppers are said to be accumu-
lating in some parts of the county.
Rather unpromising-to fish all day
and get nothing but mosquito bites.
Plenty. of fresh air will do more for
your children than plenty of medicine.
Plant ~sunfowers. They are said to be
an excellent preventative of malaria.
. There isn't much money in the position
of census enumerator after all.
Seven candidates were in Eaton last
Saturday. All roads seem to lead here.
The Grand Jury finished its business
on Tuesday, finding SEVEN bills of indict,
ment.
Farmers say that the wheat harvest
will be at least two weeks earlier this
season than last year.
Many persons think Sunday a sponge
with which to wipe out the sins of the
past week.
Don't remark that there is nothing new
under the sun. There are sixty new
styles Of bonnets.
Every dog has his day and as much Of
everybody else's night as he can gel
when the barking is good.
McCord's x cursion to the Soldiers
Home to-day Thursday. Don't forgei
to go, because it pays.
Last Sunday was the windiest day We
ever seen in June. It was regular March
weather.
How anxious the candidate seems
about your health. He will lose much
of this interest in a couple of weeks.
Our farmers are radiant with smiles
now. All agree that every farming pros
pect is very encouraging.
We have self-made men, but who ever
heard of a self-made woman? The mil
liner does the making there.
The small boys digestive apparatus is
undoubtedly the nearest approach to per
petual motion that the world has YET
known.
Just think of It'll You may be one Of
those who have received this paper reg
ularly and not paid a cent toward it. Is
it fair?
A couple of lamps on the gallery of oul
Opera House, is what is needed. vii
the proper authorities please attend te
it?
H. q. Williams & Brother are now
among us looking around for the purpose
of getting up a history of Preble County,
We hope they will succeed.
He asked a Cincinnati belle If there
was much refinement and culture in that
city, and she replied, "You just bet you
boots we're a cultured crowdi"
VIM. Clayton received the contract fol-
remodeling the Court ROOM. His bic
was $3.50. None of the bids for repairine
the rotunda were accepted.
The "Darwin jerk'' is the latest thing
out, as applied to the manner in which
a young man now lifts his hat to his lady
acquaintance.
Pansies and mignonettes are the flow
ers most in favor this spring, and millin.
ers say that they an scarcely get enough
of them to supply the demand.
J.. F. Miller, Esq, of Richmond, ant
Supt. of the P. c. & St. L. Railway, wa.
in Eaton on Thursday last, attending tht
fancy stock sale and making some pur
chases.
If the Democrats of this county would
take as much pains to get up clubs fol
their home paper as they do for som,
foreign cheap weekly, it would be more
like the clean thing.
Fifteen cents makes a difference in tn,
crowd at our school exhibitions. Tit
charge of admission showed exactly how