The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1880-12-28
Written for This Spirit OF Dsmoorraoy.)


Ed. SPIRIT: We've got the "Beautiful
Snow" here at Cameron 5adly-John
Suppes seems to be suffering badly Of
that particular disease; the girls don't
care 80 long as the boys are able TO
make mile In $40; we'll, John, we
we're all young once and liked sleighing,
and tho girls, also. The tobacco crop
is slowly coming in; our farmers are
about ready to let the crop go at the
small figure Of % per hundred; not
enough to pay them for raising it, hut
about all our merchants can, in Justice
to themselves, give. Mr. Sylvanus Hood
will become citizen of our town this
week. John Bandi has purchased the
Pancoast farm and will move on it in
the Sprisg. John Stukey, our mail car
aer Mas atlast succeeded in getting the
starting poifit. Of the mail changed on
thb route /; slasfiag hereafter from Clar-
iipsson. Thia change will lessen the
work Of the cStrier, aud bs b'tter for
A all interested along the route. Miss
Sadie Henthorn is visiting her brother
John ut Bellaire who has been dangeti
ously i'll OF typhoid fever for some days
past Miss Allie Van Law, of Came.
ron, is, at the present time, nesr Beslls-
1 vile teaching music. Allie is good
instructor and will, no doubt, be sue
cessful in her vocation s.s teacher -
: John Bandi, Jr, has left the farm, anf
, is making rapid strides IN blacksmithins
under the careful management OF Davit
3 Monahan. There is camp of Gypsie'
8 on the creek below town; they are ira
ding horses, telling fortunes according
!, to their. custom. Theodore wqNdn
s tell me the names Of young I2sesk
e who drove down (it was a bay yrs ,
It to have their fortunes told Ont ssS
r their number has been sick for g.,
n weeks. Aaron Perry, Of debating no
g toriety, Is now working on the saw mil
i for Mr.. Palmer. Albert Ward an,
n Charley Beard will return from thei
e schools, Friday. to spend Christmas viii
Y their friends. Rev Arnold has jus
IT closed series Of very interesting an
Is profitable meetings. Several accession
e we're made to the church. Rev Arnol
s is preacher Of more than average abb
e ity, and wherever he goes he merits sue
Y cess, for more ardent, Jealous worke
e is not to be found in Eastern Ohio
j. There has been considerable sickness i
n town for the last 10 days. Mr.. Pontin
VI family have all been sick, we failed
d learn the nature of the disease. W. I
j Wire and family we're all sick of dipf
j. iberia at one time. They are all able
1t 60 about, at present writing, exceI
" Mrs. Wire, we learned this evening tt'
3 she was rapidly recovering Drs. Web
, and Lapp attended them Three Of Ge'
y Suppes' children we're sick at the satf
J. time of the same complaint, bnt we al
n happy to add are rapidly recovering
n John Tschappat's family have unde
s. gone the same affiiction, but are reco'
at ering. The Buffalo Washer was on e,
a hibition to-day at the Cameron hotel.-
e 1t works easy and is very simple in i
le arrangement; the ladies who used
lie state that it does the work better tbs
r any machine they ever used. We vii
j. Theodore success, and we believe
(" will have it, for his machine will. recon
o. mend itself wherever shown.
g. ~ RICHARD HENRY