The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-09-08
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Flies are still plenty.
Candidates are busy.
Wheat 81. 35 per bushel.
Are you ready for the fair?
The comet has disappeared.
Soon be time for walnutting.
Excursions are getting short.
This is the bivalye season now.
Our schools opened last Monday.
Paint has improved the city Hall.
Almanacs for 1882 are already out.
This will be ''fair' month. Don't for
get it.
Nine weeks last Saturday since the
President was shot.
School books, states, pencils, &C., are
in demand now.
The season of the scar and yellow leaf
is now approaching.
Quack doctors are now on the tramp.
Give them a wide berth.
Farmers have heaps OF new wheat and
a pocket full of money.
$1.00 to Cincinnati and return, Sum
day, Sept. 18th. LAST CHANCE.
John Harshman returned home from
Colorado Springs last Tuesday.
VIII Mr.. Vennor please forward that
frost G. o. D. It is more than DUE.
We had a light shower of rain on Sum
day last.
The school children were in circulation
last Monday morning.
Loots johnson has sold out his saloon,
except the menagerie part of it.
Be careful of fire in your garden or
fields.
Who paid for the bell of the Opera
House? The Council or the citizens?
Who owns it then?
John Click, of Eaton, is shipping the
old tobacco crop from this place in large
quantities.
The city dads ought to paint that bell
and take it in out of the cold weather
this winter.
Now is the time to dry your sweet corn,
can your tomatoes, and pickle your GU
cumbers.
The refined man does not call another
a liar. He refers to him as a weather
prophet.
McCord will run the LAST Sunday ex-
cursion to Cincinnati, Sunday, Sept. 18th:
Fare, round trip, ONLY $1.0O.
L. G. Abbott, Esq, of Richmond, Ind,
was in Eaton on Saturday last on legal
business.
The Eaton Band gave a concert last
Saturday night to an immense audience,
assisted by a notion a%uctioneer.
William Shields of Cincinnati, has been
spending a few weeks in Eaton among
friends.
The Eaton Cornet Band postponed the
Sunday evening concert until next Sab
bath.
We noticed the pleasing countenance
of Judge Sweeney on our streets this
week, looking hale and hearty again.
Andy Coffman bid off the Walters
farm, west of Eaton, in Jackson town
ship, on last Saturday, at $50 per acre.
Our Camden correspondent was too
late. We were full. Sorry, "Cap.'-
Send 'em on Monday. Tuesday noon is
too late.
We see that some of our farmers are
already cutting and shocking their corn.
In many fields the corn has literally dried
up.
It is notable that while a drought *
lists generally in this country the crops
are seriously injured by excessive rains
in Europe.
The Steam FIGURING Mill in Eaton
ground up last month 174o bushels of
wheat for customers alone. That was
pretty good.
Candidates are now doing all the Dor
ing. We suggest that they take a seat
of work on the public well in the Court
House square.
Thirty-two circuses are bleeding this
unhappy land. Each n has two or
three clowns, and each clown the same
old jokes.
Everybody admits after trying them
that Rinehart's Liver Pills are the best.
Only ONE for a dose. Sample dose FREE.
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Henry Farr, Secretary of the Preble
County Agricultural Society, was the
only representative from this county at
the State Fair.
DIR. Edison of Onley, Ills, an old
Preble county boy, has been rusticating
the past week among his relatives and
friends in Eaton.
The spiral spring bed bottom, manu-
featured by Benz. Neal & Co., of Eaton,
took the first premium at the Ohio State
Fair.
Farmers will soon be busy seeding
From the opening of spring to the COM
ing on of winter, tillers of the soil have
but few days of recreation.
Ladies are beginning to look up the
old-timed hoop skirt. They are coming
in fashion again, and it won't belong be
fore they will be hard to pass on a mar
ROY sidewalk.
Mr.. VIM. Reed, a farmer and lumber
man, living near G~reenville, was. goreC
to death on Sunday one week ago. by
large bull of fancy stock that he kept tieC
in his stable.
When a public official violates his oatl
of office he should be impeached imme
diately and cashiered. The peoples ser
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