The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-02-17
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
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,EE,Rah for a railroadl
aHeld onto the fort"

The reading room is popular.
Not much summer this winter.
It will soon be over-the winter.
This is the month Of much weather. 70
=7 Local option-eat and drink what you
please. q
Wouldn't we be a happy town without
a raiiroad2
Smallpox is spreading all over the
country.
Valentine day was poorly observed in
Eaton.
Eggs got to 20 cents per dozen in Ea7
!, ton last week. j.
e. As a general thing butter is strong and
healthy now Z
Have we a Board of Health to see
about vaccination2
It's the Gentle thing in Mormondom
10 have only one wife.
Justice islike a glass, which cannot
be bent, but is easily broken.
1t, is now predicted that people will
move on sleds, April LIST. 1881
Ice this winter has been a drug, while
eggs were eggswvw Gn =.
blue birds were building this time last
year! : 7eH - :
Charley schlenker has our thanks for
a dish Of very fine S. X
Miss Clara Edison, one Of Greenvlle's
fair ladies, is visiting Mrs. Minnie Deem.
Our January thaw was postponed son
account Of the weather. until February.
Never let your good resolutions be
broken by the attempts Of others to ridi-
cule you.
We are weekly adding a young sub
seription list to our list of subscribers.
Let the boom continue. oTd =
Crepe vine dispatches on the railroad
and Stubs Sunday bill, were plenty in
Eaton all last week.
Don't dispute with a man who either
through stupidity or shamelessness de-
MES plain truths.
They that laugh at everything, and
they that fret at everything, are alike
fools. +.
There is something veryfriendly about
a man who tells you to call again with
your little bill.
1t is to be hoped that everybody has
had his or her fill o sleighing and enough
of an "old-fashioned winter"
The disappearance of the o last
week disclosed a vast amount OF filth in
{ our streets and alleys. s
Mrs. Catharine C~hrissman, wife of
Jesse Chrissman, died in Eaton On Sat
urday last, aged about so years.
Good tobacco weather-EN--
You mean to sit around the grocery
store and chew it.
The general verdict in this county is
that the wheat never looked better. No
Hfreeze out about it..
The old fred bridge that spans Sew
enmfie at the foot Of Main street, is proof
against and floods.
Eight persons were immersed at the
Church ofChristin Eaton, last Thurs
day evening, and six more on Friday eve
ming. wsaEysa
Communion service and preaching on.
sappath morning, Feb. Doth, in the
Eaton Presbyterian Church, by Rev. A.
J. Reynolds.
tt is said that if sod land is ploughed
Just before the corn is planted the worms
will feed upon the sod and notrinjure the
corn.
There are % candidates already out
for Street Commissioner Of the city of
Hamilton. Eaton won't have but half
the number. '
Sevenmile- went on a tare last week
and took away about so cords of Bruce
Wanderers wood. His loss was some
body's gain. o g.
If the feathery tribe s'mated' last
Monday they had a very cold day for the
business. We believe they postponed it
on account of the weather.
Mr.. Davis, of the L. B.& w, is "do-
ing'' the people of Troy just as he sdone'
the citizens of Eaton, West Alexandra
and Florence.
If Americans would sit longer atthe
dinner table, and be happy while they
eat, they would have less dyspepsia and
a more cheerful religion.
Be thankful you are poor you will not
have the trouble of crawling out from I'M
der a heavy monumenton the resurrec-
ton morning.
Chas. Huffman, son of Barney Huff
man, west of Eaton, died OF diphtheria
on Saturday last, aged Is years, 8 months
and 2 days. He was sick but afew days,
There are 10 or Is persons scrambline
for the little petty position OF Corporation
Clerk of Eaton, made vacant by The
death of MT. Ayers. Looks like gooC
Republican times.
Wild geese and crows were flying
north last week, which is usually count
ed a sign Of spring coming. Don't crow
however, all signs fail in such a white
as this.
Mr.. Dyes card OF this week, IN rela
ton to the school trouble up about Lew
isburg, will close the matter so far as tn
DEMocRAT is concerned. We don't be
lieve there is much in it anyhow.
Leave out those who talk about wha
they don't know and those who kno'
what they don't talk about, and no
much smaller would the population
Eaton be than that of any other town
"Our thanks are due to the Hon. M