The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-12-29
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

WnedU IS NOI1u pA'NO'
It was a mild December.
A "Happy New Year. to all.
Christmas was quiet in Eaton.
New subscribers are dropping in.
Smallpox is spreading everywhere.
Eggs and butter % cents and plenty.
John Lander remembered US as usual
on the holiday.
Chicken cholera is making its appear
ance again.
The school children are enjoying a hol-
iday vacation.
Eaton looked like a show day last Sat
urday.
Christmas trees were not very abund-
ant this year.
The Banks of Eaton observed Monday
for their Christmas.
Eli Fisher and daughter left for Flori-
da, on Tuesday morning last.
Clerk Townsend will be at his post
again in a few days.
Few calls for lemonade" but an in
creased demand for beer.
Sunday rambles or long sermons
take your choice.
Eaton has been blessed with amuse-
ments SO far this winter.
Pleas. Cook and wife spent their
Christmas in Butler county.
Mr. John Kelley of Cincinnati, is visi-
ting parents in Eaton.
Ed. Allison has gone to spend his hol-
idays with his parents in Indiana.
Turkey had a rough time Of it on last
Sabbath.
Diaries for the new year 1882 at Ed
son & Young's.
Still the weather is wet and disagree
able.
5000 Black Locust Fencing Posts
for sale at j. P. Acton's saw mill.
= The editor ''sits in his easy chair"
since Christmas. Many thanks for the
gift.
DIR. Stephens and. wife of Dayton Ma
tional Home, spent their Christmas In
Eaton among their many friends.
Mrs. Clara Richey, NEE Hubbell, and
husband Of Evansville, Ind. eat their
Christmas dinner in Eaton.
Eaton needs more business rooms as
ven as more dwellings,. Will capitalists
please notice?
It is all right, perhaps, to borrow your
neighbours paper, but it doesn't pay the
printer.
j. B. Tizzard and wife, of Portland,
Ind, spent Christmas in Eaton with
their parents.
ThefeIows who postponed their Christ
mas until Monday had a damp day for
it.
We noticed VIM. A. Huffman, Ed. Dye
and John Alexander at home for the hol-
idays.
Some men are born great some achieve
greatness; and some are elected city
dads.
Ice cutting commenced last year in No
MEMBER. When it will commence this
veal is a puzzle to even Vennor.
Mica, in stoves, is easily cleaned by
washing in vinegar. If the black does
moi come off at once, let it soak
The Commissioner have changed their
regular day of meeting to Monday in
stead of Saturday. Remember that now
The Churches all had their Christmas
festival and made many a poor CHILD
cheerful and happy for at least one day
vennor has gone the way of all the
weather prophets. None of sthem car
last more than two years in this country
If you want to dance all night and g
home with the girls in the morning, g
to the Opera House Thursday evening
Bill Hambidge and Joe Hollender, o
the Mammoth Cheap Store, served III
the egg nogg on Monday. 1t was fine.
Unless a great many men are mistak
en-, there are born editors enough to edi
a separate paper for every ten inhabi
tants.
Gentlemen whose boards are not of
pleasing shade can remedy the defect b
the use of Buckingham's Dye for tn
whiskers.
The next time you buy oysters weig
them, The Pittsburgh Board of Healt
says a gallon ought to weigh eight pound
and three quarters.
In "epidemiky" times give your chi
dren plenty Of soap and water and fres
air, and take a larger prescription of til
same medicine for yourselves.
William Deem sold his fine farm we
of Eaton, last week, to Lewis Parker, f
the sum of $19,670. 1t is considered OF
of the best farms in Preble county.
If M ever expect to become tt
equals of men in political affairs the
must wear their hair short and take the
bonnets off in public places.
The ice man setteth his house in orde
vet he knoweth not whether the wint
will be of sufficient coldness to bril-
forth a single cake.
Wanted within the next
days 10000 pounds of Wool i
trade, at GOldman's MammOt
Cheap Store.
We want no better evidence of a de
beat rascal than for a nan to take a I
per three or four years and then refu
to pay for it.
DIR. F. M. R~easoner, Jackson, Mic
gan, says: 1 regard Rinehart's WoI
Lozenges the very best made. For s.
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