The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-20
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

What you owe.
No more eeblizzards'' this way.
Where is the peach crop prophet?
This has been a hard winter on tramps.
We want wood, and no foolishness
about it.
We had a January thaw, but a very
light one.
Old Soils most winning smiles fail to
melt Old Prob's icy heart.
The garden seed man ought to be on
hand.
F. N. Haines has accepted a eposish"
on the Law Journal in Cincinnati.
VIM. Walters and wife, of Iowa, are
in Eaton visiting parents and relatives.
Hon. Lee Morey, of Hamilton, was in
our Court on Tuesday last, engaged in
the bridge case.
We hope that there is not one young
lady in Eaton who has not had n love
ly sleigh ride.
Everyone who rents a box in the post
office got something the first of the year,
if it was only .tbox rent DUE"
Mrs. VIM. Doyle, nee Walters, of Grin
nell, Iowa, is here on a visit to her par
ents.
Dave Fisher, of the Kenton DEMOCRAT,
denies being baldheaded. All right. We
aeoept the apolopv.
In Cincinnati and San Francisco, there
is opposition to married schoolmarms.
What's up?
The ice crop harvested this year will
far surpass anything before known. That
is the report all over the country.
For Colds, Coughs, Bronchitis and all
affections of the Lungs, take Ayers
Cherry Pectoral.
Date Kelly has our thanks for a mess
of fresh sausage. Not bad with buck
wheat.
In a couple of weeks vennor will have
to step down and out, to giveplace to the
grounding.
Cook or fry your pork we'll. Trichine
is doing a great deal of damage to hui
man life all over the country.
Soft solder mends many a hole in a
hard pan, and taffy heals many a wound
ed spirit, if iudiciously applied.
Large numbers of quail and other birds
are said to have persisted during the re-
cent cold weather.
Never borrow your neighbours paper,
but subscribe for one of your own and be
happy.
There is a great demand for cider in
Eaton, on account of SO many of the boys
Swearing Off"
The skating rink is a success. The
hall will hardly accommodate the devo-
tees.
The Ground Hog, st. Valentine and
Geo. Washington, ESQ.,, all come in for
consideration next month.
The hog trade is nearly closed in the
Eaton market, farmers having pretty
generally sold.
The early night hours are the best
sleeping hours; the early morning hours
are the best working hours.
One passenger kiIledby the railroads
for every Al, us, 775 miles travelled, and
one is either killed or wounded for every
11,374,6S3 miles.
You may be poor, you may be I'M
known, you may never reach distinction.
Still, you can shut the door when you
come into this Office on a cold day.
It is considered lawful for elergymen
to exchange pulpits on q Sabbath day,
but it would not look well for them to
swap iack-knives.
The Lebanon PATRIOT is out in new
type. It looks well, and We wish it sue
cess in that benighted, radical Republi-
can county.
The original Anderson, Hermann,
Blitz, and Heller, the renowned magi
are ali dead yet performers are
travelling under all these names.
A prominent physician of Rochester
recommends "a drop or two of camphor
on sugar daily as a preventive in families
where diphtheria has broken out.
Scatter sawdust, coal ashes or salt OF
your icy pavements, if you cannot re,
move the ice. Prevention is better than
a cure.
We are much obliged to A. S. ABEL
& Co., publishers of the daily Baltimore
Sun, for an advance copy of the Sun Al
manac for 1881. 1t is a valuable book,
Every man in Eaton, or living on the
proposed line of the new railroad, should
feel interested and talk about it andfavol
it. The value of it cannot be estimated
at present.
Roller skating Kinks are spreading al
over the country. Even small villages
like Kenton, Piqua and Lebanon are go
ing to have them. 1t beats all how city
airs are copied.
Xenia boys all ''Eswore off, this time
for one year with the privilege of five
-Xenia Democrat.
Eaton boys "swore off, with the priv
ilege of so days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell, of Colorado, anc
Mrs. DIR. Stephens, of the National Sol
diers' Home neal Dayton, spent Satur
day and Sunday in Eaton, at the resi-
dence of DIR. A. n. Stephens.
The young men connected with tn
Knights of Honor Association of Eaton
propose giving a dancing party at tn
Opera House on the evening of the At
of February. 1t will be worthy of al
tendance.
A case was tried a few days ago i
which a property owner was mulcted i
$1,000 damages, for permitting ice On hi
Sidnmalk nv which a adv fell and hrnk