The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
DEPARTMENT.

The rink still runs.
Don't dig garden yet.
Bring on your spring.
Take your county paper.
Kite time ought to be here.
Try the "star Spring Bed"
Plenty of ducks On the wing.
The roads viii soon begin to mix.
The. backbone of winter is busted.
No smallpox here yet, but don't wait
The days are almost 1 2hours long now
Wonder what our city Hall vas bull
for2s
Fresh fish will now adorn the Eatol
market.
The Lent season makes a demand 70.
hen fruit
In Corporation jobs none but the high
est bidders need apply.
Eli Fisher returned from Florida las
week much improved.
Roofing and spouting a speciality, al
c. S. Price's-Lanning's old stand.
Peach growers are beginning to con
cede that the germ is not killed.
Joe Acton has returned home from his
Southern trip looking well.
Call at the VanAusdal building and
examine the .sstar Spring Bed.p
WAsTED.-Two boarders, at Mrs.
Beall's, three doors north Of city Hall.
Miss Emma Spencer, Of Sterling, Ill.,,
is visiting Misses Edith and Mary Gould.
We don't believe the Sunday fishing
business will be very good this season.
Vennor said March would come in like
alton with snow storms. 1t done SO.
The "star Spring Bed" is said to be
the best bed ever invented.
aChampion Monitor" the best stove
made. For sale by G. S. Price.
The Council have been considering the
purchase of a fire alarm bell. Do we
need one?
How would it do to get up a June trot
at the Fair Grounds in Eaton? What do
you say, horsemen?
The.real estate boom is general all over
t-hercountry. Property and rents are
gradually going up
The Teachers Association OF New Pa
lis has been changed from March 18th
ID March26th. Don't forget it.
Dr. A. H. Stephens, Surgeon of the
National Soldiers Home, Montgomery
cpunty, was in Eaton last week.
The trial of one of the slayers of wiz
lam Christrnan is now going on at Cell
81.
New Workers. are luxuriating on straw
berriew alta cost OF about fifteen cents
apiece.
The latest whim with fashionable wo-
men is to wear e~laborately bordered lin
en- towels as aprons. q
A true test for eggs is to drop them in
water, and if the large end comes up
hey are not fresh.
There viii be a meeting of the Agri-
cultural Board, at the Office of Henry
Fan, or Saturday next, at 10 o'clock.
No mar ought to accept an official po-
sition unless he will enforce the laws.
He is a perjured person if he does not.
announcements for -"horses," with
Photographic attachment, printed neat
ly. cheaply and quickly at this office.
The average value of lands in Preble
county mas been reduced 8 per cent. by
the Board of Equalization, now. insession
in Columbus.
There is nothing that a equal the
awful power of an ice food unless it be a
woman who is determined to have a new
bonnet,
This'is the season OF women's discon-
tent. She's sick and tired of her winter
bonnet, and there's no sign of spring
coming.
We notice that in several towns in
Ohio the smallpox has broken out, and
it may not be long until it will appear in
Eaton. Are YOU ~vaccinated?
Ladies viii be glad to hear that the
"futtered frog'' is the name of the last
new calor; it is rather lighter than
Enlightened toad" or "angry mouse"
.sThe next worlds fair' is a headline
in the Brooklyn Eagle. Didn't know
there was to be fairs in the next world
But if it isn't church fair, all right.
JrH. Zoos, w. H. Kline, John Hub
bell, Eph Cook and Michael Ryan, were
summoned to appear at the trial OF the
slayers of VIM. Christman, which is nov
going on at Celina.
The s'horrid" man who paragraphs TO
the Philadelphia HERALD announces tina
fashionable spring bonnets will be com
posed of Is cents worth of bonnet ant
$50 worth of trimming.
All the churches in Eaton have done
good business this winter, in accession
to their membership. How many wi
prove but winter Christians, time WI
tell.
Boards of Health and city dadso ever
village of any p~rominence, have decide
that the running at 1argetof hogs is a de
triment to health and deeency. Eatoni
an exception.
A school-master thus describes a mc
ney-lender. HE serves you in the pre-
ent tense, he lends you in the condition
al mood, keeps you in the subjective, an
ruins you in the future"
A large red blanket shawl was pickle
up on Barron street last week, near tn
Church of Christ, which the owner ca
have by calling on W.. w. Jefferson an
proving property.
Many of our alleys are in very badeo'
dft;on. and should be cleaned up as soc