The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1881-07-28
THE DEm0cRITlc PRESS.

RAvxNNA. rHuRsDAx. JULY 80. 1884
. cEAEzERY GATES open NON szysx 4. n
tiIl xIGHr r. H.. until further notice.
Band Concert next Saturday night.
The dogs are having their days.
Watermelons have made their ap-
pearance in the market.
The boys are waiting impatiently
for another circus.
The Cleveland races cemnenced on
Il Tuesday.
In about ten days the new comet
will q tail unfold.
The wheat harvest IL ended and the
hay crop mostly secured.
The days are beginning manifsstly
to shorten at both ends.
The M. E. Church edifice on Pros
pect street is undergoing repairs inside.
The oat crop throughout the country
is said to be excellent, the best for
many years.
The work of laying the cut stone
wall of the Court House improvement
has commenced.
The weather is not as hot as two
weeks ago and the nights are quite
cool and comfortable.
II. B. Alcorn, Esq, of Pittsburg, is
spending few weeks with his Raven
ma friends.
Major D. c. Goldman went to Phila-
delphia on Thursday last on railroad
business.
To-day is the big day of the Cleve-
land Races. Ravenna will be well rep
resented.
Miss Flora Parsons is enjoying a
visit of two or three weeks with her
friends in New Philadelphia.
The State Fair will beheld at Colum-
bus. commencing August 18th and
ending September 3rd.
1t is claimed that the Ohio wheat
crop this year will fall about II. .O00, 600
bushels short of what it was in 1880.
The deaths by lightning have been
more numerous than ever known be-
fore in any three years.
No remedy has been found for Fever
and Ague which proves SO uniformly
successful as Ayers Ague Cure.
Rev. r. F. Randolph, pastor Of the
M. +. Church, occupied the desk of
the Congregational Church last Sum
day. -
The Golden Wedding of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Chapman, of Edinburg. will
be celebrated on Wednesday, August
3rd.
What has become of the archery
boom that started up 30 briskly but u
year or two ago? Is the bowl arrow
business played out?
Deacon Ambrose L. Cotter, father of
Col. C. 8. Cotter of this place. died at
his home in Akron, on Monday morn
ing last, at the advanced age Of 81 years.
Our old Democratic friend Geo. w.
Esq, of Edinburg. made as q
pleasant call on Tuesday. May he live
long and be happy. II
E. P. Hatfield, o. P. Sperra, DIR. E.
G. Swain and w. E. Swain pitched |:
heir tent for a few days during the
past week, upon the shore Of Muzzy :
AXE.
A party of engineers have been en-
yaged for severaldays past locating the 4
inc and sticking the stakes for the
Youngstown q Chicago
in this vicinity. j.
Every Democrat in Portage County
hould subscribe for the PRESS, and
lid in supporting Democratic paper
levoted to the principles Of the party
# equality.
Next Sunday there will be no
ervices in the Universalist Church as a,
he pastor and part of the congrega- :. =
ion will attend the Grove Meeting at =
dantua Station. s4tl
The venerable George Robinson and il
vife celebrated the fiftieth anniversary A
4 their marriage by a family reunion .,
t their residence on East Main street r
n Tuesday afternoon last. n =
Two more numbers will complete T
he thirteenth volume Of the DEMO ul
Ratio PRESS. We would remind g
hose In arrears that we are greatly in r
eed of the amounts due rs.
We had the pleasure Of meeting our
Id Democratic friend, Alvah Baldwin h,
Palmyra, in town on Tuesday. He de
as reached the advanced age Of eighty in
x years, and yet seems vigorous and ar
earty. Long may he wave. de-
The fine Star Spangled Banner that si
as hoated majestically from the dag
afr in the northern glacis Of Court
louise Park, is in very dilapidated
and is pretty much played or
ut. In
We are under obligations to our ps
oung friend, C. A. Myers, . member AZ
the graduating class, for pamphlet ed
,py of the College Annual of Mt. r.
Tnion College, published by the Class 81
I 1881. II
Mamames Whitacre, Dorman, Peter N
IN, Joseph, and Tayler went to Ra- Ct
emma yesterday to see their old friend co
[rs. Lou Fletcher. It is scarcely nee M
'sary to say that they made things -,
um in quiet Ravenna, or that they W.
ad jolly time.-[ Alliance Standard. In
The saw mill of Messrs. Barrows & :"
isher, at Maple Grove, in the south<
st corner of Troy township, Geauga
'unty, was destroyed by fire between
opI :, ~,olooH Loot z ridou NIGHT Tho
IS is estimated at from 2, 600 to S, 900 n,
ith only $500 insurance. II
If YOU work in the sun, put wet n,