The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13


Ting up OF business accounts of the past
year is o occupying the attention OF
the large and small dealers.
Try .Bohn Eshea 81 Sons Conn
pOnO Coffee, ihe best in the mar
ket.
Ice dealers and large consumers, who
failed to harvest the November ice crop,
are happy again. The late freezes have
made very fine ice.
Ned Haines and Lorenz Woerner took
the 'ftime" at the lottery of the Catholic
Church last Thursday night. One sill
yer, the other gold.
W. G. M. Brookins attended the State
Agricultural meeting at Columbus last
week, as the representative of the Preble
County Agricultural Society.
Persons prematurely gray can have
their hair restored to its youthful beauty,
by using Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair
Remover, the best article in the market.
Delinquent subscribers and all other
sinners should bear in mind old Mother
Symptoms prophecy that
"The world to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one."
Women have cheek enough to wear
mems hats on their heads, but there is
one thing they dare not do. Not one of
them dares to remove her hat in public,
and brush off the bald spot.
Hay commands an unusually good
price thislwinter. Farmers who obeyed
the injunction to "make hay while the
sun shines" are now reaping big profits
on their labor.
The Teachers Association will hold a
meeting in Eaton on the 18th inst, to
which a general invitation is cordially
extended. The programme will be found
in another column.
It is said to be a fact that the height
of the human figure is six times the
length of hefeet. Some fellows we know
ought to be ten or twelve feet high &C
cording to tbatrule.
A prayer meeting will be held all day
Friday in the NJ. E. Church, and until
10 o'clock at night, TO invoke the assist
ance of the Almighty to close up the sa-
looms. It's coming, boys-the crusade.
We have been requested to suggest to
the managers of the Skating Rink, that
the ladies have evenings of their own to
skate until they are a little more efficient
in the science. Modesty might suggest
the change also.
When there is a severe spell of winter
weather our town clock refuses to mark
the time, which has now become almost
a dispensable necessity. Will the Coun-
ty Commissioners please look into this
defect and remedy it? They can do it
in 4 days!
The young fellow who creased his bug
gy before giving his gal a ride, and then
put both hind wheels on one side and
both front wheels on the other side, and
never discovered the thing inclined to
one side, had better call on the Probate
Judge at once. His case is desperate.
Young Clement Gilmore, after a severe
illness, has returned to his post at the
Miami depot.I[Xenia Democrat.
A mistake, Bro. Gaunce. "Clem." is
at home, in Eaton, confined to his room
with a severe attack of inflamatory
rheumatism.
We must certainly have a very lava
biding and virtuous community. The
Grand Jury was in session only about
five hours. Unless the all-day Methodist
prayer meeting is intended for the hea-
then of some other city or village, we see
no use for it.
The latest form of evening amusement
in social circles is known as a "dumb
party" Up to a certain hour no one is
allowed to speak, under penalty of some
fine or forfeit. Dancing and other plea
sures are INDUCED in but not a word is
spoken. The idea is likely to take a
strong hold on those who find a difficulty
in ~disposing of their hands and finding
their tongues.
Writing of swindles and swindlers, an
exchange says: In these days of educa-
ton and general information, the man
who gets taken in by any of the trans
parent swindles going around, deserves
to lose his money. No one is to be pitied
who is thus swindled, because the news
papers are giving warning and exposing
IL 4~1al-1 80 A. ,,.-SIa-z III eo...
ions, and no mar is so poor but that he
can take a paper and keep posted.
ReY. A. J. Reynolds, who has filled
the pulpit of the Presbyterian Church of
this place for about seven years, resign
ed the position on Sabbath last, and will
no doubt seek other fields where his
spiritual labors will not be sown upon
such stony, pecuniarily unproductive soil.
Mr.. Reynolds is a good, k~ind-hearted
minister, who seems to have the happi.
ness and welfare of all mankind close to
his soul, and we wish him plenty and
prosperity wherever he may cast his lot
l Try John Rhea 81 Sons Conn.
POnO Coffee, lac best i'm the mar.
ket.
The Skating Rink opened last Satur
day evening brilliantly and SATISFACTORY,
| to the proprietors. The Hall was crowd
s ed with spectators and skaters. The Ea
ton Brass Band discoursed its excellen
t music and the skaters went round an,
e round to the amusement of the audience
r This will be all the rage for a short time
and then go out like base ball, walkin
v matches and archery. Sich is America,
life, you know.