The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-06-02

dedicated with appropriate ceremonies
on last Sabbath. Their house was crowd
ed to OVERLOOKING, and the colored folks
were happy.
Ed. Craig has laid aside Blackstone
long enough to invent and patent a pro-
cess of manufacturing sheet iron, said to
be superior in finish and durability to
Russia iron.
There is a prospect that the road-mas-
ter's office of the Little Miami railroad
will be moved back to Xenia, and with
it Glenn Gilmore. Hence the smile on
the girls faces.I[Xenia Post.
1t is useless for physicians t argue
against short-sleeve dresses. The Com
stitution of the United States says
"The right to bear arms shall not be in
terfered with.
Barnhart is making one dozen Photo
graphs for one dollar. Gallery over Fill
bert's clothing store. [my26-tf
The grades of three members of the
Senior Glass of the High School are so
nearly equal that it win require the final
examinations to award the salutatory
and valedictory.
"Neyer milk while the cow is eating"
is the advice of a bucolic contemporary.
Judging from the character of much of
the milk it would be more to the point
never to milk while the cow is drinking.
An Eaton woman, when she read that
the school board did not approve of the
tonic-so-fa system, said: "There heads
is level, SO they is; this chronic sofa bu-
siness has been a big thing for the up
holsters and it is time a stop was put to
it."
The tobacco question seem to have
taken possession OF some of the Muir
phys, at their meeting last Sunday, and
some of them were considerably warmed
up on the question. The tobacco pledge
should now be attached to the Murphy
pledge.
The Sunday school boys and girls who
have been earning fame and chromos for
their prowess in committing to memory
great quantities of verses of the New
Testament will now have to do their
work all over again, or, at least, revise
it.
Prof. Lee, President of Wherefore
University, an institution for the educa-
ton Of colored youths of both sexes,
preached at the NJ. E. Church on Sum
day evening last. Prof. Lee is a colored
man, well educated and of considerable
ability.
The last piece of rustic ~laziness encoun-
tered by out-of-town correspondents is
that of a man who, being asked what
allied his eye, answered, "Nothin' 1
shut it coz 1 can see well enough with
one. So~metimes.I shut one, sometimes
t'other."
There are more graduates in the pres
emit Senior Glass of the High School than
in any class for several years. Our class
has ten members, and is larger than the
classes in any of the surrounding towns
ever much larger than Eaton.
John A. White, of Newport, KY, Sher-
if of Campbell CO., KY, a former resi-
dent of Eaton, was in town on Saturday
last, visiting friends. We congratulate
friend White upon the well merited pre-
ferment given him by the people of his
present home.
Boston women are charged by the
Transcript with going about to various
shops and getting at each a sample of
bead trimming, and collecting in way
material enough to bead the fringe for
one dress, at least. Who would have
thought so much dishonesty exists in
that yirtuous city?
Save your money and join the Senior
Class of the High School in a weeks ex
cursion to the cool and delightful waters
of Lake Chatauqua. No hay fever, no
dust, no mosquitoes, splendid fishing and
boating. Cheapest summer resort in
America.
The Lodge of knights OF Honor, of Ea-
ton, is taking in a great many new mem
bers. The Order is d~eservedly popular.
A policy of $1,000, insured by the Order
to members under 40 years OF age. during
the past seven years has cost, on an av-
erage, one dollar per month. ] ' older
members the cost, of course, is in reased.
There were twenty-eight persons, who
united with the Christian church of this
place last winter, baptised in the creek
near Bethlehem Chapel, about three
miles east of Eaton, on last Thursday af-
ternoon. The ordinance was admins
tered by Rev. G. w. Garoutte. There
was quite a large attendance of the
friends to witness the beautiful rite.
Why was Decoration Day not observed
at Eaton? Can it be possible that the
memory of our patriotic dead is to be
cherished, and their death in the de-
Tense Of our country commemorated by
strewing flowers upon their graves, only
upon years when we have Presidential
electionsP If SO, the public will come to
regard it a political dodge, lose respect
for the holiday and for the impressive
ceremonies of Decoration Day.
An Alabama father committed suicide
because he thought his wife loved their
daughter more than she did him; aCal-
ifornia girl because her father married a
woman who vas her junior; a Rhode Is
land mason because he carelessly built a
wall out of plumb; a Georgia negro be-
cause he could not feel that he had a sat
isfactory quantity o. quality of piety; a
Maine farmer because a baulky horse
exasperated him; and a Michigan bride
because her husband ofthree days swore
at her.
John Leuenberger invites all who want
a No. 1 job of tire setting, pillow laying,
repairing broken machinery, castings in