The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-12-28
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Harry New YEAR
Turn your new leaf.
Butter is plenty now,

Turn your new leaf.
Butter is plenty now.
Open your books for 1883.
Don't shoot quail after next Saturda,
lit viii be unlawful.
John Lander has our thanks for hi
usual Christmas remembrance.
No Christmas trees were erected il
Eaton that we heard Of.
Edison & Young, headquarters for 1ss;
Diaries.
The Eaton Cornet Band serenaded tn,
town on Christmas.
Lou Campbell is home from college TO
the holidays.
The Mayor raked in about $4,000 TO
drunks on Christmas day.
The Christmas of 1882 viii be remem
bered as very bright and pleasant day
Nearly all the Churches in Eaton hat
Christmas for the little ones.
The weather changes so rapidly thai
lone thermometer has all it can do to tai
ly the degrees.
The grain trade is dull everywhere.-
Farmers are holding back for higher
prices.
E. B. White, Lancaster, o., says
browns Iron Bitters gives very general
satisfaction to all our customers"
A pms cannot become a successful
lawyer. She is too fond OF giving her
opinion without pay.
Judge Hume held Court in Eaton on
Friday and Saturday last, and despatch
ed considerable business.
A large variety of fine Christmas cards
at Edison & Young's.
Our city was crammed full of people
last Saturday and the business men done
well.
All the houses in Eaton will be esopen"
on New Years day. We know of none
that will be closed or locked.
The knights OF Phythias of Eaton were
out in full uniform OF Christmas day
They make a very clever appearance.
-'Tom and jerry had a good time on
Christmas-got into several muses. and
were arrested and fined.
Rev. Bratton and family were hand
somely remembered by the Presbyterian
nonoraoation for Xmas
The ball given at the Opera House by
the Eaton Band on Christmas night,
went off well and was a success.
Shooting crackers are an internal nui-
sance, and the sale of them ought to be
prohibited in all well regulated towns
and cities.
The prohibitionists are praying the
Legislature to submit to the voters of the
State a p%rohibitory amendment to the
Constitution. All right.
An item of news is always thankfully
received at this office, and the bringer is
as welcome as the delinquent subscriber
who has concluded to settle arrears.
Some people imagine that the bowling
of a dog at night is a sign of DEATH
Well, it ought to be if any one can get
near enough to the dog to shoot it.
It has been discovered that there are
twenty-eight causes for headache; but
one cause is sufficient for the man who
was tout with the boys last night"
Mrs. Abel Hickman has u thanks
for a couple of rolls of good sweet butter
on Christmas day. Mrs. H. ranks among
the best butter makers in Preble county.
We are braced up for the new year
with a handsome pair of silk elastic sus-
penders, an Xmas gift from the clothing
house of Joe Woerner.
Herman Chandler, aged about 70 years,
and living with his son-in-law near West
Alexandria, was buried on Wednesday
last.
Call at Eidson& Young's for the Amer
lean and Chambers C~yclopedia.
Those girls who break down in the
public schools are not, usually, the ones
who get up in the morning and make
their own beds, dust their rooms and
help wash dishes.
The religion which teaches that the
"charity which covers a multitude Of
SINS applies only to professors OF that
religion, is not the one the Son of Man
taught his disciples.
Mr.. T. A. Wheeler, tuner and repairer
of Pianos and Organs, will visit Eaton
about the LIST of January, 1883. Orders
left at the Union or Reichel Hotels will
receive prompt attention.
We would like to have about twenty
five new subscribers next week to begin
the New Year and make up for the
dead heads'' that we intend to drop
from our books. What do you say, Dem
ocrats of Preble?
Joe Switzer, son of Jonathan Switzer,
two miles east of Eaton, cut off three
fingers from his left hand last Friday.
Wills CugJluS lOuuCi VAIL z SossAhG
box. DIR. Michael fixed them on and
they viii stick.
Give your New Year gifts where it Isl
pleasure to give; where your heart goes
with the gift to enhance it value. Give
generously of your abundance, and wise
ly of your poverty-giving cheerfully
never grudgingly, since God and mai
love a "cheerful giver."
We understand hat a temperance
boom will be opened in Eaton next month
by the lady who lectured here on tn
temperance question a couple of week
ago Come on, old gal, there is room
fol. lots of hard work in this neighbor
hood.
Fine assortment of Albums and Auto
graph Albums at Edison & Young's.
Will there be any New Year calls mad