The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-02-23
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Forward-March.

The roads are very bad.
The rows are ''cawing."
High waters all around us.
Talk up the Eaton Springs.
Talmage isn't good looking.
Good to take-the DEMOCRAT.
Vennor's snow was rain here.
Wheat has dropped to about Sips.
Advocates of pixies are plenty now.
Lettuce and new onions in market.
Now get your spring candidates ready
Now is the time for spring candidates.
Where is Vennor's snow for February {
It blew a regular afblizzard" last Tues,
day.
o Mrs. Reynolds of Indiana, is visiting
'sMrs. Rachael Grouse.
Now let the citizens of Main and Bar
ron streets move for a big sewer.
Nearly all the cellars in Eaton caught
water during the three days rain.
Cellar pumps were in demand last
Monday.
Since Saturday night we have had
about 5O..hours of solid rain.
We are now in the Lenten season when
eggs and fish are in demand.
- Does stthe Oldest inhabitant remember
such an alleged winter before?
Masquerade ball this "wednesday
evening.
80 Several Eatonians took in the Opera
festival in Cincinnati.
HsiFime for the organ grinder to put in
an appearance.
We have heard no complaints lately
about rain water.
Josiah Campbell was 72 years old last
Saturday.
Ten more acres were added to the Ea-
ton Mineral Springs land last Friday.
Talmage pictured society "Bores'' in
good style.
The tree molasses business will be thin
this year,
1.-THE three days and nights rain done
considerable damage all around.
New Paris is to have a weekly paper
soon. Now let West Alexandria move
The average small boys thoughts will
soon begin to turn from books to brooks.
Elect a Council in the spring that will
look to the interests of the public, gener-
ally.
Unless there is love and charity, there
is no christianity, no matter what the
professions.
This is the sort of weather when you
take cold without a fire and roast with
one.
Beecher lectures in Lima next month.
We have had Tilton and Talmage, why
not close with Beecher?
A little cream of tartar in water three
times a day is said to be a preventative
ofsmall-pox. .
Mrs. Julia Minor of Indianapolis, Ind,
Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Carrie
Deem.
Clothing merchants have had an un-
favorable winter; but it looks as if they
might have q good spring.
Saturday night, Sunday all day and
Monday it rained steady, sending all the
streams around here over bank full.
The editor of the ArcanumT Tribune an
nources that his paper will be issued
weakly
Middletown has a new Opera House
which seats 600, and you can get in and
out of it without much trouble.
A new paper has been started at Ar
.canum, Darke county, dubbed the TRI.
BUNE. It's neat but not gaudy.
Mint julips and cocktails will come
high next summer, on account of the
short ice crop.
Bruce Van Doren has about 40 tons O
good timothy hay for sale. If you want
hay call on him.
February as the snow month of the
year in this neck Of woods, didn't par
out very we'll.
Oscar Wilde is expected to lecture il
Eaton. The Lyceum is making an effor
to get him before the close of the course
Eaton has been favored with the bes'
lecture talent of the country this winter
Thanks to the young men of the Lyceum
The most noted men of modern timel
have publicly attested to the value o
Ayers. Cherry Pectoral as a cure TO
coughs and colds.
Worry is said to kill more people thai
work; but confounded ~laziness kill
more than either, and it's a magniicen
death to die.
Thos. Kirk, Druggist, says: Rinehart'
Worm Lozenges give better satisfaction
than all others. For sale by Michael {
Son.
We want a liberal spirit exhibited i
Llo SeieCIlOu VI SOipOAdbioh SdAoAoapCe
No hoggishness remember will be tole
rated.
1t is recommended that school room
should be fumigated with sulphur twic
aweek as a preventative of scarlet fever
d~iphtheria, etc.
We hope our next Council will reco1
struct the Opera House. It is shame fc
such a building to have such a coop fc
a city Hall.
Everybody around here seems to b
selling off "many articles too numerou
to MENTION" What does become
them2
Candidates for Corporation office
should make themselves known befor
the election, that their merits and ftnei
for the places may be discussed by th
people.