The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-02-09
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HolI. GeO. Id. Pendieton mas oui
thanks for Congressional documents.
Saint Valentines day is near at hand
when the p. Ms. will he full of busi-
ness.
| The ice dealers have been busy dur
ing the past week and have harvested
fair crop.
Mr.. Horace S. Doty is gradually re-
covering from his attack of heart dis
ease.
Heywood's Mastodons gave a very
| thin show to q fair audience last Mon
day evening.
There We're a large number of Kent
ties attending Judge Arrels party on
Monday and Tuesday.
The agent of the Union Express Co.
at Ravenna .ation ran out veiy neat
new delivery wagon on Monday.
The rubber sliDgs used by the little
boys are getting to be as dangerous IS
the gin slings handled by their daddies.
Mr. Charles l.. French has opened
photograph rooms in the Seymour
building, recently occupied by Mr..
Cox.
More than month of the new year
hes passed into oblivion, and how
many have kept the good resolves
made at its beginning?
If all eur delinquent subscribers
would come promptly forward and pay
up arrearages they would "make us
much happiness"
The Philharmonic Concert adver-
tised for next Tuesday evening has
been unavoidabIy postponed until fur
ther notice.
Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge Iectured
on Temperance to large audience at
Foundry NJ. E. Church, Washington,
ID. c., Sunday evening.
Mr.. Andrew Poe is finishing his
house ON North Chestnut street, and
when the work is completed it will be
among the finest residences in town.
The attention of parties desiring to
purchase farms in Dakota is directed
to the advertisement of Mr.. III. l..
LOveland, agent, in another column.
Mr. Quinn Cook hes sold his farm of
43 acres in the southeast paiL of Ra-
VIENNA, to Charles Eatinger; consider
alton 81, 500.
We have had almost every variety
OF weather during the past week and
those who continue to grumble must
indeed be hard to please.
Representative Stillwell, of Ashland
county, spent Sunday in Town. He is
pleasant, social gentleman and a
sterling Democrat
AT the meeting of the Board of EX-
aminers on Saturday last there were
81 applicants for certificates to teach,
about two-thirds of the number being
ladies.
The health officers of Ravenna have
had Pest House constructed upon the
northeast corner Of the old Fair
Grounds, but it is hoped there will be
no occasion for using it.
The sugar-makers are beginning to
dream of the sweet by-and by, and the
weather for a few days has made them
But appearances are often deceitful.
Rev. Z. Morris will preach in the
Universalist Church next Sunday,
forenoon and evening, in exchange
with the pastor, who will preach in
Kent.
The Masons hold a festival at their
commodious rooms in PheniX Block,
Friday evening, and a good time is
assured. The members of the Order
and their ladies are invited to attend.
An editor may write a hundred thou
sand bright and pleasant paragraphs,
and never hear an echo. But let him
make one slip, and he will never hear
the last of it.
The benefits of salt water gargle
have not been too highly praised. 1t
ID c<ACclicIlt ioI stii ioiIAS VI Soic lhIosab
and by some is considered preventive
in cases of scarlet fever and diphtheria,
Mr.. NJ A. Crane, of Granger, Medi-
ma county, spent a few days in town
last week, the guest of his brother-in-
law, J. n. Huntley, Esq. He is
thorough farmer and one OF the sub
stantial men of that county.
Will. Day made us brief call on
Friday LIST. He is employed in the
Prospect House, Cleveland, where he
will he pleased to meet all of his Por-
tage county friends.
Mr., Alexander Barber has been con-
fined to his residence on North Chest
nut street for about six weeks past by
severe attack of rheumatism. We
are glad to learn that he is improving.
w. A Horr. proprietor of the Etna
House, and l.. S. Ward, liveryman,
have had "A Telephone line constructed
from the Etna House Office to the N.
Y. p. & o. Railroad depot.
An exchange suggests that an early
day be set apart for the reading of
Washington's Farewell Address in all
our churches and public schools. De-
cidediy good idea. The counsels of
the patriots aud statesmen who framed
our Republic are tsO much neglected.