The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-08-17

Portage County during the campaign,
Send along the names.
!
New Pail Hats, just received at
MRS. A. H. PARSONS.
Only two weeks more of Summer.
The excursion season is still lively.
Merchants are beginning to purchase
Fall goods.
The dog-days will end on the 9th
of this month.
1t is about time to begin to make
preparations for the County Fair.
Home grown tomatoes and green
corn have begun to appear in the mar
| ket.
d. L. Rockwell, Esq, visited New
York last week on professional busi-
ness.
Mr.. d. G. Collins returned from his
Maryland trip last week, and speaks
very highly of the country.
The City Mills, at Akron, were en-
tirely destroyed by fire about four
o'clock Monday morning.
Martin Englehart has put neat
new front i'll his place on South Chest
nut street.
Corn is now growing about one foot
per day.-[Ex.
A foot is growing about one corn per
day if proper attention is given to the
cultivation thereof.
Thursday last was one of the coldest
days ever known in the month of
August in this region.
The 42d-Garfeld's old Regiment
will hold it's reunion in Akron, We'd
nesday, August 80.
Peter II. Bean has on hand 40, 900
| pounds of as nice wool as was ever
clipped in this region.
The walk being put down in the
front of the Court House by A. N.
Pierce GS Co. is beauty.
The property of the late Colonel
| Frazer, on West Main street, has been
sold to Joseph Walters for S., 800.
The first ingredient in conversation
is truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor, and the fourth wit.
The North Eastern Ohio Medical
Association will picnic at Congress
Lake Friday, August 25th.
Isaac Frank has sold his place of
about 3l3 acres, two miles east of this
village, on the road to Edinburg, to
| Eli Brisbine for s., 500 cash.
Nj. Stuart, Esq, left Monday morn
ing for New York and Philadelphia,
on professional business expecting to
return the last of the week.
One Of the best rules in conversation
is never to say anything which any OF
the company can reasonably wish had
been left unsaid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jason Andrews, OF
Kirkland, Ohio, are the guests of Mr..
and Mrs, S. d. Norton. Mr.. Andrews
is Mrs. Norton's brother.
w. p. Clark has run out of the
works of Messrs. Merits g. Riddle an
elegant Landau, and is prepared to
convey ladies and gentlemen to any
part of the city.
The Band boys don't like to go awsy
off into the southwest corner of the
park for their Saturday evening CON
certs. 1t is neither pleasant or con-
yenient for them or the public.
During the past week the farmers
have had several favorable days fol
securing their oat and hay crops. anC
they have pretty generally improved
them.
An exchange says that within {
week hundreds of clever limitations OF
ten dollar greenbacks of the issue O
1875, have been put in circulation, anC
our readers will do we'll to be on theil
guard,
The Katydids have begun to chan
their evening songs. 1t is an old say
ing that they begin to sing just sis
weeks before the fall frosts set in
You needn't take any stock in this ole
saw unless you choose to.
The Court House Improvements arr
approaching completion and the build
ing will be ready for occupancy abou
the first of next month. The Com
missioners should make a house warm
! ing and ask their constituents in T.
inspect their building.
Mr.. Julius Woodruff came home OIL
, brief visit to his family on Saturday
He says the farmers of Michigan hav
suffered great loss by the recent heav.
rains, which damaged the wheat tina
had been cut and left standing in tn
field. The loss is placed at SIS 900, ,00(
f Judge G. A. Reed attended the Con
t ventiOn of Probate Judges held in CO
It lumbus last Thursday. The princips
d business of the meeting was the cor
v sideration of measures to establish
+ more uniform system of practice in til
g Probate Courts of the State, the pra'
a tice at the present time being at yer
Ii loose ends, and scarcely alike in an
two counties.