The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-07-26

PHlLO l.. KING. SEXTON.
The farmers are doing a shocking
business.
Local items of interest are exceed
iHgly scarce.
Coffee at ten cents pound. at Van
Ness, and guaranteed to suit.
The M. E. Sunday School picnic at
Silver Lake today Wednesday,
Pork, hams, bacon, dried beef and
lard, at VANNEss'.
Mr.. VIM. Tomlinson, of Elmira, N.
Y, is visiting Portage County friends.
| Highest market price paid for live
spring chickens.
RIsDoN Il RAwDoN.
Miss Alice Kent, of Chicago, is WIS.,
iting Ravenna friends, the guest OF
Mr.. and Mrs. G. E. Davis,
We are under obligations to Judge
Taylor, our member of Congress, for
public documents.
The thrifty naples in the Court
House Park have received trimming
which is decided improvement.
| Bring your poultry to Risdon &
Rawdon, they pay the highest market
price for live Spring Chickens.
Geo. McGahan and Chas. Bietz, of
Akron, are here on short visit. They
will remain about week.
| Mayor Robinson and two sons and
Thomas Grail went into camp on Mon
day on the banks of Twin Lakes.
Mrs. Amos T. King is visiting rela-
tives and friends at Grand Rapids and
Coldwater, Mich.
John F. Beaver, of Battle Creek,
Mich, is in town for a few days visit
with Ravenna friends.
Capt. A. Ray, an old and respected
citizen of Rootstown, died on Sunday
afternoon last, after a long illness.
Rev. Andrew Wilson's mother-in-
law, Mrs. Sturtevant, will remain with
him at his home on Diamond Street.
Morning services will be resumed in
the Universalist Church next Sunday.
There will be no evening services until
further notice.
Mrs. Lizzie Hammond, of EldOra,
Iowa, is expected this morning, and
| will remain the balance Of the week,
the guest of Mrs. A. 4. Smith.
Ten cent sugar for nine cents a
pound, at VanNess'. Dollar tea for
ninety cents, and the best forty cent
tobacco in the county.
They will all do it, that Is, go to
VanN ess' for groceries, for they know
they will get the best goods at the
lowest prices.
Mary, the little daughter of DR.. r.
B. Johnson, died of malarial fever
Wednesday morning, aged about three
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wanzor Holcomb and
their son Harry leave today (Wednes-
dBy) for trip to the Pacific coast, to
be absent several weeks. Bon Voyage.
August Knaak and family arrived
in New York, from Bremen, in the
steamship Gen. Werder, of the Ger
man Lloyd line. They had an agree
able journey.
If you cannot make out what that
big i stands for that you saw over
VanN ess' door, ask some one and they
will tell you it is the place to stop and
get good tea.
VanNess has just received large lot
ofnew crop Teas, and teadnink kers will
find it to their advantage DO get. sup
ply and try it, as new tea is+n1lch
better than old.
1t is to the rooms over Beldine &
Armstrong; drug store that I. H.
Phelps, Esq, has removed his law
| office, and where he desires his clients
and friends to call upon him.
During the storm Monday evening
lightning struck a hay stack on the
farm Of Martin Loomis, about two
miles east of town, setting it on fire
and consuming it.
The heavy wind storm on Monday
evening did some damage on the Fair
Grounds, ripping off a portion of the
roof at the west end of the grand stand
and blowing down the poultry sheds.
Track laying on the P, G. & T. rail-
road is being pushed forward quite
rapidly, and but few days will elapse
before the cars will run through from
| Youngstown to Akron.
Otto Sontum and Mrs. Katharine
Pitts arrived in Southampton Thurs.
day last. By this time they are, un-
doubtedly, recounting old time remin-
isences with their friends in the Faith
erland.
A party of Ravenna boys are camp
ing for season on the banks of Silver
Lake, in Stow. The party consists OF
w. e. Swain, J. w. Holcomb, Angus
tus s. Cole, R. g. Beatty, and Robt.
Carnahan.
AN exchange says: at is unwise
to undertake witticism with a loaf
of bread in your face" 1t would seem
to be impossible to accomplish witt.
cism with never a loaf of bread within
your reach.
TO take paper and refuse to pay fol-
it, is, under the new postal law, theft
and the person guilty of such act is
liable to criminal process, the same as
if q common thief had stolen the
amount of the subscription from the
publisher.
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