The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-07-19
The melon cholic DAYS have come.

Farmers are in the midst OF theil
haying and harvesting.
Smoke the G. A. r. cigar, to be hac
at N. Gret2ingel's.
Miss Flora Parsons is visiting friends
at New Philadelphia.
No services will be held in the Uni
versalist Church next Sunday,
Miss Mary Kohl, of Cleveland, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert GrOhe
| Workmen are engaged in putting
down a stone tagging around the pub
lie pump,
A bottle of pain killer is handy
thing to have in the house these green
apple days.
Mrs. b. p. Sharp, of Brooklyn, NY,
is visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. HasbrOuck.
The track laying on the ?. G. & T..
railroad has nearly reached the G. &
p. crossing, from the west.
The Open Air Concert by the Band
brought the usual large crowd upon
the streets Saturday evening.
The corn is looking up, and prom
ises much better than was anticipated
in the early part of the season.
A praise service will be held at Oak
wood Chapel next Sunday evening to
which all are invited.
1. II. Siddall, ESD, left on Wednes-
day for visit to the Pacific Coast, ex-
pecting to be absent several weeks.
The Portage County Prohibition
nominating Convention will be held
in Ravenna Saturday, August 18th.
Rev. A. NJ. Hills and family left on
Tuesday for Lake county to spend
their usual Summer vacation among
their friends in that region.
M. Schneck has been lying danger
ously ill for nearly week with bowel
difficulty at his residence on West
Main street.
During the haying and harvesting
season the farmers will be busy in their
fields, and trade in town will be cor
respondingly dull.
Though there was an immense crowd
of people in town on circus day, there
was but little drunkenness and rowdy-
ism, and but one or two attempts at
larceny.
Charles +. Russell has obtained let
ters patent, through the agency of Col.
Bradford Rowland, for bobbin winder
attachment to sewing machines.
The Fourth is past, the circus has
come and gone, and now the question
is, what is the next performance on
the program
Mr.. Charles T.. Russell, the painter,
is about to build fine, commodious
dwelling on North Sycomore street, on
the lot occupied by the late E. Il.
Russell.
Hon. John Meharg is roaming
around Rome, in the Empire State,
and rumor is rife that something of
interest and importance is about to
happen.
When you buy Plug Tobacco, you
shonld get a larger plug than you
bought before May lst. If you do not,
you do not get your moneys worth.
VanNess will sell you full size at same
price.
When the speculators shall have
gathered in all the trade dollars at Is
per cent. discount they will be ready
TO shove them out again upon the peo
pie at par.
A lodge in some vast wilderness,
some boundIess contiguity of shade, is
the one thing most desired while the
mercury is cavorting around among
the 90s.
Mrs. J. M. Gledhill and daughter
Miss Mamie, will return this week
from months visit with J. D. Me-
Carn and friends at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
Miss Minnie J. Scripture, of Chicago.
ILL.,, is at present the guest of her aunt.
Mrs. w. Carter, and will spend the
months of July and August With Ra-
VIENNA friends.
There was large audience at the
Congregational Church last Sunday
evening to hear the temperance lecture
of Hon. John B. Finch, of Nebraska,
He is~ reported as an eloquent and
powerful speaker,
We are under obligations to Mr..
Horace Barber, of this township, for
a liberal sample of new potatoes raised
on his farm. He gives them the name
of Barber's Early. They are the finest
we have seen this season.
Candidates for the various county
Offices are begitting to materialize in
the Republican ranks as the time for
holding the nominating convention
approaches, and hand shaking will
soon be lively.
Elizabeth Mulsbury, an inmate of
the County Intirmary, died in that
Institution on Monday, July 18th, Of
dropsey and heart disease, aged S3
years. She went to the Infirmary
from Deerfield September 5th, 1882.
Mrs. Betsey Viets, wife of Henry
Viets, residing in the northeast part
of Shalersville, died at about four
o'clock, Sunday evening, July 18th, of
rheumatism, after q long and painful