The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-02-08

the state tniS year nave been CROWNED
with success.
There are said to be number of
cases of scarlet fever in town, but the
disease assumes a very mild form.
Sugar-making is near at hand, and |
the farmers are looking ahead for the
sweet by and by.
Did the frisky grounding see his
shadow? Well, we. should say not
very much.
- Mr.. Andrus Baldwin has so far re-
covered from his late illness as to be
able to be out again.
There was a decided change in the
temperature on Sunday morning, and
the roads are still solid.
Will. Holcomb intends to erect a
nice new residence on his lot on Cedar
street. Mr.. II. L. Searl has the job.
The late storm put an end to the
nuisance of coastjng and skating on
the sidewalks.
E. Twitt, travelling agent of the
Crown Flint Glass Co., returned from
q Western trip on Saturday.
The snow has all vanished but the
roads throughout the country are in
most superb condition.
DR.. Rexford will lecture in Bowen's
Hall, Mantua Station, Thursday eve
ming, the 22d inst.
If you want a business that will pay
you from three to five dollars per day
call on III. G. Rice, at Mowen's Store,
Something new and useful-needed in
every family.
Miss Anna Smith, daughter of Frank
J. Smith, the tailor, has engaged to
teach the school in the southwest part
of Rootstown the coming season, conf
mencing about the first of April.
All persons knowing themselves tC
bo indebted to the late firm of n. p.
Catlin will please call at the office of
). D. Norton and settle the same.
A large bear with trained man
gave an exhibition upon our streets
Monday morning, but failed to gather
many sheckles thereby.
n. z. Catlin started upon his trip as
salesman of the London Horse and
Cattle Powders on Tuesday, expecting
to be gone some five or six weeks.
An immense amount of damage has
been done by the floods of Saturday
and Sunday, and trains delayed on
nearly ali the lines of railroad through
ont the country.
Rev. DIR. Rexford, Ex-President of
Buchtel College. will lecture in Reeds
Opera House Tuesday evening, Feb.
20. For reserved seats go to Reeds
Drug Store on and after Wednesday,
14th inst.
Edward Barber, a Ravenna boy, who
has been travelling with the New York
Circus Company as a musician for two
years past, returned home on last Sat
urday week, and expects to remain in
Rayenna the coming season.
1t is odd to see a man bowling about
patrenizng home industries, when he
uses rubber stamp to make the most
horrible daubs of letter heads with
which nice white paper was ever
spoiled.-[Ex.
One of the heaviest rain storms for
many months set iryon Friday night
and continued almost necessarily
throughout Saturday, filling the ponds
and streams and flooding the low lands
doing considerable damage to bridges
and cuIverts.
The victims of the bucket shop
swindlers continue to receive epcour-
aging reports from Chicago, and many
OF them are led to believe they will
yet recover the amounts they have in
vested. Hope they will not be disap-
pointed.
Ii you desire a delicious cup of coffee
don't fail to call in at NJ. Mowen's in
Wheeler building and examine the
Perfection Granite Iron Tea and Coffee
Pot. An inspection will convince any
one that it is the correct principle for
making the delicious beverage. AL
ready they have met with an extern
sive sale and will supercede the old
metal tea and coffee pots wherever in.
troduced.
Mr.. Joseph Sheels, former employe
in the painting department of Merits
R;Jdie's Coach and Hearse Works
who has for some time past been lyine
quite ill of Consumption at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Geo. Poe, his father-jn
law, on Meridian street, is rapid !,
failing and can possibly live but 1
short time.
Mr.. Charles w. Smith, Of IIawrenc,
Kansas, son of the late Charles Smith
former resident of Ravenna, VIII
, has been visiting friends in the Ok
Bay State, stopped off on his return t.
. the West on Tuesday to visit a numbe
of friends of his youth here. He
|, accompanied to his Kansas home b,
two neices, Misses Miller, of Spring
field, Mass.