The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-09-20

An observer of things draws our atten-
ton to the fact that those of the daily
waiting throng who exhibit most impa-
tience for the p~ostoffice to open are com
monty the ones who seldom receive any
thing through the mails.
Parents, see the nice Suits for boys 4
to s years. for $3.50, $500 and $3.50, at
Jos. Woerner's.
1t is pretty we'll decided by the moral
people of this country that the sparrow
must go. 1t is plausibly asserted that
he pecks at the green corr and fills his
crop with the seeds that the farmer
plants.
The Base Ball Association will give an
Oyster Festival at the Opera House, on
Friday and Saturday evenings, Sept. 21st
and 22nd, for the benefit of the Base Ball
Association. The Eaton Cornet Band
| and Orchestra will furnish excellent mu-
sic for the occasion.
If there is anything on the face. of
Gods green earth we do hate, it is the
canting hypocrite. The man who can
be a Jew to the Jew, to the Greek a
Greek, to the Christian a Christian, to
the Democrat a Democrat and to the Re
publican a Republican. Get away from
us.
Mrs. Grouse and Miss Nell Lockwood,
or north Barron street, a few doors north
of Van Ausdal & Co., have laid in their
fall stock of millinery goods, such as
hats, ribbons, and the latest styles and
shades of feathers, tips, plumes and vel
vet, and will sell as low as any other es-
t~ablishment in Eaton. Give them a call
and examine their selection before pur-
chasing elsewhere.
Young man, if you want a stylish suit
of Clothes OF Overcoat, or a nobby Hat,
and for very little money, buy them OF
Jos. Woerner, The Peoples Clothier.
The corner stone of the new School
House in Eaton was laid on Tuesday
morning last, in the presence of a large
, assembly of our citizens. The Eaton
Cornet Band furnished the music, Rev.
S. A. Brewster, of the NJ. E. Church the
prayer, and Rev. J. H. Bratton, of the
Presbyterian Church the remarks, which
were very attentively listened to by the
gathering. We were not advised a to
the contents of the box deposited.
Hades would be much pleasanter quar-.
tiers for the average editor of a country
political newspaper during a campaign.
than at his usual post. If you don't a
buse the opposite candidates you are
cussed-if you do you are cussed! We
have an awful lot O livery smart men who
have mistook their calling by not going
into the newspaper business! Will some
one of them please come and take oul
place?
The barn and stabling on the Lyburr
Campbell farm, IL mile south of Eato1
on the Hamilton pike, owned by Mrs
Mary Van Ausdal, of Dayton, was entire
ly destroyed by fire on Thursday nigh
| of last week. 1t occurred at about II
, o'clock. The light from the flames wa
so bright that the alarm OF fire was sound
! ed in Eaton and the engine run out
Zach. Becktol, who lives or the farm
|, lost his threshing machine, self binder
all his harness, two buggies and a wagon
wheat, hay and oats. His loss is proba
bly, $4,000, on which he had an ;nsuranc
with Henry Farr for 81, $50. Insuranc
on the barn expired only a few week
ago and we understand was not renew
ed. Loss about 1880. How the fir
o originated is a question that cannot b
satisfactorily solved.