The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-12-27
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Welcome 1884.
Snow bah season.
Settle up for 1888!
Death list next week.
No "green" Christmas.
Begin the New Year right.
Have you seen the comet?
What was in your ~stockingf
Eggs are still eggs. Eggsactly.
This may be the January thawl
Sleighing makes business lively.
"Songs of q Pleb." is the coming book.
Work on the new school house of course
has been suspended.
= Very quiet and dull Christmas in Ea-
ton. More 30 than for years.
The school children are enjoying their
holiday vacation now.
Shoot the man that predicted an open
winter.
Holiday trade has never been more &C.
tive in Eaton.
Remember that new leaf and don't
turn it back.
Many of ourladies are now hand paint
ing instead of face painting.
If you have gifts to bestow give them
where they are needed.
Any person bringing US in a poem on
the beautiful snow" will be shot dead !
Don't forget that in four more days
you write 1884.
Put away your sleigh now. The re-
mainder of this winter will be open!
Remember the poor-editors of coun-
try papers are all poor.
Our office will be .'open" on New
Years day. Call in.
Henry Huxley of Eaton who is in
Florida, has our thanks for southern pa
pers.
Natty Stephens stock shed gave way
under the pressure of the big snow. No
serious damages.
John Deem has a car load of horses
and colts for sale at his stable in Eaton.
Call and see them.
IA thing of beauty is a Joy forever"
and SO is the easy running Household
Sewing Machine.
Don't hitch to the shade trees. 1t is
contrary to law and not a very smart
act.
The beautiful has come until every
body around here is about disguised with
it.
The constant jingling of the merry
sleigh bells brings back pleasant memo
ries of long by-gone days.
Last Sunday was a tester of good roofs.
A roof that didn't leak on that day was
surely waterproof.
None of the Overholts property sold in
Camden last Friday. The lawyers are
not quite done with it yet.
It is argued that the strange sunsets
are caused by the u trying to set with
railroad time.
Samuel McClure's barn was crushed
down with the weight of the nov and
rain, which done him considerable Pc
cuniary damage.
There are 267 1874 youth of marriagea-
BILE age in Ohio. What an amount of
matrimonial cussedness there is in store
for our people,, !, be sure.
The first piano ever in Eaton is on
exhibition at the K. P. fair. It is an
odd looking piece of furniture. It is the
property of Mrs. Lucinda Donohoe.
As a general business horses vote
sleighing a great nuisance, because there
are 30 many human bipeds who think
there is no "tire'' in a horse and sleigh.
The farmsrs of Preble county have or
ganized a "Horse Protection Associa-
tion." Horse thieves had better keep
out of this ran e.
Henry Ressler had a bran new sleigh
badly demoralized last Friday evening
by a runaway horse, in the hands OF his
brother Frank.
Last Saturday was a lively day in Ea-
ton, and many of our business men
smiled a smole when they counted Out
the proceeds of their days trade.
Good hogs brought $3.50 in Eaton last
Saturday, Notwithstanding Carlisle was
elected Speaker and the Cuisines OF
the country was to go to the devilI"
Old time, new time and mixed time
which will you go by? 1t will make nc
difference in the price of the DEMOCRAT
when you come to subscribe.
W. G. NJ. Brookins, American Express
Agent OF Eaton, shipped this season ovel
six tons of poultry to Cincinnati! How
is that for a fowl business?
Owing to the Indictment weather of las
Sunday evening, the childrens' enter
tainment will be given Sunday evenin;
next. PASTOR OF CHRIST CHURCH.
How would it do for our County Com
m~issioners to have glasses put over tn
faces of our town clock? About half th,
winter it is a dumb time keeper.
1t used to be thought that red sunrise
betokened storms, but alas, all this i
changed nowadays, and the more bril-
liantly red the sunrise, the finer an
clearer seems to be the day.
Theo. Brewers horse attached to
sleigh, a off on Friday morning las,
making a wreck of the vehicle, pitchin
Mr.. Brewer out and iniuring him cor
siderable.
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