The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-17
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

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No fresh railroad news.
New cabbage Is cents a head.
House cleaning is at fever heat.
The milliner shops are blooming.
Vegetation was never more plenty.
The strawberry festival now booms.
The country around US looks beautiful
The days are now about IA hours long
The wife of Recorder zimmerman Ii
visiting friends in Kansas.
DR.. J. B. Aliens Office oyer Dono
hoes grocery, opposite Post Office.
Tight trousers are going out of fashion
and so they ought to:
Colors in the spring fashion are very
gay.
Bring on your pic-nics and your bills
for them.
Martin Rhefuss, of Peoria, H., visited
his parents in Eaton last week.
The horn of the early meat man is now
heard in our land.
Miss Cadie Stephens, of Greenville,
o., is visiting her uncle, J.. P. Acton.
The street sprinkler commenced ope-
rating last Saturday.
You pay so cents for a linen collar now
and get a shirt thrown in!
j. Frost appeared again last week.
He deserves hanging.
Cucumbers 10 cents apiece-cholera
morbus thrown in.
New peas are selling at 20 cents per
peck.
J.. W. Filbert is J. H. Byrnes sole
agent in Eaton for his celebrated Ladies
fine shoes.
Fifteen miles of brick and stone pave
ments in our town indicate Improvement
and some side walk taste.
Samuel Fudge, a dealer in meat and
provisions in New Paris, made an assign
ment last week.
Fashionable people are running to but
tons. The more buttons on a woman's
dress the more fashionable she is.
1t costs $50 per annum to keep our
town clock attending to business. Cheap
enough, but keep it striking.
1t has come, and come to stay-the
Buckeye Platform Hinder. Call
and see. QUINN & Co.
Mrs. DIR. Stephens and Miss Mary Rhe-
fuss, of the Dayton Soldiers Home, are
in Eaton.
The ice cream season is almost here,
but the oyster season has passed into
ete-R-nity.
We see no change in the building of
the strawberry box this season-the bot
tom is mistaken for the top.
Owing to the reduction of the tax on
tobacco our merchants are now selling a
3 cent cigar for a nickel. That's liberal.
Joshua Nicodemus, an old resident of
Winchester, Gratis township, was buried
last week.
Mrs. Roddie Reynolds, of Washington,
D. c., is visiting her mother, Mrs. John
Daugherty, west of Eaton.
Wool is beginning to come into mar
ket. The price offered now isis and 20
cents.
J.. w. Hilbert is the only place to buy
Adolphe Meyer & Co.'S Boots and Shoes,
the best in the market.
Some Of our merchants take especial
pains in trimming their show windows.
They are worth looking at.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the observance of Memorial day al
the Soldiers Home nea Dayton.
Some of the dwellers on west Somers
street are getting an unkind "cut" from
the present cutting Council.
Fires and light o~vercoats were com
Portable the latter part of last week il
this latitude.
Strawberries are retailing at 25 cent:
per quart in Eaton. Too high for shor
cake.
There is a clamor for more mails int
Eaton. The school children and young
ladies don't object. Bring 'em along
Nh. P. M.
Post Master Neal had a very sever
and dangerous attack of illness on Sun
day morning last, from which he has no
yet recovered.
1t is not the Eaton DEMOCRAT Office OF
fered for sale in orr columns. We dom
want to sell-there are too many Emil
lions in it,"
Was it a public necessity that two O
three streets should be cut down in Ea
ton, OIL only a private enterprise to pre-
pagate other jobs?
A mail from Cincinnati to Eaton ca,
be had on the 1857 train, by our P. M
requesting the P. M. at Cincinnati to pu
a lock pouch OF the express car.
Our old friend and patron, D. Glande
of Greenville, dropped in to see us las
week and renew his, subscription to tn
DEMOCRAT.
Giving a piece of their mind is abor
the only generosity in which some pei
pie ever indulge.-Ex.
We find lots OF such around Eaton.
Now the poor street sprinkler will cate
it. If he don't wet the dust down tt
men curse and if he vets the walks tt
women scold. Go on, Heppsey.
People are very fond Of talking abo1
when the spring time comes, but the
make considerable complaint about
after the season is once here.
If you want to know how busy a b
can be, just put your eye on an agricr
tural implement dealer at this season