The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-08-23
Aug. 23. 1853,
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Gut down your weeds.

OIL SOSo0 80 SSSA
The honey crop this season is said t
be immense.
Col. Findley at Eaton Opera House
Friday evening, Aug. oath.
He who throws out suspicion shoulc
at once be suspected himself.
We blame others for slight things, anc
overlook greater in ourselves.
1t would be a good idea to cut thu
weeds now before they go to seed.
An honest man will settle all arrear.
when he orders his paper discontinued
The dude lacks cents as well as the
trade dollar.
War upon spring chicken has been in
augurated. Turkey will be taken next
The three C's are in town-Corn, Collie
and cramps.
The life of an office-seeker is full Of
vanity and vexation of spirit.
Logan is enforcing the stock law. II
has a Mayor.
Don't forget the executors sale of Mi
chael Filbert's property.
Look at McCord's X to Cincinnati and
don't fail to patronize it.
The base ball craze has struck Eaton
bad.
Jos. S. Campbell has our thanks for a
brace of fine young prairie chickens.
A new force pump has been put in at
the "blue lick" on the public square.
Mrs. Grouse, Miss Mary Gale and
Edith Gould start to Petoskey this week.
Our market is glutted with potatoes
The crop is immense and prices accord
ingly.
Post masters are preparing for the
coming postal changes, which goes into
effect October LIST.
The purest butter even made may be-
come tainted and poisoned in one short
hour by Objectionable surroundings.
1t is not the proper thing to say ain
the sweet by-and-by." You must put it
Sin the sugared subsequently,"
Geo. Kelly has resigned his position
as United States Internal Revenue Store
keeper in the Sd District.
The only child of Bruce and Ida Van
Doren died last Saturday, aged about l
year.
Miss Ella Huston left for Orion, ILL.,,
Tuesday, where she has IN engagement
to teach the coming year.
Who has stood fairer in this commu-
munity as a business man, than Mr.. John
Rhea?
The person who will go around and at
tempt TO saddle the Rhea cards on the
Democrats, is mean enough to do the
work himself.
ton, but o principal of Bloomington
(lll.) Normal School, is visiting friends
here.
every man is the architect of his own
fortune," but some folks make a broad
mistake when they don't let out the con-
tract.
Patent soda fountains contrived to give
out whisky as well as soda water are now
used in many places in Ohio as a means
of evading the Scott law.
We hope the Democratic Convention
will not make such an ass OF itself as to
call candidates to exhibit themselves
like a lot of monkeys or a mule for sale.
WANrED-At the Eaton City Mills, old
or new wheat that will weigh go pounds
to the bushel, for which the highest cash
price will be paid. [aug16-2
Applicants for examination will please
take notice, that for the present exami-
nations will be held in the South School
Building. instead of the old "north."
The Preble County Teachers Institute
opened in Eaton on Monday with a full
attendance. 1t looks as if every teacher
in the county was present. That is right.
Go and hear how the boys marched
with Sherman to the sea. How they ate
and slept; how they fought, grumbled,
laughed and sang; what part the negro
and the mule did for the Union.
Jim Haston, of Fourmile, is one OF our
big farmers. He threshed out this year
3,176 bushels of oats and 1,S1O bushels
of wheat, and it wasn't a very good crop
year eitherl
ED. J.B Ludwig, of New Castle, Ind,
will preach next Sunday morning and
evening at the Church of Christ Rev.
l.. E. Brown, the Pastor, being at Cen
terville, Ind.
Alex Huffman has purchased the John
Foran residence, corner of Somers and
Beech streets, and will become a citizen
of Eaton. Such men are always well
come.
If you want your hitching rack in front
of your business house repaired, apply
to the present city dads. The Corpora
ton has an inexhaustible purse-at least
some officials seem to think so.
Laziness is said to. have caused the in
vention of the greater part of the labor
saving machines. So long as the world
lasts we suppose lazy people will go on
making excuses for ~laziness.
H. B. Van Ausdal left for Petoskey last
Sunday night, and from the amount OF
"ish worms he took along, we look for
the Eaton fish market to be overstocked
during his stay there.
The production of beer in the United
States last year amounted to 1011 gal
Ions for every man, woman and child in
the country. We know quite a number
of persons who failed to take their quota
of it.
II Nill he remembered that we nre.