The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-01-25
Ten pounds of Coffee for one dollar,

Ten pounds of Coffee for one dollar,
at RIsDoN Il VANNEss. Try it.
Miss Gertie Gaylord visited her aunt
Mrs. Gaylord, West Main street, last
week.
The elegant sleighing we had for
some time past has slipped away, but
the roads continue solid and smooth.
Next Sunday evening Rev. Andrew
Wilson will lecture on the Dignity
of Labor"
1T is thought by some Of our expert
en- aed farmers that the late freeze has
done much damage to the wheat crop
in the ground.
VIM. l.. King spent a day with his
Ravenna friends the latter part of last
week. He is the General Road Master
of the Cincinnati and Eastern Railway
with headquarters at Cincinnati.
S. w, Reese, Esq, is preparing to
build new residence on his lot, on
Babcock street, as%soon as the weather
will permit. Mr.. Geo. Brown has the
contract, which insures the work being
well done.
Mrs. B. F. 'Boesinger, residing on
North Chestnut street, has been con
fined to her bed for several days from
painful injuries occasion ed by slipping
and falling Oh an icy walk a week ago
last Monday.
The organ grinder was on the street
Tuesday morning, but his music had
not sufficient charms to call people
away from their warm firesides to
stand around in the cold to listen to
the dulcet strains.
According to newspaper reports it
costs Trumbull Co. wife-beaters $50
and four months imprisonment for one
otfense. Better remove to Portage,
where they can nearly pound the life
out of wife for SIS and the costs.
The young lady who thinks more of
her silk dress and promenade on the
street than she does of tightening the
work her mother continually finds to
do will make q wife that will drive
man to the poorhouse or the divorce
courts.
Saturday it rained almost incessant-
ly throughout the day and appearances
indicated that our January thaw had
come, but during the night the arctic
wave came along, sending the mercury
down towards zero and making every
thing solid again.
The 25th inst, will be the one hun
dred and twenty-third anniversary of
the birth of the popular Scotch poet,
Robert Burns, and his countrymen the
world over will observe the day by
feast and song in honor of his memory.
Despite the unpleasant state of the
weather Saturday evening the Opera
House was literally packed with peo-
pie who turned out to hear DR.. J. H.
Vincent discourse about THAT Boy"
and those who heard him were gener-
ally delighted with the lecture.
The rain of last week which swept
the snow and ice from the walks about
town, interfered with the sport of the
lads and lassies who have been using
. cfr fer ~
and skating sports to the great annoy
ance of pedestrians.
Monday was the most intensely cold
and disagreeable day of the season.
Perhaps the mercury did not mark as
low a temperature as upon one former
occasion, but the strong wind that pre-
vailed the livelong day drove the cold
into every opening, rendering it almost
uncomfortable.
A minister starting out on temper
ance tour makes pretty bad begin
ming when he measures his length on
the walk before he gets fairly out of
| his own door yard. On the theory
/ that 1.-The wicked stand on slip'ry
places" he may furnish sufficient evi
! dence of Christian character.
Mr., Chas. w. Bean has sold his farm
Of fifty acres i'm the northwest part of
| ROotstOwn, known as the Oliver farm,
to Mr.. Adam Haas, of Tuscarawas
| county; consideration so per acre.
Mr.. Bean has another farm of about
l25 acres in the same vicinity, which
he desires to sell, to enable him to fol-
low Greeley's advice.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis E. Jennings,
living in the northeast part of Ravenna
celebrated the fiftieth anniversary OF
their marriage by party of seventy.
seven of their relatives and friends al
their residence, on Monday last. The
affair was a pleasant one to all who
were present. We are promised full
particulars for next weeks PRESS.
The rumors that are af1oat to the eff
feet that the schools of this village are
to be closed on account of the preva
lence of scarlet fever are entirely with
J out foundation. There have been
few cases of that dreaded disease il
town of late, but it has not become ep
idemic nor so generally prevalent as t
excite any great alarm.
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@RisGiOn Il VanNess sell ten pound
of good coffee for a dollar