The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-05-03
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Bring on your pic-nics.
Soon be time to talk Fair.
Have we a Board of Health?
Lettuce sells at 5 cents a head.
Strawberries are still up in price.
The excursion season has opened.
Oranges are abundant and cheap.
Did you plant a tree on Arbor day?
But little fax was sown around here
this spring.
DR.. j. B. Aliens Office rel Dono,
hoes grocery, opposite Post Office.
Hunting greens is q popular Occur
patton now.
Decoration day is being discussed in
many towns in Ohio.
Hold on to your overcoat until the 4th
of July.
Sunday was a chilly day, but bright
and clear.
There are a number of new dwellings
already going up in Eaton.
The late cold snap didn't injure the
fruit as much as it was at first supposed.
Have you tested your seed o to see
if it will grow If not do SO at once.
Good farm horses are worth from 500
to s175.
It is settled that the o. N. G. Eat(i)n
nI.z 4h;s nmmar
The cigar hands in Eaton struck for
more wages last Monday.
Jonathan Switzer lost by death a very
fine calf last Monday.
All-the late Sheet Music Irregular price
35 cts.l can be had for cts. each, at
Edison & Young's.
The eastern peach crop is said to be
safe yet-but wait until after the 4th of
july.
Don't Judge a man by his failure in
life, for many . man fails because he is
too honest to succeed.
Some men are born rich, some have
riches thrust unto them and some be-
come newspaper editors.
Switching lightning-rod men are said
to be on their rounds. Don't be taken
in.
myou are threatened with spring fever,
catch on to a spade and go to work in
your garden.
The horse protest for the FIRE depart
ment has been declared off. Not con-
s~titutional!
J. NJ. Plum, Cleveland, Ohio, says
Browns Iron Bitters cured my wife of
nervous debility and headache"
lobe up with the times Eaton ought
to have a female barber shop-but then
Eaton is a slow town.
How about an early Easter bringing
along an early spring? We prefer a late
n
The fair ground pasture was sold last
Saturday for 1925, Swisher & Geeting
being the purchasers.
W.D. Domaine, of Columbus, spent a
few days of the past week visiting his
sister, Mrs. C. F. Palmer.
A broom brigade is drilling in Eaton.
Refractory husbands should look a little
out.
The ice wagon has had but little de-
mand yet-except to keepthe smell OF
fish down.
There is to be a grand parade of the
Knights Of Pythias at Cincinnati on the
2Ist of May.
The word .sdude" is now applied to
the worthless young man of the fop-
masher order. we lave some in Eaton.
The boys of the o. N. G's. at Cincin-
natl, vote every time unanimously to
come to Eaton.
Stop fast driving or our streets, Mr..
Mayor. You owe it to the safety Of the
lives of our citizens and the official obi
cations Of your Office.
Fashionable people are running to but
tons. The more buttons. o woman can
put on her dress the more fashionable
she is.
Asa recent law provides that no sa-
loon can be located within 1900 feet of a
public school, hadn't the Board of Edu-
cation better move the south building
There is plenty of comfort for the hun
cry poor man in the fact that there are
As, OO0, 900 of silver dollars stored in the
San Francisco mint.
The report that John Robinson had
called in his circus until the middle Of
May, was a false one. 1t is still IN the
60.
Miss Lucy Welsh left Eaton last Mon.
day for Florida, with greetings of many
warm friends for lots of enjoyment and
renewed health.
Rev. Lolita A. Crosley will preach Al
the Universalist church in this city, OF
Sunday next, 9th inst, morning and eve
ming, at the usual hours.
James R. Tayler, painting, granting
and paper decorating. Orders left a
Webb & Covers will be promptly at
tended to. apr19-2
A bill passed the. Legislature requiring
County Auditors to index the Count,
Commissioners Journal from first to last
This viii add greatly to the work of GU
Auditors office.
Persons who are carefully storing ava,
the new nickels as a curiosity, shoul
likewise put away a three-cent postag
stamp for a souvenir. No more will b
issued after October l, next.
1t has been discovered that one caus
of the popularity of the telephone cor