The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1883-03-29
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.


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Attend the caucus.
'Tis no longer lent.
Election-day next Monday.
Don't shed your flannels yet.
Garden seeds at the groceries.
Don't fail to go to the polls and vote.
New Spring Hats. at Miss L. G..
Jackson's.
Hon. E. P. Hatfield was in town
Tuesday evening.
George Waggoner is home from Ann
Arbor for short vacation.
Last Thursday and Friday were dis
agreeable wintry days.
Saturday and Sunday were bright
aud pleasant SpEinglike days.
Children's school hats, just received
at Miss L. G. Jackson's.
The sugarmaking season is not yet
over in fact it has but Just begun.
The next term of the Ravenna Union
Schools will commence one week from
next Monday.
M. Stuart, ESQ.,, left for New York
on Sunday morning Oh business, ex-
pecting to return on Friday.
4. B. Alcorn, Esq, of Pittsburg,
came home on short visit to his par.
ents and Ravenna friends Friday last.
The ladies are invited to call at Miss
Jackson's, in Opera Block, and exam
inc the new stock of Spring hats.
The weather prophets continue to
predict an early Spring. Isn'tit about
time the predictions should be ver-
flied?
The " Boys" supper at the M. E.
Church panned out well and was a
grand affair. The receipts amounted
to $51 rs.
Mr.. Lyman Bosworth, a much es-
teemed citizen of Streetsboro, died at
his residence in that township on
Tuesday, March Goth, 1888, after pro-
tracted illness, in the Goth year of his
age. His wife and two sons survive
him.
Mr.. Geo. E. Fairchild left on Satur-
day for Chicago and trip through the
West on business connected with the
Crown Flint Glass Works.
The second drove of cows of Colt
Brothers, of Shalersville, will be for
inspection and on the market after
Friday, March 3Oth, at their residence.
VIM. r. Alcorn, Esq, has been con-
fined to his residence for several days
by sickness, but, we are pleased to
learn, is gradually improving.
Miss l.. G. Jackson has just received
the first installment of Spring Milli-
merry goods, to which she invites the
attention of the ladies.
H. P. Parsons was in town visiting
friends the latter part of last week.
He is located at Hart, Michigan, where
he is engaged in the jewelry business.
The hunters are after the ducks
these days, but we do not learn of
their meeting with much success in
capturing any considerable number of
them.
A dispatch from Akron announces
that General Thomas F. Wilds, a
prominent lawyer of that city, died at
his residence at half-past one O'Clock
Wednesday morning. The particulars
attending his death are not stated.
There was fair turn out at the On
era House Friday evening to witness
the entertainment of the Juniors of
the Ravenna High School, and those
who participated in the exercises ac-
quilted themselves in creditable
manner.
COPIES of the Works of the late
President Garfield have been presented
by Mrs. Garfield to the public libraries
of Painesville, Jefferson, Chardon,
Warren and Ravenna, the county-seats
he SO long represented.-[Geauga Re-
publican.
A "a tof ri 10 L 10
be the safest, sarest and best purgetive
medicine ever offered to the public.
They are mild but certain in their
effects, and keep the system in good
The festival given by the Masons at
their elegant quarters on Friday night
last is spoken of by those who attended
as having been a very elegant affair
The attendance was large. We ac-
knowiedg the receipt of an invitation
and regret that circumstances were
such a to prevent our being present.
Mrs. Charlotte g. Sapp has sold her
house and lot near the old fair grounds
to Mrs. Anna McLaird consideration
$500. Mrs. Sapp has purchased Mrs.
Philo Kings place. in HI. l.. Days
End Addition, for $3.50. Mrs. King is
building a new house on the corner lot
of Orchard and Springfield streets.and
will occupy the same.
The residence of A. M. Nichols, in
Freedom, narrowly escaped destruction
by fire on Thursday afternoon of last
week. The fire caught from defect
i've chimney, and had made considera-
BILE headway when discovered. For
tunately it occurred in the day time
and was soon extinguished. The
damage, we understand, will not ex.
ceed SIS.
Mr.. John Fletcher, for the past 25
years road master over eastern division
of P. Fit. w. & G. has resigned his
position, to take effect April lst-and