The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-11
We cot our rain last saturday.

nearly VA tuihSu hueo J
Egg-nogg can't be INDUCED in only by
the millionaire and country editorsl
The Commissioner report will appear
next week.
1t will be an open winter sure. Every
body says 20.
Umbrellas, all kinds, with elegant han
dies, at the Eagle Clothing Store.
Eaton is healthy, no disease prevail
ing, for which all should be thankful.
The Universalist church has a new and
very 6ne sounding church bell.
The Preble County Childrens' Homo
works along very satisfactory.
Get your Almanacs for 1885 at Ed
sons Book Store.
1t is claimed that glycerine applied to
both sides of windows will make them
frost proof.
1t would be anice detective job to find
out who struck the blow that caused
William smiley's death.
The salary ofthe Eaton Post Master
is $1,000 per year, and his commission
expires on the 21st OF January. 1885.
For Christmas Slippers call at John
Filbert's.
The penalty for killing quail until next
November is s25 and 80 days imprison-
ment.
Sunday schools are getting ready for
their Christmas treats to the children
and the children are getting ready too.
Cleveland is elected. and every Dem
ocrat ought to be SO happy overt as to
come in and pay his subscription to the
DEMocRAr.
Toys. Toys, Toys. O. E. G. s., next to
P. o.
The repeal of the Scott law does not
give the saloon keeper the right to sell
to minors or to those in the habit of get
ting Intoxicated, or to sell on Sunday.
The next State school examination for
ten year and life certificates will begin
at Columbus, December sd. The ques-
tions will be asked from twenty-eight
branches of study.
If people only knew how happy it
made an editor to be paid promptly for
his paper, and in what esteem he held
all who we're prompt, he would have no
trouble.
Elegant Alpaca Umbrellas for Holiday
presents, at Joe Woerner's.
We have been feasting for the past
week on spare ribs, sausage, liver prd-
ding and SIGH the contributions of friends
Jonathan Switzer and VIM. Alderman,
jr. Many thanks for them.
The hog market is dull and prices low,
but farmers can make money by %fatten-
ing hogs i n half the usual time, by using
Haas Hog Remedy. Sold at Millers
Drug Store.
The farmer who hasn't finished husk-
ing corn and gotten his fodder out of the
fields, is not to be pitied if disagreeable
winter sets in and keeps him from the
work.
Rubber Goats at the Eagle Clothing
Store.
Street Commissioner Stephen had our
streets scraped last week. If the city
dads would stop dumping sand on Main
and Barron streets each recurring fall,
they wouldn't be in such a horrible con-
dition in bad weather.
Reader, if you are one OF those farmers
who has plows, har-ows, hay rake, OF
n other useful implement lying out in
the wintry blast, just Gus yourself and
go out and get it into some nice dry
place, for it viii prove profitable.
Beautiful Oil Paintings, Steel Engrav-
ings, Oil Prints and Chromos handsome
ly framed, at Eidson's Book Store.
Parents should prohibit their sons and
daughters from roaming about the streets
after dark. More bad habits are formed
and mischief done on such occasions than
can be atoned for in a lifetime. Save
yourselves future heartaches.
Tho valuable discovery has been made
that a little annato put in butter will give
it a rich yellow color. There is another
substance which, if put in butter, would
give it the same color, but nobody seems
to think of using it. It is cream.
John Hilbert has received a lot of
handsome slippers for holiday presents.
Call and see them.
The county clerks of the State will
hold a convention in Columbus, the last
week in December, TO adopt a uniform
system of blanks, and to consider such
other questions as shall make the work
of the clerks offices more simple and
uniform.
If you want a handsome holiday pres
ent for your wife or sweetheart, just drop
in at G. G. Schlenker's jewelry estab-
lishment. The display of fine gold and
silverware, clocks, watches, diamond
rings, pins and necklaces, is beyond de-
scription.
Santa Claus headquarters next to p. o.
The men who do not know where to
draw the line between moral and i'm
moral, legitimate and illegitimate, pri-
vate and public news-and their num-
Der is legion-should be controlled by a
wholesome law just the same as any 9TH
er business of like character is regulated.
People who use postal notes should
understand that there is no more secure
ty in sending them in a letter than there
is in sending bills. The Government
does not undertake to make good any
loss of these notes. They are merely
useful in sending fractional parts of a