The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-12-25
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Swear off now.

Wood and coal are in demand.
The Christmas tree is in market.
sle;obs were out here last Saturday.
Everybody complains Of hard times.
The tramp business is very brisk here
Wheat drags at 81 to 20 cts. per bushel
James G. Clements of N. K, is visit
ing the family of G. F. Brooke.
The small boy is on his good behavio'
until after the holidays.
The finest stick candy 10 cents pei
Id at Rhea& Sons.
DIR. E. E. Welsh Of Buchtel College, II
spending vacation at home.
Hogs brought 81 in Eaton last satur
day.
Eggs 25 cents per dozen. An indus
trious hen is worth something now.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bratton have returned
from their visit to Sparta, Ill.
Chicken thieves are plying their bust
ness around here now
The skating rink fend has been in Ea'
ton looking up q room.
The season of the masked ball is on
deck again.
Our stocking is hung up to stay until
1884 goes out.
Extraordinary low prices in suits mode
to order this month at G. P. Thums.
The delinquent tax list will appear
next week.
December has not been as pleasant as
May.
The ice men are blessed with an early
harvest.
The thermometer got down to IL de-
erees below zero here on Friday morn
ing last.
Thomas Bunch has our thanks for the
nav subscribers he drops in for the Dem
ocRAr every once in q while.
Fine mixed Candy 10 cents a ID at
Rhea & Sons.
School superintendent G. G. Miller
viii spend the holiday vacation with his
parents neal Lancaster, Ohio.
The Eaton jail is not a '.parlor' by a
long shot. 1t very near being a
nuisance for prisoners.
Rhea & Son commenced putting up ice
on Saturday last. Others have followed
suit.
Mrs. Pat Shannon fell last Sunday
and fractured her wrist bone. DR.. Small
attended to it.
Harvey Mills has returned to North
Manchester, after a pleasant visit with
relatives and friends.
Closing sale of o~vercoats this month a
G. P. Thums.
John McClay, after spending several
months with friends here, returned to his
Florida home last Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Edison gave a
progressive euchre party last Thursday
in honor of Mrs. Scott, of N. Y.
The young ladies OF the Assembly
Club will give q leap.year party on this
wednesday, evening.
Isaac Niswonger and wife, of Pauldiug
Centre, are in Eaton, visiting Miss Lou
Murphy.
With wheat at 81 cents a bushel and
corn and oats proportionately low it il
strange that eggs should be 25 cents
dozen.
Now is the time the ambitions ant
saving person gathers in a supply OF al
MANAGES to keep him supplied with loca
news for the ensuing year.
A lady says that roller skating is no
good for girls, it turns their heads. sh'
probably saw them when they were
looking for a place to sit down.
John Filbert has received a lot O
handsome slippers for holiday presents
Call and see them.
Misses Kittie Campbell and Laur'
Hunt gave a pleasant euchre party il
honor of Harvey Mills of North Man
chester, Ind.
James Haston has traded the Brook
farm he purchased a short time ago, an'
his Indiana land, to Mart. Swisher 70
his fine farm west OF West Florence.
Everybody should read the DEMocRA
during the long winter evenings that ar
now here, and every n so doing shout
read his own newspaper and not tina
borrowed from his neighbor.
Old coffee and tea pots that begin t
impart a d~isagreeable flavor to their cor
tents may be made as sweet as new b
putting water in them, and then dror
ping some live Goals in the water.
Fire crackers 5 cents a package or
for 25 cents at Rhea & Sons.
Celery is said to be a great remedy fc
ervousness. Certainly it is a medicin
not bad to take. Eating a nice whit
crisp stalk for a nervous attack is pleas
anter any day than chewing rheubar
root for dyspepsia.
1t is one of the queer phases Of huma
nature, that where you find a reforme
drunkard he is one of the most strenl
u temperance advocates and a retire
saloon keeper is generally the most bi
ter opponent of saloons.
It would be a great enterprise if OIL
Commissioners would expend a few do
lars on the town clock, SO that col
weather would not interfere with its rul
ming machinery. Whatdo you say, gel
tlemen?
For Christmas Slippers call at job
Filbert's.
Judge James A. Gilmore and NJ. !