The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-01-10
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Court is in session.

Read siders's "Songs Of q Pleb."
We are ready for the January thaw.
Turkeys need not roost 30 high now.
Give us a mild winter for an ice crop
School Examiners Questions crowded
out.
No more blizzards this way, if yo'
please.
Take the DEMOCRAT for your winte
reading.
PITY for the poor should take the SHAPE
of coal and potatoes.
He who oppresseth the poor to add u
his riches will surely come to want.
The "mild winter for this neck o
woods still fingers afar off.
Diaries for 1884 at the Book Store O
". A. Edison.
The man who predicted this cold snaI
is not now alive.
Eight and ten inch ice is being har'
vested.
Martin Rehfuss, jr., of Peoria, H.,
visited his parents last week.
Twenty-six degrees below is credita-
BILE for ismild winter"
This is prayer week-and don't forget
it.
Police business has been dull for the
past week.
Rhea & Son filed their ice house last
Friday with 7 and 8 inch ice.
The ice men have gathered at the
river" and garnered their crop.
The easy running Household Sewing
Machine is all the rage in Eaton.
2e below zero in the shaded Please
shut the doorI It is a "mild w1nterl'
Ladies will find the latest thing out in
Transfer Ornaments at Mller's Drug
Store.
The partner of o. Dillman in the liv-
cry business in Eaton, was severely kick
ed by q horse last Saturday.
When is q man not a mani Why,
when he don't take his local paper, OF
course.
Wood jumped to S $50 on account of
the blizzard. An i'll wind that blows no
body good, isn'titf
Even up Sc was paid for good hogs n
Eaton last week. The hog radea around
here is lively.
VIM. A. Huffman and wife + here
from Charlotte, n. c., and will make
Eaton their future home. Glad OF it.
seal-skin sacques a be rented in
Chicago for $50 for the season. This is
getting style down to a living basis.
Among the variety of fine toilet soaps
at Miller's Drug Store, Ponds Extract
Soap is one of the best and most healing.
Hagerstown and Farmers and Me
chanics Aimanscs at W. A. Eidson's
Book Store.
Pons is the name of the new comet al
legged to be in the skies. Although we
may never see him, We are glad to know
his name.
Bro. Albright and daughter Ida, and
Miss Mollie Coffman, left on Tuesday
morning for Chattanooga. They will 60
with the editorial excursionists.
Two inches more snow fell in this re-
zion last Monday. 1t looks now as if we
would have sleiging until the Fourth Of
July.
The grandest affair of the season will
be the "Calico Party" at the Opera
House this Thursday evening, given
BY the "Eaton Social Club"
Thermometers in Eaton indicated
from % to 26 degrees below zero last
Saturday morning. How is that for an
open wintera
The value of butter, cheese and eggs
marketed in the United States per an
mum is more than $40 for every man,
woman and child of the population.
The muskrats and skunks that failed
to line their homes with wool. because
of the predictions of a mild winter, have
all been frozen to death.
The pot-pie eaten at the Soldiers
Home on New Years day cost $19S. The
rabbits $50, the potatoes $50 and the
flour So.
The thermometer stood below zero all
day last Saturday and Sunday and but
few of our country friends ventured in
town.
Help others and you will relieve your
self. Go out and drive away the cloud
from a distressed friends brow, and you
will return with a brighter heart.
The fellow who invested in a light
overcoat was in Eaton last Saturday and
resembled q frozen onion. He swore at
the weather prophets and took suthin'
often.
A half ton Of coal, a sack of flour, and
q dollar in money, given to some deserv-
ing poor family, will bring the donor
nearer to heaven than a dozen windy
prayers.
In the absence of L. E. Brown at Mil
ton, Ind, engaged in a revival meeting
the pulpit will be occupied Sunday morn
ing and evening by Ed. j. M. Land, of
Harrison o.
Henry NJ. Young will sell at public
sale at his residence four miles from Ea-
ton, on the L~ewisburg road, on the 18th
inst, horses, milk cows, hogs, hay,
wheat, and many farm implements.
The chronological Journal for January
is a splendid number, full of instructive
and interesting reading. Published in
New York by Fowler & Wells at $3.50
per annum.
M1ssINa-The individual that predict