The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-03-06
We are Marching along.

we are Marcnlng along.
St.Patrick's day, Monday, March II.
The weather is pretty badly mixed
these days.
There can be no wealth which is not
the result of labor.
The mercury, registered degrees
below zero Friday morning.
The coming of the robins was little
premature. r.
The weather is rather tough on
young ducks.
There has been but little sunshine
since the coming in of 1884.
According to the almanacs Spring
will commence April 10th.
Read the new advertisement of the
Union Pacific Tea Company.
The roads are likely to continue in
a wretched condition for some weeks
to come.
All men who accumulate enormous
wealth do SO at the expense of their
fellow men.
Only four weeks from next Monday
to the Spring elections. It is time the
politicians were up aud doing.
The predictions of an early Spring
don't seem to be in very fair way to
be realized just at present.
The sap-bucket brigade haven't
commenced active operations as yet.
They are waiting for the "sweet by
and-by."
A harmless cure for freckels is said
to be equal parts of pure gIycerine and
rose water applied every night and
lowed to dry.
According to the Roman calender
Lent commenced this year the eth of
February, and continuing forty days,
ends OH Easter Sunday, April 18th.
I If you haven't trimmed your grape
vines you should attend to that little
matter before the sap starts on its up
ward course.
We have been having touch of the
lion end of March, and everybody is
anxiously waiting 10 see what t'other
end will be.
A country editor says if as many
people knew how to pay their subscrip-
tions as they know how to run news
paper, editors would have an easy time
of it.
Youngstown Excursion, Tuesday,
March 18th, via. P, G. & T. R. r.,
the new route" Low rates from all
stations. Tickets good two days
Round trip from Ravenna only 85c.
Rev.Andrew Wilson's appointment
at New Milford has been changed from
March 9th to Thursday evening, the
18th inst Subject, What is Univer-
salism?'
Last Sunday Rev. A. NJ. Hills ten
dered his resignation of the pastorship
of the Congregational Church of this
village. The Church is to consider the
subject this evening.
Mcintosh Post. No. 327, G. A. R.
hold a dance this, Thursday, evening,
at their Hall, in Phenix Block. Good
music has been engaged and those who
attend can depend upon an enjoyable
party. .s.es
An early spring Is predicted for 1884
from the fact that tadpOles neglected,
for the first time in thirty years, to
even look for their shadows In Febru-
ary. This animal is claimed to be even
more reliable than the ground-hog.
1t has been noted by a number of
our exchanges that the wild geese are
vending their way northward. The
foolish fowls are liable to find the
weather in the northern regions un-
cold for some time yet.
There was fine audience at the
Opera House Friday night to listen to
the concert given by the Arion Quar-
tet, of Cleveland. The entertainment
is pronounced by all as one of the
finest ever given in the town.
Saturday morning Tom Kathern,
section hand on the Pittsburg, Cleve-
land and Toledo Railroad, was struck
and instantly killed by train running
into Kent. He was deaf and did not
hear the approaching locomotive.
Sexton p. l.. King reports two in
terments in Maple Grove Cemetery
for the month of February Hiram
B. Kelley, Feb. %, died of Consump.
ton. aged SO years, and Martin Engle-
hardt, died Feb. 27, of Dropsy, aged
As years, months.
People are most respectfully request
ed to examine goods at VanN Ness store,
in order to know what the goods are
before making purchase, so if you
want to put your hand in the sugar to
get taste no objections will be made,
as there is so much inferior stuff on
the market that sometimes it is hard
to tell without handling and tasting to
find out.
There. are doubtless in this, as ia
nearly every community, children
who do not attend school because their
parents are unable to furnish them
with books. The law of Ohio says
that it is the dnty of the Board to'fur-
nish books in such cases, and all the
p lrents or guardians of such children
have to do is to apply to the Board
and books and supplies will be fur
nished.
o. v. Searl, of Ravenna, and A. B.
Merrill, of Paris, have been drawn as
Jurors in the U. s. Circuit Court for the
Apr l. term and Edmund Twitt OF
Ravenna, has been drawn as a grand
Juror in the U. 8. District Court for the
Northern District of Ohio, and M A.
Day, of Ravenna, as o petit juror in