The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

LOCAL DEPARTMENT
1t rains very easy.
s. S. Dix is in Eaton.
Parasols are blooming.
Bring on your picnic bills.
This is the banana season.
The days are IA hours long.
The oyster is on its vacation.
June taxes are drawing near.
Give all tramps the go-by now.
Eaton schools close next week.
Awnings down and windows up.
Strawberries have appeared at 80 cent
box.
Those who feel like decorating shoult
get ready.
SANDER is the creased lightning of ma
levolence.
The straw hat is a trife late coming il
this spring.
Try one of the Quick Meal Vapol
Stoves. For sale by Price & Douglass
The trees are now clothed with thei
foliage Of green.
Now is the time to improve your Gem
etery lots.
No horses ran away last week that we
heard of.
Don't kill squirrels before the LIST o
June. 1t is unlawful.
ii. G. Hiestand still remains in a seri
GUS condition.
Henry Huxley, the painter, has post
poned his trip to Alabama until fall.
The father of J. N. and V. w. Lake O
this place, died last week al Kent, U.
aged about so years.
An editor, sneering at the stupidity o
a contemporary, says, "the best thing he
has got off this week is a dirty shirt"
One of the new styles of ladies' spring
hats is a two-storied concern, with
mansard roof and a peak.
A frst-class base ball player receives
a larger salary than the majority Of
preachers.
The extension of Jul city limits is
matter that should be considered by the
present Council without much delay.
Mr.. Andrew Hicstand, of German
town, is visiting his sick brother in Ea'
ton.
The harp musicians serenaded Eaton
last week. Their harvest of nickels was
light. Let them go to work.
DR.. Tine Miller, of Lawrence, Kansas, is
visiting his brother-in-law, Esq. Kline,
in Eaton.
The tax levy of this corporation will
be cut down for next year, and it ought
to be.
It is said that John Mattox is the only
taxpayer having a residence on Water
street!
Applicants for st. Clair Springs accom-
modations are too numerous to accept
.tGlen Hotel" has a reputation.
The Quick Meal Stove leads the world,
For sale by Price & Douglass.
Mr.. G. D. Cole, formely of Hamilton
O., will open a full line of Pianos anc
Organs this week in the Bonner build
ing, east Main st.
Go fishing. The LATEST man can sit
on a grassy bank on the shady side o.
the river and wait for hours for bites and
not get very tired.
The Lyman Vapor Stove is sold with
the understanding that if not working
satisfactory to be returned. For sale
only by J.. A.. McCabe & Bro. Im15-t
1t didn't rain last Sunday. 1t wal
fourth after Easter. That knocks the
e'seven Sunday rain'' theory for this yea
h. W. and e:
Smith Montgomery sent US last weel
a Jug of genuine Tilden buttermilk, ant
the joke was a simon pure Republican
official delivered it!
The streets of Eaton never got int
such a stscrape" before as they have thi
spring. They look better over it, how
ever.
If the bloom on apple and cherry tree
around here is any indication of a crop
we will have an immense one. The tree
never were fuller.
Don't fail to go the Engineers pic-ni
to be held at Prices Hill, Cincinnati, o.
the 23d inst. Fare only $1.25 and ticket
good for two days on any train.
An eastern man has invented a ma
chine for washing dishes. Now let hin
go ahead and rig up a whole hired gin
on the same plan and he will make hi
fortune.
Every laboring man should strive t
get a home of his own. The money h
: annually pays for rents would soon ge
him a home, humble it might be, bu
still q home.
With the men of this country whooI
ing up politics and the women of thi
country devoting all their energies
crazy quilts, the prospect of a vigorous
well-balanced posterity is indeed gloomy
Levi Harris has been retired from til
G. H.& D.. road here as a 'baggag
smasher." He has served in that C:
pacity in Eaton for a long time and ha
become quite an adept in the business
The many friends of Mrs. Clara Ritchi,
the "sweet singer of the west" will r.
greet to learn that she is at home wit
her parents in Eaton, Mr.. S. H. Hubble
and wife, seriously afflicted.