The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1884-11-13

Josh Whitcomb."
Have you paid your bets?
Corn husking is in order.
Everybody should go to hear "Josh. "
The stove and coal dealers are busy.
Dancing parties will soon be the rage.
The voice of the stumper is silent
again.
Subscribe at once for season tickets
f lecture course.
The cheapest line of Sugars in Por-
tage county, VanNess has.
Denman Thompson is the attraction
Tuesday night.
The mail TO Shalersville and Mantua
now leaves at a. m.
The Mechanics Club has been re-
organized for the season of lSS4-5.
Grand Opening of Reeds Opera
House, Tuesday night next.
Tickets for the proposed lecture
course may be secured by applying at
the Second National Bank.
Mrs. Edith Gray, of Fargo, Oak. is
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
D. Durham.
The city dailies have been reaping q
harvest on account of the political
muddle.
VanNess' is headquarters for pork
bbls. and meat tubs of all descriptions.
Prices very reasonable.
If you have any news of interest
don't keep it all to yourself, but send
it to the PRESS for publication.
The contract for carrying the mails
to and from the depots in Ravenna
has been awarded to Mr.. M. D. Love-
less.
Disappointed Democrats and long
faced Republicans will forget their
sorrows Tuesday night, when Josh"
appears.
VanNess' Coffee is all the rage just
now. 35c. mixed coffee for zoe. is
enough to make people stare, but that
is what he sells it for.
Ed. Morley fingers in the lookup
on a sentence of thirty days for a too
free use of his fists in jubilating for
Blaine.
Ravenna should not be without
lecture course the coming Winter, and
to insure it tickets should be procured
promptly.
Reserved seats for Grand Opening,
will be on sale at Reeds Drug Store,
Friday morning, at 8 o'clock. Prices
75c. and 81.
The good natured. jolly Yankee,
Josh Whitcomb," never fails to make
people happy. Go hear him at the
Grand Opening, Tuesday night.
The Grand Orchestra which accom-
panies Denman Thompson, will be q
great attraction at the Opera House
Tuesday evening next.
When youlboil your cabbage put in
with it a small piece of red pepper.
This will prevent the disagreeable
odor which pervades the kitchen and
sometimes goes through the house.
A few days ago Mr.. George Marvin
weighed a sucking colt, sired by P. II.
Bean's horse, Smuggler, Jr., which
tipped the beam at $40 pounds. He is
a good one.
The homestead property of the late
John Gillis, situate on South Chestnut
street, was sold at administrator sale
on Saturday last, Ex-Mayor Geo. F.
Robinson being the buyer, at 81 500.
The November meeting of the Hor-
ticultural Society will be held on
Wednesday, the 18th inst, at the resi-
dence of Alonzo Olin, in Streetsboro.
Essay by X. s. Wing. All are cordially
invited. ANDREW WILSON, Sec.
1t is not just the right thing for a
magistrate charged with the preserva'
ton of the peace and the maintenance
of order, to be going about town in
the night time melting strife and STIR
ring up quarrels.
A shooting match is to take place at
the Center of Shalersville on Wednes-
day, Nov. 26th, (the day before Thanks
giving.) An abundance of turkeys,
chickens and oysters will make it in
teresting.
Unless the people are more prompt
in subscribing for season tickets for q
lecture course it will have to go by de-
fault and contracts be cancelled. Those
wishing tickets will please put down
their names at once.
Manager Hartz, of Cleveland, an
nounces q lecture course at the Taber-
nacle, giving ten entertainments for
So, which is the same price as the
committee announce for Ravenna. But
this is in large city, where Mr.Hartz
can probably sell ten times as many
tickets as in smaller town.
We received very pleasant call, on
Friday last, from our young friend,
Frank L. Taylor, of Aarshalltown ,
Iowa. Frank and his wife have been
visiting friends and relatives in Ohio
for several days past.
Mr.. Taylor, writing on the biograph.
ical department of the History OF
Postage County, is interviewing many
of our older and more prominent citi'
zens. He is rapidly and successfully
gathering the information for his de.
partment of the work.