The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-22
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Measels plenty in Eaton.

Money is scarce and so are items.
Frost last Thursday and Friday morn
ings.
Better send the Engineer to Cincin-
natl next time.
S. s. Dix and family have gone to
Emerson, Kansas.
A dozen of eggs will now purchase a
pound of good butter.
All the girls out at the fire the other
morning had banged hair!
There are 100 dogs in the Corporation
of Eatonl A d~og-gonned too many.
May 3oth will be the sixteenth cele-
bration of Memorial day.
L. G. Abbott, Esq, of Richmond, was
in Eaton last Saturday on legal business.
The Eaton Band goes to Franklin to
play on Decoration day.
Decoration day will be pretty general
ly observed.
The strawberry crop will be large this
season.
Mrs. DIR. Stephens OF the Soldiers Ma
tional Home is visiting in Eaton.
Isaac Laning was in Eaton last week,
looking well.
James Nelson lost his sorrel mare last
Sunday night. Cholic.
One year ago the big snow storm oc-
CURED.
Editors don't trouble themselves much
about banks breaking. Most of their
treasure is laid up in heaven.
An hour or two notice of a fire would
be a help in getting our Engine ready to
squirt in time. +.
"There is money in hogs" says an ex-
change. 1t would seem so. We know
a great many that have money.
When a young man falls out with his
best girl at this season OF the year it is a
sign that his ice al credit is low.
1t will soon be time for good little boys
to get drowned, and bad n e to learn to
swim.
w. G. Banfill has money to loan in
large or small sums. Farm and town
property for sale. See adv.
"Belle Wilson," the famous Eaton
t~rotter, will go on the track this season
again.
Unriyaled in power, in beauty and
equality of tcne-the Johnston Organ.
G. D. Cole, East Main ST., Eaton.
It is IN order now for the man from
Cincinnati who squirted the Engine and
signed the certificate" writ for him, to
step this way again!
Bro. Hane, of the Camden Gazette,
was in Eaton on Thursday last and drop
ped into the DEMOCRAT Office. Sorry we
were absent. Call again.
The Engineers Picnic at Prices Hill,
Cincinnati, on the 23d inst, will be a
brilliant. affair. If you want real down
worldly fun and enjoyment go to it.
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. [m15-tf
The ex-Mayor ought to have liquidat-
ed the indebtedness of the corporation
before he made such a grand splurg over
his financial government, or else have
said how much we oweI
II any of our readers want a good job
of stone masonry done, F. M. Deem. jr.,
and B. F. Cook can do it. They are ex-
cellent mechanics and understand their
business thoroughly. Give them a call.
Wanted--Five million feet Elm lum-
Der for the manufacture of Shellaberger's
Combination Fence. Apply at the Office
of Lugar, Schurtz & Williams, West
Main St., Eaton, o. m22-4
Again we are positively assured the
Mackinaw road is located down along the
Twin Valley, and again we are moved
to congratulate our neighbors over their
success. Send US word when the train
is ready to go!
Memorial services will be held in the
city Hall, Sunday evening, May 25th, at
~ o'clock. Sermon by Rev. w. H. Orr.
assisted by the ministers OF the several
churches. The choirs of the churches
will be present. All are invited.
You can tell the character of a man by
the company he keeps. Gamblers asso,
ciate with gamblers, thieves with thieves
and vice versa, so that you need not be
mistaken in your estimate of the reputa'
ton of any man, if you notice his asso,
ciates.
Don't fail to go to the Engineers pic
mic to be held at Prices Hill, Cincinna'
ii, on the 23d inst. Fare only $1.25 and
tickets good for two days on any train
Only seven mules and asses in the
corporation We are inclined to the
opinion that our Assessor was not dis
corning enough in these classes. How
ever, we accept the situation, and fee
proud to acknowledge that We have beer
laboring under an hallucination abou
these animals in Eaton.
With no gasoline or coal bills paid fol-
year, the squirting and repairing of thu
Engine unpaid and many other account
standing, together with the public Rec
ords partially burned and defaced, Their
ought to have been millions shown OIL
paper to be in the Corporation treasur..
at the close of Mayor Neal's administra
ton.
The box out of the safe blown open a
West Alexandria, some few months ago
containing all the notes and papers, an
some silk handkerchiefs, was found las
Monday evening by young Slower on tn
farm of Mr.. Wear, about IL mile ives
of West Alexandria. 1t was hid close b
a large rock only a few rods from tn