The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-08
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Times are easier.

Cucumbers are on deck.
Weather getting pleasanter.
The wool market has opened.
Coal dealers harvest has closed.
The trees have now a green tinge.
New peas and Beans are in market.
The amusement season is shortening.
II. C. Hiestand is in a very critical
condition.
Considerable corn was dropped last
week.
The Quick Meal Stove leads the world.
For sale by Price & Douglass.
The epizootic is very bad among horses
in Dayton.
Every mechanic in Eaton who wants
to be is busy now.
Paint your fences and whitewast your
barns and stables.
"Stick to your flannels till they stick
to you" They have stuck.
The business of the wood measurer has
declined.
There is no lubricator for the muscles
equal to sweet toll.
The prevailing fashions greatly favor
slender women.
Painters, paper-hangers and white
washers are having their harvest.
See the Jerseys at Fox's, at $1.75 with
cuff.
The sweet girl graduates have visions
of white dresses in the neal future.
It requires more talent and industry to
beat a carpet than to run for Office.
Grass and wheat are now growing
finely.
The woods are now decorated with
wild flowers.
All bristle whitewash brushes at Mil
ler's Drug Store.
Uncle Joe Walters and wife will go to
Iowa to spend the summer this week.
A good counter and shelves for SALE
Enquire of VIM. Pryor.
The salary of the Mayor of Greenyiile
is $250-he wants it increased to $500.
Aman may bealloafer without q bite
of bread in his house.
Tom Brennan, of Sweetwater, Tenn,
has our thanks for late Southern papers.
Are our streets to be sprinkled this
summer?
The man who has his last years spring
straw hat is now happy.
Trade your winter suits for summer
ones, trade even if you get a chance.
The coal men have been smiling for a
long time. Now the ice men will smile.
You can not explode the Lyman Vapor
Stove. For sale by ]. A. McCabe & Bro.
The sparrows are getting all the worms.
They get up at 4 o'clock to catch them.
Ed. Pryor left last Monday for Aurora,
Ind, toaccept a position in a Drug estab-
lishment at that place.
j. R. McCord, Esq, the popular rail-
road excursionist was in Eaton last Tues
day morning.
Capt. A. Haines, at Fort Occur D.
Alene, Idaho, has cur thanks for Idahs
papers.
Farm hands will soon be in demand,
and there will be little need for the orna-
mental corner loafer.
1t is strange that the majority of peo-
pie use ice without giving a thought as
to its purity or whence it comes.
Largest and best assorted stock of
Dress Goods at B. Fox's.
Don't go near a draft. If draft comes
toward you, run away. A sight draft is
the most dangerous.
Weather prophet Oh not, says an ex-
change, the reliable hen never announ-
ces an egg until it is laid.
Try one of the Quick Meal Vapor
Stoves. For sale by Price & Douglass.
Spring may be postponed on account
of the weather, but the new spring bon
net never.
The health officers will soon want tc
know how much show for malaria there
is in your back yard.
Poke bonnets should be worn by those
who are in the habit of poking their nose
into other peoples business.
This is the time of year the merchant
tells his clerk to ransack the garnet fol
apiece of1ast years awning to put up
It rained last Sunday again. It seems
as if the seven Sunday theory would be
fulfilled this year.
Under the amended Scott law the ga
loon tax will be paid in two installmentl
this year-in June and December.
When you go into a store be sure ant
look for the sign paint" 1t is every
where this time of year.
The same as last spring, the fashion
for babies will be six feet OF clothing tt
ten incnes OF DaDy.
The dust is waited hither and yon OF
every breeze, but the street sprinkle
hasn't come out of its winter quarters.
Ladies are dyeing with diamond dyes
from Miller's Drug Store.
Warren Dunlap received a very sever,
kick on his left hand last Sunday, in at
tempting to catch one of his horses il
pasture.
James Haston purchased the Brook
farm last Monday, two miles south O
Eaton on the Winchester road. Fifty
five hundred was the price paid.
All colors Macreme Cord at 121ac. pc
cut at B. Fox's Cheap Store.
DR.. A. II. Stephens OF the Dayton Ma