The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-30
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.


No papaws about here this year.
The street sprinkler held on we'll.
Wood, wood; bring in your wood.
The wheat in this county looks well.
The country schools are in full blast.
Soon be time to build railroads-on
paper!
Last Saturday was the first real BUSH
ness day in Eaton for several months.
Cider preservative at Miller's Drug
Store.
Apples are picked-so likewise candi-
dates.
Henry Farr will administer on the es-
tate OF Eli Thompson.
The cold wave arrived. Send us In
dian summer now.
The "Glee Clubs" can now take rest.
Good bye Glee Clubs, good bye!
.shut the door, is now the cry in the
land.
Stop the burning of leaves. tits a dis
agreeable nuisance.
The hickory nut crop is short in this
neck of woods.
Give us a sober, steady and conserva-
tive man for a Marshal. No room for
any other.
&. D. White and family have moved
into Eaton, in their dwelling on east
Main street.
Hon. Ben. LeFever, - Robinson,
of Sidney, O., and Col. Foster, OF Gin
c~innati, attended the funeral of Roddie
Reynolds.
Every sensible person expects a party
paper to oppose the opposite candidates,
but not to get down into the gutter of
filth and defamation to do it.
Hon. ]. j. Burns, ex-State School Com
missioner, dropped into the DEMOCRAT
Office last Saturday while in Eaton. Mr..
B. is pleasant company.
st. John and Butler don't need to wor-
ry much about the impurity Of the ballot
box; they won't be in it to any great ex-
tent around here.
White Pine Balsam, prepared by Mil
Ter, the druggist, is a good cough reme-
dy, as those who have used will testify.
R.. D. White left a sample of Burbank
potatoes at our office that would be hard
to beat. From the paintings of eight
bushels he raised about one hundred
bushels.
The many friends of Mrs. w. J. Gill
more about Eaton, will regret to learn
that she is bed-fast at her home in Co.
lumbus, with but slight hopes of recov-
cry.
Some say that the corn husks indicate
very severe winter; others, that they
indicate a winter that will be remarkable
for its mildness. There is one good thing
about it, people are allowed to take their
choice of the two views.
Too much attention can not be given
by the Inirmary Directors to the wants
of the poor who may need assistance to
s prepare them to meet the cold and Sc
we're weather of winter, that is sure to
bring suffering to the unfortunate and
helplesa
Aconvict in the New York State prison
recently engraved the ten command
ments on a silver quarter. If a quarter
looked as big to him as it does to some
people, he might have got the whole
book of Exodus and the 10th Psalm on ii
without disturbing the mint inscription.
Jos. S. Campbell and wife Kitty, left
for San Antonio, Texas, last Monday
morning. We trust that our friend "Joe'
!. may realize from the mild and sunny
cline Of the Lone Star State" all that
fond parents and dear and warm friends
wish for him-health and long life.
Where an election takes place on the
day preceding his twenty-frst birthday
man can vote on age. The courts have
SO decided in a test case. That is, if
mans t~wenty-frst birthday falls this
year on November 5th he legally car
deposit his ballot at the election on No
yember 4th.