The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-01
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Farmers are busy.
Hail storm last Sunday.
Bring out your straw hat.
Bring on your May parties.
House cleaning time is at hand.
The Mackinaw railway is resting qui
city.
Robinson didn't show at Richmond
too much wet.
1t is not the man with the longest pole
who catches the most fish.
Our new Corporation officials start out
well.
Henry Huxley is going to Alabams
again. Sorry to lose s 70 good a mechanic
VIM. Deem lost nineteen head OF hogs
last week from cholera.
Buy from your home merchants who
advertise and you won't be swindled.
G.. D. Hendricks and family have gone
to Upton, Ind, to make it their future
home.
Miss Eva Corlen, niece of P. M. Neal,
has become mentally afflicted from re-
lieious excitement.
William Alderman, jr., has cabbage,
mango, celery, tomato, and all other gar
den nlants for sale. ap17-2
By the use of B~uckingham's Dye, the
vhiskers may be easily made a perma-
nent, natural brown or black, as desired.
Ex-Mayor Neal had four years to do
what he suggests to his successor, but
done just the reverse!
W. D. Quinn, the new wood measurer,
will have his quarters at J~efferson's gro
Gerry.
Potatoes appear to be a drug in the
market almost everywhere, and sell as
low as 25 cents per bushel and under.
Hens may be a little backward on
eggs, but they never fail to come to the
scratch after the garden is made.
vennor says we will have frosts in
July, but vennor is a failure as a weather
prophet.
Martin Rehfuss of Peoria, Ill, was in
Eaton last Friday and Saturday, visiting
his parents.
For Cabbage, Tomato, Mango, Beet
and Egg Plants, call on Fred. Earhardt,
gardener, North Maple street, Eaton, 0.
Adam Young and family have gone to
Connersville; Ind, to become citizens OF
that city.
They have a three legged calf in Area
num-, owned by one John Paulus and
born on election day.
VIM. Huffman has his carriage and
buggy room finished and filled with a
very fine lot of vehicles. just drop in
and look at them.
Women ornament their dresses behind
because they like to have nice things
said about them when their backs are
turned.
1t is said that a big crop of fruit for
1884 is entirely out of the question
Pears to us we've heard a like predic-
ton before.
An Alabama Judge has decided that a
man who puts his satchel on a seat In
the cars reserves the seat-unless the
man who moves it is bigger than he Is.
One and two dollar notes are said to
be getting very scarce. We have an m
preston, however, that the twenties and
ffties are scarcer.
Lugar & Schurtz have erected a shop
on the banks of Sevenmile, opposite the
old Bruce mill, and are now running out
their new fence by steam.
James Deem sold fourteen head of very
fine cattle last week for the Soldiers
Home near Dayton. They averaged l.
260 pounds.
A new telegraph company "poled"
our town last week. The next time this
wants to be done let the property hold
ers have a say in it.
Hickey's barber shop on east Main
street was entered by a false key last
week, and all his razors purloined. That
was a barberous act.
IT'S whispered by knowing ones that
the shipping of the steam engine to Gin
cinnati for repairs was a mild fraud. 1t
cost $3.50!
The festival given on Friday and Sat
urday evenings last at the Opera House,
by the ladies of Christ's Church, was an
interesting affair and a financial sue
cess.
Over $11, 10000 of Corporation Bonds
were disposed of during Mr.. Meals May
orship! What have we to ''poiut with
pride" for them? Still he "farewelled"
about his wonderful economy!
1t is pleasing to note the pride that our
citizens, as a rule, manifest in having
the grounds about their residences kept
in order. 1t is a high recommendation
for a town.
The funny man of a neighboring ex-
change says that when a clothing shop
gets on fire some of the clerks spring
over coats and some fall over coats, and
nearly every one pants when he gets out
The sweet scented smell Of burning
brush, old hoop skirts, tomato cans
boots, imprudent cats that found a las
resting place on the pile of old dirt IL
the back yard, now~flls the air.
William Stephen has been appointed
Street Commissioner by the Council
We look for cheap work on our street
the coming summer, and no more thai
necessity demands.
A two horse team run off last Saturda,
and collided with the lamp post in from
of John MYERS resident on south Beecl
street, and knocked it into smithereens
Nohody hurt