The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-02-07
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Rain in abundance.

Wendell Philips is oead.
Look out for diphtheria now.
Get ready for sugar making.
Our county jail is now m. t.
The January thaw was on time.
Wheat looks we'll in Preble county.
Commissioners in session this week.
Next Thursday is st. Valentines day
Lent will begin the 9th of this month
A backward spring is predicted-so il
a forward e
Spring bonnets are already being dis
cussed.
Everybody seems to be selling GU
this year.
Small pox is appearing in many towns
around us.
Fox drives are in order now. Capt
John P. Acton do you hearP
One Chicago church choir soprano gets
$4,000 a year.
"Cane-nibblers" is the latest sarcas'
tic name for dudes.
One of the d~oorkeepers at Washington
is named Moonlight.
1t is a proverb that there are always
good crops after plenty of snow.
Eggs still continue to be a delicacy in
our local market.
A Celina hunter recently caught a four
cared rabbit.
Eggs still keep at 30 cents per dozen
and scarce.
Don't fail to see Claire Scott play at
the Opera House, Thursday, Friday and
Saturday evenings.
David Suffrins, a former and well
known citizen of Eaton, died in Muncie,
Ind, last week.
Sixteen Eaton young men filed thro'
our streets last Sunday morning on horse
back. Pleasant recreation.
Congress has given notice to all the
world that the twisting of the tail OF the
American hog must be stopped.
One of the easiest things in the world
to do at a distance from the scene OF ac-
ton is to edit a live newspaper.
Ground Hog day was a big one in Ea-
ton. The whole surrounding country
seemed to be here to celebrate it!
Has any body heard the whistle OF the
Maekinaw locomotive in this neck OF
woods?
Mrs. VIM. Doyle of Kansas, is visiting
her parents in Eaton, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
Walters.
Spencer Hunt has gone to Chicago to
keep books in a Commission House. So
ciety in Eaton will miss SPENCE.
Valentines day and the 22d of Febru-
airy are the next great days in the calen-
dar. That's the way we jog along.
Mr.. Henry Huxley, of Eaton, who is
down south this winter, has u thanks
for late Alabama papers.
The ground hog came out OF a sausage
mill last Saturday morning and seen his
shadow!
A physician condemns the practice of
making school children learn lessons at
night.
When the snow melted away it show
ed up to great advantage the ungainly
ash heaps that had been accommodating
during the winter.
Oberlin College, usually known as
Saints Rest" has students who steal,
blaspheme, gamble and get drunk. Too
bad.
"Drummers" are now making an on
slaught on the merchants, and nearly
talk some OF them to death in their eff
forts to sell them a spring stock.
Misunderstanding and ironing and
washing rough dry. The best of work
at low prices. Call on Mrs. Mehaffey,
opposite Rehfuss' tannery.
If the ground hog didn't come out and
see his shadow last Saturday, it was be-
cause he was in some butchers sausage
mill. The day was beautifully clear.
We do not sound a needless alarm
when we tell you that the faint of scro-
fula is in your blood. Inherited or ac-
quired, it is there, and Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla alone will effectually eradicate it.
The New Paris MIRROR has passed in
to the hands of Chas. w. Bloom again.
The first number indicates that it will be
lively on all matters of general interest,
and particularly on prohibition.
The 9th birthday of uncle Job Jeffer-
son was celebrated at his residence in
Eaton, on Friday last; 25th of January.
The old gentleman is in remarkable good
condition considering his age.
Keep the money moving. Don't salt
it away. Pay your debts as fast as you
can. Have patience with one another.
Buy your goods of home merchants
Encourage home enterprise, and give
your patronage to our own merchants.
Color blindness now amply excuses a
man for taking some other mans new
hat in place of his own shabby head
wear, while kleptomania a cover the
multitudinous sins of the individual who
never returns a borrowed book.
No preventing providence, Rev. G..
Baughman will preach in the Baptist
church on next Sunday at 2 o'clock p.
m. The choir of Salem Ev. Lutheran
Church at West Alexandria, led by Ed,
Schlingman, will also be present.
The Mackinaw railway is not located
yet. 1t can be brought to Eaton il. the
proper effort is made for it. Put that
down and don't forget it, and don't sit
down and expect it to come without an
effort and money!