The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-13
The weather continues hot.


Get your dinner at the Town Hall
next saturday.
Don't forget the Universalist Picnic
at the Glens next week Friday.
The Rink will be open Saturday
evenings. New music by the Band.
The mournful music of the cricket
is heard in the land.
The last Of the summer months is
nearly half gone. Tenlpus tagit.
Capt. I. D. Spaulding, of New York,
was in town the first of the week.
We are still selling lumber at cost
and carriage. MORGAN & OvIATr.
We continue to be visited by fire.
auent cOpious rains.
There is an abundant supply of
green corn in the market.
Business is thought to be picking up
throughout the country.
Slate roofing done by Morgan &
Oviatt. All work warranted.
Mrs. II. w. Balm has sold her resi-
dence on Walnut street to Mrs. Sarah
P. Bissell.
The nights are getting cooler and
the signs of approaching autumn are
beginning to appear.
II. H. Woolf, the newly appointed
postmaster at Atwater Station, was in
town on Monday.
The next term of the Court of Com.
mon Pleas for this county will COM
mence September 7th.
Governor Hoadly is expected to be
present at the Geauga Lake Pioneer
meeting next Tuesday.
Mrs. Chas. Judd is very sick at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. w
Williamson, on Cleveland Avenue.
The rains of the past week caught
considerable wheat and oats that had
been cut out in the wet, damas ing il
somewhat.
The Republicans hold their county
nominating Convention next Saturday
and the office.seekers are busy and
anxious.
There will be no services except
Sunday School in the Universalist
Church next Sunday. The pastor will
be absent at WilIoughby, o.
Bradford Howlann, Esq. started on
"Wednesday for Union Springs, n. Y,
expecting To spend couple of week )
visiting friends in the East.
Miss Linnie Sanford, of Coldwater,
Mich, daughter of the late Geo. San
ford, has been spending some time
visiting friends in this region.
It.is said that the man who won't
take paper, because he can borrow
one, has invented a machine by which
he can cook his dinner by the smoke
of his neighbours chimney.
Geo. E. Robinson, an esteemed citi-
zen, died at his residence in this vii.
lage. Oh Tuesday morning, after long
and distressing illness, aged AZ years
He leaves wife and two children to
mourn his death.
1 am still engaged in Paper Hanging
and Ceiling Decorating. Can ill or
dels. city or country, on short notice.
Workmanship second to none, and
prices reasonable.
w. w. CARNAHAN.
About loon on Monday last vicious
dogs got into flock of ten sheep be-
longing to Mr.. Peter Shultz, living in
the south part of Sutfield, killing four
of them outright, mangling four more
so badly that it is thought they will
die, and badly biting the other two.
About o'clock Sunday evening Lne
large barn of s. J. Pff,r, in Edinburg,
was struck by lightning and entirely
consumed. together with Its contents,
about 800 bushels of unthreshed wheat,
q lot of hay, wagon, harness, plows,
harrows, and many other farm imple-
ments. Loss estimated at S., 900, par
TALLY covered by insurance.
On Saturday morning, while Mr..
w. e. Marsh, of the firm of Kenwald
& Marsh, was driving a beef cow to
the slaughter house, when near the
Fair Grounds, the animal turned and
charged upon his horse, goring it very
severely, cutting a cash some eight
or nine inches in length in the breast
of the animal.
Frank Butts, of Axiom, in the en-
ploy of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Company branch house of that city,
called upon us last week, and made us
the recipient of a fine lithograph and
photo -lithOgraph likeness of General
Grant. Frank is wide-a-wake, gen.
ial young man, and is always heartily
welcomed in this, his recent home, by
his old comrades and acquaintan ces.
The August meeting of the Horti.
cultural Society will be held at the
residence of James Dunn, Garrettsville
on Wednesday, the 10Th inst. Essay
by Miss Lille Haymaker. All art
cordially invited.
ANDREW WILSON, Sec.