The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-01
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

Goodbye 1884.
Welcome 1885.
Leap year is out.
Penty of water now.
This is another ''open winter"
Rather a quiet Xmas in Eaton.
The ice harvest closed suddenly.
Large barns indicate good farms.
Next week will be the week Of prayer
Charley Moore is visiting friends a
Moore's Hill, Ind.
The P. o. war has opened in Eaton
Col it boysi
Whooping cough is plenty around Ea
ton.
The Murphy temperance question il
coming forward again.
Our 'slatch string" will be out to-mor
row (Thursday.)
Joe Haines is at home to spend a few
weeks with his mother and friends.
Bows raised to respect labor always
turn out well.
Good men like fine watches may be
known by their works.
About four tons of candy was sold In
Eaton for the Christmas give away.
sleighing was splendid last week up
to Saturday.
Treasurer Musselman done a big cash
business last Saturday.
Remember the poor not only in your
ray but from your pocket book.
Begin the New Year with good reso-
buttons and don't flicker before its close.
F. G. Thompson, Esq. was home dur
ing theC hristmas festival.
Pork and wheat remain about the
same as quoted last week.
Street corner loafing is at a discount
now.
Mr.. John Fleming Of the Eagle Hotel,
had the egg-nogg on Christmas.
Patched clothes are no disgrace, but
there are plenty of people who prefer
disgrace to patched clothes.
The observation-disclosures" bon
net is perhaps one OF the most striking
of the season.
Farmers throughout the State are or
ganizing into clubs to protect themselves
against horse thieves and burglars.
Several oil our citizens ''talk'' OF at
tending the Worlds Exposition at New
Orleans, this winter.
The January thaw arrived early this
wear. But then 1884 produced a Demo-
cratic victory.
Joseph Wear spent the holidays with
his parents here away from his labors at
Springfield, o.
The death list of Eaton and vicinity,
prepared by Judge Chambers, will ap-
pear next week. We will have some ex-
ira copies for sale.
If the hens did as much "laying
around" as some fellows do, eggs would
be down to five cents a dozen. But then,
they don't.
The Eaton Gymnasium Club gave en-
tertainments on Friday and Saturday
evenings last at the Opera House. Re
ports say they were right good.
Appropriate Christmas services was
held by all the churches in Eaton, and
the Sabbath school children OF each
treated to their annual gifts.
At the present writing we know OF no
houses in Eaton that will not be "open'
on New Years day, except two or three
that bears the label 'tto let"
The Eldorado folks are talking up the
enterprise Of a road from Greenyille to
Eaton, to tap the G. H. & D. ION to Gin
cinnati." 1t would be a grand thing and
can be done.
Pie parties are the very latest social
kink. They are supposed to be device
of the girls to kill off the dudes. The
society girls make the pies: dyspepsia
does the rest.
A kind hearted countryman stepped
up to Joe Woerner's dummy last Friday
and said to it: "Bub, amt you eold?"
He got no answer, and passed on after a
few minutes.
The sad news of the death of Mrs.
Emma Schlonaker, nee Mitchell, comes
to her many friends in Eaton from Flor
ida, whittier she had gone in the hopes
of health and life.
The newly elected Sheriff Daniel
Peters, moved his household and kitchen
furniture into the County HOTEL on
Monday last, preparatory to keeping
''dead head" boarders for the next two
years.
In the year 1885 New Years falls on
Thursday; Washington's Birthday on
Sunday; Easter on the 9Th of April;
Decoration Day on Saturday; Fourth of
July on saturday; Thanksgiving Day
November 25, and Christmas on Friday.
There has not been such good chances
for making money with small means as
now in grain, provisions and stock, since
1860. This coming year will be one of
the best for specializing and making mo-
ney ever known.
1t has been found that a man fed ex-
clusively' upon maearoni, beans and
dried peas, will lose all desire for alco-
holic stimulant. 1t may be well to re-
member, in case these articles cannot be
readily obtained, that shavings will eff
feet the same result.
The Eaton Telephone Manager re-
quests US to say to the Mirror man that
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