The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-11
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.

LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
June taxes are due.
Corn looks splendid.
Cherry crop will be large.
Eggs still command Is cents.
The picnic season is in bloom.
Locusts are very plenty around us.
Think of butter at 8 cents. Too cheap.
Horseback riding is now fashionable.
The festive house fly is getting hume
rous.
The hardest thing to deal with-An old
pack of cards.
II you see d woman aiming at a chick
en-, try to get near the chicken.
Nothing comes home so much to imam
as an unsettled bill.
A cool northern breeze famed US last
Monday evening and Tuesday morning.
The Eaton Manufacturing Company is
flourishing.
1t is estimated that this years wheat
will fall off 100, 900, 900 bushels.
The face of the town clock has reeeiv-
ed q white coat from Mr.. Huxley.
Lawn tennis has not yet been intro
duced in Eaton.
Arast amount of tropical fruit is now
being sold in this place.
Only three weeks until the 4th of July.
What is to be done with it in Eaton?
Miss Bessie Charles is visiting her
father at Washington city.
Before another month passes away
there will be quite a number of changes
of P. Ms. in this county.
Everybody and the rest of mankind"
seem to be busy just now-except those
who go fishing.
"Come over and chew gum with me
tonight" is the most recent form of in
yitation in Van Vert elite society.
The market is ladened with the sweet
onion and the banana, and the delicious
pine apple and strawberry.
The substitution of "sheol" for 'hell'
in the new revision is going to make
swearing an awkward practice for awhile.
The Grand Jury was in session one
day and a half and found three bills of
Indictment.
Frank Filbert, of "Pattona" cigar
fame, now sports a new surrie from the
mandatory of Kester & Son, Eaton.
The Prohibitionists OF this county will
hold their county convention on the 18th
inst, and nominate a full ticket.
We are informed that a gentleman on
the Grand Jury out Of a job, held it for
two days in order to get the So per diem
in it. Who was it?
Adventists are out of humor because
the world don't fall into the crack of
doom as they predict. They feel that
they are being trifled with.
Larkin Geek was elected Engineer last
Monday evening, and William Hambidge
Fireman. That settles the Engineer bu-
siness for one year at least.
Joseph s. Campbell and family arrived
al home from Texas last Saturday eve
ming, to spend a few months with parents
and friends.
Young girls who are allowed out in
miscellaneous company until twelve
O'Clock at night are no responsible for
it, but their parents are.
The farmer who has the prospect of a
fair crop of wheat this year ought to be
happy. He will most likely get a good
price for it.
Scientists say cigarette smoking leads
to idiocy. This may be true, but we are
more willing to believe that idiocy leads
to cigarette smoking.
The bathing season will soon open,
and the daily newspapers will contain
standing headlines of the good little boy
who went beyond his depth and took
cramps.
The Star Harness and Saddle Manu-
factory have removed their store to Fill
bert's block, second door west of corner
on Main street, Eaton, o.
ED. DININGER, Manager.
The Ohio department of the G. A. R
will hold their annual encampment il
Springfield, August 18th and 14th, whel
10000 old soldiers are expected to b.
present.
It is said that the roller-skating Graz
will 0 o give way to the equestrian ma
mia among those who can afford it,
Riding academies are springing up al
over the country.
The Reichel House has passed into tn
hands of Messrs. Weity & Johns, VIII
have fixed it up and will make it a pleas
ant stopping place for strangers and Wis
itors to Eaton.
Hon. Peter Murphy of Butler county
was a prominent figure in the Republ
can convention in Eaton on Saturda
last. He only wanted to see how it wa
done in Preble county,
The negligence of one person ma
spread disaster among a whole COMMIT
nity-therefore the necessity for a rigi
enforcement of all sanitary requirement
without respect to persons.
Fashion notes say that the pull-bac
over-skirt of the misty past, is comm
back into notice. Compared with tn
intelligence the grave apprehensions
kho annroanh Of ohoIara sinL into II