The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-15


Thursday, Oct. 15, 1885.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Wheat looks well.
Pasturageis excellent.
Bring on your sale bills.
Almanacs for 1886 are out.
Put away your fly screens.
Nince pies are at the front.
Get ready for Thanksgiving now.
Flies are being harvested rapidly.
The pumpkin crop is immense this year.
The "bloody shirt" war is over now for an
other year.
This is the season for malarial trouble
Keep out of the night air.
~ cents is the price of good owels at the
Mammoth Store.
Dou't burn your leaves-put them on your
lots and gardens.
Alex. Il. White, of Peru, Ind, is here Wis
iting his parents.
Deem Early has removed to Eaton. He is
a sale crier. Give him a call.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever have broke out
in the schools in Cincinnati.
Mrs. Julia Holland, Milliner. Old post Of
fee stand, West Alexandria, o. ~[octl5-2
This month, a law goes into effect in Ohio,
requiring all wages to be paid weekly in cash.
GO cents is the price of1K wide ladies cloth,
at the Mammoth Store.
The winter wheat springing up is beginning
to make the fields look green.
This weather starts the burglars into active
operation. Look out for them.
We are indebted to somebody for a tremen-
dous pawpaw laid on our table one day last
week.
The boys are having a good time nutting
now. Hickory nuts and walnuts never were
more plenty in this county.
Miss Laura Ressler and Miss Lola Lock-
wood are engaged,-we mean writing in the
Auditor and Treasurer's office. That is all.
Is cents is the price o flOL unbleached sheet
ing at the Mammoth Dry Goods Store.
The corn crop is now being harvested, and
it is no exaggeration to say that it is the best
we have had for several years.
The increase of trade at almost all our bu-
siness houses indicates that the dull season
has about closed in.
Our Rutlar cOuufr natrbhars o,Ir Iook -.
in fairs on agricultural and floral exhibitions,
and slightly in numbers. That is all. Butler
admits all females free.
22s2 entries at the Darke County Fair.
>GreeRr1Ue Democrat.
Preble county fair had 5000 entries. We
beat you slightly.
In a litter of pigs born at Gustavus recently
there were four two-legged ones, one three
legged, two four-legged and one fve-legged,
and the returns are not all in yet.
The perfnmery establishments at Nice and
Cannes crush each year about l50 ,00o pounds
of orange blossoms. This is where the sweet
ness comes from.
A man well known, who wished to make an
exhibit of live stock at the county fair, wrote
to the secretary as follows: TPlease enter me
for one jackass and oblige-."
Mrs. Julia Holland, Milliner. Old post of
flee stand, West Alexandria, O.. Toct15-2
1t is said there is a better method for re-
ceiving and transmitting sounds by wire than
the telephone that is soon to be introduced,
and that it will supercede the telephone.
Tf ,oeaf Jo,-. - - - y. ~
they never swear. 1t would be interesting,
however, to know if the thoughts of these men
would look pretty in print.
We had the pleasure of going into B. Fox's
Mammoth Dry Goods Store, and it is literally
packed from floor to ceiling with new goods.
The friends of N. P. Stewart, who was very
sick the 21st of September somewhere in the
Indian Territory, can learn his address from
P. N. P. Pence, New Paris, o.
There is nothing that will make the average
man forget the ills and troubles that human
flesh is heir to like a first class horse race. A
dog fight and base ball have their own special
charms, but they fall far short of a horse race.
Canton fannels from 5 c. up, at the Mann
moth Store.
Happy is the farmer that is cut of debt. His
conscience is clear, his. mind is at ease and
his sleep is peaceful and refreshing, for he
has secured a crop of almost everything this
year sufficient to pay him for his toll and la
Dor.
Hoboken, New Jersey, takes the skating
rink question fairly by the horns. Its city
council fixes separate hours for adults and
minors, demands the exclusion of improper
persons, puts the closing hour at IL O'Clock p.
M, prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors
at the Kinks, and exacts a license fee of $3.50.
Reading clubs which are held for the pur-
pose of familiarizing the members with popu-
lar authors and their writings, will be promi-
nent among the social events of the coming
season. Eaton young people might find con-
siderable pleasure and profit in some such Or
ganization.
Is cents is the price of mems white and col
ored under shirts at the Mammoth Store.
The penalty for selling a cigarette to a boy
or girl under sixteen years of age in New
Hampshire. has been made $40 for each Of
tense. The law ought to be incorporated into
Ohio laws and rigidly enforced. But then
what would Eaton dudes do. If the law was
enforced in this State, there are several who
would be compelled to give up smoking entire
ly.
Whenever you hear an individual turn loose
his or her censure mill on a town or commu,
nifty, you mark it down in your little book that
that person is below par in that town or com
munity. You will never hear an honest indi,
vidual berating his or her friends, and wher
you hear an individual denouncing a commu
nifty by the wholesale, it is a certain evidenc,
that the community has "set down" ON that
squea.er. You generally love those that Low,
son and will Snaok of than accordinoIy