The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-02-12
Uncle Toms Cabin.

The sugar masking season is near at
hand.
The sleighing during the past week
has been magnificent,
!. Uncle Toms Cabin Matinee at Reeds
Opera House Tuesday afternoon mex i.
Farmers are getting ready for their
Spring work.
Saturday will be Valentine day
Get your tender lines ready.
Look at the prices for Uncle Toms
Cabin, only 10 and 20 cents.
Is the fruit al! killed by the severe
cold Winter? is the great cOnundrum.
Who can solve it?
+ The Double Mammoth company of
Diapers Uncle Toms Cabin is one Of
the finest on the road.
| The great flood of 1884 commenced
on the 18th of February and reached its
maximum on the 9th.
1t is hoped the destructive floods
that prevailed about a year ago will
not be repeated this srason.
S. Draper's Uncle Toms Cabin show
at Reeds Opera House Monday and
Tuesday evenings.
MIR. J. E. Sharp started on Tuesday
for visit of three weeks with his son
Fred, at San Antonio, Texas.
Go to the Opera House Friday night
and hear Mr.. Griffin on "Ye Olden
time"
Messrs. T. F. 7 thompson and Henry
Sharp are visiting the New Orleans
Exposition.
Everybody should go to UncleTom's
Cabin. General admission only Zoe.
Reserved seats l0c. extra.
Elder Scott is holding series of
revival meetings, at the Disciples
Church.
Salvation, what it is and how Sc
cured" is the subject of the lecture in
the UDiversalist Church hext Sunday
evening.
The saying that if ice bears a man
before Christmas it won't bear mouse
afterward, has not been verified this
season.
The business that shows the most
unmistakable evidence of boom is
that of building and running roller
skating Kinks.
On account of the inability to pro.
cure the necessary costumes the mas
querade advertised to take place at the
Rink last Friday night wss postponed.
The icy condition of the walks of
late has made it bad for even the
| wicked. who have found it difficult to
stand on the slippery places.
. Monday was an ice time. A heavy
rain storm set in in the morning, the
drops freezing as they fell, enveloping
the trees and earth in a heavy coating
of ice.
H. T. Barnum, of the Cuyahoga
House, Mantua Station, has leases
the Commercial House, in this village
and will take possession Of the same
about the 1st of April.
The Charles A. Gardner Company
had large and appreciative audience
at the Opera House Monday night,
and it is the universal opinion that the
entertainment was frat class.
Sylvester Grimes, a well known cit
izen, died at his residence on Grant
street about ten o'clock Friday morn
ing, after a short illness. He was
about sixty years of age.
A bill has been introduced in the
Ohio Legislature to allow a party, un-
der whose judgment real estate ia to
be sold by the Sheriff, to designate the
paper IN which the sales he advertised.
SENATOR WoLCoTT has introduced
bill in the Ohio Senate authorizing
the authorities of Ravenna Village 10
issue bonds to the amount of S15, ,OG0
for the construction of water works.
It is announced that there is an un-
usual and increasing number of coun-
terfeit dimes in circulation. The spn
rious coins are brighter than the gen
uine onss, having = glazed appearance
as if coated with quicksilver.
This year, 1885, smoked glass will
be in demand with which to see the
eclipse of the sun. An eclipse of that
luminary will be visible in this lati
tude on March 16.h, beginning at s.
minutes past noon and continuing
J until 2: II p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Chapman, o
Brimfield, entertained the Progressive
i, Euchre Club of that place, on Saturday
evening of last week. The company
was a very pleasant one. the refresh
ments elegant, and altogether thu
evening was passed in a most enjoyable
manner.
Mr.. John F. Byers, the machinist
started on Monday morning for New
Orleans to attend the great Exposition
How long he will be absent he is no
able to tell, but probably from three +
five weeks. In the meantime hi
works on Prospect street WILDE closed
-On Monday it raiEed nearly all da.
and the thermometer indicated tenn
perature of about AZ degrees above zero
i and the fine sleighing was rapid
= melting away but presto, in the nigh
came sudden change, the mercur
. falling 80 degrees by Tuesday mornin
and leaving stern old winter in con
- mand.
ia THE man who, during extreme col
weather, will drive a team sewers
miles to town and compel 1t to stan
,iched to a post for hours Withoy