The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-04
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
Set out your saur kraut.

1884 WIN IIdtOl CCACOAotO Nv XVII IA II
Nobody complains of dry weather now
The prospects for cherries, plums an
small fruits very good.
The liveryman's season of delight
summer buggy riding-has arrived.
Which way is the Mackinaw railwa
running now?
Ed. Pryor, of Aurora, Ind, spent Sun
day and Monday in Eaton.
Miss Kettle Richey, of Cincinnati, il
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Hubbell
G~reenville is going to enforce the Sun
day law against barber shops.
The morning choruses of the birds arr
delightful.
Miss Ella Huston is at home from he
school in Illinois.
Miss Mollie Jackson, of Newark, O..
is visiting the family of G. F. Brooke, ST
The Ohio State Teachers Association
will be held at C"hatauqua July 9TH, 9Th
and 9th.
Clint. Huston keeps ice cream on hand
all the time, lemonade, buttermilk and
the best manufacture of candies.
Farmers don't have much time to lay
around town now. We mean the thrifty
and industrious ones.
Tobias Wescoe died last Saturday
night, at the residence of his father on
east Main street.
The Eaton Board of Health ought to
be vigilant. No "monkeying' in the
business.
A great many business houses and pri-
vate residences in Eaton displayed the
American flag on decoration day.
The law now requires two persons of
opposite politics to examine the county
treasury, to be appointed by the Probate
Judge at least twice a year.
A Cincinnati paper says that recently
in-that city FIVE women spent. two long
hours in making a selection of one sim
pie little straw hat.
Somebody observes that when six
young ladies sit down to talk about dress,
a small boy with a tin horn is a refuge
for the weary.
The Eldorado Band serenaded Eaton
on its way to Morning Sun last Friday
It is a good Band and travels in a hand
some wagon.
Cash fer Wool. No. o & III,
South 5th Street, Richmond.
Ind. iun4.3w.
John Reichel has made quite an i'm
provement on his building on Cherry
street. Nothing like fresh paint to inn
prove.
The cellar of uncle Jack Holderman
was entered by some sneak thief on Fri
day night last, and a can of lard and a
jar of sugar spirited out of it.
Some one estimates that religion costs
each. citizen Of the United States one
half cent annually. Cheap enough for
every one to have it. q
During the month of May four elderly
ladies died in and near Eaton, whose
aggregate age is 2s9 years, 5 months and
II days.
"Clara Bell" says the fashionable dam
sci o. to-day is never seen on the street
without a paper of candy in her hand
and a big bunch of flowers on her cor
sage.
We are informed on good authority
that the salvation army will make a de-
scent on Eaton in a few weeks. Let it
come. We want something to %enliven
the town while the farmers are busy.
Hardened sinners who were delighted
when they heard that the Old Testament
was to be revised, are greatly disappoint-
to find hat none of the command
have been stricken out.
The law-abiding citizen who intends to
mind his own business and keep out of
bad company and broils does not need.
to carry weapons for defense. It is only
the DULLES and the criminals that find
it necessary to go armed, as a rule.
People who throw orange. peel and
banana skins on the sidewalks are guilty
Of csrelessness that is most reprehensi-
BILE. Painful and often dangerous falls
are frequently the results of stepping on
these things.
The full benefit of the law against loaf
ers who blockade the sidewalks and in
dulge in obscenity and vulgarity, is $50
fine and thirty days in jail. An enforce
ment of the law is slightly needed in Ea-
ton.
We call attention of our citizens to the
Board of Health notice, and hope strict
attention will be paid to it. Every good
and dutiful citizen, who has the health
and welfare of our town at heart, will
cheerfully respond to the call.
If any of the citizens of Eaton want
their vaults cleaned out in a first class
style, and we know a number who ought
to have it done, we advise them to send
word to Thos. Morehead, Richmond,
Ind. His work in this line is very salts
factory, as well as the charges.
The new postal law now makes the
taking a newspaper and the refusal to
pay for the same, theft, and any person
guilty of such an action is liable to Grim
inal proceedings, the anne as if he had
stolen goods to the amount of subscrip-
ton.
No machine of travel that man ever
invented can equal the speed of the wild
fowl. The canvas-back duck flies two
miles a minute. The broadbills go slight