The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1885-08-06
Ravenna has twelve groceries.
Quaker Mills are again i'm OperatiO

last week with Randolph friends.
Union services will be held in tn,
Disciple Church Sunday evening.
The mercury in the thermometer
settled to 62 degrees on Monday.
We are still selling lumber at cos
and carriage. MORGAN & OvIATr.
We are having splendid corn wealth
er, and that crop ptomis s good yield
w. B. Thomas and family spen
several days the past week at Geaug:
Lake.
Farmers have commenced gatherin,
their oat crop, which promises al
abundance.
Three cars of different kinds of slat,
this week, Come and see them.
MORGAN & OvIATT.
L. e. Durfee, Esq, of Chardon, wal
in town, Friday and Saturday, on Ie
gal business.
w. A. Lacey, of Cleveland, is spend
Ing few days in town, visiting rela
| tives and friends.
Rev. Mr.. Pierce, from Missouri, oc
cupied the pulpit of the M. E. Churcf
Sunday morning.
Mrs. l.. B. Baldwin left ou Wednes
day for Chautauqua, where she will
remain for an indefinite time.
G. P. Reed and family and L. s
Ward aud family have returned from
camping at Silver Lake.
Isaac Wilson has been appointed
Postmaster at Deerfield and III. H
Woolf at Atwater, in This couGLy.
The Portage County Teachers Insti-
tuLe will meet at Ravenna, August IL,
and continue two weeks.
In the absence of Clerk Porter, Paul
B. COnant performed the functions of
that Office two days of last week.
The office of Morgan d Oviatt on
West Main street, has been removed
to the rear of their lumber yard.
The NYP&O House" is the name
of very neat looking restaurant re-
Gently opened near the N. Y. T. d 0.
depot.
E. F. Cannon has bought Pixies
wagon and business, and will
attend promptly to any business in
that line.
Every cloud of an unusual appear
ance is watched with suspicion. An
expert cyclone detective could proba.
bly, find q job here.
Ground was broken on Tuesday ft r
the Water Works engine house, at the
lake. o. 8. Phillpot is the architect
and will oversee the work.
The picnic of the Disciples Sunday
On Wednesday la,t, was well attended
and very enjoyable affair. Over 2O1
people were present.
Mr.. John r. Sparra, of tEis t,wn,
and Miss Katie Lilly, of Hartville,
Stark county. were united in marriage
at Randolph on Tuesday.
Mr.. o. V. Searl and son Jackson #.
are spending a couple Of weeks rusti-
eating at Chautauqua, Niagara Falls
and other points of interest.
There should be a good turn out to
the Democratic County Convention
next Thursday, August 18th. Let
every township be fully represented.
The members of Oakwood Chapel
School hold their annual pic
mic ut Muzzy Lake today | hursdav).
A cordial invitation is extended to all.
William Minyoupg, a prominent
business man of Warren, ded at his
residence in that city las. F Fiday
aged "a years. He leaves a
wife and two children.
The early closing craze has struck
the city of Warren and hereaI.el gr..-
cery, provision and drug stores will
close at Z o'clock p. M, and all Others
at 6 p. m.
The brick work of the addition to tae
M. E. Church is already half finished,
and the entire repairs and enlargement
will soon be completed. The addition
is 15xsO feet.
Robert Gross has taken the place of
Assistant in the Postoffice, made va
cant by the resignation of Fred. Car
nahan, who enters upon the duties of
Teller of the Second National Bank.
During the rain and wind storm on
Sunday afternoon. the large flag sus-
pended acros j Main street and draped
in mourning for Gen. Grant, was tat
tered and torn by the elements until
very little of it remained.
The wOrkmen engaged in digging
the trenches for the water pipes en-.
cOuutered a strip of sandstone while
working opposite the Chestnut street
School building. 1t is quite respect
able thick ness, and located four or five
feet below the surface.
There are many and various ways
devised to keep kool" during the
biistering days, but about the only
remedy is to get used to it," like the
officiating brothers at the Salvation
Army Camp Meeting when they get .
small collection.