The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-14
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
The ice harvest has ripened.

The "open winter prophets are left.
"Tomato red" is the latest fashionabl
color.
Judge w. ]. Gilmore is President G
the State Bar Association.
The "better publication in this coun
ty is the , well, try the Democrat
Judge HUME held court in Eaton o.
Saturday last.
The salary Of a Vice President of tn
United States is $4,000 a year.
Tobacco Boxes-Pine or Poplar, Is ant
SIS cents. EATON M'F'G Co.
William Huffman shipped a sleigh t.
North Carolina. Sleighing down there
Nicholas Poos sold SO head ofhogs las
week that averaged 375 pounds. Few
farmers can beat it.
You should not fail to examine tn,
Plush Sacques and learn prices. Simon
Goldman, at Eagle Hotel parlor.
&c. Elliott. ESQ.,, a Preble county boy
is now Prosecuting Attorney of Dark
county. We wish him success.
The skating rink at Elyria, O., has de
veloped one of the most depraved cases
of scandal ever known.
1t is pleasant for brethren to dwell to-
gether in peace, but still some of them
will not do if.
Thermometers in. Eaton on last Sun
day morning, ranged nom 10 to Is de-
grees below zero!
The great floods in the Ohio Valley oc.
Cured in February, 1888. Cincinnati in
undated 18th.
Martin Sheets, son of Solomon Sheets,
deceased, died at H. G. Lang's hotel, at
West Alexandria, on Sunday last.
Tuesday morning YVES the coolest OF
the season. Thermometers marked 20
degrees below zero.
Misses cloaks in all shapes and sizes
for less than cost, for one day only. At
Eagle Hotel, Thursday, January IA, 1880.
Not a buggy was hitched on the streets
in Eaton on Saturday last. The "bliz-
card" ragged all day.
Mrs. H. Thomas has been appointed
p. NJ. for the new post Office in this
county named Corwin. 1t is at Sugar
Valley.
Miss Jennie Flory, of Winchester, aged
81 years and 6 months was buried last
week. Her death was caused from a cold
contracted a year ago at the skating rink.
There is a slight difference between q
Jew and a lawyer-the former gets his
law from the prophets, while the latter
gets his profits from the law.
An Indiana editor. says: 81 could
never be- induced to marry in Ohio;
everything is unconstitutional in that
State"
Everybody should go to the Eagle Ho-
tel and see the bargains to be found in
Cioaks and furs. Thursday Jsn'y II,
1886.
Every country school ought to have
spelling schools this winter. They are
good educators, combining pleasure with
instruction.
Friends, if you entered the new year
resolved upon leaving any particular vice
behind, we have one word of advice for
you: Stick!
Anew York Jury has agreed that a
druggist is not responsible for mistakes
caused by carelessness in putting up pre-
scriptions.
Candidates for Mayor and Councilmen
are being discussed already. There
seems to be a disposition for a new deal.
Don't make a mistake, if you please.
This is the season of heavy hog yarns.
Each rural district is yieing with the
other eyer the weight Of its champion
porker.
Joseph F. Fudge, residing on his farm
615 miles north of Eaton, died on We'd
nesiay of last week, in the 31st year of
his age. Typhoid fever was the cause.
We wish Manitoba and Dakota would
keep their billiards. at home. We have
no taste for any such refreshments at
this season of the year.
Frank o. Deem had his face badly
burned last Sunday from the gas burst
ing out of one of the stoves in the Church
of Ch<ist. DIR. Small dressed it.
Jacob Vance, an old resident OF Twin
and Harrison Townships, died o n the I'd
of this month, aged 80 years, z months
and 9 days. He was the father of eight
children, six of whom survive him.
Preble County Teachers Association
will hold a meeting at Eaton, Saturday,
Jan. %. An excellent program is being
arranged for the meeting. All teachers
should hear it.
Peter Black, who resider about IL
mile west of Lewisburg, died suddenly
of apoplexy on Wednesday of last week,
aged 63 years. He leaves an invalid
wife and four grown children.
When it is IL o'clock at Washington it
is q IL at New York, II 10 at Chicago,
IL :O9 at New Orleans, 900 at San Fran
cisco, 6 :15 at Vienna, 6 100 at Berlin, 5 40
at Paris, and 5 :09 at London.
Sam Lockwood, who is here on a visit
from Dakota, says the late weather is the
kind the people of that country go out in
linen busters and enjoy it! Bring us a
FAM
The entertainment of the Eaton Gym.
nasium, billed at Eldorado, for last Sat.
urday night, had to be postponed on &C.
count of the weather. 1t will come of
next Saturday night, no preventing Prov,
idence.