Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-12-16
Liberty Center Items.

John A. Wright, of Cleveland. is visit
ing his parents at this place.
Uncle John Miller has butchered and
can now predict the coming winter. He says
1.-THE big end of winter is to come yet"
Adam Zueber has sold his saloon fix
lures and good will to Messrs. Viers & Har-
ris, of Delta. The new proprietors have taken
possession.
Notwithstanding the excellent condi-
tion of the roads for the last week or two,
and the tendency of everybody to the county
seat to pay taxes and trade, Liberty Center is
having a fair trade; hitching room for teams
is quite often at premium, and as Uncle
Dan expresses it, ''you wet" business is not
at all discouraging.
Several pleasant anniversary parties
have been given lately. One at the home of
G. w. Wright, of the popular firm of G. W.
Wright 70 Co., in furniture and undertaking,
in honor of the Goth anniversary of the birth
of Mrs. Wright. Another at the home of E.
E. Ashley, in a reminder that he had reached
the summit of half a century. Pleasant times
and enjoyable dinners with fine presents are
reported for both, but unfortunately for Tyro
the anniversaries forgot that he, too, had q
stomach that acquired something more tan
gible than wind, which left him out, and he
can consequently speak no farther.
-. Mrs. Delilah Coon, wife of E. T. Coon,
died suddenly Friday morning, the 10th inst,
at the age of 63 years.
| Mrs. Coon had been ailing for number of
years but was as we'll as usual Thursday even
ing and was in her place in prayer meeting
at the NJ. E. Church, where she was taken
sick. She was carried home, soon became
unconscious and fingered in that condition
until O'Clock a. m. Friday, when she passed
quietly away. Mother Coon was peaceable,
quiet, inoffensive and kind woman; an ardent
christian, an affectionate wife and a good
mother. She will be missed in the church,
in the Sabbath school, in the class room. in
her home. Peace to her ashes.
ALIAS, poor Tyro, "The way of the trans
gressor is hard" Scarcely are you out ofone
scrape until you are into another. 1t is plain
to be seen that the truth hurts and should
not be told. First came american Citizen,'
with handful of rubbish to fling at you;
then "Pedro' with bilge-water and slop, fol-
lowed by "Loyal Citizen' with billingsgate
and abuse, and now comes "Watchman"
in the ''effulgence ofhis intellect" from the
jackassical dome of disclosure procedure,
| with fTav vbauc hla rrlny of
uage, above the alfred great leather-headed
fungus of Michael Niprimuago, the goose
berry grinder, and in "the efforescence of the
effusiveness" is commensurate" to rise into
the pinnacle of the dome and combine "re-
ligious proclivities and political antecedents'
co-equal and co-extensive and conglomerated
lummaxes into one grand, great and incom-
prehenslble issile that assimilatas into moth
ing, and, like bob-tail thomas cat, exposes
the nudity of naked FORM as he revolves
around the imagin ,ry axis of where the tail
ought to be. Fire Ia highfdtutia! Vird la
Wdtchmdn!
Tyro admits his youth and inexperience
and does not presume to instruct the learned
but simply by occasionally reporting some OF
the doings of our live, pleasant and growing
town, keep it before the people as one of the
places that does not exist only on paper, but
as reality, and if "Watchman" does moi
admit the statements made, he should have
shown the folly of them by giving more ex.
act ones. Well does Tyro remember when
"Watchman" sat upon the walls as guardian
angel of the town, and all, whether religious
moral, intellectual or political, had to pass
under the Christening rod of his 'phylosophic.
al thought and advanced ideas" Yet, il
the face of all this nudity of his nakedness,
with all due respect to his advantage of years
and trembling under his advanced training
and culture, Tyro challenges him to success
fully contradict the assertions he has made.
Against the qualifications or the Legitimate
acts of the Mayor in the discharge of his off
cial duties, not one word has heen uttered; il
was only when he prostituted the dignity Of
his office to that of quizz and pry, anC
himself to that of street brawler by public.
ly abusing the council, styling them 'My
Whisky Council" and other abusive and an.
just epithets, simply because they did not see
fit to rashly adopt his ideas of reform, was
he criticised. Our council is composed Of
men of undoubted integrity, unquestionet
sobriety, mature thought, free from fanati
cism, capableland willing to do what, undel
the circumstances, is best for the community
Theysare men who have resided in this com
munity long before the importation of thil
"man from Maine;" men who have the pros
perity, peace and happiness of the people al
heart as much; men who have added as CRATE
full an odor to the moral atmosphere and con
tributed of their means as freely to improve
and beautify our village, as have the poiitica
chameleons, who, for even so small q crumt
as township or corporation Office are con
tinually changing their color, and, over whom
"Watchman" is shedding his crocodile tears
Liberty Center, Dec. Sd. TYRo.