The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-01-21
The 1856 almanacs give the following

day; Easter Sunday Is on the 25th o.
April; Fourth of July, Sunday; Christ
mas, Saturday.
!, The Preble County Agricultural Board
had ameeting on last Saturday. Besides
disposing of considerable business con.
nected with the last fair, a Treasurer and
Secretary were elected for the ensuing
year. G. F. Brooke, jr., Treasurer, and
81. H. Farr, Secretary. The Society is
in a very good condition and the present
Board will spare no pains to make the
next fair excel the last one.
A new scheme to swindle farmers has
been worked in some of the counties. A
man comes round buying straw stacks
for paper mills. He gives his note for the
sum and asks a receipt to send to the mill
to show what he has bought. 1t is only
the old dodge to get a farmers signature
to a paper which afterwards turns up a
promissory note at the bank left for col
lection.
An exchange says a Nebraska farmer
has solved the greatest problem that ever
vexed the souls and p~ocket-books of Ne
braska farmers. He has produced a
reed of corn, the result of fifteen years
experiments, which is distinguished by
long ears and short stalks. This grade
he thinks will revolutionize the labor OF
the farmer and dispense with stepladders
in plucking golden ears.
The Ohio State School Commissioner
recommends that there should be a State
Board of Education, with authority to
decide what is a high school, a normal
school, a college or a university; that
there should be a fixed standard for the
granting of certificates to teach, and that
the printed questions used in examina-
tons should be issued either by the State
Commissioner of Schools or by the State
Board of Education.
At a mesting of the Directors of the
Preble county Horse Company held Jan.
10th, 1886, the following pursurers were.
elected for the ensuing year:
N. B. STEPHENS, Chief; John j. Ozias,
Frank Dalrymple, Elwood Taylor, James
Wilson, Rob't Hosford, Henry Hoop,
Charley Miller, Dan Crumbaker, Dan'l
j.. Christman, r. d. Moses, John R.
Coffman, Milton Kirkhoff, Obed Dill
man, William Beall, Lewis Heppes and
John J.. Kaylor.
The latest swindle worked upon the
farmers, since the exposure OF the Bohe-
milan Oats frauds, is the american Or
ange Cultivation Company, of Tampa,
Florida" pretended agents for which
are now travelling over the State, telling
wonderful stories abont the money that
can be made by investing from $40 to 500
in the enterprise" Of course there are
plenty of simple minded people who are
too stingy to take a newspaper, who will
be .'taken in and done for" by these1
swindlers.
Vick's Floral Guide for 1886, the pio-
neer seed annual of America, comes to !
US this year a real gem, not a dry list of
botonical names, but over thirty pages of
reading matter, among which are articles
on Roses, House Plants, Cheap Green
house, Onion Culture, Mushrooms, Man
ures, Young Gardeners, and very interest
ing reading. followed by about $50 pages
containg illustrations, descriptions and
prices of seemingly everything the heart
could desire in the line of Seeds, Plants,
Bulbs, Potatoes, &c. 1t is a mystery
how this firm can afford to publish, and
really give away, this beautiful work of
nearly 200 pages of finest paper, with
hundreds of illustrations and two fine
Colored Plates, all enclosed in an elegant
cover. Any one desiring goods in this
Ene cannot do better than send 10 cents
for the Floral Guide, to James Wick,
Seedman, Rochester, n. Y. Deduct the
10 cents from first order sent for seeds.
PErERsoN's MAGAZINE for February
opens with a beautiful steel-engraving,
after the celebrated picture of "Cinde-
relia, = by the great English. artist, Sir
John Millais. Then there is a mammoth
celored steel fashion-plate . q deuble-size
colored pattern in embroidery, from the
Art School; two other fuli-page engrav-
inys; and about ffty smaller wood-cuts.
Such a wealth of illustr alton is unexampl-
ed. The novelet. "The Ceder swamp
Mystery" becomes more powerful as it
proceeds. IA Cinderella of To-day is
one of the most charming loye-stories
we ever read. Besides these, there are
numerous other stories, ~novelets, ETC., |
etc. ; and no magazine gives such original
stories as Peterson" AS we have often
said, every lady should take this maya
zine for it is alike refined and useful
and the price, Two dollars a year, places
it within the reach. To clubs, the terms
are even lower. Now is the time to get
up clubs. Specimens are sent gratis, if
written for, SO that there may be No de-
ception. Address CHARLES J. PETER
SON, 3O6 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
The Religious TELESCOPE of Dayton,
O., says: zone of the curses o fmedern
society is the skating rink. AS a craze it
has but few equals. 1t has left its wrecks
in its history in every town where it has
been ~patronized. 1t has led children
away from school and the pursuit Of
study. Young men and women have
been led by it to throw aside the pure and
modest refinment and restraints of the
home, and assume a ~brazenness which
has robbed them of their charm. It has