The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-12-02
LOCAL DEPARTMENT..
Last month of 1886.

sVVfAH WEI AkA ME1Vh.
Last month of 1856.
"Tom and Jerry" are ripe.
This has been a harvest year for our
county commissioners.
Dressed turkeys and chickens are sell
ing in Eaton at 10 cents a pound.
Esq. Brewer Of Sugar Valley, has lost
q large lot of hogs from cholera.
Shooting and rafting matches for tur-
keye are in order.
"Hassen-pfeffer" is made out Of rab-
bit meat.
County Commissioners will mostly edit
the DEMOCRAT next week.
Thanksgiving day was very quiet in
Eaton.
Some people can't take a cold without
blowing about it.
The break OF day was not caused by
the fall OF night.
If we were all of one opinion there
would be no betting.
No saloon keeper can become a mem
Der of the Knights of Labor.
II we look for December to be rs pleas
ant as May we will be fooled.
A general improvement in business is
noted throughout the country.
Shoemakers are now as active as
preachers in saving mems soles.
Miss Ruth Van Ausdal has been Wis
iting in Avondale, O.
Miss Josie Hunt is at Terre Haute on
q visit.
Preparations for the electric light is in
progress.
Municipal Encouragement" may be
our infliction in another year.
Alex. Powell has our thanks for a mess
of excellent saul krout.
The M. C. Church of Eaton done we'll
with their Thanksgiving dinner at the
Opera House.
D. Sharkey requests all persons indebt-
ed to him to call and square off before
January 1. 1887.
The young ladies and gentlemen have
organized a private skating club at the
Parlor Rink.
P. NJ. Neal has arranged 80 that three
mails a week will go to Corwin from Ea-
ton-Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur-
days.
With the Fourth Of July this year on
Sunday. and Christmas and New Years
on Saturday, the school teacher rather
gets left, and the children too!
This is the season of the year when
men collect around the stoves in the bar
Der shops and swap lies while waiting
the call of next"
Several business changes are in con-
temptation in Eaton, but we nave been
requested not to make them public at
present.
DIR. Walker, President of Oxford Fee
male College, will preach in the Presby-
terrain church Sunday morning at 10 80.
All are invited.
Il 1t will soon be time for church revivals
to open. Some of the old members need
"reviving'' very bad-to wipe out some
OF their political campaign lies and dirt.
Charles Balsar, son of Peter Bnlsar,
left Eaton on Tuesday morning last for
Colorado Springs, Colorado, to accept q
position in the drug establishment of
DR.. John Miller, late Of Eaton.
One month yet remains of this year,
which will go DOWN in history as the
greatest in the way of heart-rending ca
lamities of all kinds, earthquakes, floods,
forest fires, shipwrecks,. &c. It far ex-
ceeds any previous year..
A new use for tobacco plant is said to
have been discovered. Its stems and
waste, it is claimed, are equal TO linen
rags in the manufacture of paper. Linen
rags cost $40 to $50 per ton, tobacco
waste less than $40 a ton.
Charley Price leaves his coal o u on
the sidewalk in front of his shop in bar
rels. He says it goes farther" that way
than if he housed it. He is sure a bar
rel of it vent several squares, more or
less, the other night!
See the display of Holiday goods,
at EIDsoN's Book STORE.
Rev. Jas. Murray married on Thanks
giving day Ed. Albright to Miss Zoa Bun
ger, and Valorus W. McCabe to Miss
Ida Mikesell, daughter Of ex-Auditor
VIM. Mikesell. Everybody wishes the
young couples long years Of prosperity
and happiness.
An exchange says a travelling theatre
cal company about to take the road with
q piece that required a red-haired girl,
not necessarily handsome, advertised
for such, and got not a single answer
The next day they advertised for an au,
burn-haired beauty and the office was
crowded with red-headed girls ugly
enough to scare a gorilla.
"Brick" Pomeroy is right. He says
there are bad men in the State prison
small men in office, and mean men ir
church, but no man is so bad, small Of
mean as he who has not enough ambi
ton and regard for the county or towr
in which he lives and whose business
supports him, to take and pay for his 10
cal paper.
Persons Indebted to D. Sharkey To-
groceries are requested to call and settle
before January 1, 1887.
We call attention to the prospectuse