The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-20
The potato bug is ready.


:. Fresh Strawberries in market.
Straw Hats at Jos. Woerner's.
After the storm came the deluge.
Work at the gas well is progressing.
School commencement on the 9th inst.
New onions plenty and breaths strong.
The season of political conventions is
approaching.
Linen Hats 23c., at Jos. W~oerner's.
This is especially the dudes season.
Everything is so fresh and green.
Fires and o~vercoats were useful last
Sunday.
Cyclone insurance is now in demand
more than fire protection.
Alligator Cloths at Craik's.
Tax-paying time has again rolled
around.
Timers have been busy for the past
week.
Bridge building and stone masonry
will be Ill demand now.
Manila Hats at Jos. Woerner's.
"Dug outs'' will be needed by every
family in this county.
1t is said the strawberry crop will be
prolifc-and likewise church festivals.
Charles S%cheibert, of Trenton, O., is
now proprietor of the Union House.
The House that resisted water in the
late storm might be termed a dry one.
Craik is at Kline's corner.
Now is the time when the storekeepers
SOW their store boxes and reap a goodly
crop of loafers.
Van Vert has consolidated the Offices
of marshal and street commissioner and
pays the officer $50 a month.
Cigarettes are called consumption
producers and ''young manhood des-
troyers."
Cash paid for wool mt j. Rhen
& Sons, Eaton, O
The jackson Herald is now an eight
page paper. Under the management of
Mr.. Johnson it seems to be prospecting.
The shade trees which line our streets
look very beautiful in their rich, green
adorning. Not so with the public square.
If the eight hour strike was also to
compel all lazy men to work eight hours
IL would he a oooj thinp.
The stBig Red Store" is Craik's.
According to the Lima Times, there
are eighty oil wells either drilling or COM
pleted in Lima and vicinity.
John Lander was 65 years old last
Thursday and was serenaded by the Ea-
ton Band.
| Never refuse advice. OF course you
have no use for it. Nobody ever has. But
it is very handy to have, to give to some
body else.
Light colored Stiff Hats-new spring
style-at Jos. Woerner's.
K4ost-On Thursday morning, May
18th. between the old wooden bridge on
the Camden pike and Eaton, a lap robe.
Finder will be literally rewarded by
calling on Jno. Filbert.
The soldiers and citizens will meet at
Opera House, Wednesday Evening, May
18th, to complete arrangements fer Dec
grafton Services. A full attendance is de-
sired.
No curb-stone prices at Craik's.
A Springfield weather prophet by the
name of Jonas Drury, predicted the late
storm. He predicts similar ones on the
Nth and 18th of June. Get your houses
in order.
Two "wild animals" went down with
the old red BRIDGE Bear and Hippo
potamus-the property OF John Lock
wood. They were there as advertise
ments of his boot and shoe house.
Ii you want a set of nice Light Har-
ness, made up in style and in quality,
you can get them at the Star Harness
Shop, Eaton, g. [may7-a
Ten to one the people won't more than
get through with the strike until they will
begin to hear about the cut worm, the
chinch bug, and the festive grasshopper
"Sich is life."
The engine was ''fred" out last Fri.
Eday afternoon to extingrish a small fire
among some lumber in the old building
on Abel Risinger's lot. 1t caught from
a stove that he had put in the building
to dry the lumber.
No one-day prices at Craik's. He is al
ways below any one.
The Legislature has passed an act in
ficting a fine Of not less than one dollar
or more than twenty upon any person
riding in any vehicle neglecting or refus
ing to turn to the right and give half thu
road.
Under a recent law passed by the leg
islature, witnesses before county com
missionerc in cases OF sheep killed b,
t dogs will be allowed one dollar fee each
but the number of witnesses is restricted
5 to two. Mileage is allowed as before.
), White Dress Shirts &c.,, at Jos. Woer
ner's.
Morris and Garrett Stack think the,
: have found a coal mine on their farm, il
t the four mile valley. The specimens Q
the article dug out and brought into Ea
ton, are certainly very good, and we hop
e their find may prove a bonanza. 1t i
certainly worth investigating.
Messrs. Watson & Kelly will insur
farmers in the Ohio Farmer against cy
v clones, as we'll as fire, and the Germa
Insurance company, Freeport, Ill, an