Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-06-07
LOCAL BREvIrIEs.

R. B. Heller drove to Weston Monday.
Good washed wool brings $50 in this market.
Go to Lowry's and see that patching ma
chine. H
The county Jail is receiving an inside coat
of paint.
Clocks in endless variety at HUDS0N'S.
A. B. Scribner, of Toledo, was In the city
yesterday.
The recent rains have helped the corn
amazingly. e.. ss as.aI-.te
Dan Warner is now weighing out groceries
in Spengler's grocery.
Clark Durbin and ]. J. Clark, of Mcclure,
were in the city Tuesday.
Mrs. Durbin, of Chicago, is a guest at the
home Of her son Rodney.
Monroe township assessor returns forty
births and fifteen deaths.
Whenever unnecessary taxes are collected
the people are being robbed.
Henry Holterman attended meeting of
the undertakers at Toledo yesterday.
Ladies fine hand turns in Dongola and
French kid, speciality at Suydams's.
The Probate Judge and County Clerk were
busy Monday certifying pension papers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Donovan entertained
large company of friends Friday evening.
Remember that Lowry's shop is the only
fully equipped shoe shop in Napoleon. 2t
Remarkable as the assertion may seem not
one singer in ten can read even simple music
at sight.
Mrs. Geo. Reeder, of Traverse City, Mich,
has been guest of Mrs. Jas. Allen during
the past week.
ITO tell the difference between mushrooms
and toadstools eat them, if you live they are
mushrooms; if you die they are toadstools."
Farmers, buy your boots and shoes of Suy-
dam, the only practical shoe man in Napo-
leon, who will repair them free of charge if
they rip.
A report is being circulated that Sam Facy
former we'll known resident of this city,
had died out West. We could get no par
ticulars but understand he died the first part
of May.
The coldwater young folks who went to
Liberty Friday evening to hear DR.. Tracy
dislike their treatment while there. The
Libertyites are not usually backward in
hospitality.
Mr.. A. Hoover, of Liberty township, was
in the city on Tuesday. While here he called
at this Office. He has been q subscriber tc
the NORTHWEST since he was Is years old
May he continue to live and prosper.
The long cherished hope of the farmers
that the potato bugs would eventually die ou
as suddenly as they came, will hardly be rea
lized, for they promise this season to be al
numerous and destructive as at any time il
the past.
The Bowling Green Gazette says that jim
Ralston, near that place, cut down tree il
which he found four young squirrels, thei
eyes not yet open. At home he had ca
with small kittens. He gave the young squir
rels to her supposing she would eat them
but instead of this she adopted and nurset
the youns squirrels, which are now hal
grown and doing we'll.
Our correspondents over in the middle east
ern part of the county played us an ungentle
manly trick last week, by including in thei
news reports slurs and dirty reports abou
residents of their locality. The trick is al
outrage, and we can only beg the pardon O
those maligned, assuring them that we will
guard against repetition of the same. Wha
we wish from correspondents is THE NEWS
not little neighborhood slurs or funnyisms
Don't be smart or funny, but give us new
and nothing but news.
| correspondent in an exchange write S: &c
wish all horsemen knew the value of sun
flower seed. 1t is not only one of the bes
remedies for the heaves, but horse that ha
been recently foundered can be entirely curet
by giving half pint twice day for awh1l
in his feed. took an otherwise valuable
young horse last fall which was so stiff tina
you could hardly get it out of the stall, ant
in two weeks you would not know that any
thing was the matter with it, and it has beer
all right ever SINCE"
Technical terms pretaining to the prin ter
trade seems to mean a good deal to the un
initiated sometimes. The following speci
men illustrates our point: "William, pu
George Washington on the galley, and thel
finish the murder of the girl you commences
yesterday. Set up the ruins of Herculaniun
and distribute the small pox, you need no
finish that run away match but have the higl
water in the paper this week. Put ne,
head to General Grant, and lock up JEFF Da
Wis; slide the old dead matter into hell, AM
let the pie alone until after dinner. You ma,
put the Ladies' Fair to press, and then 60 Il
the devil and put him to work on Deacon
Fogy's article on Eternal Punishment"