The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-07-23
Miss Nelson. of Coluubus, is the guest OF MISS


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Miss Nelson of Couubus. is the guest of Mis-:
Kate Merits.
Prosecutor Phelps was in Cleveland yester-
: day, on professional business.
Mrs. Milan King is much improved. and e1'
poets % leave tomorrow for visit with rela'
tives in Pennsylvania.
The front and interior of W. A. Jenkins fine
sore room lave been bright ened by painters.
The 10th Stratton Family Reunion will be
held at Goshen Fair Grounds. IL miles south OF
Patmos, Ohio, Friday, August 18th.
Probate Judge Ingall is busy tabulating the
vital, social, criminal. and statistical reports OF
the Count5.
Mrs. J. H. Andrews will give tea party from
4to O'Clock. next Friday Afternoon, for her
guest. Miss Buffam, of Bosom, Mass.
Misses Mollie Rockwell and Cora Taylor with
| their friends. Miss Lou Hafner, of Huntingt ton,
| W. Va, and Miss Matte woodruff, of Macon.
| Ca, plored the grottos and caves at Nelson
Ledges, Monday.
| T. W. Seaton, ter er ioylng few weeks va
cation from his labors at the County Clerk
| office, has again buckled on the harness, and is
ready for all kinds of type- writing work. If
you want any copying done give him call.
All the law offices in Blackstone Block are
closed. Joha Porter is recreating at Chauuau-
qua. and S. F. Hanselman is experiencing the
delights of the Sunny South, in the Democratic
| strongholds of Missouri and Tennessee. He
will not retr Il for several weeks.
Miss Ethel Holcomb IS spending the week
at Seville, O.. the guest Of her friend and former
roommate at Ada, Miss Mags.e Lee.
Clerk Seaton is modestly receiving the con-
gratulations of his fliends over the advent of a
| fine, eight pound boy at his home yesterday
morning, and whom Papa Seaton proudly calls
my SON." Such an event e sufficient to glad
den any home, and we he1rtily congratulate
Mr.. and Mrs. Seaton.
L. P. Seymour has greatly improved the op-
pearance of his residence premises, by taking
down the fence next to Bowery ST. If every
resident of our city would discontinue the use
of these needless barriers, the effect would add
much to the beauty of our city.
People VS.. Lawyers. Not single new case
docketed lest week at the Clerks office. Judg-
menr for plaintiff.
A base ball club is about to be organized in
Ravenna.
The work at Census Supervisor Grinnell's Of
fee is substantially finished, there being only
five enumerators to hear ..om.
The members of Battery A." First Ohio Vol
unteer Light Artillery. will hold their oath An
nusl Reunion on Tuesday. Wednesday and
Thursday. August IL. Is and IA. Messrs. Albert
Holcomb, John Shook and Chas. Saunders are
the Committee of arrangements.
The Band of Hope will meet in their rom
over Lindsay's shoe store Friday after loon of
this week at 8 O'Clock. Children of the Band
wishing admittance ID Contest free will be
present.
Waller Bros. have leased the store room in
the Poe building, recently occupied by John
Urquhart, and when the necessary repairs and
| changes in progress now are completed. will
occupy it with their stock of hardware, They
expect to move into their new quarters not
later than September 1st.
Andrew Poe writes from his home in North
Dakota that the prospects are bright for one of
the largest wheat crops ever harvested there.
He has 5C) acres covered with the golden grain,
and says if the elements only behave them
| selves he will realize handsome profit from
his cereal venture.
The Newton Falls Gun Club are expected to
visit the Rayenna Club Thursday of next week.
1t is hoped there will be a good attendance of
the home club. and members of other Clubs are
| also cordially invited.
Sportsmen who have braved the heat Of the
swamps and the mosquitoes therein, report that
woodcock are too scarce to make the sport at all
interesting profitable. It is matter of regret
| that our law makers did not prohibit the shoot
| ing of these birds before September.
| All our best American Satines at 91z cents,
| and they are good.
N. N.CoNyERsE s. Son.
Many people are in the habit of driving to
| town and leaving their teams unhitched in
front of the stores where they trade. Only the
| other day two such cases came under our OBJ
ser gation. one where woman le1t her two
small children in the buggy. That it is a dan
gerous practice needs not to be said. We will
| try and give all the pa 5iculars of the first
| runaway.
At the meeting of the Directors of the Portage
Co. Agricultural Society. held July IA. c. C.
Gardner was elected to vote the stock of the Ag-
ricultural Society in the election of officers of the
Park Association.
The following named persons were elected Di-
rectors of the Park Association for the ensuing
year: H. W. Riddle. C. c. Gardner. VIM. Bergin.
VIM. Fox. R. M. Risk. n S. Olin and Lafayette
Smith. The Board of Directors organized by
electing II. W. Riddle. Pres; R. M. Risk. Vice
Pres; o. C. Risdon, Treas Lafayette Smith. Sec.
The roads leading to Sandy Lake were not rs
numerous or easy to find last Sunday evening
as the ones of opposite ways. as was evidenced
by three bewildered couples who wandered
about in fruitless endeavor to reach that famed
resort. The lines traveIsed by the students o.
highway courses were sufficient in length and
diversity of direction TO prove every proposition
in Davies legender. Four couples started il
the afternoon, driving to Earlville, taking sup
per at Kent, and intending to devote the waning
, hours of the Sabbath night to quiet reveries a
| the wave washed shore of the lake above men
toned. One couple did so.