The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-12-04

Our readers must not complain If
a good deal of our space is given to
telling them where to buy Holiday
goods, and fix up for the cold weather.
Our advertisers want to be heard first,
and the local paper in a sense belongs
to them, since they help it to exist.
Ladies who have not supplied them
selves with cloaks and circulars, can
save from 35 to so per cent. by buying
them at Fitch's. A nice assortment re-
ceived to-day. This offer is only good
for two weeks, as all that are not dis
posed of within that time will be re-
turned to the factory.
The Cleveland City Hospital, on
Lake street, had a narrow escape from
burning Tuesday evening. The fire
caught from chimney sparks igniting
the roof near the dome. So much wa
ter was necessary to save it that the
damage by water will exceed that done
by the flames.
"A freight car jumped the track
Wednesday evening, a little north of
Wellington. 1t was righted, and de-
layed the train only an hour or so.
The same evening broken rail threw
fifteen cars from the track, short dis
tance this side of Lagrange. Several
of them were loaded with railroad iron,
and the track was blockaded several
hours.
For a practical Holiday present,
call at the sewing machine rooms in
Union Block, and buy a first-class ma
chine of an established reputation. The
public does not seem slow to appreciate
the advantages offered, as my sales tes-
tify, having sold pa machines in tho
last two years.
ll-2t. s. p. HASTINGS.
Baldwin, Laundon & Co., have
made a corner i'm oil. having purchased
something over one hundred barrels
for the winter trade. In the dry
goods department there is such a rush
as to suggest to the observer, Fair or
a Loan Exhibition. The quality and
variety of their winter and Holiday
stock of goods is only limited by the
capacity of the store, and the public
does not seem slow to appreciate the
advantages they are offering.
"A sober citizen was awakened one
night not long ago, by soft footballs in
an ante-room, the door leading TO
which had been left open for purposes
of ventilation, and went out there pre-
pared to meet somebody; but it was all
quiet and no one visible. Again
wrapped in slumber, he was suddenly
awakened by a clinking and falling of
bottles from shelf. Supposing this
time that n cat or rat had slipped in
when the outside door had been left
open In the evening, he expected either
to rescue or kill the intruder; but it
was again still, and he had to get a
light to find the big oppossum that was
feigning sleep among the family lini-
ments and pain-killers.
"A few copies Of the county papers
will escape oblivion and brief exist
ence as fire kindlers, saved by the fore
thought of good public men who hunt
around for something thin to put into
the little tin box when a corner stone
is laid. No offence to the craft, our
sheets would all be thicker and broad
er and fuller If there was less credit
and more elbow room. But what we
| began to say was that we wished
somebody would invent kind OF
portable corner stone in which editors
might keep their letters, copy, ex-
changes, magazin es, etc., so securely
that they could never nislay or lend
or lose anything until they had done
| with Ii.