The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-12-23
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS

Several Locals and Personals had to be laid
over, owing to the lateness Of the hour at
which they were handed to the printer.
The first lot Of steel pens sold at Wholesale
brought sS6 gross, three dollars dozen or
twenty five cents each.
Couch s. Baldwin shipped ten tons of
dressed turkeys from Wellington Saturday
night, the largest shipment Of such poultry
ever made here.
The new fire engine arrived last week and
was an object Of much interest. 1t will
probably be stored in the old brick school
building next the Town Hall.
The concert that was announced to be
given by the Congregational Church choir
between Christmas and New Years has been
postponed until after January 1st.
The Choral Class Of nearly fifty members,
organized several weeks ago, under the di-
rection Of w. 8. Franks, meets every Friday
evening In Roser's Hall.
A five years old boy In Wellington, who
did not enjoy the darkness Of his bedroom
at night said: "I wish was God I would
hang q bright moon right up ever our house
every night.
There will be Christmas eve exercises in
all the churches tomorrow evening, with dis
tributions Of gifts and appropriate services In
some form. Everybody is expected to 60
and take the children.
There is a very general expression Of sa-
tisfaction in the pleasure given by our clos
ing school exercises. They were exceed
ingly gratifying to parents, patrons and
visitors, and great credit to pupils and
teachers.
Last Tuesday night the railroad night
watchman who travels the track found q
broken rail near Lagrange with about IA
inches gone. The track men were called out
and new rail put in without any damage to
the trains.
Last Wednesday night passenger train No.
8 left her on time and run about one mile
and q half when here blow-of valve got out
Of order and let all the wafer out of her
boiler. They pulled out the fire, repaired the
valve and pumped her boiler, full by hard
work, fred up and went on, delaying all
trains until midnight.
Jacob Steine, of Homer, committed sui
eide Monday evening by hanging. He went
to bed apparently in good health, and not
coming down from his roon the next morn
ing an examination was made about eleven
o'clock, when he was found hanging by the
neck dead. He had used q strap which he
fastened to Q hook and then drew up his
feet from the floor. He had evidently been
dead several hours as the body was quite
stances, though somewhat in debt and had
been subject to fts of dependency appar-
emily on that account.
The usefulness of cold storage facilities
was recently illustrated In the receipt by q
refrigeration company Of New York, Of some
grapes from California frozen hard in the
transit, which were subject to temperature
q few degrees above freezing point and
gradually acquiring q. normal condition.
Poultry, game, fruits of all kinds are kept
without particle Of odor being emanated in
the low temperature TO which they are sub
jected. We shall expect to see these things
demonstrated in Wellington during the year
while the three thousand dollars worth of
ice lasts, which Is now being placed In Horr
& Warmers storehouse.
A little girl of three years who had Just
begun to wonder at the continued absence of
one who had recently died, and questioned
her mother until she learned of Heaven as q
future dwelling place, took practical view
Of II all and said: swell, when l 60 there
Pcan take my playthings, and dollies and my