The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-03-03
Local anez miscellaneous

Local and .1kSScelI0ne0sxs
Newton Ward, Deputy surveyor. came 4
Wellington Monday, on offici.l business.
to his house for over two weeks by sickness
The planning mills In town are rushed with
work, which portends lively opening thi,
spring.
wm. Mcclellan of Huntington has lately
moved to Hartland, Huron county, to try
dairy farming.
Harry Fulton, of the Union school, has Sc
cured . position a. fireman on the T. v,
road this coming season.
Miss Orrie Warner Is visiting in Washing
ton, . guest Of Mrs. President Hayes and
will remain till after the Inauguration.
Chas. Howk has purchased the land on
Courtlsnd Avenue next south Of H. o. Biggs
- an outlet for the proposed new street.
Ashland's l1ost fox chase lasted an hour
and . half. in which the horsemen who fol.
lowed closest to the hounds rode over ten
miles.
The late Leonard Brown, ESQ.,, was buried
on Wednesday of last week with Masonic
been . member.
Mr.. Foskett and Mr.. Craddock will COM
mence building In Q few days. Mr.. Grad
dock has already placed his bill Of lumber
With II wadsvorth 4 Son
Mrs. Albert Jackson, of Penfield, died last
week very unexpectedly after . brief illness
and was buried last Thursday. She leaves .
husband and three small children.
Welsh, the Fremont murderer, was grant
cd an extension Of time and will be hanged
tomorrow. His conduct Is that of . harden.
ed wretch UNFIT to die and unsafe to let live.
Hiram Allyn, builder, finished the house
he has been building for A. d. Perkins on
South Main street. 1t Is said to be one oi
town.
The Norvalk Reflector says that ITO
educate public sentiment on the temperance
question We must begin at the top, not at the
bottom Of society. What better place than
at the White House."
Ephraim Collins who went to England last
December on a visit to his parents returned
the evening Of the 25th, looking and feeling
well and took up his work In J. w. Wilbups
tin shop Monday morning.
I. Mr.. Aaron Sweet, formerly of Rochester,
but many years q resident Of this place, died
Thursday last aged s. years. Disease, pneu
monia. Funeral services were held on FRI
day, Rev. N. 8. Albright officiating.
Mrs NJ. Shepherd. sister Of George Fish
er, died In Toledo and was brought to her
old home In the southwest pait of the town.
ship for burial. Services were held last
Thursday conducted by the Rev. N. 8
Albright.
There is no more reason for objecting to
worthy examples among church members,
than there would be in refusing to vote any
ticket because there are ignorant and i'm
moral men in all p,litieal parties.
Mrs. Arnold, Of Pitts6eId, died Thursday
last after Q weeks Illness Of pneumonia. She
had rooms at DR.. Hxthaway's, and was
keeping house and boarding her grand
daughter Who was attending school. She
was buried in Pittsfeld Friday afternoon.
A Mansfield Herald correspondent gives
warning that the swindlers who get farmers
to sign papers that prove to be negotiable
notes, now use ink by which, with some
duplicating process, they can make 81 or 20
very fair and plain copies with just one sig.
nature. The law has NO provisions for this
new swindle. -
The Humane Society Of Cleveland, IN Its
annual report shows the narrowing fact that
during the last year two turtles were found
lying In the hot sun on the sidewalk. But
tell us that in summer time. So long as the
snow on our sidewalks Is fresh every morn
feel any sentiment but copgratulation for
those turtles.
The cynic. the scoffer, and the skeptic does
often with bitterness, with ridicule and with
sreers prevent those from embracing chris
tianity who but for this influence would do
so, but Whist has the inadel to offer In place
of the faith he remorselessly destroys? The
unbelieving husband has TO more iight to
fetter the freedom of his wife's religious
opinions than he has to place her person in
bondage; yet there Is q good deal of this
kind Of slavery.
Asubscriber calls in to say that II the par
ties who now own the lot recently made
vacant by the fire, paid out all their money
In the purchase of ii, he will cheerfully con
tribute toward the expense of repairing the
sidewalk SO as to make 1t safe for pedes-
trians who are compelled to pass over 1t. He
and others hsye several times stumbled and
some have fallen on account Of its unsafe con-
dition. It Is especially difficult to get owe,
it in the night time.
In the past six years thirteen men have
been arrested in Wellington, tried, snt
bound over to the common pleas court and
were afterward sent to the penitentiary
Three went for breaking into Hall q Whip
ples store at Brighton; three for breaking
into cheese factories and stealing butter
three for breaking into T. Kirk's boot ant
shoe store, one Of whom was released on &C
count Of insanity; one for stealing q horss
In Penfeld; three for picking pockets
and one for nuding Q pocket book with 81
| In 1t and appropristing It to his own use.
The Lorain County Farmers Institute be
gar Its annual sessio. In the Opera House
Elyris, AT 10 A. ~, March 1st The Lrade
ssys, .In the afternoon the Opera House ws
we'll filed, and all present were we'll paid To-
their attendance. C. W. Horr delivered
very hne address, making Practical sug
gestions to Farmers pe divided his sug
gestions Into two divisions, How to b
happy and How to get rich.' The idea,
were practical and valuable, snd coming
| from one who has acquired a competspc
and manages to enjoy life as thoroughly a
almost any mortal, they were very forcible.'