The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-12-28
Local ana miscellaneous

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cards at Houghton's.
Berea, Medina and Wooster are all hop
ing for new railroad lines
Our exchanges are congratulating We'll
lington on securing the Railroad Shops
Miss Anna Richards went home to
West Salem to spend her week Of vacation.
Encourage home talent by patronizing
the concert Thursday evening.
Mrs. Rev. E. II. Bush, of Brooklyn O.,
spent Sabbath with her daughter, Mrs. G.
L. Couch.
The Oberlin and Delaware collegiates
from Wellington are spending the holidays
at home.
to spend Christmas with her sister, Mrs.
w. NJ. Gibbs.
Miss Eleanor McDermott is home from
the Painsyille Seminary spending her holi-
day vacation.
Miss Ella Foote came home from Nor
walk with her mother when the latter
returned from her brothers funeral.
The ditch on Courtland Avenue is OBJ
structed so that the water sets back and over
flows where it should run off.
Mr.. and Mrs. Schuyler Davis, of Cleve-
land, spent Christmas with her father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs Chas. Mason.
The body of the tramp killed on the
track near Olmsted Falls, has been disposed
of in one of the Cleveland Medical Col
leges.
Vick's Floral Guide for 1882 is the most
beautiful and complete Of any sent out by
al. ae n fr.- 20,
James Wick, Rochester N. Y.
Miss Nichols, teacher of the A Gram
mer school, closed one day earlier on
account of the death of an uncle whose
funeral occurred on Thursday.
r. n. Goodwin has sold his house and
lot on Kelley St. to N. Huckins & Co. and
bought what is known rs the Steph.
enson property on Courtland Avenue.
Rev. N. S. Albright has continued to
improve for the past week and if no unfay-.
orable change occurs Is expected with his
wife at DR.. Houghton's tonight
The Star Bakery has again changed
hands. Mr. Linder has sold to the young
man, professional baker from New Lon
don, who has lately been in his employ.
Miss Georgia Wadsworth has a fort
nights vacation from Miss Mittleberger's
school Cleveland, and Lee Wadsworth is
at home for few days from Ann Arbor.
Mrs. r. ii. Kinnison attended the silver
wedding of her friends Mr.. and Mrs. Boise,
of Willoughby, last week, and her sister,
Miss Woodward, Of Madison, returned
home with her to Wellington.
B.F. Colver reached here from Denver
Colorado, Friday night; will remain about
n. L. - 81 q. 81 IL
back with him. He has prosperous bus
iness in the hardware trade.
The gathering of the family and friends
of Mrs. s. Whitehead, at her residence on
Courtland Avenue, last Monday evening,
in honor of the marriage of her son,
Charles s., was pleasant and enjoyable
affair.
Mr.. T. II. Rowland has sold his drug
store to +. E. Bronson, formerly Of Elyria
at present with II. G. Starr & Co., of Wei
lington, who will take possession January
1st. Mr.. Bronson is highly commended
as adruggist.-Oberlin News.
Mention was made in our columns of
that of her daughter, Mrs. Dagde, both of
typhoid fever. Another daughter and the
only remaining one of Mr.. Coles family
has died of the same disease.
Work on the Church addition is pro-
crossing finely. Lath all on and one coat
of plaster over the whole will be done this
week It is so inclosed that work can be
kept from the frost and the finishing will
go on as rapidly as possible.
Curtis, the son of Rev. o. Badgley, pastor
of the N. E. Church at Bellevue, died of
bilious fever and organic heart disease,
H.. IL. uNr lat nf
Deleware, but had been at home since
Thanksgiving more or less i'll, but his
death was unexpected.
We are obliged to defer until next week
an obituary of the widow of Col. ID. 8.
Colver, mother of Mrs. Stutchfield and of
Mrs. T. A. Lee of Sandusky. She died at
the home of Mrs. Lee Dec. 2nd and would
have completed her S4th year had she liv-
ed till the 30th.
The Christmas festivities at all the
Churches passed of pleasantly. We have
not room for particulars, but there was q
great deal of hard work done, much pleas
ure realized, many delightful surprises
and good deal of money spent in the
way of expressing remembrance, coed will
and sffectionate regard by giving of gifts.
If the whole or part Of our correspond.
ence and communications could reach
us Saturday or be handed in by Monday il
would suffer less abreviation, and danger
of being deferred. By Tuesday of each
week we are overwhelmed with matter
and find il hard to make room for all top
4 les that should have local or editorial men.
ton.
There was a great deal of buying and
consequently good Christmas trade in
many classes of goods. The city merchants
say the season was one unprecedented, and
that the demand fer a superior quality
and the indulgence of refined and cultivat
taste in luxuries indicated year financial
prosperity.
The wet weather very much interfered
with the holiday trade and no doubt made
difference to our dealers of many thous
and dollars Money seemed, however, tC
be more plenty than for many years pre-
vious and greater disposition was mani
tested to indulge in the pleasure of bestow
ing gifts of value. Useful articles rathe
than ornamental were most in demand.
Miss E. Alberta Ladd, the past year ,
compositor in the ENTERPRISE Office, wa
married, Saturday evening, Dec. Gath, Il
Mr.. Chas. s. Whitehead, of Wellington
The ceremony was performed at the resi-
dence of her parents, on Courtland Avenue
by Rev. F: II. Moore, pastor of the Disci
pie Church The young bride and he
husband have our best wishes for thei
happiness and prosperity.
Mr. Henry Wooster, of Norwalk, broth
er of Mrs E. o. Foote and the late J.
Wooster, of Wellington, died Dec, 21s
after few days illness of apoplexy n
sulting in paralysis. He was the secon,
son in his fathers family and came 3
Wellington from Massachusetts, in 1885,
He married here, his wife being the siste
of the late j. p. Nickles, and lived in We
lington, Oberlin, Sullivan and Plymouth
previous to going to Norwalk in 1856,
From that time he was engaged in tn
drug trade; associating with him in 1S5
his brother Moses r. Wooster who wa