The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-06-21
HUNTINGTON.

Please send ms every week q notice of q
Republican caucus, we are fond of excite
ment.
The last home mission at Mrs. John
Shows which We forget to mention last
week, was as usual, joyful entertainment
and increased the treasury $2.75.
G. w. Hemenway is cutting in Ebert
Chapman's woods, 5000 feet of sycamore
and 15 900 feet of oak.
Cremation of COW at Elbert Chap.
mans last Friday, cause of death, old age,
A decline in the poultry business, the
article dying fast from cholera.
A curiosity at Mr.. Haskins in the shape
Of a Chinese Almanac. A view inside OF
the book reveals every alternate page a
blank, the other pages are models of archi.
lecture, intended for beginners in geome-
try, trigonometry, astronomy and every
thing ending in y. No wonder 1t takes
80 years to master the language, and the
Californians want the people to home
| The blank page is the only one we can
| translate. ~
! Patiently have we waited in our neigh
/ borhood for some benevolent soul, partic-
ularly from Wellington, TO whisper 4th of
! July. Thexoice was so weak, that no matter
the strength of our telephone, we are still
| in Oblivion. Strange that We are so forget
ful of past events, strange that fire crack.
ers viii not be let loose under horses feet
| and break two or three vehicles for excfe
ment's sake. Where, this year, will we
| hear the often repeated: when in the
| course of human events, &c, or the story
i of the little boy who shouted: Ring
| grandpai Oh ringI for sweet liberty
/ Who will on the 4th, tell of our last
I martyred President and in voice full oi
pathos, give an Grafton that will draw q
| few tears, given TO the memory of James
A. Garfield. 1t is said that we are fast
nation, yes, we are fast, very fast, fast for
getting historical facts and the consecra
ton of day that brought forth Washing
| ton and Lafayette and made us the L. S. ol
I America.
A tramp through the country. Major
s. Mead has painted his :snce and house
Elbert Chapman's house has received two
tapplications of white lead. Jerome Pratt
has the same to his fence, and Lind Chap
I man has done an artistic job on his buggy
2 TO the detriment of Doland, Tripp or any
other knight of the brush.
+ A visit to Miss Dollie Wright, teacher
at Bradner's school house found tha
young lady whose school closes on the
9th of July, busy in imparting to hel
scholars problems in Algebra. We watch
4 ed her while patiently she went through
the ordeal of showing them how TO arrive
Y at solution. There was no i'll humor, nC
Itimpatience, nothing but a gentle demon
sration. Miss Wright has given sucl
Esatisfaction, that her services have beer
i engaged for the Fall term.
While in our ramble we heard thu
striking of hammers at the edge of Wei
lington and seeing John Titus pleasan
face there we could not help but inquire
what he was doing so far away from
home. We found ourselves at Mr.. +. j
Eckels, formerly from Illinois, a youns
man 26 years of age who married, in 1871
Mr.. Ben Wadsworth's daughter. Mr.
Eckels lives now on the place formerly
owned by Mr.. Hull sr., on which place HI
has already put $4,000 Of improvements
in the way of new barn and fence, fee
high and inclosing an acre or two of land
The place is to be used for the raising anC
breeding of blooded cattle and horses
There are now on the place one two yea
old stallion weighing 1 500 pounds. Min,
mares ranging from q to Normand
Five yearling mares averaging in weigh
about 100 piece. A trotting bay mar
IA head of thorough bred short horns, il
fact an assortment to numerous to men
tion. Mr.. Eckels, will not save expenses
in identifying his place, but having plenty
Of money at command he hopes befor'
long to be able to compete in bloodeC
stock with any yard of this country.
o. B. STILL.