The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-09-27
W. NJ. Gibbs, of Pittsfeld, is visiting in

w. NJ. Gibbs, OF P1ttsneld, is visiting IN
| town.
Mr.. c. R. Griggs, contractor for the W.
s. L. E. r. R., is in town.
Bentley Vischer left last week for Cor
nell university. We wish him success.
Fred NJ. Mueller, of Fostoria, has accept
ed the position of clerk and salesman with
VIM. Vischer.
Stealing cows and driving them away in
the night is the latest phase of industry.
Three Oberlin families have thus been
deprived of their 'lacteal supply, one of
which is that of John Magraugh.
Two hundred and fifty relatives attended
the Wadsworth reunion at Duxbury,
Mass. Sept 18th. The political preferences
were sounded, and there were seventy Re
publican to six Democratic voters among
them.
A SON of Major Lewis, of Medina, took
hold and helped a brakeman at the rail
road station, pulling out coupling-pin
for him, but the locomotive backed up be-
fore he was ready, and the boy has one less
finger in consequence.
The Young Peoples Society Of the Con-
gregational Church, will give missionary
concert, Sunday evening, Oct LIST Mrs.
Pinkerton, who was for several years a
missionary, will give a survey of the Mis-
sion fields of the American Board in Africa.
Mrs. j. A. Braman, of Cleveland, has
been confined to her bed and room with
illness for the past two months, but has so
far recovered that Mr.. Braman has just
gone to Decatur, Ill, to engage in business
with his brother-in.law, Newton Adams.
The ladies new boarding hall of Bald
win University, a handsome stone build
ing costing $40, 900 will be formally opened
on Founders day Oct. 18th when there
will be an interesting programme, and
distinguished speakers will be present
with something TO say. Tickets to banquet
one dollar.
If anything in the universe can interfere
with q comet it is a political campaign,
and the Congressional car occupying the
track last week, of course the comets had
to give way; and that is why we did not
acknowledge the information given by the
astronomical night-watchmen who have
discovered two of those luminaries.
Rev. VIM. Runnells, Of Cleveland, for
many years resident of Wellington, is in
town for few days. He is himself So
cially and intellectually, and very little
worse for his eighty years, except for the
necessity of taking life easier. He thinks
of spending the winter away from the
Lake Erie winds, and with his children
elsewhere.
Miss Fanny Hayes was one of the heav-
lest losers in the robbery of Mittleberger's
school in Cleveland last week. The ex-
Presidents's daughter lost bracelet set
with diamonds, sapphires and rubies, and
a plain gold ring set with a pearl, marked
Fanny from cousin Lucy" also a pair of
topaz earrings which were relic of four
generations.
Raspberries, as well as roses, have come
to be capable of monthly blooming and
bearing, and last Friday Mr.. Homer Wads-
worth picked six quarts from some plants
in his garden, and brought to town a cut
ting that within the space of a foot, had
sixty berries, part of them as large as the
average strawberry and delicious in ripe
ness and quality. That is the kind of
raspberry to raise.
]. III. Greene, editor of the Medina Ga
zette, very nearly died last Saturday night
but was saved by the use of a galvanic
battery. He had gone home at noon suf-
fering from neuralgia, took dose of NOR
phine and not getting better, called ply
sician who gave him a hyperdermic injec-
ton of the same drug, not aware of the
other. Mr.. Green became unconscious and
almost pulseless, and it was only with the
most vigorous efforts known to medical
science that his life was saved.
Twoof the members of the Lorain County
Telephone Co. were in town last week
looking over the ground preparatory to es-
tablishing an exchange here and making
connections with a system which embraces
miles of Cleveland. They met with con-
siderable encouragement and gave assur-
ance that they would push the matter to
an early completion If the requisite num-
Der of subscribers could be secured. An
energetic canvas is all that is necessary and
they cannot move too rapidly TO suit us.
Two young schoolgirls were spoken to
and in such rude manner by strange men
upon the street last Tuesday evening, as to
send them terrified into the nearest house.
They had been invited out to tea and were
detained by the shower so as to be return
ing home between seven and eight o'clock
1t has become altogether to frequent an
occurrence for ladies and girls to be follow
ed, rudely stared at, or spoken TO, when
they are only away from home on neces-
sary eIrands. A few policemen, with clubs,
are needed here. 1t ought not to be so that
within two squares distance of the Park
respectable ladies cannot go unmolested
to church or market or anywhere else ne
cessity may call them after lamp-light. 1t
is desirable TO have suitable escort or to
manage so as to avoid the necessity of 60
ing out alone at night, but it is not always
possible, and surely two ought to be sutfi-
cient guard.
Miss Hattie Lance who had been ill for
eleven weeks at Mrs. Cyril Wadsworth's,
and for some months previous at G. 81.
Beach's, died Saturday morning. She was
twenty-five years of age. Her parents were
dead but she had brothers and sisters, two
of the latter married and living in Well
ington. Brief funeral services were held
at the residence Sunday morning at ten
O'Clock and the remains were taken by
her family to Lafayette, Medina county for
interment. She united with the Methodist
Church last year, and in the last of her
illness expressed great resignation and
peace. An examination alter death showed
the disease TO have been military tubercle
affecting all the vital organs. 1t will be
better known as quick consumption. The
investigation confirmed the opinion held
by her physician since the early part of
her sickness, and from the nature of the
case was incurable by any means at present
known to science.
OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENCE.