The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-01-03
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
HI. Lewis, County Clerk, was in tow
last week.

last week.
Elan Fairchild, of Amherst, died Dec.
21st, aged 9Oyears.
Blair Doland visited relatives in New
Jersey for his holiday vacation.
Miss Mary Craddock and Miss Fannie
Austin are spending the holidays at home.
MIR. Ansel G. Pope, one of the earliest
settlers of Strongsville, died lately, aged
IS years.
-Vincent's Notes on the International
lesson series for the year 1888, for sale at
Houghton's.
Miss Nancy Tracy has been for more
than a week an invalid from severe facial
neuralgia
The office of the Shelby Free Press
was destroyed by fire ten days ago, and is
a total loss
Miss Emma Schermerhorn,o of Hudson,
Mich, has been spending few days with
her friend, Miss Lou Crosier.
Mrs Leonard Humphrey, of Locust
Point, Sandusky County, is visiting her
relatives in Huntington and Wellington.
Mrs. R. Markham, of Pennington, Ill,
daughter of j B. Wilson, deceased, is Wis
iting her relatives in Oberlin and -Penfield.
Mr. E. Benedict was summoned by
telegraph to Connecticut, lately, brother
of his being in d critical condition from a
fall.
Miss Rose Berry, formerly of this
place, but now of Wellington, o., is visit
relatives here.-Congress Cor. Wooster
Republican
Deputy Sheriff Flowers was in town
last Thursday subpoeneing for the grand
jury for Jan. %. F. s. Wordsworth goes
from Wellington.
Geo. Rust was pretty severely scorch-
ed in the face Thursday evening, by the
heat and gas as he opened the furnace door
in his fathers cellar.
Davis, who was sent to the penitenti-
ary recently from this county, for shooting
Mr.. Wilson, of Avon, died a week ago Of
spinal meningities.
Miss Minerva Rowan returned from
her visit to Van Vert, Thursday, accom-
panied by sister who goes on to visit
friends elsewhere.
An Ashland LADY who had been trav-
cling, took the smallpox home with her
unawares, and several cases with one
death have resulted.
Mrs. Col. Smith, of ST. Paul, Mimi,
has come to spend few weeks with friends
in Ohio, and TO visit her father and mother
Mr.. and Mrs. E. o. Foote.
Influenza, or pinkeye, is prevailing
among horses in Cleveland to an alarming
extent, fully % per cent. of the horses of
the city being down with it, and there has
been a good many fatal cases.
Commodore Garrison seems satisfied
with Mr.. Griggs' management of the W.&
L. E. Noah H. Swayne, jr, was dropped
from Office and succeeded by Geo. w.
Davis. j. S. Oliver was also deposed.
Primary Glass Handbook for use in
Sunday Schools, by Mrs. w. F. Crafts the
distinguished instructor of children's class
es al Chautauqua and Lakeside, with the
lessons OF the International series for 1888,
for sale at Houghton's-
Miss Clara Benedict, of Wellington,
was mentioned as one of the young ladies
who would receive New Years calls with
Miss Lottie Lake, in Huron, who is home
from the Painesville Seminary for her hol-
iday vacation.
Among the petitions filed for suit last
week with the County Clerk was that of j.
n. s. c. G. Fisher VS.. c. R. Griggs ct al,
for S16,057.4S, with interest on $1,000 from
Nov. Goth, 1882, and interest on balance
Albert Hoose was arrested last Friday
for forging a note of $41.60, on Joseph
Sprague, of Hartland. The note was pur-
chased by S. Barrett, of New London.
The hearing will be before ID. r. Sackett,
at New London, today.
The widow of Alex Mason, who had
lived in Carlisle and Oberlin most of her
life, died of paralysis, at the home of her
=. salw hav.f fran. ral
was conducted by Rev. L. NJ. Pounds, in
Oberlin, last Wednesday.
Rev DR.. L. B. Lane, formerly pastor
of the Congregational Church of yelling
ton. who has lived at Geneva, Ill, since
he resigned his pastorate here, has moved
10 ST. Charles to take the practice of II
physician who has goneto Elgin.
Mrs. L. o. Robinson, of Indianapolis,
the celebrated evangelist, is conducting u
protracted meeting, or assisting the pastor,
Rev. N. S. Albright, in the First Methodist
Church, Wooster. A very fine donation
was given the pastors family Dec. 21st.
Rev. C. N. Fitch, late pastor of the
Congregational Church, of Norwalk, and
who is a son-in-law of Hon. James Monroe,
has accepted the call TO the church at
Wauseon, the probability of which We have
mentioned, and has entered upon his du-
ties there.
Mrs. C. s. MoorehOuse, who has been
in Medina for several months, was in Well
ington last week, and will return here n
the spring. She has rented the house late-
Iy owned and occupied by Mrs. Baird, and
will open a millinery shop, in which eusi-
ness she has had some experience.
Mr.. B. F. Locke is about again, but
Mrs. Locke has a serious sprain of the
wrist from slipping and falling on an icy
walk a week ago Saturday evening. In
the midst of their Affections came the
Christmas gifts of large easy chair and
a fine lamp, their boarders. having some
conspiracy with Santa Claus, and the in
firmities of age were thus put in the back
ground by the bounty and kindness of
sympathetic hearts
The mention by the late Thuriow
Weed that man named Whitney was
one of the principals in the alleged killing
of Morgan for exposing Masonic secrets,
had not grown cold when IL is discovered
that Whitney was a resident of this vicin-
itv. He put in his appearance at Marble
head during the Morgan excitement, and
was for a long time thereafter engaged in
the quarrying business al th1t placc.-Hu-
ron Reporter.
-Charlle buSn mas Iurnlsneu US hse
of aged people of Lodi, which being town
of 1000 in population, may be considered
as favorable TO good health and long life.
Twenty persons living there have an aver
age age of 81 aud four-fifths years, and ten
of them eighty years and over have an av
erage age OF sS.s years. They think Lo-
rain sickly place, anyhow, which has no
call to come to the front Boosting of its
Oldest inhabitants.
Tie Domestic sewing machine is still
at the head in good qualities and durabili-
ty. and in the appreciation of the people.