The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-07
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
Easter Sunday April 25lh.

he Ladies' Society OF the Baptist
Church meets Friday afternoon with Mrs.
VIM. Crabtree.
Mr. Bert Fisher has position in the
civil engineers department of the Cali
iOrna Southern X ,ilrOad.
Mr.. j. Il. Haskell has leased, for law
Office the room in the bank building form
erIy occupied by j. II. Dickson.
The assessor will be around next week
We wonder if all Will recollect George
Washington and his little hatchet.
Mr.. NJ. Perk, OF Codwaler, Mich, has
rented the barber shop of Mr.. G, A. Samp-
SOL. He took possession last Monday.
Mr.. II. Belts presented us with a can of
maple syrup, made with cne of the new
process evaporators. The quality is very
fine. Thanks.
Mr.. l. n Linder, who for the past twelve
years has been in the employ OF d. l..
Wordsworth, is now in the employ of L. II.
Wadsworth, OF Greenwich.
This notice was posted on Liberty ST.,
near G. D. Foote'S livery stable last week
Keep off this side of the street. By or.
der of the Emperor of China"
Parties who have contracts to draw
milk for the season, which began April
1st, arc having delightful time ofit-one
to he remembered in future years.
The mail from Huntington, Sullivan
and Polk has been delivered at the post
Office here only every other day for two
weeks, on account Of the condition OF the
roads.
At the election, Monday, thirteen bal
lots were cast in the corporation box,
which should have been put in the town.
ship box, and eighteen were found in the
township box, which should have been
in the corporation box.
Mr. Walter Warren is building house
near the old homestead, to be occupied by
his hired man. Many farmers in this vi.
cinity are adoDting this plan Of providing
separate residences TOR their hired men,
thus saving work in their ow. households.
Through the politeness Of Trustee Perk.
ins we were ushered through The new
town hall one day last week All the de-
partmenis are about completed, with the
exception Of the opera room. Workmen
are putting up the scenery. The full Gu.
pacity Of the room, including dress.circle,
parquet and galleries will be one thousand,
without extra seats.
One Of the largest snow storms visited
this place Monday night that has, at this
season of the year. since April, 1881. The
show has continued 10 fall at intervals. up
to the hour Of going to press this, We'd
nesday a. m. 1t has reached the depth of
Ten inches on level. The web.footed
tribe Will surely have jolli6cation when
it melts away.
On election day A. G. Couch called d.
Williams all kinds Of pet names. Dan,
considering there was no just cause or
provocation for such treatment, went be.
fore Esquire Hustled and, after mature de.
liberation, decided to have Couch hauled
up for his sins. In the meantime A. G.,
was not asleep, but concluded 10 steal a
march on Dan, and so appeared before
Mayor Wean, stated the case and plead
guilty. His Honor considered that the
State had been damaged by Couch TO the
extent of fifty cents. The fine was paid
and the case dismissed.
The concert at the Congregational
Church Friday evening was well attended
and the programme was executed in a
manner to satisfy the most eXncting. The
receipts of the evening were fifty-two dol.
lars. In listening to the war songs we
were carried back to April, 1851, and even
to October nth, 1859, when the news was
heralded across the country that John
Brown and posse of men had captured
the United States arsenal at Harpers Fer.
ry, Va, and were about to march into the
State and free the slaves. The next war.
like matter was the seeding Of South
Carolina in December, 1850 then followed
the news on the morning of April 10, 1861,
that Major Anderson had evacuated Fort
Sumter. On April 17th was read Presi.
dent Lincoln's proclamation, calling for
seveniy.fve thousand men. This was
considered q tremendous number Of men,
but when divided up among the different
States, II required Maine to furnish but
one regiment; Ohio six, and so on; and,
before the war closed, Ohio furnished
about three times the whole number call
ed for at first. The subject Of enlisting
was not talked Of without great excite
ment, during the first year, but afterwards
members Of families would talk the mat.
ter over In business like way A com.
mon expression was; IF you will stay
at home TO take care Of things and take
the chances Of draft, / will volunteer
now and 60 and serve my time." The
idea Of being killed did not seem to be
thought Of. We mention these things to
show the younger people how we can be
educated, in time, 10 endure almost any.
thing. fet