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The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
Business Notes.

The Santley Lumber company shut
down Saturday evening for an indefinite
time. The yard is stacked full Of first.
class lumber, but as there we're no orders
received II was decided to close doors,
The d. L. Wadsworth company Is run
ming full force, but gave notice of reduc-
lion in pay until times brighten up lit
tie.
The bending works closed ten days ago
for repairs.
II Is rumored that trains Nos. and 10
will be abandoned on the Big Four on aud
after Sunday next. The local ticket sales
here are fully up to last year, but there is
falling of of freight receipts.
The Wellington Milling company has
been running more days within the past
two weeks than at any time for the past
six weeks.
AT the brick and tile yards only q few
men are working,
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
Tired Of Life.

Thursday afternoon man was found on
Prospect street in an inseusible condition.
He was brought TO the Cottage hotel and
DR.. Hathaway was called. The strangers
pulse was found TO be at sixty aud he was
breathing heavily. His pockets were
searched and a small vial containing laud-
anum, and letter which told the story,
were found. The contents Of the note
were as follows:
"My name is Charles L. LATER, Bridge
port, Conn. No money and no work; and
won't steal nor beg for living. Good
bye. Give my body 10 doctor, for 1t will
save your town the trouble Of burying It."
The doctor administered antidotes and
the patient was soon able TO walk around
the room and converse little. He said
he was halter by trade and that the panic
had caused the factory to close doors and
he had started west TO look for work and,
not finding il, had become respondent and
decided that life had no more charms Tor
him. He has wife aud two children.
The laudanum was purchased Of W. +.
Near & Co. under the pretense OF baving
bad earache. About half Of the con-
tents Of the vial was gone. The man was
we'll dressed and perfect picture Of
health and should have been thinking
about something else than taking his life.
Just before he left town the next day the
Enterprise man interviewed him. Said
he: 81 have got out Of It and don't think
will ever try II again. My head and
stomach feel badly. After taking the
laudanum II was about fifteen minutes be-
fore began to get sleepy knew when
the parties found me, but | could not
speak or raise my hand. One fellow
twisted my head nearly of trying to
awaken me, but I was powerless TO call a
halt on him, although thought he would
kill me, sure"
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
PERSONAL MENTION.
G. W. Crosier spent a few days in Chi
cago last week.

cago last week.
Mrs. G. W. Morton left for Michigan
last week to be absent six weeks.
Mrs. H. e. Barrett and son, Earl, left the
city recently and are attending the fair.
Miss Pearl Scott, of Wellsburg, W. Va,
spent last week visiting her aunt, Mrs.
Fred Bradley.
A. r. Wooster, of st. Louis, Mo-, Is
spending the week in town.
Herman Wight is at the fair.
DR.. G. X. Hlsey spent last week in Bos-
ton and other eastern cities.
Hon. J. T. Haskell and j. NJ. Otter
bacher attended the senatorial convention
at Ashland.
Misses Ida Vancleef and Emily Sage
lett for the fair Wednesday.
Harry Biggs spent Sunday with his
mother, Mrs. II. o. Biggs.
Mrs. Trinter, of Cleveland, spent Sun
day with her daughter, Mrs. L. II. Wads.
worth
Mrs. Isabelle Chapman and -four of her
grandchildren have gone To Nackinac.
Us. Mallory and family spent Sunday
up the lakes.
r. II. Kinnison attended the county
teachers institute of Wood county at
Bowling Green last week. He lectured
Wednesday forenoon on U. S. history; al.
ternoon, physiology; thursday, on theory
and practice, and in the evening lec,ured
at the court house, subject, "The Age Of
Young People"
Misses Hattie and Anna Mason are yis-
iting at L. Dickey's in Cleveland.
Albert Houghton aud his children, ,Chas
and Grace, who have been visiting his pa
rents, returned to their home In Cincin-
natl last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. s. Brink spent Sunday
in Cleveland,
Miss Edith Brink is spending a few
weeks in Auburn, Ind
Rev. DR.. Hoyt was in town Monday
night, guest of DR., Houghton's.
Prof. and Mrs. Randolph left for Chica,
go, Tuesday.
Edward j. Henry, formerly with F. b
Serage, now at the head OF one oi the shoe
departments in the Wanamaker establish
ment, Philadelphia, visited Mr.. and Mrs
f, B. Serage one day last week.
Frank Tissot, Laura Tissot, Jessie Hol
land and Bertha Howk left Tuesday fol
the fair.
Rev. L. T. Hagerman and family arr
taking a two weeks vacation,
Mrs. Horace Barnes and daughter arr
attending the fair.
Miss Eya Gibbs entertained her lad!
friends at her home on Elm street Monda,
afternoon.
Mrs. Sidney Stone, Of Chicago, and Mis-
Pearl Guthrie, of 0berlin, we're the guest
of Mrs. r. d. Mooney last week.
Mrs. +. s. Huver and son, Harry, ar
visiting Mrs. r. L. French and other rela
tives on their return from the worlds fai
to their home In Bolivar, N. Y,
Miss Daisy Phelon is stehographer Il
the d. l.. Wadsworth Co.'S office.
DR.. L. Jordan's wife aud two daughter
from indianapolis, have been visiting
their aunt, Mrs. VIM. Leet.
Rev. VIM. Leet has returned from To
ledo with his two grandsons.
Miss Minnie Clegon is attending the fail
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
LOCAL AND MISCELLANEOUS.
The financial panic.
k out for tramps these days.

The financial panic.
Look out for tramps these days.
A fine shower of rain visited US Friday
night.
Investments are not being looked up at
present.
L. O. Bennett is now landlord of the
Park house.
A few small lots of wool are being
brought into town.
The sale for widening the north ditch
will take place August % at 10 a. m.
Street Commissioner Barrett has orders
10 lay thirteen stone crossings in the
streets.
The Congregational Sunday-school held
picnic in Smiths grove, northwest of
town, Friday.
Marshal Williams says that more tramps
visit the town at present than at any time
since he has been in office.
The general store of D. NJ. Hall, in
Brighton, has been closed. The stock will
be sold Saturday, August 20,
Mr.. and Mrs. Potato Bug and family,
with uncles, aunts and cousins have ar
rived and are ready for business.
Bradstreet and Dunn will haye to issue a
supplement to report the true financial
condition for the last half of 1893.
The saloons opened in New London one
morning last week and the following
evening two fights were reported.
Laundon, Windecker d Co. will accepI
Of Cleveland and New York drafts In
payment for goods or on account. This is
step in the right direction.
Every tramp informs the people he has
been caught up in financial panic some.
where in the country which has caused him
to become a knight of the road.
DIR. Biggar, of Cleveland, assisted by
Drs. Hathaway and Holiday, of this place
performed surgical operation upon Har.
ley Horr last week. Alter he RECEIVERS II
Is expected that he will have free use Of
his limbs.
Since our last issue we learn that Rev
Mr.. Albright was on his way to Mountain
Lake Park, Nd, and was injured by q
lurch of the car in which he was riding
The severity of the injury was exagger
ated. He is improving and 1t is expected
that he will soon be in his usual health.
The New London fair will be held Au
gust %, 90 and "a. Among the attractions
this year will be four trotting, two pacing
and one half mile running races, two bl
cycle races each day, and balloon ascen
sions and parachute leaps on the 23d ant
oath. We hope the fair will be liberalll
patronized from this place.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
DIED.

NELs0N-Att the family residence on Nelson
avenue Tuesday, Aug. 8, Rebecca Burdette,
wife OF John ]. Nelson, Funeral services az
the residence Thursday, afternoon at 2
o'clock, standard time. e.-0hio State Jonrnal.
HRNDRRsQN--A At his home on DeWolf street.
Of Ave months. X, n. Henderson. aged IS
years. Funeral Sunday at $50 p.m.i con-
Quoted by Rev. l. II. Durfeei remains In
TERED In the south cemetery.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
Church Notes.
METHODIST.

Rev. NJ. F. Warner, Of Berea, filed the
pulpit last Sunday.
Rev. W. II. Eglin, will fill the pulpit
next Sunday morning and evening.
CONGREGATIONAL.
There will be meeting OF the society
at the parlors Of the church on Wednes.
day evening, August 2a, at z o'clock, stand
ard time. Every member Of the society Is
earnestly invited to be present.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16

Be sure and put box Of Ayers Pills in
your sachel before travelling, either by
land or sea. You will find them convent
lent, eflcacious and safe. The best reme-
dy TOR costiveness, indigestion and sick
headache and adapted to any climate.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16

The Chinese pay their doctor only so
long as he keeps them In health. They
believe iu preventing rather than In cur
ing disease. This Is sound sense and one
of the strongest recommendatl>.s OF
Ayers Sarsaparilla, medicine which not
only cures diseases, but prevents them.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16

Pm 70 nervous"--before taking Hoods
6arsaparllla ann 90 well"--atter taking
Hoods. Moral--be sure TO get Hoods.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16

The bes, way to avoid scalp diseases,
hair falling oul and premature badness is
10 use the best preventative known for that
purpose-Halps Hair Renewer.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-16
Advertised Letters.

The following letters remain uncalled
tor for the week ending August 49,
Miss May Fowler, M. L. Smith, Miss
Myrtle Ward. X. Il. Hustled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
MANY USES FOR ALUMINIUM.
The Builder Likely to Find 1t Valu-
able for Variety of Purposes.

Aluminium, which in itself possesses
a high degree of specific heat, does not
readily absorb heat itself, and thus is
not liable to the chief objection to
iron buildings in hot countries. But
apart from light decorative purposes,
such as balconies, finals and verandas,
it is as a roofing material that alumni
mum should be most welcome to the
builder. In plates or scales two-thirds
lighter than copper, uncOrrOded by air,
and undimmed even by the sulphur
of London smoke, it should make a
roof fit for a palace of romance.
The humber elements of health and
comfort in the house, hardly less i'm
portant than the external ldefenseS
against the weather-pipeS, cisterns,
taps and cutters, now made of iron
which rusts or lead which poisons-
would be more enduring and far more
healthy if made of this light and clearly
metal, which might take the place
Of all water holding vessels now made
of heavy brittle earthenware or paint
ed tin. An aluminium bath is among
the probable luXuries of the next CEN
fury. But it is not as mere aces
sorry to comfort and convenience that
real development of the new metal
should lie. It is for use at sea that
its most marked quality Of Gghtness
obviously fits it.
The marine engineer and the naval
architect who are already looking in
his direction for a reduction in the
weight which is inseparable from loss
of efficiency, whether in speed or cargo,
cannot neglect the possibilities Of a
metal which when mixed in the proper
ton of 1 to so, gives to the aluminium
bronze a hardness and a toughness
which makes it almost as reliable as
STEEL and which, if the proportions
could be reversed and the strength pre-
served, would reduce the weights Of
ships and machinery alike by two
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
THE TWO BOYS.

A lady, accompanied by her son, q
lad of about II years, was riding in a
street car up town the other day, says
the New York Times. The young
gentleman had on what was evidently
his first suit of 'grown-up'' clothes.
His shirt collar, tie and Scarfpin were
immaculate. His derby hat was spick
and SPAN. His suit was evidently made
by a good tailor and his faultless kid
gloves were of the latest shade. He
was well pleased with himself and his
mamma was well pleased with him.
At FOrty-second street newsboy
came on the cars crying his evening
papers. He was rather more wretched
looking than the average newSbOy. His
attire consisted solely of a very ragged
shirt and an equally ragged pair OF
trousers, which were held on by a strip
of dirty cotton cloth which served fof
q suspender. He was hatless and shoe
less. The most remarkable thing about
this newsboy was that his face and
hands were clean. The boy in the good
clothes bought paper. He immediate
" began to read it as the men do While
he absently held out his gloyed hand
for the change.
While the newsboy counted the pen
MES into the palm Of the new kid glove
he looked his customer over, not con-
temptuously, as one might imagine, but
rather wistfully. Then he walked slow
ly out of the car, looking back over his
shoulder at the well-dresscd boy.
A change of horses was being made,
and the newsboy stopped outside OF
the window with his papers under his
arm and his hands in his pockets, still
, looking at the boy in the derby hat.
The wistful expression deepened and
grew. One could read upon his face
what he was thinking, and a gentleman
who had watched tine little :2cident
said with a sigh rs the car started out:
Things don't seem to be very well
evened up in this world" and every
body seemed to understand except the
boy, who was still looking at his paper,
and his mother no WAS fondly gazing
at him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
AVOID THE DEADLY TOADSTOOI.
How the Mushroom May Be DiStin-
@uiShed From Its Imitator

! The epidemic of deaths from toad
stool poisoning continues without abate-
ment, says the Philadelphia Record
| The alarm is spread. Columns have
| been printed, most of them revealing
| the fact that the writers could not tell
Il tOadstool from ii mushroom, and
| terminating usually with the sage and
! satisfying advice to the person who
wishes to know how to, distinguish
| tOadstoOls from mushrooms that the
safest plan is to buy your mushrooms
from a reliable dealer" In the mean
+ time, at Il season when mushrooms are
| growing in many fields and the dealy
toadStOol appears in every woods, peO-
pie continue to eat tOadStOolS for mllSh-
rooms and die in consequence of their
ignorance. 1t is comforting, therefore,
to see at last an authoritative word on
the subject in Il letter from Charles
McIlvaine, who is the recognized New
Jersey authority on hymenomycetes,
to the HaddOnfield News. Briefly, Mr..
McIlvaine says that in deaths from
toadStOOl poisoning it is usually the
unloaded gun which is discharged into
the unlOaded BRAIN and that it is those
who think they know all about the edi-
BILE mushrooms who usually get poison
ed. He explains that there is but one
deadly variety of toadstoOl, but that
is very abundant. Some other toad
stools will cause temporary distress.
Another authority states that many
toadstOOls are just as edible as mush-
rooms. Mr. McIlvaine says he has
never found the deadly toadstool grow
ing in a field nor the edible mushrooms
in a woods. The mushroom grows di-
rectly from manure. The deadly toad
stool grows from sheath, which may be
or which may remain in the ground
when the stem comes loose from it.
The gills of the dealy toadstool always
remain white, or in age are slightly
tinged with yellow. The mushroom
gills under the cap are pinkish, chang
poison of the deadly toadstoOl does not
take effect under eight hours. The an
tidote is hypodemic injection of one
siXtieth of a grain of atrOpina at each
dose until one-twentieth of agrain is
administered or the action of the poison
arrested. The circulation of Mr. Nc
Ilvaine's explicit directions will keep
people from hunting for mushrooms in
the woods, will enable them to avoid
the deadly toadstool and perhaps save
many lives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02

thirds That is the problem which
awaits the metallurgists for solution.
The reduction in cost, judging by
analogy, can only be question of
time and research.
The best steel now costs little more
than half penny per pound, while
aluminium is 80 times that price. But
aluminium exists in far greater guam
titles than iron, is more widely dis
uibuted, and neither the limits of time
nor the history of metallurgy forbid
Us to conjecture that. as the world
has seen its age of stone, its age of
bronze, and it's age of iron, so it may
before long have embarked on a new
and even more prosperous era-the
age of aluminum.-London Spectator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
STEEL TIES ON RAILROADS.
Likely to Replace Wooden Sleepers in
Warm Countries.

Likely TO Replace Wooden SleeperS in
Warm Countries
The use of steel SleeperS is now
strongly advocated for tropical coun-
tries where the use of timber Sleepers
is open to many objections. In the
official report on the projected Mom-
baSl-Victoria Lake railway, for opening
up communication with the interior Of
Africa, it is recommended says the
P1ttSburg Dispatch, that general use
be made of steel SleeperS rather than
creoSoted fir or pingaGo wood for the
following leaSOnS: 4 permanent way
of this construction is practically in
deStructible to natives with such few
mechanical appliances as are to be
met with in east Africa. The custom
of firing the grass at certain periods OF
the year, and the temptation to use the
timber Sleepers for fuel or hutting pur-
poses, would expose Il line laid with
timber SleeperS to many risks. White
ants are numerous in the country and
commit great ravages. The steel
sleeper has also no tendency to float
and be carried away by flood water,
which is the case with timber. Fur
Their, in India it has been recognized
that the initial cost of laying, and the
subsequent cost of maintenance, is
greater on a road laid with timber than
on one laid with steel sleepers. There
would be a saving Of about $3.50 to $3.50
per mile of permanent way by using
creoSoted timber instead of steel sleep
ers, but this small saving does nos
counterbalance the liability to destru0
ton and the increased cost of mainte1.
ance. Generally it has been thought
advisable to provide a permanent waA
of exceptional strength for the gauge,
partly ON account of the gradients MAX
ing heavy engines desirable, partly be-
cause such a road offers in such a coun-
try advantages in maintenance, and
PARTLY because the cost of permanent
way materials and their transport is
now so low as to make reduction of it's
weight of less importance than it was
some years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
PAINTING PORTRAITS UNDER
DIFFICULTIES.

Herr Tuxen, who has been commits
stoned by the queen to paint large
picture of the duke of YOrk's wedding
has an interesting time of it. The
royal personages who figure in the pic
t1lre have not the slightest regard for
his convenience and he has to follows
them all over Europe with his canvas
in order to get them sketched in. He
has been at Fredensborg recently TO
get the king and queen Of Denmark
In November he will go to Windsor to
sketch some Of the English royalties
and he will probably have to visit
Rome, Berlin, and ST. Petersburg be-
fore he can finish the painting.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02

less. the clock would be appreciated.
and so, too, would be a timetable. in
big type, of the actual train on which
You are travelling. As a bit of evidence
to show the Slowness o. evolution, it
Is interesting TO note that only within
a ShHrt time has there been built
dr. ,nS-room or sleeping ctr in which
every corner and edge are rounded Off
so as TO prevent discomfort if you ara
tossed or thrown against partition
or casing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
PALACE CAR DEVELOPMENT.
Times Have Changed Since Women
Were Not Expected to Eat.


One of the earliest uses of an eX-
elusive railroad car in this part of the
country, says the Boston Transcript,
was on the occasion Of the marriage of
Jenny Lind. The great singer, wishing
to pass her honeymoon far from the
mauuening crowd hired Il cottage in
P1.tSfield; and, in order to be free from
the intrusion of impertinent starers,
had Il passenger car of the pattern in
use fitted for her use as a drawing
room by the removal Of the seats and
the supply in their places of luxurious
household furniture. The fashion was
frequently adopted by other noted peo-
pie Of the stage and by statesmen on
an electioneering tour. Very likely the
increased demand for the luxury led
to the invention of a car, the use Of
which was for sale at retail, so to
speak-that is, a chair in it to be rented
to any one who came along. The
early efforts were constructed with
view to privacy, being a series OF
various apartments. The open room,
which has been an encouragement to
sociability, was quickly evolved. 1t is
Interesting to notice, by the way, that
the latest device for q drawing-roOln
car is a return Of the apartment sys-
tenn.
Some of the early dining cars were
rough affairs compared with the lux
uriously appointed dining-rooms on
wheels that are now found all over
the land. In those elder days you were
forced to stand up against a counter
built in the car, fore and aft, and
there feed at a trough almost literally
one, since the top of the counter was
provided with a ledge to prevent the
plates from being tossed to the floor
by the webbing carr, steadying your
hand with as much skill as you could
master, just the same as On board ship.
This luxury was for the use of the
sterner sex; the women in those days
were not expected to eat while travel
ing Clumsy as was this arrangement,
il was an improvement on the railroad
restaurant, into which you rushed to
grab your food and swallow it without
going through the process Of masuca-
ton, and to swallow a cup of boiling
hot coffee-in your haste your sense
of taste was paralyzed so that you
We're unable to tell what the scalding
beverage was-all the time in mortal
terror that the conductors irritating
shout, ''A1 aboard!' would come before
you had secured a fair equivalent for
your money.
The drawing-room and sleeping cars
of these days have come through
process of evolution. Admirable as
they are in many ways as preventives
Of much of the WEAKNESS Of long rail-
road journeys, they are still far from
perfect The science of heating them
has reached a high point, but in the
best of them, particularly in sleeping
cars, ventilation is never first-rate.
There are many minor points that can
be easily bettered. Why is it, for in
stance, that you never find a clock N
a drawing-room car? 1t is because
every passenger who can afford the
luxury of the car is supposed to be
furnished with a Frodsham chronOme-
ter or Jurgensen repeater? Neverthe-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02

Mrs. Jennie Dubois recovered ver-
dict of 5000 at Bloomington, ILL.,,
against the Alton road for the death
of her husband, an engineer, who was
killed by the explosion of the boiler
of his engine.
Resolutions in favor Of free coinage
and establishment of postal savings
banks were adopted by the F. NJ. B.
A. at Indianapolis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-11-02
GIVES A $1,000 CHECK
A. Racine Lady Lends Lawrence Uni
versity a Helping Hand.

Appleton, Wis, Oct. 25.-President
Underwood, of Lawrence University,
yesterday evening received a draft for
$1,000, a gift to Lawrence University
from Mrs Mary B. Convoe, Of Racine.
No conditions We're attached to the gift
While soliciting subscriptions some
time ago for an observatory Instrument
Mr.. Underwood met the lady who be-
came interested in Lawrence. She gave
500 for the instrument and as result
Of her interest in the college this Later
gift comes unexpectedly and w1thouf
solicitation. It comes at an opportuns
time and is much appreciated.