The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-10-20
PRESS CLIPPINGS.

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A preacher Mt Delaware adopted a
novel method for increasing The church
finances. He requested several ladies
of the church to donate n hen; OF
course each one complied and accord
ing to agreement the hens were set.
The chickens Matched were sold and
the missionary treasury was enriched
$43.-Medina Gazette.
One If those kind of men who like
to be bitten by the same dog twice,
saw an advertisement of patent bed
bug killer, warranted to do the work
every time. He answered it with u
dollar bill and received wooden NAL
let and block of wood, numbered |
and 2. The directions read: Place the
bug upon No . and hit him with
No. |. If it does not kill him, hit him
again.-0berlin Owl.
Myron II. Herrick ct al, receivers of
the Wheeling Lake Erie and Pittsburg
Coal company, have filed their report
for September with clerk White of the
United States court, showing the re-
ceipts to have been l9,610.S6, disburs-
ments $l8, ,75305. The same receivers
for the Wheeling and Lake Erie Rail-
way Coal company, filed their Septem-
ber report, showing the receipts to
have been $6928,24, disbursements
So, ,I29. 44.-Norwalk Chronicle.
The Conneaut telephone exchange
is now completed and is one of the
finest equipped exchanges in Ashta-
bula county. The room has under
gone a great transformation, having
been newly papered and painted. The
board has been increased to two
hundred drop. There are now l43
subscribers with others in sight. The
people are getting the best of service
both day and night. 1t is expected
that the exchange will be increased
fifty more within the next few months.
Post.
A Norwalk fisherman well known in
professional circles, but whose name
is suppressed for the sake of his family
brings the following remarkable. tale
from Ashland county: A man who
lives in Loundonville had fish thai
had become so much of a pet that IL
followed him about wherever he went
travelling by Hopping itself along, One
day the owner of the fish started for a.
place, to reach which necessitated the
crossing of bridge. The fish got too
near the edge, fell over and was drown,
ed.-Norwalk Chronicle.
Fifteen marriages have occurred dur
ing the past year in which one or both
parties were Camden people. Thirteen
young women and twelve young men
had their homes in the town, two
young men went out of town to- get
their wives, one of them went out of
the state and the other only out Of the
county. Three young ladies found
their husbands out of town, but in the
county, the rest have married among
our towhspeople. Several couple have
found homes away from Camden :; one
IN Wakeman, one in Lorain, one in
Brighton, one in Huntington, one in
-Pittsfield, one in Alabama, and one |
have not learned where. There are
but few young ladies left of mar
,riageable age, except few of uncer-
tain age. j do not see but what some
of our young men will have to 60 out
of town to get their mates, or else do
as some Of our young men have done,
do not get any.-Camden Correspond
ent to 0berlin News. -
The Elyria Telephone Company at a
directors meeting held Tuesday, de-
clared quarterly dividend of 3 per
cent. AS this is the expiration of the
first quarter since the establishment
of the local exchange, stockholders are
naturally pleased at results,
as the rnnning expenses for
the first quarter are considerably in
excess of what they can be for any
future three months, The exchange
here is now running very nicely. The
little difficulties incident to a new ex-
change at first encountered have been.
overcome, and the 270 to $50 patrons
are enjoying the bestof service and at
prices that are not ROBBERY. When one
thinks of the dire prophesies made
by representatives of the Old mon
opoly while the new concern we're pre-
pairing to enter the field, it almost
causes him to weep for the total de-
pravity of some human natures. There
was to be poor constructions, poor SER
vice and infringement suits galore.
," No company could furnish service at
SO low price and live, etc." Now
that The falsity of all these prophesies
has been demonstrated, the old CON
cern are around begging our citizens
to put back the Bell phones which
have been replaced by the home com-
pany's instruments and (horror Of hor-
rors) at the prices at which they them
selves have said that no company
could do and live. The natural infer
enceis that they are either preparing
ITO die rihope to force the home COM
pany out SO they can restore the old
prices and thereby live Meantime
the home company are continually
adding new patrons TO their list at live
and let live prices and are now making
arrangerneHts'whereby they will soon
have connections with surnundinq
cities and towns Verify, alittle com.
petltion,isa good thing forel0pyEllae
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