Chelsea

Crowded out last weck Miss Alice Sargent is among relativos here this week. Gardening and house cleaning are behind time this spring. Frank Lucker's minstrels are billed for here on Friday night this week. The company is laying a water pipe from their water, tank to the depot. F. W. Pike's show last Monday was slimly attended and did not give satisfaction. Fruit blossoms are so thick that the orchards present the appearance of a winter scène. Memorial services next Sunday afternoon at the town hall. Rev. D. H. Conrad officiating. Wheat is getting a large growth of straw and much of it is likely to lodge down before harvest. Some have taken their children out of school and others have taken them to the country on account of the diphtheria in town. The average urchin is on the war path after sparrow heads. There are few buildings so high that they do not scale them in search of the little pests. Decoration Day will be duly observed on Monday with the usual ceremonies and au address at the town hall by Judge C. B. Grant of the supreme court. Winter lingers very long in the lap of spring, and fires are quite as necessary and comfortable as any time since Christmas. Colds are prevalent and an occasional case o the grip is yet reported. Mrs. Stephen Laird died at their residence two miles west of here las Saturday of consumption, and was buriea frora the M, E. church TuesÖay. She was an excellen womaa about 30 years old and leaves a husband and two small children to miss her from their home. The market has been quiet the past week with onlyslight variations Wheat now stands at 86 ets. for the best red or white that is free from smut. Rye, 72 ets.; oats, 31 ets. barley nominal at $1; beans, $1.15 eggs, 13 ets.; butter, 14 ets. Receipts have been moderate on acconnt of corn planting. The farmers have planted corn between showers the past week where the ground could be plowed and others are still waiting for the ground to get dry enough to plow. Not near the usual acreage of oats has been sown about here and not half the barley that was sown last year on account of the wet spring. Thomas, the eleven year oíd son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Congdon, died Tuesday night of diphtheria. He was sick one week, beginning with brain fever,' which developed into the dreaded disease that took him off. They have four other children who are likely to have the same disease, and it is feared that some of the remaining ones will not get through. Every precaution is being used to prevent the spread of the disease. The board of review for the assessment of this township was in session the first of this week. The banks and money shavers are going to dodge taxation almost entirely on their bonds and mortgages under the new tax law, which will increase the taxes very much on real estáte. This is just the opposite of what the legislature intended to do in changing the former law, but it has been perverted by the mortgagees. The purpose was to relieve the debtor class from paying taxes on more property than they owned, but as now applied it is worse in that direction than it was before the change.