Chelsea

E. G. Hoag was in Grand Rapids the first of this week. Geo. C. Codd and family, of Detroit, are at the lake recreating. F. P. Glazier and family have gone to Bay View to spend a few weeks. Farm help is very scarce and difficult to get. Good hands get $2 per day. lialance shipments have been made and the elevator is closed for the present. H. S. Holmes was elected school trustee at the annual-school meeting last Monday night. The huckleberry erop is good but the swamps are very wet. They are already in market. A large amount of very fine hay was secured about here the past week. The erop is very large. Marshal Green has a forcé of hands digging out the gutters and otherwise improving the streets. Miss Dora Harrington left Wednesday for Chicago, Duluth and other points west fora vacation trip. Wheat harvesting is in progress. The erop is heavy and if the weather continúes favorable the quality will be good. Many people are out of town now, some recreating and others at work, so that it is very dull and will be for a month at least. A young student of Albion College, a native of Bulgaria of unspeakable name, talked at the M. E. church, last Sunday. Corn, oats and barley look remarkably well and a large erop of each will be realized unless something happens to them. Prof. Hall gave an interesting talk last Sunday night at the Congregational church on the Harmony of Science and the Bible. The wheat market continúes to sink down and the bottom is not vet reached. The top is 75 cents for red or white; oats, 32 ets.; eggs, 12 ets.; butter, n ets. Wool still stands at 20 to 23 ets. Arrivals are sraall now and will be till harvest is over.