Chelsea

Prof. Hall is building a cottage at the lake. Quite a crowd from here attended Barnum's show at Jackson, on Wednesday. The Baptist church is now without a pastor. Corn and potatoes are very much in need of rain. Miss Mabel Wallace, of Ann Arbor, has been among friends here the past week. Beans are coming on nicely and promise to be exoellent erop in this vicinity. There have been fewer fires in and about Chelsea this summer than for many years. . C. E. Letts, of Detroit, was here this week looking after the harvesting on his farm. Charles Cooper, of Mt. Pleasant, has been here the past week marketing his wheat and rye. R. A. Snyder has rented the store next south of his grocery and fitted it up in good style for a meat market. Rev. T.'E. Heddle, of Owosso, spoke to a unión meeting at the M. E. church last Sunday night, on temperance. Every hitching post in town was used last Saturday night and large numbers of teams tied to fences, trees and other places. Threshing progresses rapidly and wheat, rye and barley turn out from 15 to 25 bushels per acre but not very well to the straw. Wheat is not as heavy this year as last but is freer from smut. An elabórate doglicense ordinance has been passed by the village board to take effect Sept. ist. Every dog must have a collar, a number and a a check. The marshal will be pound master and executioner and the day of some dogs about here is liable to be short. Wheat begins to come in quite freely and brings 76 cents for old and the best new, though the most of the new bought here the first part of the week was at 75 ets. Some rye was bought at 60 ets., barley is not being used yet. Oats are wanted by consumers at 35 ets. Butter, 12 to 15 ets.; eggs, 13 ets.; huckleberries come in freely at 7 ets. per quart. Potatoes, 50 cents. Wool has not.improved any yet.