Chelsea

The schools close week after next. There are several cases of scarlet :ever in town. Rev. J. H. Mclntosh, of Grass Lake, was here last Friday. Dr. Palmer and family are taking in the World's Fair this week. Rev. L. P. Davis held quarterly meeting here last Sunday night. Hay will be a large erop again this year. The wet spring made it. Jas. L. Babcock and mother, of Ann Arbor, were here on Tuesday. H. D. Francisco, of Leroy, Mich., las been here on business this week. E. E. Webster has been employed as principal of our high school for next year. Dan McLaren shipped several car oads of baled hay from here the :)ast week. Next Sunday is children's day and appropriate services will be held'in all the churches. The big rain of last Saturday did reat damage washing out corn fields and bridges. The streets are being improved in various places. Some of the sidewalks and crossings need attention. The water has never been known to be higher in the creeks north of here than it was the first of this week. Some farmers are shearing sheep, but wool is not likely to move much for several weeks yet. The dealers are taking 18 cents for washed wool but it is probably good for 20 cents, if not more. The market continúes to decline on all grain. Wheat touched 60c here on Tuesday, but rallied somewhat and 62c is high 'for it now. Oats, 32c; rye, 50c; potatoes, 60c; eggs. !3C; butter, 14c. W. E. Stephenson and wife were thrown from their buggy last Saturday, five miles south of here, by the teatn taking fright at a pile of stumps and were seriously hurt, but are so as to be out again now. Miss Alice Sargent died at the residence of H. M. Wood in this village last Sunday evening, without a moment's warning, of apoplexy. She sang in the Congregational church choir in the forenoon, but was not feeling as well as usual. She was 35 years old and will be much missed by the church and the community. There was no slow disease, no lingering decay, God's finger touched her and she slept. It was a great shock to the community and her place will not soon be filled.