Chelsea

C. E. Letts, of Detroit, was here on Wednesday. F. P. Glazier is putting a new cash register into his drugstore. Born on Saturday last, to Mr. and Mrs. J. VV. Stedman, a boy. 13. Parker has built a new barn near his residence in this village. John Keinpf, of Detroit, has been here among friend3 this week. M. Boyd is haying large Windows put into the upper front of his new store, Family gatherings and reunions will be the order of the day, Thanksgiving. Horse distetnper is quite prevalent about here and occasionally one dies of it which is unusual. Rabbitts are reported to be very scarce. It is believed that the hard winter a y e ar ago killed them. The M. C. R. R. has changed time again. We scarcely get used to one schedule before it is changed for anotlip.r. Miss Ward, Miss Jessie Merrill and Miss Anna Jackson were baptized and taken into the M. E. church last Sunday, on probation. George W. Beckwith, treasurer of Sylvan township, vvill receive taxes at C. E. Whitaker's hardware store after the flrst of December. The new long distance telephone wires have been conuected at the oflice here and can now be used. The rates are higher than the old line. The Chelsea Dramatic club will render the "Ticket of Leave Man" at the Town Hall Thursday and Friday evenings of this week for the benefit of the L. O. T. M. The market is not getting better very fast. Wheat this week brings 57 a bushei for red or-white, rye 46 ets, oats 27 ets, barley 90 ets to $1.05, dover seed $5.00, beans dull at $1.15. onions 40 ets, potatoes 50 ets, apples 70 ets, dressed pork SG.OO, chickens 6 ets. turkeys 9 ets, eggs 18 ets, butter 22 ets. Receipts are now large and likely to be all next month. The M. E. church took flre from a defective flue last Sunday soon after the morning service, and it would have buroedlown if the choir had not been there and given prompt alarm. The fire company was soon there and extinguished it but not until four or flve hundred dollars damage was done, mostly by smoke and water. It was a very narrow escape. The loss was covered bv insurance. Adam Kalmbaeh, a pioneer of this township, died at his late residence in the west part of the town last week, and was buried from there last Sunday. The wiíe and a large fatnily of children, relatives and other friends followed the remains to their last ïesting place, all conscious that each liad met with a great personal loss. Mr. Kalmbach was a good citizen, a kind hushatid and father, and will be 1 greatly missed by the family anc communjty.