Chelsea

Tráde is lively here now, with the good sleighing. E. C. HüHg, of Detroit, was here on business last ïuesday. The I.. O. T. M.'s will holcl a fair at the towii hall on the 13th. C. II. Kernpf was at the county house on business last Tuesday. F. F. Ives. of Unadilla, was Tvith relatives here on Wednesday. Miss Josie Hoag, of Detroit, spent last week with fnends about bere. Miss Angie Jedele, of Dexter, spent last Saturday and ííuuday with iriends here. Congressman Gorman left for Washington to attend the session of C'ongress on Monday morning. The market holds its own and receipts are very large. Wheat brings 56c for red or white, rye 40c, oats 27c, barley 90e to $1.05, beans $1.15, clover seed $5, dressed pork $0, ehiekens 6c, turkeys 7e, eggs 18c, butter22e. Wood is scarce and good stove wood brings $2 per cord and body four-foot wood, $4. The Rev. Mr. Mellitzer, the Lutheran minister at Francisco, was coming to this place last Tuesday and his horse took fright at the limited express at the Guthrie crossing, west of town, and turned and threw him against a teleplione pole, breaking his collar bone and othervvise seriously injuriug him so that at last accounts it was uncertain whether" he would recover or not. J. Chandlers & Co. 's chicken house took fire last Monday night about ten o'clock, probably froin the coal stove in the office, as there was no other flre in the building. Nothing was saved. The loss on the building was about $800 and on the office furniture, type-writer, egg erales, etc., about $700. On thtise there was $1,200 insurance in the Ëfcna of Hartford. About $1,000 wortu of dressed poultry and other property was consumed on which there was no iusurance. It was with great difficulty that the fire department saved the J. C. Taylor elevator, tim-ty feet west, and used by the above iirm, and the Gilbert '& Crowell apple evaporator, about sixty feet east. These buildings were considerably damaged by the heat. All the books of the above firm were destroyed and the loss on these cannot be estimated. There was a brisk wind i'rom the southwest and it is thought ínuch more property would have been consumed if everything had not been covered with snow. Tliis is the oniy lire of any consequence that we have had in town this year.