Chelsea

The new stock yards are completed and ready for business. There is much sickness in town and further deaths are expected. W. P. Schenk was in New York on business the first of this week. The walls for the new buildings on the burnt district are rapidly going up. A. F. Freeman, of Manchester, was here Wednesday on his way to Jackson. The mumps and whooping cough are quite prevalent in this village just now. D. W. Barry. county drain commissioner was here last Friday on official business. Miss Susie Jedele, of Dexter, spent last Saturday and Sunday with friends in this village. H. M. Wood. of Ann Arbor, was here on Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Knapp. W. A. Conlon has opened an office lor the practice of dentistry over Glazier's drug store. The spring is favorable so far to wheat and grass, but unfavorable tor fruit and spring sowing. Congressman Gorman is treating his constituents to packages of garden seeds and copies of a recent speech made in congress by him on the tariff question. "The man who spoiled the music" is the unique title of an entertainment at the M. E. church on Friday night, this week. It would be a smart man who could spoil some music we have heard. It would sooner spoil him. A young man from the north of Chelsea and his companions visited the school house in district No. 5, of Sylvan, last Sunday and put the water pail in the stove and committed many other depredations. It would be far better if we would strew more flowers along the pathway of the living and not quite so many around the bier of the dead. It would smooth the rough road of our loved ones here, but after death it can do them or us no good. The market has been active the past week and receipts free. A large amount of wheat has been bought at 55 cents, but there is too much wheat and it shows signs of weakening. Barley $1.05, oats 32 cents, rye 46 cents, beans $1.30, clover seed $5.50, potatoes 40 cents, eggs 8 cents, butter 15 cents. Mrs. Sarah Heckel died at the residence of Mrs. Smith on West Middle street. very suddenly, of pneumonia. last Saturday. She was forty-three years old and an estimable woman. Her husband died some years ago. She was a daughter of the late Walter Webb, of Lyndon. Her many friends and neighbors attended the funeral at the town hall on Monday. It is not often that we have to record so many deaths at one time as have occurred in this village since one week ago and all young people. We cannot understand why young people so full of life, and hope and joy should be taken away. but it is no doubt wise and well and will be plain to us sometime when we shall come to know even as we are known. These events say to us very forcibly: Be ye also ready for you know not the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh." Miss Matie Conaty died at the residence of her father on South Main street, last Saturday, of consumption. She was twenty years old. and graduated from the high school of this village last June. She was a good and interesting girl, with a bright and useful future before her if she could have lived; but it was ordered otherwise, to the great regret of all who knew her. She was buried from St. Mary's church on Wednesday. Miss Lottie Taylor died at the residence of her father in this place on Tuesday morning, of consumption, at the age of twenty-five. She had suffered much from the fell disease, and death was a relief. She graduated from our high school several years ago and was ready for usefulness. She wanted to live, but was called to join her mother, who preceded her about one year ago. The cutting off of her bright hopes for the future was very sad. The funeral took place from the family residence on Railroad street on Thursday. Judge Aaron T. Gorton died at his residence in Waterloo on Tuesday. He was eighty-three years old and one of the pioneers of Jackson county. He belonged to Washtenaw as much as Jackson. He lived an active, upright and exemplary life, bringing up four sons and two daughters in the way in which they should go, and leaves them a competence of property. He was prominent in every good enterprise and was loved and respected by all who came in contact with him. Few citizens would be more generally missed or go more generally regretted. Mrs. W. J. Knapp died at the family residence in this village last Friday, of convulsions, and her child also died. She was one of the jewels of humanity who will be much missed from the church, the community and societies to which she belonged, as well as from the household left so desolate by her sudden and untimely departure at the age of twenty-seven. The funeral was from the family residence on Monday, and the floral offerings by the societies and her former pupils and associate teachers were beautiful and elaborate, and showed the esteem in which she was held.