Chelsea

Last Sunday was quarterly meeting at the M. E. church, and next Sunday is the sixth anniversary of the Epworth league and will be celebrated by appropriate exercises. Mili Lake drain was let last week and went very low. The average was about 80 cents per rod and aggregates Si, 120. Some of the contractors have already begun work. The whole tax is to be levied this year. The frame to a new barn was raised on Mrs. Winans' farm, north of town, last Wednesday. John Wisner, of Manchester, has been here this week, moving a couple of houses for the Glazier Stove Co. Ben. Hawley has bought the Boyd property south of the passenger depot. Miss Cora I. Taylor will return to her work at Cleary college next week. Wm. Lewick has sold his place on Polk street to Henry Hesselschwerdt. If the blossoms are any indication, we have a good erop of fruit of every kind coming this summer. Peaches especially promise unusually well. Wheat and grass have made very littl'e headway this spring because of the remarkably dry weather. Unless rain comes soon, these crops will be very poor. The oldest inhabitant cannot remember the time when nearly all cisterns were dry in May as they were here before Tuesday's rain. John Farrell, of Jackson, but formerly in business here, is fitting up his old place in the Hudler building, and will open a grocery and saloon there in a few days. Henry Frey opened a saloon last week in theMcKone block, making six in town. Two clouds met in Lyndon last Tuesday and the rainfall was frightful, making the greatest sudden flood of water for many years. It did great damage to newly plowed ground and spring crops. Albert Kirkland, of Iosco, was among relatives here last Tuesday. George Lehman, of Lyndon, has built a large new house in place of the one burned last fall. Probably a third more beans will be planted about here this summer than ever before. The senior class of the high school will give an entertainment at the town hall, Friday night, entitled the "Deestrick Skule." It is said to be very funny. Arrivals of farm produce have been light the past week. Whea brings 65 cents for white and 64 cents for red; barley, $1; oats, 32 cents; rye, 62 cents; potatoes, 50 cents; eggs, 10 cents; butter, 13 cents. The Baptist society of this village is looking for a pastor. Some wool is coming in anc brings 8 to 10 cents for unwashed