Chelsea

The wire worm is reported tobe doing great damage cutting down the beans about here after they wee up. Some have already planted ovei again. Muoh more than the usual acreage has been plauted. The hay erop is unusually light here ou account of the dry spring, and oats and barley are suffering for want of rain. An immense crowd of people was in town last Saturday night and the ice creara social at the town hall was largely attended. The walls for the stove factory fonndry are uow up. It is aone story building sixty feet wide and one hundred and twenty-flve feet long and has forty-three large windows in it. Very litle work has been done yet on Mili Lake drain. It is a favorable time now to do the work. The ponies lately owned by Frank Judson have been sold to a man at Grass Lake. There is sonie talk now of a creamery for this place. A cheese factory would pay here. Wm. Lewick is still unable to work from sciatio rhetimatism. The measles continue to be very prevalent about this clace. No recent aeams nave resuicea ironi tnern. Quite a nuinber írora here are now spending most of their time at the lake resorts. The Glazier stove company is putting in a stock of lumber. The nice rain Tuesday night and Wednesday was of great valué to this vicinity. Miss Violet Wallace, of Lodi, has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Bert Taylor, the past week. Large quantities of coal have beeu put into this place for next winter's use the past week at $5.25 per ton. Balance shipments are ordered from the conipany's elevator on or before July 5. Nearly 3,000 loads were taken there for the year ending July, 1894. It will lack about 200 loads of that the coming July. The gradnating exercises of the Chel sea high school will be held at the town hall Thursday evenmg, June 27. The exercises will consist of inusic and an address by W. W. Wedemeyer. The class consists of 18 ineinbers, the largest class ever graduated from this school. The market on wheat has fallen off about ten cents the past week. It now brings 75 cents f or red or white here; rye, 60 cents; oats, 32 cents; beans, $1.75; eggs, 11 cents; butter, 11 cents; wool, 8 to 13 cents. Receipts have been light the past week on all but wool, which has come in freely. Upwards of 100,000 pounas of wool have already been taken in by all the dealers here.