Chelsea

Wm. Selfe has begun sprinkling the streets again for the summer. Jacob Schumacher is inaking large additíons and im pro vemen ts oa h:s house on S. Main st. Burt McClaiu has the oellar walls for bis new house on Park st. now completed. C. E. Letts, of Detroit, vas here on business the first of the week. John Farrell has moved his grooery business into C. H. Kempf's store, nest to the postoffice, and other parties will continue the saloon in the place he has left. The spring here is nearly two weeks earlier than it was one year ago. It has been very seasonable weather. The prospect for fruit and all crops is unusually good. The saloon keepers of this village are meeting with some difficulty in getting satisfactory bondsmen. Tho bonds are fixed at f4,000, and of the six bonds preseoted to the village board last Monday night, three were accepted and three zejected as not up to the legal requirements. Cleaning house and making gardens is the oider of the day on all sides here this week. The farmers of this . vicinity have sown very little barley this spring and will not plant nearly as many beans as they did last year. The Cantata of Queen Esther, receutly rendered here by local talent, was well done and netted the societies concerned over $100. The markets continue dull and inolined downward as low as they are. Wheat brings 65 cents, rye 35 cents, oats 21 cents, beans 65 to 70 cents, eggs 8 cents, butter 11 oents. Wool is now offered occasionally, nnwashed, and is bought at about 9 cents per 1b. This means 13 or 14 cents for washed. Receipts light. F. Stafi'an & Son put out 75 refrigerators in this village this week, and furnish ice for the summer at $10 each. There will be an unusual number of residences built and repaired in this village this season. Supervisor Lighthall is now taking the assessment. Many assessments will have to be lowered this spring if sales cut any figure in values. Jas. S. Gorman and Jas. Taylor attended the democratie state convention in Detroit, Wednesday, as delegates from here. The village board is now figuring on water works for this village. It will meet with opposition from the people, beoanse the general belief is that taxes should not be increased now even for a good thing. A carload of fruit trees was distributed here last week. Old trees have to be replaced by young ones. The Union temperance meeting next Sunday night will be addressed by Dr. Holmes. Today is Arbor Day and it will be observed here by many in the planting of trees. A recent guest at Bryn Mawr was Miss Emily James Smith, deán of Baruard college. Miss Smith's occasional visits to her alma mater are inuch esteemed, the college being justly proud of its distingnished daughter.