Chelsea
Ed. Williams is making great improvernents to his house on North street. Rev. D. H. Conrad, of Salem, has been among friends here the past -week. Rev. Win. Walker preached an excellent baocalaureate sermón to the seniors of the high school and a large audience last Sunday night. Thirteea graluated last Taesday out of the grammar school into the high school for next year. F. Staffan and son have a nice new covered ice box for delivering ice. The village boaid passed an ordinance suppressing billiard tables, but has siuce cousented to let them run, and they are runnirg in violation of the state la-w. D. B. Taylor was a Jackson visitor last Friday. G. W. Turnbull attended the Felch obsequies at Ann Arbor last Tuesday. Dr. R. S. Armstrong and some others are already spending most of their time at the Gavanaugh lake resort. Balance sbipmeuts will be made at the Company's elevator, July 1, and it will then be closed till after harvest. The Chelsea Steam Laundry will move into the Hudler building on the west side of Main st., next Monday. The village board of health bas ordered all dogs kept off the streets for six inonths, on account of supposed daüger from mad dogs. Some pieces of rye and wheat will be ready to cut next week in this vicinity. Haying and harvesting will be on together this year. Haying will be the order of the day next week. A few are at it this week. Fire proteotion is good frut it is very easy to pay too imioh for a good thing. Wheat and rye are both considerably damaged by the Hessian fly. All spring crops are looking fine and the farmers have that enconragement in face of the declining prices. The alumni of the Chelsea high school are going to have a banquet at the Obelsea House, VVednesday nightf of next week. Dogs are property in this state and if you keep your dog properly muzzled you can collect his value if anybody kills hini. Five carloads of timothy hay were shipped from here last week f or which the farmers got $11 per toe. Frices have generally deolined. Wheat now brnigs 60 cents, rye 30 oenti, oats 18 cents, beans 60 cents, butter 9 cents, eggs 9 cents. Receipts light. It is reported that a ten year contract has been made for waterworks for this village by the village board. The village is to put in the mains and pay F. P. Galzier $91.25 a month for the engine power for n're purposes. The people are kicking vigorously and charging it to be au unwarranted tax to pension Mr. Glazier on tbe village without consent of the voters.
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