Chelsea

J. P. Wood, D. B. ïaylor anti Geo. E. Davis were in Ann Arbor on busiess last Tuesday. The Chelsea Manufacturing Co. will oon be ready for business at their facory on Jackson st. Wheat on the ground looks well and will probably get no dainage now, and I a good erop is assured. , John Lucht has bought the Staebler farm east of Four Mile Lake, but will not move tliere at present. The water in the creeks and marshes abouthere is very high, but no serious duraage lias yet been done by it. Fred Vogel, of Pittsburg, Pa., has been among relatives and friends here : and at Ann Arbor the past week. The songs of the spring birds were eonsiderably dampened by the snow storm of the early part of this week. William Westfall, of Chicago, who las been visiting his parents in Lima, eturned home the tirst of this week. D. B. Taylor sold 40 acres of land jn the south-west corner of this township ast week 'to I. N. Hernck, of Sharon. The Standard Oil Co. will sell gasoine the coming summer for 10 cents )er gallon instead of 14 cents as last summer. The senior high school class gives a musical entertainment at the town hall on Friday night which will be well attended. Beans continue to grow lower. Many have been bought at 30 cents with the discounts. Less of them will be planted this spring than for several years. An Anti-Saloon League wasorganized at the town hall last Monday night and Dr. Thos. Holmes was eiected president and Fred Mapes secretary. Young men grown could be seen playing the elevating game of marbles at all times of day in this town the past week until it was stopped by the snow storm. The new members of the yillage board have taken charge of affairs and have stopped the collection of poll taxes five months after the time limited by the charter to do so. The W. C. T. U. held its annual election last week and it will be offlcered the cnrrent year as follows: Mrs. J. S. Edmunds president, Mrs. E. S. Prudden secretary, Mrs. Geo. Blaich treasurer. Caucusea to nomínate township officers are called for next Saturday and two tickets, democratie and republican will be put in the field. It will not be as one sided this spring as it was last. The tnajorities will be smalt. The market on wheat still stands nominally at 85 cents, but it will have to go lower as it eannot be sold for that. Bye brings 30 cents, oats 15 cents, potatoes 2ü cents, eggs 8 cents, butter 12 cents, arrivals moderate. William Gr. Bancer died at his residence in Lima last Friday of some lingeriiig disease not known to the, doctors. He left a wife, two sons and three daughters to mourn his loss. He was about 72 years old and an excellent citizen, much respected by all who knew him. He was a quiet man who always attended strictly to his own business and left a nice property to his family. The departure of few men is more generally regretted than his, both by his family and his many friends. A large number of relatives and neighbors gathered at the family residence Sunday to pay their last tribute of respect to his memory.