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Chelsea

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
April
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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L. D. Loomis, of Grass Lake, was here on business Wednesday. The usual amouut of onions will be planted about here tnis spring. Interesting Easter services are being prepared by all the churches in town. Miss Minnie Steinbach, of Ann Arbor, speut last Suuday among friends ere. Trimming trees and cleaning up pards and gardens have begun in all Airections. Rev. J. H. Girdwood preached his Eaievvell sermón at the Baptist chureh last Sunday. C. E. Letts, of Detroit, was here ooking af ter his farm iuterests the 3rst of the week. There is talk of improving the Sylran drain, running through town, this 3oming sunimer. Wm. G. Lewick spent last Sunday ivith his tarnily. He works the tele?raph construction gang. The roads have dried up and got sassably good generally, and business noves on again as usual. Satie Speer spent last Sunday in Yp" iilanti, the guest of the Chelsea gliis who are there attending school. There is no indication that fruit buds are iujured yet, and they rarely ?et injured much after this date. Hugo McCall, of Lima, removed bag and baggage to the Henry Gorton farm, in VVaterloo, on Wednesday. Much sickness prevails nearly everywhere, but au iinprovement is expected with the advent of pleasant weather. William Cassidy returned from South Bend on Wednesday. He has had a serious time with blood poisoning, and had to have one thumb ainputated. The farmers are iu a quandary to know what to plant this spring, as there is no spring erop that pays for the labor of raiaing it. There is 110 choice so far as pay goes. The bicycle has appeared and will De the craze for the coming summer again as it was last. There are some ood things about the bicycle and its use, and some pretty serious ones. There are tnauy indications of ai early spring, though many set backs are yet possibje. An unusual numbei of birds have appeared. and they do not cease to sing. even when it snows The Anti-Saloon League completec its orgauization last Monday night by electing Jas. P. Wood, president; (J J. Chandler, R. A. Snyder and J. S Cummings, vice presidents; Fred Mapes, secretary. Wheat bas declined again and 8 cents is now what it brings. Beans ar also lower and 30 cents, with large dis counts, is the prevailing price. Ry 30 cents, oats 16 cents, potatoes 20 cents, eggs 7 cents, butter 13 cents Receipts increasing. Township election is next Monday There is unusual interest manifeste in it. The democrats have renomin ated Hiram Ligbthall for supervisoi and the republicans have nominatec William Bacon. Local issues ente into the contest and party lines wil not be very closely observed. At any time of day from twenty t thirty grown up, able bodied youn men can be seen loaflng about th streets of this village, without employ ment or visible means of support an many of them smoking cigarettes They do not seem to care for work o school, and what the aims of suc young men for the future can be ar past tinding out. House cleaning time has come again when the average housekeeper has de clared a war of "extermination agains cob webs, dirt, carpet bugs and othe bugs. The governor of the house need more than the average, amoünt o Christian graces if be puts up wit the cold meals aud changes the stove and stove pipes without taking any body's name in vain, or kicking th dog or cat, and keeps sweet with th hired girl.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News