Chelsea

Chelsea.

George T. English is on business in Coldwater this week.

Stetsons Uncle Tom's Cabin show, Monday night, had a crowded house.

L.D. Lawranson, of Lansing, has moved here and works for C. Stenbach.

R. A. Synder has loaded and shipped 30 car loads of onions and has 14 more yet to ship.

Several from this vicinity have been attending the round up State Farmers Institute at Pontiac this week.

The Methodist ladies are practicing and will have the "Temple of Fame" before the people by the middle of March.

C. Spirnagle has bought Fred Kantlehner's store building on S. Main st., and will add to it and move his business there.

The Aeolian Jubilee Singers had a good house at the town hall last Friday night but did not quite measure up to the expectations of those who got them here.

Business is starting up early here and we are sure of a good spring trade in every line of business. Everybody is more hopeful than they have been for many years.

The work of tearing down the old Methodist church progresses slowly. They will be fortunate if they get as good work and as good architecture in the new church as were in the old one.

Wheat is killed in the low spots and the high spots but if the balance comes out alive and well in April the crop damage will not be serious enough to effect prices much on the balance of wheat on hand.

The charter election is close at hand and very little has been said or done about it yet. It must be that there are not as many axes to be ground this spring as usual. Well, enough have been ground in recent years at the expense of the dear people to give them a rest for a while.

The market is firm and tending upward. Wheat brings 70 cents; rye, 58 cents; oats, 30 cents; beans, $1; clover seed, $3, dressed hogs, $5; chicken, 6 cents; eggs, 18 cents; butter, 13 cents; potatoes, 30 cents; onions 40 cents. Receipts of produce are now liberal and likely to be free all the month of March.

John Corey was killed by getting run over by a freight train in the west part of this village about 3 o'clock last Monday morning. He was stealing a ride from Jackson to this place on a car loaded with lumber and is supposed to have accidentally fallen between the cars when getting off. He was 21 years old and a hard working boy who by keeping bad company had contracted the bad habit which led to his death. It ought to be a warning to many other young men in this village who are traveling the same dangerous road.