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Day
15
Month
March
Year
1879
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chelsea, March 12. - The week of temperance reviva closed Sunday mght and caused forty persons to siga tho pledge and put on the red ribbon. - Mason Long the oonverted gambler is to speak here on temperance Friday night. He is doing great good to the cause wherever he goes. - There has been an auction firra here for two weeks past selling dainagec crockery, boots, shoes, linen, &c. They have sold a large quantity of goods at good prices considering their eondition -our pnysicians ride nicht and dav now and report a good many oases o: chills, fevors, colds, pneumonĂ­a, and recently the measles began spreading among children, but no cases have provee fatal yet. - A small cow shed and hay stack belonging to Edwin Winters in the west part of town, were fired on Monday night by incendiaries, and totally destroyed about 11 o'clock. The loss was about $50. No insurance. - Arnold F. Prudden near hero has invented a new kind of wire fence anc applied for a patent. It consists of the usual posts with a single wire top and bottom, with two strips of common lath nailed to eaoli other on each side of the wires, thus making a strong, durable fence at about half the cost of the wire fences heretofore built. It promises to be very popular among farmers. - The charter election was held here on Monday. The issue was temperance and temperance. There were 234 votes cast and the temperance ticket was elected by majorities ranging froin 25 to 60. The following are the officers elect: President, George W. Turn Buil; Clerk, C. H. Eobbins ; Marshal, Jay M. Woods ; Treasuror, David B. Taylor ; Assessor, W. F. Hatch ; Trustees, James Hudler, C. H. Kempf and Geo. J. Crowell.

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Old News
Michigan Argus