Chelsea Chat

Dr. Schmidt visited friends in Cleveland this week. Mr. August Steger went to Xew York last Sunday on business. Mr. C. M. Bowen sold all of his personal farm property at a public sale last Wednesday. He has rented his farm md intends to move to Ypsilanti to oin his children. The Stove Factory has been closed 'or the past few days, undergoing a :ew repairs and a thorough overhaulng. ïhey hope to resume work next ireek with a full force. Last Sunday the ïlev. L. Koebling jommenced his duties as pastor of the Lutheran church. He bas charge also Df the parish at Dexter, where he is ocated with his family. The public school gave the first of a series of monthly musical entertainments at the high school room last Friday. Everybody is invited to attend these concerts. Admission free. The Ladies Aid Society of Sylvan ('enter repeated their entertainment last Saturday night, with a slight change of program. They have been very successful and expect to present it at Francisco in the near future. Chelsea claims to be the largest poultry market in southern Michigan. Carloads have been shipped in f or the past two weeks, and one buyer claims to have killed and dressed over twenty tbousand pounds of turkeys in one afternoon. Mr. Geo. Lehman, a well known farmer living west of this village, was stricken with apoplexy while working in his cornfleld last week. He died in a few hours.and was buried last Friday ia the Oak Grove cemetery. The funeral was held from the Lutheran church. He was a brother of M. J. Lehman of Ann Arbor, and leaves a wife and five small children. The remains of Jlr. Thomas Congdon were brought here on the afternoon train last Monday from St. Johns. Mich. Mr. Congdon was an old resident of Chelsea and a member of the oldest family of the place, being a brother of the late Elisha Congdon. Mr. Congdon was seventy-two years of age, and for the past twenty years has resided elsewhere. Ile was buried directly from the train, the body being followed by a great many of his relatives and friends.