Big Profit In Onions

BIG PROFIT IN ONIONS

One Chelsea Man will Clean Up $12,000

DURING PAST SEASON

The Kempf Bank Declares a Semi-Annual Dividend of 4 Percent

Chelsea, Mich., Dec. 31.- What year did the M. C. R. R. abandon the old strap rail and adopt the T rail? This is a question that is being asked by several of the older residents of Chelsea.

There will be a regular review of Chelsea tent, K. O. T. M., Friday evening of this week.

The Chelsea Baseball and Football association is making arrangements for the entertainment at the opera house the latter part of January.

Secretary Geo. T. English, of the Northwestern Washtenaw Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Co., had a representative of the state insurance commissioner here the latter part of last week, looking over his books, and eyerything was found to be in first class shape.

The stockholders of the Kempf Commercial Savings bank will receive checks at the close of business today for a semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent.

The main street of Chelsea was the scene of much curiosity yesterday, when George Hale and Michael Wackenhut were engaged in drawing the massive sandstone columns for the Glazier memorial building from the M. C. railroad yards to the building where they will be used. They are 21 feet in length, 3 feet in diameter at the bottom and 2 feet in diameter at the top and weigh 10 1/4 tons each. There are two of them and they will be placed on either side of the main entrance of the building.

The Chelsea high school will open again next Monday morning.

It is said that one of the onion shippers at this place will clear up $12,000 on the oderiferous bulbs that he has bought and shipped from this market, this season. J. P. Wood & Co., the bean shippers, have some thirty new machines in operation at their warehouse and have a force of about fifty girls hand-picking beans at the latter place.