B. F. Tuttle Dropped Dead

Chelsea, Mich., Jan. S.- Mrs. Mark Armstrong. of Lyndon. near the village of Unadilla, died at her home on Monday evening, Jan. 6, 1902. Mrs. Armstrong's funeral will be held on Thursday, the Rev. E. E Caster, D. D., of the Chelsea M. E. church, officiating. The husband of the deceased was frozen to death February 23,.1900 on his way home from Pinckney.

Vera, the youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Graham, of this village, is seriously ill with inflammatory rheumatism.

Thomas Murray; of Dexter township, is making arrangements to build a 30x60 barn on his farm to replace the one he lost recently by fire.

The Chelsea Roller mills are again in full blast. A. Merchant, of Battle Creek, the owner, is here in person, directing the business and the mill will be run under the firm name of the Merchant Milling Co. This same company have two mills at Battle Creek in full blast and the output of the mill here will be handled in connection with their other milling business.

George Bacon, the son of Mr. and Mrs.J. Bacon, is confined to the house of his parents with an attack of inflammatory rheumatism.

Quite a number of the residents of Chelsea are swollen up these days because of inflammation of the paranoid gland (mumps).

There was a match game at the Staffan bowling alley Monday evening between the chelsea Experts and the Stars, which resulted in a victory for the Experts, who had a score of 260 points to their credit and now challenge any team in the county to meet them at any time in matched social game.

Yesterday afternoon our citizens were startled by the announcement of the sudden death of B. F. Tuttle. between 12 and 1 o'clock Howard Beckwith of Sylvan, drove into Mr. Tuttle's barn with a load of hay. and the latter went up the ladder to assist in unloading  the hay that had just been drawn. but there was some hay in front of the door that was in the way and the deceased and the driver of the team were engaged in moving it out of their way. After moving a few forkfuls Mr.Beck with noticed that Mr. Tuttle was falling to the floor and at once went to his assistance, but found that he was unable to speak and so ran at once for assistance. Telephone messages were sent for doctors, who responded promptly but to no avail. as death had been almost instant, and the physicians pronounced apoplexy as the cause. Mr. Tuttle was a pioneer resident of this place and was a man who had a host of friends. He was the inventor of the cross cut saw known throughout this state by his name and said to have been the first saw made equipped with what is known as rakers for chips and sawdust from sawlogs, thus making the work of the sawyers easier. Mr. Tuttle was a native of the State of New York and was in his 72 year. The larger part of his life has been spent in this community. He was a life-long democrat and had filled the office of justice of the peace for a number of terms: He leaves a wife, one son and three daughters to mourn his demise.