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17 Widowers and 86 Widows

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
March
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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17 Widowers and 86 Widows

Live Within the Corporation of Chelsea

Finkbeiner Resigns

As Conductor on Motor Line and With His Bride will go to Farming

Chelsea, Mich., March 6 - The village treasurer's report to the common council ending March 1 shows that $19,286.89 have been received and $19,212.16 paid out. There are $460.73 in taxes yet to be collected.

Today at high noon at the residence of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schultz, of Dexter township, will occur the marriage of their daughter, Miss Martha K., to Mr. John Finkbeiner, of Lima. John, for a long time has been one of the popular conductors of the D., Y., A.A. & J. electric line, but with his approaching marriage he resigned Tuesday night and will for the future follow farming on a farm he recently purchased in Lima.

A resident of this place, who is rather fond of statistics, made a count of the widows and widowers who reside in the limits of the corproation and announces that there are 17 widowers and 86 widows. 

The free seat offering at the M.E. church last evening was a well attended event and the exchequer well filed.

The Ann Arbor Music Co. will give a concert at the opera house Wednesday evening, March 12, for the benefit of the piano fund of the L.O.T.M. Every musical number of the program is well selected and the lovers of music will receive a rare treat if they are present.

The O.E.S. will have a meeting next Wednesday evening, March 12. Initiation will be the program of the evening.

C.P. Clark, of Lyndon, a day or two ago, sold to one of the stock buyers 18 sheep that averaged in weight 125 pounds. This is not a very bad showing for the hills of Lyndon.

Pomona Grange will meet with Lafayette Grange at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O.C. Burkhardt, of this village, Thursday, March 13.