33 Tickets Were Blank

33 TICKETS WERE BLANK

At the Village Election in Chelsea Yesterday

ELECTION VERY QUIET

Boland Electric Company Seems to be Commencing Operations

Chelsea, March 10. -- In the election in this village today there was only one ticket in the field. There being no contest the election passed off very quietly. The total number of votes cast was 278. Of these 245 were cast for the ticket and 3 were blanks. The following were elected:

President -- F. P. Glazier.

Clerk -- W. H. Hesselschwerdt

Trustees for 2 years -- W. J. Knapp, O. C. Burkhardt and A. W. Wilkinson.

Treasurer -- Fred Roedel.

Assessor -- S. P. Foster

Chelsea, Mich., March 11. -- The village election passed off very quietly yesterday and the vote was not up to last year as the vote one year ago was 462 and this year there being but one ticket in the field only 278 of the voters cast their ballots this year, and 33 of them were practically useless as there was no mark placed under the heading of the ticket. Last night the band serenaded the successful candidates and the cigars were passed out to the assembled crowds.

The Boland electric line people have several carloads of large cedar poles on the sidetrack in the M. C. R. R. yards here and it is reported that the company started a force of men at work near Grass Lake yesterday morning.

Leander Tichenor, Chelsea's boat builder has completed some twelve of his celebrated row boats this winter and they are all beauties.

The Athletic association of the high school will entertain the citizens of Manchester on Friday evening of this week with two comedies and number of specialties.

There will be a large amount of cement walk laid in this village the coming spring.

Howard Brooks has commenced to excavate for the cellar of a new brick residence that he will erect on Middle street west.

March 17 some of the members of the parish of St. Mary's church will give a dramatic entertainment at the opera house here.