Brief Notes From Chelsea

Chelsea, Mich., June 23 - The prospects at the present time are not very bright for a large corn crop in this immediate vicinity, but the hay and oat crop will be a large one and wheat will be far better than for a few years last past.

John Forner, of this village, is having a neat residence erected on his farm.

Mrs. Robert Foster is seriously ill at her home one and a half miles north of this village in Sylvan township. Mrs. Foster is the mother of County School Commissioner Foster and one of the old residents of that township.

Rev. Mr. Lewis gave an illustrated lecture at the Congregational church last night in the interest of the anti-saloon league.

Many of the farmers are complaining of their inability to secure sufficient help for haying.

The Consolidated Wheel Co.'s ball team, of Jackson, met the Chelsea boys at this place Saturday afternoon. The score was 9 to 0 in favor of the Jackson boys.

Frank Baldwin, of Lima, is having a barn 36 by 54 erected on his farm. Alvin Baldwin, of the same township, is making arrangements to build one that will be 36 by 50. C. W. Maroney, of this place, is the contractor for both buildings.

The Unadilla Farmers' Club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Hadley, of Lyndon, last Saturday afternoon and the program was a very interesting one.

John Grau and John Brown, of Lima, are having quite extensive repairs made to their places and O. C. Burkhart is doing considerable repairing to his farm buildings.

Chelsea, June 26.- The school in Lyndon, situated on the shores of Island Lake, known as Pumpkin College, closed with an interesting program last Friday. The teacher, Miss Lillian Girard of Chelsea, who has taught the school for the past year and one-half with eminent satisfaction to all of the district, laid down the rod and surrendered unto the school officials the keys of the college. For the coming year she will teach in what is known as the Lehman district in Sylvan.

Jasper Graham, the bee man of this place, reports that so far this season he has had 40 swarms of bees added to his colonies of sweet gatherers.

Rudolph Kantlehner, who for the past two years has been in the employ of Fenn & Vogel as a clerk, will enter his father's jewelry store here next Monday in a like capacity.

Several families of this village are making arrangements to move to their summer homes at Cavanaugh the first of next week.

Merchant Brooks is engaged in building a cottage on his lot at Cavanaugh lake.

Matt Houser has purchased a vacant lot that joins his property of Mr. Quinn of Battle Creek.

Earl Foster left for Pinckney yesterday where he will attend the commencement exercises of the school there.

A new cement side walk is being laid in front of the residence of J. S. Cummings.

The American Telegraph and Telephone Co. has several cars of large poles at this station and it is said that they are building a line from Jackson this way.

Frank Leacher returned from Chicago Tuesday with two carloads of ten months' old calves that weigh about 400 pounds each, and has sold most of them to the farmers about here for feeding this summer. He will leave for Chicago again Sunday and he expects to buy two or three cars more of the same kind and ship them here.

Chelsea's latest industry bids fair to be one of the thriving places in this hustling burg. John P. Foster is the proprietor and he manufactures a cement fence post that is very practical. The post has a steel bar that runs the entire length of the post, through which is drilled holes at the proper distance for the height of the fence and of the gage that the farmers usually use in building wire fences. Mr. Foster says that he is crowded with orders, and without a doubt it is the coming post, because of its durability and cheapness.