Brief Notes From Chelsea

Chelsea, Mich., August 11 – Died, Saturday, August 9, 1902, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Coe, of this place.

The junior stars in their game with the business men Friday defeated the latter by a score of 20 to 15, the “kids” making 12 runs in the last inning.

There was a game of ball here Saturday afternoon between a nine from the Stove Works and the Chelsea Junior Stars which resulted in a victory for the Stars.

M. A. Shaver is making arrangements to take his merry-go-”ound to Cavanaugh Lake for the use of the picnics that will be held there this and next week.

Alvin Baldwin, of Lima, has his new barn well under way towards completion and when it is all completed he will have one of the best buildings of the kind in that township.

The Vermont Marble., who have the contract for the marble work of the Glazier Memorial Building will about complete their part of the work this week having used something like 63 tons of marble at a cost of $12,000. The woodworkers are at work on their portion of the contract, and the vaults are completed and ready for the use of the Bank when it takes possession of the finest bank building between Detroit and Chicago.

It was reported that the electric light plant would close down for repairs Saturday night but the works will not shut down as reported and it is not known when the power plant will close for the contemplated and almost necessary overhauling.

The people of this place are wondering if the Boland syndicate has forgotten that about one year ago they laid some steel and graded a road bed that extends to the east of us as far as the village of Dexter and westward to the city of Jackson. If so they might refresh their memories by calling at Chelsea and taking a view of the rusty rails that adorn the center of Middle street.

Would it not be a wise move on the part of the village fathers to pass an ordinance whereby the numerous “hobos” who infest the town could be set at work on the streets and made for once in their existence do something toward earning their “grub” by the sweat of their manly (?) brows. For several days the town has been overrun with this class of “hard workers,” some of whom seem to live on what fruit they can gather from the trees that are close to the roads while others go to the back doors and ask for handouts. Set them at work and thus get rid of this undesirable element that seems determined to live off other people than by the “sweat of their own brow”