St. Mary's Church Picnic Postponed

WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY AUGUST 21

Fat and Lean Men of Chelsea Play Fast and Furious Game of 9 Innings

Chelsea, August 13.- Owing to the inability of Judge Durand, of Flint, the democratic nominee for governor, to be present on August 20, the picnic of St. Mary's church at Cavanaugh lake has been postponed until Thursday, August 21, at which time it is expected that several speakers who are prominent throughout the state will be present and take part.

M. A. Shaver has taken his merry-go-round to Cavanaugh lake, where he will operate it during the next ten days.

The Chelsea roller mills are shipping in considerable wheat from the west in order to keep the mill running up to its usual capacity.

Harrison & Moran, the new proprietors of the foundry, are making arrangements to operate a cider mill this fall in connection with their foundry business.

Rev. Thos. Holmes, D. T., will leave today for the Moskoka lakes, in Canada, for a ten days' outing.

The Cleary college team of ball players from Ypsilanti run up against a hard proposition yesterday afternoon when they met the Junior Stars at this place. Score 4 to 12 in favor of the Chelsea Junior Stars. Come again, boys.

Yesterday afternoon at 1:30 the citizens of this place observed base ball nines composed of fat and lean men of this village wending their way toward the ball park, and of course every man, woman and child who could possibly get away at once started for the field of action to witness the fun, and every physician who was in town held himself in readiness for accident calls, as some of the fat men are positively known to tip the beam at 250 pounds, while some of the leans weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 and in case of collision one may guess what the result might have been. As it was none of the physicians were called upon for their surgical skill. The fat men took rather a mean advantage of the leans by fasting at dinner time, and the leans in anticipation of the hard work that was before them fairly scared the good housewife out of her wits by the way they disposed of viands just before the game. Everybody present enjoyed many good laughs at the expense of both teams and more especially when one of the fats was unfortunate enough to fall while running for a base. The games lasted only five innings, but was a fast and furious one at that, resulting in a score of 11 to 12 in favor of the fat men. The lean men declare that they shall forthwith issue a challenge for a return game and next time the leans will have the scalps of their fat friends.