Chelsoa, Sept. 6.-Bom, Sept. 4, to Mr. a...

WORK ON THE NEW CEMENT PLANT

STONE BEING DRAWN FOR IT AT FOUR MILE LAKE

The Glazier Stove Co.'s Big Signs-Electric Light Plant Being Overhauled-Two Deaths Chronicled.

Chelsea, Sept. 5.-Born, Sept. 4, to Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Brooks, a son.

Improvement seems to be the order of the day with the Glazier Stove Co., the latest being two immense wire signs that can be readily read by the travellers on the M. C. no matter how fast the speed of the train through our village. The one for the new office building is 5 feet high and extends across the front and entire length of the building, and the letters are three feet in height. The other will be placed on the foundry building facing the M. C. passenger house, with two rows of letters. The upper row is two and a half feet high and the lower one three and a half feet. Both signs are of wire.

The funeral of the late Mrs. Sarah Whittington was held from the home of her daughter, Mrs. S. L. Gage, yesterday morning. Mrs. Whittington was 83 years of age and has for a number of years made her home with her daughter in Sylvan township.

W. P. Schenk is having a barn 26x40 feet erected on his property on Adams street.

The Western German Cement Co. have a number of teams drawing stone for their new works at Four-Mile Lake, and carpenters are at work on a new office building for them. The plant will be located near the M. C. tracks on lands that the company recently purchased of Mrs. Thos. Sears in Lima.

Geo. W, Turnbull, one of the prominent men of this place, is critically ill at his home with but slight hopes of his recovery. He is reported a little better today.

The village electric light plant has had a thorough overhauling this week and is again in commission.

Thos. Murry, of Dexter township, is very low with Bright's disease.

The schools opened here Tuesday with an attendance of about 350.

John B. Koebbe, of Freedom, died at his home yesterday aged 75 years. The funeral will be held from his late home next Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Ed. Weiss, of this place, is a daughter of the deceased.

Next Wednesday will occur the annual meeting and election of officers of the O. E. S.

The Women's Guild of the Congregational church will hold an ice cream social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoppe on Wednesday, Sept. 2.