Chelsea

Several cases of typhoid fever have occurred here of late. Hon. and Mrs. 8. G. Ives, have returned from Bay View. The Lutherans had a picnic at Kavanaugh Lake on Wednesday. A 12J pound pickerel was taken out of Kavanaugh Lake last week by Dr. R. S. Armstrong. G. H. Purchase, of Hancock, is visiting his parents and numerous friends in this neighborhood. The oldest residents of this section say the earth here was never so thoroughly dry and baked before. Will Canfield, of Reading, was shaking hands with old friends about town the fore part of this week. A. Steger lost a fine horse last week. He died in the harness a very short time after the first symptoms of illness were discovered. Rev. E. A. Gay and wife, of Allegan, passed through this place one day last week on their way to Stockbridge to visit their son, G. H. Gay. A blossom opened on Mrs. J. K. Yocum's night blooming cereus last Saturday nïght; another Monday night and three more buds are growing. Rey. H. M. Gallup, of Ypsilanti, attendáflthe meeting of the G. A. R. post at this place, of which he is a member, last week, Wednesday evening. Mrs. Maria Geddes and her daughter, Mrs. F. Sweetland, returned last Saturday from Petoskey and other cool retreats in the north, after an absence of three weeks. A stack of hay, standing on the fair ground, a few rods from the railroad, took flre from a passing train last Saturday morning and in an incredibly short lime all the cattle sheds and about twenty rods of fence were in ashes. Last Sunday morning, John Fitzgerald, of Brantford, Canada, while coupling freight cars at this station, had his right fore arm crushed to a jelly between the bumpers. Amputation above the elbow was. performed by Dr. G. W. Palmer. The young man is doing well.