Chelsea

C. T. Conklin was in Detroit on business last Wednesday. E. Skidmore, of this place, has been quite ill for some days. Binders for next harvest are already beginning to arrive. Mr. Baylis closed his auction sale of jewelry here Wednesday night. J. N. Howland, of Ypsilanti, bought pelts and hides here Wednesday. Mrs. Calkin has returned from Manchester where she has been visiting her mother. Our merchants have already received large quantities of very handsome spring goods. C. T. Conklin has leased his farm and will buy a place in this village and move here in the spring. The rain of last Sundaj was very much needed to remove the ice from wheat and fill up the empty cisterns, Mrs. Louise Fenn, of this village, is reported dangerouslv sick. She is seventy-five years oíd and a pioneer in this township. Eider Robinson, of the Baptist church, will address a unión meeting at his church next Sunday evening on local prohibition. George Enghsh and family, of Lima, left here bag and baggage last Monday for Branch county, where they have bought a farm. It was not 2,000,000 feet but 200,000 feet of lumber you should have said last week that will be sawed by Mr. Lighthall's mili here this winter. J. L. Gilbert, S. G. Ives, Wm. Judson, George H. Kempf and severai others left here Wednesday evening to attend the republican love feast at Detroit. Mrs. Hiram Fisk, of Francisco, died Tuesday evening of cáncer ot the stomach. She was an excellent lady, highly respected and nearly seventy years old. The dog killer is sadly needed here. It is no uncommon thing to see eight or ten worthless curs in a group on the streets and sheep have been killed by them in several places near here recently. There is considerable quiet wjork being done about here for and against prohibitiori. We shall poll nearly a full vote in this township next Monday if it is a pleasant day. Rev. D. R. tíhier spoke to a good audience at the town hall Tuesday evening on local option. He gave a good address and is verv confident that Washtenaw will vote dry like all the counties that have voted so far. The "Chelbea Park Association held its annual election last Friday and elected the following directors for this year: L. Babcock, H. S. Holmes, John Conlon, Orrin Burkhart, Charles Wines, James Taylor and Wm. Judson. Wheat moves a little more this week but continúes dull at 80 ets. The gamblers are on the market in the centers hammering it down to beat those who have bought May wheat in the country. It would not be strange if they keep it down where it ís, till after the first of May.