Chelsea

Business generally here is perceptibly improving. Wheat moves more freely this week at 81 cents per bushel. A. H. Watstin, of Unadilla, was here Wednesday on business. Rev. H. M. Gallup, of Ypsilanti, was in the village Wednesday. Mr. Snyder, of Cornwells, will be here with a stock of groceries next week. The streets of this village are in very fair condition but the sidewalk' are in very bad condition. A very large amount of clover seed has been retailed for seed here the past week at $4 per bushel. The cold, sharp, windy weather of the past week has been very bad on growing wheat and clover. B. Parker is going to put a stock of boots and shoes into the small store on T. McKone's corner. The first robia of the season made its appearance here Wednesday morning. It may find itself a little early. They are having four special evening meetings at the M. E. church this week with a view of reviving the work. The Village Charter election will be next Monday and there will be tvo tickets in the field. The only issue will be tax and anti-tax. In spite of hard times and erop failures there will be an unusual number ot barns and other out buildings built in this vicinity.next summer. Loren Babcock feil from his back porch last Sunday night on to the walk and frozen ground and was badly bruised but is reported doing well. There is a rumor here that C. Haehule & Co., of Jackson, are going to move their brewery here on account of Jackson voting dry at the late election. Mr. Flagler, of Jackson, the architect, was here early this week consulting with H. E. Holmes about his proposed residence to be suilt here next summer. R. E. Frazer, of Detroit, addressed the Alger club at the town hall last Friday night. He gave a very good address to a fair audience. The club reported 300 members in and about this village. Veterinary surgeons Muir, of Jackson, and H. A. Paige, of Lima, last Monday removed a fatty tumor weighing two pounds from the top of the head of a valuable mare owned by George Taylor, one mile south of this village. The Mare is doing well and will probably come out all right.