Chelsea

April first is Easter Sunday. Machinery drummers are thick about here now. Very poor beans sold here this week at $1.50 per bushel. The special meetings at the M. E. church continue this week. R. A. Snyder will open his stock of groceries here on Saturday next, D. H. Fuller has been quite ill the past week but is now some better. No wheat here this week. The weather and going are both too rough. The late cold winds have had a very bad effect on wheat 011 the g round. The large number of logfs at the saw mili here are now nearly all sawed up. Very little real estáte is changing hands this Spring, except upon mortgages. The farmers are already feeling blue over the prospect fbr next summers crops. A large number of dressed calves are shipped to New York from here every week. Fred Canfield has bought and taken charge of Charley Carpenter's dray and business. Wm. Wood has bought the Ben Clark homestead on North street East of the grist mili. Colds and lung difficulties are verv prevalent about here just now and the doctors are very busy. There is a family cat in the village that is extremely fond of peanuts and will leave any other food to eat them. Mrs. Joseph Beasley died very suddenly last Monday morning in this village of Paralysis. It was the 58th anniversary of her birthday. She was an excellent lady and will be much missed from that household. The charter election was a quiet afFair last Monday with two tickets in the field, people's and anti-tax. A. R. Congdon was elected clerk on the anti-tax ticket and Wm. Bacon and Charles A. Guerin, trustees on the same. William J. Knapp was elected president on the peoples ticket and H. Lighthall the third trustee and J. L. Gilbert assessor and Theo. E. Wood, treasurer. This village has $500 in the treasury and that with the saloon tax is thought to be enough to go through the year without any direct tax with proper economy.