Chelsea

Alvin Wilsey, of Ann Arbor, was here last Tuesday. Thomas Condón of St. Johns' was here Tuesday at the funeral of his uncle. The republican politieians are in Chicago this week at their national convention. Balance shipments from the elevator here have been ordered before the first of July. C. H. Kempf returned from his easrern trip VVednesday with his wife and daughter. The thermometer here has been at about 90 degrees in the shade nearly all this week. The schools have closed and the late extreme hot weather mak.es the children doubly glad. The only doings we hear of about here for the fourth of July are picnics at the lake resorts. Eider Mclntosh attended quarterly meeting at Lima last Sunday forenoon and Eider Holmes officiated in his church. Business in some lines here is much better than it has been. Even the prospect of good spring crops puts life into trade. Wheat has headed out now and developes an unusual amount of smut. The erop bids fair to yield more than was expected two months ago. The pathmasters of this county are probably not aware that the law requires them to piek the cobble stones out of the röads of their districts twice every summer, and that the penalty fov not doing it is $25. In some localities the stones are numeious and intolerable. Wool does not move here yet though it is nearly all sheared. Farmers are not willing to sell for less than 25 cents as a rule and buyers will not take it at those figures. It will probably move slowly next week at what it will bring which will be from 20 to 23 cents. James M. Congdon died at his residence, in this village, last Saturday night, of a compiication of diseases, chief of which were dropsy and heart disease. Me was S3 years old the 23d of last March. He was bom at Norwich, C'onn., and came here fifty years ago and bought land where the village of Chelsea, west of Main street, now stands, and has lived here ever since. His wife fpur boys and three girls survive him. He was never sick much until his last sickness, during which he suffered much. He was buried iu Oak Grove cemetery last Tuesday. He was a member of the Masonic fratefnity, and oí the Michigan legislature of 1871.