Chelsea

Business has been lively here this week. Goed timothy hay brings $14 per ton here. Clare Durand and wife are having a vacation here. Wheat comes in slowly at $1.00 per bushei this week. The apple evaporators are through work and have done well this íall. Elders Kobinson and Reilly exchanged puipits last Sunday night. There are more empty houses in this village-now than ihere has been tor years Rev. J. E. Reilly will preach the Thanksgiving sermón here at the M. E. church. , James Leach, of Paw Paw, was here this week to see bout the Downer estáte. James bpencer, oi Barry county, was here this week with the reinams oi his brother. The ladies of the M. E. church are having their art loan ihis week and it is a success. Judge Harrnr.an was here last W ednesday and protected the will of Durwm Downer decuased. Henry Murray has just returned from Cadillac and say snow is two leet deep there and sleigning good. Upwards oí 2200 loatls of wheat have been taken in at this place in the company 's ele vator bince the first ot last Jauuary. John Hummel and Henry Fern, have bought R. t. Armstrong's drug and grocery business and are now running the same. Piosecutmg Attorney Norris was here Monday and liad three tramps, bouncl over to the circuit court foi robbing a man here. A. Steger paid out $2200 last Tuesday tor turkeys and chicleen. Eight cents were paid for turkevs and six cents for chickens. If Cleveland had been rt-elected, republicans would have said the late decline in all the markets was cau-ed by that (Wet, but now they deny that the election of Harrison had anything to do with it. Elmer Spencer, a young man about 30 years old, formerly of this place, but l.itely of Barry cnunty, feil from a load of hay and broke his neck a few days ago. His remxms were broujiht here last Tuesday and burieH in the Vermont cemetery.