Published In:
Ann Arbor News, November 27, 1940
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CHELSEA BOY PREPARES LAMBS FOR STOCK SHOW: Charles Downer, member of the 4-H club organization and Future Farmers at Chelsea High school, where he is a sophomore, will enter a pen of three Shropshire lambs in the Detroit Junior Livestock show next month. He is one of eight Washtenaw county youths who are feeding lambs or steers for the show. Charles' little sister, Doris, helped him hold the lambs for the picture. Their parents are Mr. and Mrs. Darwin Downer, and the farm is at the northeast limits of Chelsea.

Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 6, 1950
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SCRAMBLING FOR PIGS AT THE CHELSEA FAIR: Each of the 14 Future Farmers of America who participated in the "pig scramble" at the Chelsea Community fair yesterday succeeded in capturing and winning permanent possession of a Duroc, to start a pedigreed line of his own. The 14 piglets were donated by businessmen and farmers of the Chelsea neighborhood and each winner is to have his animal bred and from the pen he is to return one female for the "pig scramble" at the 1951 Chelsea Fair. The community fair will continue tonight and through Saturday. Horsepulling contests were scheduled today.