Basketbawls in the Land of Mears

If Gertrude Augur has 15 buttons on the back of her dress Bernardine Till ought to have more because she lives in the Button house . Emma Sloan is wearing some blue spiral rings . Bill Brown has made sure of his Christmas stocking . Just the other day he married Mrs. Bertha Stocking . It was the romance of two farms that stood side by side , where the grasses and the trees used to whisper to each other over the fence , saying my lady likes your man . And she lived alone and he lived alone in those houses side by side on the quiet grassy side road that runs up the hill by the woods . And they were very lonesome . So one day they said to each other : " Why can't we two be lonesome to- gether ? " After that they went to the minister's house and had Holman pronounce a $ 5 benediction . And this is the story of Brown - Stocking .

Mrs. Anna Flagg the eternal yeast of Pentwater who can always keep things amoving was the mainspring the other day in organizing the Mears Parent Teachers Association . Along with her came Mrs. Avis Sarles to act as her fountain pen and Mrs. Ada Modena to give things a Red Cross flavor . Earl Jona sen says to give your eyes a new pair of glass es for a Christmas present . Say Merry Christmas to

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Like as the great white blanket falls on the fields of winter wheat so the insurance that I write for you is a great blan ket of protection . Eva C. Hanson Insurance Agency , Hart Suddenly on the avenue in Hart appeared Margaret Knapp presenting mildred Gillette , who is first cousin to the safety razor and just as sharp . They made a lovely team and if they weren't teachers they would make delicious looking stenographers . margaret's name is Knapp but her brain is never napping . And mildred doesn't look sleepy .

WANTED- a good cow , a horse or team , a young boar , several stands of bees . Write me what you have . John H. Hill , 19 S. LaSalle Street , Chicago

All fall I had been wondering just why Fred Dorrance was building a house on the Shelby stone road when it was so much quieter and peacefuller over on his back coun- try hills . I thought maybe mary just wanted to be on the main drag to see the cars go by but now I know . At their little establishment a mile or two out of Shelby Fred is go- ing to have the finest wayside store I ever saw on MII with a butcher shop , ice cream parlor and gas station with sleeping rooms for tourists upstairs and an office lor " Doctor , Ball under the stairway . With the Carpenter schoolhouse for a starter and this ¡ new ho- tel , gas station , ice cream parlor and butcher shop for the current year's improvements , and with Albert Ball for mayor , Fred Dorrance has got his village pretty well estab- lished and we will call Its name Dorranceville if you please . Hats off to the butcher and the mayor and to Mary the soup disher in the leading hetel . Needaplumber ? if you're in a bushel of trouble send for Peck Peck on Tincan Alley sells bathroom and heating fixtures

IDEAL POULTRY AND SMALL FRUIT FARM for sale two and one - half miles northwest of Hart : 5 - room house in splendid condition , stone - wall cellar , smali spring brook , good pasture , good well , barn , 28 apple trees , otherfruit . mrs . Jonnie Dixon , R3 Hart

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AT THE SQUARE DEAL STORE . SAYLES & CO WANT POULTRY

Cottage at Stony Lake for sale 6 rooms al lathed and plastered . Garage , Property overlooks beautiful Steny Lake . 10 minutes walk to Lake michigan . Owner leaving for alifornia will sell for $ 1500 and include all furniture . Horace Sessions , R2 , Shelby

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Home made and always fresh . We have also a line of CHINESE BASKETS , empty or full of chocolates .

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HOT STUFF , by Swift Lathers !

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They didn't mean anything funny , the little kids of the Mears school . But they did get up the funniest poster and showed to the people who came to the school exhibition Friday afternoon . The little tots made some safety - first posters saying " Stop , Look and Listen " , Don't Play In The Street " , etc. Then - could had a sign up : " Don't Be A Jay Walker . " And all the time Jay L. Walker is the name you believe your eyes ? of one our leading citizens ( he leads the singing in all the sings , -except Lansing ) . He is a highly respected farmer and a successful salesman of whitewash brushes for the Ful- ler Brush Company and also ex - superintendent of schools . And why in the world should anyone warn the rising generation against his example and say : " Don't be a Jay Walker . Edward Eatem Allen , the town's professional loafer , president ofthe Mears Whittling Association and general manager of the toothpick factory , discovered a stick of wood in the street near his house Thursday morning and hurried in to get his hand sled to take it in before the owner might chance along and claim his own . If he is careful Edward Eatem Allen ought to be able to get 9,800 slivers out of this stick of wood . Although some folks say all his whittling is quite unnecessary and that he will not need any kind- ling where he is going .

West Golden : Oxel Anderson escaped to Chicago with sixty of his wife's chickens to sell so he could go on a spree for a week . Eric Anderson went along as pathfinder for the Briscee and ir.end and adviser to Oxel to prevent him from being picked up by the street cars or run over by the police . George Lindgren likes Frances Goebel , 12 years old Tuesday . Albert Anderson likes Anna Pacecky 11 years old . I hope he will still like her when she is 12 . Hilda Pearson named her baby brother Donald Arden alter Donald Rollins and Arden Anderson . Mabel Nelson likes Hannah Pearson brought home a big Turkey for Thanksgiving . Helen says she Norwood Griffin plays many Harry Near builds no chimneys for lamps , but

Clarence Gable .

Helen Billings Griffin got a new dress the color of a pumkin pie . had cold turkey four days after Thankfulthursday . trots on the bridge of his violin .

makes them out of brick not of glass . Will Peck has a new house on State Street in Hart and it took about thirteen dollars ' worth of black mortar color to blacken the lime - layers between the art brick of his chim- ney . Laura Worth has a sensible head under her sensible hair for she was the honor roll of the Hart high school last month . Orange Powers and wife have re- turned from Kalamazoo where they went down to see the stove factory and order a new stove . Parker Dee handed Sam Dinovo a dynamite fuse the other day . Sam in turn handed it to a stump . The result was a knockout .

Celia lost her ring Wednesday . Oh day of constematice and horrors !

But she found it again on Thursday .

boy said next day after he drauk the Pluto Water .

" Such a relief ! " , as the

To Mu k gon I went with Harold Kan Royal and Marvel with her exquisite throat charmed with a lovely fox fur . And Mr. Gilmore in the back who told about giving his Ittle girl an apple who brushed it aside with her two year old disdain and said : " Papa , I simply cannot eat apples with sores on them . Yes , that was what margaret Gilmore said whee she was 700 caps old . mrs . Royal told of her little girl Dorothy who lonce saw Swit Lathers go by with green pants and a red necktie and now , she often tells her mamma : I saw a man go by with red pants and green necktie and he lives in mears and his name is Patent Leather ! "

Thankyou , Dorothy , for the credit of the lustre .

-SWIFT LATHERS .