Rosebugs are ripe in the Land of Mears

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Gus Kyburg drove to Big Blue Lake and got on a forsaken trail that emptied into a farm yard with two goats that jumped through the paneless windows into the house and butted against Gus's automobile . Gus had a full beard on his face maybe he hadn't shaved all winter . but when he saw those goats with their flowing beards , Gus hurried home to a barber shop to subtract his whiskers . I wonder what Don Near thinks of Jean Reynolds running around with running around with the 33 -82 Tessie Fisher , seven years old , was sent to water the garden and found the end of the hose buried two feet in the soil . So when she turned the faucet on she had pentwater . And that's where she lives . We have met pleasanter women than Mrs. Herb Kelso . We saw Car roll Hasty faultlessly Palmbeachified in his attire even to a white hat , up here on a visit to Hart from the cornflake city Carl Hill ought to buy a penny bank to put his pennies in . Hazel Billings doesn't want any beautiful I. J. Case signs hanging under her parlor his window . At the head of Pentwater Lake Henry Nietiedt runs Kozy Kamp and rents boats for fishermen who want to angle on the steelhead fishing grounds . Mrs. Jennie Van Boexel and children go to Walkerville on Saturday nights and attend the free out door show and watch Felix the cat help the billy goat . Arlath Ames of Luding- ton visited Beulah Irene Durgan of Riverhouse , who made a cake that was a flop . I guess so because she flopped it on the floor - Ruth Es- ther Kerr was selected as Farm Bureau queen . Who will be the farm wash stand king ? Lucille Skinner likes to play Ladies Aid . - Ernest Wentzloff has had an offer of marriage . He says one woman anteed herself " to him to be a good housekeeper . Mary Loughmiller spent a week with her aunt , Mrs. Seneca Harris , and had lots of aspar- agus to eat . Floyd Mitteer , the " prodigal son who came home and feathered his nest by " taking care " of his mother in the final months when she was old and sick and well - to - do , who excluded some of the other children from his mother's home so they could not talk to their

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mother , and seemingly froze them out of the inheritance , does not seem to stand in well with any of the brothers and sisters , so far as I can discover . The other day Winfield met the heavy plutocrat on the street in Hart and told him : " If it weren't for breaking that window I would knock you through that glass , " or words to that effect . Now do you suppose that it is possible Floyd whispered in his mother's ear a good deal during her final invalid months and told her what a good fellow he was and how the others didn't care for her ? We see Floyd walking around a good deal , not doing much of anything since he got several thousand dollars worth in property and money . He doesn't seem to be oozing with love for Lucy and Ada and Ernest and Win- field and Bruce and Charlie and the sister from Kent City . Maybe he is happy in his way but what scales does he weigh himself on ? -Rus- sell Spore is up in Ludington looking after the 4th ward Polocks . Orie Gifford , Gerald Moschke , Ellen Burmeister and Betty Farmer gave a party in Gleaner hall on Peach Ridge . But Gerald went to Shelby and got Betty Savage for his girl . - Rev . Beacock will be the main ora- tor at the Crystal Valley church home coming Sunday , June 21. - Len Morgan is selling 8 bars of Dixie laundry soap for 26c . Mrs. Mark Crispel moved Wednesday two blocks north in Crystal Valley . Ford Powers bought a team of horses from Fred Bu Hawl , supposed to be 12 and 13 years old . After a while he traced the team's ownership back a decade and found they were 25 years old . So he complained to Fred of the horses ' age . " That's right , " said Fred , " they are 25 years old . Didn't I say they were 12 and 13 years old ? Well , 12 and 13 makes 25 . " - Helene Harris likes to sit down on the floor against the cold heatrola and read a book . - See the new Sinclair palace that Henry Senecal has just built in Shelby . On the slanting boulevard it stands where the chariot race goes by , right where the local traffic divides on Churchill's corner to go down town . Of rare white beauty rise the modednistic plaster walls like a Spanish mission , with little green tile like effects sloping down to the eaves . Henry was always a hustler and he says he made the money to build at selling cherries at 2½c a pound , but we guess he made the first $ 100 slapping bushels together in Harrison's old time basket factory . Then he went up to Hesperia and made about a thousand or two selling patent medicine in a prescrip- tionless drug store . Well , Henry is a hustler and he points with pride to the final plaster coat of milky whiteness made out of sand shipped clear from Maryland . - A wide - awake man at 91 is George Enslow , who was a soldier when Lee surrendered his sword to Grant . Henry Van Bergen came to Crystal to see Hazel Gay but she was canning asparagus .

When your afternoon shopping is over and your feet are weary , set them down to rest under a little table in Bright's drug store and order a soda from our marble fountain .

Down at the Depot News stand Fred Lorenz offers to you the fresh- est , newest , brightest , readiest magazines and newspapers in wide array . Get out your summer suit , your Palm Beach clothes and Daytona suit and bring them to us to be cleaned and pressed . It is time for gar- den parties and lawn fetes and the evening beach promenade . And if you need new clothes our needles are ready and our tape measure is willing . A. V. Funk , the tailor , in the heart of Hart .

SIX PIANOS FOR SALE , $ 25 to $ 100 . Also a bunch of new mat- tresses at a saving price . Folding camp cots with mattresses , $ 6.00 . Shelby Re - Sale Store , C. L. Jensen .

Kiddies bathing suits , pure wool , sizes 5 to 14 years , 60c a garment . Switchman brand band - top overalls , 8 oz . weight , $ 1.00 a pair . Also we have the famous Carhartt overalls . Ladies ' aprons , ready made , 35c . Ideal Sales Co. , George W. Skinner , Hart .

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When you want safety , comfort , economy and reliability , choose Plymouth . There is a kind of extra interest , of never - ceasing attention to quality , in the very air at the big Plymouth plant . It is a big face- tor that makes Plymouth a great car , the greatest value in the low- priced field . Gillette Motor Sales , Hart .

Oscar Shogren saw the opportunity for a little summer store at the foot of the sand dunes . Twenty three years ago Malcolm Wood was starting his Floradale resort business and went to the trains with a one horse cart to meet his customers . I can see that old mare yet , trotting around the corner and up Urtel's hill to meet the four o'clock train . And then the trunks going back and the summer resort girls dangling their feet overboard out of the rear end of the wagon . For years the black dirt slept in Rankin's swamp and then the Weesie boys came along with grit and vision enough to buy it and clear it and grub out the roots and start an onion business in the black fertile field . There is a vacant grocery in Mears . The Omness boy started himself in the angleworm business at Stony Lake . Guy Benner saw the oppor- tunity for a pop corn stand on the Saturday night street in Hart . ATTENTION EX - SERVICE MEN : I have for sale the 20 aere Luke Riley farm southwest of Smith's Corners . Beautiful location , lots of fruit , good buildings , at a little more than the bonus you will be get- ting . See me . Eva Hanson - Osborn , Hart .

Entered as second - class mail matter August 8th , 1914 , at the post office Mears , Michigan , under Act of March 3 , 1879 .

Swift Lathers , Editor and Bottlewasher .

I have some splendid pieces of property for sale in the vicinity of Silver Lake where resorting and farming may be combined : with prices far below values . Also other farms and town properties . A green- house ; also a garage . See me for your wants in a home . Eva Hansen- Osborn , Hart , Mich .

EARL JONASSEN , Optometrist , Hart , Michigan . Eyes examined . spectacles fitted . Office in jewelry store , next to post office .

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Your car leaps to the joy of spring , but don't forget about auto in- surance . You might bump a tree or another ear . See The Joslin surance Agency , Hart , for collision and liability insurance .

At our service station on Hart's busiest corner we are ready to re- fuel your automobile , to oil it , grease it , or cool it with a drink of wa- ter , to fit on new tires or adjust your brakes . Hart Petroleum Co.

Phil Wurthner at the Oakland - Pontiac garage does repairing on all cars , sells tires and En - Ar - Co Motor Oil ; does battery work and what else do you need ?