Catalpa Blossoms are ripe in the Land of Mears

Catalpa Blossoms

Fred Stevens has been promised a dime for every grade he misses , and by the time he gets his diploma he may be a millionaire . Myron Mich- alczuk met Mary Nolan as a fellow picker in the goosebery patch and he took a great fancy to her . He would like to take Mary out to din- ner at a swell restaurant and order goosebery pie in memory of their first meeting place David Fletcher seems to be brightening up in his attire and hopes his choice of neckties will please Ann Wietzke . Since Pat Joslin has arrived home from boarding school she has livened up the town . Mary Wetmore would like to go to the same barding school next year . Since Steen & Schultz got their new bookkeeper ( her name is Mildred Benson ) , Howard does not have any trouble keeping his partner , Victor Schultz , on the job . Victor is there day and night .

Junior Till is going to get a new bicycle so he can ride up from the lake to see Murilynn Estes . Born to Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Barton , a son , on Friday , June 26. Doris Lawhorn is home in Mears after hav- ing worked at E. C. Barton's . We see more smiles on Doris's face be- cause now she can see Milton oftener . Gorman Barton went down to Shelby to see if he could take Marion France Swimming but she didn't go with him . Ray Franklin was up from Muskegon Sunday wearing a pair of pear - shaped sun spectacles and his new Father's Day tie . We spotted it at once because of the spots on it . Howard Gasahl has been making his regular forty trips a day to his cherry orchard with his spray water . The pleasant spit - spit of his car is part of the music of Mears Chester Worth , the mechanic , has quit his job working for I. D. Estes through eleven years of faithful service crawling under greasy

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cars and out again . - Paul Franklin was entertaining Lola Mae Fuller Sunday night . - Bert Post ought to save up the nickels he spends on Saturday nights and buy a vacant lot so he woulnn't have to plant a row of cherry trees down the middle of a village street . First thing we know Bert might plow up Maple Avenue and plant a row of radishes right down the middle of the street . Goyt Read was playing base- ball when he broke his shoe lace half way to first base . His shoe came off half way between first and second but he grabbed it in his hand and ran on to home plate - Mrs . Martha Addington of Los Angeles is eat- ing her iced tea in Pentwater this summer with her daughter , Mrs. Howard Wood of New York City , who is a writer under the name Sarah Addington . Oscar Shogren went into a grocery in Hart and his big brother Carl was just going out , then he went into a meat mar- ket and Carl was just going out of there . Finally Oscar drove up to park in front of Lattin's drug store in the same parking space that his brother Carl had just vacated a moment before - Jesse Spitler had a bill of seventeen dollars up before the board of supervisors for some trips he had made down Colfax way to make out some old age pen- sion applications for applicants whose penmanship confidence was not so good . Why didn't they call in their neighbors and get the blank fill- ed ont ? Some neighbor child would have done it for the price of an ice cream soda and saved the county seventeen dollars . The board of super- visors auditing committee held up the bill but the board finally agreed to pay the bill this time after Jesse had promised that there would be no more such wild goose chases unless they were okeyed by the super- visor of the township where the applicant lived . - George Clouse opening a second hand store in the Anys building in Pentwater across from the Commercial hotel . See him for beds , dressers , bookcases , stoves . Mary Jane Van Boexel and Cornelius go up the hill to help Beulah Durgan water 250 chickens . Harry Watkins has left Bobby Kokx and gone back to Pauline Grate again . - Marjorie Grate is thrilled when Don Davidson comes up from Shelby , as he is home from college now . Hershey Lurie sleeps well after taking his evening drink of ovaltine . Mrs. Seneca Harris feeds her granddaughter , ten months old , graham crackers to keep her musical and merry . There was funny game of golf that would have made you howl if you had been out to the Hart Country Club the other day when Chet Mack , Walt Hansen , R. W. Ritter , Harold Schaner , Bill Wetmore and Ray Lorenz were playing . Walt is naturally left handed , so they gave him a set of left handed clubs . Chet was also green and right handed . Their clubs were in gold bags of identical appearance and it happened that these two boys got their golf bags changed around after the second hole so that the right handed player was using left handed clubs and the left handed player was cursing his clumsiness with the right handed clubs . After a couple of holes they took a tumble . At the ninth Walt Hansen made a speech with contortions Mae West style and drove the golf ball 225 yards . Mrs. Dorothy Anderson has rocked in her Silver Lake ham- mock so much that the tassel has come off the hammock and is lying on the ground . Who lost Illinois 1936 car license , number 938-401 ? - More of the celebrated Carhartt overalls have arrived : also dress shirts with the " never - wilt " collars . Fancy house dresses at 75c and 80c a garment , says George W. Skinner at The Ideal Sales Co.

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Ice ! Ice ! Get it from the Dan Soli Co. across the road from the shirt factory in Hart , if you are warm . And are you coaled ?

Go a block and a half west of the Stevens Hotel and you come to the magazine center of Hart , pleasant breezes of entertainment and en- lightenment .

According to a map of Oceana county published in 1876 there were quite a number of postoffices in Oceana county which have long since postmarked their last letters . In Weare township there was Spring Creek , Smith's Corners and Weare . Allen Creek P. O. was in Colfax township . Golden township had three postoffices . Golden P. O. was down close to the Batham school house , and we had also Mears and East Golden , Bird was in Elbridge . Other postoffices on the forgotten list were Caubmosa , Bird , Benona , Blackberry Ridge , Blooming Valley , Reed , Maple Range , Clay Banks , Flowre Creek and Hazel Grove . Among the postoffices which we still have were Pentwater , Hart , Shel- by , Mears , Crystal Valley and Hesperia . Walkerville seems to have been unheard of at that time - Jimmie Curran , his brother Tom and Jack Eckhardt of Detroit were stopping at Silver Lake seventy - two hours . Jimmie is anxious to get a job on a country newspaper and learn the business from the ground up . A worthy ambition , and yet one that is overlooked by many boys and girls in search of a life work.- Ladies , bring in your fur coats to be cleaned , glazed , repaired and stored in a moth - proof bag until you are ready for them next fall . And maybe the old man's overcoat needs some buttons sewed on and a lit- tle going over . Bring them in to A. V. Funk , the tailor , down the brass bannisters in Hart .

Buy your Dodge cars from A. J. Evans , the only authorixed Dodge dealer for Hart and vicinity . New Dodge passenger car and truck on display . 1926 4 - door standard Buick for sale ; also 1935 2 - door Chevro- let master coach ; one nearly new 4 - burner Perfection oil stove . A. J. Evans .

Out on the sudden highways where cars get into each other's way and speak to each other with grinding brakes and shivering shatters you need auto protection , and the Joslin Insurance Agency are glad to tell you about it .

I am a tuner of radios , a rectifier of ailing receivers . There is a phone near my shirt enff and its number is 140 - F - 2 , says Ev Graff , Hart's radiotrician .

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Fly ribbon , 3 for 5e : Japanese lanterns , 2 for 5c . Ideal Sales Co. Among the people who made a pilgrimage to Mears this week pressly to see the birthplace of the world's smallest newspaper Frederick W. Bauer , attorney and counsellor from Detroit , who came up from his stopping place on the scenie highway below Whitehall to learn more of the philosophy of Swift Lathers . He was accompanied by his 12 year old son and also by Mrs. Bauer , who was once a journa- list herself and helped to get out a house - organ for an industrial plant . They all visited at The Little Green House - Lionel Goodenrath's Ice Creams would like baseball games with 16 year old teams . Notify Doug Ames , Shelby . - Glen Webb is getting to have a dome that looks like the final picture in the herpicide series . Glen has been going hare-