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Bicycles have come to town . Murilyn Estes has a new one . So has Doris Lawhorn . Others we have noted pedalling their onward way are Lila Jane Anderson , Stanley Riley , Joan Peterson of Maple Ave- nue and Harland Fuller . - The Frederick Home Dairy of Pentwater and Ludington road is quite an institution . Jeff has a fine sanitary plant on Hancock street in Pentwater , and does he wash the bottle ? Why , he is a big bottlewasher like the editor of The Mears Newz . What with their milk and cream and orange drink they wash more than 1600 bottles a day . Of course Jeff doesn't shake the water of all those bottles personally . He has maybe seven helpers ringing door bells and towels and setting bottles of cream down on front porches and bottles of milk on side porches . And then there is Isa Sibley , the delicious looking ice cream dipper in the front store room who packs cold delight in heaping measure in every cone . - LeRoy Bearss gets pretty mad if he goes to Hart and can't find Phyllis Cole at home . - The sparkling beauty of the big new Plymouth is an abid- ing source of pride . The harmonious total of its striking design causes the eye to linger to search out new delights that make this great ear so modernly beautiful , so distinctive . The Gillett Motor Sales on US - 31 by the bridge in Hart . - It begins to appear that the new inside toi- lets at the Peach Ridge school house are an assured certainty . The problem of disposing of the old outside toilets at first bothered the board a little . But now everything is as clear as molasses in Feb- ruary . It is rumored that Rufus Jacobs could use one of them for a gas station . A gas station is sorely needed on Peach Ridge and Rufus

Jacobs would be a regullar sunny Jim winding the crank on the gas pump . As to what the board would do with the other toilet we would suggest that they throw it in for a rest room to go with the gas sta- tion . - Why pay 40c for a poor hair cut when you can just as well get a good one for 40c at Ed Mason's barber shop under the Stevens ' Hotel in Hart ? adv . - The Logelens and Sagerts have been visiting Charlie Bennett in the Chicken Acres subdivision near the Silver Lake channel . Jack Anderson's camp for boys at Stony Lake is an orderly and pleasant sight to see . Boys from 7 to 12 years of age get educa- tional recreation here as well as recreational education . They eat and rise and play tennis and swim by the clock or else the sun dial.- Henry Nietiedt is the griddle professor of German and potato pan- cakes with gobbling classes every Tuesday and Thursday night at Lakeside Kozy Kamp on Pentwater Lake near the Long Bridge . Have a pancake . - Janet Mae Kellogg . 3½ years old , cute as all get out , miade some social remarks at the dinner table which peeved her father , who was carrying on a business conversation with a visitor . He told her to keep still or he would snap her head off . To this Janet Mae ade reply : " If yon snap my head off I'll snap it right back on again . " When her mother talked about going swimming at Pentwater and learing Janet at home , the little lady told her mother : " If you do I'll call you right up on the telephone and make you come home . " - Every second and fourth Tuesday of each month a Farmers ' Union meeting is held at the I. O. 0. F. hall at Lattin . Good speakers are geally followed by an onen forum of discussion of topics that are of vital in- terest to farmers . All dirt farmers invited to attend . - Mrs . Seneca Harris , who is an expert on sweet corn rineness , was down in Muske- gon the other day and called on the C. M. Morralls . - Captain Al Cadreau of the Pentwater un - moented police is ont looking for clues . The town boys have a sense of poetry when they say : " Another clue running for Captain Cadrean ! " - Ingvar Waldemar Samuelson is around with the other fellow's girl The dredge was in Pentwater doing a little submarine sweeping in the channel and the cook , unbe- known to the cantain , dumned some garbage over the side of the boat , which washed ashore to the righteous indignation of George C. Wilson of Flint who had some bridge appointments and no time to pick up nhbage leaves and carrot skins on the end of a cane . Next time , Mr. Cook , mind your onions and dumn your celery tops in the sand scow where they will be carried far out to sea and form some new kind of seaweed -Rex Fanning at Bass Lake got warmed un prving his car loose from the Bass Lake sand . Being a mail carrier in Flint , he call- ed on the Bass Lake mail carrier to lend a hand . After the heated afternoon ron srould hafe seen Rex Fanning himself . - J R Corby of St. Louis is opying the Flagg house with the oreen blinds on the corner in Pentwater . Their daughter . Mrs. Hemingway , arrived in a vacht and stayed a week . - Harold and Madonna Show are com- ine next week from Arizona Grace White , the interior decorator from Chicago , is thinking ont some new darperies for a client in the windy city . At the Nickerson Inn there are three miniature Schnau- zer nuns , with outside rooms , of course . Sylvia Reed is an innertube bather called Hum . Lucille Squires is named Nod because she was out too late last night , and Helen Bolevitch is another waitress who is " Sweetie " to the guests - Frank Easton and Gervis Cox had a big

fight at the basket factory in Shelby . Frank was nightwatching and he wears a black eye , while Gervis claims he had some ribs cracked . Seems as though Frank exploded too soon . - Guy Williams is taking his annual vacation . With pay , we suppose . And all the time we sup- posed Guy had a vacation all the time . We don't know if Guy goes in for anything as strenuous as golf . Maybe he is swatting grass- hoppers down , on the farm in Colfax . - Mr . and Mrs. Earl Schwab , Mrs. Mary Schwab , Mr. and Mrs. L. N. MeNeal , son and daughter Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Yeazel and daughter , Mrs. Lulu Line , and Carl Krauss , all of Dayton , Ohio , have been enjoying a pleasant two weeks of fishing on Silver Lake at Dr. Blackmore's cottage . - Tiney Wood has a model hired man at Catalpa Camp who wants to be cleaning and tidying things up all the time . Mildred will be amazed when she comes back from Farwell . Eleanor Hansen , Three Rivers school teacher . is doing her summer knitting in Pentwater in calm , unruffled com- posure and great ennipoise : a living statue of contentment and ease . -And do I like Betty Ann Yeazel's net sandals and the parrot green Spanish handkerchief on Martha Jane's neck and the sunburn on her knees ? -W . F. Mulvhill is reducing his average avoirdupois on the Little Pt . Sable crolf course . - Little Henry Cheney celebrated his fifth birthday with lots of candy and cones and a party of little folks . There was a splendid turn out at the tabernacle meeting last Sun- day . When the Bradyville choir of 20 voices sang , and Floyd Peter- son , missionary to French Indo - China , talked of his far fields of deavor and showed many curios . - Mrs . Boor is now at the Collin cottage . - The Jim Fullers are in Muskegon this week . - Chauncer DuProz thoughtfully provides wall maps and fans in his restaurant ten turvolan enchire their annetites . Chauncer makes your meal today . a pleasant period and a half hour of relaxation . Stop in One wire will hold the herd . savs George Graff . the elec- tric fence man . adv - H . L. Weeks & Son , in Hart . make your window sash or build vou a mansion . NEW FOLDING CAMP , REACH AND DECK CHAIRS for sale . Also camp cots : some nice dressers : 8 pianos : latest model in studio couches also entique furniture and antiques of all descriptions . Shel- by Re - Sale Store , Charles I. Jensen .

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

PESORTERS , WHEN VOU COME TO SHELBY LOOK FOR THE SIGN OF GRAFF'S QUALITY MARKET for quality meats . We fea- ture both local and Chicage meats and we can sell you fish all boned and ready to frv . veal cutlets , roasts fixed up to your exacting tastes . Cherry orchard and several lot for sale right in ars on Maple one . Inquire of The Mea Newz for further particulars . Expert watch and clock repairing : prompt , reliable , satisfaction aranteed . Leave work at O. T. Wilson's grocery or my home , cor- ner 6th and Pine , Shelby . Ror L. Geisenger , phone 201 - W .

Harley's Service Station US - 31 . Whitehall . Body , frame and front ayle bumping service . If your car shimmies or your tire tread wears . take your car to Harley for alignment .