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Frost threats and snow spits were in the glowering October sky as Frank Whittaker , the ardent auctioneer with the oversize vest , gathered the chilly crowd before Chris Feil's grisly granary beside the grindstone in the back yard , and proceeded to expose to public vendue , miscellaneous chains and cant hooks , bolts and whiffletrees which Joe kept forever bringing out . Oxel Anderson got four or five pulleys which might go to show he was tired of pulling up a galvanized pail out of the cistern and want- ed to rig up an old oaken bucket to sing to when he came in all thirsty and sweaty out of the harvest field . John Riggs got some cultivator shoes and Oscar Worth was pleased with his 80c cross cut saw . Candy jars went to Adolph Richter and Dot Lambrix . She was anxious buy another one , as the field mice are plentiful on her hillside and she wanted to protect her Christmas gum drops . Nels Anderson bought a buggy whip and a scythe without a blade . Mrs. Gus Hermann bought a few dishes to take up to Blackberry Ridge to eat blackberry pie on . Alexander Stalker , the pony rancher , got a lot of things , including , I think , the tall phonograph and a bunch of records . Frank Whittaker is a good auctioneer and keeps his crowd good natured . He might be whittling whiffletrees in Crystal Valley today but if you are planning to have a sale give him a ring at Morgan's store - We always like to see people who have been industrious and careful in the morning of life serenely situated in life's afternoon so they can settle down in a cozy sitting room and eat apples compacently while the autumn leaves are falling in snug remembrance that the woodpile is wide and long and that the coffee mill will have its grist and the tea kettle will sing its song while winter winds are blowing . In such a cheerful sit- ting I find Capt . McClanathan and his good wife watching the riffling waves on the Pentwater bayou on the sunny southern side of the les- ser lake . With pride the captain glances up at the framed picture of the boat he used to sail up from Chicago to his summer home in Pent

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water where he now lives all the year long . Two years ago he per- sonally reviewed the experience of Whittier's Snow Bound and did not get to town for many a week , but good old Joe Marquis brought them groceries and postal cards . - Joe with the rugged Acadian courage could snowshoe his way out of his forest and across the end of the lake to the village civilization . - The Long Bridge showed the way to an Ozarkian wilderness where the Pentwater plains were ablaze with glorified sassafras and sumac and oak down through the lone prairies where the Deutschmann's live and Mrs. Radomski baked an apple pie for Monday night's supper . - The Golden Fair was merrily in parade on the first day of October with Betty VanTassel dressed up like a black cat that would squeal when you twisted her tail , with red cross nurses and Pilgrim ladies being impersonated by the school children of the neighboring districts . The first prize in the parade went to the one - horse fire department . Two boys had fixed up a fire wagon and had it drawn with one horse . The Round Lake school with its pageant of " Now and Then , " depicted the dress styles of other days and the dress styles of today . Thelma , Billo and Forest Lathers won a third prize for dressing up like a colored family , Thelma carrying the basket of ... washing , Forest playing a banjo while Billo drew a watermelon in a little cart . Joan Peterson , the minister's daughter , won a prize EV for being a gypsy fortune teller and Milton Fuller was the man in the barrell , which " hurry to McCurdy " used to use in their underwear ads . In the school exhibits Round Lake took first prize , the Batham school second and the Mears school the third . At the evening program the Reed family dulcimer and guitar made a great hit . Rev. Charles Peterson entertained with an address and Burrell Read auctioned off the portion of the fruit exhibits which were donated . Five spring shoats for sale : also furniture of all kinds . Joe Marquis , south Pentwater - Dorr Fuller , the wandering boy , does a lot of trucking to Detroit and stops in Muskegon to see a big red headed girl . - Carl Wiegand wants a girl named Cecilia to bake his pancakes . - Men's work socks , 10e a pair ; water - proof jackets ; full line of work and canvas gloves , dress and work sox , and children's school hose at the Ideal Sales Ci . , opposite Hart Auto Co. - Mildred Campbell's favorite boy friend is Keith Benson and her favorite songs are " The Miller's Daughter " and " Alibi Baby " and " Turn Off the Moon . " - Saturdays are coal days at Baileys . For good coal phone 300. Meet your friends with the crowd at Bailey's on Miller street in Hart at 3 o'clock every Saturday . Harriet Haverly's favorite subject is business arithmetic . And she likes to do her arithmetic in the kitchen ever since her sis- ter Wilma took the paint brush and made the cute little red stripes all over the woodwork . - Charles Newton , the tonsorial artist , sends a special invitation to ladies and children to come down . All work artistically done with neatness and dispatch . adv . - Miss Sylvia Reed is anxious to polish mirrors in Ludington . Most girls like to look in mirrors to see if their nose is powdered right and their hair is on straight , and Sylvia says it would be great fun to be paid for looking in the mirror . - Two horses , a mare and a gelding , for sale cheap . or will trade for cattle . C. DePotter , Hart . - Model A coupe for sale : also dining room suite , new mattresses and studio couches to enjoy in the long winter evenings . Charles L. Jensen , Shelby Re - Sale Store - At- torney Albert S. Hinds happened to drop in at the Shelby Co - Op of- fice and found two office girls , Ethel Barritt and Sylvia VanDomelon ,

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actually both at work cleaning dp the office at the same time . - Gayle Inglis got knocked flat in Shelby football practice but he thinks his bruises would quickly heal if Kathryn Bartlett would kiss them away . -It seems mighty good to see good old Ben Ectovitz back in Mears buying up fruit from the farmers and giving employment to a lot of apple packers in the Campbell warehouse . The farmers were mighty glad to see Ben coming and so were the fruit hands and the merchants and everybody . From many miles growers bring in their apples which are packed in neat apple boxes with gaily lithographed labels for the Flying Merkel brand and monster trucks with green lights take big shipments to the outer world . - Mr . Harris is the apple book - keeper who takes the place of Dorothy , last year's lady stenographer . - When Jean Johnson started for Ludington in her car , Bill Jacobs slipped out and put a danger flag on her rear bumper .

Our overcoats are tailored for warmth and style . They exclude Jan- uary winds and they draw admiring glances to the wearer . You will go marching down life's street with a new warmth in your heart and a strong swing in your shiulders if your new great coat bears the authirship of A. V. Funk , the tailor.-

We have in stock a supply of ladies ' and men's watch bracelets and bands , also chains , and can supply you with watch cases of all kinds ; We do expert repairing of clocks and watches . Come in and see our assortment of new novelty clocks . Roy L. Geisinger , corner 6th and Pine Sts . , Shelby ; phone 201 - W . Repair work may also be left at 0. L. Wilson's grocery .

-Tom Barrett is zealously guarding his chestnut trees to keep the young people of Cobbtown out of the burrs . - There down the avenue goes Leone Lewis , the loveliest blonde I've seen for an hour . - One day Carolyn Curtis appeared for work at the Garver orchards carrying her overnight case , as she had stayed at her brother Byron's house the night before looking after the children . She took the overnight case into the Garver house where it stayed along with the dinner buckets and boxes of the other orchard workers . Before quitting time Orlo Garver said : " My wife is coming home tonight , girls , so if you have any things in the house you had better get them out . " And Anna Sat- terlee spoke up and said : " I saw a night dress in the house . I wonder who belongs to that . " But Orlo Garver turned the joke on her by say- ing : " I think it fits you . " - As T. B. Phillips , the harness man , was remarking Friday : " It used to be that the old pioneers would get to talking together and telling their experiences and what hard times they went through and were able to get by with it , and the fellows who had it the hardest was the best man . I told him I would like to see more emphasis placed in our schools in the teaching of Boy Scout work and girl scouting . If people would be willing to rough it , to en- dure the hardships of the simple life and think it was the smart thing to do , then the perplexities of our social and industrial unrest would not exist , and we would have no welfare problems . I say if millions of people who cannot manage their budgets and become public liabili- ties were led forth into the open country and settled down on 10 acre lots where they were obliged to grow the major portion of their food and where they could go and work out for other people and earn $ 150 a year additional to pay their little taxes and buy sugar and coffee and flour , then the nation's relief problem would be solved . The pam-

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