Tennis Racquets are ripe in the Land of Mears .

Tennis Racquets

A health officer is supposed to guard the sanitary safety of the parish , so the other day when Burrell Read took his 11 year old daugh- ter Carma , all broken out with chicken pox , down to the public swim- ming pool at the lake , he went over and instructed the Tills to keep little Patty Lou away from Carma on account of Carma having the chicken pox . Now wasn't that kind and thoughtful of Burrell ? It would have shown much more sanitary intelligence if her had kept his young daughter at home , or if she must travel around , at least out of the public swimming pool . Wouldn't it not be more sensible to let healthy - skinned children like Patty Lou use the publie swimming pool and have Carma do her swimming in a galvanized tub in the woodshed until such time as her spots dropped off ? Well , well , what health of- ficers we do have sometimes , tacking up quarantine cards on other people's houses at $ 2 a card or whatever it is , and then letting loose a million chicken pox germs at the public swimming pool . Of course , maybe Burrell had an eye for business . Maybe he hoped to have Car- ma sow the seed so he could tack up a thousand quarantine cards at $ 2 a card or whatever it is . The state board of health ought to meet- in solemn conclave and benevolently bestow an honorary degree on Burrell Read in recognition of his extremely meritorious services in behalf of the public health of the Golden nation . - Once a year the Mears school board meets to measure up the civic stature of its mem- bers . The law requires the proceedings of the annual meeting to be published in a newspaper at district expense . About $ 7 it cost last

year , but for a number of years the Mears school board has had this report printed in an out of town paper instead of the local paper where it belongs . As we would occasionally remark in these broad fearless columns , such official transgressions of the public decency might have their own peculiar promptings , and whenever a board of education had facts and figures they wanted to conceal from the local taxpayers it might be well to get the annual board of education report printed in an out of town paper so that the home folks would know as little as possible about what is going on . This year , however , we had reason- able grounds for expecting better things , as we have two very intelli- gent women who were elected to the school board last year . They did their part and voted to have the annual report printed in the home town paper , but Otto Carlson , Ben Fuller and Burrell Read voted to have the report published in an outside paper . Mears is perhaps the only village in Michigan where the school board would do such a thing . If you know of any other school board in Michigan where the school board is so heathenish as to take the annual school report away from the home town paper and print it in an out of town paper , send full particulars in a plain stamped envelope and we will send you 25c coin or stamps . Otto Carlson is put in by a certain clique because he is a yes - yes man . Similar testimonial compliments could be handed to Ben Fuller . And Burrell Read makes almost as good a school board member as he does a health officer . Progress Cleanser is a fine wash- ing powder and cleanser sold for 10c a package at the Ideal Sales Co .. George W. Skinner . The famous wood case in the Batten school dis- trict is over . Henry Miller , the school director , was acquitted in cir- cuit court this week . Bert Middlecamp and Leo Tietz , two members of the school board , had charged him with taking five cords of wood They measured it up weeks after it was hauled , weeks after the teach- er was burning it , and found it a little short . So they blamed it on the director . They didn't like him anyway . Mrs. Dorothy Anderson , whose mind is as quick as a lightning flash , has been entertaining a number of guests at her cottage at Silver Lake , including her mother and also a school principal or superintendent , a Mr. Chandler . Floyd . Peterson , a missionary to French Indo China , is spending the summer at Silver Lake in the Schuilling cottage next to Klaassen's , together with his wife and two little children who were born in Indo China . At 7:30 Sunday evening he will talk in the Baptist church in Hart . Mrs. E. F. Kenyon and Alma have been keeping house at the Point this week but are expecting Dr. Kenyon , Grace and Kathryn in a few days . - Work pants , $ 1.10 up ; summer dress pants , $ 1 up ; work shirts , first quality , 50c and 55c ; and the best dime socks in town for 10c a pair . George W. Skinner , Ideal Sales Co. , Hart . - Lake Michigan front lot for sale at Juniper Beach . Inquire of The Mears Newz.- The 1938 RCA Victor with the electric tuning . Press a button , there's your station . Also remote control by which you can do your tuning from your bedroom or your pantry , Bedell Studio , Hart . What a houseful the Silver Lake Whitehouse has been housing . The Frank Skeels from Muskegon brought their daughter Margaret , the Arthur Jacobsons from Chicago brought Roy . Helen , Alberta and Robert . Mr. Swartz was kind enough to share his 26 inch pickerel with Charley Carpenter , Georgia Lindberg , Helen Ahlstedt , Harvey Lans and Lucille Anderson . As one of the girls was saying : We feel sorry for the

neighbors ' chickens . We have had chicken twice while we were up here and Helen has received many packages . We girls have been rid- ing horses and are sore all over and bow legged . Thanks to all the Mears and Hart boys who have entertained us . - Have Graff's Quality Market put some pork chops , beef stead or a roast in your market bas- ket and the success of your Sunday dinner is on its way . They wrap up meats that make you hungry . adv . Try some of Hattie's south- ern dishes at Della's Lunch Room . She cooks southern , Della cooks northrn . K. G. Merrill of South Bend , whose wife was formerly Helen Coleman , is at Little Pt . Sable with his young sons , Kenneth and Danny . The Merrills spent last summer at Hazelmere , England , where they have tall hedges and quaint inns like The White Horse . H. K. Sargent , who married Edith Button , was in Mears the other day with his brother , Stanley , demonstrating The Power Cell , an alkali battery which , we understand , runs without acid . - Bill Payne goes with a different girl most every night . Who will be next ? We hope a red head . We understand Jesse Simmons keeps a cardboard in his pocketbook listing all the girls he goes with and the color of their hair . Does he underscore the blondes ? -BLUE SUNDAYS are some- times the result if " shoe blues . " Perhaps you've had to wear your best shoes through the week and when you put them on for church , they didn't look like " Sunday shoes " any more . Here's a tip . Let us put your old shoes in condition for ordinary wear and then restore the new appearance of your best shoes . That will set things right . Fred . Foster , the shoe man , opposite the Shelby bank .

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 .

The Sign of the Flying Horse . For a quick starting engine use Mobilgas , America's Largest Selling Gasoline . The sign of " Friendly Service . " Hart Petroleum Co.

The Mears Newz is published weekly by The Inner Life Press , Mears , Michi- gan . 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 Bottle- washer . Subscription rate 50c a year ; or $ 1.00 for 6 months ; or $ 2 for 3 months Cherry orchard and several lots for sale right in Mears on Maple avenue . Inquire of The Mears Newz for further particulars .

One wire will hold the herd , says George Graff , the elec- tric fence man . adv.-H. L. Weeks & Son , in Hart , can make your window sash or build you a mansion .

Expert watch and clock repairing ; prompt , reliable , satisfaction guaranteed . Leave work at O. L. Wilson's grocery or my home , cor- ner 6th and Pine , Shelby . Roy L. Geisenger , phone 201 - W .

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H. L. Weeks & Son , contractors , can build you anything Charles Jensen sold an antique secretary and tea table and crated them to go to Knoxville , Tennessee . See him for new modern furni- ture , porch chairs , wicker suite . Shelby Re - Sale Co.

Everett Radio Graff tamps the tubes and makes them laugh , pulls the wires and makes them fire , wilts his collar to make them holler . Every few days you hear of some new auto collision and wreck . Are you taking the risk of driving uninsured ? Let the Joslin Agency Phil Wurthner runs a garage , repairs all makes of cars , sells Enarco motor oil and Philco radios . Let Phil sell you a Philco , adv .