Mulberry Musses are ripe in the Land of Mears

So this is the birthday of The Mears Newz , and how shall we spend it ? Twenty - six years ago the little paper was born in Wright's feed mill . Well , we know how we would like to spend the day ; a row boat on The Golden River , a dozen cheese sandwiches and a jug of cold buttermilk and dictionary or a catalog of postal scales and office sup- plies to look at . And then a walk through the Whitney woods to the eagle's mesa and the far south oasis where the purplish pink flowers grow in the lowlands . And are they water hemlock or aren't they ? And then maybe spread a little linseed oil on the 1928 cabin in the woods . But it will be otherwise . The watch by the gutter for a few coins , the gathering up of a few news notes to put in an envelope , the seeing of the last advertiser , a hurrying walk along the sidewalk to write what people are doing in their back yards or front porches , the rush of writing news to keep ahead of a linotype , the making up of forms , the scratching of my hair to consider , great Scott , is there any body I forgot ? The revolutions of the flywheel , the running of the press . Folding hundreds of papers after a late supper , the red of the setting sunshine on the addressing machine , getting little Nathan ready for bed , telling him the never - fading story about his third birthday , the winding of the kitchen clock , the hooking of the back door , the feeding of the goldfish that everybody else forgets , the washing of feet , and the long day is done . Yes , that's the way we celebrate the birthday of The Mears Newz . Just like other days . Night has come.- -Along comes George W. Palmer , the practical joker , who pinned a mechanical fly on his restaurant pie and called the waitress . He put some artificial bed bugs on his hotel pillow and called the chamber- maid . What will he be up to this year ? -Cherry pickers , growers , can- the ners , eaters , these are strenuous days on the stepladder and at belt , days that make you hungry . And you'll find us open late to slice you off bologna and sell you bread , cakes , cookies , pickles , cones and

crackers and cheese , says Doc Corliss of the Corliss Food Shop in Hart . - Mrs . R. O. Hinkle put in an electric refrigerator and is the new ice queen of the Quail's trail , supplying her neighbors ice cubes for their pink tea . - Doreen Bell and Colleen Carlson were also with Dorothea Strait's 4 - H girls . If they play hide and go seek the finder can call out : " Doreen , Colleen , you're seen ! " - Resorters , slip down the stairs to Charlie Newton's cool barber shop in Hart and get a hair cut under the new fluorescent light . - Lillian Clark has been burning the toast at Dr. Kenyon's house at Little Point Sable . - In the morning if there is a lull , Dr. Flint and Mrs. Flint like to sit on the railing of the north porch and watch their little son Frank pull the lawn hose and sprinkler so it will wash the air . Did you hear that Harold Burkholder imagines that he is the Hitler of Pentwater ? They put a salt water wash on the streets up there but somehow the saltiness thereof got rained out and lost its virtue . So the village dads voted to pour on oil , which puffed up Harold Tree - chopper Burkholder like a bloated toad , for he is on the street committee . In one part of town the neighbors for two blocks decided they didn't want the oil because it would get tracked on their rugs . As the anointing of the dust is presumed to be done for the benefit of the adjoining property owners these good families did not see why the grease should be pour- ed on their block of they did not like it , so two of them told Norm Smith when he came around with his kettle that they didn't like it . In fact a well - known and influential citizen had telephoned down to a member of the council and asked that the oil be left off the block . The auswer was the up - coming of Norm Smith with his coffee pot right after supper . And it was easy to see who was the Hitler back of him While a couple of the neighbors were politely asking Norm to leave off the inky storm , along comes Herr Hitler in the blundering shape of Harold Tree Chopper Burkholder , saying , " Don't pay any attention to him , he's a beefer , " and " Don't pay any attention to her , she's just a beefer . " in the meantime throwing out a volley of dams that would blockade a dozen rivers all to shivers . About this season of the year Herr Hitler Burkholder looks at himself in the glass and wonders how he would look sitting in the sheriff's chair , but he'd get just about as far in the race as a snow ball in - well , Rio de Janiero . - To Keith Corliss in Mears for soda pop and onions , ice cream and shoe strings . head lettuce and shoe polish and everything you need to make a com bination salad - Complete auto greasing job for 75c , says Murray Rossiter at the Hart Economy station where the US - 31 crosses railroad track in Hart . - And across the street Jess Lewis files saws and the Wesleyan church is painted . It's an ill wind that blows no one good , but Paul Seymour , who found the safe , keeps wondering when a big enough Gale will come along to blow him that $ 25 reward which he hasn't seen yet . Each night Baptist tent meetings are going on in Hart back of the post office , with special speakers and music.- Mears the best known small town on earth - has homes there that can be purchased . just a few , however , as everyone likes to live in Mears . The Hanson - Osborn agency has a dandy little place with about five acres of land all set to cherries that are a picture to behold right now ; with a good house that has electricity , water and a furnace in it : a good barn and a dandy poultry house , in fact , a regular little ranch , all for less than $ 1200 on any kind of terms you want . Resort- ers coming to Silver Lake and Lake Michigan would do well to pur- chase a permanent home in Mears where they could be comfortable while enjoying the lakes ; also a place where the kiddies could have a few chickens , a goat perhaps and other small animals , all that go to-

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ward the making of worth - while " little men and women . " Give your youngsters the best vacation they ever had in their life by purchasing this fine place now , and then plan for next year if your vacation is too short to take advantage of it this year . Talk over some of the offerings of the HANSON - OSBORN Agency in Hart who are buying and selling every day of the year it seems . Yes , " Eva and Bud " buy as well as sell , and pay cash , too . So if you don't want to buy , but do want to sell , see this agency anyhow - Max Gerger , artist from De- troit , went down to Cecil Stover's fish dock and sat down to paint the Cape Cod seascape , comprising fishing boats , net winders , fish boxes and smoked fish . Mrs. Gerger , in a woven rainbow hat , liked the smok- ed fish and bought a pound , which lent just the right flavor to picture . As Max set up his easel and arranged his tubes of burnt um the ber and Van Dyke brown and vermillion he said he was well acquaint ed with Ivan Swift , the celebrated landscape painter and poet of De- troit and Harbor Springs , who is a first cousin of the editor . - At the new Minich cottage on the Quail trail at Silver Lake , Mrs. Minich showed me some lovely landscapes sha had painted of the lake and dunes and an old house and shed down in a hamlet called Teetsville in Illinois . The Minich girls don't mind sleeping in bunks one above the other because it gives their mother more room to set up her easel . Mrs. Minich is acquainted with Mrs. Bessie Helstrom , the flower paint- er of Pentwater . - August 18th at Mona Lake park , Muskegon , there will be a district Townsend meeting . Also on September 8th at Trav erse City . Fred Foster , the shoe man , will attend the meeting at Cadi- llac this next week and maybe Bert Waters will go along . If Bert goes along and sees Lake Cadillac and Lake Mitchell it will be waters meet . And Watersmeet is another northern town . - On Bert Post's side porch a glorious colony of rambler roses smiles at the passersby . We might almost call them Post's Posies . - Dr . Clinton Day's house has been painted snow white . The doctor recently visited his brother in Nebraska . Attorney M. V. Cook of Lansing brought his 240 pounds to Hart to ponder over some weighty matters regarding the new high way's path and the aftermath of the grapes of wrath that grew on the trees in the highway's path . G. Palmer Seeley came along from the Rapids to see what he could see . - Phyllis Hasty is in the dog house We don't know who built the dog house but Phyllis is in it . - Dorothea Strait , school teacher from Muskegon summering in Mears , has been in charge of some 4 - H girls from Glenside and Henry street schools who are spending a week at a Silver cottage . Mrs. Farnquist and Mrs. Genter fry the potatoes for Elaine Faruquist . Goldie Puckett . May Genter , Mary Jo Lewis , Priscilla Unger and Elvina Brosco . - When Bob Wilson wanted to express his thoughts and sentiments to his girl friend back in New Jersey he borrowed a portable from the Quail's Nest , but Mrs. Quail herself didn't know what brand she owned and had to take off the rubber cover to ask the typewriter . It was a Royal . We do repairing on watches , Clocks and jewelry of all kinds . All wark guaranteed Roy L. Geisinger , 6th & Pine , Shelby . Phone 201W Orel Z. Burdick , insurance . We have an attractive proposition in Good used ice hoxes for sale . Also I can sell you a modern ice re- frigerator as attractive as any . Chas . Flory , Shelby Coal & ice Co. Try one of our glorified hamburgers , ground round steak cooked on our electric grille without grease . Also cold plate lunches , ice cream . candy bars , malted milks . WEE FARM . 4 mile north of Hart on left .

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Hotel Whitehouse . Silver Lake . Rooms $ 1 : meals 50c . Mrs. Peterson .