Frozen Pumps are ripe in the Land of Mears

-The Crystal Lake country is a world very close to Mears and yet over the hills and out of sight . You go out Clayton Riley's road , up over the hill where Marion France lives and down into Weaver Gebhart's fruitful valley . On the top of the next hill you turn to the right because there is no road to the left , and you find yourself on Milwaukee Avenue with Charlie Wanmer's house at the sign of the cobblestone porch . Up a little farther the Ecke family rejuvenated their home . Across the road is the old Crumrine place and then William Karge , the tombstone carver . Then comes a mighty hill , not so bad as it used to be , and when you drop over the summit you are in the Crystal Lake region . The first house is Mrs. Fuehring's , but straight down the south road her son Karl has fixed himself a man sion out of the old Iral Guilford house . The Bohland house is right be- side the lake but the Peter Bohland family work in Muskegon , while a married daughter sticks by the fruit farm . The Kuhnes have a good home beside their apple orchard and an art studio by the waterside The dance hall no longer sways to the rhythm of many feet as it did in the days when the Ullrichs kept the bath house and bathing heach asmiling . How we wish Arlie was there to sell the candy bars and Ellsworth and Elgin to rent the row boats . Gone are the happy days when the young Churchills and Barnums and the Rankin girls played in the waves . I remember the time when the Gamble girls came down from Hart and stood on the front porch of the store and threw off their dresses over their heads . It looked funny to see the dresses com- ing off but they had their bathing suits on underneath . In those days about 20 years ago I used to go swimming so much in Crystal Lake that I kept my bathing suit up in a tree so it would be there when

I came walking along at sunset or midnight . Chan Elliott used to splash in the drink and it was " Hail , hail , the gang's all here . " In the evening the cherry pickers from Lelands and Pratts and Fishes , Bill- ings or Seymour Riders walked down the hill to play water ball . Mr. Keigley surveyed off his water side into lots and a few cottages were built . But now Crystal Lake is little used as a great public gathering ground as it was in the days of the Ullrichs or in those still earlier days when L. D. Estes had a passenger launch to take the picnickers for a cruise in the far shadown of the woodlands . - Mrs . Will Schrumpf entertained the Mears ladizade Thursday . Frederick Smith , for many years a farmer southwest of Mears by Wolf Lake , was buried Tuesday from the Mears Methodist church . - There was a remarkable showing at the Christmas exercises when the Mears Methodist Sunday school was able to present 26 pupils with a perfect attendance record of from six months to ten years . Stanley Riley and Thelma Celine Lathers were given recognition for a perfect Sunday school attendance of ten years . - Photographer Robert Bedell created a work of art in the wedding picture of Jean Watkins and Barney Vander Wall . The portraits are in very large folders , and oh so perfect . The Hart Economy Station sends New Year's greetings and wishes you many happy care - free motor miles in 1940 with good Old Dutch gasoline , Knowles - Rossiter . Little Bobbie Hasty got Xmas doll dishes . See Keith Corliss , the grocer at the Mears Food Center , for green vegetables , citrus fruits , bananas , fresh meats . Also 3 lbs . of lard for 25c - Bill Hartman cannot remember as far back as the post office at Blooming Valley . He didn't come to that blooming dale until maybe 35 years ago . But Bill says the region got its name from the profusion of flowers along the creek bottom and the sloping hillsides . - Lloyd Newstead's right front wheel froze up Friday morning in Vandeputte's yard and he coasted a mile or so to Shogren's corner when he met Alva Martin , who lent him an iron gad to spank the frozen brake and make the brake break loose , after which Lloyd no longer traveled on three wheels and one runner . - If you need a new well or if your old one needs repairing , call Frank Gring , phone 19 - F - 2 , Mears . - Patty Joslin , studying dentistry at Northwestern , came home to Hart to hang up her ankle sock . - Mart Brandon , gas winder at the fair ground corner says : " Some people don't like winter ; there are others who do . The reason for this difference I'll try to show you . The one who really doesn't enjoy the winter wonderland is he who forgets his alcohol for reasons I don't understand . The other who rides around all day and enjoys his winter sport is he who fills with Ajax plus at 20c a quart . " - In Hart township you can buy 18 acres about five miles from Hart , with a trunkline highway on northeast side . Good house . no barn . A $ 7,000 farm across the highway . In oil district . Sold sub- ject to 50 % reservation of oil and gas rights for $ 1,000 , C'an sell with $ 200 cash and monthly payments . This is a splendid offering . Has creek through it , some woodland . Hanson - Osborn . Hart Leen and Neil Spitler run a fine butcher shop on State street in Hart and sell mutton and crackers , cookies and beef steaks , lettuce and liver , bread and bologna , lemons and head cheese , pork and pickles . - Ruth Johnson has some beautiful blue wall paper on the dining room walls and she sets the table with colored cups and plates and makes lunch seem like a rainbow . She ought to get some of this rainbow cheese from Harold Graff . It looks like tutti frutti ice cream . Peter Johnson does not have to go out doors to pump water these stormy days His son Hen ry had a great reservoir built out in the yard and Peter can work a little brass cylinder pump at the sink - side and force the water up to

the house tank upstairs . A $ 300 down payment will buy 40 acres on the new US - 31 . New house , basement barn and chicken house , Lots of fruit trees . Good place for a fruit stand and gas station . Balance of $ 600 can be spread over several years . See Hanson - Osborn in Hart.- Try our Supreme coal - none better . Wood , $ 1.50 up . If you have your own we can haul it . Charles L. Flory , Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. When you want to buy some supper steak , a dinner roast or some lunch bologna , see Ross Purdy , the butcher next to the bus depot . And if you farmers have a hog or beef to sell call Bert Vander Zander , his partner .

Richard J. Wietzke , professor of furniture , could make your floor happy with a new rug , could set a comfortable davenport against your parlor wall , a new floor lamp beside your piano , a new bed spring on your bed , a new enamel top table in your kitchen with a white draw- er to put away the knives and forks .

PHIL WURTHNER heals motor ills , gives Fords new fire , courage to Chevrolets , punch to Pontiacs , pleasure to Plymouths , happiness to Hudsons and ambition to Austins .

MOBILGAS at the sign of the flying red horse , sold and recommend- ed by the Hart Petroleum . And Mobiloils lend smileage to your mile- age . Auto laundry at our Hart down town service station ; also tires , battery service and lubrication .

Pine and poplar wood for sale , $ 1.50 a cord delivered . Drop a card to Will Schrumpf , Rt . 3 , Hart , Mich .

We do repairing on watches , Clocks and jewelry of all kinds . All work guaranteed . Roy L. Geisinger , 6th & Pine , Shelby . Phone 201W Have a SUMMER COTTAGE of your own . I have some summer re sort lots close to Silver Lake for sale at $ 25 each . They are well shad ed . Swift Lathers , Mears .

-Collins Pain Paralyzer for insect stings , toothache . At Bright's Drug Store , Hart . Keep a bottle on hand in your home .

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Ev . Graff , radio tuner - at - large , Motorola merchant , comes when you whistle , or bring in your radio to his shop in the Russell Black . Little Ellen Poort , a two year old Muskegon child , died from eating peanuts with shucks and all . Her parents often visited in New Era where they were related . - Oscar Worth dropped in at L. D. Estes store the other night with a crop of whiskers and bought two loaves of bread and a box of matches . The boys asked him if he was going to hole up for the winter . - Chester Brubaker continues ill at his home and maybe he can read the Saturday Evening Post in peace now . He doesn't have to get up out of his arm chair to sell Bill Krauss any pickled pig's feet . - Vincent Trombley keeps a supply of leather shoe strings on hand to lace up the corn shredder belt these snowy ings . - Murilynn Estes takes Phyllis Hasty in tow , and shows her about town . It doesn't seem possible that Muriel Brubaker is a senior now A few years ago she was riding around in a baby cab with a sunbon net on and now she is the belle of the park , and if she wants to ride in an Austin she just has to stick two fingers in her month and whistle . - John Lovell is glad the pumice from the cider mill is all hauled and dumped so he can push the cat off the oven door and stick his feet up in solid comfort . Lawrence Norberg , the drain commis sioner's son , gets himself married to Louise Singleton of Alabama They went to Niagara Falls to see the icicles and came home through Canada . Louise will finish her teaching in Jasper , Alabama , and next summer they will make their home in Michigan . If ye want to buy a new school desk or dictionary , see W. S. Poe . He can sell you the