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I'm a skip and a hop from the post office and when you come back from getting your postal cards stop in to replenish your pantry shelves so you won't feel like Old Mother Hubbard if you get hungry at mid- night and go to your cupboard . Corliss Food Chop in Hart . - Kenny and Dorothy Riggs both tried to sit in the same chair at the time and as a result they had tooth picks and kindling and a lot of laughs . It was this way . Kenny was sitting in the rocking chair first and he said : " Come on , honey , and let me hold you . It's a long time since you sat on my lap . " So she did and the chair collapsed . - Mamie Holcomb and Nina Dearborn celebrated their birthdays last week with their mother , Mrs. Rosa Reid . Mamie had the flags out on her birth- day . It was February 22. - Bill Peterson has a fresh erop of cars which are all ready to go and are sold on a guarantee that really means something . 1939 Hudson brougham ; 1938 Master Deluxe town sedan ; 1937 Master sport sedan ; 1937 Plymouth ; 1935 Chevy ; and several cheap trade - in cars . See Bill Peterson , Hart . - Nearer and nearer come the violets , and will you be ready in fresh raiment when the song birds herald the spring ? Come in and be measured for a tailored suit at $ 28 , $ 30 , $ 32.50 , and you can be wearing your new suit when the Easter eggs put on their rainbow glory . Remember us for dry cleaning at 69c a suit or dress . A. V. Funk , tailor in Hart for 21 years . - So the ladizade dropped this mystery sister business and the whip cream jello club picked it up . - A relief agency usually finds enough clients without going out to search for them . Too many people usually apply , including some who could fight their own battles alone When a family tries to be independent and prefers to be on its own it is better to leave them that way . Don't go out and try to convert them into clinging vines . For instance , we have the " surplus " in our county Many families eating free flour , prunes , apples , oranges , eggs and corn meal . And we deplore the fact that any relief agency would come unsolicited and throw provisions at any school and say : " Here , take this stuff and cook the pupils some hot lunches for noon . " Now hot lunches on winter noons are not a bad thing at all , if each pupil brings a few carrots , turnips or rutabagas to make the community soup . But hot lunches made out of government surplus commodities

thrown at the school are entirely a different matter . Children who go to school and eat the stuff become relief clients . They are eating out of the public trough , some of them unknowingly . A few years ago when Ray Kludy was principal of the school in Mears a consignment- of the public stuff was thrown at the Mears school unsolicited . But it was not used . We had a talk with Mr. Kludy and we asked him if he wanted his pupils to be on relief and we wondered if he thought it would be the proper thing for himself to eat a lunch made for the " surplus " commodities . He saw the light and the stuff was returned Hot lunches the children had , but the pupils brought the vegetables and some chipped in a few cents to buy the meat for the broth . Now isn't that far the better way ? The purpose of education is to teach your children to be self - reliant , independent citizens and not depen dent people living on a public dole and eating public rations . Should we have in our schools teachers who earn $ 100 a month eating free government beans with pupils that come from homes where the cherry crop amounts to a couple of thousand dollars ? " Surplus " may be al right for those who need it and must have it in order to live . But when those who are well able to take care of themselves use it would you call them " chiselers " or what ? We will concede that there might be in our school district one or two families who really need the " sur plus . " Then why not take the stuff direct to their homes and let them prepare the food themselves ? Throwing the " surplus " commodities at schools is unwarranted and very unethical . It hurts the grocery busi- ness in your town . It hurts the baker business . It encourages the pauperization of the people . So I say let us shove this surplus busi ness out of the back door of the school house and let the children . bring their own lunches , and if you want them to have a hot dish sup plement let the pupils bring the vegetables and everything that goes in to the soup . Let not a government egg or a single grain of public rice enter the stew that is dished up in our public school to our children Is there a parent among you who agrees with me and thinks as I do ? If so , raise your hand or write us a letter . Or has the rugged spirit of self - reliance and independence gone so haywire that nobody cares ? Do you really want your children to eat rice pudding and government bean soup out of the public trough ? The schools of America should shake themselves , the school teachers of America should shake them selves also and ask themselves if they are independent beings , able to support themselves , or if they want to settle down and feed on the public apple sauce . Yes , hot lunches are allright in our public schools . if the pupils bring the ingredients . But let us maintain our indepen dence and not have school teachers and well - to - do pupils chiseling into the relief rations . I don't want my children eating prunes or tapioca out of the public trough . Do you want yours ? It seems good to see Mrs. John Linton among us again after an absence of several weeks in Springfield , Ill .. where she was called by the illness of her mother . who finally passed away . The sympathy of the locality goes out to Mrs. Linton - Keith Corliss sells darning cotton and cheese , cookies and shoe polish . tablets and molasses , onions and ink . Hurry to Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears . - George L. Parnell , one - time resident of Pentwater , is now in the United States Army in the 14th Coast Ar tillery away out in the state of Washington , He says he has good food to eat , works three hours a day and that isn't very hard . - Mrs . Bert Bashaw is again able to get down town after three weeks of coughing and sneezing . Frank Gring fixed the Bashaw well up with a new screen and check valve and they now get plenty of water to wash the

floors and mop the dishes and make lemonade . - The Tweedys went to Hesperia Thursday to a church meeting so the ladizade hashed over the embroidery floss on Wednesday . - Will Lindgren of Buck's Corners came to Hart Thursday to get the numeral tinware for his auto's front and rear and had enough change left to get a couple of pounds of ginger snaps . - John McCulley reports the weather not severe enough to make the plumbing business pick up much . If it would get 18 ° below John could keep his brass blow torch going eight hours a day . Murray Rossiter sells economy gasoline where US - 31 crosses the railroad in Hart and lubricates cars on an elevating hoist . Hurry to Murray . Orin Wilson's new store in Shelby is on the main street right by the alleyway where we used to scoot through in a hurry when the whistle blew on the train . The passenger trains don't come to Shelby any more but people do go through the alley on the way to the depot occasionally if they want to send a telegram or a poodle dog - Wanted to buy , a Regina music box with steel disc records . Write a card to Swift Lathers , Mears , Mich . - Charlie Eckholm from down Little Point way was in Mears Thursday and said the snow plow goes to Ben nett's and he makes his own road that far by wrapping logging chains around his car wheels . - When Mrs. Mary Johnson heard the Mears ladizade was going to meet at the parsonage she thought she would like to attend as that is where she lived for so many years and she was anxious to see how it looked now . But the anticipated collection of taxes kept her home . - Orin Wilson , who recently went through a fire , has now opened up a grocery in the former A. & P. store location on the main street of Shelby and will be glad to meet new friends and old . Come on in for a head of cabbage , a slab of cheese , or a can of salad dressing . - Miss Hilda Shafer , 20 , of Elbridge township , and a popular Hart high school graduate , was a victim of rheumatic fever As a child she attended Sackrider school . Everybody liked Hilda . You couldn't help it . She was laid to rest in the Elbridge cemetery Sunday Gobblers and turkey hens for sale . Mrs. Chas . Eekholm . Mears , Mich Phil Wurthner , who sets many ears to music , not only sells the Phil- co radio to tickle your ears but also the Philco refrigerator to please You drive a car ? For an attractive auto insurance policy see Orel Z. Burdick in Hart . Office next door to the Chevrolet station .

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 , For good job printing neatly done , see the Hayward Press in Hart Figure with Norm in sunshine or storm .

Your radio ail ? Call 140 - F - 2 for Ev Graff's radio service will come promptly . Or bring your radio in to the Russell Block .

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 want to make some goulash go to the Central Meat Market and Nixon & Nixon will sell you the hamburg . They have quite a supply of cold meats to pack in the children's lunches.-

Harold Graff at his Shelby meat market knows a heap about meat and can prescribe a roast or a stew to suit your hunger and grace your table . See him for cookies and canned goods . Also cold meats . The Hanson - Osborn , Real Estate , has a dandy one - story residence fairly new . Has built - in book cases , cupboards , etc. , with a garage building that holds four cars with living quarters above all furnished House , garage , furniture and all for only $ 2650 . You can't beat it folks , so buy it now and cut out this renting extravagance - J