Dripping Eaves are ripe in the Land of Mears

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR

Shelby seniors are enthused over their amateur contest coming off on Wednesday , March 12 , when $ 59 in prizes will be scattered to tal- ented young folks like Irene Macarow of violin vibrations and Ruth Esther Kerr , the stunning stenographer , Jasper and Rose Marie Cam- pagna , Charles Flory with a good story , and Evelyn Grant who wouldn't say can't . For 30c you can clap your hands and maybe you can stamp your feet if you are barefotted . - The Epworth League a emerged from their lamplit homes among the maples to have home Wednesday evening party at Lenore Peterson's happy new where they played glad games and put banana jello and orangeade under their belts after they elected Stanley Riley president , Thelma Lathers , secretary , and Gloria Abbott , treasurer as well as a few vice the presidents for missions , flowers , games and leader selection , which I do not remember . - Floyd Robinson has been ill with pneu- monia . The ambulance took him to Oceana hospital . Thursday he was a little better . Richard Wietzke , professor of furniture , will be glad to show you the Crosley shelvador , an electric refrigerator with plenty of room for cold victuals , where custards and head lettuce can linger in the cool shade with park chops and lemonade . At mealtime and midnight raid you're there with a Shelvador . - Harry Brokering and their cars came Joe Van Agtmael violently collided on the road as over the hill or round the bend when the blinding snow obscured the vision . Harry Brokering broke three rib and Joe his jaw . - In Golden township the Republican caucus will be Saturday , March 15 , at 2 : the Democratic caucus Monday , March 17 , at 10 a . m . on St. Patrick day in the morning . Sadie Dorsh can go out on the sidewalk and get weighed on the penny scales any time she wants to . But it might cost a dollar for scale repairs each time she does.-W. J. Schroeder won dered what those blue fish were in the glass cage on the Shelby side walk until the clerk came out and said fresh mackerel . - The Lorenz news shop has a wall full of new magazines , also a table full , and bring in your dry cleaning and laundry for the Baxter wagon . - Joe Lyttle writes from the 63rd Air Base Group at Brooks Field , Texas . to tell how The Mears Newz gets passed around the camn . " I have showed the paper to many of the boys here and they got quite a ' bang '

out of it . Some of them had seen the article about you that was pub lished in the Time magazine some time ago and had often wondered just what the paper was like . Showing the paper around and remark ing that it is the smallest newspaper in the world gave me quite a thrill , being as I lived only fifteen miles from the home office , and that I knew the editor and chief bottlewasher . I guess I miss the snow a little . It seems odd that it is February and I can't just grab my ice skates and go skating , or drive up to Pentwater and go tobog ganing . I've only been down here in Texas for eight months and have not quite got used to the idea of having sun the year around . The cli- mate here is nice , but the scenery around here doesn't come up to the kind one can find around Oceana county out around Silver Lake and Little Point Sable . There are no woods or beaches to romp around on like Michigan has ; this is just a land of mesquite bushes and cactus Anyway , that is how it is around San Antonio . " - The best spoons at the Charlie Harris home went on the table Sunday to celebrate the visit of Trooper Reed S. Harris from the Michigan state police at St Clair , who came home bringing Miss Frieda Eifert . And there he found his sister Jean , for Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Perry had come home to eat the cocoanut wigglers off the cake . - The price on our dry clean- ing may be low , only 69c , but the quality is high . Have you seen Joe in his new suit ? He's going to be graduated in it . And then he is going to wear it to college . And why not ? Though it cost only $ 30 it has the wear and the style . You too had better come in and be meas ured for a tailored suit at $ 28 , $ 30 , $ 32.50 . A. V. Funk , tailor in Hart for a long while . - It keeps Orval Personett busy sawing steaks in Muskegon and holding down his recreation job in Hart at the same time . Lynn Lambrix , who has been on a children's recreation project for a couple of years , is soon to be transferred to a baby project . He may have to wheel the cab or walk the floor . - Many would - be in- ventors are willing and anxious to invent something but they don't know what to invent . So we would suggest an automatic skirt folder to be designed especially for Mrs. Belle Haynes . She sees someone coming down the street and crosses over and walks very close and folds her skirt back so she won't get contaminated . But now she has to do all this by hand to the great amusement of Corelene Hasty . Muriel Brubaker and a lot of school girls who are on to the racket Now if some inventor would come along and invent an automatic skirt folder so she could just press an electric button and her skirt would fold automatically what a labor saving device it would be . Do you re member the time Mrs. Haynes came into Brubaker's store and young Eddie Keck merely spoke to her with a pleasant " good morning , " and she hauled off and slapped him in the face and said , " How dare you speak to me ? You don't know me . " Of course Eddie meant alright . living across the street from her as he did . But Mrs. Haynes tele- phoned the sheriff to come right over as someone had insulted her . So come he did and arrived at the Keck home before Eddie got home " Your son has insulted a lady . " the official told Mrs. Keck . " I am sure he would do nothing of the kind . " said Mrs. Keck . " We have al ways taught him to be a gentleman . " Just then Mrs. Haynes came along and started blowing off steam . Soon Eddie arrived and Mrs Haynes said . " There he is now . He insulted me . " Eddie spoke up . " Mother , all I did was to speak to her when she came in the store Then she slapped me . " The sheriff told Mrs. Haynes to go home and mind her business . - Lolamay Fuller has been seeing Wayne McCarty quite frequently of late - The 4 - II boys had a party at the school

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house last night and looked forward to enjoying slices of pie with ice cream . But the fuses burned out and the lights went haywire , so the boys had to eat their ice cream and pie in the dark with Ray Tromb- ley's flashlight to dish it up by - Wedding bells may ring up in the Van Amburg block if grandpa and grandma don't change their plans -Mrs . Edward Brubaker is not so well and may go to the hospital in Ann Arbor . Daughter Muriel got up at one o'clock at night and drove four miles for grandma Van Tassell to help . - Mrs . Harvey Luse en- tertained " The Little Flower Study Club . " If Mrs. Luse wants appro priate decorations she could choose forget - me - nots as the blossoms are quite diminutive . Or the Hudsonia which blooms in the sand dune low- lands has pin - head yellow flowers . Or Mrs. Luse could stick her face in the sifter and come out with a little flour on her nose . - When Mrs. Phil Wurthner came into the big garage and used the word darn in speaking about the children she didn't know the minister from Mears was getting his car fixed . But she says it didn't matter anyway . Probably he had heard worse words in his life - Frank Hur nie has returned from a taste of New Orleans where molasses isn't so slow . Cecil Purdy was out at the Batham school house the other day and stopped his car to show us a little personal radio you can carry in your overcoat pocket and set it up on a fence post or a thermos jug at a picnic . - The concentration at Silver Hills farm yesterday was on the making of a new wagon tongue to fit the sleighs . Mike Cousineau had a 10 - foot log which had been squared off in the saw mill into a tapering 4x4 which he was fitting with a bolt under the ad vice and assistance of John Gelderbloom . For the sake of warmth and comfort all this went on in the middle aisleway of the big cowbarn while the Guernseys looked on without much concern . Not being oven they would not have to pull the sleigh in the forest to pick mm Ed Subler's wood pile . The horses could do that . - Keith Corliss can sell you cake decorations in the shape of tiny candies or cinnomonettes or silverettes , also Idaho potatoes or waxed rutabagas and crisp lettuce Gobblers and turkey hens for sale . Mrs. Chas . Eckholm , Mears , Mich -Right near Hart . Mrs. Osborn , the real - estater over there . has 27 acres on which there is the cutest , modern residence , right up in con- dition , too . The rear of the land slopes on Hart lake where you can sit and fish all day , and get really big ones . This place has to be sold quickly , so see Mrs. Osborn . Cheap , too , for the value in it .

-Nixon & Nixon at the Central Meat Market in Hart have a long display case filled with tempting meats of many cuts . Take a look and see what makes you hungry . - F

Murray Rossiter sells economy gasoline where US - 31 crosses the railroad in Hart and lubricates cars on an elevating hoist . Hurry to Murray . - 01

Phil Wurthner , who sets many ears to music , not only sells the Phil- co radio to tickle your ears but olen the philes refsimovator 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 .

For good job printing neatly done , see the Hayward Press in Hart Fiore 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 .

Earl Jonassen , Ontometrist Eves examined , spectacles fitted Office on State Street in Hart . next to Landon's store .

The Weeks Lumber Co. sells insulating material .

Harold Graff at his Shelby meat market knows a bean about most