Apricot Stewpans are ripe in the Land of Mears

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR

Sam Odell always looks good in a straw sailor hat . So does Muir Dickie . Sam was telling us today that according to the United States biological survey there are only 250 trumpeter swans in the country . But one time he and John Flood were riding in saddle along the shore when they saw a little cluster of trumpeter swans on Silver Lake and the birds trumpeted . We have seen swans here several times at the northeast side of the lake in the spring . - Ernest Steen married Phyllis Eader and now he has to feed her . - The popularity and high quality of the milk from the Guernsey herd at Silver Hills Farm is evidenced by the eagerness of several milk distributors to obtain the output to bottle for their customers . Mr. Wiener now has 26 cows being milked and pro- ducing an aggregate of 750 pounds a day . The cows have a wide pas- ture range and are housed in a sanitary barn room 80x50 feet . The milk receiving department is in a rounded annex just outside the main barn . From here the milk cans are taken over to the dairy building a short distance away and the milk passes through a modern aerating and cooling system installed at considerable expense . This reduces the temperature to 33 degrees . The cans are then trucked to Hart by Mr. Krauter and delivered to the distributor . The bottled product is de- livered to homes in Hart and Mears and sold at Mears , Silver Lake and Juniper Beach . - How beautiful on the Vandeputte roadside grows the blue chicory under the harvest moon . A native plant of Belgium it is altogether fitting and proper that it should have a marginal sprink- ling in the farms developed by Remy and Henry . Maybe they brought some seeds over in their vest pockets when they came over from the old country . Over around Port Huron hundreds of acres are grown for from Dorners coffee seasoning - Rev . W. L. Collin , the Irish wit Grove who shaves with a razor from Ireland , brightened up incandes- cently when one of his parish families basking at Silver Lake dropped in for a call . - Harold Weidman , who lives on Maplehurst Lane in Ferndale , has been resting his eyes on the birches of Juniper Beach and the maples of Mears . - If you saw two sides running a race and one side could call time out any time to rest up , but the other side had to run at the whim of the opponent , you would say there was no fairness to such a race at all . And yet the proponents of the soil conservation district monkey business saw that they were getting winded and could

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not win so they yelled " time out " and postponed the election until such time as it would be convenient for them to speed ahead . While mean- time the defenders of agricultural liberty had no such postponement privileges . If it had been the defenders who were getting winded the gravy train crew would have yelled " full speed ahead , the election stops for no man " So you behold again the inequality of the terms of the race . The gravy train crew of pussy - foot inspectors can have as their conductor a county agricultural agent , who gets mileage allowance and an estimated salary of $ 3,500 a year . He won't tell us his salary . The gravy train has for its engineer a salaried overseer who wouldn't amount to small potatoes if he got kicked out of his government job and had to make a living farming on his own . These well - fed boys can campaign with ease for the soil conservation monkey business because their fat salaries go on and their gas is paid for . And now throughout the Golden nation and the hill tribes of Benona and the plains of Weare and the valleys of Elbridge the pussy - foot soil lieutenants abroad with their portfolios and wheelbarrow wheels slyly electioneer- ing for the gravy train while their time is well paid for and their corn- fields at home grow up to weeds . These are the boys who are failures as farmers and " who couldn't make a living " if they couldn't grab a hold of the gravy train and settle their breeches down for a ride . In the meantime the defenders of agricultural liberty who tell you the truth of the pains and penalties of the drastic monkey business must campaign on their own time and at their own expense . When the gravy train boys drop around with their portfolios to oil things over , remem- ber their suave lubricated utterances are greased from the gravy train and they don't care a rap about you or your future liberties as long as they can make an easy living riding on the gravy train . - Mrs . Ed . Mason was in Mears this week noticing how much stature the maple trees had acquired since her parents used to live in this maple village . -Gasoline rationing may come to Michigan soon after Labor Day , says Clarence Doyle , the state rationing executive . I wonder what he would say if he saw all the dune scooters that manifest no conscience of fuel conservation . - There goes Red Stevens to the bank to get his pencil sharpened . - So the blackout came to Mears . Sometimes I get home so late and I didn't want the children to forget so I pulled the switch at noon . At quarter to ten I went down town , wondering if the street lights would forget to go out . But they didn't forget . A car came around the Methodist corner aglow . Someone running to dong the fire bell yelled " lights out ! " So the car pulled up at the roadside and went blind for 30 minutes . - Oceana county took top rank in the United States in the serap drive this spring , producing more scrap to each farm than any section of the country . Three cheers for Emmet Roche , who engineered the scrap drive . But the job is not finished yet . You are all going to be called on to show the same spirit of patriotism in a drive to get the balance of serap materials from the farms during the month of September - Billo Lathers had his tonsils out Monday and is swallowing cautiously this week ..- Scottland Farm's Joan , one of the Guernsey cows at Silver Hills Farm , gave the barn a new bull calf Saturday . - Keith Corliss , the grocer in Mears , has lots of fresh baked goods on hand to sell to pickle pickers , string bean pickers , resorters and regular citizens . Fresh fruits and vegetables , ady . Clara Jean Witte , 6 years old . of Port Huron , drowned in School Section Lake when she stepped into a deep hole . Adam Arnold put an electric lamp on a long pole and found her . - Ernest Mitteer wore a stylish derby to the Mears home - coming . - Miss Kay Draper has returned to New York aft-

er rolling down the sand hill and eating string beans from her mother's garden . All you folks who are busy picking string beans and pickles and packing pods at the cannery will be glad to know that the Corliss Food Shop in Hart is open evenings to sell you foods to pack your lunches . He keeps store under the big elm where the Greyhounds stop to pant . adv . - Clyde Snyder and Albert Coleson have passed for the army . Ruth Riddell came home from chemical Midland and saw the old home creek running over the water cress . - Raymond Lorenz is going to be a flying cadet . - Mrs . Luther Seymour was up from Ohio over the week - end with Betty and Jack to visit their cottage at Juniper Beach . Mrs. Irving Osten Sacken moves to Hart from New Jersey . Her husband is going to fly in the military sky . - Jean Purdy , the strawberry blonde who helps Helen Carter sell Carter's ink at Doc's store under the big elm , has been down at the Rapids looking over the eligible with Miss Bobbie Kokx . - Frank Birke went down to the university hospital for some surgical subtraction , -Miss Kathleen Roche has been jerking carbon dioxide at Collins soda fountain this week . - To Collins drug store on the corner for first aid supplies for campers ; also fine choc- olate adv . - Charlie Harris has been married 30 years . He licked stamps all the while and children part of the time . He is grandpa now.- Gloria Fuehring ate her breakfasts in bed at the Hart hospital this week . Marjorie Gowell went to Battle Creek to see the trees the grape - nuts grow on . - Mark Glover has decided not to run for marshal of Hart . He thinks the barber stairs railing is easier to sit on than the pop corn wagon at Coley's corner . - Peter Westing's home in New Era has a fresh linseed oil smell . - Little Terry Henrickson played with matches upstairs over Alfred Norberg's bean store across fro mthe New Era hotel . The smoke scared all the boys off the benches in Jack's ice cream parlor . - Ruth Fekken is going to be married . So they had a shower for her at Ma's to give her an array of egg beaters , ean openers and kitchen towels . - When Jacquelyn Yarrington found she had no card along in her purse she stooped and wrote her name with lipstick on the wooden sidewalk of Duneforest and presented the empty cylinder to the sands of the desert . She is an improvising genius - Alice Lam- brix with her mother and sister Julia called on Mrs. Van Valkenburgh Sunday and noticed how heavy laden the old apricot tree was on Cora- lie's yard where Alice and Julia played in the little red wagon days- Come to Esslinger's Fresh Fruit Market at US - 31 and M82 on the south edge of Hart for the cream of the peach crop in Rochesters , Gold- end Jubilees and Elbertas . Oceana's busiest corner . adv .

CAR WASHING and greasing at Ervin Gleason's Economy Gas Sta- tion in Hart . US - 31 at the railroad crossing . Gas for less , adv .

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 . Western and native beef , spring chickens , lamb , bacon , ham , home- made sausage . We especially welcome resort trade . Sanitary Meat Mar- ket , east side Shelby's Main street .

Fill your bin with good coal . We handle Hilo , Supreme and Monarch . Hard Coal , Coke and Mill Wood . Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 157 . Phil Wurthner can fix your car and make it purr cheerfully . He sells En - Ar - Co motor oil for happy lubrication .

House cleaning days are here . A good time to buy a new mattress at Richard Wietzke's . And he sells floor coverings for kitchen and parlor and all through the house . Also window shades and chairs . adv .

To the Central Meat Market in Hart where Nixon & Nixon will be glad to wrap up beef steak for supper , pork roast for dinner , bologna