Crestfallen Dahlias are ripe in the Land of Mears

The evergreens in Father Emmerich's back yard are a grove of medita- tion where he can walk thinking . Peace is in the air that floats through their branches . - October 1 to 8 is National Newspaper Week . The free press is necessary to the American way of life . You can be thankful that you live in America where newspapers are permitted to tell what they do . You can be glad you are a reader of The Mears Newz , the mes- senger of the neglected truth . Suport your newspapers so they can carry on for a better community and an awakened nation . Mrs. John Deutschmann likes Karo syrup on her pancakes but John says : " Give me honey and maple syrup I make on my own farm . " - Ted Lambrix's new house with the sharp peaked Pentwood roof is the outstanding architecture on Marl Avenue up in the Longbridge plains . - Albert Grant is happy in his machine shop making canned milk punchers and reconditioning brass valves . - Mid Littiebrant , nominated for sheriff on the Republican ticket , says he is employed on defense work in Muske- gon and cannot leave his job but solicits your support , at the election . ( political advertisement . ) - The game warden in Crystal Valley an- nounces his daughter Bonnie to be engaged to Staff Sergeant Garth Spitler of Orlando , Florida . From the land of the alligators Garth will be singing " Bring Back My Bonnie to Me . " - When Michael O'Doherty gets his corn all husked he can go over and help Nels Anderson husk his pumpkins . - Fleet Birch Lathers , 10 months old , spoke his first word . He said : " There ! " His brother Sylvan Dale's first articulate utterance was " Look ! " as he pointed to an electric Christmas candle.- Wouldn't you like to rest your eyes gazing at Lake Michigan and Sil- ver Lake and the beautiful dunes while resting when digging ' tates or cutting corn on your farm ? Or in the evening when resting and look- ing through the front window at such a beautiful picture of nature's own ? Of course you would . But not many farms have that charm . Eva Real Estate Hanson - Osborn at Hart has a 40 - acre farm with all those charms , besides all the good soil , fruit , buildings , water and electricity , at only the cash price of $ 1600 . Never will there be another like that , so rush you to Eva's office , ' cross the way from that old court house in Hart . adv . - Sheriff Frank Burmeister has appointed James Northrup of Crystal for under sheriff . John Ellis will marry Dorothy Brimmer : Charlie North on the Walkerville road will take Hannah DeVore for

his bride ; Lewis Ruggles will mind Doris Michaels ; and young Frank Makin has clapped his hands at Lillian Klapp . - Most prosecuting at- torneys have to work their way up the long way by hanging out a shingle , starving for two or three lean years but learning the county's background and then running the gauntlet of the biennial election . Not so with William D. Brusstar . Lise Aphrodite he sprang full - fledged from the sea foam . He comes in from Detroit and steps into the office by judicial appointment . - Today , Friday , is the Golden Fair in Mears . The town hall is buzzing with people polishing apples and putting them on paper pie plates , cooking lunches , putting up bed quilts on the wall . arranging school exhibits on the east side tables . The weather condescending there will be a parade of decorated school children and costumed bicycles at 2 o'clock or soon after . Miss Mears may be down from Pentwater with some historical exhibits and pioneering relics . The editor scooped up part of a sand dune and put it in a cylindrical cellophane cage with a little log cabin on the sand pile and jack pines beside it with a plaster donkey for a beast of burden . - Monday after- noon Doris Lawhorn was married to Milton Fuller by Rev. Margie Gring . Doris wore a beige wool dress and the wedding car wore a steel jacket with streaming paper ribbons . I don't know what the groom wore . Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wygant were the bridesmaid and best man , not respectively . She wore pink roses and the roses shivered when they went outdoors . - There is a home - made sign on a plate glass window in Shelby with a brush dipped in whiting to paint a big V , and inside the big letter it says , " It's up to U. S. " Yes , victory is up to us . There is a desperate need for scrap metal to keep the blast furnaces going in the steel milis , says Emmet Roche , the Oceana county salvage chairman . Steel is made of half virgin ore and half scrap . For every pound the miner mines there must be one pound of scrap iron . The steel mills are going more than ever before . Winter comes . Roads may be blocked . Now is the time to get in the scrap . You farmers say you are too busy . You say you can't take time off to dig up the scrap . Will you sit still in sinug complacency and let the grinning Japs and the snarling Hitler crash our country's walls ? They aren't waiting while you finish up your autumn potatoes and get your deer hunting done . They Laven't called any recess ; they're right at it tooth and nail plot- ting your destruction , making bombs to fire down on Hart and Shelby and Pentwater and Mears . German spies have been over in Hart in- specting Roach's canning factory and the Great Lakes . Oh , it was four years or so ago . And you felt so proud that the German scientists were studying our modern methods of food preservation . They pulled the wool all over your eyes then and you fell for it . Some of us shuddered even then . Now , looking back , you know they were spies . A boy from Mears school is in Egypt dropping shells on the Axis . Shall we turn Lim down by not sending him enough steel to keep the bombers going ? The other day L. D. Estes was coming from Ludington and gave a ride to a hiker lad , maybe 17 , who had a suspicious looking box 3½ feet long with him . The boy seemed to know everything about the German generals and he was proud of their strategy . " Now they've got a lead- er who will get somewhere , " was the way he talked . " Do you know where I can get some 30-30 shells ? " he inquired . Mr. Estes said he didn't know and he allowed they were hard to get . " You must be going deer hunting ? " he inquired of the young man . " I am going hunting all right , but not for deer , " answered the young hiker . Then thinking how it sounded he added : " Well , I might do a little deer hunting . " Mr. Estes mentioned about his daughter , Murilynn , going to Ypsilanti and about the big bomber plant at Willow Run , The young man's ears pricked up with interest . " My , wouldn't that be a good place to drop

a few bombs ! " he said with Axis fervor . He's running loose finding out what he can , plotting no good to you and me . Let's get serious . Mr. Roche says : We have got to get into this scrap harvest in earnest . Haul your scrap to the junk yard and sell it before the farm inspection comes around . And for village people who can't get their scrap metal in , the highway trucks will pick it up on Friday , Oct. 9. This serap on Oct. 9 will be a donation and the proceeds divided between the USO and Red Cross To Keith Corliss in Mears for school tablets and lem- ons , socks and meat , celery and tooth paste , bread and milk . adv -Buy War Savings Stamps and Bonds and help win the war . Bring in your discarded tires and scrap rubber to the gas stations to slap the Japs .

Phil Wurthner can fix your car and make it purr cheerfully . He sells En - Ar - Co motor oil for happy lubrication .

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-I saw Harley Gebhart at the fair sitting on a table and he said if you will bring your car into his Whitehall garage and get the wheels lined up it will run better and your tires will last longer . adv.- The Weeks Lumber Company in Hart for roofing , windows , doors . county road commission is in a mess . The one - man grand jury says that Ira Fuller should be removed but he talks like he will fight ex- pulsion . But the supervisors can hire somebody else anyway . Should Ira think he is elected for life ? He must have enough cement blocks now to build a pig pen . Charlie Claybanks Deyman sent in his resigna- tion . Maybe he thought it would be lonesome without Ira . So who wants to be on the road commission ? Don't all speak at twice . - Now that Milton Fuller got married his great - uncle - second cousin Bill Krauss has the bug too . He has picked out his lady friend and is polishing up the Model A to make the wedding trip to the south end of Mears where the freight trains whistle . When Leonard Reed comes from his home at Little Point Sable to his work in Hart he can enjoy the October woods coloring along " The Golden River - We are glad to hear that Dan Reed is home from Ann Arbor where he went for an operation . - Cecil Ducker is moving to Hart . Kathleen Roche is going to the university . - Mr . Theeuwees new home a mile west of Hart is almost done . - Paul Malburg's granddaughter is a year old and a lot huskier than she was in the baby incubator and they fed her with an eye dropper . She weighed three pounds when born . - Pete Van Agtmael likes shoes with wooden soles so he can float when he walks in ditches . -I wonder if Floyd Krauter has planted his crop of spelts at Silver Hills . Or do they plant ' em in the spring ? -Remember the serap drive . Tom and Gordon Osborn came home from Muskegon for the week- end and made a raid on the pantry . They like pumpkin pie ? Sure . Full - blood Berkshire boar for service at F. W. Downing farm . HAMS , DRESSED CHICKENS , BACON , PORK STEAK . SANI- TARY MEAT MARKET , EAST SIDE MAIN STREET , SHELBY . The Sanitary Meat Market on the east side of Shelby's Main street does custom butchering and cutting for farmers . adv .

Fill your bin with good coal . We handle Hilo , Supreme and Monarch . Hard Coal , Coke and Mill Wood . Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 157 see Ev . Graff's radio If your radio won't sing when you tell it to . service in the Russell Block . He answers 140 - F - 2 , adv .

Frank Burmeister for sheriff . A

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