Boiled Dandelions are ripe in the Land of Mears

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Glen Mersing down Grandville way may be excused if he runs the gas hose over on the ground or puts in 3 pints of motor oil in a car instead of an even quart , for he is thinking about his new little daugh- ter , Sharon Rose , who came Monday . Mary Alice Christian wore her hospital apron when she took the babe in for Lois to look at . - Tom Shober is now janitor of the Pentwater schools . - No , it isn't too late to go to Hasty's greenhouse in Mears to get a Mother's Day plant or a carnation to wear in her honor . - Pupils from the Mears school planted a lot of evergreen seedlings in the school forest at Morris Lake yester- day . Eva Osborn , that hustling real estate woman at Hart , tells me she has a 40 - acre place with good house and well of water , ( less'n a mile from state park ) , where there is just enough cleared for elegant garden and the raising of the chicken and cow feed , and all the rest for roamin ' around space or children's horse trails or playground . And for only $ 1000 , too , with only $ 200 down . Now think of that . Truly , that Eva gets the low - down price of these good things to beat the cars . You folks who want to stay put , in the beautiful land of Golden , better tell Eva to lay this one on the shelf for you right now . adv . - More parents visited schools this last week than any time in many years . They were after their sugar ration cards so they could sweeten their rolled oats , lemonade and tea . - Keith Corliss , grocer in Mears , has in a supply of fly swatters with extension handles so you can swat the fly on husband's bald head . Also garden seeds . adv . - You remember sweet lit- tle Mary Barton who used to live in Mears twenty years ago ? Hers is now the mature loveliness of Mrs. Idema , and half a dozen Grand Rap- ids girls were glad to have her for their chaperone at a house party in the Barton cottage at Silver Lake for a few days . She had to watch that Jane and Betty Butler didn't throw the pillows too fast at Leatrice Dupler and Mary Ogren . Celene and Connie Idema showed the other girls around . - When Floyd Krauter came up to Mears from Indiana and began to talk about rye pasture for the cows the folks around here laughed , because they weren't used to that sort of thing . But Floyd went ahead and planted his pasture anyway and Monday it was a 1icturesque delight to see the Guernsey cows out feeding on the four

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acres of rye back of the new row of cedars on Silver Hills Farm . There on the emerald sward they presented a pastoral picture like " Carna- tion milk from contented cows . " On the other side of the road and back a ways Paul Wiener has 22 acres of rye rejoicing in a greener luxu- riance since the recent rains . - It seems like it must have been ten or a dozen years that Will Lambrix worked for Frank Brooker and lived in the Gilmore house , but now they have moved and the Frank Powers family from Mears moved out there yesterday . - It doesn't seem many years ago when Lola Mae Fuller was a two - year - old doll on the avenue in Mears , looking like she was just unpacked from the doll fac- tory . But now she is a young lady through high school and a handsome ' typist who makes her fingers fly at the Paramount up in the Lyman Block in Muskegon . If she types too fast and gets her fingers out of joint she can go down the hall or down the elevator to Doc Riley , the osteopath , and say : " Here , Russell , hold my hand and jerk my wrist back in place . " - My , oh my ! But wouldn't you love to have your fami- ly on a beautiful farm with 100 cherry trees , 30 to 40 acres of fine soil now being cropped , wooded lands for fuel , lumber , a sugar buch , and , oh , such a lovely setting . Big ornamental trees , gorgeous shrubs and perennials , and a lawn that you will want to plant your rocker on for all summer . A lovely big house and a basement barn , everything in tip- top shape , with every dishtowel hanging in place , every frying pan , beds , carpets , curtains , all ready to start housekeeping . And all the farm tools in the barn , ready to start the work . At your price , not the owners , because it's an estate . But a small payment down will suffice if the right folks say " Aye , Aye . " Yes , Eva Osborn at Hart has this one too , so hi you to her and pick it up or the other fellow will beat you to it . adv . - EIGHT ROOM HOUSE to rent , 1½ miles out of Hart . Down- stairs newly decorated . See Charles Hefner , Mears . - Will VanWickle has moved back to Shelby to live in his own house again . We can re- member 24 years ago when we used to see Bill VanWickle at standing outside of the Llewellyn bean elevator down there . - Gifts for mother on Mother's Day , May 10. Boxes of candy , 25c / to $ 4 ; station- ery , Bibles , perfumes , books , greeting cards at Bright's Drug Store . Remember your mother with a gift on Mother's Day . It's Sunday . adv . Screens , roofing , Hentzen's good paint , brick siding , glass . Free yard sticks . Plenty of material yet . Weeks Lumber Company , Hart .

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t . - Using his wartime power , President Roosevelt has granted Transportation Administrator Joseph B. Eastman czar - like authority to regulate all rubber tired transportation facilities . The initial phases of the control program will be directed at the operators of bus lines , taxicabs and trucks and to do away with unnecessary taxicab opera- tions . It seems doubtful if the dune skooters will escape , as their opera- tion is wholly unnecessary . With gasoline rationing on the way , the use of fuel and tires to operate purely pleasure vehicles like sand skooters could and should be prohibited for the duration of the war . - John Ten- Brink is a good , honest farmer who lives between Shelby and New Era on the old concrete to the south of the Dorranceville cut - off . It is all- together fitting and proper that John Ten Brink should raise a few mink , as mink rhymes with Ten Brink . Now if his name was Klunk he might raise skunk , or if it was Kokx he might raise a fox . But the cause of poetry will be better served if John TenBrink raises mink and gives them a drink . And so he does . John bought a couple of horses at $ 10 apiece . one from Frank Hodge and one from Louis Schmiedekneel t . He paid for them , gave each one a check , That was last November . IIe was to get the horses soon or they were to be delivered to him . Now in New Era by the ice cream factory was Ralph Vannette , a garage man

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and a good sort of a fellow . He bargained to sell a horse to Frank Hodge out on the Bradyville road . As stall room was limited it was necessary that the old horse sold to John TenBrink should come out so there would be room for the new horse . So Ralph Vannette it seems agreed to see that the old horse got over to Ten Brinks . In New Era also lived Johnny DeVries who had bargained a horse to Louis Schmiedeknecht , and seeing how DeVries had a horse truck Ralph reasoned it would work out alright to have Johnny DeVries deliver the horse he selling to Hodge and bring back the old plug from Hodge's farm . No- body seemed to be home at Schmiedeknechts so Johnny DeVries loaded in the old horse , concerning which he had before this had some conver- sation about a trade - in . As a matter of fact it was now TenBrink's horse and he had paid for it . So he came to Frank Hodge's John Mink barn and loaded in the Hodge plug . And Ralph Vannette and Johnny DeVries both knew this horse was sold to John TenBrink . But Johnny or Ralph said : " Maybe these horses will both go to Muskegon . And if they do , " he said to Frank Hodge , " you give back John TenBrink his $ 10 . " And so Johnny went to Muskegon and sold the two horses Fairfield's fox farm , getting $ 30 for them . And Ralph Vannette being a deputy sheriff rode along and was consenting . When the horses were un- loaded and paid for , Ralph Vannette did not rush up and say : " Mr. Fairfield , Mr. Fairfield , these are stolen horses . I warn you not to ac- cept this stolen property . " He told Mr. Fairfield nothing of the kind . After awhile John Ten Brink began to wonder where his horses were because they had not yet arrived and he sojourned down to New Era to inquire and found they had been sold in Muskegon . Grieving about the matter he went to the prosecutor for advice and was told it looked like a plain case of theft . The sheriff was dispatched to investigate . In the meantime Johnny DeVries got scared over the solemnity of the whole deal and he went to John Mink TenBrink and wanted to settle . But John said : " No , I have been to the prosecutor and I do not know if it would be right to settle . " The sheriff went again and found John- ny DeVries and told him he had better settle this thing up . Ralph Van- nette bad gone deer hunting in the upper peninsula . Sheriff Burmeister accompanied Johnny DeVries to the Ten Brink mink farm and wanted the men to settle . Maybe it was then or maybe later that John Ten- Brink did accept payment for the horses , the $ 30 received from the fox farm and $ 10 besides for the time he had lost making trips to Hart , Muskegon and to Hadges . But John Ten Brink points out : " I told him this was payment for the horses and damage and it wouldn't settle the offense . " Later a warrant was issued for Ralph Vannette and he was tried in justice court in Hart but found " not guilty . " A justice court jury is considered judge of both the law and the facts . So the months went along and Ralph Vannette brought suit for malicious prosecution . So in circuit court this week the whole story was aired again . Attorney F. E. Wetmore represented the plaintiff , Ralph Vannette , and Attorney Charles Larnard of Muskegon , a former Mears boy , was there to repre- sent the defendant . It was a most interesting case to listen to . The Netherlandic population of New Era village was well sprinkled in the audience and contributed to the witness stand . They were anxious to get the horses and foxes and minks all unraveled from the tangled the able trial judge . mess . Judge Charles A. Arch of Hillsdale was There were ten men and two women who brought in the verdict of no cause for action.Mrs . Will Wigton . 78 , a member of a pioneer Hart family , was buried Tuesday . Rev. Moody came back from Allegan for the occasion . Mrs. Lucy Fiory , whose four months old baby was found dead in bed a few weeks ago , believes its end came about from heart