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years the good people of Pentwater have responded to the forest fire alarms and grabbed their spades and hurried across the channel into the southern plains to fight the spreading flames to save the cottages at Oceana Beach . Those days of smoke - smeared shirts and charred em- bers and sweltering heat are in their minds now as they think of the Oceana Beachers closing up the streets to Lake Michigan and shutting the Pentwater folks from the water . Of all the ingratitude , say the village folks . We are good enough to go over into the woolly plains and fight the forest fire to save their cottages but we are not good enough to walk down the street to their beach . They want everything private . While they are at their bridge parties down in the Rapids we blistering our hands to save their summer mansions . But when the sweltering summer heat makes us long for the lake breezes we forbidden from their " private beach . " Another thing . We pay thirty dollars a week to keep the bridge tenders on the job so the Oceana Beachers can drive forth and back in their limousines . Why should we do that any longer ? Why not take the bridge out so the ships can go in and out at their pleasure and we won't need any bridge tenders then . When the Oceana Beachers want to come to town they can drive four miles around by the Long Bridge road . " Yes , it does look as the village folks weren't needed after the forest fires were put out . They are un- necessary until the forest fires break out again . And if one of their cot- tages should be struck by a bolt of lightning and burn down as North Beach cottages did Wednesday night , would the common village people of Pentwater consider themselves worthy to trespass on the for- bidden private roads of Oceana Beach ? They might jump into their cars and follow the fire engine and when they got to the great sign- boards on the street that say " Private property . No trespassing " -may- be the villagers would turn back and say " I guess we aren't allowed up there . " I wonder if the fire engine would dare to go up to the club house . The villagers might get an inferiority complex from being de- nied access to their old familiar streets to the lake and feel they were not good enough to throw a bucket of water on the fire . I wonder if the Oceana Beachers ever thought of these things , and if they did

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wouldn't it be better to treat the villagers like neighbors instead of shutting their sandals from the beaches and their arms from the waves ? The Mears ladizade have their spoons ready to serve you ice cream and fresh strawberries on the Methodist church lawn Friday evening , June 19. - Corelene Hasty , the dumpling nurse from Manistee , bounced into Mears Monday while her willowy sister Phyllis glided in . She can sit down at the supper table and say : " Mother , Phyllis up ! " But Core- lene grasps a radish tenderly and eats a lettuce leaf for fear she'll gain an ounce or two . No , says Corelene , I'll eat my ounce and keep my bounce . You know that nice little piece of frontage on Morris Lake where all that nice grove of trees is , right across from that famous apple orchard Earl Jonassen has ? Well , Eva Hanson Osborn , the real estate woman at Hart , tells me there are about 10 acres in it , and that it can be had dirt cheap . There are some sight - seeing sites for shacks for delightful living overlooking the lake . Here is the spot , right in nature's own garden , where the deer roam around as though pet sheep and the birds sing all the day . Some of you city folks bring your tent or trailer , or ideas on a little ranch house or cottage and make this your own . adv . - Tuesday , June 16 , is scrap pick - up day for the villages of Oceana county for iron , steel and other metals , and especially for rubber . Monday you should search your attic for worn out rubbers , overshoes , hot water bottles , rubber heels , tires , iron . NO PAPER this time . Place this scrap material out by the curb and if you haven't any curb put it out by the sidewalk or where the sidewalk would be if it were built . Tuesday a truck will come along and pick it up . You are asked to donate the proceeds to the Red Cross . The road trucks will pick it up . We are very grateful to Emmett Roche for arranging this method of pickup . The WPA state officials wanted their setup to pick it up , an expensive procedure . But Emmett said " No , we can get along . " So look all over the place and see what you can find in the line of scrap metal and rubber and put it out on the curb by Tuesday morning . This will help the Red Cross and the urgently needed materials will help your country win the war . - Some day the Kolb family from away down St. Louis , Mo. way will be trading at Mears and grumbling about our highways if they aren't just so , meeting and shaking hands with all us natives , because they are the new owners of the Perl Farmer place down near the lake . You know Perl's place was one of master building , all paneled in walnut , furnished in walnut , and made entirely fireproof so he didn't have to carry a cent of insurance on it , yet felt safe . Mrs. Osborn says she has another one , not as nice as the Farmer place , but pretty fancy , that won't take a third as much cash to buy , so better pick it up . adv . - A cow in the Guernsey herd of Paul Weiner at Mears has completed an official record in the herd improvement division qualifying her for admission to the advanced register of The American Guernsey Cattle Club , according to Karl B. Musser , secretary . Eth- Mead Foreman's Girl 498974 , a three and one - half year old cow in the herd at Silver Hills Farm produced in 291 days 10233.8 pounds of milk and 542.3 pounds of butter fat in class DHI . - Mary Alice Christian came to Mears yesterday and set the town to music wherever she pass- ed . Her coming is like the breath of spring flowers . Is it warm ont- side ? Keith Corliss says to come on in and do your shopping by his big electric fan . It's a breeze , adv . - Wilbert Matney , 59 , from south- west of Shelby was buried Tuesday . - Hart Food Center has its grand modernization sale June 12-13 . All rearranged for your comfort and convenience says genial Barney VanderWail , and bargains galore in the serve - self store . adv . - Mrs . Adrayn Keel is eating many a meal at

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Silver Lake while her husband counts the rural electric light poles for a Washington audit.The lean looking fruit follower from Arkansas who has to work hard for all his quarters , arrived in town to get a job picking cherries . He saw a liesurely heavy sort of a fellow with a Ro- man nose leaning against the front of the store eating an ice cream cone and went up to him and inquired . " Do you farm around here- abouts ? " The portly guy took two more bites out of his ice cream cone and answered liesurely : " Well , I live on a farm out here but I don't aim to spend much time farming it . I'm a committeeman on this soil conservation business and make good money going around with a wheelbarrow wheel measuring up the pasture lots and telling the farm- ers how many bushels of wheat they can raise and how many they can't . I aim to get started by ten in the morning and quit at four . Of course , some days I don't go out on the road at all ; I stay home and draw little maps or put figures down in little squares . It gets sort of monotonous around the house doing that so two or three times a day I take a little run down town to see what the boys are doing . It's not so bad when you can pick up five or six hundred a year for a hundred days work or so . But just wait until they get this soil conservation district business going and then I can work full time . Boy , oh boy , I'll be able to rake in the money then . I'll be traveling about from farm to farm and telling them how many thousands of pine trees they got to plant and just how all the folks have got to farm and how they must not . And they've got to do it , too ! If they don't we can put them in jail or fine them $ 100 under this new setup if it goes through . Then if they don't do as I tell them I'll go out and get a bunch of my relatives to do the work anyway and charge it up in taxes against the farm . Oh , this soil business won't be bad at all , if we can only manage to get the soil district organized . Well , I guess I'll go in and get myself an- other ice cream cone . No hurry about my getting back to those maps . My time is going on anyway . " Dearly beloved , we have in our rural areas many a poor stick who isn't worth his salt farming for himself , who as a farmer is anything but a success . So he gets himself on the soil conservation committee and pushes a measuring wheel and goes around telling the real farmers how to farm . You have seen the like . Can the blind lead the blind ? If you want expert business advice you would go to a successful business man . But a fellow who is a failure at farming sets himself up to lead the real farmers . In most every town- ship you find a few . And they are the ones who are egging on this soil conservation district business . Why ? So they can get more soft - footed work traveling around regulating the real farmers . Brethren , the zero hour is almost at hand . If we would fight off this system of regulation after regulation , if we would keep our fields free to till them like , we must defeat this soil conservation district business . The pre- liminary meeting is at the Shelby high school auditorium Thursday evening , June 18. And don't let them fool you . The answer is " No , we do not want this soil conservation district business in Oceana county . " If at this preliminary meeting we can forestall the necessity of the monkey business of an election so much the better . Every rural prop- erty owner in Oceana county should consider this as a matter of great concern . For if this soil conservation district business is once adopted , Section 10 provides that any person who violates any of the regulations is guilty of a misdemeanor . You can be fined $ 100 or thrown in jail for 90 days . Neither do you want your farm seized because they have the CCC boys camp on it for a month and run up a tax bill of hundreds of dollars against you . No wonder the soil committee men from hell to Podunk are working for the measure tooth and nail . They like to lean

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