Fish Houses are ripe in the Land of Mears

So Hugh Salisbury . the stake - driving , swamp - wading , town - platting surveyor , sold his farm . Hugh came to Oceana county back in 1887 and can remember the old depot in Hart up by the fair grounds . He rode down town on the first train that ran down to the new depot . After coming here he spent several summers back in Eaton county . From 1906 to 1936 , for 30 years , he was county surveyor . In 1940 Hugh had , vision enough to build his big apple storage plant east of the fair grounds . In 1909 Mr. Salisbury got out a new wall map of Oceana comm- ty and it was printed and sold all over the county . On many an office wall they hang today and many a home keeps one rolled up like a window shade on top of the book case or the kitchen cabinet . I be- lieve this was the first wall map gotten out for Oceana county since 1876. Half of the plats recorded in Oceana county were recorded by Surveyor Salisbury . Pete Franklin , the coffee grinder , is the purchaser of the Salisbury farm . After a month or so Hugh will go to California for a couple of months ' visit . He is a great meat eater and while he is west he will have hams from his private stock shipped to him at vari- ous stopping points to fry with eggs laid by the California hens . When Hugh comes back he expects to take up his residence at the house on his little one - acre property adjoining his old farm . So the old stake- driving , steak - eating scout will not be exactly pulling up stakes when he goes to California to see his brother . Hugh will come back to Hart and drive more stakes and chew more steaks . Seventy - six acre pioneer farm with best of buildings on a main highway , 9 miles from Hart , 4½ to a village . Fine woods , creek . School on corner . Gravely loam soil , A - 1 condition . Has always had best of farm management . Will take an equity in Muskegon residential property for half or nearly so , balance land contract . Grand buy at $ 4,500 . Hanson - Osborn , Hart , Mich . You can learn facts about this one , even though the snow is on the ground . -Claudia Bartusch wants to be a navy nurse , and all the boys would fall off a mast to have Claudia wait on them . - Miss Annie Dickie has a new mail box - Rev . Richard Riess , the minister from Benona , rode to Shelby on sleighs the other day - Mrs . Carrie Van Valkenburgh has

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had a front path shoveled at last so she doesn't have to get her gro ceries handed in at the side window . - Lorraine Schultz wants to join the WAAC when she gets through high school . The high school girls from Benona who stay at Pierce's in Shelby eat grapefruit without sugar for breakfast . They have to . Their old sugar cards ran out and the new ones weren't ripe . Well , at our house we learned to eat corn syrup on our oatmeal , honey in our cocoa if we could find the honey , or maybe marshmallows , but they were scarcer yet . We find jelly and milk can be eaten on cereal , and if you get a dozen sugared fried cakes and shake them in a bag and save the powdered sugar that comes off , it is not to be sniffed at .-- Miss Jo Wood , the home eco- nomics teacher in Shelby , has a boy friend in Africa , so she doesn't send him pineapple cookies very often . Last year she bought a cake at the bakery and sent it to him from Kentucky . He wrote a letter back telling her what a wonderful cook she was , but she never told Lim the difference . - Fent Gilson , grand old Shelby barber , was 71 when the end came . It was 67 years ago he came to Shelby township from Coloma . In 1898 he began to barber and kept at it 44 years . He was a great friend of children and they liked him while he trimmed their little necks . He adored beauty spots along the trout streams , like the bridge at The Alders . - When Helen Graff starts out to teach kin- dergarten mathematics in the Rothbury school she wears her green ski pants , for she may have to leave her car in town and walk out the east- ern mile to the schoolhouse . The upper room in Mears school had sleigh ride party one night this week . Frank Riggs hitched up team and took the children out the trestle road as far as the Round Lake cemetery , then back to Leonard Peterson's house where Elsa pop- ped corn and apples at them . - Clare Bright sells Valentines , rectangular and cut - out . He has heart - shaped boxes of candy at 59c up . Also service men's valentines and valentine gifts . Bright's Drug Store . Hart.- Claude Stover says 400 miles of county road have been plowed out since the storm - Mary Jane Pigeon was seven years old when she left Mears , and her cousin . Mrs. Josephine McClennan , wrote to her and asked her if she could remember Mears as it was back 60 years ago . Mary Jane . who now lives in Massachusetts , wrote back and said she could remember the long wooden sidewalk that ran from the depot up to Slaght's store . - J . C. MeMillan of Hart recently bought a registered Guernsey buil from Paul Wiener's Silver Hills Farm . Kathryn's Larry 324877 is the name under which the animal is registered . - Howard Gasahl entertained the ladizade this week . That is , he didn't tie any quilts but he threw open the doors of his womanless house for the so- ciety's meeting and invited them to come , to bring back memories of meetings that used to be held there . The two Mrs. Riley furnished the lanch and Howard , who had drifted down town to be out of the way , was back at the final round in time to get a steaming cup and some angel food - Floyd Krauter has been breaking in the young horse at Silver Hills to pull the sleighs with Maizie Dick Wietzke has been redecorating the inside of his furniture store - Art Mesick is in Eng- land now . Tex Buchen is not in Texas but at Fort Custer . - Abe Rafelson , who has been in Florida making up faces at the grapefruit frees , was up in Hart on business last week . Wonder if he stopped in to see Goldie Keith Corliss has a nice supply of cakes and little pies . fine for lunches . Also oranges , onions and cabbage at the main spot in

Mears village , adv . - Mymt Van Andel and Lorrain Wolting went down to Grand Rapids to enjoy the plate glass shop windows , and when they got back to New Era they took off their high slippers . We always be- lieve in the little red schoolhouse in the home district and its outstand- ing advantage over transporting elementery pupils to a centralized school . Consider the children in the Cobb school district during the re- cent storm . For about ten days that region was on snow shoes and sleigh runners and the Cobbikins stayed in their home because the school bus couldn't navigate . Now these children have simply lost that much schooling because Shelby school isn't going to run two weeks overtime to make up for the Cobb time - out . If there had been school in the home town school the children could have walked to school and the teacher could have boarded in the district . The big boys could have carried in the chunks from the wood pile and kept the old box stove humming . There's nothing like having your boys and girls going to school in the good old home district . The New Era Reformed church is hoping to have Student Henry Rosenberg for pastor . - Mrs . Harry Tiecthesen has left Shelby hospital with her baby and gone back to Montague . Mrs. Harold Wilson has left the hospital with her future grocery clerk . - Shelby's senior play was " You're Only Young Twice . " -

Valentine Season Is Now

To Livingston's Gift Shop to get some Valentines at le , 2 for 5e , 5c , 10e . Also Hallmark greeting cards and Valentines for service men . We have heart - shaped boxes of candy , too . Also jewelry which is accept- able by your Valentine .

Livingston's Gift Shop , Shelby

The remains of Hattie Kequom . 27 , were brought from Howell to Hart but the snow - blocked roads to Indiantown east of Crystal Valley pre- vented the news of her end getting to her parents for two days . Satur- day her father waded out to go to Crystal Valley for groceries and stopped at Fred Bowers ' house to warm his hands . Here he heard the news . She was buried Monday from the Catholic church in Elbridge-

-Guernsey calf for sale at Silver Hills Farm , Floyd Kranter . Fill your bin with good coal . We handle Hilo , Supreme and Monarch Hard Coal . Coke and Mill Wood , Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 157 . Earl Jonassen , Optometrist . Eyes examined , spectacles fitted . Office

tisfy your longing for a farm with fruit . A 20 acres fireplace , way up past the Wood sisters where the view alone is worth the admission price to own . only $ 1350 . Hanson - Osborn . Real Estate .

When you need cement blocks , insulation materials , combination doors , come to the Weeks Lumber Co. in Hart .