St. Patrick Clovers are ripe in the Land of Mears

FIFTY CENTS A YEAR

Philip Dean Miller , 3 years old and almost 4 , the next to the young- est of the seven children of Rev. Miller , pastor of the church in West Golden , saw the ration books , the sugar No. 11 coupons , the No. 17 shoe coupons , the ration points for canned goods , and he wondered if chil- dren were rationed too , so he asked his mother if they had to have a ticket to get a baby.-Wm. C. Wade , the portly , good - natured stamp col- lector in Shelby , not only collects old United States coins , post marks , Indian relics , but he buys old buttons , large picture buttons about the size of a 50c piece a specialty . They might be brass or copper or other- wise , but if they are very old and have a picture on them they are up Bill's alley . If you have any old buttons , Indian relics or coins for saie , drop a card to him at Shelby and tell him what you have . He may quote you a price . adv . - Oscar Colbert of Round Lake goes now to the army . So do Bill Harrison , Bill Griffin , Joe Grantz , Norwood Wicks , Herbert Parmer , Tommy Osborn , John Stoneman , Carroll Shull , Paul Johnson and a lot of others . - Ralph Purdy has opened a new bar- ber shop in Hart in the Stevens Block , next door to the dry cleaners , and up on the ground floor where you can look out the big plate glass window on the court house square and see who is going down the ave nue arm in arm . Ralph has been cutting hair for years and years and here is an opportunity to get a genteel haircut by a barber and a scholar and at the same time see the panorama of life going by . So hurry to Ralph Purdy's new barber shop and get your hair cut today . the flying cadet . sees those sees those adv . - When Raymond Lorenz , splotches on the southern field be will know it isn't snow , but only the bursting cotton pods of Alabama . - There will be a St. Patrick day pot- luck supper in the Methodist church basement in Mears next Wednesday don't have to evening . Everybody brings something to eat and you

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pay , but the ladizade will offer some quilt tops and fancy work for sale . -To Keith Corliss in Mears for sliced bread in Muskegon and Manistee flavors . Oranges and grapefruit are good for breakfasts . adv . - Ephraim Larson , 69 , passed away Thursday at the Hart hospital . He was born in Sweden but had lived around Mears for 50 years . His home was

about 2½ miles south of the village . His father has been gone a dozen years or more and Ephraim lived in the old house alone with his cats . Once a week about every Saturday morning he would walk to town and get his week's mail and his week's supply of groceries . In the summer- time he worked for the Lintons a good deal . Roads down that way had been snowbound for a long time and the other day when John Linton came over he found Ephraim fallen over on the floor , the cook stove was out and the water pail was frozen up . so Ephraim may have been there quite a while . To get a doctor out there the snow plow had to shovel a road out and then Dr. Nicholson came and thought the road might get blocked again so he took Ephraim to the hospital in Hart . He didn't last long , only a day or two . He leaves a brother , Gus , of Chicago , and a sister , Mrs. Lena Kraft , of Ludington . He was born in Sweden in 1873. Services will be held Sunday at 2:30 p . m . from the Joslin chapel in Hart and Ephraim will be buried in the Mears cemetery . Epuraim was a noble man with a kindly heart . I sometimes wonder if he was not very lonely in these later years . But he had for his friends his cats and they ate sardines for supper together . I think in the summer he otten ate strawberry shortcake with the Lintons . The smell of pine stump wood burning was the incense on his cook stove hearth . His fath- er , John Larson , used to wear a long beard and ride to town in a sway - back cutter , and at home he played a home - made viol with a horse hair bow and sang psalms like they do in Sweden . I wonder if Ephraim ever got the oid viol out late years in the long winter evenings when the snow was falling on the bog by Bullhead lake ? Living alone out there on the end of the southern piain before the land starts to run down hill to the pasture hollows and uphill to the Cobb ridges , Ephraim must have thought a lot . He must have pondered a great deal on iis loot journeys to town in and out among the pine stumps . Here in Mears where the snow plow keeps the metropolitan road open every day you can little comprehend how snowbound they could be tins week in West Golden , even yesterday when I took a walk out to the Wesleyan church and found the road unopened beyond Nels Anderson's yard . Toward Silver Lake it had been plowed but not past O'Doherty's or Bill Carlson's or Herb Hunter's , nor the road to Juniper Beach . If you wanted to go those roads you walked or went with sleighs . Well , this was a rough winter and we could not expect the snow plows to be everywhere . It does people good to be snowbound once in a while . They can catch up with their thinking and with their dishes . Jewell Kaur- mann found time to bake a cherry pie , but if the roads had been bouie- vards Jeweil might have been traveling instead . - This winter Victor Pearson's family have been living in the little house on Silver Hins Farm No. 1 where Victor helps to milk the cows . In the spring if trav- eling gets much better he may possibly go back to Silver Hills Farm No. 3. Floyd Krauter and family were down for a two or three days visit in Indiana as Mr. Krauter's younger brother , Wayne , was leaving for the army . While they were down there Mrs. Krauter's brother , La Mar Gonderman , also came home on a furlough , so they had a visit with him aiso . Private Stanley Norberg came home from Mississippi to see if his father , Alfred Norberg , the drain commissioner , was keeping the drains open . Stanley's ready prescription is a can of Drano . - New Era is a wonderfully neat and tidy little town , and one of the business men who has spruced up the avenue a lot is John Vander Wall , the grocer . He used to run an old wooden store on the corner with John Westing , but it was quite complete even twenty years ago . When John

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got ready to build the new store the old building was put on rollers and several hundred people watched it moved two or three lots to the right . It was John's intention to close the doors while the store motion , but some of the old ladies of the village who had bought their yeast cakes and socks there for many years insisted they wanted to be in the store buying things even when the building was rolling . So John didn't have the heart to chase them out . Then the new department store was built on the corner and it is a marvel for completeness . There is a special shoe department where you can try on the latest styles in a shoe parlour . For a general stock of dry goods and groceries and most everything , John Vander Wall's store in New Era is worth going 20 miles to see . - Mrs . Seneca Harris was buried Tuesday from the Bap- tist church in Hart . - Mrs . J. H. Varenhorst is knitting a sweater this week.-Dr. Munger returned home from the Hart hospital last week.- -Since Roy Bearss , the Shelby plumber , went to Muskegon to work he is greatly missed by the Little Point Sable and Stony Lake resorters who used to get him to tinker with their automatic shut - off gadgets and electric and gas do - hickies . - Don't put it off . Do it now . To avoid dis- appointment spring and summer garments should be victory cleaned now . Yes , it's a good idea to get all your cleaning together and send it at once . Spring coats , suits , dresses , hats , now ! Drapes , curtains , slip covers , now ! The Hart Cleaners , Alex Urick , proprietor , 111 State St. , Hart . Phone 412. adv.-

-Guernsey calf for sale at Silver Hills Farm . Floyd Krauter , If your radio won't sing when you tell it to . see Ev . Graff's radio service in the Russell Block . He answers 140 - F - 2 . 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 . Phil Wurthner can fix your car and make it purr cheerfully . He sells En - Ar - Co motor oil for happy lubrication .

" -To Collins Corner Drug Store to eat a soda on Monday or a sundae on Saturday while you look out the window at the snow banks , ade . - Your Victory Tax begins after $ 12 a week.-

Don't let the blizzard catch your coal bin short . Order a few days in advance and be prepared , says Charles L. Flory of the Shelby Ice & Fuel Co. Phone 157 .

-You folks who are commuting to Muskegon , don't you know you can buy a 40 on the main highway for only $ 2600 , easy terms ; or a small piece of land and a house on it for $ 1000 ? Both so accessible and on easy down payment plan and easy terms . See Hanson - Osborn , across from court house , Hart . adv . - At

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 .