Permanent Waves are ripe in the Land of Mears

Forest , my son , I see you have been bolting together the two - by - fours for your new work bench at the foot of the cellar stairs . If you would run your plane over your rough timbers and serape away the hairy wooden flbers you might discover three scientific betterments . When your gadgets start to fall you can catch them in the air without the danger of a side - swipe sliver ; there will be less danger of combustion from grindstone sparks , and you can paint the planed timbers with one- fourth the turpentine and lead . With beautiful orange legs and yellow top , your bench will be more attractive and your lathe will turn with lubricated gladness . Some red and green trimming on the back ledge will cheer up drab winter days . Fifteen years ago I painted the bright red orange panels of color on the walls of the editorial room in the Little Green House for spirit elevation on dark December days to catch the fireplace gleam . Tomorrow when you are sixteen you will be nail- ing on the top boards of your bench and your little brother , Birch , will give you some sand paper to smooth off the table top where perhaps many a clock and phonograph and gadget will be taken apart and put together again with maybe a few extra parts left over to start another machine , where the shavings will slip away from sail boats , where toys will be made for little brothers and where perhaps some new invention may be brought forth to lighten the labors of the world . I never had a carpenter work bench when I was a boy but I had type and printing outfits and typewriters and rows of chemicals and telegraph lines and a dynamo and books , and I had a dream world , and these things were furniture in my house of golden dreams . I never had time to loiter in the village stores for always and always I had hundreds of things I wanted to do . Tomorrow . Forest , when you are tall sixteen , your moth- er will give you a new steel vise to clamp upon your bench and grip your saws while you file them to sharper edges . And I will rummage in my room among the paper bags and try to find you a jig saw to run with your motor so you can cut out Sunbonnet Sallys to put on the lawn and book ends to put on the parlor table . You can set up the angle Iron frame of your wood lathe and maybe you can study how to cut out the turrets of chessmen castles and the mitered helmets of the bishops . How wonderful to you is each new issue of the Popular Va . chanics and Popular Science Monthly that Billo gets in the mail . Eel-

son had his work bench in the baggage car of the old Grand Trunk that ran to Port Huron and you have yours at the foot of the cellar stairs . The cellar door is the gateway to a wonder world of activity and dis- covery . In his back yard shop Ralph Barton in the wintertime made many cherry ladders to sell in June for $ 1.00 a foot . Thomas Schrumpf sawed and nailed many a crate in a side room of the barn . It would be good practice for you to make one crate and one ladder at your work bench to increase the skill of your fingers . Each different job you turn out on your lathe gives you increasing skill , just as each new theorem in geometry gives you added sharpness to tackle the problems of life and business . The home toy shops of the Black Forest and the Austrian Mountains labor on for years around the kitchen table with less equip- ment than you have at your ambitious bench at the foot of the cellar stairs . Your little brothers , Nathan and Dale and Birch , standing about your bench in big - eyed wonder and interest may roll the sawdust in their fingers and catch the contagion of work shop ambition and want to make things . Mrs. O. J. Flood used to say : " All my boys were born with wheels in their heads . " - Mrs . Rose Volpp of Mears . who signs her letter " a lonely mother , " wrote to a Chicago paper trying to locate her daughter , Mrs. Dorothy Dornan , 21 , missing for two years . Mrs. Volpp believes Dorothy may be working in Chicago . Have any of our readers seen Dorothy.?-At the Church of God in Hart revival mest- ings are going on from Nov. 29 to December 9 at 7:45 in the evenings , Rev. V. C. Wilson , the evangelist , comes from West Virginia . - On De- cember 6 Bill Inglis and Carol Wyns get hitched , and she will sing for him and be his Christmas Carol . - Mrs . Anna Meadows has come from West Virginia to hear her son Rev. Bill Meadows broadcast on the Sun- day morning air and see if he is preserving his belt line and his smile . Her friend , Frona Rupe , came along from Charlston to see the snow birds on the fence and the little Meadows playing on the parsonage floor . Wednesday night Alfred G. Sundell , 70 , village assessor of Shel- by , died from a heart attack . I remember when he was superintendent of schools in Whitehall . After that he moved to his farm in Claybanks . spending several winters in Shelby before moving there completely in 1943. From 1936 to 1944 he worked at Hart for the state highway de- partment . He was born in Bradyville in 1877 , grew up and taught in t country school , went to Ferris Institute and Valparaiso University , fal- lowed teaching for 27 years . Ada Warner he married in Olivet in 1906 . Two years ago she passed on . Five daughters he leares , Hildegarde . Marion , Frances , Winifred and Mary Ellen . Next Monday he will be buried at Bradyville on the Norwegian road , but the image of the tall . scholarly fair - skinned , kindly - faced Scandinavian will be long re- membered in Claybanks and Shelby and by thousands of pupils who sat in his schoolrooms.- inary warblers for sale . All kinds of color . Mike Miller , 111 Peach Street . Hart . Try Lola's beauty shop- Oxel Anderson's house on the winding West Golden road set on the Thursday plates for the Edlunds , Hallbergs and Lindgrens and the Spencers from Russell Creek bridge all around the big platter . - There are four new Guernsey calvs at th big barn at Silver Hills Farm . S. II . Faunella and S. H. Mariana each have a bull calf and Comode and Silver Hills ' Aristocrat's Jill are mothers of helfer calves - The fele phone number for Lola's beauty shope in Mears is R23F22 - A falling barn beam struck Chester Dodge on the head and shoulders when a hoist chain gave way at his farm north of Ferry . His brother Paul and George Thomas were helping him on the barn work when the beam fell five feel . Chester . 30 years old . died at Oceann Hospital of a broken neck and fractured skull that night , leaving a widow . a son , Lester , and

Three girls , Lucille , Donna and Peggy - Purchase your farm complete , stock . tools , furniture , appliances and feed for stock . Yes , and even coal in the basement for the modern heating unit . Hauson - Osborn has just this kind of a place to offer and only three miles from a shopping cen- ter . Price ? Well , come in and see us . adv . - Richard Fuller and Donna VanTassell were married Saturday afternoon at the Mehtodist parson- age in Mears by Rev. Frank Perry . They will live in rooms upstairs in the Ben Fuller house . A Hart crowd serenaded them one night and a Mears bunch another night . Very suddenly Monday afternoon George Brandel died from a heart attack . He was born in Milwaukee 48 years ago and came to Hart with his parents when he was eight years old . Ile was married to Thelma Bender in 1922. He leaves three sons , Carl and Jack and Donald , and two daughters , Mrs. Joan Pearson , and Mary Ann , who stays at home ; also his mother , Mrs. Alma Brandel , of Hart , and his father , Art Brandel , of North Dakota ; also three brothers , Har- old , Herbert and Arthur , and five sisters , Elsie Hine , Lydia Nelson , Gladys Fisher , Doris Swingle and Helen Smith . - The Mears school put on a splendid program at the box social Tuesday night . Bob Trombley was the highest bidder for his supper . You should have heard the girls singing " The Old Lamplighter . " - Evelyn Lindgren , R. N. , is a school nurse for five ward schools in Muskegon - Emil Samuelson , a carpen- ter and contractor of Chicago , spent the week - end at his long - porched Bouse in Pentwater and then went on to Detroit to see his sons , Alvar and Ingwar . And now in these last days of November I tell you about a " January Thaw " that comes to Hart on the third of December , senior play starring Nancy Williams , Judy Singer , Ruth Hawley and Fred Riley and others . Mrs. Eva Hanson - Osborn and her daughter , i ! i Lanore Richmond , have returned from the real estate convention California with new enthusiasm for selling the climate of Oceana coun- ty to the world and bringing people into the promised land - Percy Johnson of Randall meadows and Ed Genia of State street ravine are leaving now for citrus Florida with their handsome wives , trailers and other baggage . - Carl Brandell sells his garage corner in Mears to Care Genung . - Norman and Elise Fenton started for Belgium on Thankful Thursday and expect to be gone until next July visiting the land where she was born and from whence she came as a bride - The enter- Fred Dean family in their comfortable new basement home tained on drumstick day , Harry , Marvel , Wanda , Charles . Olive , and Michael Fenton and maybe Uncle Ralph . And they do say that when dinner was over Leonard's wife felt like a stuffed Olive .--

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Meals and lunches at Elmer's Place , Mears

IF YOU CAN'T GET A NEW CAR but want your old of ta look like new , take it to GLEASON & HOWARD , Hart , back of Wesleyan church .

Anderson's Grocery has hosiery , soft drinks ' magazines , ice cream

Bring your garinents in new for dry cleaning , pressing and dyeing work to the Hart Cleaners & Dyers , expert cleaners , across from the courthouse , for new life and freshness . Harold Frazee , proprietor .

Drink Nesbitt's California Orange

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11 menar the Weeks Lumber Co , sells paints / oils , thinners FOR RENT : A five - ruem modern house at Round Lake . Elmer