Senoritas and Pinto Beans are ripe in the Land of Mears

Senoritas and Pinto Beans

are ripe in the Land of Mears

Far in his remote oasis Swift Lathers surveyed the verdure of his little garden which he had taught the desert to grow for him by the mild persuasion of disintegrating buried leaves which he had gathered in Mears and carried over the sands in paper bags . His potatoes were in . blossom and the sand vetch though of delicate leaves had its purple bloom . Along the wooden sidewalks the iris was triumphant in its strug- gle for life , the hollyhocks were four inches above the ground and the sweet clover was holding out . Visitors beheld the young rye and thought it was grass until they were told . Peace was all about . Blessed be the great barrier reef of the dunes and the mile and a half of stretching sands that shut away the multitude and let the courageous few pass through . Isolated as it is , the place seems almost like an island where one may go away and review the follies of the mainland , the vanities of vanities , and get a new perspective of life's unessentials . Sky and wa- ter , firewood and shelter , food and a few clothes , the wild berries and the flowers , these are the things that matter . Gadgets and motors and velours we can live without . There is time here to review the tides and trends of the times and get an anchorage in the satisfactions of the for- est . From this paradise of peace one hates to go back to the mills , to the rancor of towns , to the artificialities of a sophisticated world . The birds , the butterflies , the chipmunks are sincere friends , and their life is part of the rhythm of the forest . Always the oasis is saying : " Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest . The shades of John Burroughs and Henry David Thoreau walking here . They were bright men who long ago discovered the heal- ing of the woodlands . Many who spend their lives in the turmoil of the mills , paying an infinite line of bills , would have just as much at the end of a year or a lifetime if they settled in the forest . Simplicity of life is a great art . To Swift Lathers a quart of buttermilk with a cheese sandwich is the food of the gods . - Dale Lathers and Dicky Corliss are picking cherries for L. D. Estes . - Alex Stalker , the tall rider from the Montana range , is a picturesque character . At his farm in the elbow of the Silver Lake road he rents his saddle horses to the resorters and often rides with them . Alex is the spirit of the western plains . For Sale : Horse - drawn hay rake , two years old . Wayne Greena , Rt . 1. Roth- bury , four miles east of New Era . Fred and Mabel Dean have finished their basement walls and will soon put a wooden hat on it and move in

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The Middlecamps have opened up a new gas station and electric ap- pliance shop in the middle of New Era at the hotel barn . August 1 they unfurled their banner to the breeze so to speak . They sell gasoline and do washer and radio repair . Silver Hills Donna , one of the registered Guernsey cows at Silver Hill Farm , has a new bull calf . This is her sec- ond calf . Gloria Abbott will marry Russell Hiller on Sept. 12 - Edwin Gaisema was up Sunday to see Harold Frazee , the dry cleaner , Gaisema had the cutest Eversharp pencil in her purse and she gave it to me , the pencil , not the purse . - Roy Lockwood locked his woodshed in Lansing before he came up to spend his vacation with Elaine and Bob Mosher . Ma Lockwood came also . - Paulins and Hanshues are staying a week in a house at the foot of the dunes . I had seen foot shoes before but never any hand shoes . James Gray of Tekonsha has been eating pie at Clyde Hotelling's in Elbridge . - Three new ABC washing machines . for sale . O. A. Keeler & Son , Shelby . Phone 113. - Many famous people , way up in the business of the world , you are apt to meet in Pentwater , some of them riding in on the summer tide and some happily settled down . A newcomer in that village is Alborne A. Weston , now retired and the new owner of the Mary Ross Potter home . He was formerly as- sistant postmaster of Grand Rapids and for 46 years was in the employ his of that big and busy concern , starting in as a boy . Surrounded by shelves of books , with the bird music of a rustic ravine to wake up to , Mr. Weston is complacent in the quiet yesterday atmosphere of Pent- water . Sebastian Dennert has been living in the seaport town for 58 years . He is now 89 years old and spends a lot of time in his luxurious back yard , living with his daughter , Mrs. Dora Roberts . Another daugh- ter , Mrs. Margaret Smith of Farrell , Pa . , is visiting him now . Mr. Den- nert has ten grandchildren and six great - grandchildren . He used to work for the Sands & Maxwell furniture factory in the days of his prime , when they made bedsteads and bureaus and dresser drawers . I hope he has one of the old dressers yet to fold away his red flannels for the summer months . Sebastian lived a good life , thrived on hard work and his appetite is good yet at 89. - Marion Louise Anderson was married July 21 to John Quay , Jr. , at the Hart Congregational parsonage . Ruth Anderson was maid of honor and Albert Anderson was best man . Taey will live in Lansing where Marion will always fix her hair so it is beau- tiful . - FOR SALE : A matched team , mare and gelding , also harness ; one saddle horse ; two Guernsey bulls , one 18 months , one 9 months old . from registered stock , from dams averaging 500 lbs . butterfat . Victor Pearson , herdsman , Silver Hills Farm , Mears , Mich . Phone 19F32.- IF YOU CAN'T GET A NEW CAR but want your old one to look like new , take it to GLEASON & HOWARD , Hart , back of Wesleyan church , A minister who travels in his house car showed his Pilgrim's Progress paintings at the Mears Methodist church Sunday evening . He painted one picture in 15 minutes before 8. Mrs. Swift Lathers was awarded a landscape painting of the head of the Muskegon river for bringing the most people to church that evening . She had 13 standing up at the show- down at sundown , -Gene Sloan was visiting the Riverside Laas family at the lakeside . Jack Campbell is sweet on Betty Townsend . Johnny Edwards , was visiting Gilbert Townsend , otherwise known as City Lim- Its Janet Evans is six years old and lives in Berkley . She visited Sil- ver Lake with her parents . - Mrs . Fred Becht writes from the Heights ; " I want you to know that all during the war your little paper went half way around the world to my two brothers who were in the service . I have no idea how many of the boys read it , but I know it was many . Thank you again and good luck to you . " - Mrs . Bruce Mitteer cracks the eggshells and greases the griddle from the end to the middle so hungry

men can eat their fill at Holly's Grill . Whenever a school board has facts and figures they want to conceal from the home town taxpayers it is expedient for them to print their annual financial report in an out- of - town paper . One newly elected member of the Mears school board had the decency to tell the other members of the board that he thought the report should be printed in the home town paper , but the others laughed at him . Their report shows that they ended the fiscal year with $ 2.02 on hand and $ 860.20 worth of unpaid bills . Now isn't that a pretty mess ? What kind of managers do we have on our school board that they will run up $ 860 of bills they cannot pay ? And remember , $ 600 of this was for transportation which the voters never asked for and which was un- necessary . Such silly spending doesn't speak well for the financial brains of the Mears school board . Ordinary common farmers in the back country school districts could manage their school affairs with ten times more horse sense than this . And then this Mears school board , already hun- dreds of dollars in the red , went and shoved the janitor's wages up to $ 80 a month . Most all country teachers have to do their own janitor work , some of them for nothing and some for $ 5 a month . The Willson school has a furnace , and a lot of other country schools too , and they don't pay any janitor $ 80 a month either . The teachers in the Mears school could do their own janitor work for a small extra allowance , and there are plenty of people in the village who would build the fires and sweep the floors for $ 50 a month or less . Why pay eighty ? -With a mighty sand blast coming out of his blower hose , Clayt Bushaw is washing the marble brow of the bank building in Hart so it is white ACETYLENE WELDING & CUTTING AT CARL'S SERVICE , Mears .

Fine jewelry . Harold Moore , Hart

Overnight cabins to rent by the night , week or month . Also rooms . George McLouth , 327 State St. , Shelby .

Fresh baked goods daily . Elmer's Place , Mears Everytking in real estate . Hanson- Osborn tell the world about Oceana

Bring your garments in now 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 .

Anderson Grocery in Mears men- tions the Monduy night movies .

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-Smorgaasbord will be serv- ed at the Jenny Wren Tea Room in Pentwater every Wednesday , 6 to 9 p . m . $ 2 , but children under 7 , $ 1 . Prepared by Bruno , who opened the Kungsholm in Chicag f . Van Meter Ames , who is professor of philo sophy at the University of Cincinnati , suggested to his beautiful young wife that it would be a wonderful idea to take their little Damaris and Christine and Sanford and eat supper by a candy - striped tent in the high yellow hills along with psychology Professor Bills and his elegant better half and their son Steve in the dewy eve

THE LIQUIDATING SALES CO . , 66-68 W. WEBSTER AVENUE , MUSKEGON , IS THE LINOLEUM CAPITAL OF WEST MICHIGAN .