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When a wise housewife takes her purse and goes to the store to get groceries she does not begin to order hilariously without reckon , but shops within the limits of her pocket book . When a wise school board be- gins spending it should first count the money in its treasury before it gets hilarious and needlessly spends six hundred dollars for unneces- sary transportation that the people of the district never authorized and which they protested against . And a wise school board , if it is al- ready insolvent and in the red , will not vote lavish and unnecessary in- creases of salary to teachers and the janitor . Why pay $ 200 and $ 210 to teachers for teaching the split - up elementary grades without an atom of janitor work to do when women teachers from the country would gladly accept $ 175 , saving the Mears school $ 460 a year ? Of course they might not be related to the secretary of the school board , but they could teach just as well . And why , when a school board is insolvent and un- able to pay its bills , should it vote to pay $ 80 a month to a janitor for less than four hours work a day when plenty of other people could found to do it for $ 2.50 a day ? On wages alone the Mears school board could save the taxpayers $ 730 a year . Of course if a school district is lousy with money it is all right to spend it , but when a school district is in the red already does it make good sense to spend $ 730 needlessly ? And remember the school board spent $ 600 for transportation when the ninth and tenth grades had been taught in Mears for 40 years and no extra teacher was needed for them . And last summer the school board defied the petition of the voters for a special meeting to re - establish the ninth and tenth grades which the board discontinued . Add together this $ 600 and the other $ 730 and you have $ 1330 , almost the exact sum that the Mears school board claim they are short . And because they spent un- wisely why Should the taxpayers have to surrender the sacred constitu- tional protection of the 15 mill limitation and vote more and more mills to satisfy the school board's spending itch ? And I can remember when some of you who now throw your swenty caps up in the air and say " Hurrah boys , hurrah ! Let's spread out the mills ! " couldn't pay your tixes and they were advertised in the tax sale . Let us be thoughtful Let's not spend money like a drunken sailor . Property valuations all over the township were marked up this spring by the board of rectow . Where will you be when the depression comes and your financial balloon deflates in the recession ? What Mears needs is a school board that will

operate within its budgot . A housewife who counts her change before she goes into the grocery is far wiser than any group of public officials anywhere that is eager to spend the public's money like a drunken sailor . -Some of you folks with Old Age Assistance checks living in rented or crowded quarters here an ' there , why don't you get a son or daughter to stake you to a couple of hundred to make a down payment on a little place of your own , that you finish paying for like you are paying rent now . The Hanson - Osborn agency in Hart tells me about a cute 4 - room house , within 1½ miles of a progressive small town , on a branch of a wonderful river , with 2 % acres of fine garden land all bordered along one whole side with the river , and woods . You can fish to your heart's content , catching them too , breathe the good air of the countryside and enjoy the few years you still have left to enjoy in the ways you love . If you have a half dozen years left to you , you will have the home paid for as the price is cheap , and it's yours , and no one can say " don't spit here , don't spit there , there is mud on your shoes , " and what - not . Enjoy your old age owning your own . Sons and daughters , make your old people happy in their own way . They will love you so for it . adv . - This week there were enough Shauls at Silver Lake to make a Persian rug if you fasten them together with safety pins . The C. J. Shaul family found thre camping in the park a little cook a couple of nights and wished they had brought some more warm quilts along as all the Shauls were cold . Sam Reda says the Windy City was n't any windier . Marilouise Schuster liked the slides just like she uster . - Chester Mueller has a cottage in south of Silver Lake park and his wife and little Jack make a well worn path down to the boat anchor to unlock the oar locks without a key.- If Alfred A. Bagley of Whitehall passes Duroc McGee on the road they will both make signs . Mrs. Doris Finch and son Tony and daughter signs . - Mrs . Mary were visiting Mrs. Melba Robbins at the farm home south of town . Tony thinks Morris Lake is quite a pool and would like to throw a cherry pit in it to scare a bullhead . Pat Edgett got a broken arm , or was it a broken leg , when he fell off a ladder at the Earl Jonassen's construction job of new cherry pickers ' apartments.See Mrs. Dan Berger in Hart for Charis foundation garments . She sells them . adv . - Don , Rhoda fell out of a boat and got his pants mixed with the water . His wife has a good - natured belt measure and sets on plates for Janet and Ted and Don , Jr. , also Harriett VanderWall and Lorna Rhoda . The girls don't like to do dishes so Mrs. Rhoda is going to let Perk do all her work . -Dave and Cora Cumming started for the Point with Mrs. Frank Sloan and Cleon DesGrange of Flint and a box of sweet cherries between them in the back seat so she could throw the seeds along the road and call it Orchard avenne - Bill Hinkle was graduated from law school this spring , took the Illinois examinations , was admitted to the bar and opened up a law office . Here's hoping he will be a chip off the old block . Marian DeKoster manipulates kodak films and maybe prints in the Rapids but she took her fingers out of the developer to come to Silver Lake with her parents and watch little Bonnie and Karen catebing snails . The nautical Bassetts finished their snails - The Bassetts finished their cottage parlor in real ship - shape . In Pastor Bauman's Golden Hut his daughter gets dinner for her husband , Bill Towner , and plays with little Wendy Kay . While the DeKoster children are catching snails Frank Brabbs should he catching crabs to make a rhyme . - If I could find a calling eard I think I'd call on Shirley Call at the little Barton cottage and see if Roy and Larry Carlson are little Swedes - Twenty - five years ago I used to play chess with Evelyn Whalley , and though I hadn't seen her for years I remembered her instantly when she came to the dunes , the other day . She is now Mrs. George Assard of Terryville , Conn . , where they make the padlocks . She has an eight year old Pamela and two boys - Clar

ence Lasky is the gardener at Silver Hills and sprinkles the begoulas while his wife sprinkles the dishes in the manor house and gives them a kitchen bath . Albino C. Lopez , a 16 year old Mexican boy , was drowned in Silver Lake Saturday afternoon in the deep water on the sand dune side . There ought to be signs put up on that side of the lake by the Silver Lake Betterment Club telling of the dangerous drop - off and advising people to swim on the state park beach on the east side . He came here with his parents from Corpus Christi , Texas , and they were staying at Lloyd Newstead's barn . His father is Albino Lopez , Sr. Tuesday morning at 9 services were held from St. Gregory's church by Rev. Popell . Arrangements were by Tate and burial was in the Hart cemetery . Mr. and Mrs. Glen Ricks have a new little son for Ann to rock in a cradle and May and Don to push in the go - cart . They used to call him " Shorty " but his real name was Lloyd Platt and he was 54 years old when Rev. Lamb preached his sermon at Tate's . Wednesday Lloyd was buried in Elbridge cemetery . Sunday Lind Blamer was bur- ied at Walkerville . John Gehring spoke . Tate made the arrangements.- Charles Snyder was buried Monday from the Tate home . - Doris Lov- gren of Buffalo and Carol Karlson of Detroit taught the Mears vacation Bible school . Dorothy Carlson and Mrs. Perry helped also . - Alfred An- derson , janitor at the courthouse , was buried Saturday from his home . The arrangements were by Hollis Tate . Rev. Otto Lamb preached . Mr. Anderson was born in Sweden in 1875. - My wife tells me those aren't calla lilies ripe now . but madonna lilies . Well , they smell nice anyway . George Kynel will start to Prague , Czechoslovakia , August 1 if his pass- port comes in time . On the steamer he may drop a post card to J. C. Kowalczyk of Bay City . Mr. and Mrs. Joe Enders will be weak Enders at Silver Lake if they get tired climbing the dunes Saturday night , Has- kell Brading may go wading . Essie will look messy if she spills a soft tomato on her blouse . Juanita will eat a peach or be one . - Myra Suma of Dearborn came up with Mayme Symous to see if Sharon's red hair had faded . The Lappingas from Grand Rapids and Holland are beside our lapping wares . - Ice refrigerator for sale , 75 - lb . capacity . Mrs. Mary Jungman , 2 miles west of Hart and 4 mile south . Bill Gregg of Lan- sing , Ill . , was not short handed but his 5 year old son Kenneth just naturally is . At their abiding place at Larson's Wyndehaven Mrs. Gregg mixes the supper salad with artistic appreciation of the seascape.-

Everything for cherry pickers for lunches . Anderson Grocery , Mears Fresh baked goods daily . Elmer's Place , Mears

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 .

Max Field is buying more iron !

Overnight pabins to rent by the night , week or month . Also rooms . George McLouth , 327 State St. , Shelby . -JEWELRY : rings . Elgin watches , Bluebird Perfect Diamonds ; Community silverware : electric shavers , Schick , Remington and Sunbeam : Rogers Holloware : Shaffer nen and pencil sets : Eversharps : electric clocks , Harold L. Moore , Jeweler , State St. , Hart.-

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