Cranberry Squeals are ripe in the Land of Mears

We see by the cold west wind that beats with snowy fury against the insecurity of our coal bin window that winter is actually here , notwith- standing the calendar in Ayers almanac allows 30 more days of fall . It was only yesterday we replaced the broken light in the south back door and the day before we came back from Fenton's hardware with a new pane for the east upstairs window whose fractured glazing had been a pain in the neck to my wife for 90 days of summer when it didn't make any difference . So let winter come . Get out the frying pan and the pop corn . Bring up a pan of apples out of your cellar and you can settle down for a winter evening . How much better your family is around the stove than out skidding all over the slippery pavements . The radio brings in entertainment and the kindling is behind the stove to start the pancake fire for morning . Nathan is doing his arithmetic numbers , Sylvan Dale is folding a few hundred papers , Forest is tooting the dust out of the trombone scaring the mice away , little Birch is perforating thousands of little green dots on the revolving check protector , the tatting shuttle c.icks , the thread unwinds in the Spry can , the typewriter clicks , the addressing machine inks its stencils , the evening is on . Let the snow beat against the window . How long before Nate will make a pinwheel wind- mill and start it whirling over the warm air from the register ? When your children are home around the sitting room table you know where they are . Let the snow beat against the western window pane . There are worlds of picture books to look at , games to play . Here is security . Their pillows are ready on their beds . Bye and bye they will go upstairs to pajamas and nighties and play word games in the darkened air until one by one they fall asleep and no one knows who asked the last ques- tion . I wish that all families could spend their winter evenings by the home firesides . So much of the wild night travel is needless . Hundreds out on the night roads in a hurry to get nowhere fast . Many should be home getting sleep , storing up energy for tomorrow's work and school . Tonight when the dishes are done and the lunches are packed , get out the checker board and the little tin train , the pop corn and the apples and know the glad security of evenings at home - Elaine Peterson has good natured freckles . - Hilma Jolinson called on Daisy Tennant and her four rag dolls . Eddie Johnson called on Alice Augur to hear her guitar.- -Mrs . Bessie Tennant , 56 years old , formerly of Mears and a dangater

of Frank Matthews of Pentwater , was buried at Hart cemetery Thurs- day . She was the wife of Ory Tennant and I can remember that when they lived in the house on the county road commission corner 25 or 50 years ago she was a very gracious woman . - Ernest Alderink of New Era marries Isabelle Wissner of Shelby , and W. A. Pringle of Muskegon has the same ideas about Beatrice Croff . - The Grange is putting on a los- pital benefit dance at the Hart gym Saturday night , Nov. 30. The music will be by Billy Brake's state Grange orchestra , with Mudge the dulci- mer pounder . There will be a floor show entertainment with musical numbers , solos and humorous acts , with a stunning parade of the " Gay 90's . " Purchase your tickets in all the neighboring towns or at the door to help Shelby and Hart hospitals . adv . - Loren Foster said to Barbara Cadrean : " I'd like to take and marry you , and buy your hats and dresses , too . " Mrs. Velma Sutherland Koch , 43 , was brought from Flint for burial in Hart yesterday . She was a sister of Monroe and Keith Suther- land . It seemed like the clock turned back several years to see Murray Rossiter running Wallace Brousso's gas station today . Wallace went to Muskegon shopping with his wife . - Harland Fuller has a bouncing boot in his front truck tire and is watching the express for a new casing so he won't bruise the road when he rides over it . - You folks who have wanted a home in Hart will want a chance to buy one we have for sale now . All newly decorated , insulated . lovely basement recreation room , oil furnace , two fireplaces , two baths , hardwood floors , electric hot wa- ter heater , large lot with stream in rear . Low priced as to investment . Terms given . Hanson - Osborn , Hart . - Rev . W. A. Meadows took a rifle to Star Lake and came home with venison . So the deer in the woodlands became the deer in the Meadows . - Mildred Kodaker returned from Hart to Gary , Ind . , where she will take some pictures if she can get some film . - On the radio WTMJ Monday night came a news broadcast about a school bus at Fairmont that went over an embankment and 30 school children were injured . Mothers of Mears , these things can happen any day , even in Oceana county , even on Glover's bridge or Brooks ' ravine . George Senecal's family once lived three miles south of Mears . They figured in a terrible auto crash in Muskegon Tuesday . If mere occasional anto trips bring about accidents like this , what can you school buses going day in , day out , week after week , month after month , expect from in all kinds of weather , ice , rain , snow and sleet ? Remember always that your children are far safer at the little home school in your neighborhood . Listen to the radio , pick up the papers and learn about school buses going over embankments and bursting into flames . you going to wait until these things happen to your family ? Or shall we Are act now and restore our children to the home schools where they belong ? The C. L. Klings have sold their house in Hart and bought en 80 - acre farm at Klondike near Hesperia . Mrs. Kling writes that she enjoys our articles on rural living - For sale : Good milch cow . Will be fresh in few days . Phone 11F15 . Oxel Anderson , Mears . Tony Field has a chest- nut tree in his back yard and should buy Willard Gebhart's chestnut mure to eat the chestnuts . This is not an old e estnut . It's a brand new one we just made - Arthur Curtis bought the Binney second - hand store . Mr. Binney and family are going to Florida . Today's little poem : Vi mutta Ling has lost her ring - Silver Hills Breta and Silver Hills Te two of the registered Guernsey cows at Paul Wiener's farm west of Mears , each have a brand new heifer calf . - Everett Potter of Berrien Strings was up in Hart for a visit . When he went south again the noem of the day was : " Everett Potter as gone where it's hotter " ( restor Crested Younts , our postmaster , noticed the temperature in Moors Friday mo Ing was 12 dozer Five people were killed in an auto crash at a rall

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way crossing in Muskegon Tuesday morning . Several of them once lived three miles south of Mears and later at Shelby . Ben Senecal , his wife Helen Nork Senecal , and Ben's sister , Armene Senecal , 23 , are dead ; also Kenneth Jorgenson and Lawrence Matthews . The only one in the car who survived was Marian Senecal , who is in a critical condition at Hackley hospital . The crash was at 2 a . m . Tuesday morning when an automobile driven by Lawrence Matthews crashed into a freight train on Sherman Boulevard near McCracken street . Ben used to work in the Sinclair gas station in Shelby and was in the Marines . He married Helen Nork of Hart on July 26. Armene Senecal used to work for her uncle Henry , in Hesperia but for four years she worked in the office of the Continental . Kenneth Jorgenson was a Muskegon boy , discharged from the Navy , and Lawrence Matthews was a former medical corpsman with the Army Air Force . This Friday morning the three members of the Senecal family were buried in Weare after services at St. Gregory's c_urch in Hart . For several days Marian Senecal lay in such a criticn , condition in the hospital that she was not told about the others bein ; killed . I am not sure if she knows it yet . Her parents , Mr. and Mrs George Senecal , came in to see her and in a dazed way she asked : " Have I been in an accident somewhere ? " - Ed Powers relieved th # Lousing shortness by making his barn into a house , and a very fine hous it is . James Billings went down to Lansing to eat cranberries with his son Norman - Jo . n Kraus woke up with a shiver Nov. 22 because his new house , now under construction and almost done , has no heating faci- lities working yet and he was living in the basement . His heatilator did not have any heat in it and he couldn't stretch out his hands and warm KEEEEEEE

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See Karl Giese Machine Shop located at Silver Lake for repairs of all ki : Cs in wood or metal . Are welding . Also light specialty manufacturing .

Thanksgiving groceries for the big day at Anderson's Grocery , Mears Battery quick - eharging at Phil Wurthner's

Go to the Flood Motor Sales in Hart for expert mechanical work on all types of automobi'e repairing . Best work with prompt service at fair prices . Lubrication , winterization . Phone 161 , Hart .

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ANTIQUES bought and sold . Especially wanted , old hanging lamps , colored glass and old faney china dishes . Eva . C. Wade , Shelby , Micb . REAL ESTATE . List your properties with Oatman - Wade Agency for prompt and efficient service . Wm . C. Wade , Agent . Shelby .

Red Wing pottery , vases and ornamental pieces ; pienie plotes , ruos , napkin and tablecloths ; bathing caps and sand pails ; Evers arp pea